Temp untamed will hist for no man
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- Temp: (Latin) time
- Hist: history (derived from Greek 'witness')
- no man: reference to Homer's Odyssey and thereby Bloom. Ulysses is alluded to several times over the next few pages (if not throughout the entire book).
- Temp: "temptation"
