All 6 Uses of
eon
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Streams of tendency and eons they worship.†
Chpt 9 *
- Mummed in names: A. E., eon: Magee, John Eglinton.†
Chpt 9
- Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.†
Chpt 14
- Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.†
Chpt 17
- Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of the earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules containe†
Chpt 17
- Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
the longest commonly used division of geological time
or less formally: an immeasurably long period of time
or less formally: an immeasurably long period of time