James Joyce - Ulysses: Molly Bloom's Soliloquy, The Last 50 Lines

Joycean scholar David Norris said that she "is quite the best of all the myriad of Molly Blooms that I have seen." While Charles Byrne of the Royal Television Society declared that, "This Molly Bloom would even make Sharon Stone blush. Angeline Ball was born to play the role. She is voluptuous and earthy and, in short, she is every living man's fantasy."

[charlieprice]

I will never forget when I got to the end of that book. It was a dark, dreary November. And...well, there it is... "they might as well try and stop the sun rising tomorrow". That's the notion that Ulysses comforts all of us who are lucky enough to read it with...that life will go on, and it is a beautiful thing.

[cuoreamore]

I've just studied this at high school, my teacher showed us this video and I almost cried.... it is amazing and for a romantic person as I am it's ever more. I really think James Joyce to be a genius!!

[infoanalysis]

Undoubtedly the finest and most affirmative words ever written in the English language.
Yes!
I can listen to this a thousand times a day and it still brings a tear to my eye.
Yes!
This is Proper Art in the highest Joycean sense.
Yes!

[madelyncarey]

One of the most beautiful things I have ever heard in my life.

[ilanawhaley]

This s the most beautiful soliloquy I have hear for a long time, perhaps ever.

[RastaSaiyaman]

Kate Bush once made an effort to put this poem to music but was forced to record that resulting song with different lyrics because her publishing company couldn't get permission form the Joyce estate.

That song "the Sensual world" became the title track of her 1989 album.

In 2011, permission to use the poem was granted and "The Sensual world" was rerecorded the way Kate Bush intended it. And it was released as "Flower of the Mountain"

[socalsal]

I guess I prefer reading it because the words 'Yes' to me are like a second instrument in a duo, like a cello playing long, brooding notes as the violin presents the melody. It is real life to sometimes have a constant mantra or even just a subliminal, intangible emotion underlying your surfaced words. Yes is a word of surrender and she was surrendering on so many levels. Truly beautiful prose.

[ismailkacar]

This part was like aftermath of climbing a huge mountain, I felt relief and a mixture of other feelings reading molly Bloom.

[ceciliaranfagni]

Sono sempre stata fsn della sua trasmissione

[markchrisryanmusic]

I know it has been said many times below, but this is simply beautiful

[cosmicdrifter]

A visual and verbal instance of emotional beauty. It always makes me tear up. Don't ask me why.

[garfreed]

This is some powerful freaking thing that measures the beauty of words with the evanescent bloom of a summer day in the everlasting sunshine of sunsets and marigolds and seems to suggest that life is the final resting place for those who understand the tiny misfortunes and enduring grief of time when long ago we sat on the rocks and watched the sea rise in the late afternoon as the golden fingers of the sun cast their lines over the shadows of passing destinies and left us enthralled with the wonder of friendship in collegial groups that waded in the waves at the ends of the earth and left us full of the winsome tirades of a mad old man drunk with metaphor and a cold draft of beer in the taverns by the small lane where Joyce penned his magnum opus.

[natushBu]

it is a stream of consciousness, the idea is that it has no punctuation to enforce the flux and naturalness of ideas

[hazardousjazzgasm]

I only finished Ulysses 2 weeks ago, but goddamn that was an impressive rendition. 

[GFSLombardo]

Any questions?...Who says "Ulysses" is difficult to understand? I think Molly's message was coming through LOUD AND CLEAR!

[ANFeuerstahl]

Very close to tears afier this video Yes.

[srothbardt]

Beautifully read by a beautiful woman.

[regertz]

Generous and kind Molly turning back to our dear Poldy...I love to believe that they had their healthy son conceived that morning. And it looked nothing like Blazes Boylan...

[ceciliaranfagni]

E uno dei più bei pezzi letterari mai scritti un cosa nuova antica perché uomo da sempre pens così come un fiume che scorre senza un senso determinato se no dalla corrente e dall' esser stato sempre lì yes così senza fare sforzi semplicemente assecondando il proprio Corso .. grazie Alessandro Baricco Grazie di tutto

[Dionysos]

"I doubt that I've ever read anything to equal it, and I know that I've never read anything to surpass it." (An early critic on "Ulysses.")