Reading Ulysses in Montana #201

Astrid looked askance at the astronomical union of Lady Astor and her ashtray sitting askew on the coffee table of jute.

Astride a better horse, the unknown subject contemplated dangling modifiers of ineffable dimensions and alert fibrates. And as Frost said, we dance round in a ring and suppose, while the secret sits in the center and knows, but the blowing of the sailor’s hornpipe looked cockeyed at Popeye in that cockamamie cockney accent, imported from Brooklyn with a yard of sails up the forecastle’s jib while Bartleby took Billy Budd for a stroll along the waterfront, contending that even Marlon would not know what to do with Blanche in the best of times, let alone the worst of times.

Arms akimbo, Astrid asked if that was really all there was to it. The universe said yes.


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5 thoughts on “Reading Ulysses in Montana #201

    • Rick Mallery August 12, 2025 / 11:22 am

      And now you can look back on this. In anger or otherwise.

  1. Phil Huston August 12, 2025 / 9:00 am

    The Hokey Pokey is what it’s all about. Melville took a long stroll off a short peer and as such became defacto attribution for the Scouting manually manly manual. How to hunt whales named poison Ivy rashionally.

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