Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Scylla and Charybdis/179

Annotations
il se promène, lisant au livre de lui-même   (French) he strolls about, reading in the book of himself. Mr Best is misquoting from a prose poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, Hamlet et Fortinbras, which first appeared as a letter in La Revue blanche on 15 July 1896:

Hamlet ou Le Distrait Pièce de Shakespeare   (French) Hamlet or the Absent-Minded Man A Play by Shakespeare. Mr Best's quotation from Mallarmé's prose poem is not perfect. See above for the full text.

Sumptuous and stagnant exaggeration of murder   Stephen recalls a phrase from Mallarmé's prose poem. See above for the full text.