Episode 18
Bloom clambers into bed beside a restless Molly. They sleep head to toe.
Molly lies awake daydreaming.
As she slips towards sleep, she faithfully devotes her last conscious thoughts to her husband. The time is infinity…
Episode 18 was written in Trieste in 1919 and completed in Paris in 1920-1921.
"tomorrow the sun shines for you he said the day we were
lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and
his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me yes first I gave him
the bit of seedcake out of my mouth and it was leapyear like now 16
years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said
I was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a womans body
yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for
you today yes that was why I liked him because I saw he understood or
felt what a woman is......
and then he asked me would
I say ye my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and
drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his
heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."