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Lenehan is a crude, lecherous, manipulative Dubliner who frequently follows other men around, making irrelevant jokes and trying to get favors or attention. At different points, he brags about once groping Molly Bloom, harasses Lydia Douce in the Ormond Hotel bar, and accuses Leopold Bloom of betting on the winning horse, Throwaway, in the Ascot Gold Cup race. In fact, Lenehan is obsessed with the race all day—he’s convinced that Sceptre is going to win, so he bets a lot of money on it and tells all his friends to do the same. But he loses. Despite managing to make his way into virtually every group of men that forms throughout Ulysses, from the newspaper men in “Aeolus” to the medical students in “Oxen of the Sun,” Lenehan doesn’t appear to have any real friends besides Blazes Boylan. Lenehan and Boylan exemplify a superficial, exaggerated, narcissistic Dublin culture that makes Leopold Bloom’s honesty, sincerity, and humility stand out by contrast. Lenehan also appeared alongside Corley in the Dubliners story “Two Gallants.”
Matt Lenehan Quotes in Ulysses
The Ulysses quotes below are all either spoken by Matt Lenehan or refer to Matt Lenehan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Episode 11: Sirens
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Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing.
Imperthnthn thnthnthn.
Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips.
Horrid! And gold flushed more.
A husky fifenote blew.
Blew. Blue bloom is on the.
Goldpinnacled hair.
A jumping rose on satiny breast of satin, rose of Castile.
Trilling, trilling: Idolores.
Peep! Who’s in the … peepofgold?
Tink cried to bronze in pity.
And a call, pure, long and throbbing. Longindying call.
Decoy. Soft word. But look: the bright stars fade. Notes chirruping answer.
O rose! Castile. The morn is breaking.
Jingle jingle jaunted jingling.
[…]
Done.
Begin!
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Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun
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But was young Boasthard’s fear vanquished by Calmer’s words? No, for he had in his bosom a spike named Bitterness which could not by words be done away. […] Heard he then in that clap the voice of the god Bringforth or, what Calmer said, a hubbub of Phenomenon? Heard? Why, he could not but hear unless he had plugged him up the tube Understanding (which he had not done). For through that tube he saw that he was in the land of Phenomenon where he must for a certain one day die as he was like the rest too a passing show. And would he not accept to die like the rest and pass away? By no means would he though he must.
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Matt Lenehan Quotes in Ulysses
The Ulysses quotes below are all either spoken by Matt Lenehan or refer to Matt Lenehan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Episode 11: Sirens
Quotes
Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing.
Imperthnthn thnthnthn.
Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips.
Horrid! And gold flushed more.
A husky fifenote blew.
Blew. Blue bloom is on the.
Goldpinnacled hair.
A jumping rose on satiny breast of satin, rose of Castile.
Trilling, trilling: Idolores.
Peep! Who’s in the … peepofgold?
Tink cried to bronze in pity.
And a call, pure, long and throbbing. Longindying call.
Decoy. Soft word. But look: the bright stars fade. Notes chirruping answer.
O rose! Castile. The morn is breaking.
Jingle jingle jaunted jingling.
[…]
Done.
Begin!
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Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun
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But was young Boasthard’s fear vanquished by Calmer’s words? No, for he had in his bosom a spike named Bitterness which could not by words be done away. […] Heard he then in that clap the voice of the god Bringforth or, what Calmer said, a hubbub of Phenomenon? Heard? Why, he could not but hear unless he had plugged him up the tube Understanding (which he had not done). For through that tube he saw that he was in the land of Phenomenon where he must for a certain one day die as he was like the rest too a passing show. And would he not accept to die like the rest and pass away? By no means would he though he must.
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