What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?

What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?

Her antiquity in preceding and surviving tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellite dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising, and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid dilenquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her atrraction, when invisible.

James Joyce - Ulysses