Word: imperthnthn
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...Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons steelyringing imperthnthn thnthnthn,' wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. What he meant was that two barmaids, a redhead and a blonde were listening to the clatter of dray horses in a Dublin street" [TIME...
...didn't write that, and he didn't mean that. He wrote "Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing" as a brisk note, to be expanded on the next page, of barmaids watching the viceregal cavalcade. He then wrote, on the next line, "Imperthnthn thn thnthn" as a note, also to be expanded a page later, of a bellboy mimicking the [barmaid's] phrase "impertinent insolence...
...fusing two unrelated phrases and turning the viceregal carriage into a dray, to TIME'S imperthnthn editor, an Emily-colored blush...
...Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons steelyringing imperthnthn thnthnthn," wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. What he meant was that two barmaids, a redhead and a blonde, were listening to the clatter of dray horses in a Dublin street. Why, then, didn...
...Imperthnthn thnthnthn...
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