Along with Zoe Higgins and Kitty Ricketts, Florry Talbot is one of the three prostitutes who Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Vincent Lynch meet in Bella Cohen’s brothel during “Circe.” She spends most of the episode laying seductively on the couch, bantering with Stephen and Zoe. Bloom appreciates her buxom appearance.
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Florry Talbot Character Timeline in Ulysses
The timeline below shows where the character Florry Talbot appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 15: Circe
...Kitty Ricketts sits on the table, and Stephen prods at the pianola, playing perfect fifths. Florry Talbot, another prostitute, is laying on the couch. Stephen rants incomprehensibly about music, and Lynch’s...
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Florry Talbot says that she read in the paper that the Antichrist is arriving soon, and...
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...world in a slick American accent and yelling at God (or “Mr. President”) about whether Florry, Zoe, and Kitty are devout enough. Each of the women reveals when they first had...
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...her thigh. Kitty dresses carefully to hide her thin frame and is faking her sadness. Florry has impressive “protuberances” both at the chest and rear, but Bloom doesn’t like her stye...
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Stephen mutters to himself about returning home. Florry asks him to sing “Love’s Old Sweet Song,” but he refuses, since he’s a “most...
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...Virag unscrews his own head and follows Flower out. As they chat about the clergy, Florry jokes that Stephen is “a spoiled priest,” and Lynch says that his father is a...
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...nymph proclaims that immortals are “stonecold and pure,” and Bloom confesses more sins. Meanwhile, Kitty, Florry, Lynch, and Zoe comment that one of the cushions is hot, after someone sat on...
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...light a cigarette as he muses about Georgina Johnson getting “dead and married.” Zoe and Florry explain that her husband is a Londoner named Mr. Lambe. Stephen drops his cigarette and...
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While Zoe and Florry whisper in secret, Bloom imagines Lenehan and Blazes Boylan passing by in a carriage while...
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...then yells the names of dance steps at Stephen in French. Stephen changes Zoe for Florry, then Florry for Kitty, and finally pairs Kitty with Lynch so that he can dance...
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