Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also.
James JoyceI hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.
James JoyceWhat was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?
James JoyceWhat incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.
James Joyce