 | James Joyce - Fiction - 1916 - 318 pages
...those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there...language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. — Davin knocked the ashes from his pipe. — Too deep for me, Stevie — he said. — But a man 's... | |
 | James Joyce - Artists - 1916 - 314 pages
...told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. Whenjhj ggpl of a man is born in this, country there are nets flung...language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. — Davin knocked the ashes from his pipe. — Too deep for me, Stevie — he said. — But a man's... | |
 | James Joyce - Artists - 1916 - 312 pages
...slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born ia.. this .country ..there are nets flung at it to hold....nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those. netjL— Davin knocked the ashes from his pipe. — Too deep for me, Stevie — he said. — But a... | |
 | Walter Franz Schirmer - English fiction - 1923 - 92 pages
...des Kindes, Bordell etc.). It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there...language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets." All das ist zu den letzten Folgerungen gesteigert in den 700 Quartoseiten des "Ulysses." Die Spiegelung... | |
 | Harry Levin - 1941 - 276 pages
...your heart you are an Irishman but your pride is too powerful."237 Stephen is unwilling to compromise: "When the soul of a man is born in this country there...language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets." In exile, silence, and cunning he trusts to find substitutes for those three forms of subjection. On... | |
 | Gillie - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 220 pages
...'Daedalus' was an artist in a Greek myth who provided himself with wings. But first he must leave Ireland : When the soul of a man is born in this country there...from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, region. I shall try to fly by those nets. Joyce's total dedication to his art was a heroic choice,... | |
 | Steven G. Kellman - Education - 1980 - 188 pages
...note of liberation, Stephen also employs the image of a net. He proclaims to the nationalist Davin: When the soul of a man is born in this country there...language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets (p.203). However, the net trope functions differently in A Portrait than it does in Under the Net.... | |
 | Mary Gore Forrester - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 284 pages
...is posited as an institution of social order opposed to the symbolic singularity of the individual: "When the soul of a man is born in this country there...language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets" (203). The anticipated flight of exile is founded in the encounter with sexuality (sin) and the symbolic—with... | |
 | Wyndham Lewis, David Peters Corbett - Art - 1994 - 234 pages
...another. And you invite me to be one of you. I'd see you damned first." A little later Stephen remarks : "You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets." So from the start the answer of Joyce to the militant nationalist was plain enough. And he showed himself... | |
 | James Fairhall - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 312 pages
...Parnell but you sold him to the enemy or failed him in need or reviled him and left him for another . . . When the soul of a man is born in this country there...language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. (P 2o3) Davin's credo of "Ireland first" provokes the retort: "Ireland is the old sow that eats her... | |
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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. 
