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1. Telemachus

[3] lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown,

[5] held the bowl aloft and intoned:

[9] Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:

[13] Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He faced about

[14] and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the

[16] towards him and made rapid crosses in the air, gurgling in his throat

[17] and shaking his head. Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned

[18] his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking

[19] gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light

[20] untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak.

[22] Buck Mulligan peeped an instant under the mirror and then covered the

[29] —For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul

[30] and blood and ouns. Slow music, please. Shut your eyes, gents. One

[33] He peered sideways up and gave a long slow whistle of call, then paused

[34] awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth glistening here and there

[41] He skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering

[42] about his legs the loose folds of his gown. The plump shadowed face and

[48] He pointed his finger in friendly jest and went over to the parapet,

[50] halfway and sat down on the edge of the gunrest, watching him still as

[51] he propped his mirror on the parapet, dipped the brush in the bowl and

[52] lathered cheeks and neck.

[57] Hellenic ring, hasn’t it? Tripping and sunny like the buck himself.

[61] He laid the brush aside and, laughing with delight, cried:

[77] with money and indigestion. Because he comes from Oxford. You know,

[88] —I was, Stephen said with energy and growing fear. Out here in the

[89] dark with a man I don’t know raving and moaning to himself about

[94] from his perch and began to search his trouser pockets hastily.

[98] He came over to the gunrest and, thrusting a hand into Stephen’s upper

[103] Stephen suffered him to pull out and hold up on show by its corner a

[110] He mounted to the parapet again and gazed out over Dublin bay, his fair

[117] and look.

[119] Stephen stood up and went over to the parapet. Leaning on it he looked

[120] down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of

[135] think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and

[136] pray for her. And you refused. There is something sinister in you....

[138] He broke off and lathered again lightly his farther cheek. A tolerant

[144] He shaved evenly and with care, in silence, seriously.

[147] his brow and gazed at the fraying edge of his shiny black coat-sleeve.

[150] loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her

[154] and skyline held a dull green mass of liquid. A bowl of white china had

[161] and a few noserags. How are the secondhand breeks?

[178] He folded his razor neatly and with stroking palps of fingers felt the

[181] Stephen turned his gaze from the sea and to the plump face with its

[189] in sunlight now radiant on the sea. His curling shaven lips laughed and

[195] Stephen bent forward and peered at the mirror held out to him, cleft by

[196] a crooked crack. Hair on end. As he and others see me. Who chose this

[201] Lead him not into temptation. And her name is Ursula.

[209] Drawing back and pointing, Stephen said with bitterness:

[213] Buck Mulligan suddenly linked his arm in Stephen’s and walked with him

[214] round the tower, his razor and mirror clacking in the pocket where he

[224] downstairs and touch him for a guinea. He’s stinking with money and

[226] jalap to Zulus or some bloody swindle or other. God, Kinch, if you and I

[232] —And to think of your having to beg from these swine. I’m the only

[235] I’ll bring down Seymour and we’ll give him a ragging worse than they

[241] ribbons of his shirt whipping the air he hops and hobbles round the

[266] fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of

[274] Buck Mulligan frowned quickly and said:

[276] —What? Where? I can’t remember anything. I remember only ideas and

[279] —You were making tea, Stephen said, and went across the landing to

[280] get more hot water. Your mother and some visitor came out of the

[288] A flush which made him seem younger and more engaging rose to Buck

[295] —And what is death, he asked, your mother’s or yours or my own? You

[296] saw only your mother die. I see them pop off every day in the Mater and

[297] Richmond and cut up into tripes in the dissectingroom. It’s a beastly

[298] thing and nothing else. It simply doesn’t matter. You wouldn’t kneel

[301] the wrong way. To me it’s all a mockery and beastly. Her cerebral

[302] lobes are not functioning. She calls the doctor sir Peter Teazle and

[304] her last wish in death and yet you sulk with me because I don’t whinge

[322] gazing over the calm sea towards the headland. Sea and headland now grew

[323] dim. Pulses were beating in his eyes, veiling their sight, and he felt

[332] He turned towards Stephen and said:

[335] Kinch, and come on down. The Sassenach wants his morning rashers.

[346] And no more turn aside and brood

[350] stairhead seaward where he gazed. Inshore and farther out the mirror of

[359] Her door was open: she wanted to hear my music. Silent with awe and pity

[368] pantomime of Turko the Terrible and laughed with others when he sang:

[375] And no more turn aside and brood.

[385] loose graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath,

[388] Her glazing eyes, staring out of death, to shake and bend my soul. On me

[396] No, mother! Let me be and let me live.

[402] cry, heard warm running sunlight and in the air behind him friendly

[410] —Do, for Jesus’ sake, Buck Mulligan said. For my sake and for all

[413] His head disappeared and reappeared.

[428] He flung up his hands and tramped down the stone stairs, singing out of

[432] Drinking whisky, beer and wine!

[443] So I carried the boat of incense then at Clongowes. I am another now and

[447] form moved briskly to and fro about the hearth, hiding and revealing its

[449] from the high barbacans: and at the meeting of their rays a cloud of

[450] coalsmoke and fumes of fried grease floated, turning.

[456] hammock where it had been sitting, went to the doorway and pulled open

[469] The key scraped round harshly twice and, when the heavy door had been

[470] set ajar, welcome light and bright air entered. Haines stood at the

[471] doorway, looking out. Stephen haled his upended valise to the table and

[473] him. Then he carried the dish and a large teapot over to the table, set

[474] them down heavily and sighed with relief.

[478] Haines, come in. The grub is ready. Bless us, O Lord, and these thy

[481] Stephen fetched the loaf and the pot of honey and the buttercooler from

[489] —O, damn you and your Paris fads! Buck Mulligan said. I want Sandycove

[492] Haines came in from the doorway and said quietly:

[500] He hacked through the fry on the dish and slapped it out on three

[513] —When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I

[518] Buck Mulligan went on hewing and wheedling:

[527] lines of text and ten pages of notes about the folk and the fishgods of

[530] He turned to Stephen and asked in a fine puzzled voice, lifting his

[533] —Can you recall, brother, is mother Grogan’s tea and water pot

[546] and blinking his eyes pleasantly. Do you think she was? Quite charming!

[554] He crammed his mouth with fry and munched and droned.

[562] An old woman came forward and stood by Stephen’s elbow.

[568] Stephen reached back and took the milkjug from the locker.

[577] He watched her pour into the measure and thence into the jug rich white

[578] milk, not hers. Old shrunken paps. She poured again a measureful and

[579] a tilly. Old and secret she had entered from a morning world, maybe

[583] about her whom they knew, dewsilky cattle. Silk of the kine and poor old

[585] an immortal serving her conqueror and her gay betrayer, their common

[597] loudly, we wouldn’t have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten

[598] guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with

[599] dust, horsedung and consumptives’ spits.

[609] slights. To the voice that will shrive and oil for the grave all there

[611] God’s likeness, the serpent’s prey. And to the loud voice that now

[627] —He’s English, Buck Mulligan said, and he thinks we ought to speak

[630] —Sure we ought to, the old woman said, and I’m ashamed I don’t

[638] milkcan on her forearm and about to go.

[647] twopence is seven twos is a shilling and twopence over and these three

[649] shilling and one and two is two and two, sir.

[651] Buck Mulligan sighed and, having filled his mouth with a crust thickly

[652] buttered on both sides, stretched forth his legs and began to search his

[655] —Pay up and look pleasant, Haines said to him, smiling.

[659] his fingers and cried:

[674] She curtseyed and went out, followed by Buck Mulligan’s tender chant:

[678] He turned to Stephen and said:

[680] —Seriously, Dedalus. I’m stony. Hurry out to your school kip and

[681] bring us back some money. Today the bards must drink and junket. Ireland

[689] He turned to Stephen and asked blandly:

[705] Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit.

[711] Buck Mulligan kicked Stephen’s foot under the table and said with

[721] Haines laughed and, as he took his soft grey hat from the holdfast of

[726] He strolled out to the doorway. Buck Mulligan bent across to Stephen and

[734] —I blow him out about you, Buck Mulligan said, and then you come along

[735] with your lousy leer and your gloomy jesuit jibes.

[739] Buck Mulligan sighed tragically and laid his hand on Stephen’s arm.

[749] He stood up, gravely ungirdled and disrobed himself of his gown, saying

[758] And putting on his stiff collar and rebellious tie he spoke to them,

[759] chiding them, and to his dangling watchchain. His hands plunged and

[761] we’ll simply have to dress the character. I want puce gloves and

[766] —And there’s your Latin quarter hat, he said.

[768] Stephen picked it up and put it on. Haines called to them from the

[775] out with grave words and gait, saying, wellnigh with sorrow:

[777] —And going forth he met Butterly.

[780] and, as they went down the ladder, pulled to the slow iron door and

[802] They halted while Haines surveyed the tower and said at last:

[812] Aquinas and the fiftyfive reasons he has made out to prop it up. Wait

[824] —Pooh! Buck Mulligan said. We have grown out of Wilde and paradoxes.

[826] Shakespeare’s grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own

[831] Buck Mulligan slung his towel stolewise round his neck and, bending in

[836] —We’re always tired in the morning, Stephen said to Haines. And it

[844] tower and these cliffs here remind me somehow of Elsinore. That beetles

[853] Eyes, pale as the sea the wind had freshened, paler, firm and prudent.

[855] the smokeplume of the mailboat vague on the bright skyline and a sail

[859] The Father and the Son idea. The Son striving to be atoned with the

[865] a doll’s head to and fro, the brims of his Panama hat quivering, and

[871] So here’s to disciples and Calvary.

[876] But have to drink water and wish it were plain

[878] He tugged swiftly at Stephen’s ashplant in farewell and, running

[880] fins or wings of one about to rise in the air, and chanted:

[883] And tell Tom, Dick and Harry I rose from the dead.

[885] And Olivet’s breezy... Goodbye, now, goodbye!

[890] Haines, who had been laughing guardedly, walked on beside Stephen and

[904] the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing and miracles and a

[910] green stone. He sprang it open with his thumb and offered it.

[914] Haines helped himself and snapped the case to. He put it back in his

[915] sidepocket and took from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang

[916] it open too, and, having lit his cigarette, held the flaming spunk

[936] Stephen turned and saw that the cold gaze which had measured him was not

[942] —I am a servant of two masters, Stephen said, an English and an

[947] A crazy queen, old and jealous. Kneel down before me.

[949] —And a third, Stephen said, there is who wants me for odd jobs.

[953] —The imperial British state, Stephen answered, his colour rising, and

[954] the holy Roman catholic and apostolic church.

[965] the slow growth and change of rite and dogma like his own rare thoughts,

[967] Marcellus, the voices blended, singing alone loud in affirmation: and

[969] and menaced her heresiarchs. A horde of heresies fleeing with mitres

[970] awry: Photius and the brood of mockers of whom Mulligan was one, and

[972] the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the

[976] wind: a menace, a disarming and a worsting from those embattled angels

[978] conflict with their lances and their shields.

[982] —Of course I’m a Britisher, Haines’s voice said, and I feel as

[1015] water glistening on his pate and on its garland of grey hair, water

[1016] rilling over his chest and paunch and spilling jets out of his black

[1019] Buck Mulligan made way for him to scramble past and, glancing at Haines

[1020] and Stephen, crossed himself piously with his thumbnail at brow and lips

[1021] and breastbone.

[1024] of rock. Chucked medicine and going in for the army.

[1041] He nodded to himself as he drew off his trousers and stood up, saying

[1049] Kinch and I, the supermen.

[1051] He struggled out of his shirt and flung it behind him to where his

[1058] The young man shoved himself backward through the water and reached

[1075] —And twopence, he said, for a pint. Throw it there.

[1086] path and smiling at wild Irish.

[1102] A voice, sweettoned and sustained, called to him from the sea. Turning

2. Nestor

[1127] Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as

[1129] of excess. I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling

[1130] masonry, and time one livid final flame. What’s left us then?

[1134] —Asculum, Stephen said, glancing at the name and date in the

[1137] —Yes, sir. And he said: Another victory like that and we are done for.

[1152] between his palms at whiles and swallowed them softly. Crumbs adhered

[1160] more loudly, aware of my lack of rule and of the fees their papas pay.

[1171] likes: their breaths, too, sweetened with tea and jam, their bracelets

[1181] drink and talk, to pierce the polished mail of his mind. What then? A

[1182] jester at the court of his master, indulged and disesteemed, winning a

[1189] branded them and fettered they are lodged in the room of the infinite

[1204] —And the story, sir?

[1208] A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork

[1215] Aristotle’s phrase formed itself within the gabbled verses and floated

[1218] a delicate Siamese conned a handbook of strategy. Fed and feeding brains

[1219] about me: under glowlamps, impaled, with faintly beating feelers: and

[1234] His hand turned the page over. He leaned back and went on again, having

[1236] craven hearts his shadow lies and on the scoffer’s heart and lips and

[1239] look from dark eyes, a riddling sentence to be woven and woven on the

[1255] Crowding together they strapped and buckled their satchels, all gabbling

[1287] He stood up and gave a shout of nervous laughter to which their cries

[1290] A stick struck the door and a voice in the corridor called:

[1295] they were gone and from the lumberroom came the rattle of sticks and

[1296] clamour of their boots and tongues.

[1299] copybook. His tangled hair and scraggy neck gave witness of unreadiness

[1300] and through his misty glasses weak eyes looked up pleading. On his

[1301] cheek, dull and bloodless, a soft stain of ink lay, dateshaped, recent

[1302] and damp as a snail’s bed.

[1305] Beneath were sloping figures and at the foot a crooked signature with

[1306] blind loops and a blot. Cyril Sargent: his name and seal.

[1308] —Mr Deasy told me to write them out all again, he said, and show them

[1322] Ugly and futile: lean neck and tangled hair and a stain of ink, a

[1323] snail’s bed. Yet someone had loved him, borne him in her arms and in

[1329] the fire, an odour of rosewood and wetted ashes. She had saved him from

[1330] being trampled underfoot and had gone, scarcely having been. A poor soul

[1331] gone to heaven: and on a heath beneath winking stars a fox, red reek

[1333] listened, scraped up the earth, listened, scraped and scraped.

[1338] lumberroom: the hollow knock of a ball and calls from the field.

[1341] their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes. Give hands,

[1343] the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides, dark men in mien and movement,

[1353] of shame flickering behind his dull skin. Amor matris: subjective and

[1354] objective genitive. With her weak blood and wheysour milk she had fed

[1355] him and hid from sight of others his swaddling bands.

[1359] lightly. Mine is far and his secret as our eyes. Secrets, silent, stony

[1369] He dried the page with a sheet of thin blottingpaper and carried his

[1372] —You had better get your stick and go out to the others, Stephen said

[1383] He stood in the porch and watched the laggard hurry towards the scrappy

[1384] field where sharp voices were in strife. They were sorted in teams and

[1391] —Cochrane and Halliday are on the same side, sir, Stephen said.

[1396] And as he stepped fussily back across the field his old man’s voice

[1407] base treasure of a bog: and ever shall be. And snug in their spooncase

[1411] A hasty step over the stone porch and in the corridor. Blowing out his

[1417] slapped open and he took from it two notes, one of joined halves, and

[1420] —Two, he said, strapping and stowing his pocketbook away.

[1422] And now his strongroom for the gold. Stephen’s embarrassed hand

[1423] moved over the shells heaped in the cold stone mortar: whelks and money

[1424] cowries and leopard shells: and this, whorled as an emir’s turban,

[1425] and this, the scallop of saint James. An old pilgrim’s hoard, dead

[1428] A sovereign fell, bright and new, on the soft pile of the tablecloth.

[1432] is for shillings. Sixpences, halfcrowns. And here crowns. See.

[1434] He shot from it two crowns and two shillings.

[1439] haste and putting it all in a pocket of his trousers.

[1444] too of beauty and of power. A lump in my pocket: symbols soiled by greed

[1445] and misery.

[1448] somewhere and lose it. You just buy one of these machines. You’ll find

[1455] The same room and hour, the same wisdom: and I the same. Three times

[1474] history is to blame: on me and on my words, unhating.

[1508] —You think me an old fogey and an old tory, his thoughtful voice

[1515] Glorious, pious and immortal memory. The lodge of Diamond in Armagh the

[1516] splendid behung with corpses of papishes. Hoarse, masked and armed, the

[1517] planters’ covenant. The black north and true blue bible. Croppies lie

[1529] it and put on his topboots to ride to Dublin from the Ards of Down to do

[1542] He went to the desk near the window, pulled in his chair twice and read

[1549] and, muttering, began to prod the stiff buttons of the keyboard slowly,

[1557] speeds, backing king’s colours, and shouted with the shouts of

[1564] mudsplashed brakes, amid the bawls of bookies on their pitches and reek

[1566] the field. Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the hoofs, the

[1567] vying caps and jackets and past the meatfaced woman, a butcher’s dame,

[1570] Shouts rang shrill from the boys’ playfield and a whirring whistle.

[1575] Jousts, slush and uproar of battles, the frozen deathspew of the slain,

[1583] the foot and mouth disease. Just look through it. There can be no two

[1596] Foot and mouth disease. Known as Koch’s preparation. Serum and

[1603] —I want that to be printed and read, Mr Deasy said. You will see at

[1604] the next outbreak they will put an embargo on Irish cattle. And it can

[1606] regularly treated and cured in Austria by cattledoctors there. They

[1611] He raised his forefinger and beat the air oldly before his voice spoke.

[1614] jews. In all the highest places: her finance, her press. And they are

[1621] broad sunbeam. He faced about and back again.

[1630] —A merchant, Stephen said, is one who buys cheap and sells dear, jew

[1633] —They sinned against the light, Mr Deasy said gravely. And you can see

[1634] the darkness in their eyes. And that is why they are wanderers on the

[1641] slow eyes belied the words, the gestures eager and unoffending, but

[1642] knew the rancours massed about them and knew their zeal was vain. Vain

[1643] patience to heap and hoard. Time surely would scatter all. A hoard

[1644] heaped by the roadside: plundered and passing on. Their eyes knew their

[1645] years of wandering and, patient, knew the dishonours of their flesh.

[1651] He came forward a pace and stood by the table. His underjaw fell

[1673] Mr Deasy looked down and held for awhile the wings of his nose tweaked

[1676] —I am happier than you are, he said. We have committed many errors and

[1680] the strangers to our shore here, MacMurrough’s wife and her leman,

[1686] And Ulster will be right.

[1697] And here what will you learn more?

[1713] —I will try, Stephen said, and let you know tomorrow. I know two

[1734] He went out by the open porch and down the gravel path under the trees,

[1735] hearing the cries of voices and crack of sticks from the playfield.

[1748] Mr Deasy halted, breathing hard and swallowing his breath.

[1752] that? No. And do you know why?

3. Proteus

[1779] and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver,

[1782] knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a

[1785] is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.

[1787] Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and

[1790] the nacheinander. Exactly: and that is the ineluctable modality of the

[1805] open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. Basta! I will see if I can

[1808] See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world

[1812] and down the shelving shore flabbily, their splayed feet sinking in

[1824] Spouse and helpmate of Adam Kadmon: Heva, naked Eve. She had no navel.

[1826] no, whiteheaped corn, orient and immortal, standing from everlasting to

[1830] with my voice and my eyes and a ghostwoman with ashes on her breath.

[1831] They clasped and sundered, did the coupler’s will. From before the

[1832] ages He willed me and now may not will me away or ever. A lex eterna

[1833] stays about Him. Is that then the divine substance wherein Father and

[1837] euthanasia. With beaded mitre and with crozier, stalled upon his throne,

[1841] Airs romped round him, nipping and eager airs. They are coming, waves.

[1845] I mustn’t forget his letter for the press. And after? The Ship, half

[1853] And and and and tell us, Stephen, how is uncle Si? O, weeping God, the

[1855] costdrawer and his brother, the cornet player. Highly respectable

[1856] gondoliers! And skeweyed Walter sirring his father, no less! Sir. Yes,

[1857] sir. No, sir. Jesus wept: and no wonder, by Christ!

[1859] I pull the wheezy bell of their shuttered cottage: and wait. They take

[1866] A bolt drawn back and Walter welcomes me.

[1870] In his broad bed nuncle Richie, pillowed and blanketed, extends over the

[1877] the eyes of master Goff and master Shapland Tandy, filing consents and

[1878] common searches and a writ of Duces Tecum. A bogoak frame over his bald

[1884] —Malt for Richie and Stephen, tell mother. Where is she?

[1917] Houses of decay, mine, his and all. You told the Clongowes gentry you

[1918] had an uncle a judge and an uncle a general in the army. Come out of

[1929] and echo, assisting about the altar’s horns, the snorted Latin of

[1930] jackpriests moving burly in their albs, tonsured and oiled and gelded,

[1933] And at the same instant perhaps a priest round the corner is elevating

[1934] it. Dringdring! And two streets off another locking it into a pyx.

[1935] Dringadring! And in a ladychapel another taking housel all to his own

[1938] his brain. Bringing his host down and kneeling he heard twine with his

[1939] second bell the first bell in the transept (he is lifting his) and,

[1973] of dark cunning nets; farther away chalkscrawled backdoors and on the

[1975] of brown steersmen and master mariners. Human shells.

[1978] Seems not. No-one about. He turned northeast and crossed the firmer sand

[2023] Columbanus. Fiacre and Scotus on their creepystools in heaven spilt

[2035] And I’ll tell you the reason why.

[2047] In Rodot’s Yvonne and Madeleine newmake their tumbled beauties,

[2061] tangle of wined breaths and grumbling gorges. His breath hangs over

[2077] The blue fuse burns deadly between hands and burns clear. Loose

[2078] tobaccoshreds catch fire: a flame and acrid smoke light our corner. Raw

[2088] walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them

[2089] upward in the fog. Shattered glass and toppling masonry. In gay Paree

[2095] and two buck lodgers. Peachy cheeks, a zebra skirt, frisky as a young

[2096] thing’s. Spurned and undespairing. Tell Pat you saw me, won’t you?

[2108] He had come nearer the edge of the sea and wet sand slapped his boots.

[2122] bodies, the panthersahib and his pointer. Call: no answer. He lifted his

[2123] feet up from the suck and turned back by the mole of boulders. Take

[2130] and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a

[2135] Gautier’s prose. These heavy sands are language tide and wind have

[2136] silted here. And these, the stoneheaps of dead builders, a warren of

[2137] weasel rats. Hide gold there. Try it. You have some. Sands and stones.

[2156] scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat. Famine, plague and

[2167] a day, and Lambert Simnel, with a tail of nans and sutlers, a scullion

[2168] crowned. All kings’ sons. Paradise of pretenders then and now. He

[2169] saved men from drowning and you shake at a cur’s yelping. But the

[2184] A woman and a man. I see her skirties. Pinned up, I bet.

[2195] plashing, from far, from farther out, waves and waves.

[2197] Cocklepickers. They waded a little way in the water and, stooping,

[2198] soused their bags and, lifting them again, waded out. The dog yelped

[2199] running to them, reared up and pawed them, dropping on all fours, again

[2202] from his jaws. His speckled body ambled ahead of them and then loped off

[2211] The cry brought him skulking back to his master and a blunt bootless

[2214] he lolloped, dawdled, smelt a rock and from under a cocked hindleg

[2215] pissed against it. He trotted forward and, lifting again his hindleg,

[2217] His hindpaws then scattered the sand: then his forepaws dabbled and

[2219] sand, dabbling, delving and stopped to listen to the air, scraped up the

[2232] ruffian and his strolling mort. Spoils slung at her back. Loose sand and

[2242] And thy quarrons dainty is.

[2244] In the darkmans clip and kiss.

[2246] Unfallen Adam rode and not rutted. Call away let him: thy quarrons

[2266] His lips lipped and mouthed fleshless lips of air: mouth to her moomb.

[2271] Turning his back to the sun he bent over far to a table of rock and

[2299] and kickshaws, a lady of letters. Talk that to someone else, Stevie: a

[2300] pickmeup. Bet she wears those curse of God stays suspenders and

[2309] note and pencil into a pocket, his hat tilted down on his eyes. That is

[2317] And no more turn aside and brood.

[2324] arm: Cranly’s arm. He now will leave me. And the blame? As I am. As I

[2333] flop, slop, slap: bounded in barrels. And, spent, its speech ceases. It

[2336] Under the upswelling tide he saw the writhing weeds lift languidly and

[2338] swaying and upturning coy silver fronds. Day by day: night by night:

[2339] lifted, flooded and let fall. Lord, they are weary; and, whispered to,

[2340] they sigh. Saint Ambrose heard it, sigh of leaves and waves, waiting,

[2368] Lucifer, dico, qui nescit occasum. No. My cockle hat and staff and hismy

[2376] And Monsieur Drumont, gentleman journalist. Già. My teeth are very

4. Calypso

[2408] Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.

[2415] her breakfast things on the humpy tray. Gelid light and air were in the

[2421] Another slice of bread and butter: three, four: right. She didn’t like

[2423] the hob and set it sideways on the fire. It sat there, dull and squat,

[2431] The cat mewed in answer and stalked again stiffly round a leg of the

[2455] and long, showing him her milkwhite teeth. He watched the dark eyeslits

[2458] poured warmbubbled milk on a saucer and set it slowly on the floor.

[2463] three times and licked lightly. Wonder is it true if you clip them they

[2467] He listened to her licking lap. Ham and eggs, no. No good eggs with this

[2476] the bedroom door. She might like something tasty. Thin bread and butter

[2483] And when he had heard his voice say it he added:

[2492] as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled.

