All 5 Uses of
paradox
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Is it some paradox?†
Chpt 1
- We have grown out of Wilde and paradoxes.†
Chpt 1 *
- Quoth littlejohn Eglinton: —I was prepared for paradoxes from what Malachi Mulligan told us but I may as well warn you that if you want to shake my belief that Shakespeare is Hamlet you have a stern task before you.†
Chpt 9
- Of course it's all paradox, don't you know, Hughes and hews and hues, the colour, but it's so typical the way he works it out.†
Chpt 9
- —Do you think it is only a paradox? the quaker librarian was asking.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(paradox) a situation or statement that may be true but is surprising or seems impossible because parts of it seem to contradict each other