Both Uses of
monotonous
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- STEPHEN: (Throws up his hands) O, this is too monotonous!†
Chpt 15 *monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- There remained the generic conditions imposed by natural, as distinct from human law, as integral parts of the human whole: the necessity of destruction to procure alimentary sustenance: the painful character of the ultimate functions of separate existence, the agonies of birth and death: the monotonous menstruation of simian and (particularly) human females extending from the age of puberty to the menopause: inevitable accidents at sea, in mines and factories: certain very painful maladies and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make terror the basi†
Chpt 17
Definition:
lacking in variety -- typically boring