[2497] At Plevna that was. I rose from the ranks, sir, and I’m proud of it.

[2502] and his lost property office secondhand waterproof. Stamps: stickyback

[2556] the aproned curate swab up with mop and bucket. Simon Dedalus takes him

[2561] Stop and say a word: about the funeral perhaps. Sad thing about poor

[2576] Leitrim, rinsing empties and old man in the cellar. Then, lo and behold,

[2580] three and carry five. What is that, a bob here and there, dribs and

[2582] town travellers. Square it you with the boss and we’ll split the job,

[2593] polonies, black and white. Fifteen multiplied by. The figures whitened

[2595] packed with forcemeat, fed his gaze and he breathed in tranquilly the

[2600] the items from a slip in her hand? Chapped: washingsoda. And a pound

[2601] and a half of Denny’s sausages. His eyes rested on her vigorous hips.

[2616] beasts lowing in their pens, branded sheep, flop and fall of dung, the

[2619] their hands. He held the page aslant patiently, bending his senses and

[2624] sausages and made a red grimace.

[2630] —Thank you, my miss. And one shilling threepence change. For you,

[2633] Mr Bloom pointed quickly. To catch up and walk behind her if she went

[2636] outside the shop in sunlight and sauntered lazily to the right. He

[2646] His hand accepted the moist tender gland and slid it into a sidepocket.

[2647] Then it fetched up three coins from his trousers’ pocket and laid them

[2648] on the rubber prickles. They lay, were read quickly and quickly slid,

[2664] government and plant with eucalyptus trees. Excellent for shade, fuel

[2665] and construction. Orangegroves and immense melonfields north of Jaffa.

[2666] You pay eighty marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives,

[2669] for life as owner in the book of the union. Can pay ten down and the

[2678] Citrons too. Wonder is poor Citron still in Saint Kevin’s parade. And

[2681] hand, lift it to the nostrils and smell the perfume. Like that, heavy,

[2698] names. A dead sea in a dead land, grey and old. Old now. It bore the

[2722] Two letters and a card lay on the hallfloor. He stooped and gathered

[2728] Entering the bedroom he halfclosed his eyes and walked through warm

[2735] —A letter for me from Milly, he said carefully, and a card to you. And

[2738] He laid her card and letter on the twill bedspread near the curve of her

[2744] glance at the letter and tuck it under her pillow.

[2752] He waited till she had laid the card aside and curled herself back

[2760] linen: and lifted all in an armful on to the foot of the bed.

[2770] On the boil sure enough: a plume of steam from the spout. He scalded and

[2771] rinsed out the teapot and put in four full spoons of tea, tilting the

[2773] the kettle, crushed the pan flat on the live coals and watched the lump

[2774] of butter slide and melt. While he unwrapped the kidney the cat mewed

[2777] her and dropped the kidney amid the sizzling butter sauce. Pepper. He

[2780] Then he slit open his letter, glancing down the page and over. Thanks:

[2792] Than Katey Keogh with her ass and garden.

[2794] old chap. Oldfashioned way he used to bow Molly off the platform. And

[2799] He prodded a fork into the kidney and slapped it over: then fitted the

[2801] it? Bread and butter, four, sugar, spoon, her cream. Yes. He carried it

[2804] Nudging the door open with his knee he carried the tray in and set it on

[2810] the pillow. He looked calmly down on her bulk and between her large soft

[2826] —Là ci darem with J. C. Doyle, she said, and Love’s Old Sweet Song.

[2849] He felt here and there. Voglio e non vorrei. Wonder if she pronounces

[2850] that right: voglio. Not in the bed. Must have slid down. He stooped and

[2857] She swallowed a draught of tea from her cup held by nothandle and,

[2865] He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail.

[2880] Sheet kindly lent. The monster Maffei desisted and flung his victim

[2883] and we’ll break our sides. Families of them. Bone them young so they

[2912] in. Not unlike her with her hair down: slimmer. Three and six I gave

[2914] Greece: and for instance all the people that lived then.

[2930] He fitted the book roughly into his inner pocket and, stubbing his toes

[2934] the fork under the kidney he detached it and turned it turtle on its

[2935] back. Only a little burnt. He tossed it off the pan on to a plate and

[2938] Cup of tea now. He sat down, cut and buttered a slice of the loaf.

[2939] He shore away the burnt flesh and flung it to the cat. Then he put a

[2942] sopped one in the gravy and put it in his mouth. What was that about

[2943] some young student and a picnic? He creased out the letter at his side,

[2945] gravy and raising it to his mouth.

[2951] mummy’s lovely box of creams and am writing. They are lovely. I am

[2953] and Mrs. Will send when developed. We did great biz yesterday. Fair day

[2954] and all the beef to the heels were in. We are going to lough Owel on

[2956] mummy and to yourself a big kiss and thanks. I hear them at the piano

[2959] cousins or something are big swells and he sings Boylan’s (I was on

[2982] Saucebox. He sopped other dies of bread in the gravy and ate piece after

[2983] piece of kidney. Twelve and six a week. Not much. Still, she might do

[2998] All dimpled cheeks and curls,

[3018] and six return. Six weeks off, however. Might work a press pass. Or

[3022] nosed at it and stalked to the door. She looked back at him, mewing.

[3039] his armpit, went to the door and opened it. The cat went up in soft

[3065] moment. Brown brillantined hair over his collar. Just had a wash and

[3075] limewash and stale cobwebs he undid his braces. Before sitting down he

[3080] on his bared knees. Something new and easy. No great hurry. Keep it a

[3083] a column has been made to the writer. Three and a half. Three pounds

[3084] three. Three pounds, thirteen and six.

[3086] Quietly he read, restraining himself, the first column and, yielding but

[3092] him but it was something quick and neat. Print anything now. Silly

[3095] laughing witch who now. Begins and ends morally. Hand in hand. Smart. He

[3096] glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow

[3097] quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received

[3098] payment of three pounds, thirteen and six.

[3100] Might manage a sketch. By Mr and Mrs L. M. Bloom. Invent a story for

[3120] and eyemasks. Poetical idea: pink, then golden, then grey, then black.

[3123] He tore away half the prize story sharply and wiped himself with it.

[3124] Then he girded up his trousers, braced and buttoned himself. He pulled

[3125] back the jerky shaky door of the jakes and came forth from the gloom

[3128] In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he eyed carefully his

[3132] A creak and a dark whirr in the air high up. The bells of George’s

5. Lotus Eaters

[3152] office. Could have given that address too. And past the sailors’ home.

[3153] He turned from the morning noises of the quayside and walked through

[3161] Aleph, Beth. And past Nichols’ the undertaker. At eleven it is. Time

[3164] lark. Police tout. Her name and address she then told with my

[3168] In Westland row he halted before the window of the Belfast and Oriental

[3169] Tea Company and read the legends of leadpapered packets: choice blend,

[3172] read blandly he took off his hat quietly inhaling his hairoil and

[3173] sent his right hand with slow grace over his brow and hair. Very warm

[3177] behind the headband and transferred it to his waistcoat pocket.

[3179] So warm. His right hand once more more slowly went over his brow and

[3180] hair. Then he put on his hat again, relieved: and read again: choice

[3189] roseleaves. Imagine trying to eat tripe and cowheel. Where was the chap

[3201] He turned away and sauntered across the road. How did she walk with her

[3203] from his sidepocket, unfolded it, rolled it lengthwise in a baton and

[3214] poster with soldiers of all arms on parade: and held the tip of his

[3219] letter. He thanked her and glanced rapidly at the typed envelope.

[3224] Answered anyhow. He slipped card and letter into his sidepocket,

[3226] regiment? Castoff soldier. There: bearskin cap and hackle plume. No,

[3229] Easier to enlist and drill. Maud Gonne’s letter about taking them off

[3236] He strolled out of the postoffice and turned to the right. Talk: as if

[3237] that would mend matters. His hand went into his pocket and a forefinger

[3240] the letter the letter and crumpled the envelope in his pocket. Something

[3256] His eyes on the black tie and clothes he asked with low respect:

[3280] Handsome is and handsome does. Reserved about to yield. The honourable

[3281] Mrs and Brutus is an honourable man. Possess her once take the starch

[3284] —I was with Bob Doran, he’s on one of his periodical bends, and what

[3288] Hoppy. Having a wet. Drawing back his head and gazing far from beneath

[3294] —And he said: Sad thing about our poor friend Paddy! What Paddy? I

[3311] —What’s wrong with him? He said. He’s dead, he said. And, faith,

[3320] Lost it. Curse your noisy pugnose. Feels locked out of it. Paradise and

[3337] He unrolled the newspaper baton idly and read idly:

[3357] Mrs Marion Bloom. Not up yet. Queen was in her bedroom eating bread and.

[3359] and fair man. Letter. Cat furry black ball. Torn strip of envelope.

[3367] Sweeeet song. There’s a committee formed. Part shares and part

[3382] There’s a drowning case at Sandycove may turn up and then the coroner

[3383] and myself would have to go down if the body is found. You just shove in

[3397] his for the Wicklow regatta concert last year and never heard tidings of

[3402] way: for a little ballad. No guts in it. You and me, don’t you know:

[3407] herself be vaccinated again. Your wife and my wife.

[3412] hoardings. Cantrell and Cochrane’s Ginger Ale (Aromatic). Clery’s

[3418] I was born that was: sixtyfive. And Ristori in Vienna. What is this the

[3421] and puts his fingers on his face.

[3424] his father to die of grief and misery in my arms, who left the house of

[3425] his father and left the God of his father.

[3433] Mr Bloom went round the corner and passed the drooping nags of the

[3437] He came nearer and heard a crunching of gilded oats, the gently champing

[3441] Too full for words. Still they get their feed all right and their doss.

[3446] He drew the letter from his pocket and folded it into the newspaper he

[3456] He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in

[3458] Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court

[3463] Open it. And once I played marbles when I went to that old dame’s

[3464] school. She liked mignonette. Mrs Ellis’s. And Mr? He opened the

[3472] I got your last letter to me and thank you very much for it. I am sorry

[3481] you. I feel so bad about. Please write me a long letter and tell me

[3486] have such a bad headache. today. and write by return to your longing

[3494] and placed it in his heart pocket. Language of flowers. They like it

[3496] walking slowly forward he read the letter again, murmuring here and

[3500] perfume. Having read it all he took it from the newspaper and put it

[3538] trottingmatches. She listens with big dark soft eyes. Tell her: more and

[3542] in shreds and scattered them towards the road. The shreds fluttered

[3551] eightpence a gallon of porter, no, one and fourpence a gallon of porter.

[3552] One and four into twenty: fifteen about. Yes, exactly. Fifteen millions

[3558] Barrels bumped in his head: dull porter slopped and churned inside.

[3559] The bungholes sprang open and a huge dull flood leaked out, flowing

[3564] he doffed his hat, took the card from his pocket and tucked it again

[3569] on saint Peter Claver S. J. and the African Mission. Prayers for the

[3576] of thorns and cross. Clever idea Saint Patrick the shamrock. Chopsticks?

[3586] pushed the swingdoor and entered softly by the rere.

[3594] communion, shook a drop or two (are they in water?) off it and put it

[3595] neatly into her mouth. Her hat and head sank. Then the next one. Her hat

[3598] Shut your eyes and open your mouth. What? Corpus: body. Corpse. Good

[3604] one, and seek their places. He approached a bench and seated himself in

[3605] its corner, nursing his hat and newspaper. These pots we have to wear.

[3607] and there, with heads still bowed in their crimson halters, waiting for

[3616] cure, waters of oblivion, and the Knock apparition, statues bleeding.

[3621] He saw the priest stow the communion cup away, well in, and kneel an

[3626] suffered, it is. And the other one? Iron nails ran in.

[3629] a veil and black bag. Dusk and the light behind her. She might be here

[3630] with a ribbon round her neck and do the other thing all the same on the

[3634] thinking of. Denis Carey. And just imagine that. Wife and six children

[3635] at home. And plotting that murder all the time. Those crawthumpers, now

[3644] Wheatley’s Dublin hop bitters or Cantrell and Cochrane’s ginger ale

[3664] on art and statues and pictures of all kinds. Palestrina for example

[3673] He saw the priest bend down and kiss the altar and then face about and

[3674] bless all the people. All crossed themselves and stood up. Mr Bloom

[3675] glanced about him and then stood up, looking over the risen hats. Stand

[3677] and he sat back quietly in his bench. The priest came down from the

[3678] altar, holding the thing out from him, and he and the massboy answered

[3679] each other in Latin. Then the priest knelt down and began to read off a

[3682] —O God, our refuge and our strength...

[3686] and immaculate virgin. Joseph, her spouse. Peter and Paul. More

[3690] in their hands. More than doctor or solicitor. Woman dying to. And I

[3691] schschschschschsch. And did you chachachachacha? And why did you? Look

[3694] Repentance skindeep. Lovely shame. Pray at an altar. Hail Mary and Holy

[3698] work the whole show. And don’t they rake in the money too? Bequests

[3701] Monasteries and convents. The priest in that Fermanagh will case in the

[3703] Liberty and exaltation of our holy mother the church. The doctors of the

[3709] our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil (may God

[3710] restrain him, we humbly pray!): and do thou, O prince of the heavenly

[3711] host, by the power of God thrust Satan down to hell and with him those

[3714] The priest and the massboy stood up and walked off. All over. The women

[3725] south. He passed, discreetly buttoning, down the aisle and out through

[3727] black marble bowl while before him and behind two worshippers

[3733] green and gold beaconjars too heavy to stir. Hamilton Long’s, founded

[3738] trousers. O, and I forgot that latchkey too. Bore this funeral affair.

[3744] to have. Shrunken skull. And old. Quest for the philosopher’s stone.

[3748] alabaster lilypots. Mortar and pestle. Aq. Dist. Fol. Laur. Te Virid.

[3763] dusty dry smell of sponges and loofahs. Lot of time taken up telling

[3764] your aches and pains.

[3766] —Sweet almond oil and tincture of benzoin, Mr Bloom said, and then

[3771] —And white wax also, he said.

[3776] teeth: nettles and rainwater: oatmeal they say steeped in buttermilk.

[3778] one skin. Leopold, yes. Three we have. Warts, bunions and pimples to

[3787] —Yes, sir, the chemist said. That was two and nine. Have you brought a

[3791] and I’ll take one of these soaps. How much are they?

[3797] —I’ll take this one, he said. That makes three and a penny.

[3807] At his armpit Bantam Lyons’ voice and hand said:

[3824] the paper and get shut of him.

[3833] Bantam Lyons raised his eyes suddenly and leered weakly.

[3847] Mr Bloom folded the sheets again to a neat square and lodged the soap

[3858] like a wheel. Then the spokes: sports, sports, sports: and the hub big:

[3869] their line. And the skulls we were acracking when M’Carthy took the

[3878] trunk and limbs riprippled over and sustained, buoyed lightly upward,

[3879] lemonyellow: his navel, bud of flesh: and saw the dark tangled curls of

6. Hades

[3891] carriage and, entering deftly, seated himself. Mr Power stepped in after

[3898] Mr Dedalus covered himself quickly and got in, saying:

[3904] Mr Bloom entered and sat in the vacant place. He pulled the door to

[3905] after him and slammed it twice till it shut tight. He passed an arm

[3906] through the armstrap and looked seriously from the open carriagewindow

[3912] wake. Then getting it ready. Laying it out. Molly and Mrs Fleming making

[3914] will touch you dead. Wash and shampoo. I believe they clip the nails and

[3923] then horses’ hoofs. A jolt. Their carriage began to move, creaking and

[3924] swaying. Other hoofs and creaking wheels started behind. The blinds of

[3925] the avenue passed and number nine with its craped knocker, door ajar. At

[3928] They waited still, their knees jogging, till they had turned and were

[3930] rattled rolling over the cobbled causeway and the crazy glasses shook

[3942] All watched awhile through their windows caps and hats lifted by

[3951] —Your son and heir.

[3955] The carriage, passing the open drains and mounds of rippedup roadway

[3956] before the tenement houses, lurched round the corner and, swerving back

[3965] faction, the drunken little costdrawer and Crissie, papa’s little lump

[3971] Richie Goulding and the legal bag. Goulding, Collis and Ward he calls

[3981] stinks all over Dublin. But with the help of God and His blessed mother

[3993] mild face and Martin Cunningham’s eyes and beard, gravely shaking.

[3999] at it by the wall of the cease to do evil. And the sergeant grinning up.

[4012] Jupiter! Ye gods and little fishes! Still, she’s a dear girl. Soon be

[4016] The carriage heeled over and back, their four trunks swaying.

[4031] All raised their thighs and eyed with disfavour the mildewed buttonless

[4033] and said:

[4049] —Yes, Mr Bloom answered. He’s behind with Ned Lambert and Hynes.

[4051] —And Corny Kelleher himself? Mr Power asked.

[4071] it. Poor children! Doubles them up black and blue in convulsions. Shame

[4079] A raindrop spat on his hat. He drew back and saw an instant of shower

[4097] The carriage turned again its stiff wheels and their trunks swayed

[4100] —Tom Kernan was immense last night, he said. And Paddy Leonard taking

[4110] —Trenchant, Mr Power said laughing. He’s dead nuts on that. And the

[4126] Peake is that? is it the chap was in Crosbie and Alleyne’s? no,

[4129] grief of his. Aged 88 after a long and tedious illness. Month’s mind:

[4134] While his family weeps and mourns his loss

[4185] am just looking at them: well pared. And after: thinking alone. Body

[4192] He clasped his hands between his knees and, satisfied, sent his vacant

[4213] topnobbers. J. C. Doyle and John MacCormack I hope and. The best, in

[4216] —And Madame, Mr Power said smiling. Last but not least.

[4218] Mr Bloom unclasped his hands in a gesture of soft politeness and clasped

[4234] And Madame. Twenty past eleven. Up. Mrs Fleming is in to clean. Doing

[4261] Mr Dedalus looked after the stumping figure and said mildly:

[4278] and the son.

[4286] —There was a girl in the case, Mr Bloom began, and he determined

[4292] —Yes, Mr Bloom said. They were both on the way to the boat and he

[4303] —Reuben J and the son were piking it down the quay next the river on

[4304] their way to the Isle of Man boat and the young chiseller suddenly got

[4305] loose and over the wall with him into the Liffey.

[4309] —Dead! Martin Cunningham cried. Not he! A boatman got a pole and

[4310] fished him out by the slack of the breeches and he was landed up to the

[4315] —And Reuben J, Martin Cunningham said, gave the boatman a florin for

[4324] —One and eightpence too much, Mr Dedalus said drily.

[4340] fingers. Poor Paddy! I little thought a week ago when I saw him last and

[4363] —No suffering, he said. A moment and all is over. Like dying in sleep.

[4370] or wind. At night too. Chummies and slaveys. Under the patronage of the

[4380] A dwarf’s face, mauve and wrinkled like little Rudy’s was. Dwarf’s

[4396] Martin Cunningham drew out his watch briskly, coughed and put it back.

[4413] clutching rushes. He looked at me. And that awful drunkard of a wife

[4414] of his. Setting up house for her time after time and then pawning the

[4418] that night Dedalus told me he was in there. Drunk about the place and

[4421] And they call me the jewel of Asia,

[4428] the slats of the Venetian blind. The coroner’s sunlit ears, big and

[4448] over and after them a rollicking rattling song of the halls. Has anybody

[4454] terrible the women. Her feeding cup and rubbing her mouth with the

[4465] croups. Outside them and through them ran raddled sheep bleating their

[4475] England. They buy up all the juicy ones. And then the fifth quarter

[4490] —Yes, Mr Bloom said, and another thing I often thought, is to have

[4492] out to the cemetery gates and have special trams, hearse and carriage

[4493] and all. Don’t you see what I mean?

[4495] —O, that be damned for a story, Mr Dedalus said. Pullman car and

[4505] —And, Martin Cunningham said, we wouldn’t have scenes like that

[4506] when the hearse capsized round Dunphy’s and upset the coffin on to the

[4509] —That was terrible, Mr Power’s shocked face said, and the corpse

[4517] shot out and rolling over stiff in the dust in a brown habit too large

[4531] the knocking about? He would and he wouldn’t, I suppose. Depends on

[4571] appealing. The best obtainable. Thos. H. Dennany, monumental builder and

[4577] sat, grumbling, emptying the dirt and stones out of his huge dustbrown

[4609] trees, white forms and fragments streaming by mutely, sustaining vain

[4613] out his arm and, wrenching back the handle, shoved the door open with

[4614] his knee. He stepped out. Mr Power and Mr Dedalus followed.

[4617] swiftly and transferred the paperstuck soap to his inner handkerchief

[4621] Paltry funeral: coach and three carriages. It’s all the same.

[4623] Beyond the hind carriage a hawker stood by his barrow of cakes and

[4627] He followed his companions. Mr Kernan and Ned Lambert followed, Hynes

[4628] walking after them. Corny Kelleher stood by the opened hearse and took

[4645] Mourners came out through the gates: woman and a girl. Leanjawed harpy,

[4647] dirt and tears, holding the woman’s arm, looking up at her for a sign

[4648] to cry. Fish’s face, bloodless and livid.

[4650] The mutes shouldered the coffin and bore it in through the gates. So

[4652] the stiff: then the friends of the stiff. Corny Kelleher and the

[4691] He looked down at the boots he had blacked and polished. She had

[4697] a guncarriage. Victoria and Albert. Frogmore memorial mourning. But

[4701] waiting. It never comes. One must go first: alone, under the ground: and

[4710] Lambert said. Same old six and eightpence. Stopped with Dick Tivy.

[4712] —And how is Dick, the solid man?

[4714] —Nothing between himself and heaven, Ned Lambert answered.

[4735] the boy with the wreath looking down at his sleekcombed hair and at the

[4738] and recognise for the last time. All he might have done. I owe three

[4746] knelt here and there in prayingdesks. Mr Bloom stood behind near the

[4747] font and, when all had knelt, dropped carefully his unfolded newspaper

[4748] from his pocket and knelt his right knee upon it. He fitted his black

[4749] hat gently on his left knee and, holding its brim, bent over piously.

[4756] They halted by the bier and the priest began to read out of his book

[4776] saint Werburgh’s lovely old organ hundred and fifty they have to bore

[4777] a hole in the coffins sometimes to let out the bad gas and burn it. Out

[4778] it rushes: blue. One whiff of that and you’re a goner.

[4783] bucket and shook it over the coffin. Then he walked to the other end and

[4784] shook it again. Then he came back and put it back in the bucket. As you

[4799] thing over them all and shook water on top of them: sleep. On Dignam

[4807] The priest closed his book and went off, followed by the server. Corny

[4808] Kelleher opened the sidedoors and the gravediggers came in, hoisted the

[4809] coffin again, carried it out and shoved it on their cart. Corny Kelleher

[4810] gave one wreath to the boy and one to the brother-in-law. All followed

[4814] gravel with a sharp grating cry and the pack of blunt boots followed the

[4838] Corny Kelleher stepped aside from his rank and allowed the mourners to

[4843] Mr Bloom closed his eyes and sadly twice bowed his head.

[4866] —I am the resurrection and the life. That touches a man’s inmost

[4874] every day. One fine day it gets bunged up: and there you are. Lots of

[4876] the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are

[4878] forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job. Get up! Last day!

[4879] Then every fellow mousing around for his liver and his lights and the

[4906] seventeen golden years ago, at Mat Dillon’s in Roundtown. And a good

[4938] Saluting Ned Lambert and John Henry Menton he walked on at Martin

[4945] They bent their silk hats in concert and Hynes inclined his ear. The

[4946] caretaker hung his thumbs in the loops of his gold watchchain and spoke

[4951] Mulcahy from the Coombe and were told where he was buried. After

[4959] —And, after blinking up at the sacred figure, Not a bloody bit like

[4962] Rewarded by smiles he fell back and spoke with Corny Kelleher, accepting

[4963] the dockets given him, turning them over and scanning them as he walked.

[4980] when the hairs come out grey. And temper getting cross. Silver threads

[4982] propose to any girl. Come out and live in the graveyard. Dangle that

[4985] tombs when churchyards yawn and Daniel O’Connell must be a descendant

[5004] honeycombed the ground must be: oblong cells. And very neat he keeps it

[5005] too: trim grass and edgings. His garden Major Gamble calls Mount Jerome.

[5012] of William Wilkinson, auditor and accountant, lately deceased, three

[5013] pounds thirteen and six. With thanks.

[5016] nails. Charnelhouses. Dreadful. Turning green and pink decomposing. Rot

[5031] fashion. A juicy pear or ladies’ punch, hot, strong and sweet.

[5041] —Two, Corny Kelleher said. Half ten and eleven.

[5044] trundle. The mourners split and moved to each side of the hole, stepping

[5045] with care round the graves. The gravediggers bore the coffin and set its

[5066] the holy land. Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one

[5083] gravetrestles. They struggled up and out: and all uncovered. Twenty.

[5100] Would you like to see a priest? Then rambling and wandering. Delirium

[5103] are the soles of his feet yellow. Pull the pillow away and finish it off

[5111] We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you’re well and

[5118] poor mamma, and little Rudy.

