Paragraph 17
“Galleys of the Lochlanns ran here to beach, in quest of prey, their bloodbeaked prows riding low on a molten pewter surf.”
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The approaching people prompt Stephen to imagine Ireland's violent past on this shore: Viking raiders landing, stranded whales hacked apart by starving Dubliners, and himself moving silently among crowds on the frozen Liffey. He feels that their violence and hunger
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