Yellow

 

The text for today’s @indexcard a day come from Joyce’s Ulysses p. 140:

Sandwich?

Ham and his descendants

musterred and bred there.

Note the fact that mustard is yellow. Throughout the book, at least the first 140 pages that I have read this summer, Joyce spends a lot of time on food and food descriptions. It is important to contrast Joyce’s writing about food with his serious health issues, particularly his eyes and teeth. About a decade after he published Ulysses, Joyce no longer had any of his own teeth. As can be expected, this led to eating issues.