[5120] The gravediggers took up their spades and flung heavy clods of clay in

[5121] on the coffin. Mr Bloom turned away his face. And if he was alive all

[5124] some law to pierce the heart and make sure or an electric clock or

[5125] a telephone in the coffin and some kind of a canvas airhole. Flag of

[5131] The caretaker moved away a few paces and put on his hat. Had enough of

[5133] without show. Mr Bloom put on his hat and saw the portly figure make its

[5143] —L, Mr Bloom said. Leopold. And you might put down M’Coy’s name

[5155] —And tell us, Hynes said, do you know that fellow in the, fellow was

[5167] —No, Mr Bloom began, turning and stopping. I say, Hynes!

[5180] A mound of damp clods rose more, rose, and the gravediggers rested their

[5183] gravediggers put on their caps and carried their earthy spades towards

[5212] Ireland’s hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some

[5214] really? Plant him and have done with him. Like down a coalshoot. Then

[5220] bucket. More interesting if they told you what they were. So and So,

[5226] God’s acre for them. Nice country residence. Newly plastered and

[5227] painted. Ideal spot to have a quiet smoke and read the Church Times.

[5237] daisychain and bits of broken chainies on the grave.

[5240] sideways and red it should be painted like a real heart. Ireland was

[5242] infliction? Would birds come then and peck like the boy with the basket

[5275] gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk. I read in that

[5278] Wholesale burners and Dutch oven dealers. Time of the plague. Quicklime

[5293] And even scraping up the earth at night with a lantern like that case

[5298] other world she wrote. No more do I. Plenty to see and hear and feel

[5306] commissioner for oaths and affidavits. Dignam used to be in his office.

[5311] Hate at first sight. Molly and Floey Dillon linked under the lilactree,

[5326] John Henry Menton took off his hat, bulged out the dinge and smoothed

7. Aeolus

[5356] for Blackrock, Kingstown and Dalkey, Clonskea, Rathgar and Terenure,

[5357] Palmerston Park and upper Rathmines, Sandymount Green, Rathmines,

[5358] Ringsend and Sandymount Tower, Harold’s Cross. The hoarse Dublin

[5361] —Rathgar and Terenure!

[5365] Right and left parallel clanging ringing a doubledecker and a singledeck

[5372] Under the porch of the general post office shoeblacks called and

[5376] and paid, for local, provincial, British and overseas delivery.

[5381] and bumped them up on the brewery float. On the brewery float bumped

[5387] —Just cut it out, will you? Mr Bloom said, and I’ll take it round to

[5395] newspaper in four clean strokes. Scissors and paste.

[5409] Red Murray touched Mr Bloom’s arm with the shears and whispered:

[5413] Mr Bloom turned and saw the liveried porter raise his lettered cap as a

[5415] and National Press and the Freeman’s Journal and National Press.

[5435] Jesusmario with rougy cheeks, doublet and spindle legs. Hand on his

[5440] THE CROZIER AND THE PEN

[5446] A telegram boy stepped in nimbly, threw an envelope on the counter and

[5456] in through a sidedoor and along the warm dark stairs and passage,

[5460] He pushed in the glass swingdoor and entered, stepping over strewn

[5471] away, tearing away. And that old grey rat tearing to get in.

[5480] It’s the ads and side features sell a weekly, not the stale news in

[5482] year one thousand and. Demesne situate in the townland of Rosenallis,

[5484] statute showing return of number of mules and jennets exported from

[5485] Ballina. Nature notes. Cartoons. Phil Blake’s weekly Pat and Bull

[5494] got paralysed there and no-one knew how to stop them they’d clank on

[5495] and on the same, print it over and over and up and back. Monkeydoodle

[5503] and made a sign to a typesetter. He handed the sheet silently over the

[5515] —Mm, Mr Bloom said. Look sharp and you’ll catch him.

[5530] Mr Nannetti considered the cutting awhile and nodded.

[5542] The foreman turned round to hear patiently and, lifting an elbow, began

[5550] foreman’s sallow face, think he has a touch of jaundice, and beyond

[5553] parcels: various uses, thousand and one things.

[5561] Alexander Keyes, tea, wine and spirit merchant. So on.

[5569] The foreman moved his scratching hand to his lower ribs and scratched

[5582] house there too. I’ll just run out and ask him. Well, you can do that

[5583] and just a little par calling attention. You know the usual. Highclass

[5630] —Then I’ll get the design, Mr Nannetti, he said, and you’ll give

[5648] and washer. Daughter working the machine in the parlour. Plain Jane, no

[5651] AND IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER

[5658] and into the house of bondage alleluia. Shema Israel Adonai Elohenu. No,

[5659] that’s the other. Then the twelve brothers, Jacob’s sons. And then

[5660] the lamb and the cat and the dog and the stick and the water and the

[5661] butcher. And then the angel of death kills the butcher and he kills the

[5662] ox and the dog kills the cat. Sounds a bit silly till you come to look

[5668] the landing. Now am I going to tram it out all the way and then catch

[5681] he took out the soap and stowed it away, buttoned, into the hip pocket

[5717] —The pensive bosom and the overarsing leafage. O boys! O boys!

[5719] —And Xenophon looked upon Marathon, Mr Dedalus said, looking again on

[5720] the fireplace and to the window, and Marathon looked on the sea.

[5725] He ate off the crescent of water biscuit he had been nibbling and,

[5776] —Well. And yourself?

[5783] That hectic flush spells finis for a man. Touch and go with him.

[5793] —Very much so, professor MacHugh said. To be seen and heard. He’s in

[5796] J. J. O’Molloy strolled to the sloping desk and began to turn back the

[5800] honour. Reaping the whirlwind. Used to get good retainers from D. and T.

[5805] they get wind of a new opening. Weathercocks. Hot and cold in the same

[5807] the next. Go for one another baldheaded in the papers and then all blows

[5819] —Bathe his lips, Mr Dedalus said. Blessed and eternal God! Yes? Is he

[5824] regions, for very beauty, of bosky grove and undulating plain and

[5832] —That mantles the vista far and wide and wait till the glowing orb of

[5835] —O! Mr Dedalus cried, giving vent to a hopeless groan. Shite and

[5838] He took off his silk hat and, blowing out impatiently his bushy

[5856] The inner door was opened violently and a scarlet beaked face, crested

[5858] about them and the harsh voice asked:

[5862] —And here comes the sham squire himself! professor MacHugh said

[5883] won every time! North Cork and Spanish officers!

[5899] —A perfect cretic! the professor said. Long, short and long.

[5903] He took a reel of dental floss from his waistcoat pocket and, breaking

[5904] off a piece, twanged it smartly between two and two of his resonant

[5917] to the editor and laying a firm hand on his shoulder.

[5938] Screams of newsboys barefoot in the hall rushed near and the door was

[5943] Professor MacHugh strode across the room and seized the cringing urchin

[5944] by the collar as the others scampered out of the hall and down the

[5946] blue scrawls and under the table came to earth.

[5950] —Throw him out and shut the door, the editor said. There’s a

[5965] He hustled the boy out and banged the door to.

[5977] The bell whirred again as he rang off. He came in quickly and bumped

[5980] —Pardon, monsieur, Lenehan said, clutching him for an instant and

[5988] He made a comic face and whined, rubbing his knee:

[5994] He went to the door and, holding it ajar, paused. J. J. O’Molloy

[6000] Who fought with heart and hand.

[6015] J. J. O’Molloy took the tissues from Lenehan’s hand and read them,

[6030] —Look at the young guttersnipe behind him hue and cry, Lenehan said,

[6031] and you’ll kick. O, my rib risible! Taking off his flat spaugs and the

[6048] air and against the wood as he locked his desk drawer.

[6058] He offered a cigarette to the professor and took one himself. Lenehan

[6059] promptly struck a match for them and lit their cigarettes in turn. J. J.

[6060] O’Molloy opened his case again and offered it.

[6067] ’Twas rank and fame that tempted thee,

[6083] —That’s it, he said. We are the fat. You and I are the fat in the

[6095] sewers. The Jews in the wilderness and on the mountaintop said: It is

[6099] obsession. He gazed about him in his toga and he said: It is meet to be

[6109] —And Pontius Pilate is its prophet, professor MacHugh responded.

[6135] Stephen handed over the typed sheets, pointing to the title and

[6147] From storm and south

[6151] shoulders. Foot and mouth? Are you turned...?

[6160] —O, I know him, Myles Crawford said, and I knew his wife too. The

[6161] bloodiest old tartar God ever made. By Jesus, she had the foot and mouth

[6162] disease and no mistake! The night she threw the soup in the waiter’s

[6163] face in the Star and Garter. Oho!

[6182] —And if not? he said.

[6190] us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never

[6203] and the Saxon know not. Kyrie! The radiance of the intellect. I ought to

[6205] and the cloacamaker will never be lords of our spirit. We are liege

[6207] and of the empire of the spirit, not an imperium, that went under with

[6255] Stephen’s and Mr O’Madden Burke’s loose ties.

[6257] —Paris, past and present, he said. You look like communards.

[6276] —And Madam Bloom, Mr O’Madden Burke added. The vocal muse.

[6293] —Foot and mouth disease! the editor cried in scornful invective.

[6296] its soul. Father, Son and Holy Ghost and Jakes M’Carthy.

[6323] hat. Where it took place. Tim Kelly, or Kavanagh I mean. Joe Brady and

[6330] —Hop and carry one, is it? Myles Crawford said.

[6332] —And poor Gumley is down there too, so he told me, minding stones for

[6345] He flung back pages of the files and stuck his finger on a point.

[6358] His finger leaped and struck point after point, vibrating.

[6364] illstarched dicky jutted up and with a rude gesture he thrust it back

[6391] besthearted bloody Corkman the Lord ever put the breath of life in, and

[6396] —Madam, I’m Adam. And Able was I ere I saw Elba.

[6399] there first. There was weeping and gnashing of teeth over that. Out of

[6405] —The father of scare journalism, Lenehan confirmed, and the

[6426] cyclone last year and thought she’d buy a view of Dublin. And it

[6430] —They’re only in the hook and eye department, Myles Crawford said.

[6431] Psha! Press and the bar! Where have you a man now at the bar like those

[6440] RHYMES AND REASONS

[6464] with you. Why not bring in Henry Grattan and Flood and Demosthenes and

[6465] Edmund Burke? Ignatius Gallaher we all know and his Chapelizod boss,

[6466] Harmsworth of the farthing press, and his American cousin of the Bowery

[6468] and our watchful friend The Skibbereen Eagle. Why bring in a master

[6474] —Grattan and Flood wrote for this very paper, the editor cried in his

[6486] J. J. O’Molloy turned to Stephen and said quietly and slowly:

[6492] And in the porches of mine ear did pour.

[6503] And he cited the Moses of Michelangelo in the vatican.

[6513] Messenger took out his matchbox thoughtfully and lit his cigar.

[6523] —He said of it: that stony effigy in frozen music, horned and

[6524] terrible, of the human form divine, that eternal symbol of wisdom and

[6526] has wrought in marble of soultransfigured and of soultransfiguring

[6529] His slim hand with a wave graced echo and fall.

[6537] Stephen, his blood wooed by grace of language and gesture, blushed. He

[6539] Myles Crawford. Lenehan lit their cigarettes as before and took his

[6562] spoken and the paper under debate was an essay (new for those days),

[6565] He turned towards Myles Crawford and said:

[6577] orator, full of courteous haughtiness and pouring in chastened diction

[6583] an outspanned hand to his spectacles and, with trembling thumb and

[6594] beard round it. He wore a loose white silk neckcloth and altogether he

[6598] Stephen’s face and then bent at once to the ground, seeking. His

[6606] Witless shellfish swam in the gross lenses to and fro, seeking outlet.

[6610] —Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: Great was my admiration in

[6614] this age, that I stood in ancient Egypt and that I was listening to the

[6618] ascending in frail stalks that flowered with his speech. And let our

[6622] —And it seemed to me that I heard the voice of that Egyptian

[6623] highpriest raised in a tone of like haughtiness and like pride. I heard

[6624] his words and their meaning was revealed to me.

[6632] —Why will you jews not accept our culture, our religion and our

[6634] have no cities nor no wealth: our cities are hives of humanity and

[6635] our galleys, trireme and quadrireme, laden with all manner merchandise

[6638] history and a polity.

[6647] —You pray to a local and obscure idol: our temples, majestic and

[6648] mysterious, are the abodes of Isis and Osiris, of Horus and Ammon Ra.

[6649] Yours serfdom, awe and humbleness: ours thunder and the seas. Israel

[6650] is weak and few are her children: Egypt is an host and terrible are her

[6651] arms. Vagrants and daylabourers are you called: the world trembles at

[6657] —But, ladies and gentlemen, had the youthful Moses listened to and

[6658] accepted that view of life, had he bowed his head and bowed his will

[6659] and bowed his spirit before that arrogant admonition he would never have

[6663] with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in

[6666] He ceased and looked at them, enjoying a silence.

[6672] —And yet he died without having entered the land of promise.

[6676] Lenehan added. And with a great future behind him.

[6678] The troop of bare feet was heard rushing along the hallway and pattering

[6683] Gone with the wind. Hosts at Mullaghmast and Tara of the kings. Miles of

[6684] ears of porches. The tribune’s words, howled and scattered to the four

[6686] of all that ever anywhere wherever was. Love and laud him: me no more.

[6697] —That it be and hereby is resolutely resolved. All that are in favour

[6716] —Foot and mouth. I know. That’ll be all right. That’ll go in.

[6719] He thrust the sheets back and went into the inner office.

[6733] The first newsboy came pattering down the stairs at their heels and

[6755] —Two Dublin vestals, Stephen said, elderly and pious, have lived fifty

[6756] and fiftythree years in Fumbally’s lane.

[6769] pillar. They save up three and tenpence in a red tin letterbox moneybox.

[6770] They shake out the threepenny bits and sixpences and coax out the

[6771] pennies with the blade of a knife. Two and three in silver and one and

[6772] seven in coppers. They put on their bonnets and best clothes and take

[6779] —They buy one and fourpenceworth of brawn and four slices of panloaf

[6781] Collins, proprietress... They purchase four and twenty ripe plums from

[6784] and begin to waddle slowly up the winding staircase, grunting,

[6786] the other have you the brawn, praising God and the Blessed Virgin,

[6790] Their names are Anne Kearns and Florence MacCabe. Anne Kearns has the

[6793] and a bottle of double X for supper every Saturday.

[6814] offices of the Irish Catholic and Dublin Penny Journal, called:

[6829] puffing, and taking the cutting from his pocket. I spoke with Mr Keyes

[6832] Saturday pink. And he wants it copied if it’s not too late I told

[6859] While Mr Bloom stood weighing the point and about to smile he strode on

[6867] the will for the deed. With a heart and a half if I could raise the wind

[6870] J. J. O’Molloy pulled a long face and walked on silently. They caught

[6871] up on the others and walked abreast.

[6873] —When they have eaten the brawn and the bread and wiped their twenty

[6886] the roofs and argue about where the different churches are: Rathmines’

[6887] blue dome, Adam and Eve’s, saint Laurence O’Toole’s. But it makes

[6895] —And settle down on their striped petticoats, peering up at the statue

[6903] —It gives them a crick in their necks, Stephen said, and they are too

[6905] them and eat the plums out of it, one after another, wiping off with

[6906] their handkerchiefs the plumjuice that dribbles out of their mouths and

[6909] He gave a sudden loud young laugh as a close. Lenehan and Mr O’Madden

[6910] Burke, hearing, turned, beckoned and led on across towards Mooney’s.

[6920] and a bondwoman. And he wrote a book in which he took away the palm of

[6921] beauty from Argive Helen and handed it to poor Penelope.

[6931] Rathfarnham, Blackrock, Kingstown and Dalkey, Sandymount Green, Ringsend

[6932] and Sandymount Tower, Donnybrook, Palmerston Park and Upper Rathmines,

[6937] WHAT?—AND LIKEWISE—WHERE?

[6954] —I see, he said again with new pleasure. Moses and the promised land.

[6959] J. J. O’Molloy sent a weary sidelong glance towards the statue and

[6964] He halted on sir John Gray’s pavement island and peered aloft at

8. Lestrygonians

[6985] treat. Bad for their tummies. Lozenge and comfit manufacturer to His

[7006] Paying game. Torry and Alexander last year. Polygamy. His wife will put

[7008] crucifix. Our Saviour. Wake up in the dead of night and see him on the

[7024] confession, the absolution. Increase and multiply. Did you ever hear

[7025] such an idea? Eat you out of house and home. No families themselves to

[7026] feed. Living on the fat of the land. Their butteries and larders. I’d

[7027] like to see them do the black fast Yom Kippur. Crossbuns. One meal and a

[7031] for number one. Watching his water. Bring your own bread and butter. His

[7035] too. Potatoes and marge, marge and potatoes. It’s after they feel it.

[7048] J’s son must have swallowed a good bellyful of that sewage. One and

[7076] He halted again and bought from the old applewoman two Banbury cakes for

[7077] a penny and broke the brittle paste and threw its fragments down into

[7081] Aware of their greed and cunning he shook the powdery crumb from his

[7088] quite enough. Lot of thanks I get. Not even a caw. They spread foot and

[7093] His eyes sought answer from the river and saw a rowboat rock at anchor

[7133] barreltone voice. He has legs like barrels and you’d think he was

[7144] his foreboard, crammed it into his mouth and munched as he walked. Our

[7146] street. Just keep skin and bone together, bread and skilly. They are not

[7170] buttering themselves in and out. Molly tasting it, her veil up. Sister?

[7188] like a glove, shoulders and hips. Just beginning to plump it out well.

[7192] Dockrell’s, one and ninepence a dozen. Milly’s tubbing night.

[7211] or oakroom of the Mansion house. He and I behind. Sheet of her music

[7215] concerts. Positively last appearance on any stage. May be for months and

[7218] skirts and her boa nearly smothered old Goodwin. She did get flushed

[7219] in the wind. Remember when we got home raking up the fire and frying up

[7221] liked. And the mulled rum. Could see her in the bedroom from the hearth

[7224] Swish and soft flop her stays made on the bed. Always warm from her.

[7252] Going to crop up all day, I foresee. Who’s dead, when and what did he

[7271] —And your lord and master?

[7279] Hot mockturtle vapour and steam of newbaked jampuffs rolypoly poured out

[7284] hunger that way. Pleasure or pain is it? Penny dinner. Knife and fork

[7325] —And now he’s going round to Mr Menton’s office. He’s going to

[7328] She folded the card into her untidy bag and snapped the catch.

[7331] best days. Wispish hair over her ears. And that dowdy toque: three old

[7362] —Yes, Mrs Breen said. And a houseful of kids at home. It’s a very

[7384] a stick and an umbrella dangled to his stride.

[7405] in skimpy frockcoat and blue canvas shoes shuffled out of Harrison’s

[7407] times. He suffered her to overtake him without surprise and thrust

[7416] And that other old mosey lunatic in those duds. Hard time she must have

[7431] made the world. The way they spring those questions on you. And the

[7437] and general, exc. cuisine, housemaid kept. Wanted live man for spirit

[7439] James Carlisle made that. Six and a half per cent dividend. Made a big

[7441] the toady news. Our gracious and popular vicereine. Bought the Irish

[7443] and rode out with the Ward Union staghounds at the enlargement yesterday

[7447] First to the meet and in at the death. Strong as a brood mare some of

[7453] wraps and black underclothes in the Shelbourne hotel. Divorced Spanish

[7462] and milk and soda lunch in the educational dairy. Y. M. C. A. Eating

[7463] with a stopwatch, thirtytwo chews to the minute. And still his

[7467] marching along bareheaded and his eldest boy carrying one in a

[7492] and five tiresome pounds multiply by twenty decimal system encourage

[7493] people to put by money save hundred and ten and a bit twentyone years

[7499] Funny sight two of them together, their bellies out. Molly and Mrs

[7513] thrilling from the air. Apjohn, myself and Owen Goldberg up in the trees

[7519] belts. Policeman’s lot is oft a happy one. They split up in groups and

[7534] being lagged they let him have it hot and heavy in the bridewell.

[7541] oughtn’t to have got myself swept along with those medicals. And the

[7543] know that young Dixon who dressed that sting for me in the Mater and now

[7555] The Butter exchange band. Few years’ time half of them magistrates and

[7565] against a backdoor. Maul her a bit. Then the next thing on the menu. And

[7589] our lovely land. Gammon and spinach. Dublin Bakery Company’s tearoom.

[7593] up with meat and drink. Michaelmas goose. Here’s a good lump of thyme

[7595] before it gets too cold. Halffed enthusiasts. Penny roll and a walk with

[7615] his notice to quit. They buy the place up with gold and still they have

[7617] after age. Pyramids in sand. Built on bread and onions. Slaves Chinese

[7625] this hour. Feel as if I had been eaten and spewed.

[7629] Hope they have liver and bacon today. Nature abhors a vacuum.

[7631] The sun freed itself slowly and lit glints of light among the silverware

[7636] coincidence. Course hundreds of times you think of a person and don’t

[7640] his high horse, cocked hat, puffed, powdered and shaved. Look at the

[7646] That’s the fascination: the name. All a bit touched. Mad Fanny and

[7649] Meath. Apply for the Chiltern Hundreds and retire into public life. The

[7652] grave and lead him out of the house of commons by the arm.

[7658] They passed from behind Mr Bloom along the curbstone. Beard and bicycle.

[7661] And there he is too. Now that’s really a coincidence: second time.

[7670] His eyes followed the high figure in homespun, beard and bicycle,

[7672] weggebobbles and fruit. Don’t eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes

[7690] He crossed at Nassau street corner and stood before the window of Yeates

[7691] and Son, pricing the fieldglasses. Or will I drop into old Harris’s

[7692] and have a chat with young Sinclair? Wellmannered fellow. Probably at

[7697] trains and cloakrooms. What do they be thinking about? Women too.

[7699] daughter’s bag and hand it to her at Limerick junction. Unclaimed

[7706] He faced about and, standing between the awnings, held out his right

[7721] it on with a trowel. Cap in hand goes through the land. Not go in and

[7750] la femme. Up in the Coombe with chummies and streetwalkers and then the

[7759] Coarse red: fun for drunkards: guffaw and smoke. Take off that white

[7771] silkdames and dowagers, jingle of harnesses, hoofthuds lowringing in the

[7796] High voices. Sunwarm silk. Jingling harnesses. All for a woman, home and

[7830] young man polished his tumbler knife fork and spoon with his napkin.

[7836] others see us. Hungry man is an angry man. Working tooth and jaw.

[7842] —Roast beef and cabbage.

[7851] Couldn’t eat a morsel here. Fellow sharpening knife and fork to

[7853] chewing the cud. Before and after. Grace after meals. Look on this

[7857] He gazed round the stooled and tabled eaters, tightening the wings of

[7862] —One corned and cabbage.

[7872] up: it splashed yellow near his boot. A diner, knife and fork upright,

[7887] —Roast and mashed here.

[7891] Every fellow for his own, tooth and nail. Gulp. Grub. Gulp. Gobstuff.

[7893] He came out into clearer air and turned back towards Grafton street. Eat

[7897] with porringers and tommycans to be filled. Devour contents in the

[7899] mother’s son don’t talk of your provosts and provost of Trinity

[7900] women and children cabmen priests parsons fieldmarshals archbishops.

[7908] big as the Phoenix park. Harpooning flitches and hindquarters out of it.

[7910] it. Soup, joint and sweet. Never know whose thoughts you’re chewing.

[7911] Then who’d wash up all the plates and forks? Might be all feeding on

[7912] tabloids that time. Teeth getting worse and worse.

[7916] of onions mushrooms truffles. Pain to the animal too. Pluck and draw

[7919] bob. Bubble and squeak. Butchers’ buckets wobbly lights. Give us that

[7920] brisket off the hook. Plup. Rawhead and bloody bones. Flayed glasseyed

[7922] nosejam on sawdust. Top and lashers going out. Don’t maul them pieces,

[7931] now and then. But in leapyear once in four. Cashed a cheque for me once.

[7941] —Tiptop... Let me see. I’ll take a glass of burgundy and... let me

[7945] and his descendants musterred and bred there. Potted meats. What is home

[7948] meat. Cannibals would with lemon and rice. White missionary too salty.

[7953] concoction. Cauls mouldy tripes windpipes faked and minced up. Puzzle

[7954] find the meat. Kosher. No meat and milk together. Hygiene that was what

[7955] they call now. Yom Kippur fast spring cleaning of inside. Peace and war

[7956] depend on some fellow’s digestion. Religions. Christmas turkeys and

[7957] geese. Slaughter of innocents. Eat drink and be merry. Then casual wards

[8004] It grew bigger and bigger and bigger.

[8007] Part shares and part profits.

[8014] raised his eyes and met the stare of a bilious clock. Two. Pub clock

[8022] He smellsipped the cordial juice and, bidding his throat strongly to

[8029] Nosey Flynn snuffled and scratched. Flea having a good square meal.

[8045] smile upon each feature plays with such and such replete. Too much fat

[8048] —And here’s himself and pepper on him, Nosey Flynn said. Can you

[8067] Vintners’ sweepstake. Licensed for the sale of beer, wine and spirits

[8078] He went towards the window and, taking up the pettycash book, scanned

[8083] Rothschild’s filly, with wadding in her ears. Blue jacket and yellow

[8084] cap. Bad luck to big Ben Dollard and his John O’Gaunt. He put me off

[8094] forget. Go and lose more. Fool and his money. Dewdrop coming down again.

[8100] Wine soaked and softened rolled pith of bread mustard a moment mawkish

[8112] good. Gaudy colour warns you off. One fellow told another and so on. Try

[8117] out? Garbage, sewage they feed on. Fizz and Red bank oysters. Effect

[8122] blue and green again. Dinner of thirty courses. Each dish harmless might

[8126] then the others copy to be in the fashion. Milly too rock oil and flour.

