Laudator Temporis Acti

James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 14:

Elijah is coming washed in the Blood of the Lamb. Come on, you winefizzling ginsizzling booseguzzling existences! Come on, you dog-gone, bullnecked, beetlebrowed, hogjowled, peanutbrained, weaseleyed fourflushers, false alarms and excess baggage! Come on, you triple extract of infamy! Alexander J. Christ Dowie, that's yanked to glory most half this planet from 'Frisco Beach to Vladivostok. The Deity ain't no nickel dime bumshow. I put it to you that he's on the square and a corking fine business proposition. He's the grandest thing yet and don't you forget it. Shout salvation in king Jesus. You'll need to rise precious early, you sinner there, if you want to diddle the Almighty God. Pflaaaap! Not half. He's got a coughmixture with a punch in it for you, my friend, in his backpocket. Just you try it on.

John Alexander Dowie (1847-1907) was a preacher and temperance advocate who claimed to be "Elijah III". See

• Joe Voelker and Thomas Arner, "Bloomian Pantomime: J.A. Dowie and the 'Messianic Scene'," James Joyce Quarterly 27.2 (Winter, 1990) 283-291
• Robert Janusko, "More on J. A. Dowie (& Son)," James Joyce Quarterly 29.3 (Spring, 1992) 607-613
• Peter Gilliver, "Billy Sunday: A New Source for 'Oxen of the Sun'," James Joyce Quarterly 44.1 (Fall, 2006) 133-135