Paragraph 16
“A bloated carcass of a dog lay lolled on bladderwrack.”
Reading Room · Plain English analysis
Stephen notices a dead dog sprawled on seaweed and a boat half buried in sand. The stranded boat recalls Louis Veuillot's description of Théophile Gautier's ornate prose as a carriage bogged down in sand, and the beach becomes a picture
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