[8142] filleted lemon sole, miss Dubedat? Yes, do bedad. And she did bedad.

[8162] mouth. Yum. Softly she gave me in my mouth the seedcake warm and chewed.

[8173] Me. And me now.

[8182] she did Pygmalion and Galatea what would she say first? Mortal! Put you

[8185] and turnips, bottle of Allsop. Nectar imagine it drinking electricity:

[8187] And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood,

[8193] do there to do. A man and ready he drained his glass to the lees and

[8218] before yesterday and he coming out of that Irish farm dairy John Wyse

[8223] —And is he doing for the Freeman? Davy Byrne said.

[8239] —Very much so, Nosey Flynn said. Ancient free and accepted order.

[8240] He’s an excellent brother. Light, life and love, by God. They give him

[8255] and swore her in on the spot a master mason. That was one of the saint

[8260] —And is that a fact? Decent quiet man he is. I often saw him in here

[8261] and I never once saw him—you know, over the line.

[8280] —Nothing in black and white, Nosey Flynn said.

[8282] Paddy Leonard and Bantam Lyons came in. Tom Rochford followed frowning,

[8304] For answer Tom Rochford pressed his hand to his breastbone and

[8314] Cold water and gingerpop! Two fellows that would suck whisky off a sore

[8327] Tom Rochford nodded and drank.

[8334] —Tell us if you’re worth your salt and be damned to you, Paddy

[8346] two of your small Jamesons after that and a...

[8357] cobblestones and lapped it with new zest. Surfeit. Returned with thanks

[8362] Ought to be a hall or a place where inventors could go in and invent

[8374] turned back his thoughts. They could: and watch it all the way down,

[8406] and passed the reverend Thomas Connellan’s bookstore. Why I left the

[8424] line and saw again the dyeworks’ van drawn up before Drago’s. Where

[8458] The blind stripling tapped the curbstone and went on his way, drawing

[8485] And with a woman, for instance. More shameless not seeing. That girl

[8506] and trousers and, pulling aside his shirt gently, felt a slack fold of

[8510] He withdrew his hand and pulled his dress to.

[8514] born that way? All those women and children excursion beanfeast burned

[8515] and drowned in New York. Holocaust. Karma they call that transmigration

[8522] cracking a magnum. Tales of the bench and assizes and annals of the

[8530] topers in wigs. Bear with a sore paw. And may the Lord have mercy on

9. Scylla and Charybdis

[8594] —And we have, have we not, those priceless pages of Wilhelm Meister.

[8599] He came a step a sinkapace forward on neatsleather creaking and a step

[8611] he gave his large ear all to the attendant’s words: heard them: and

[8644] And one more to hail him: ave, rabbi: the Tinahely twelve. In the shadow

[8672] —And has remained so, one should hope, John Eglinton sedately said.

[8677] Formless spiritual. Father, Word and Holy Breath. Allfather, the

[8699] and undramatic monologue, as shallow as Plato’s.

[8710] allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the

[8738] world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant’s heart on

[8740] living mother. The rarefied air of the academy and the arena produce the

[8771] Sumptuous and stagnant exaggeration of murder.

[8774] for nothing was he a butcher’s son, wielding the sledded poleaxe and

[8782] Whelps and dams of murderous foes whom none

[8784] Between the Saxon smile and yankee yawp. The devil and the deep sea.

[8814] —Shakespeare has left the huguenot’s house in Silver street and

[8823] ghost, the king, a king and no king, and the player is Shakespeare who

[8832] young Hamlet and to the son of his body, Hamnet Shakespeare, who has

[8835] Is it possible that that player Shakespeare, a ghost by absence, and in

[8851] l’Isle has said. Peeping and prying into greenroom gossip of the day,

[8852] the poet’s drinking, the poet’s debts. We have King Lear: and it is

[8857] Flow over them with your waves and with your waters, Mananaan,

[8891] I that sinned and prayed and fasted.

[8895] I, I and I. I.

[8904] saw him into and out of the world. She took his first embraces. She bore

[8905] his children and she laid pennies on his eyes to keep his eyelids closed

[8916] —The world believes that Shakespeare made a mistake, he said, and got

[8917] out of it as quickly and as best he could.

[8920] errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

[8923] softcreakfooted, bald, eared and assiduous.

[8929] —Dialectic, Stephen answered: and from his mother how to bring

[8933] from the archons of Sinn Fein and their naggin of hemlock.

[8942] —He had a good groatsworth of wit, Stephen said, and no truant memory.

[8946] the studded bridle and her blue windows. That memory, Venus and Adonis,

[8948] shrew illfavoured? Hortensio calls her young and beautiful. Do you think

[8949] the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his

[8951] Warwickshire to lie withal? Good: he left her and gained the world

[8955] blame. She put the comether on him, sweet and twentysix. The greyeyed

[8960] And my turn? When?

[8973] A tall figure in bearded homespun rose from shadow and unveiled its

[9003] said, friendly and earnest. Mr Russell, rumour has it, is gathering

[9013] ashplanthandle over his knee. My casque and sword. Touch lightly with

[9020] Young Colum and Starkey. George Roberts is doing the commercial part.

[9026] Miss Mitchell’s joke about Moore and Martyn? That Moore is Martyn’s

[9028] and Sancho Panza. Our national epic has yet to be written, Dr Sigerson

[9031] the grand old tongue. And his Dulcinea? James Stephens is doing some

[9058] He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a

[9059] chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low:

[9071] from hue and cry. Knowing no vixen, walking lonely in the chase. Women

[9073] bully tapsters’ wives. Fox and geese. And in New Place a slack

[9076] grave and unforgiven.

[9082] Rest suddenly possessed the discreet vaulted cell, rest of warm and

[9093] Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. And I heard the voice

[9101] enigmatic. We know nothing but that he lived and suffered. Not even so

[9125] —As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said,

[9126] from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist

[9127] weave and unweave his image. And as the mole on my right breast is where

[9132] which I am and that which in possibility I may come to be. So in the

[9160] the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida,

[9161] look to see when and how the shadow lifts. What softens the heart of a

[9176] sun, west of the moon: Tir na n-og. Booted the twain and staved.

[9179] Three score and ten, sir.

[9203] of all experience, material and moral. Such an appeal will touch him.

[9210] the public. And we ought to mention another Irish commentator, Mr George

[9219] Felicitously he ceased and held a meek head among them, auk’s egg,

[9222] He thous and thees her with grave husbandwords. Dost love, Miriam? Dost

[9230] and had made himself a coistrel gentleman and he had written Romeo

[9231] and Juliet. Why? Belief in himself has been untimely killed. He was

[9232] overborne in a cornfield first (ryefield, I should say) and he will

[9234] of laugh and lie down. Assumed dongiovannism will not save him. No later

[9240] like fate awaits him and the two rages commingle in a whirlpool.

[9242] They list. And in the porches of their ears I pour.

[9247] with that knowledge in the life to come. The poisoning and the beast

[9251] Ravisher and ravished, what he would but would not, go with him from

[9280] He Who Himself begot middler the Holy Ghost and Himself sent Himself,

[9281] Agenbuyer, between Himself and others, Who, put upon by His fiends,

[9282] stripped and whipped, was nailed like bat to barndoor, starved on

[9284] and there these nineteen hundred years sitteth on the right hand of His

[9285] Own Self but yet shall come in the latter day to doom the quick and dead

[9295] and of Shakespeare. All sides of life should be represented.

[9332] Of course it’s all paradox, don’t you know, Hughes and hews and

[9344] For a plump of pressmen. Humour wet and dry.

[9374] Joyfully he thrust message and envelope into a pocket but keened in a

[9377] —It’s what I’m telling you, mister honey, it’s queer and sick we

[9378] were, Haines and myself, the time himself brought it in. ’Twas murmur

[9379] we did for a gallus potion would rouse a friar, I’m thinking, and

[9380] he limp with leching. And we one hour and two hours and three hours in

[9385] —And we to be there, mavrone, and you to be unbeknownst sending us

[9417] and offering a card. From the Freeman. He wants to see the files of the

[9448] He jumped up and snatched the card.

[9472] in whom a score of heroes slept, and handed it to poor Penelope. Twenty

[9473] years he lived in London and, during part of that time, he drew a salary

[9481] there between conjugial love and its chaste delights and scortatory love

[9482] and its foul pleasures. You know Manningham’s story of the burgher’s

[9484] III and how Shakespeare, overhearing, without more ado about nothing,

[9485] took the cow by the horns and, when Burbage came knocking at the gate,

[9487] Richard III. And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, and

[9489] suited for a player, and the punks of the bankside, a penny a time.

[9494] —The height of fine society. And sir William Davenant of Oxford’s

[9501] —And Harry of six wives’ daughter. And other lady friends from

[9506] Do and do. Thing done. In a rosery of Fetter lane of Gerard, herbalist,

[9509] Afar, in a reek of lust and squalor, hands are laid on whiteness.

[9525] —It seems so, Stephen said, when he wants to do for him, and for all

[9526] other and singular uneared wombs, the holy office an ostler does for the

[9529] deeds are rank in that ghost’s mind: a broken vow and the dullbrained

[9538] between the day she married him and the day she buried him. All those

[9539] women saw their men down and under: Mary, her goodman John, Ann, her

[9540] poor dear Willun, when he went and died on her, raging that he was the

[9541] first to go, Joan, her four brothers, Judith, her husband and all her

[9560] And therefore he left out her name

[9564] And in London. And therefore when he was urged,

[9584] and landed estate at Stratford and a house in Ireland yard, a capitalist

[9589] —It is clear that there were two beds, a best and a secondbest, Mr

[9592] —Separatio a mensa et a thalamo, bettered Buck Mulligan and was smiled

[9598] —Antiquity mentions that Stagyrite schoolurchin and bald heathen sage,

[9599] Stephen said, who when dying in exile frees and endows his slaves, pays

[9601] his dead wife and bids his friends be kind to an old mistress (don’t

[9602] forget Nell Gwynn Herpyllis) and let her live in his villa.

[9611] William Shakespeare and company, limited. The people’s William. For

[9616] hands and said: All we can say is that life ran very high in those days.

[9627] cake and have it.

[9631] —And the sense of property, Stephen said. He drew Shylock out of his

[9632] own long pocket. The son of a maltjobber and moneylender he was himself

[9633] a cornjobber and moneylender, with ten tods of corn hoarded in the

[9636] He sued a fellowplayer for the price of a few bags of malt and exacted

[9638] Aubrey’s ostler and callboy get rich quick? All events brought grist

[9640] hanging and quartering of the queen’s leech Lopez, his jew’s heart

[9641] being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive: Hamlet and Macbeth

[9645] enthusiasm. Warwickshire jesuits are tried and we have a porter’s

[9646] theory of equivocation. The Sea Venture comes home from Bermudas and the

[9684] wise and curious way to an avarice of the emotions. He means that the

[9712] rare as a motorcar is now and that its carvings were the wonder of seven

[9714] at New Place and drank a quart of sack the town council paid for but in

[9715] which bed he slept it skills not to ask) and heard she had a soul. She

[9717] and, loosing her nightly waters on the jordan, she thought over Hooks

[9718] and Eyes for Believers’ Breeches and The most Spiritual Snuffbox to

[9725] man’s worst enemies shall be those of his own house and family. I feel

[9751] night. From hour to hour it rots and rots. He rests, disarmed

[9753] Boccaccio’s Calandrino was the first and last man who felt himself

[9756] begetter to only begotten. On that mystery and not on the madonna which

[9758] founded and founded irremovably because founded, like the world, macro

[9759] and microcosm, upon the void. Upon incertitude, upon unlikelihood. Amor

[9760] matris, subjective and objective genitive, may be the only true thing

[9773] annals of the world, stained with all other incests and bestialities,

[9795] father of his own son merely but, being no more a son, he was and felt

[9816] Cleopatra, fleshpot of Egypt, and Cressid and Venus are we may guess.

[9834] one time mass he did and he seen his brud Maister Wull the playwriter

[9836] sausage filled Gilbert’s soul. He is nowhere: but an Edmund and a

[9865] is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend

[9871] night, and by night it shone over delta in Cassiopeia, the recumbent

[9875] Shottery and from her arms.

[9881] And from her arms.

[9883] Wait to be wooed and won. Ay, meacock. Who will woo you?

[9904] Me, Magee and Mulligan.

[9907] Newhaven-Dieppe, steerage passenger. Paris and back. Lapwing. Icarus.

[9916] The third brother that always marries the sleeping beauty and wins the

[9939] —Come, he said. Let us hear what you have to say of Richard and

[9942] —In asking you to remember those two noble kinsmen nuncle Richie and

[9961] Ann (what’s in a name?), woos and wins her, a whoreson merry widow.

[9966] Edmund figures lifted out of Sidney’s Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a

[9971] Que voulez-vous? Moore would say. He puts Bohemia on the seacoast and

[9979] breaks his staff, buries it certain fathoms in the earth and drowns his

[9985] and left in him a strong inclination to evil. The words are those of

[9986] my lords bishops of Maynooth. An original sin and, like original sin,

[9990] and peace have not done it away. It is in infinite variety everywhere

[9992] like It, in The Tempest, in Hamlet, in Measure for Measure—and in all

[9999] —The truth is midway, he affirmed. He is the ghost and the prince. He

[10003] five. All in all. In Cymbeline, in Othello he is bawd and cuckold. He

[10004] acts and is acted on. Lover of an ideal or a perversion, like José he

[10012] —And what a character is Iago! undaunted John Eglinton exclaimed.

[10018] he has always been, man and boy, a silent witness and there, his journey

[10020] motion is ended. Gravediggers bury Hamlet père and Hamlet fils. A king

[10021] and a prince at last in death, with incidental music. And, what though

[10022] murdered and betrayed, bewept by all frail tender hearts for, Dane or

[10025] Prospero, the good man rewarded, Lizzie, grandpa’s lump of love, and

[10034] the folio of this world and wrote it badly (He gave us light first and

[10037] in all of us, ostler and butcher, and would be bawd and cuckold too but

[10044] Suddenly happied he jumped up and reached in a stride John Eglinton’s

[10077] going to visit the present duke, Piper says, and prove to him that his

[10093] Buck Mulligan stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and then

[10097] Mecklenburgh street and found him deep in the study of the Summa contra

[10098] Gentiles in the company of two gonorrheal ladies, Fresh Nelly and

[10106] and offals.

[10115] Buck Mulligan flaunted his slip and panama.

[10164] playbox, Haines and I, the plumbers’ hall. Our players are creating a

[10170] Forgot: any more than he forgot the whipping lousy Lucy gave him. And

[10171] left the femme de trente ans. And why no other children born? And his

[10176] The dour recluse still there (he has his cake) and the douce youngling,

[10181] —Longworth and M’Curdy Atkinson were there...

[10190] And that filibustering filibeg

[10200] black to be like nature. Only crows, priests and English coal are black.

[10206] a job on the paper and then you go and slate her drivel to Jaysus.

[10209] He went on and down, mopping, chanting with waving graceful arms:

[10240] and ) (two birds with one stone)

[10244] and

[10246] He laughed, lolling a to and fro head, walking on, followed by Stephen:

[10247] and mirthfully he told the shadows, souls of men:

[10290] from the housetops two plumes of smoke ascended, pluming, and in a flaw

[10297] And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils

10. Wandering Rocks

[10315] sisters of charity and held out a peaked cap for alms towards the very

[10320] of soldiers and sailors, whose legs had been shot off by cannonballs,

[10321] ending their days in some pauper ward, and of cardinal Wolsey’s

[10324] leaves: and towards him came the wife of Mr David Sheehy M.P.

[10326] —Very well, indeed, father. And you, father?

[10329] probably for the waters. And her boys, were they getting on well at

[10331] And Mr Sheehy himself? Still in London. The house was still sitting, to

[10337] Iooking so well and he begged to be remembered to Mr David Sheehy M.P.

[10342] Father Conmee doffed his silk hat and smiled, as he took leave, at the

[10343] jet beads of her mantilla inkshining in the sun. And smiled yet again,

[10346] Father Conmee walked and, walking, smiled for he thought on Father

[10347] Bernard Vaughan’s droll eyes and cockney voice.

[10351] A zealous man, however. Really he was. And really did great good in his

[10352] way. Beyond a doubt. He loved Ireland, he said, and he loved the Irish.

[10358] square. Yes: they were from Belvedere. The little house. Aha. And were

[10359] they good boys at school? O. That was very good now. And what was his

[10360] name? Jack Sohan. And his name? Ger. Gallaher. And the other little man?

[10363] Father Conmee gave a letter from his breast to Master Brunny Lynam and

[10368] The boys sixeyed Father Conmee and laughed:

[10374] Master Brunny Lynam ran across the road and put Father Conmee’s letter

[10376] Conmee smiled and nodded and smiled and walked along Mountjoy square

[10381] trousers, canary gloves and pointed patent boots, walking with grave

[10388] farther footpath along which she sailed. And Father Conmee smiled and

[10391] A fine carriage she had. Like Mary, queen of Scots, something. And to

[10395] Father Conmee walked down Great Charles street and glanced at the shutup

[10401] Father Conmee turned the corner and walked along the North Circular

[10410] Joseph’s church, Portland row. For aged and virtuous females.

[10415] nobleman. And now it was an office or something.

[10417] Father Conmee began to walk along the North Strand road and was saluted

[10419] Conmee saluted Mr William Gallagher and perceived the odours that came

[10420] from baconflitches and ample cools of butter. He passed Grogan’s

[10421] the Tobacconist against which newsboards leaned and told of a dreadful

[10427] of which two unlabouring men lounged. They saluted him and were saluted.

[10431] of hay. A constable on his beat saluted Father Conmee and Father Conmee

[10433] Conmee observed pig’s puddings, white and black and red, lie neatly

[10438] straw seated amidships, smoking and staring at a branch of poplar above

[10439] him. It was idyllic: and Father Conmee reflected on the providence of

[10441] out and bring it to town and hamlet to make fires in the houses of poor

[10456] and five pennies chuted from his other plump glovepalm into his purse.

[10460] for a journey so short and cheap. Father Conmee liked cheerful decorum.

[10463] Conmee had finished explaining and looked down. His wife, Father Conmee

[10466] tiptapping her small gloved fist on her opening mouth and smiled tinily,

[10476] At Annesley bridge the tram halted and, when it was about to go, an old

[10478] bellstrap to stay the car for her. She passed out with her basket and

[10479] a marketnet: and Father Conmee saw the conductor help her and net and

[10480] basket down: and Father Conmee thought that, as she had nearly passed

[10489] Father Conmee thought of the souls of black and brown and yellow men and

[10490] of his sermon on saint Peter Claver S. J. and the African mission and of

[10491] the propagation of the faith and of the millions of black and brown and

[10501] conductor and saluted in his turn.

[10503] The Malahide road was quiet. It pleased Father Conmee, road and name.

[10505] immediate hereditary lord admiral of Malahide and the seas adjoining.

[10506] Then came the call to arms and she was maid, wife and widow in one day.

[10511] Barony and of the book that might be written about jesuit houses and of

[10517] jealous lord Belvedere and not her confessor if she had not committed

[10520] women did. Only God knew and she and he, her husband’s brother.

[10523] man’s race on earth, and of the ways of God which were not our ways.

[10525] Don John Conmee walked and moved in times of yore. He was humane and

[10526] honoured there. He bore in mind secrets confessed and he smiled at

[10528] clusters. And the hands of a bride and of a bridegroom, noble to noble,

[10536] said. A just and homely word.

[10540] Clongowes field. He walked there, reading in the evening, and heard

[10544] Father Conmee drew off his gloves and took his rededged breviary out. An

[10549] Father Conmee read in secret Pater and Ave and crossed his breast. Deus

[10552] He walked calmly and read mutely the nones, walking and reading till he

[10556] A flushed young man came from a gap of a hedge and after him came a

[10558] his cap abruptly: the young woman abruptly bent and with slow care

[10561] Father Conmee blessed both gravely and turned a thin page of his

[10565] Corny Kelleher closed his long daybook and glanced with his drooping eye

[10567] went to it and, spinning it on its axle, viewed its shape and brass

[10568] furnishings. Chewing his blade of hay he laid the coffinlid by and came

[10570] and leaned against the doorcase, looking idly out.

[10574] Corny Kelleher locked his largefooted boots and gazed, his hat

[10595] skirting Rabaiotti’s icecream car, and jerked himself up Eccles

[10601] He swung himself violently forward past Katey and Boody Dedalus, halted

[10602] and growled:

[10604] —home and beauty.

[10609] A stout lady stopped, took a copper coin from her purse and dropped it

[10611] at the unheeding windows, sank his head and swung himself forward four

[10614] He halted and growled angrily:

[10622] towards a window and bayed deeply:

[10604] —home and beauty.

[10628] slipped from the sash and fell. A plump bare generous arm shone, was

[10629] seen, held forth from a white petticoatbodice and taut shiftstraps. A

[10633] One of the urchins ran to it, picked it up and dropped it into the

[10638] Katey and Boody Dedalus shoved in the door of the closesteaming kitchen.

[10643] twice with her potstick and wiped her brow.

[10654] Boody stamped her foot and threw her satchel on the table.

[10658] Katey went to the range and peered with squinting eyes.

[10670] —And what’s in this?

[10684] Boody sat down at the table and said hungrily:

[10706] around the bridgepiers, sailing eastward past hulls and anchorchains,

[10707] between the Customhouse old dock and George’s quay.

[10711] and a small jar.

[10715] —Yes, sir, the blond girl said. And the fruit on top.

[10719] She bestowed fat pears neatly, head by tail, and among them ripe

[10722] Blazes Boylan walked here and there in new tan shoes about the

[10723] fruitsmelling shop, lifting fruits, young juicy crinkled and plump red

[10730] his fob and held it at its chain’s length.

[10741] The blond girl handed him a docket and pencil.

[10745] Blazes Boylan at the counter wrote and pushed the docket to her.

[10767] Bending archly she reckoned again fat pears and blushing peaches.

[10802] an instant and turned quickly towards a Dalkey tram.

[10818] far back in her drawer and rolled a sheet of gaudy notepaper into her

[10822] Change it and get another by Mary Cecil Haye.

[10824] The disk shot down the groove, wobbled a while, ceased and ogled them:

[10831] Five tallwhitehatted sandwichmen between Monypeny’s corner and the

[10833] L. Y.’S and plodded back as they had come.

[10836] soubrette, and, listlessly lolling, scribbled on the jotter sixteens and

[10837] capital esses. Mustard hair and dauby cheeks. She’s not nicelooking,

[10840] concertina skirt like Susy Nagle’s. They kick out grand. Shannon and

[10847] Only those two, sir, for Belfast and Liverpool. All right, sir. Then

[10849] Twentyseven and six. I’ll tell him. Yes: one, seven, six.

[10861] —Ringabella and Crosshaven, a voice replied groping for foothold.

[10868] soft flame and was let fall. At their feet its red speck died: and

[10878] and the original jews’ temple was here too before they built their

[10897] seedbags and points of vantage on the floor.

[10899] From a long face a beard and gaze hung on a chessboard.

[10911] He followed his guest to the outlet and then whirled his lath away among

[10913] abbey where draymen were loading floats with sacks of carob and palmnut

[10937] slapped a piebald haunch quivering near him and cried:

[10941] He turned to J. J. O’Molloy and asked:

[10945] With gaping mouth and head far back he stood still and, after an

[10953] soul... night before last... and there was a hell of a lot of draught...

[10970] the costbag of Goulding, Collis and Ward and heard rustling from the

[10972] female with false teeth smiling incredulously and a black silk skirt of

[10981] can see what turn is on and what turns are over.

[10985] He slid in a disk for himself: and watched it shoot, wobble, ogle, stop:

[10988] —I’ll see him now in the Ormond, Lenehan said, and sound him. One

[11014] like a bloody gaspipe and there was the poor devil stuck down in it,

[11016] vest and all, with the rope round him. And be damned but he got the rope

[11017] round the poor devil and the two were hauled up.

[11026] and chain?

[11033] —O. Madden, Lenehan said. And a game filly she is.

[11046] They went up the steps and under Merchants’ arch. A darkbacked figure

[11055] —He’s dead nuts on sales, M’Coy said. I was with him one day and

[11057] were fine plates in it worth double the money, the stars and the moon

[11058] and comets with long tails. Astronomy it was about.

[11065] They crossed to the metal bridge and went along Wellington quay by the

[11069] Fehrenbach’s, carrying a pound and a half of porksteaks.

[11073] mayor was there, Val Dillon it was, and sir Charles Cameron and Dan

[11074] Dawson spoke and there was music. Bartell d’Arcy sang and Benjamin

[11087] catering and yours truly was chief bottlewasher. Bloom and the wife were

[11088] there. Lashings of stuff we put up: port wine and sherry and curacoa to

[11089] which we did ample justice. Fast and furious it was. After liquids came

[11090] solids. Cold joints galore and mince pies...

[11097] all the jollification and when we sallied forth it was blue o’clock

[11099] winter’s night on the Featherbed Mountain. Bloom and Chris Callinan

[11100] were on one side of the car and I was with the wife on the other. We

[11101] started singing glees and duets: Lo, the early beam of morning. She was

[11108] —I was tucking the rug under her and settling her boa all the time.

[11112] delight, his body shrinking, and blew a sweet chirp from his lips.

