The Only Use of
epiphany
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Remember your epiphanies written on green oval leaves, deeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria?
Chpt 3epiphanies = sudden realizations
Definitions:
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(1)
(epiphany) a sudden realization -- especially one of importanceJames Joyce coined common use of the term from Christianity where it refers to the moment it was realized that Jesus was divine. When capitalized, "Epiphany" references that day twelve days after Christmas -- January 6th.
The term was widely used by James Joyce in his critical writings, and the stories in Joyce's Dubliners are commonly called "epiphanies." -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, as a proper noun Epiphany commemorates on January 6 how a star led the three wise men to baby Jesus twelve days after his birth.