Mary Ann

After his scatalogical joke about "mother Grogan's tea and water pot," Mulligan adopts a professorial tone, asking Stephen whether the story comes from the Mabinogion or the Upanishads. Declining the gambit, Stephen keeps the clowning in the realm of urination by supposing that the old lady was "a kinswoman of Mary Ann," and Mulligan belts out a song that both men know: "For old Mary Ann / She doesn’t care a damn, / But, hising up her petticoats..." The last line of the quatrain is omitted, but it must be something close to "She pisses like a man."

John Hunt 2024


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