"Excuse Bad Writing Am In Hurry": Joyce's women in Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses

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…ook out of it the works of Master Poldy" (18.579-580). Again, the "1 half" orthography heightens our awareness of the text and, of course, someone has written about Bloom (even if she wrote it, Molly would designate authorship to "Master Poldy," not to herself). We are reading about him as Molly thinks about him in the present and, most importantly, well after Joyce wrote about him, in the eternal lines of "Penelope."