pumpkinstrokemarrow

A comment in a cafe the other day reminded me of this bit of Joyce. It can be found using the zoom tool, but for those who can't be bothered, the relevant bit reads: "... And of course Bloom had to have his say too about if a fellow had a rower's heart violent exercise was bad. I declare to my anti-macassar if you took up a straw from the bloody floor and if you said to Bloom: Look at, Bloom. Do you see that straw? That's a straw. Declare to my aunt he'd talk about it for an hour so he would and talk steady.". I particularly liked the talk steady bit at the end. But how many of today's youth have the faintest idea what an anti-macassar is or was and why it is so-named? I think I only know because BH told me, a propos of something or other. Maybe because FIL is or was a Brylcreem man. But not sure about the website (http://www.brylcreem.com/) for this last - doesn't look like a place one would buy grooming materiel from at all. But I have taken the spelling.