And trieste, ah trieste ate I my liver!

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  • French O triste, triste était mon âme...: "Oh, sad, sad was my soul...", title of a poem by Verlaine appearing in Romances sans paroles
  • of course Triest is important to Joyce
  • French livre: book
  • liver: spleen (from the temperamental point of view)