—He’s a cultured allroundman, Bloom is, he said seriously. He’s not one of your common or garden ... you know ... There’s a touch of the artist about old Bloom.
ATTRIBUTION:
James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 10, “Wandering Rocks,” The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).
The character, Lenehan, comments on Joyce’s Odyssean prototype, Leopold Bloom.
