Talk turns to hangings and legal mock-formality

Today's passage · lines 12.311–500

The 2-minute recap

The men at the bar get onto the grim subject of public hanging, and Joyce suddenly swerves into a long parody of a formal newspaper account of an execution, stuffed with fake dignitaries and stiff legal language. …

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