Ulysses by James Joyce

PART ONE

Telemachus

Chapter 1

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a

bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow

dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the

mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned;

-Introibo ad altare Dei.

Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out

coarsely:

-Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit!"