Why did he use hyphens instead of quotation marks?

Why did he use hyphens instead of quotation marks?

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1. french
2. looks less cluttered, apparently

In orginal Ulysses manuscript he used '~' and '#' in place of the letters 's' and 'h'. Editors wanted to use quotations as well but thats where he drew the line.

is this real?

of course

~o it would #ave looked like t#i~. W#at t#e fuck wa~ #e t#inking?

About the pungency of Nora's butthole.

>yfw you realize that his iritis was by all likelihood a direct result of recreationally being farted directly into the eyes repeatedly throughout his early twenties.

~#e ~ells ~ea ~#ells by t#e ~ea ~#ore w#ile ~#itting in #er ~#oe and ~aying "#u~#"

>hyphens

Not real.