Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Taking ownership of one's society

In light of the popular protests arising across the Arab world and now the US...

 ...an excerpt from...
Ulysses
by James Joyce
(1922)

 --You suspect, Stephen retorted with a sort of a half laugh, that I may be important because I belong to the faubourg Saint Patrice called Ireland for short.
 --I would go a step farther, Mr Bloom insinuated.
 --But I suspect, Stephen interrupted, that Ireland must be important because it belongs to me.