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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Joyce, James

Joyce, James
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Chapter Four

Mechanics Of Religion.

Joyce describes Stephen's new state of grace in terms of mathematics.
The image of Stephen's ringing up indulgences on a great Heavenly cash
register has been widely noted by critics, but Stephen's brittle and
transitory sanctification is defined as well by several other references to
the sterile ethic which he has imposed upon his unwilling soul. In the
opening pages of the chapter, Stephen is deeply involved in the paraphernalia
of penances and indulgences and in a watered down version of medieval
allegory which consigns ...

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