All 5 Uses
Rip Van Winkle
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- Rip van Winkle we played.†
Chpt 13 *
- Then I did Rip van Winkle coming back.
Chpt 13Rip Van Winkle = title character in a Washington Irving short story about a man who sleeps for 20 years and finds a different world upon awakening
- (Bloom walks on a net, covers his left eye with his left ear, passes through several walls, climbs Nelson's Pillar, hangs from the top ledge by his eyelids, eats twelve dozen oysters (shells included), heals several sufferers from king's evil, contracts his face so as to resemble many historical personages, Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, Henry Irving, Rip van Winkle, Kossuth, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Baron Leopold Rothschild, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes, Pasteur, turns each foot simultaneously in different directions, bids the tide turn back, eclipses the sun by extending his little finger.†
Chpt 15
- Rip van Winkle!†
Chpt 15
- Quite a number of stories there were on that particular Alice Ben Bolt topic, Enoch Arden and Rip van Winkle and does anybody hereabouts remember Caoc O'Leary, a favourite and most trying declamation piece by the way of poor John Casey and a bit of perfect poetry in its own small way.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(Rip Van Winkle) title character in a Washington Irving short story about a man who sleeps for 20 years and finds a different world upon awakening (1819)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)