Both Uses of
affinity
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves universes of void space constellated with other bodies, each, in continuity, its universe of divisible component bodies of which each was…†
Chpt 17
- What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(affinity) a natural attraction, sympathy, or important similarity