[11115] gamey mare and no mistake. Bloom was pointing out all the stars and the

[11116] comets in the heavens to Chris Callinan and the jarvey: the great bear

[11117] and Hercules and the dragon, and the whole jingbang lot. But, by God,

[11119] last she spotted a weeny weeshy one miles away. And what star is that,

[11124] Lenehan stopped and leaned on the riverwall, panting with soft laughter.

[11128] M’Coy’s white face smiled about it at instants and grew grave.

[11129] Lenehan walked on again. He lifted his yachtingcap and scratched his

[11143] He laid both books aside and glanced at the third: Tales of the Ghetto

[11154] unbuttoned waistcoat and bore them off behind the dingy curtain.

[11156] On O’Connell bridge many persons observed the grave deportment and gay

[11173] wondrous gowns and costliest frillies. For him! For Raoul!

[11185] queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint. An imperceptible smile played

[11199] chancery, king’s bench, exchequer and common pleas, having heard in

[11204] and Guarantee Corporation.

[11207] curtains. The shopman’s uncombed grey head came out and his unshaven

[11210] and bent, showing a rawskinned crown, scantily haired.

[11223] twice again and viewed himself in the chalked mirror of the cabinet.

[11226] bell, the cries of the auctioneer within. Four and nine. Those lovely

[11230] The lacquey lifted his handbell and shook it:

[11235] J. A. Jackson, W. E. Wylie, A. Munro and H. T. Gahan, their stretched

[11247] Dilly shrugged her shoulders. Mr Dedalus placed his hands on them and

[11253] He let his head sink suddenly down and forward, hunching his shoulders

[11254] and dropping his underjaw.

[11258] Mr Dedalus drew himself upright and tugged again at his moustache.

[11285] died. But wait awhile. You’ll all get a short shrift and a long day

[11290] He left her and walked on. Dilly followed quickly and pulled his coat.

[11314] two shillings from Jack Power and I spent twopence for a shave for the

[11321] Mr Dedalus thought and nodded.

[11329] for yourself and a bun or a something. I’ll be home shortly.

[11331] He put the other coins in his pocket and started to walk on.

[11355] casualties. And heartrending scenes. Men trampling down women and

[11358] float and the firehose all burst. What I can’t understand is how

[11361] a doubt. Well now, look at that. And America they say is the land of the

[11378] Mr Kernan halted and preened himself before the sloping mirror of Peter

[11387] Gentleman. And now, Mr Crimmins, may we have the honour of your custom

[11391] North wall and sir John Rogerson’s quay, with hulls and anchorchains,

[11402] Aham! Hot spirit of juniper juice warmed his vitals and his breath. Good

[11406] Down there Emmet was hanged, drawn and quartered. Greasy black rope.

[11410] Bad times those were. Well, well. Over and done with. Great topers too.

[11418] Mr Kernan turned and walked down the slope of Watling street by the

[11426] office of Messrs Collis and Ward.

[11441] on the wrong side. They rose in dark and evil days. Fine poem that

[11456] fingers prove a timedulled chain. Dust webbed the window and the

[11458] Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on

[11459] rubies, leprous and winedark stones.

[11463] their brows. Muddy swinesnouts, hands, root and root, gripe and wrest

[11467] rustbearded, sips from a beaker rum and eyes her. A long and seafed

[11468] silent rut. She dances, capers, wagging her sowish haunches and her

[11472] and held it at the point of his Moses’ beard. Grandfather ape gloating

[11475] And you who wrest old images from the burial earth? The brainsick words

[11476] of sophists: Antisthenes. A lore of drugs. Orient and immortal wheat

[11483] The whirr of flapping leathern bands and hum of dynamos from the

[11485] without you and the throb always within. Your heart you sing of. I

[11487] Shatter them, one and both. But stun myself too in the blow. Shatter me

[11488] you who can. Bawd and butcher were the words. I say! Not yet awhile. A

[11491] Yes, quite true. Very large and wonderful and keeps famous time. You say

[11498] proposed gently each to other his bulbous fists. And they are throbbing:

[11501] He turned and halted by the slanted bookcart.

[11505] Tattered pages. The Irish Beekeeper. Life and Miracles of the Curé of

[11514] Binding too good probably. What is this? Eighth and ninth book of Moses.

[11515] Secret of all secrets. Seal of King David. Thumbed pages: read and read.

[11522] Who wrote this? Charms and invocations of the most blessed abbot Peter

[11529] Dilly’s high shoulders and shabby dress.

[11545] My eyes they say she has. Do others see me so? Quick, far and daring.

[11552] She nodded, reddening and closing tight her lips.

[11562] drown me with her, eyes and hair. Lank coils of seaweed hair around me,

[11575] They clasped hands loudly outside Reddy and Daughter’s. Father Cowley

[11593] He looked with vague hope up and down the quay, a big apple bulging in

[11599] He put on his glasses and gazed towards the metal bridge an instant.

[11601] —There he is, by God, he said, arse and pockets.

[11603] Ben Dollard’s loose blue cutaway and square hat above large slops

[11622] He stood beside them beaming, on them first and on his roomy clothes

[11630] —And how is that basso profondo, Benjamin? Father Cowley asked.

[11635] Ben Dollard frowned and, making suddenly a chanter’s mouth, gave forth

[11649] Mary’s abbey past James and Charles Kennedy’s, rectifiers, attended

[11650] by Geraldines tall and personable, towards the Tholsel beyond the ford

[11658] Lobengula and Lynchehaun. He’s well worth seeing, mind you. Come

[11659] along. I saw John Henry Menton casually in the Bodega just now and it

[11665] Ben Dollard halted and stared, his loud orifice open, a dangling button

[11695] He signed to the waiting jarvey who chucked at the reins and set on

[11702] Conmee and laid the whole case before him.

[11712] Alderman Cowley and Councillor Abraham Lyon ascending.

[11719] —Quite right, Martin Cunningham said, taking the list. And put down

[11751] —And long John Fanning is here too, John Wyse Nolan said, as large as

[11756] —Good day, Mr Subsheriff, Martin Cunningham said, as all halted and

[11760] decisively and his large fierce eyes scowled intelligently over all

[11768] to know, to keep order in the council chamber. And old Barlow the

[11770] no quorum even, and Hutchinson, the lord mayor, in Llandudno and little

[11777] assistant town clerk and the subsheriff, while John Wyse Nolan held his

[11782] Jimmy Henry made a grimace and lifted his left foot.

[11787] Testily he made room for himself beside long John Fanning’s flank and

[11788] passed in and up the stairs.

[11809] harness and glossy pasterns in sunlight shimmering. Gaily they went past

[11816] —The lord lieutenantgeneral and general governor of Ireland, John Wyse

[11825] beard and gaze hung intently down on a chessboard.

[11832] John Howard Parnell translated a white bishop quietly and his grey claw

[11834] its screen, his eyes looked quickly, ghostbright, at his foe and fell

[11839] —Two mélanges, Buck Mulligan said. And bring us some scones and

[11840] butter and some cakes as well.

[11862] thoughtfully with thumb and forefinger. Now I am speculating what it

[11869] white death and the ruddy birth. That is his tragedy. He can never be a

[11886] Buck Mulligan slit a steaming scone in two and plastered butter over its

[11889] —Ten years, he said, chewing and laughing. He is going to write

[11901] ships and trawlers, amid an archipelago of corks, beyond new Wapping

[11902] street past Benson’s ferry, and by the threemasted schooner Rosevean

[11908] house and, crossing, walked along Merrion square. Distantly behind him a

[11912] Mr Lewis Werner’s cheerful windows, then turned and strode back along

[11925] brushed rudely from its angle a slender tapping cane and swept onwards,

[11933] the pound and a half of Mangan’s, late Fehrenbach’s, porksteaks he

[11935] blooming dull sitting in the parlour with Mrs Stoer and Mrs Quigley

[11936] and Mrs MacDowell and the blind down and they all at their sniffles

[11937] and sipping sups of the superior tawny sherry uncle Barney brought from

[11938] Tunney’s. And they eating crumbs of the cottage fruitcake, jawing the

[11939] whole blooming time and sighing.

[11943] pelts and putting up their props. From the sidemirrors two mourning

[11951] turned to the right and on his right Master Dignam turned, his cap awry,

[11957] Master Dignam got his collar down and dawdled on. The best pucker going

[11961] him, dodging and all.

[11964] and a swell pair of kicks on him and he listening to what the drunk was

[11965] telling him and grinning all the time.

[11970] his other hand. His collar sprang up again and he tugged it down. The

[11975] tonight. Then they’ll all see it in the paper and read my name printed

[11976] and pa’s name.

[11978] His face got all grey instead of being red like it was and there was a

[11980] were screwing the screws into the coffin: and the bumps when they were

[11983] Pa was inside it and ma crying in the parlour and uncle Barney telling

[11984] the men how to get it round the bend. A big coffin it was, and high and

[11987] for to boose more and he looked butty and short in his shirt. Never see

[11990] saw his tongue and his teeth trying to say it better. Poor pa. That was

[11994] William Humble, earl of Dudley, and lady Dudley, accompanied by

[11997] Courcy and the honourable Gerald Ward A. D. C. in attendance.

[12000] obsequious policemen and proceeded past Kingsbridge along the northern

[12003] him vainly from afar. Between Queen’s and Whitworth bridges lord

[12004] Dudley’s viceregal carriages passed and were unsaluted by Mr

[12009] hailing a car or on foot through Smithfield, Constitution hill and

[12011] the costbag of Goulding, Collis and Ward saw him with surprise.

[12014] about to enter changed her plan and retracing her steps by King’s

[12019] Douce’s head watched and admired. On Ormond quay Mr Simon Dedalus,

[12021] stood still in midstreet and brought his hat low. His Excellency

[12025] Grattan bridge Lenehan and M’Coy, taking leave of each other, watched

[12026] the carriages go by. Passing by Roger Greene’s office and Dollard’s

[12029] the lord and lady lieutenant but she couldn’t see what Her Excellency

[12030] had on because the tram and Spring’s big yellow furniture van had to

[12033] Nolan smiled with unseen coldness towards the lord lieutenantgeneral and

[12036] watches and Henry and James’s wax smartsuited freshcheeked models, the

[12038] and Nosey Flynn watched the approach of the cavalcade. Tom Rochford,

[12040] out of the pockets of his claret waistcoat and doffed his cap to her.

[12041] A charming soubrette, great Marie Kendall, with dauby cheeks and lifted

[12043] Dudley, and upon lieutenantcolonel H. G. Heseltine, and also upon the

[12045] Mulligan gaily, and Haines gravely, gazed down on the viceregal equipage

[12049] first French primer, saw sunshades spanned and wheelspokes spinning

[12056] his left breast and saluted the second carriage. The honourable Gerald

[12058] corner a jaded white flagon H. halted and four tallhatted white

[12060] and carriages. Opposite Pigott’s music warerooms Mr Denis J Maginni,

[12062] a viceroy and unobserved. By the provost’s wall came jauntily Blazes

[12063] Boylan, stepping in tan shoes and socks with skyblue clocks to the

[12066] Blazes Boylan presented to the leaders’ skyblue frontlets and high

[12067] action a skyblue tie, a widebrimmed straw hat at a rakish angle and a

[12069] but he offered to the three ladies the bold admiration of his eyes and

[12073] laddies blared and drumthumped after the cortège:

[12076] And wears no fancy clothes.

[12084] C. Adderly and W. C. Huggard, started in pursuit. Striding past Finn’s

[12091] with the topper and raised also his new black cap with fingers greased

[12096] a brown macintosh, eating dry bread, passed swiftly and unscathed across

[12100] themselves, an umbrella and a bag in which eleven cockles rolled to view

[12101] with wonder the lord mayor and lady mayoress without his golden chain.

[12102] On Northumberland and Lansdowne roads His Excellency acknowledged

[12106] prince consort, in 1849 and the salute of Almidano Artifoni’s sturdy

11. Sirens

[12122] Horrid! And gold flushed more.

[12138] And a call, pure, long and throbbing. Longindying call.

[12182] The spiked and winding cold seahorn. Have you the? Each, and for other,

[12183] plash and silent roar.

[12225] True men. Lid Ker Cow De and Doll. Ay, ay. Like you men. Will lift your

[12247] Miss Douce said yes, sitting with his ex, pearl grey and eau de Nil.

[12288] unheeding him he banged on the counter his tray of chattering china. And

[12323] satin, two and nine a yard, waiting for their teas to draw, and two and

[12327] ring from afar, and heard steelhoofs ringhoof ringsteel.

[12337] gildedlettered where hock and claret glasses shimmered and in their

[12340] —And leave it to my hands, she said.

[12344] Bidding her neck and hands adieu miss Douce

[12349] Miss Kennedy, pouring now a fulldrawn tea, grimaced and prayed:

[12380] Douce huffed and snorted down her nostrils that quivered imperthnthn

[12388] —And your other eye!

[12391] Figather? Gathering figs, I think. And Prosper Loré’s huguenot name.

[12409] Miss Kennedy lipped her cup again, raised, drank a sip and

[12411] nose and rolled droll fattened eyes. Again Kennygiggles, stooping,

[12413] spluttered out of her mouth her tea, choking in tea and laughter,

[12426] shrilldeep, to laughter after laughter. And then laughed more. Greasy I

[12427] knows. Exhausted, breathless, their shaken heads they laid, braided and

[12438] And flushed yet more (you horrid!), more goldenly.

[12466] —That was exceedingly naughty of you, Mr Dedalus told her and pressed

[12478] —You must have been a doaty, miss Douce made answer. And what did the

[12482] you for some fresh water and a half glass of whisky.

[12488] With grace of alacrity towards the mirror gilt Cantrell and Cochrane’s

[12491] pouch and pipe. Alacrity she served. He blew through the flue two husky

[12535] stops. To read only the black ones: round o and crooked ess.

[12539] Girlgold she read and did not glance. Take no notice. She took no notice

[12543] bill down inn my troath and pull upp ah bone?

[12551] He greeted Mr Dedalus and got a nod.

[12571] Mooney’s en ville and in Mooney’s sur mer. He had received the rhino

[12574] He smiled at bronze’s teabathed lips, at listening lips and eyes:

[12577] MacHugh, Dublin’s most brilliant scribe and editor and that minstrel

[12581] After an interval Mr Dedalus raised his grog and

[12593] concert and I never heard such an exquisite player.

[12597] —Didn’t he, miss Kennedy? The real classical, you know. And blind

[12602] He drank and strayed away.

[12608] Tink to her pity cried a diner’s bell. To the door of the bar and

[12622] not happy in your home? Flower to console me and a pin cuts lo.

[12627] For Raoul. He eyed and saw afar on Essex bridge a gay hat riding on a

[12637] —And four.

[12649] and softlier, its buzzing prongs. Longer in dying call.

[12651] Pat paid for diner’s popcorked bottle: and over tumbler, tray and

[12652] popcorked bottle ere he went he whispered, bald and bothered, with miss

[12672] Jingle jaunted by the curb and stopped.

[12674] She rose and closed her reading, rose of Castile: fretted, forlorn,

[12681] —Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.

[12686] strode. Yes, gold from anear by bronze from afar. Lenehan heard and knew

[12687] and hailed him:

[12691] Between the car and window, warily walking, went Bloom, unconquered

[12695] —And I from thee...

[12701] hair, a bosom and a rose.

[12705] —What’s your cry? Glass of bitter? Glass of bitter, please, and a

[12710] Cowley’s red lugs and bulging apple in the door of the sheriff’s

[12726] But easily she seized her prey and led it low in triumph.

[12731] lips, looked as it flowed (flower in his coat: who gave him?), and

[12748] —I plunged a bit, said Boylan winking and drinking. Not on my own, you

[12751] Lenehan still drank and grinned at his tilted ale and at miss Douce’s

[12759] clanged. Clock clacked. Fair one of Egypt teased and sorted in the till

[12760] and hummed and handed coins in change. Look to the west. A clack. For

[12777] Sparkling bronze azure eyed Blazure’s skyblue bow and eyes.

[12785] Bronzedouce communing with her rose that sank and rose sought Blazes

[12786] Boylan’s flower and eyes.

[12802] and lost and found it, faltering.

[12824] mirrors, gilded arch for ginger ale, hock and claret glasses shimmering,

[12860] And Bloom? Let me see. Not make him walk twice. His corns. Four now. How

[12873] Power and cider. Bronze by the window, watched, bronze from afar.

[12881] —Love and War, Ben, Mr Dedalus said. God be with old times.

[12892] them. There was a slight difference of opinion between himself and the

[12901] punished keyboard. And by Japers I had no wedding garment.

[12910] diners’ drinks, Richie and Poldy. And Father Cowley laughed again.

[12921] in the coffee palace on Saturdays for a very trifling consideration and

[12928] —By God, she had some luxurious operacloaks and things there.

[12932] —Merrion square style. Balldresses, by God, and court dresses. He

[12934] hats and boleros and trunkhose. What?

[12941] Liver and bacon. Steak and kidney pie. Right, sir. Right, Pat.

[12952] —And kicking.

[12979] while Richie Goulding, Collis, Ward ate steak and kidney, steak then

[13014] And heard steelhoofs ringhoof ring. No, she couldn’t say. But it would

[13023] In liver gravy Bloom mashed mashed potatoes. Love and War someone is.

[13044] Burton, gummy with gristle. No-one here: Goulding and I. Clean tables,

[13045] flowers, mitres of napkins. Pat to and fro. Bald Pat. Nothing to do.

[13087] Mr Dedalus laid his pipe to rest beside the tuningfork and, sitting,

[13102] and Goulding. Princes at meat they raised and drank, Power and cider.

[13116] sovereign in dribs and drabs. And when he’s wanted not a farthing.

[13120] gods of the old Royal with little Peake. And when the first note.

[13135] motives he twined and turned them. All most too new call is lost in all.

[13160] Dollard and Cowley still urged the lingering singer out with it.

[13166] —Ladies and gentlemen, I am most deeply obliged by your kind

[13174] By the sandwichbell in screening shadow Lydia, her bronze and rose, a

[13175] lady’s grace, gave and withheld: as in cool glaucous eau de Nil Mina

[13205] wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound

[13208] —Full of hope and all delighted...

[13225] doesn’t break down. Keep a trot for the avenue. His hands and feet

[13265] Fate. Round and round slow. Quick round. We two. All looked. Halt. Down

[13310] first gent with tank and bronze Miss Douce and gold Miss Mina.

[13321] And Richie Goulding drank his Power and Leopold Bloom his cider drank,

[13326] —Seven days in jail, Ben Dollard said, on bread and water. Then

[13337] rank and fame: in Ned Lambert’s ’twas. Good God he never heard in

[13343] night, Si in Ned Lambert’s, Dedalus house, sang ’Twas rank and fame.

[13346] the night he, Richie, heard him, Si Dedalus, sing ’Twas rank and fame

[13357] Bloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked the

[13358] slender catgut thong. He drew and plucked. It buzz, it twanged. While

[13370] They sing. Forgotten. I too. And one day she with. Leave her: get

[13383] George Lidwell told her really and truly: but she did not believe.

[13385] First gentleman told Mina that was so. She asked him was that so. And

[13393] Better write it here. Quills in the postoffice chewed and twisted.

[13395] Bald Pat at a sign drew nigh. A pen and ink. He went. A pad. He went. A

[13412] Musemathematics. And you think you’re listening to the etherial. But

[13418] hear chords a bit off: feel lost a bit. In and out of sacks, over

[13421] up and down, girls learning. Two together nextdoor neighbours. Ought

[13445] sir. Dear Henry wrote: dear Mady. Got your lett and flow. Hell did I

[13455] crown. My poor little pres: p. o. two and six. Write me a long. Do you

[13467] A hackney car, number three hundred and twentyfour, driver Barton James

[13470] Robert Mesias, tailor and cutter, of number five Eden quay, and wearing

[13472] Brunswick street, hatter. Eh? This is the jingle that joggled and

[13489] Murmured: Messrs Callan, Coleman and Co, limited. Henry wrote:

[13521] Douce now. Douce Lydia. Bronze and rose.

[13523] She had a gorgeous, simply gorgeous, time. And look at the lovely shell

[13526] To the end of the bar to him she bore lightly the spiked and winding

[13538] She held it to her own. And through the sifted light pale gold in

[13551] first make it brown. Buttered toast. O and that lotion mustn’t forget.

[13553] seaweed. Why do they hide their ears with seaweed hair? And Turks the

[13565] Charming, seasmiling and unanswering Lydia on Lidwell smiled.

[13569] By Larry O’Rourke’s, by Larry, bold Larry O’, Boylan swayed and

[13579] played a light bright tinkling measure for tripping ladies, arch and

[13580] smiling, and for their gallants, gentlemen friends. One: one, one, one,

[13596] M’Coy valise. My wife and your wife. Squealing cat. Like tearing silk.

[13622] —Ay do, Ben, Mr Dedalus said. Good men and true.

[13637] seehears lipspeech. One and nine. Penny for yourself. Here. Give

[13638] him twopence tip. Deaf, bothered. But perhaps he has wife and family

[13646] and painful, come from afar, from hoary mountains, called on good men

[13647] and true. The priest he sought. With him would he speak a word.

[13655] Iveagh home. Cubicle number so and so. Number one Bass did that for him.

[13674] Listen. Bloom listened. Richie Goulding listened. And by the door deaf

[13679] The voice of penance and of grief came slow, embellished, tremulous.

[13689] They listened. Tankards and miss Kennedy. George Lidwell, eyelid well

[13693] three times. You bitch’s bast. And once at masstime he had gone to

[13694] play. Once by the churchyard he had passed and for his mother’s rest

[13723] his name and race.

[13738] —Bless me, father, Dollard the croppy cried. Bless me and let me go.

[13749] Low sank the music, air and words. Then hastened. The false priest

[13785] is life. And all the tiny tiny fernfoils trembled of maidenhair.

[13793] the polished knob (she knows his eyes, my eyes, her eyes) her thumb and

[13794] finger passed in pity: passed, reposed and, gently touching, then slid

[13823] by popped corks, greeting in going, past eyes and maidenhair, bronze and

[13833] heard the growls and roars of bravo, fat backslapping, their boots all

[13841] upon my soul and honour it is.

[13846] and all big roseate, on heavyfooted feet, his gouty fingers nakkering

[13853] And deepmoved all, Simon trumping compassion from foghorn nose, all

[13887] murmured Mina. Mr Dollard. And The last rose of summer was a lovely

[13894] one and eightpence too. Get shut of it. Dodge round by Greek street.

[13917] Queer up there in the cockloft, alone, with stops and locks and keys.

[13939] Blind he was she told George Lidwell second I saw. And played so

[13963] one another. Piles of parchment. Messrs Pick and Pocket have power of

[13968] pig’s cheek and cabbage nursing it in the armchair. Rehearsing his

[13979] comb and tissuepaper you can knock a tune out of. Molly in her shift in

[13983] Locks and keys! Sweep! Four o’clock’s all’s well! Sleep! All is

[14016] glasses all, brighteyed and gallant, before bronze Lydia’s tempting

[14018] fifth: Lidwell, Si Dedalus, Bob Cowley, Kernan and big Ben Dollard.

[14048] Nations of the earth. No-one behind. She’s passed. Then and not till

12. Cyclops

[14065] corner of Arbour hill there and be damned but a bloody sweep came along

[14066] and he near drove his gear into my eye. I turned around to let him have

[14078] and ladders.

[14084] me a wrinkle about him—lifted any God’s quantity of tea and sugar

[14092] hanging on to his taw now for the past fortnight and I can’t get a

[14097] —Ay, says I. How are the mighty fallen! Collector of bad and doubtful

[14099] day’s walk and the face on him all pockmarks would hold a shower of

[14100] rain. Tell him, says he, I dare him, says he, and I doubledare him

[14103] And he after stuffing himself till he’s fit to burst. Jesus, I had to

[14109] called the vendor, and sold and delivered to Michael E. Geraghty,

[14112] avoirdupois of first choice tea at three shillings and no pence per

[14113] pound avoirdupois and three stone avoirdupois of sugar, crushed crystal,

[14115] said vendor of one pound five shillings and sixpence sterling for value

[14117] weekly instalments every seven calendar days of three shillings and no

[14118] pence sterling: and the said nonperishable goods shall not be pawned or

[14120] be and remain and be held to be the sole and exclusive property of the

[14121] said vendor to be disposed of at his good will and pleasure until the

[14124] the said vendor, his heirs, successors, trustees and assigns of the one

[14125] part and the said purchaser, his heirs, successors, trustees and assigns

[14139] —Ay, says I. Whisky and water on the brain.

[14151] —Cattle traders, says Joe, about the foot and mouth disease. I want to

[14154] So we went around by the Linenhall barracks and the back of the

[14162] life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown. A pleasant land

[14166] fish generally and other denizens of the aqueous kingdom too numerous to

[14167] be enumerated. In the mild breezes of the west and of the east the lofty

[14170] eucalyptus and other ornaments of the arboreal world with which

[14175] creels of fingerlings, purple seagems and playful insects. And heroes

[14177] princes of unfettered Munster and of Connacht the just and of smooth

[14178] sleek Leinster and of Cruachan’s land and of Armagh the splendid and

[14181] And there rises a shining palace whose crystal glittering roof is seen

[14183] that purpose, and thither come all herds and fatlings and firstfruits

[14188] drills of Swedes, spherical potatoes and tallies of iridescent kale,

[14189] York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and punnets of

[14190] mushrooms and custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red

[14191] green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples and

[14192] chips of strawberries and sieves of gooseberries, pulpy and pelurious,

[14193] and strawberries fit for princes and raspberries from their canes.

