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MacCabe is a midwife who walks on Sandymount Strand with a colleague to collect cockles in the “Proteus” episode. When she passes by, Stephen Dedalus starts thinking about how the nature of human birth means that all beings are physically interconnected in one giant web by the omphalos (navel). Later, he writes her into The Parable of the Plums, the story he pitches to Professor MacHugh and Myles Crawford.
Florence MacCabe Quotes in Ulysses
The Ulysses quotes below are all either spoken by Florence MacCabe or refer to Florence MacCabe. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Episode 3: Proteus Quotes
The cords of all link back, strandentwining cable of all flesh. That is why mystic monks. Will you be as gods? Gaze in your omphalos. Hello. Kinch here. Put me on to Edenville. Aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one.
Spouse and helpmate of Adam Kadmon: Heva, naked Eve. She had no navel. Gaze. Belly without blemish, bulging big, a buckler of taut vellum, no, whiteheaped corn, orient and immortal, standing from everlasting to everlasting. Womb of sin.
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Florence MacCabe Character Timeline in Ulysses
The timeline below shows where the character Florence MacCabe appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 3: Proteus
...two midwives descend from the street to the beach, and he imagines that one ( Florence MacCabe ) might have a stillborn fetus in her bag. He thinks of how the umbilical...
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Episode 7: Aeolus
...snack, but they’re unprepared for the long walk up the pillar. The women, who are Florence MacCabe and Anne Kearns, struggle to climb the stairs.
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Episode 10: Wandering Rocks
...a gem with himself “wrest[ing] old images from the burial earth.” (The narrative jumps to Florence MacCabe and her fellow midwife walking through Dublin with a bag full of cockles.) Hearing the...
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