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From: Jack Kolb <kolb@ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: beautiful language
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>The odd one is Richie Goulding telling Leopold Bloom in the Ormond
>Hotel Restaurant and Bar on June 16, 1904, that Elvino's brief
>ejaculation beginning "Tutto e sciolto" at the beginning of Act 2 of
>"La Sonnambula" is "the most beautiful tenor air ever written"
>("Ulysses," ch. 11)

Yeah, but we all know what Simon Dedalus--a fine singer, as this chapter
confirms, if an irresponsible husband and parent--thought of his in-laws
and their opinions {grin}.

Jack Kolb
Dept. of English, UCLA
kolb@ucla.edu
.