“Always meeting ourselves”

Stephen Dedalus speaks. From the “Scylla and Charybdis” episode:

James Joyce, Ulysses (1922).

Stephen’s words click with a Bloom thought earlier in the day: “Wander along all day. Might meet a robber or two. Well, meet him.” “Meet him”: a pun on metempsychosis (“met him pike hoses”), a word Bloom attempts to explain to Molly earlier in the day. There’s another click to come.

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