詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》中有一段对一个爱尔兰人(一个船主)的描写: Skin-the-Goat, assuming he was he, evidently with an axe to grind , was airing his grievances in a forcible-feeble philippic anent the natural resources of Ireland or something of that sort which he described in his len ...