All 6 Uses of
paralysis
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- General paralysis of the insane!†
Chpt 1 *
- Now if he got paralysed there and no-one knew how to stop them they'd clank on and on the same, print it over and over and up and back.†
Chpt 7
- And Ned and J. J. paralysed with the laughing.†
Chpt 12
- The face of William Shakespeare, beardless, appears there, rigid in facial paralysis, crowned by the reflection of the reindeer antlered hatrack in the hall.†
Chpt 15
- …sometimes love to wildly when you feel that way so nice all over you you cant help yourself I wish some man or other would take me sometime when hes there and kiss me in his arms theres nothing like a kiss long and hot down to your soul almost paralyses you then I hate that confession when I used to go to Father Corrigan he touched me father and what harm if he did where and I said on the canal bank like a fool but whereabouts on your person my child on the leg behind high up was it…†
Chpt 18
- …line on exhibition for all hed ever care with the ironmould mark the stupid old bundle burned on them he might think was something else and she never even rendered down the fat I told her and now shes going such as she was on account of her paralysed husband getting worse theres always something wrong with them disease or they have to go under an operation or if its not that its drink and he beats her Ill have to hunt around again for someone every day I get up theres some new thing…†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(paralysis) loss of the ability to move the body or a part of it
or:
inability to act or make a decision