— There can be no reconciliation, Stephen said, if there has not been a sundering.

James Joyce, ''Ulysses'', chap.9, Penguin Student's Edition, 1992

— Bosh! Stephen said rudely. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce, Ulysses, chap.9, p.243 Penguin Student's Edition, 1992

Here he ponders things that were not: what Caesar would have live to do he believed the soothsayer: possibilities of the possible as possible: things not known: what name Achilles bore when he lived among women.

James Joyce, Ulysses, chap.9, Penguin Student's Edition, 1992