Portrait

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The only true thing in life?
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Stephen remembering Cranly's words and argument from Portrait.

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Mrs Riordan
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"Dante" from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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Mr Bloom reviewed the nails of his left hand, then those of his right hand. The nails, yes.
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During this brief exchange Bloom wishes he could refine himself out of existence. See this passage of Stephen's from Portrait: "...The dramatic form is reached when the vitality which has flowed and eddied round each person fills every person with such vital force that he or she assumes a proper and intangible esthetic life. The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalizes itself, so to speak. The esthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of esthetic, like that of material creation, is accomplished. The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."