Both Uses of
mutilate
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- These factors, he alleged, and the revolting spectacles offered by our streets, hideous publicity posters, religious ministers of all denominations, mutilated soldiers and sailors, exposed scorbutic cardrivers, the suspended carcases of dead animals, paranoic bachelors and unfructified duennas—these, he said, were accountable for any and every fallingoff in the calibre of the race.†
Chpt 14 *mutilated = severely injured or damaged
- He lifts his mutilated ashen face moonwards and bays lugubriously.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
severely injure or damage -- for example by cutting up