Perhaps the transfer of the ball from one pocket to the other is intended to suggest an umpire counting the over?
Joyce's school played cricket, if I remember correctly, and there are references to the game in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses (most notably when Bloom reads about Iremonger's century in the paper) and Finnegans Wake.
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Date: 2012-06-15 05:06 pm (UTC)Although I'd have thought cricket would have been more Sam Beckett's line..........
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Date: 2012-06-15 05:36 pm (UTC)Joyce's school played cricket, if I remember correctly, and there are references to the game in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses (most notably when Bloom reads about Iremonger's century in the paper) and Finnegans Wake.
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