[14195] I dare him, says he, and I doubledare him. Come out here, Geraghty, you

[14196] notorious bloody hill and dale robber!

[14198] And by that way wend the herds innumerable of bellwethers and flushed

[14199] ewes and shearling rams and lambs and stubble geese and medium steers

[14200] and roaring mares and polled calves and longwools and storesheep and

[14201] Cuffe’s prime springers and culls and sowpigs and baconhogs and the

[14202] various different varieties of highly distinguished swine and Angus

[14203] heifers and polly bulllocks of immaculate pedigree together with prime

[14204] premiated milchcows and beeves: and there is ever heard a trampling,

[14206] champing, chewing, of sheep and pigs and heavyhooved kine from

[14207] pasturelands of Lusk and Rush and Carrickmines and from the streamy

[14208] vales of Thomond, from the M’Gillicuddy’s reeks the inaccessible and

[14209] lordly Shannon the unfathomable, and from the gentle declivities of the

[14211] of milk and butts of butter and rennets of cheese and farmer’s firkins

[14212] and targets of lamb and crannocks of corn and oblong eggs in great

[14215] So we turned into Barney Kiernan’s and there, sure enough, was the

[14216] citizen up in the corner having a great confab with himself and that

[14217] bloody mangy mongrel, Garryowen, and he waiting for what the sky would

[14220] —There he is, says I, in his gloryhole, with his cruiskeen lawn and

[14229] —Stand and deliver, says he.

[14235] Then he rubs his hand in his eye and says he:

[14239] Doing the rapparee and Rory of the hill. But, begob, Joe was equal to

[14245] So begob the citizen claps his paw on his knee and he says:

[14249] And says Joe, sticking his thumb in his pocket:

[14264] —Three pints, Terry, says Joe. And how’s the old heart, citizen?

[14269] And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck

[14270] and, by Jesus, he near throttled him.

[14276] hero. From shoulder to shoulder he measured several ells and his

[14279] hue and toughness similar to the mountain gorse (Ulex Europeus).

[14283] in which a tear and a smile strove ever for the mastery were of the

[14288] the lofty tower and the still loftier walls of the cave to vibrate and

[14292] to the knees in a loose kilt and this was bound about his middle by

[14293] a girdle of plaited straw and rushes. Beneath this he wore trews of

[14298] movement of his portentous frame and on these were graven with rude

[14299] yet striking art the tribal images of many Irish heroes and heroines of

[14315] Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince of Wales,

[14316] Thomas Cook and Son, the Bold Soldier Boy, Arrah na Pogue, Dick Turpin,

[14318] Dolly Mount, Sidney Parade, Ben Howth, Valentine Greatrakes, Adam and

[14326] and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time

[14330] So anyhow Terry brought the three pints Joe was standing and begob the

[14334] —And there’s more where that came from, says he.

[14341] —I saw him before I met you, says I, sloping around by Pill lane and

[14349] subsidised organ. The pledgebound party on the floor of the house. And

[14352] friend. Listen to the births and deaths in the Irish all for Ireland

[14353] Independent, and I’ll thank you and the marriages.

[14355] And he starts reading them out:

[14359] eh? Wright and Flint, Vincent and Gillett to Rotha Marion daughter of

[14360] Rosa and the late George Alfred Gillett, 179 Clapham road, Stockwell,

[14361] Playwood and Ridsdale at Saint Jude’s, Kensington by the very reverend

[14363] London: Carr, Stoke Newington, of gastritis and heart disease: Cockburn,

[14378] —Health, Joe, says I. And all down the form.

[14383] And lo, as they quaffed their cup of joy, a godlike messenger came

[14384] swiftly in, radiant as the eye of heaven, a comely youth and behind him

[14385] there passed an elder of noble gait and countenance, bearing the sacred

[14386] scrolls of law and with him his lady wife a dame of peerless lineage,

[14389] Little Alf Bergan popped in round the door and hid behind Barney’s

[14390] snug, squeezed up with the laughing. And who was sitting up there in the

[14392] Doran. I didn’t know what was up and Alf kept making signs out of the

[14393] door. And begob what was it only that bloody old pantaloon Denis Breen

[14394] in his bathslippers with two bloody big books tucked under his oxter and

[14401] And he doubled up.

[14416] —Breen, says Alf. He was in John Henry Menton’s and then he went

[14417] round to Collis and Ward’s and then Tom Rochford met him and sent him

[14419] U. p: up. The long fellow gave him an eye as good as a process and now

[14431] And he started laughing.

[14437] Terence O’Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup

[14438] full of the foamy ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and

[14440] deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and

[14441] mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour

[14442] juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day

[14446] that nectarous beverage and you offered the crystal cup to him that

[14454] of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the

[14457] wellbeloved, for they knew and loved her from the rising of the sun to

[14458] the going down thereof, the pale, the dark, the ruddy and the ethiop.

[14461] and down outside?

[14469] So he took a bundle of wisps of letters and envelopes out of his pocket.

[14506] —You saw his ghost then, says Joe, God between us and harm.

[14508] —What? says Alf. Good Christ, only five... What?... And Willy Murray

[14527] In the darkness spirit hands were felt to flutter and when prayer by

[14531] of jivic rays from the crown of the head and face. Communication was

[14532] effected through the pituitary body and also by means of the orangefiery

[14533] and scarlet rays emanating from the sacral region and solar plexus.

[14544] hatakalda, wataklasat and that the highest adepts were steeped in

[14546] buttermilk this was brought and evidently afforded relief. Asked if he

[14549] in devanic circles that Mars and Jupiter were out for mischief on the

[14551] were any special desires on the part of the defunct and the reply was:

[14559] the commode in the return room and that the pair should be sent to

[14561] this had greatly perturbed his peace of mind in the other region and

[14564] Assurances were given that the matter would be attended to and it was

[14569] your wind: and wail, O ocean, with your whirlwind.

[14575] —Bloom, says he. He’s on point duty up and down there for the last

[14578] And, begob, I saw his physog do a peep in and then slidder off again.

[14584] And says Bob Doran, with the hat on the back of his poll, lowest

[14602] Terry came down and tipped him the wink to keep quiet, that they

[14603] didn’t want that kind of talk in a respectable licensed premises. And

[14614] her person, open to all comers, fair field and no favour.

[14616] —The noblest, the truest, says he. And he’s gone, poor little Willy,

[14619] And mournful and with a heavy heart he bewept the extinction of that

[14627] So Bloom slopes in with his cod’s eye on the dog and he asks Terry was

[14633] And he starts reading out one.

[14640] case i hanged Joe Gann in Bootle jail on the 12 of Febuary 1900 and i

[14646] Pentonville prison and i was assistant when...

[14660] —And a barbarous bloody barbarian he is too, says the citizen.

[14662] —And the dirty scrawl of the wretch, says Joe. Here, says he, take

[14666] So they started arguing about the point, Bloom saying he wouldn’t and

[14667] he couldn’t and excuse him no offence and all to that and then he

[14668] said well he’d just take a cigar. Gob, he’s a prudent member and no

[14673] And Alf was telling us there was one chap sent in a mourning card with a

[14677] hang their own fathers for five quid down and travelling expenses.

[14679] And he was telling us there’s two fellows waiting below to pull his

[14680] heels down when he gets the drop and choke him properly and then they

[14681] chop up the rope after and sell the bits for a few bob a skull.

[14684] deadly coil they grasp: yea, and therein they lead to Erebus whatsoever

[14688] So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom

[14689] comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the

[14690] business and the old dog smelling him all the time I’m told those

[14692] I don’t know what all deterrent effect and so forth and so on.

[14712] And then he starts with his jawbreakers about phenomenon and science and

[14713] this phenomenon and the other phenomenon.

[14717] cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would,

[14725] morbid upwards and outwards philoprogenitive erection in articulo mortis

[14728] So of course the citizen was only waiting for the wink of the word and

[14729] he starts gassing out of him about the invincibles and the old guard and

[14730] the men of sixtyseven and who fears to speak of ninetyeight and Joe with

[14731] him about all the fellows that were hanged, drawn and transported for

[14732] the cause by drumhead courtmartial and a new Ireland and new this, that

[14733] and the other. Talking about new Ireland he ought to go and get a new

[14734] dog so he ought. Mangy ravenous brute sniffing and sneezing all round

[14735] the place and scratching his scabs. And round he goes to Bob Doran that

[14742] Arrah, bloody end to the paw he’d paw and Alf trying to keep him from

[14743] tumbling off the bloody stool atop of the bloody old dog and he talking

[14744] all kinds of drivel about training by kindness and thoroughbred dog and

[14747] to bring. Gob, he golloped it down like old boots and his tongue hanging

[14748] out of him a yard long for more. Near ate the tin and all, hungry bloody

[14751] And the citizen and Bloom having an argument about the point, the

[14752] brothers Sheares and Wolfe Tone beyond on Arbour Hill and Robert Emmet

[14753] and die for your country, the Tommy Moore touch about Sara Curran and

[14754] she’s far from the land. And Bloom, of course, with his knockmedown

[14758] was an old one there with a cracked loodheramaun of a nephew and

[14760] bézique to come in for a bit of the wampum in her will and not eating

[14761] meat of a Friday because the old one was always thumping her craw and

[14762] taking the lout out for a walk. And one time he led him the rounds of

[14763] Dublin and, by the holy farmer, he never cried crack till he brought

[14764] him home as drunk as a boiled owl and he said he did it to teach him the

[14765] evils of alcohol and by herrings, if the three women didn’t near roast

[14766] him, it’s a queer story, the old one, Bloom’s wife and Mrs O’Dowd

[14768] off chewing the fat. And Bloom with his but don’t you see? and but

[14769] on the other hand. And sure, more be token, the lout I’m told was

[14774] —The memory of the dead, says the citizen taking up his pintglass and

[14782] are by our side and the foes we hate before us.

[14785] and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the

[14788] claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up

[14795] maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and

[14799] trains and upholstered charabancs had been provided for the comfort of

[14801] amusement was caused by the favourite Dublin streetsingers L-n-h-n and

[14804] with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody

[14806] will grudge them their hardearned pennies. The children of the Male and

[14809] entertainment and a word of praise is due to the Little Sisters of

[14811] and motherless children a genuinely instructive treat. The viceregal

[14837] of pig iron were resorted to and blows were freely exchanged. The

[14839] Booterstown, quickly restored order and with lightning promptitude

[14842] at once appealed to all and was unanimously accepted. Constable

[14850] ladies’ and gentlemen’s gold and silver watches) were promptly

[14851] restored to their rightful owners and general harmony reigned supreme.

[14854] morning dress and wearing his favourite flower, the Gladiolus Cruentus.

[14867] megaphone and in an instant all heads were bared, the commendatore’s

[14873] cassock above his hoary head, and offered up to the throne of grace

[14883] worldfamous firm of cutlers, Messrs John Round and Sons, Sheffield),

[14885] blind intestine and appendix etc when successfully extracted and two

[14887] most precious victim. The housesteward of the amalgamated cats’ and

[14890] rashers and eggs, fried steak and onions, done to a nicety, delicious

[14891] hot breakfast rolls and invigorating tea had been considerately provided

[14893] tragedy who was in capital spirits when prepared for death and evinced

[14896] and expressed the dying wish (immediately acceded to) that the meal

[14897] should be divided in aliquot parts among the members of the sick and

[14898] indigent roomkeepers’ association as a token of his regard and esteem.

[14899] The nec and non plus ultra of emotion were reached when the blushing

[14901] and flung herself upon the muscular bosom of him who was about to be

[14912] of the young and, oblivious of the dreadful present, they both laughed

[14915] But anon they were overcome with grief and clasped their hands for the

[14917] and the vast concourse of people, touched to the inmost core, broke

[14919] himself. Big strong men, officers of the peace and genial giants of the

[14921] and it is safe to say that there was not a dry eye in that record

[14924] forward and, presenting his visiting card, bankbook and genealogical

[14926] name the day, and was accepted on the spot. Every lady in the audience

[14928] a skull and crossbones brooch, a timely and generous act which evoked

[14929] a fresh outburst of emotion: and when the gallant young Oxonian (the

[14938] and was overheard, by those privileged burghers who happened to be in

[14945] So then the citizen begins talking about the Irish language and the

[14946] corporation meeting and all to that and the shoneens that can’t speak

[14947] their own language and Joe chipping in because he stuck someone for a

[14948] quid and Bloom putting in his old goo with his twopenny stump that

[14949] he cadged off of Joe and talking about the Gaelic league and the

[14950] antitreating league and drink, the curse of Ireland. Antitreating is

[14953] froth of his pint. And one night I went in with a fellow into one of

[14954] their musical evenings, song and dance about she could get up on a truss

[14955] of hay she could my Maureen Lay and there was a fellow with a Ballyhooly

[14956] blue ribbon badge spiffing out of him in Irish and a lot of colleen

[14957] bawns going about with temperance beverages and selling medals

[14958] and oranges and lemonade and a few old dry buns, gob, flahoolagh

[14959] entertainment, don’t be talking. Ireland sober is Ireland free. And

[14960] then an old fellow starts blowing into his bagpipes and all the gougers

[14961] shuffling their feet to the tune the old cow died of. And one or two

[14966] starts mousing around by Joe and me. I’d train him by kindness, so

[14967] I would, if he was my dog. Give him a rousing fine kick now and again

[14978] Then he starts hauling and mauling and talking to him in Irish and the

[14983] and grousing and his eye all bloodshot from the drouth is in it and the

[14987] lower animals (and their name is legion) should make a point of not

[14990] Garryowen and recently rechristened by his large circle of friends and

[14992] of training by kindness and a carefully thoughtout dietary system,

[14995] has left no stone unturned in his efforts to delucidate and compare the

[14996] verse recited and has found it bears a striking resemblance (the italics

[15002] contemporary) of the harsher and more personal note which is found in

[15003] the satirical effusions of the famous Raftery and of Donal MacConsidine

[15009] the canine original, which recalls the intricate alliterative and

[15013] if Owen’s verse be spoken somewhat slowly and indistinctly in a tone

[15018] And seven dry Thursdays

[15022] And my guts red roaring

[15024] So he told Terry to bring some water for the dog and, gob, you could

[15025] hear him lapping it up a mile off. And Joe asked him would he have

[15032] dog and getting fed up by the ratepayers and corporators. Entertainment

[15033] for man and beast. And says Joe:

[15046] time and nominally under the act the mortgagee can’t recover on the

[15059] like the lord chancellor giving it out on the bench and for the benefit

[15060] of the wife and that a trust is created but on the other hand that

[15061] Dignam owed Bridgeman the money and if now the wife or the widow

[15064] himself under the act that time as a rogue and vagabond only he had a

[15067] an israelite! Royal and privileged Hungarian robbery.

[15070] was sorry for her trouble and he was very sorry about the funeral and

[15071] to tell her that he said and everyone who knew him said that there was

[15073] Choking with bloody foolery. And shaking Bloom’s hand doing the tragic

[15074] to tell her that. Shake hands, brother. You’re a rogue and I’m

[15079] as I hope and believe, on a sentiment of mutual esteem as to request of

[15084] actuate your conduct and I shall discharge the office you entrust to

[15095] And off with him and out trying to walk straight. Boosed at five

[15098] closing time, fornicating with two shawls and a bully on guard, drinking

[15099] porter out of teacups. And calling himself a Frenchy for the shawls,

[15100] Joseph Manuo, and talking against the Catholic religion, and he serving

[15101] mass in Adam and Eve’s when he was young with his eyes shut, who wrote

[15102] the new testament, and the old testament, and hugging and smugging. And

[15104] fool and he spilling the porter all over the bed and the two shawls

[15107] see him of a Sunday with his little concubine of a wife, and she wagging

[15109] no less, and her violets, nice as pie, doing the little lady. Jack

[15110] Mooney’s sister. And the old prostitute of a mother procuring rooms to

[15137] all countries and the idol of his own.

[15139] So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease

[15140] and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen

[15141] sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his

[15142] sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the

[15144] knacker’s yard. Walking about with his book and pencil here’s my

[15145] head and my heels are coming till Joe Cuffe gave him the order of the

[15152] Because the poor animals suffer and experts say and the best known

[15153] remedy that doesn’t cause pain to the animal and on the sore spot

[15158] comes good uncle Leo. He puts his hand under black Liz and takes her

[15161] —Anyhow, says Joe, Field and Nannetti are going over tonight to London

[15215] —Put it there, citizen, says Joe. You were and a bloody sight better.

[15221] So off they started about Irish sports and shoneen games the like of

[15222] lawn tennis and about hurley and putting the stone and racy of the soil

[15223] and building up a nation once again and all to that. And of course Bloom

[15226] from the bloody floor and if you said to Bloom: Look at, Bloom. Do you

[15228] it for an hour so he would and talk steady.

[15232] Sluagh na h-Eireann, on the revival of ancient Gaelic sports and the

[15233] importance of physical culture, as understood in ancient Greece and

[15234] ancient Rome and ancient Ireland, for the development of the race.

[15235] The venerable president of the noble order was in the chair and the

[15237] the chairman, a magnificent oration eloquently and forcibly expressed,

[15238] a most interesting and instructive discussion of the usual high standard

[15240] the ancient games and sports of our ancient Panceltic forefathers. The

[15241] wellknown and highly respected worker in the cause of our old tongue, Mr

[15243] of the ancient Gaelic sports and pastimes, practised morning and evening

[15245] strength and prowess handed down to us from ancient ages. L. Bloom, who

[15246] met with a mixed reception of applause and hisses, having espoused the

[15248] response to repeated requests and hearty plaudits from all parts of

[15254] superlative form and his stentorian notes were heard to the greatest

[15260] and the bar and the other learned professions. The proceedings then

[15282] —I heard So and So made a cool hundred quid over it, says Alf.

[15286] And says Bloom:

[15288] —What I meant about tennis, for example, is the agility and training

[15292] the odds and he swatting all the time.

[15299] And Bloom cuts in again about lawn tennis and the circulation of the

[15304] —Myler dusted the floor with him, says Alf. Heenan and Sayers was only

[15305] a bloody fool to it. Handed him the father and mother of a beating. See

[15306] the little kipper not up to his navel and the big fellow swiping. God,

[15307] he gave him one last puck in the wind, Queensberry rules and all, made

[15310] It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled

[15316] receivergeneral of rights and lefts, the artilleryman putting in some

[15317] neat work on the pet’s nose, and Myler came on looking groggy. The

[15322] handigrips. Myler quickly became busy and got his man under, the bout

[15325] was liberally drenched with water and when the bell went came on gamey

[15326] and brimful of pluck, confident of knocking out the fistic Eblanite in

[15327] jigtime. It was a fight to a finish and the best man for it. The two

[15328] fought like tigers and excitement ran fever high. The referee twice

[15329] cautioned Pucking Percy for holding but the pet was tricky and his

[15332] his opponent’s mouth the lamb suddenly waded in all over his man and

[15334] flat. It was a knockout clean and clever. Amid tense expectation the

[15336] Pfotts Wettstein threw in the towel and the Santry boy was declared

[15338] ringropes and fairly mobbed him with delight.

[15356] cocoanut and absence of hair on the animal’s chest. Blazes doing the

[15359] fight the Boers. Old Whatwhat. I called about the poor and water rate,

[15361] the bucko that’ll organise her, take my tip. ’Twixt me and you

[15365] There grew she to peerless beauty where loquat and almond scent the

[15367] and bowed. The chaste spouse of Leopold is she: Marion of the bountiful

[15370] And lo, there entered one of the clan of the O’Molloy’s, a comely

[15372] learned in the law, and with him the prince and heir of the noble line

[15398] list and the other give him a leg over the stile. With his name in

[15400] glass in their eye, adrinking fizz and he half smothered in writs and

[15404] Dunne, says he. Ay, and done says I. Gob, he’ll come home by weeping

[15412] —Ay, says Ned. And he wanted right go wrong to address the court only

[15417] hear him before a judge and jury.

[15419] —Was it you did it, Alf? says Joe. The truth, the whole truth and

[15442] and half.

[15444] —How half and half? says Bloom. Do you mean he...

[15446] —Half and half I mean, says the citizen. A fellow that’s neither

[15454] Begob I saw there was trouble coming. And Bloom explaining he meant on

[15458] bringing down the rain. And she with her nose cockahoop after she

[15462] Zouave to the Holy Father, has left the quay and gone to Moss street.

[15463] And who was he, tell us? A nobody, two pair back and passages, at seven

[15464] shillings a week, and he covered with all kinds of breastplates bidding

[15467] —And moreover, says J. J., a postcard is publication. It was held to

[15471] Six and eightpence, please. Who wants your opinion? Let us drink our

[15482] And begob there he was passing the door with his books under his oxter

[15483] and the wife beside him and Corny Kelleher with his wall eye looking in

[15492] Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers

[15495] Swindled them all, skivvies and badhachs from the county Meath, ay, and

[15507] arrears of rent and a sick wife and a squad of kids and, faith, he’ll

[15514] And he starts taking off the old recorder letting on to cry:

[15519] —Yes, your worship. And my wife has the typhoid.

[15521] —And the wife with typhoid fever! Scandalous! Leave the court

[15523] dare you, sir, come up before me and ask me to make an order! A poor

[15526] And whereas on the sixteenth day of the month of the oxeyed goddess and

[15527] in the third week after the feastday of the Holy and Undivided Trinity,

[15531] his rede and master Justice Andrews, sitting without a jury in the

[15532] probate court, weighed well and pondered the claim of the first

[15533] chargeant upon the property in the matter of the will propounded and

[15534] final testamentary disposition in re the real and personal estate of the

[15536] infant, of unsound mind, and another. And to the solemn court of Green

[15537] street there came sir Frederick the Falconer. And he sat him there about

[15539] commission for all that and those parts to be holden in and for the

[15540] county of the city of Dublin. And there sat with him the high sinhedrim

[15542] Patrick and of the tribe of Hugh and of the tribe of Owen and of the

[15543] tribe of Conn and of the tribe of Oscar and of the tribe of Fergus and

[15544] of the tribe of Finn and of the tribe of Dermot and of the tribe of

[15545] Cormac and of the tribe of Kevin and of the tribe of Caolte and of the

[15546] tribe of Ossian, there being in all twelve good men and true. And he

[15547] conjured them by Him who died on rood that they should well and

[15548] truly try and true deliverance make in the issue joined between their

[15549] sovereign lord the king and the prisoner at the bar and true verdict

[15550] give according to the evidence so help them God and kiss the book. And

[15551] they rose in their seats, those twelve of Iar, and they swore by

[15553] rightwiseness. And straightway the minions of the law led forth from

[15555] in consequence of information received. And they shackled him hand and

[15556] foot and would take of him ne bail ne mainprise but preferred a charge

[15562] So Bloom lets on he heard nothing and he starts talking with Joe,

[15564] but if he would just say a word to Mr Crawford. And so Joe swore high

[15565] and holy by this and by that he’d do the devil and all.

[15572] —Swindling the peasants, says the citizen, and the poor of Ireland. We

[15583] We brought them in. The adulteress and her paramour brought the Saxon

[15588] And Bloom letting on to be awfully deeply interested in nothing, a

[15589] spider’s web in the corner behind the barrel, and the citizen scowling

[15590] after him and the old dog at his feet looking up to know who to bite and

[15596] —And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette

[15601] And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off

[15605] bloomers misconducting herself, and her fancyman feeling for her tickles

[15606] and Norman W. Tupper bouncing in with his peashooter just in time to be

[15614] So anyhow in came John Wyse Nolan and Lenehan with him with a face on

[15622] puissant and high and mighty chief of all Erin and did him to wit of

[15624] city, second of the realm, had met them in the tholsel, and there, after

[15630] Sassenachs and their patois.

[15633] you heard another and blinking facts and the Nelson policy, putting your

[15634] blind eye to the telescope and drawing up a bill of attainder to impeach

[15635] a nation, and Bloom trying to back him up moderation and botheration and

[15636] their colonies and their civilisation.

[15640] thicklugged sons of whores’ gets! No music and no art and no

[15650] And says John Wyse:

[15654] And says Lenehan that knows a bit of the lingo:

[15658] He said and then lifted he in his rude great brawny strengthy hands the

[15659] medher of dark strong foamy ale and, uttering his tribal slogan Lamh

[15665] had lost a bob and found a tanner.

[15671] —Throwaway, says he, at twenty to one. A rank outsider. And the rest

[15674] —And Bass’s mare? says Terry.

[15677] quid on my tip Sceptre for himself and a lady friend.

[15683] says he. Takes the biscuit, and talking about bunions. Frailty, thy name

[15695] And J. J. and the citizen arguing about law and history with Bloom

[15704] tribes? And our potteries and textiles, the finest in the whole world!

[15705] And our wool that was sold in Rome in the time of Juvenal and our flax

[15706] and our damask from the looms of Antrim and our Limerick lace, our

[15707] tanneries and our white flint glass down there by Ballybough and our

[15708] Huguenot poplin that we have since Jacquard de Lyon and our woven silk

[15709] and our Foxford tweeds and ivory raised point from the Carmelite convent

[15712] now grabbed by the foe of mankind, with gold and Tyrian purple to

[15713] sell in Wexford at the fair of Carmen? Read Tacitus and Ptolemy, even

[15718] us for our ruined trade and our ruined hearths? And the beds of the

[15719] Barrow and Shannon they won’t deepen with millions of acres of marsh

[15720] and bog to make us all die of consumption?

