Gibralter Remembered III



17 x 13 cms(7 x 5 Inches)

"There are quite a number of references to Spain and the Andalucian women in Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end, last 30 pages, of Ulysses, by James Joyce. In this sequence Molly is reminiscing on her early sexual experience with her first taste of sexuality with a serving British soldier/officer while she lived with her father in Gibraltar. It would appear that she shared this experience while leaning against a Moorish wall in the old town of Gibraltar. The whole passage is quite explicit in nature and uses the "stream of conciseness" technique which Joyce brought to literature for the first time. When you get a copy of the book you could have a read, slowly, of these pages, if you wish. This last 30 pages is made up of one sentence of 2,500 words without any punctuation and is thought to be the longest sentence in English literature.The sentence is referred to as Molly Bloom's soliloquy."

by Roger Cummiskey