Both Uses of
pyre
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- From the suttee pyre the flame of gum camphire ascends†
Chpt 15pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
- He extinguished the candle by a sharp expiration of breath upon its flame, drew two spoonseat deal chairs to the hearthstone, one for Stephen with its back to the area window, the other for himself when necessary, knelt on one knee, composed in the grate a pyre of crosslaid resintipped sticks and various coloured papers and irregular polygons of best Abram coal at twenty-one shillings a ton from the yard of Messrs Flower and M'Donald of 14 D'Olier street, kindled it at three projecting points of paper with one ignited lucifer match, thereby releasing the potential energy contained in the fuel by allowing its carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union with the oxygen of the air.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
a pile of wood or other burnable material -- especially to burn a dead body as in a funeral rite