| Paul Cobley - Fiction - 2001 - 284 pages
...botheth. When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oil sheet. That had the queer smell. His mother had a nicer smell...than his father. She played on the piano the sailor's hompipe for him to dance, He danced: Tralala lala Tralala lala Tralala tralaladdy Tralala la la. Uncle... | |
| John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...blossoms On the little green place. He sang that song. That was his song. O, the green wothe botheth. When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets...the piano the sailor's hornpipe for him to dance. The perceptions of early childhood: the random, inconsequential thinking - barely 'thinking' at all;... | |
| M. B. Pranger - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 366 pages
...about by a mnemonic application of the senses. They, most prominently smell, constitute the story. "When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets...smell. His mother had a nicer smell than his father," so it says on page i. In fact, odor pervades the book, underpinning, as it were, the more distinct... | |
| David Cotter - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 276 pages
...become the mother, or the object of desire, so that all of this is rest and play; he has returned. His mother had a nicer smell than his father. She...lala, Tralala tralaladdy, Tralala lala Tralala lala (Port., p. 3) In Coldness and Cruelty, Deleuze considers the interruption of ascending desire to constitute... | |
| Literary Criticism - 248 pages
...his vision of God because of our liberal sentimental abhorrence of the suffering of those in hell. When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oilsheet. That had a queer smell. Suck was a queer word . . . And when [the water] had all gone down slowly the hole in... | |
| John Lowe - History - 2005 - 342 pages
...tuckoo.... His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.... His mother had a nicer smell than his father. She...the piano the sailor's hornpipe for him to dance. Whether we approach the study of region from the outside or from the inside implies an essential difference... | |
| Lorie-Anne Duech - 2005 - 190 pages
...d'autres contextes. L'opposition surgit dans les pensées du jeune Stephen lorsqu'il constate : « When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold. » (P 7). A l'inverse des autres sens qui font partie de l'expérience immédiate de Stephen (Stephen... | |
| Craig Raine - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 224 pages
...by Eliot's rich, detailed evocation of childhood. Of course, he cannot match the bravura of Joyce: 'When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oilsheet. That had a queer smell.' But in its own way, 'Animula' reproduces childhood's typically olfactory vividness:... | |
| Pericles Lewis - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 310 pages
...opening page the novel relates the child's impressions of hearing a fairy tale and wetting the bed: "When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets...mother put on the oilsheet. That had the queer smell." As the novel progresses Stephen continually meditates on sights, sounds, smells, and especially words:... | |
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