Buck Mulligan stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and then gravely said, honeying malice:
—I called upon the bard Kinch at his summer residence in upper Mecklenburgh street and found him deep in the study of the Summa contra Gentiles in the company of two gonorrheal ladies, Fresh Nelly and Rosalie, the coalquay whore.
He broke away.
—Come, Kinch. Come, wandering Ængus of the birds. Come, Kinch. You have eaten all we left. Ay. I will serve you your orts and offals.
Stephen rose.
This is spoken by "Buck" (Malachi) Mulligan in chapter one of Ulysses. Is it possible that in "High Talk" Yeats is taking a dig at his younger rival? Joyce based Mulligan on his and Yeats's mutual friend Oliver St. John Gogarty.
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