![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen is only three years old when he begins to identify himself with the physical world, with members of his family, and with the sensual world of language he remembers his father's hairy face, his mother's sweet smell, the uncomfortable experience of wetting the bed, and certain special and fanciful words, such as "baby tuckoo" and "moocow." It was a good time, he says, meaning that he felt safe and secure from harm. By carefully choosing language and syntax, Joyce enables us to share what is possibly the earliest childhood memory of the novel's hero - Stephen Dedalus. Joyce takes us inside the mind of a child in order to show us how a child records and responds to the world around him. When the novel opens, we are in the mind of a child fragmented lines from a nursery story are intertwined with sensations and associations of feeling, touching, hearing, and smelling. ![]()
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