Both Uses of
oblivion
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Lourdes cure, waters of oblivion, and the Knock apparition, statues bleeding.†
Chpt 5 *
- All the same Bloom (properly so dubbed) was rather surprised at their memories for in nine cases out of ten it was a case of tarbarrels and not singly but in their thousands and then complete oblivion because it was twenty odd years.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
the state of being completely forgotten
or:
the state of being completely destroyed -- typically so as to no longer exist
or:
a state of having lost all sense of what is going on -- as during sleep or use of some drugs
or:
the state of being completely destroyed -- typically so as to no longer exist
or:
a state of having lost all sense of what is going on -- as during sleep or use of some drugs