The irreverent Richard Blacow in Ulysses U 15.1757-8: This vile hypocrite, bronzed with infamy, is the white bull mentioned in the Apocalypse. U
15.1768-9:
By heaven, I am guiltless as the unsunned snow! U 16.1055-6: Yet, though such criminal propensities had never been an inmate of his bosom in any shape or form [...] U 16.1495-1500: He, B, enjoyed the distinction of being close to Erin's uncrowned king in the flesh when the thing occurred on the historic fracas when the fallen leader's, who notoriously stuck to his guns to the last drop even when clothed in the mantle of adultery, (leader's) trusty henchmen [...] penetrated into the printing works of the Insuppressible […] Joyce's Paris notes taken during the summer and early autumn of 1921 (Phillip Herring, Joyce's Notes and Early Drafts for Ulysses. Selections from the Buffalo Collection, Charlottesville 1977) contain three phrases that became integrated into the text of the Circe and Eumaeus episode: "clothed in mantle of adultery" (Herring, p. 74), "unsunned snow" (pp. 74 and 83), "feeling never an inmate of his bosom" (p. 76), and "bronzed with infamy" (p. 83). All four are from a sermon preached (and immediately published in print) by the Reverend Richard Blacow of St. Mark's, Liverpool, in which he branded Queen Caroline (the queen consort of George IV) an adulteress. The sermon was quoted against him in court proceedings shortly after the Queen's death on 7 August 1821. Blacow was sentenced to imprisonment for libel and heavily fined. The case attracted a lot of attention, and was extensively covered in newspapers both in Britain and America. The relevant sections of the sermon read:
Joyce obviously noted the striking analogies to the case of Parnell: public opinion on the side of the prominent victim of clerical hypocrisy and self-righteousness. The most likely source for his notesheet entries would have been an article, "Libel Upon Her Late Majesty", which the Observer republished on 18 September 1921, on the centenary of the Queen's death and one hundred years after the paper had originally published the article on 17 September 1821. The four elements were added to the text of Ulysses on the placards (galley proofs) in late November and December 1921. Harald Beck
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The substance of a discourse preached in St. Mark's
Church, Liverpool, on Sunday evening, Nov. 26th 1820, by the Rev. Richard
Blacow, A.M. on the aspect of the times (various editions: Liverpool and London,
1820), cited from the Observer, 18 September
1921, p. 11.
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