All 3 Uses of
obelisk
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- In the darkness of the dome they wait, their pushedback chairs, my obelisk valise, around a board of abandoned platters.†
Chpt 3 *
- Glendalough, the lovely lakes of Killarney, the ruins of Clonmacnois, Cong Abbey, Glen Inagh and the Twelve Pins, Ireland's Eye, the Green Hills of Tallaght, Croagh Patrick, the brewery of Messrs Arthur Guinness, Son and Company (Limited), Lough Neagh's banks, the vale of Ovoca, Isolde's tower, the Mapas obelisk, Sir Patrick Dun's hospital, Cape Clear, the glen of Aherlow, Lynch's castle, the Scotch house, Rathdown Union Workhouse at Loughlinstown, Tullamore jail, Castleconnel rapids, Kilballymacshonakill, the cross at Monasterboice, Jury's Hotel, S. Patrick's Purgatory, the Salmon Leap, Maynooth college refectory, Curley's hole, the three birthplaces of the first duke of Wellington, the roc†
Chpt 12
- He proposed to set up there a national fertilising farm to be named Omphalos with an obelisk hewn and erected after the fashion of Egypt and to offer his dutiful yeoman services for the fecundation of any female of what grade of life soever who should there direct to him with the desire of fulfilling the functions of her natural.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(obelisk) a stone pillar with a pyramidal top erected as a monument to remember a person or event
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, obelisk references a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote. The character looks a little like a dagger or cross. (See Wikipedia - Obelisk (typography) for pictures.)