Reading Ulysses in Montana #18

Contrary motions derive fugues and fortunes under the oceans where it might be better but cannot be wetter because under the ocean, like under the sea, is rock and mantle, and you have to drill down to magma to find something kinda liquidy under seas and oceans alike.

Like Glenn Gould said, thanks for playing but the limestone is just as rare as water under the ocean sea, and you only have to look as far as Ethan Brand to find a witness to this account, but having seen a Hawthorne bush, I’ve spent the better part of a dozen dozing seasons looking for a Melville bush…and to think what I saw on the mulberry bush on Mulberry street, where Captain Vere sent Guinevere and Billy Budd to the office Christmas party as the foretopcouple, bearing wreaths of Hawthorne, mulberry, and Hemingway bushes, the labs still lagging in developing the Melville bush.

When finding the young lab assistant asleep at the microscope under the lab by the sounding sea, his only defense was “I would prefer not to”.


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20 thoughts on “Reading Ulysses in Montana #18

    • Rick Mallery December 12, 2024 / 7:31 am

      Thank you, it’s also a lot of fun. 😀

  1. niasunset December 12, 2024 / 7:36 am

    Everybody here… This should be a great party. Thank you, have a nice day, Love, nia

    • Delving Yardbarker December 12, 2024 / 9:33 am

      🙂

  2. Matthew Laney December 13, 2024 / 7:34 am

    Damn! This be some GOOD stuff!

    • Delving Yardbarker December 13, 2024 / 8:47 am

      Luck be a lady tonight!

      • Matthew Laney December 13, 2024 / 8:48 am

        As Seneca once soliloquized, “Fortune favors the Bush’s Baked Beans (sic)”

      • Delving Yardbarker December 13, 2024 / 8:50 am

        And so does beano!

  3. Red Deer December 13, 2024 / 4:52 pm

    Wow a treat for the ears. A roiling poetic sonorance, riffing off itself and alliterations loading the lateral … ok I’ll stop there. You’re rubbing off on me lol.

    I’m inspired by your Reading Ulysses in Montana series so I created my own called Reading Ulysses in the Psych Ward… LOL. (I’ve been in the psych ward 3 times.) If you want a laugh you can check it out at https://3reddeer.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/reading-ulysses-in-the-psych-ward-7/

    Joyce’s first page was surprisingly normal so I couldn’t really rip into him but I still roasted his moustache off. At the end I did do something similar to your style.

    By the way all the art for your posts are stunning.

    Read safe🦌Red Deer

    • Rick Mallery December 13, 2024 / 8:26 pm

      Awesome! I’ll look it over tomorrow!

      • Red Deer December 13, 2024 / 10:17 pm

        Thanks 🙂 Joyce is going down!!!

  4. Sara Keelan December 19, 2024 / 5:11 am

    I’m your newest sub!

  5. gwengrant December 22, 2024 / 3:43 pm

    Great – as usual!

    Gwen.

  6. Pamela Milne December 30, 2024 / 12:30 pm

    Ah, Mr. Melville. He appeared to me once as a ghost.

    • Rick Mallery January 19, 2025 / 6:02 pm

      Not supposed to be anything. Just is. 😀

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