Lestrygonians

“How can you own water really? It’s always flowing in a stream, never the same, which in the stream of life we trace. Because life is a stream,” (126).
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“Trams passed one another, ingoing, outgoing, clanging. Useless words. Things go on same, day after day: squads of police marching out, back: trams in, out,” (134)
Notice the movement from particular to universal and back. And then, “One born every second somewhere. Other dying (remember the telegram?) every second…Cityful passing away, other cityful coming, passing away too: other coming on, passing on,” (134-5).
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“With ha quiet relief his eyes took note…rest of the year sober as a judge,” (137). Joyce blurs entirely the distinction between first person and narration. This conversion mirrors that of particulars and universals above.
So…
Does this chapter’s stylistic structure follow the structure of flowing water; stream of consciousness; plus content consists in the same; particular/universal deal all flowing the same body.
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“Stuck on the pane two flies buzzed, stuck,” (144). A couple in love reduced to flies stuck on the pane. “No-one is anything…” Again, moving weirdly, transformationally, from particular sort to universal to flies to men to planets, nations; everything reduced to the common motion: eat fuck die—water; connected all.