Just now I found myself trying to remember what the cat says to Bloom in the Calypso episode of Ulysses. Google proved to be my friend, otherwise I would have been irritated in the extreme at not being able to remember and having no text here to look it up. In fact, the puss gets four lines of dialogue in this sequence: Mkgnao / Mrkgnao / Mrkrgnao / Gurrhr.
You hardly need the other (wonderful) details of the scene to be able to see and hear the stupid pussens across the century, like no other cat except its fictive self.
Oh, and by the by, wouldn't Ulysses make a great name for a dog? But it just wouldn't work for a cat somehow. Not to these ears anyway.
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