...element of choice back there in history, anything which could have made events turn out differently ? Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam's hand in Argos...possible which came to pass? Weave, weaver of the wind. His pupils too are oppressed by history. They ask their teacher for a story, a ghost story, the release...

...happened. But there were other possibilities. The deaths of Pyrrhus and Caesar provoke Stephen to ruminate, "They are not to be thought away. Time has branded...were? Or was that only possible which came to pass?" (U 25). The area between the actual and the possible is the area of consciousness. In this, Stephen...

...body politic in Ulysses is closely connected with the speculations of Stephen on act and potency : Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam's hand in Argos...those have been possible seeing that they never were? Weave, weaver of the wind. U2Ó/22. Act in this universe (the scholastic actus existentiae, not to...

...in Rome? But, then, these things have happened, although we have only the historian's word for it: They are not to be thought away. Time has branded...were? Or was that only possible which came to pass? 20 Right from the beginning of this episode, the reader's attention is drawn to direct or indirect...

...recants, when yesterday's pimp becomes today's flagellant, one can only repeat the words of James Joyce: "Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam's hand in Argos...possible which came to pass? Weave, weaver of the wind."17 "Happy as God in France"? Are French Jews today still a group apart in either their public...

...'female' imagination. 22. Ulysses, p. 933. 23. Cf. Stephen's challenge to Blake's view of history: 'But can those have been possible seeing that they...possible which came to pass? Weave, weaver of the wind' (Ulysses, p. 30). Cf. also Richard Ellmann, Ulysses on the Liffey, London 1974, pp. 20-23. One cannot...

...University of Mannheim. His research focuses on the economics of institutions and on political economy. Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam's hand in Argos...were? Or, was that only possible which came to pass? James Joyce1 1. Introduction Contributions in modern theoretical physics and chemistry on the behavior...

...recants, when yesterday's pimp becomes today's flagellant, one can only repeat the words of James Joyce: "Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam's hand in Argos...them and fettered they are lodged in the room of the inf1nite possibilities they have ousted. But can those have been possible seeing that they never were?...

...the possibilities and actualizations of history suggests a similar linking of oblivion and discovery: "Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam's hand in Argos or Julius Caesar not been knifed to death. . . . But can those have been possible seeing that they never were?" (2.48-52). His restless desire...

...to his ruminations at Mr. Deasy's school on the deaths from cold steel of Pyrrhus and Julius Caesar: They are not to be thought away. Time has branded...were? Or was that only possible which came to pass? (U 2.49-52) Suggestions and images of ancient battles involving steel and blood a general leaning upon...