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1  He smiled as he thought of the god's image for it made him think of a bottle-nosed judge in a wig, putting commas into a document which he held at arm's length, and he knew that he would not have remembered the god's name but that it was like an Irish oath.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
2  His soul was fattening and congealing into a gross grease, plunging ever deeper in its dull fear into a sombre threatening dusk while the body that was his stood, listless and dishonoured, gazing out of darkened eyes, helpless, perturbed, and human for a bovine god to stare upon.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
3  A sense of fear of the unknown moved in the heart of his weariness, a fear of symbols and portents, of the hawk-like man whose name he bore soaring out of his captivity on osier-woven wings, of Thoth, the god of writers, writing with a reed upon a tablet and bearing on his narrow ibis head the cusped moon.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5