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  • Lucrece's bluecircled ivory globes to Imogen's breast, bare, with its mole cinquespotted.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Lucrece’s bluecircled ivory globes to Imogen’s breast, bare, with its mole cinquespotted.

    Ulysses 2003

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  • Stephen Dedalus alludes to Imogen in Ulysses, referring to the episode in which Iachomo observes the mole on her breast: "Ravisher and ravished, what he would, but would not, go with him from Lucrece's bluecircled ivory globes to Imogen's breast, bare, with its mole cinquespotted."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen_(Shakespeare)

    February 24, 2008