All 4 Uses of
purgatory
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Out of the fryingpan of life into the fire of purgatory.†
Chpt 6 *
- Our Father who art in purgatory.†
Chpt 9
- I hope he's in purgatory now because he went to confession to Father Conroy on Saturday night.†
Chpt 10
- …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 rock of Cashel, the bog of Allen, the Henry Street Warehouse, Fingal's Cave—all these moving scenes are still there for…†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(purgatory) a temporary condition of torment or suffering
or in Roman Catholic theology: the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to pay for their sins