—I just wanted to say, he said. Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the jews. Do you know that? No. And do you know why?
—She never let them in, he cried again through his laughter as he stamped on gaitered feet over the gravel of the path. That’s why.
From Ulysses. 1922.
So we just hated them from afar, and nowadays we occasionally write something nasty on the roads, so we do, to discourage them from coming, now that we’re letting all sorts in./just a friendly tweaking of speaking styles. Not a hate crime.
I’m almost tempted to order a copy. JJ seems to have been some storyteller.