The crying of lot 49 pages7/3/2023 ![]() For a discussion of some other things the title may or may not allude to, see the article 7 x 7.Those lovely curtains." (Ulysses, 304) Given that Gravity's Rainbow, written at the same time as CoL49, contains numerous Joyce references (mainly in the character of Sir Stephen Dodson-Truck), it's possible that this is a nod. Dilly Dedalus, loitering by the curbstone, heard the beats of the bell, the cries of the auctioneer within. There's a line in Ulysses that bears an odd coincidence to the title: "The lacquey by the door of Dillon's auctionrooms shook his handbell twice again and viewed himself in the chalked mirror of the cabinet.In property auctions, numbered "lots" of property or tangible objects are "cried" by an auctioneer. If your edition has 183 pages, follow the pages marked a: ![]() ![]() Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel. ![]()
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