[15727] —Save them, says the citizen, the giant ash of Galway and the

[15728] chieftain elm of Kildare with a fortyfoot bole and an acre of foliage.

[15743] Cedarfrond, the Misses Lilian and Viola Lilac, Miss Timidity Aspenall,

[15745] Forrest, Mrs Arabella Blackwood and Mrs Norma Holyoake of Oakholme Regis

[15749] underslip of gloaming grey, sashed with a yoke of broad emerald and

[15751] relieved by bretelles and hip insertions of acorn bronze. The maids

[15752] of honour, Miss Larch Conifer and Miss Spruce Conifer, sisters of the

[15754] of plume rose being worked into the pleats in a pinstripe and repeated

[15757] wellknown ability and, in addition to the prescribed numbers of the

[15758] nuptial mass, played a new and striking arrangement of Woodman, spare

[15762] catkins of willow, ivytod, hollyberries, mistletoe sprigs and quicken

[15763] shoots. Mr and Mrs Wyse Conifer Neaulan will spend a quiet honeymoon in

[15766] —And our eyes are on Europe, says the citizen. We had our trade with

[15767] Spain and the French and with the Flemings before those mongrels were

[15770] —And will again, says Joe.

[15772] —And with the help of the holy mother of God we will again, says the

[15776] fleet of masts of the Galway Lynches and the Cavan O’Reillys and the

[15778] the emperor Charles the Fifth himself. And will again, says he, when the

[15781] afloat, the flag of the province of Desmond and Thomond, three crowns on

[15784] And he took the last swig out of the pint. Moya. All wind and piss like

[15786] life is worth to go down and address his tall talk to the assembled

[15795] —Half one, Terry, says John Wyse, and a hands up. Terry! Are you

[15798] —Yes, sir, says Terry. Small whisky and bottle of Allsop. Right, sir.

[15803] down like a bull at a gate. And another one: Black Beast Burned in

[15804] Omaha, Ga. A lot of Deadwood Dicks in slouch hats and they firing at a

[15805] Sambo strung up in a tree with his tongue out and a bonfire under

[15806] him. Gob, they ought to drown him in the sea after and electrocute and

[15817] So he starts telling us about corporal punishment and about the crew

[15818] of tars and officers and rearadmirals drawn up in cocked hats and the

[15819] parson with his protestant bible to witness punishment and a young lad

[15820] brought out, howling for his ma, and they tie him down on the buttend of

[15823] —A rump and dozen, says the citizen, was what that old ruffian sir

[15650] And says John Wyse:

[15832] and he draws out and he flogs the bloody backside off of the poor lad

[15837] hereditary chamber on the face of God’s earth and their land in the

[15838] hands of a dozen gamehogs and cottonball barons. That’s the great

[15839] empire they boast about of drudges and whipped serfs.

[15843] —And the tragedy of it is, says the citizen, they believe it. The

[15847] and in Jacky Tar, the son of a gun, who was conceived of unholy boast,

[15848] born of the fighting navy, suffered under rump and dozen, was scarified,

[15849] flayed and curried, yelled like bloody hell, the third day he arose

[15851] further orders whence he shall come to drudge for a living and be paid.

[15860] greater Ireland beyond the sea. They were driven out of house and home

[15861] in the black 47. Their mudcabins and their shielings by the roadside

[15862] were laid low by the batteringram and the Times rubbed its hands and

[15866] of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro. Ay,

[15869] the land of bondage. And they will come again and with a vengeance, no

[15875] the poor old woman told us that the French were on the sea and landed at

[15879] against the Williamites and they betrayed us. Remember Limerick and the

[15880] broken treatystone. We gave our best blood to France and Spain, the wild

[15881] geese. Fontenoy, eh? And Sarsfield and O’Donnell, duke of Tetuan

[15882] in Spain, and Ulysses Browne of Camus that was fieldmarshal to Maria

[15888] with perfidious Albion? Firebrands of Europe and they always were.

[15892] —And as for the Prooshians and the Hanoverians, says Joe, haven’t we

[15894] the elector down to the German lad and the flatulent old bitch that’s

[15899] God, old Vic, with her jorum of mountain dew and her coachman carting

[15900] her up body and bones to roll into bed and she pulling him by the

[15901] whiskers and singing him old bits of songs about Ehren on the Rhine and

[15909] —And what do you think, says Joe, of the holy boys, the priests

[15910] and bishops of Ireland doing up his room in Maynooth in His Satanic

[15911] Majesty’s racing colours and sticking up pictures of all the horses

[15917] And says J. J.:

[15931] Bloom was talking and talking with John Wyse and he quite excited with

[15932] his dunducketymudcoloured mug on him and his old plumeyes rolling about.

[15949] So of course everyone had the laugh at Bloom and says he, trying to muck

[15960] The citizen said nothing only cleared the spit out of his gullet and,

[15966] —Here you are, citizen, says Joe. Take that in your right hand and

[15969] The muchtreasured and intricately embroidered ancient Irish facecloth

[15970] attributed to Solomon of Droma and Manus Tomaltach og MacDonogh, authors

[15971] of the Book of Ballymote, was then carefully produced and called forth

[15977] a Kerry calf and a golden eagle from Carrantuohill. The scenes depicted

[15978] on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs

[15979] and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as

[15980] wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo

[15983] the ruins of Clonmacnois, Cong Abbey, Glen Inagh and the Twelve Pins,

[15985] brewery of Messrs Arthur Guinness, Son and Company (Limited), Lough

[15995] of sorrow which have passed over them and by the rich incrustations of

[16002] —And I belong to a race too, says Bloom, that is hated and persecuted.

[16019] sweepingbrush, so he would, if he only had a nurse’s apron on him. And

[16024] That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody

[16033] Who’s hindering you? And off he pops like greased lightning.

[16041] moya! He’s a nice pattern of a Romeo and Juliet.

[16050] a certain person. And this person loves that other person because

[16053] —Well, Joe, says I, your very good health and song. More power,

[16058] —The blessing of God and Mary and Patrick on you, says the citizen.

[16060] And he ups with his pint to wet his whistle.

[16062] —We know those canters, says he, preaching and picking your pocket.

[16063] What about sanctimonious Cromwell and his ironsides that put the women

[16064] and children of Drogheda to the sword with the bible text God is love

[16071] So the citizen takes up one of his paraphernalia papers and he starts

[16081] tendered his best thanks to Massa Walkup and emphasised the cordial

[16082] relations existing between Abeakuta and the British empire, stating that

[16084] the volume of the word of God and the secret of England’s greatness,

[16088] toast Black and White from the skull of his immediate predecessor in the

[16090] chief factory of Cottonopolis and signed his mark in the visitors’

[16092] course of which he swallowed several knives and forks, amid hilarious

[16098] —Same only more so, says Lenehan. And thereafter in that fruitful land

[16106] —And a very good initial too, says Joe.

[16116] —Yes, that’s the man, says J. J. Raping the women and girls and

[16125] Throwaway and he’s gone to gather in the shekels.

[16131] back that horse only I put him off it and he told me Bloom gave him the

[16142] the yard to pumpship and begob (hundred shillings to five) while I was

[16144] to myself I knew he was uneasy in his (two pints off of Joe and one in

[16146] is five quid) and when they were in the (dark horse) pisser Burke was

[16147] telling me card party and letting on the child was sick (gob, must have

[16156] all kinds of jerrymandering, packed juries and swindling the taxes off

[16157] of the government and appointing consuls all over the world to walk

[16161] mouseabout. Mr Bloom with his argol bargol. And his old fellow before

[16164] with his baubles and his penny diamonds. Loans by post on easy terms.

[16169] —Well, it’s a fact, says John Wyse. And there’s the man now

[16172] Sure enough the castle car drove up with Martin on it and Jack Power

[16173] with him and a fellow named Crofter or Crofton, pensioner out of

[16175] registration and he drawing his pay or Crawford gallivanting around the

[16178] Our travellers reached the rustic hostelry and alighted from their

[16191] And for ourselves give us of your best for ifaith we need it.

[16213] head with pistachios, a bason of jolly custard, a medlar tansy and a

[16218] —Aha! cried he of the pleasant countenance. A poor house and a bare

[16223] —Where is he? says Lenehan. Defrauding widows and orphans.

[16226] about Bloom and the Sinn Fein?

[16234] —And after all, says John Wyse, why can’t a jew love his country

[16246] —He’s a perverted jew, says Martin, from a place in Hungary and it

[16257] saints and sages!

[16262] —Yes, says J. J., and every male that’s born they think it may

[16263] be their Messiah. And every jew is in a tall state of excitement, I

[16280] —And who does he suspect? says the citizen.

[16286] the like of that and throw him in the bloody sea. Justifiable homicide,

[16299] —Only one, says Martin. We must be quick. J. J. and S.

[16303] —Saint Patrick would want to land again at Ballykinlar and convert

[16312] —And I’m sure He will, says Joe.

[16314] And at the sound of the sacring bell, headed by a crucifer with

[16315] acolytes, thurifers, boatbearers, readers, ostiarii, deacons and

[16316] subdeacons, the blessed company drew nigh of mitred abbots and priors

[16317] and guardians and monks and friars: the monks of Benedict of Spoleto,

[16318] Carthusians and Camaldolesi, Cistercians and Olivetans, Oratorians

[16319] and Vallombrosans, and the friars of Augustine, Brigittines,

[16320] Premonstratensians, Servi, Trinitarians, and the children of Peter

[16321] Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Elijah prophet

[16322] led by Albert bishop and by Teresa of Avila, calced and other: and

[16323] friars, brown and grey, sons of poor Francis, capuchins, cordeliers,

[16324] minimes and observants and the daughters of Clara: and the sons of

[16325] Dominic, the friars preachers, and the sons of Vincent: and the monks

[16326] of S. Wolstan: and Ignatius his children: and the confraternity of the

[16327] christian brothers led by the reverend brother Edmund Ignatius Rice. And

[16328] after came all saints and martyrs, virgins and confessors: S. Cyr and

[16329] S. Isidore Arator and S. James the Less and S. Phocas of Sinope and S.

[16330] Julian Hospitator and S. Felix de Cantalice and S. Simon Stylites and

[16331] S. Stephen Protomartyr and S. John of God and S. Ferreol and S. Leugarde

[16332] and S. Theodotus and S. Vulmar and S. Richard and S. Vincent de Paul and

[16333] S. Martin of Todi and S. Martin of Tours and S. Alfred and S. Joseph and

[16334] S. Denis and S. Cornelius and S. Leopold and S. Bernard and S. Terence

[16335] and S. Edward and S. Owen Caniculus and S. Anonymous and S. Eponymous

[16336] and S. Pseudonymous and S. Homonymous and S. Paronymous and S.

[16337] Synonymous and S. Laurence O’Toole and S. James of Dingle and

[16338] Compostella and S. Columcille and S. Columba and S. Celestine and S.

[16339] Colman and S. Kevin and S. Brendan and S. Frigidian and S. Senan and S.

[16340] Fachtna and S. Columbanus and S. Gall and S. Fursey and S. Fintan and S.

[16341] Fiacre and S. John Nepomuc and S. Thomas Aquinas and S. Ives of Brittany

[16342] and S. Michan and S. Herman-Joseph and the three patrons of holy youth

[16343] S. Aloysius Gonzaga and S. Stanislaus Kostka and S. John Berchmans

[16344] and the saints Gervasius, Servasius and Bonifacius and S. Bride and S.

[16345] Kieran and S. Canice of Kilkenny and S. Jarlath of Tuam and S. Finbarr

[16346] and S. Pappin of Ballymun and Brother Aloysius Pacificus and Brother

[16347] Louis Bellicosus and the saints Rose of Lima and of Viterbo and S.

[16348] Martha of Bethany and S. Mary of Egypt and S. Lucy and S. Brigid and

[16349] S. Attracta and S. Dympna and S. Ita and S. Marion Calpensis and

[16350] the Blessed Sister Teresa of the Child Jesus and S. Barbara and S.

[16351] Scholastica and S. Ursula with eleven thousand virgins. And all came

[16352] with nimbi and aureoles and gloriae, bearing palms and harps and swords

[16353] and olive crowns, in robes whereon were woven the blessed symbols of

[16359] dish, wax candles, aspergills, unicorns. And as they wended their way

[16362] Surge, illuminare and thereafter most sweetly the gradual Omnes which

[16365] and the blind, discovering various articles which had been mislaid,

[16366] interpreting and fulfilling the scriptures, blessing and prophesying.

[16367] And last, beneath a canopy of cloth of gold came the reverend Father

[16368] O’Flynn attended by Malachi and Patrick. And when the good fathers

[16369] had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co,

[16370] limited, 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and

[16371] brandy shippers, licensed for the sale of beer, wine and spirits for

[16372] consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed

[16373] the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and

[16374] the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches

[16375] and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with

[16376] blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had

[16377] blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of

[16378] His light to inhabit therein. And entering he blessed the viands and the

[16379] beverages and the company of all the blessed answered his prayers.

[16389] And he laid his hands upon that he blessed and gave thanks and he prayed

[16390] and they all with him prayed:

[16398] —And so say all of us, says Jack.

[16402] —Right, says Ned, taking up his John Jameson. And butter for fish.

[16412] Courthouse my eye and your pockets hanging down with gold and silver.

[16427] And the bloody dog woke up and let a growl.

[16431] And he got them out as quick as he could, Jack Power and Crofton or

[16432] whatever you call him and him in the middle of them letting on to be all

[16433] at sea and up with them on the bloody jaunting car.

[16437] The milkwhite dolphin tossed his mane and, rising in the golden poop the

[16438] helmsman spread the bellying sail upon the wind and stood off forward

[16440] nigh to starboard and to larboard and, clinging to the sides of

[16443] equidistant rays whereof each one is sister to another and he binds them

[16444] all with an outer ring and giveth speed to the feet of men whenas they

[16446] they come and set them, those willing nymphs, the undying sisters. And

[16447] they laughed, sporting in a circle of their foam: and the bark clave the

[16451] citizen getting up to waddle to the door, puffing and blowing with the

[16452] dropsy, and he cursing the curse of Cromwell on him, bell, book and

[16453] candle in Irish, spitting and spatting out of him and Joe and little Alf

[16458] And begob he got as far as the door and they holding him and he bawls

[16464] sake and don’t be making a public exhibition of yourself. Jesus,

[16469] And all the ragamuffins and sluts of the nation round the door and

[16470] Martin telling the jarvey to drive ahead and the citizen bawling and Alf

[16471] and Joe at him to whisht and he on his high horse about the jews and

[16472] the loafers calling for a speech and Jack Power trying to get him to sit

[16473] down on the car and hold his bloody jaw and a loafer with a patch over

[16474] his eye starts singing If the man in the moon was a jew, jew, jew and a

[16479] And says he:

[16481] —Mendelssohn was a jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza. And

[16482] the Saviour was a jew and his father was a jew. Your God.

[16500] A large and appreciative gathering of friends and acquaintances from

[16501] the metropolis and greater Dublin assembled in their thousands to bid

[16509] community and was accompanied by the gift of a silver casket, tastefully

[16515] by Rakóczsy’s March. Tarbarrels and bonfires were lighted along the

[16518] Galtees, the Ox and Donegal and Sperrin peaks, the Nagles and the

[16520] Aughty, Slieve Bernagh and Slieve Bloom. Amid cheers that rent the

[16522] henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic

[16526] the flags of the Ballast office and Custom House were dipped in salute

[16528] and the Poolbeg Light. Visszontlátásra, kedvés barátom!

[16532] anyhow and out with him and little Alf hanging on to his elbow and he

[16538] And Ned and J. J. paralysed with the laughing.

[16543] other way and off with him.

[16547] Begob he drew his hand and made a swipe and let fly. Mercy of God the

[16549] it into the county Longford. The bloody nag took fright and the old

[16550] mongrel after the car like bloody hell and all the populace shouting and

[16551] laughing and the old tinbox clattering along the street.

[16553] The catastrophe was terrific and instantaneous in its effect. The

[16555] grade of Mercalli’s scale, and there is no record extant of a similar

[16558] that part of the metropolis which constitutes the Inn’s Quay ward and

[16560] and one square pole or perch. All the lordly residences in the vicinity

[16561] of the palace of justice were demolished and that noble edifice itself,

[16568] crown and peace Mr George Fottrell and a silk umbrella with gold handle

[16569] with the engraved initials, crest, coat of arms and house number of

[16570] the erudite and worshipful chairman of quarter sessions sir Frederick

[16578] by west. Messages of condolence and sympathy are being hourly received

[16579] from all parts of the different continents and the sovereign pontiff

[16581] shall be celebrated simultaneously by the ordinaries of each and every

[16586] entrusted to Messrs Michael Meade and Son, 159 Great Brunswick street,

[16587] and Messrs T. and C. Martin, 77, 78, 79 and 80 North Wall, assisted by

[16588] the men and officers of the Duke of Cornwall’s light infantry under

[16593] I. and F. R. C. S. I.

[16597] would so, but begob the citizen would have been lagged for assault and

[16598] battery and Joe for aiding and abetting. The jarvey saved his life by

[16599] furious driving as sure as God made Moses. What? O, Jesus, he did. And

[16604] And he shouting to the bloody dog:

[16608] And the last we saw was the bloody car rounding the corner and old

[16609] sheepsface on it gesticulating and the bloody mongrel after it with his

[16614] When, lo, there came about them all a great brightness and they beheld

[16615] the chariot wherein He stood ascend to heaven. And they beheld Him in

[16617] as of the sun, fair as the moon and terrible that for awe they durst not

[16618] look upon Him. And there came a voice out of heaven, calling: Elijah!

[16619] Elijah! And He answered with a main cry: Abba! Adonai! And they beheld

13. Nausicaa

[16632] embrace. Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of

[16633] all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand, on the proud

[16635] the weedgrown rocks along Sandymount shore and, last but not least, on

[16641] scene and the air which was fresh but not too chilly. Many a time and

[16643] chat beside the sparkling waves and discuss matters feminine, Cissy

[16644] Caffrey and Edy Boardman with the baby in the pushcar and Tommy and

[16646] caps to match and the name H. M. S. Belleisle printed on both. For Tommy

[16647] and Jacky Caffrey were twins, scarce four years old and very noisy and

[16649] bright merry faces and endearing ways about them. They were dabbling in

[16650] the sand with their spades and buckets, building castles as children do,

[16651] or playing with their big coloured ball, happy as the day was long. And

[16652] Edy Boardman was rocking the chubby baby to and fro in the pushcar while

[16654] months and nine days old and, though still a tiny toddler, was just

[16656] him to tease his fat little plucks and the dainty dimple in his chin.

[16661] And baby prattled after her:

[16666] so patient with little sufferers and Tommy Caffrey could never be got to

[16667] take his castor oil unless it was Cissy Caffrey that held his nose and

[16673] a laugh in her gipsylike eyes and a frolicsome word on her cherryripe

[16674] red lips, a girl lovable in the extreme. And Edy Boardman laughed too at

[16677] But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and

[16678] Master Jacky. Boys will be boys and our two twins were no exception

[16680] which Master Jacky had built and Master Tommy would have it right go

[16683] selfwilled too and, true to the maxim that every little Irishman’s

[16684] house is his castle, he fell upon his hated rival and to such purpose

[16685] that the wouldbe assailant came to grief and (alas to relate!) the

[16689] —Come here, Tommy, his sister called imperatively. At once! And you,

[16694] big sister’s word was law with the twins. And in a sad plight he

[16695] was too after his misadventure. His little man-o’-war top and

[16697] art of smoothing over life’s tiny troubles and very quickly not one

[16700] away the hurtness and shook her hand at Master Jacky the culprit and

[16706] She put an arm round the little mariner and coaxed winningly:

[16708] —What’s your name? Butter and cream?

[16725] Cissy’s quick motherwit guessed what was amiss and she whispered to

[16727] couldn’t see and to mind he didn’t wet his new tan shoes.

[16735] more a Giltrap than a MacDowell. Her figure was slight and graceful,

[16738] Welch’s female pills and she was much better of those discharges she

[16739] used to get and that tired feeling. The waxen pallor of her face was

[16742] alabaster with tapering fingers and as white as lemonjuice and queen of

[16747] tiffs from time to time like the rest of mortals) and she told her not

[16751] unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep. Had

[16753] her own right and had she only received the benefit of a good education

[16755] land and have seen herself exquisitely gowned with jewels on her brow

[16756] and patrician suitors at her feet vying with one another to pay their

[16761] Gerty’s were of the bluest Irish blue, set off by lustrous lashes and

[16766] becoming in leaders of fashion, and she had never regretted it. Then

[16767] there was blushing scientifically cured and how to be tall increase your

[16768] height and you have a beautiful face but your nose? That would suit Mrs

[16771] it. She had cut it that very morning on account of the new moon and it

[16772] nestled about her pretty head in a profusion of luxuriant clusters and

[16773] pared her nails too, Thursday for wealth. And just now at Edy’s words

[16781] The pretty lips pouted awhile but then she glanced up and broke out into

[16787] and down in front of her window. Only now his father kept him in in the

[16789] on and he was going to go to Trinity college to study for a doctor when

[16793] piercing to the core. Yet he was young and perchance he might learn

[16794] to love her in time. They were protestants in his family and of course

[16795] Gerty knew Who came first and after Him the Blessed Virgin and then

[16796] Saint Joseph. But he was undeniably handsome with an exquisite nose and

[16799] off the common and the way he turned the bicycle at the lamp with his

[16800] hands off the bars and also the nice perfume of those good cigarettes

[16801] and besides they were both of a size too he and she and that was why Edy

[16803] and ride up and down in front of her bit of a garden.

[16809] with a smart vee opening down to the division and kerchief pocket (in

[16811] favourite perfume because the handkerchief spoiled the sit) and a navy

[16814] nigger straw contrast trimmed with an underbrim of eggblue chenille and

[16818] you would never notice, seven fingers two and a penny. She did it up all

[16819] by herself and what joy was hers when she tried it on then, smiling at

[16820] the lovely reflection which the mirror gave back to her! And when she

[16824] she never had a foot like Gerty MacDowell, a five, and never would

[16825] ash, oak or elm) with patent toecaps and just one smart buckle over

[16827] proportions beneath her skirt and just the proper amount and no more of

[16828] her shapely limbs encased in finespun hose with highspliced heels and

[16829] wide garter tops. As for undies they were Gerty’s chief care and who

[16830] that knows the fluttering hopes and fears of sweet seventeen (though

[16833] three garments and nighties extra, and each set slotted with different

[16834] coloured ribbons, rosepink, pale blue, mauve and peagreen, and she aired

[16835] them herself and blued them when they came home from the wash and ironed

[16836] them and she had a brickbat to keep the iron on because she wouldn’t

[16839] and lucky too for a bride to have a bit of blue somewhere on her because

[16841] brought him in to study for the intermediate exhibition and because

[16843] morning she nearly slipped up the old pair on her inside out and that

[16844] was for luck and lovers’ meeting if you put those things on inside

[16848] And yet and yet! That strained look on her face! A gnawing sorrow is

[16849] there all the time. Her very soul is in her eyes and she would give

[16851] way to tears, she could have a good cry and relieve her pentup feelings

[16854] upon a face infinitely sad and wistful. Gerty MacDowell yearns in vain.

[16856] has been arranged and the weddingbells ringing for Mrs Reggy Wylie T.

[16858] and in the fashionable intelligence Mrs Gertrude Wylie was wearing a

[16862] was still in short trousers) when they were alone and he stole an arm

[16864] one in a strangely husky voice and snatched a half kiss (the first!) but

[16865] it was only the end of her nose and then he hastened from the room with

[16867] had never been Reggy Wylie’s strong point and he who would woo and win

[16869] to be asked and it was leap year too and would soon be over. No prince

[16870] charming is her beau ideal to lay a rare and wondrous love at her feet

[16872] his ideal, perhaps his hair slightly flecked with grey, and who would

[16874] the strength of his deep passionate nature and comfort her with a long

[16880] And while Edy Boardman was with little Tommy behind the pushcar she was

[16883] the face, Bertha Supple too, and Edy, little spitfire, because she would

[16885] too for Gerty was womanly wise and knew that a mere man liked that

[16886] feeling of hominess. Her griddlecakes done to a goldenbrown hue and

[16889] in the fine selfraising flour and always stir in the same direction,

[16890] then cream the milk and sugar and whisk well the white of eggs though

[16892] her shy and often she wondered why you couldn’t eat something poetical

[16893] like violets or roses and they would have a beautifully appointed

[16894] drawingroom with pictures and engravings and the photograph of grandpapa

[16896] and chintz covers for the chairs and that silver toastrack in Clery’s

[16900] and they would go on the continent for their honeymoon (three wonderful

[16901] weeks!) and then, when they settled down in a nice snug and cosy little

[16903] perfectly served, for their own two selves and before he went out to

[16904] business he would give his dear little wifey a good hearty hug and gaze

[16907] Edy Boardman asked Tommy Caffrey was he done and he said yes so then she

[16908] buttoned up his little knickerbockers for him and told him to run off

[16909] and play with Jacky and to be good now and not to fight. But Tommy said

[16910] he wanted the ball and Edy told him no that baby was playing with the

[16911] ball and if he took it there’d be wigs on the green but Tommy said it

[16912] was his ball and he wanted his ball and he pranced on the ground, if

[16914] Caffrey since he was out of pinnies. Edy told him no, no and to be off

[16915] now with him and she told Cissy Caffrey not to give in to him.

[16920] finger and she snatched the ball quickly and threw it along the sand and

[16925] And she tickled tiny tot’s two cheeks to make him forget and

[16927] gingerbread carriage and here he walks in, chinchopper, chinchopper,

[16936] Gerty MacDowell bent down her head and crimsoned at the idea of Cissy

[16938] life to say, flushing a deep rosy red, and Edy Boardman said she was

[16942] —Let him! she said with a pert toss of her head and a piquant tilt of

[16947] For instance when she asked you would you have some more Chinese tea and

[16948] jaspberry ram and when she drew the jugs too and the men’s faces on

[16950] go where you know she said she wanted to run and pay a visit to the Miss

[16951] White. That was just like Cissycums. O, and will you ever forget her

[16952] the evening she dressed up in her father’s suit and hat and the burned

[16953] cork moustache and walked down Tritonville road, smoking a cigarette.

[16955] one of the bravest and truest hearts heaven ever made, not one of your

[16958] And then there came out upon the air the sound of voices and the pealing

[16960] by the missioner, the reverend John Hughes S. J., rosary, sermon and

[16962] together without distinction of social class (and a most edifying

[16970] second to none. Over and over had she told herself that as she mused by

[16974] which has ruined so many hearths and homes had cast its shadow over her

[16976] violence caused by intemperance and had seen her own father, a prey to

[16982] And still the voices sang in supplication to the Virgin most powerful,

[16983] Virgin most merciful. And Gerty, rapt in thought, scarce saw or heard

[16987] any way screwed but still and for all that she would not like him for a

[16990] pimples on it and his sandy moustache a bit white under his nose. Poor

[16992] Mary, how to woo thee or My love and cottage near Rochelle and they had

[16993] stewed cockles and lettuce with Lazenby’s salad dressing for supper

[16994] and when he sang The moon hath raised with Mr Dignam that died suddenly

[16995] and was buried, God have mercy on him, from a stroke. Her mother’s

[16996] birthday that was and Charley was home on his holidays and Tom and Mr

[16997] Dignam and Mrs and Patsy and Freddy Dignam and they were to have had a

[16999] laid to rest. And her mother said to him to let that be a warning to

[17000] him for the rest of his days and he couldn’t even go to the funeral on

[17001] account of the gout and she had to go into town to bring him the letters

[17002] and samples from his office about Catesby’s cork lino, artistic,

[17003] standard designs, fit for a palace, gives tiptop wear and always bright

[17004] and cheery in the home.

[17008] gold. And when her mother had those raging splitting headaches who was

[17010] like her mother’s taking pinches of snuff and that was the only single

[17013] the main every night and it was Gerty who tacked up on the wall of that

[17020] a soft clinging white in a studied attitude and the gentleman was in

[17021] chocolate and he looked a thorough aristocrat. She often looked at them

[17022] dreamily when she went there for a certain purpose and felt her own

[17023] arms that were white and soft just like hers with the sleeves back

[17024] and thought about those times because she had found out in Walker’s

[17033] sitting there by himself came gallantly to the rescue and intercepted

[17034] the ball. Our two champions claimed their plaything with lusty cries and

[17036] her please. The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw

[17037] it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and

[17039] The twins clamoured again for it and Cissy told her to kick it away and

[17041] stupid ball hadn’t come rolling down to her and she gave a kick but

[17042] she missed and Edy and Cissy laughed.

[17046] Gerty smiled assent and bit her lip. A delicate pink crept into her

[17048] her skirt a little but just enough and took good aim and gave the ball a

[17049] jolly good kick and it went ever so far and the two twins after it down

[17052] warm flush, a danger signal always with Gerty MacDowell, surging and

[17055] look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan

[17056] and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.

[17059] and with it the fragrant names of her who was conceived without stain of

[17061] for us, vessel of singular devotion, pray for us, mystical rose. And

[17062] careworn hearts were there and toilers for their daily bread and many

[17063] who had erred and wandered, their eyes wet with contrition but for all

[17073] she cried behind the hood of the pushcar and Edy asked where was Cissy

[17074] gone and then Cissy popped up her head and cried ah! and, my word,

[17075] didn’t the little chap enjoy that! And then she told him to say papa.

[17079] And baby did his level best to say it for he was very intelligent for

[17080] eleven months everyone said and big for his age and the picture of

[17081] health, a perfect little bunch of love, and he would certainly turn out

[17086] Cissy wiped his little mouth with the dribbling bib and wanted him to

[17087] sit up properly and say pa pa pa but when she undid the strap she cried

[17088] out, holy saint Denis, that he was possing wet and to double the half

[17090] obstreperous at such toilet formalities and he let everyone know it:

[17094] And two great big lovely big tears coursing down his cheeks. It was all

[17095] no use soothering him with no, nono, baby, no and telling him about the

[17096] geegee and where was the puffpuff but Ciss, always readywitted, gave

[17097] him in his mouth the teat of the suckingbottle and the young heathen was

[17101] of that and not get on her nerves, no hour to be out, and the little

[17104] chalks and such a pity too leaving them there to be all blotted out, the

[17105] evening and the clouds coming out and the Bailey light on Howth and to

[17106] hear the music like that and the perfume of those incense they burned

[17107] in the church like a kind of waft. And while she gazed her heart went

[17108] pitapat. Yes, it was her he was looking at, and there was meaning in his

[17110] and through, read her very soul. Wonderful eyes they were, superbly

[17112] see at once by his dark eyes and his pale intellectual face that he

[17118] sitting. He was in deep mourning, she could see that, and the story of a

[17120] know what it was. He was looking up so intently, so still, and he saw

[17121] her kick the ball and perhaps he could see the bright steel buckles of

[17125] of which she had so often dreamed. It was he who mattered and there was

[17134] those cyclists showing off what they hadn’t got and she just yearned

[17137] gently, like a real man, crushing her soft body to him, and love her,

[17141] it been said that whosoever prays to her with faith and constancy can

[17142] never be lost or cast away: and fitly is she too a haven of refuge for

[17145] glass windows lighted up, the candles, the flowers and the blue banners

[17146] of the blessed Virgin’s sodality and Father Conroy was helping Canon

[17147] O’Hanlon at the altar, carrying things in and out with his eyes cast

[17148] down. He looked almost a saint and his confessionbox was so quiet and

[17149] clean and dark and his hands were just like white wax and if ever she

[17154] voice of nature and we were all subject to nature’s laws, he said, in

[17155] this life and that that was no sin because that came from the nature of

[17156] woman instituted by God, he said, and that Our Blessed Lady herself said

[17158] was so kind and holy and often and often she thought and thought could

[17161] white and gold with a canarybird that came out of a little house to tell

[17166] The exasperating little brats of twins began to quarrel again and Jacky

[17167] threw the ball out towards the sea and they both ran after it. Little

[17168] monkeys common as ditchwater. Someone ought to take them and give them

[17170] them. And Cissy and Edy shouted after them to come back because they

[17171] were afraid the tide might come in on them and be drowned.

[17176] last time she’d ever bring them out. She jumped up and called them and

[17180] long because it wasn’t natural so she could just go and throw her hat

[17183] was a lot of the tomboy about Cissy Caffrey and she was a forward piece

[17184] whenever she thought she had a good opportunity to show off and just

[17186] all the end of her petticoat running and her skinny shanks up as far as

[17189] on her to make her look tall and got a fine tumble. Tableau! That would

[17193] they prayed, queen of the most holy rosary and then Father Conroy handed

[17194] the thurible to Canon O’Hanlon and he put in the incense and censed

[17195] the Blessed Sacrament and Cissy Caffrey caught the two twins and she

[17199] he never took his eyes off of her and then Canon O’Hanlon handed the

[17200] thurible back to Father Conroy and knelt down looking up at the Blessed

[17201] Sacrament and the choir began to sing the Tantum ergo and she just swung

[17202] her foot in and out in time as the music rose and fell to the Tantumer

[17203] gosa cramen tum. Three and eleven she paid for those stockings in

[17205] Easter and there wasn’t a brack on them and that was what he was

[17206] looking at, transparent, and not at her insignificant ones that had

[17210] Cissy came up along the strand with the two twins and their ball with

[17211] her hat anyhow on her to one side after her run and she did look a

[17213] a fortnight before like a rag on her back and a bit of her petticoat

[17215] settle her hair and a prettier, a daintier head of nutbrown tresses was

[17221] underneath the brim and swung her buckled shoe faster for her breath

[17224] the devil in him and at the thought a burning scarlet swept from throat

[17229] baby. Irritable little gnat she was and always would be and that was why

[17231] hers. And she said to Gerty:

[17238] Because she wished to goodness they’d take the snottynosed twins and

[17240] gave a gentle hint about its being late. And when Cissy came up Edy

[17241] asked her the time and Miss Cissy, as glib as you like, said it was half

[17248] So over she went and when he saw her coming she could see him take his

[17249] hand out of his pocket, getting nervous, and beginning to play with his

[17252] had been there, fascinated by a loveliness that made him gaze, and the

[17257] right time and Gerty could see him taking out his watch, listening to it

[17258] and looking up and clearing his throat and he said he was very sorry his

[17260] sun was set. His voice had a cultured ring in it and though he spoke in

[17262] Cissy said thanks and came back with her tongue out and said uncle said

[17265] Then they sang the second verse of the Tantum ergo and Canon O’Hanlon

[17266] got up again and censed the Blessed Sacrament and knelt down and he told

[17268] flowers and Father Conroy got up and settled it all right and she could

[17269] see the gentleman winding his watch and listening to the works and she

[17270] swung her leg more in and out in time. It was getting darker but he

[17271] could see and he was looking all the time that he was winding the watch

[17272] or whatever he was doing to it and then he put it back and put his hands

[17274] her and she knew by the feel of her scalp and that irritation against

[17280] face. It is for you, Gertrude MacDowell, and you know it.

[17282] Edy began to get ready to go and it was high time for her and Gerty

[17285] to push up the pushcar and Cissy took off the twins’ caps and tidied

[17286] their hair to make herself attractive of course and Canon O’Hanlon

[17287] stood up with his cope poking up at his neck and Father Conroy handed

[17288] him the card to read off and he read out Panem de coelo praestitisti eis

[17289] and Edy and Cissy were talking about the time all the time and asking

[17290] her but Gerty could pay them back in their own coin and she just

[17299] better than he knew. Lighthearted deceiver and fickle like all his sex

[17300] he would never understand what he had meant to her and for an instant

[17305] —O, responded Gerty, quick as lightning, laughing, and the proud head

[17311] for Mr Reggy with his swank and his bit of money she could just chuck

[17312] him aside as if he was so much filth and never again would she cast as

[17313] much as a second thought on him and tear his silly postcard into a dozen

[17314] pieces. And if ever after he dared to presume she could give him one

[17316] puny little Edy’s countenance fell to no slight extent and Gerty could

[17319] struck home for her petty jealousy and they both knew that she was

[17320] something aloof, apart, in another sphere, that she was not of them and

[17321] never would be and there was somebody else too that knew it and saw it

[17322] so they could put that in their pipe and smoke it.

[17324] Edy straightened up baby Boardman to get ready to go and Cissy tucked in

[17325] the ball and the spades and buckets and it was high time too because the

[17326] sandman was on his way for Master Boardman junior. And Cissy told him

[17327] too that billy winks was coming and that baby was to go deedaw and baby

[17328] looked just too ducky, laughing up out of his gleeful eyes, and Cissy

[17329] poked him like that out of fun in his wee fat tummy and baby, without as

[17330] much as by your leave, sent up his compliments to all and sundry on to

[17338] Gerty stifled a smothered exclamation and gave a nervous cough and Edy

[17339] asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was

[17348] of Erin, the touching chime of those evening bells and at the same

[17350] thither, with a tiny lost cry. And she could see far away the lights of

[17352] paints because it was easier than to make a man and soon the lamplighter

[17353] would be going his rounds past the presbyterian church grounds and along

[17354] by shady Tritonville avenue where the couples walked and lighting the

[17357] Vaughan and other tales. For Gerty had her dreams that no-one knew of.

[17358] She loved to read poetry and when she got a keepsake from Bertha Supple

[17361] it did not err on the side of luxury, was scrupulously neat and clean.

[17364] her alabaster pouncetbox and the ribbons to change when her things came

[17365] home from the wash and there were some beautiful thoughts written in it

[17370] ideal? it was called by Louis J Walsh, Magherafelt, and after there was

[17371] something about twilight, wilt thou ever? and ofttimes the beauty of

[17374] one by one, and but for that one shortcoming she knew she need fear no

[17375] competition and that was an accident coming down Dalkey hill and she

[17380] would she be to him and gild his days with happiness. There was the

[17381] allimportant question and she was dying to know was he a married man or

[17388] with the soldiers and coarse men with no respect for a girl’s honour,

[17389] degrading the sex and being taken up to the police station. No, no:

[17390] not that. They would be just good friends like a big brother and sister

[17401] Canon O’Hanlon put the Blessed Sacrament back into the tabernacle and

[17402] genuflected and the choir sang Laudate Dominum omnes gentes and then he

[17403] locked the tabernacle door because the benediction was over and Father

[17404] Conroy handed him his hat to put on and crosscat Edy asked wasn’t she

[17409] And they all looked was it sheet lightning but Tommy saw it too over the

[17410] trees beside the church, blue and then green and purple.

[17414] And they all ran down the strand to see over the houses and the church,

[17415] helterskelter, Edy with the pushcar with baby Boardman in it and Cissy

[17416] holding Tommy and Jacky by the hand so they wouldn’t fall running.

[17420] But Gerty was adamant. She had no intention of being at their beck and

[17423] pulses tingling. She looked at him a moment, meeting his glance, and

[17425] silent as the grave, and it had made her his. At last they were left

[17426] alone without the others to pry and pass remarks and she knew he could

[17428] honour to his fingertips. His hands and face were working and a tremour

[17430] and she caught her knee in her hands so as not to fall back looking up

[17431] and there was no-one to see only him and her when she revealed all her

[17432] graceful beautifully shaped legs like that, supply soft and delicately

[17433] rounded, and she seemed to hear the panting of his heart, his hoarse

[17435] hotblooded, because Bertha Supple told her once in dead secret and made

[17438] papers of those skirtdancers and highkickers and she said he used to do

[17442] his and the first quick hot touch of his handsome lips. Besides there

[17444] married and there ought to be women priests that would understand

[17445] without your telling out and Cissy Caffrey too sometimes had that dreamy

[17446] kind of dreamy look in her eyes so that she too, my dear, and Winny

[17447] Rippingham so mad about actors’ photographs and besides it was on

[17450] And Jacky Caffrey shouted to look, there was another and she leaned back

[17451] and the garters were blue to match on account of the transparent and

[17452] they all saw it and they all shouted to look, look, there it was and

[17453] she leaned back ever so far to see the fireworks and something queer was

[17454] flying through the air, a soft thing, to and fro, dark. And she saw a

[17455] long Roman candle going up over the trees, up, up, and, in the tense

[17456] hush, they were all breathless with excitement as it went higher and

[17457] higher and she had to lean back more and more to look up after it, high,

[17458] high, almost out of sight, and her face was suffused with a divine, an

[17459] entrancing blush from straining back and he could see her other things

[17461] those other pettiwidth, the green, four and eleven, on account of being

[17462] white and she let him and she saw that he saw and then it went so high

[17463] it went out of sight a moment and she was trembling in every limb from

[17465] where no-one ever not even on the swing or wading and she wasn’t

[17466] ashamed and he wasn’t either to look in that immodest way like that

[17469] looking and he kept on looking, looking. She would fain have cried to

[17473] ages. And then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind blank and O! then the

[17474] Roman candle burst and it was like a sigh of O! and everyone cried O! O!

[17475] in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of rain gold hair threads

[17476] and they shed and ah! they were all greeny dewy stars falling with

[17485] and, wretch that he was, how had he answered? An utter cad he had been!

[17487] for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and

[17489] secret, only theirs, alone in the hiding twilight and there was none to

[17491] to and fro and little bats don’t tell.

[17494] what a great person she was: and then she cried:

[17499] into her kerchief pocket and took out the wadding and waved in reply of

[17500] course without letting him and then slipped it back. Wonder if he’s

[17502] meet again, there, and she would dream of that till then, tomorrow, of

[17504] souls met in a last lingering glance and the eyes that reached

[17507] a smile that verged on tears, and then they parted.

[17510] to Edy to Jacky and Tommy Caffrey, to little baby Boardman. It was

[17511] darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and

[17513] of her but with care and very slowly because—because Gerty MacDowell

[17519] left on the shelf and the others did a sprint. Thought something was

[17532] step. Sometimes Molly and Milly together. Anyhow I got the best of that.

[17535] gouger M’Coy stopping me to say nothing. And his wife engagement in

[17542] Tom. Willy’s hat and what the girls did with it. Do they snapshot

[17545] clean come and dirty me. And they like dressing one another for the

[17548] Us too: the tie he wore, his lovely socks and turnedup trousers. He

[17557] themselves. And the others inclined to give her an odd dig. Girl friends

[17559] kissing and whispering secrets about nothing in the convent garden. Nuns

[17560] with whitewashed faces, cool coifs and their rosaries going up and down,

[17561] vindictive too for what they can’t get. Barbed wire. Be sure now and

[17562] write to me. And I’ll write to you. Now won’t you? Molly and Josie

[17565] have you been doing with yourself? Kiss and delighted to, kiss, to

[17580] Always know a fellow courting: collars and cuffs. Well cocks and lions

[17581] do the same and stags. Same time might prefer a tie undone or something.

[17582] Trousers? Suppose I when I was? No. Gently does it. Dislike rough and

[17583] tumble. Kiss in the dark and never tell. Saw something in me. Wonder

[17587] see me in profile. Still, you never know. Pretty girls and ugly men

[17588] marrying. Beauty and the beast. Besides I can’t be so if Molly.

[17596] Flynn? And the day I went to Drimmie’s without a necktie. Wrangle

[17607] limping devil. Begins to feel cold and clammy. Aftereffect not pleasant.

[17609] perhaps. Go home to nicey bread and milky and say night prayers with the

[17614] Little sweetheart come and kiss me. Still, I feel. The strength it gives

[17621] Wonderful of course if you say: good evening, and you see she’s on

[17626] answer when they solicit must be horrible for them till they harden. And

[17628] the button and the bird will squeak. Wish she hadn’t called me sir.

[17629] O, her mouth in the dark! And you a married man with a single girl!

[17638] when he changed his mind and stopped. Yet if I went the whole hog, say:

[17642] time. What harm? Must since she came to the use of reason, he, he and

[17653] like a rocket, down like a stick. And the children, twins they must

[17656] And the dark one with the mop head and the nigger mouth. I knew she

[17660] lane. Say prunes and prisms forty times every morning, cure for fat

[17680] eye on a mirror. And when I sent her for Molly’s Paisley shawl to

[17694] A monkey puzzle rocket burst, spluttering in darting crackles. Zrads and

[17695] zrads, zrads, zrads. And Cissy and Tommy and Jacky ran out to see and

[17696] Edy after with the pushcar and then Gerty beyond the curve of the rocks.

[17709] like my name and the address Dolphin’s barn a blind.

[17712] And she lived with her mother in Irishtown.

[17718] and papa’s pants will soon fit Willy and fuller’s earth for the baby

[17722] even closed at first, sour milk in their swaddles and tainted curds.

[17727] brushing his coat. And Mrs Breen and Mrs Dignam once like that too,

[17744] of seventy and blushing bride. Marry in May and repent in December. This

[17750] Other hand a sixfooter with a wifey up to his watchpocket. Long and

[17751] the short of it. Big he and little she. Very strange about my watch.

[17756] Earth for instance pulling this and being pulled. That causes movement.

[17757] And time, well that’s the time the movement takes. Then if one thing

[17761] Come. Tip. Woman and man that is. Fork and steel. Molly, he. Dress

[17762] up and look and suggest and let you see and see more and defy you if

[17763] you’re a man to see that and, like a sneeze coming, legs, look, look

[17764] and if you have any guts in you. Tip. Have to let fly.

[17768] stuck out, head back, about the farmer in the ridingboots and spurs at

[17769] the horse show. And when the painters were in Lombard street west.

[17775] all round over me and half down my back.

[17780] kind. Sweet and cheap: soon sour. Why Molly likes opoponax. Suits her,

[17781] with a little jessamine mixed. Her high notes and her low notes. At the

[17783] was wearing her black and it had the perfume of the time before. Good

[17791] call it gossamer, and they’re always spinning it out of them, fine as

[17796] Reminds me of strawberries and cream. Wonder where it is really. There

[17798] and corners. Hyacinth perfume made of oil of ether or something.

[17808] John had on his desk the other day. Breath? What you eat and drink gives

[17813] diffuses itself all through the body, permeates. Source of life. And

[17820] went back and the soap not paid. Dislike carrying bottles like that hag

[17823] paragraph. Two and nine. Bad opinion of me he’ll have. Call tomorrow.

[17824] How much do I owe you? Three and nine? Two and nine, sir. Ah. Might stop

[17826] Fellows run up a bill on the slate and then slinking around the back

[17837] Leopold Bloom. Payment at the rate of one guinea per column. And that

[17843] of rain it is. The royal reader. And distant hills seem coming nigh.

[17873] History repeats itself. Ye crags and peaks I’m with you once again.

[17874] Life, love, voyage round your own little world. And now? Sad about her

[17879] rhododendrons. I am a fool perhaps. He gets the plums, and I the

[17889] house. Mat Dillon and his bevy of daughters: Tiny, Atty, Floey, Maimy,

[17890] Louy, Hetty. Molly too. Eightyseven that was. Year before we. And the

[17892] I an only child. So it returns. Think you’re escaping and run into

[17893] yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. And just when he

[17894] and she. Circus horse walking in a ring. Rip van Winkle we played. Rip:

[17896] cockles and periwinkles. Then I did Rip van Winkle coming back. She

[17907] for us. And pray for us. And pray for us. Good idea the repetition. Same

[17908] thing with ads. Buy from us. And buy from us. Yes, there’s the light

[17926] together in the wind and light. Or broken bottles in the furze act as

[17933] they say. Like our small talk. And says she and says he. Nerve they have

[17934] to fly over the ocean and back. Lots must be killed in storms, telegraph

[17944] with a scapular or a medal on him for luck. Well. And the tephilim

[17946] touch. That brought us out of the land of Egypt and into the house of

[17949] grim life, lifebelt round him, gulping salt water, and that’s the last

[17953] and cargo in smithereens, Davy Jones’ locker, moon looking down so

[17957] funds for Mercer’s hospital and broke, drooping, and shed a cluster

[17961] postman, the glowworm’s lamp at his belt gleaming here and there

[17962] through the laurel hedges. And among the five young trees a hoisted

[17965] Telegraph, stop press edition! Result of the Gold Cup races! and from

[17966] the door of Dignam’s house a boy ran out and called. Twittering the

[17969] rhododendrons (he was old) and felt gladly the night breeze lift, ruffle

[17970] his fell of ferns. He lay but opened a red eye unsleeping, deep and

[17971] slowly breathing, slumberous but awake. And far on Kish bank the

[17975] Lights board. Penance for their sins. Coastguards too. Rocket and

[17976] breeches buoy and lifeboat. Day we went out for the pleasure cruise in

[17979] overboard to feed the herrings. Nausea. And the women, fear of God in

[17981] Don’t know what death is at that age. And then their stomachs clean.

[17987] troubles wildfire and nettlerash. Calomel purge I got her for that.

[18013] Ought to go home and laugh at themselves. Always want to be swilling in

[18028] O’Connor wife and five children poisoned by mussels here. The sewage.

[18030] him in tow, platter face and a large apron. Ladies’ grey flannelette

[18031] bloomers, three shillings a pair, astonishing bargain. Plain and loved,

[18032] loved for ever, they say. Ugly: no woman thinks she is. Love, lie and be

[18039] of Keyes’s. Work Hynes and Crawford. Petticoats for Molly. She has

[18042] Mr Bloom stooped and turned over a piece of paper on the strand. He

[18043] brought it near his eyes and peered. Letter? No. Can’t read. Better

[18045] holes and pebbles. Who could count them? Never know what you find.

[18061] mirror, breathe on it, stirs. All these rocks with lines and scars and

[18081] Not even the smoke. And she can do the other. Did too. And Belfast. I

[18102] O’Hanlon and Father Conroy and the reverend John Hughes S. J. were

[18103] taking tea and sodabread and butter and fried mutton chops with catsup

[18104] and talking about

[18112] MacDowell, and she noticed at once that that foreign gentleman that was

14. Oxen of the Sun

[18127] Send us bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening and wombfruit. Send

[18128] us bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening and wombfruit. Send us

[18129] bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening and wombfruit.

[18136] which the most in doctrine erudite and certainly by reason of that in

[18149] behoves every most just citizen to become the exhortator and admonisher

[18150] of his semblables and to tremble lest what had in the past been by the

[18157] command and promise which on all mortals with prophecy of abundance

[18166] have sedulously set down the divers methods by which the sick and the

[18170] commensurate and therefore a plan was by them adopted (whether by having

[18175] in that allhardest of woman hour chiefly required and not solely for the

[18177] scarcely and often not even scarcely could subsist valiantly and for an

[18180] To her nothing already then and thenceforward was anyway able to be

[18182] mothers prosperity at all not to can be and as they had received

[18194] now done and by wise foresight set: but to this no less of what drugs

[18195] there is need and surgical implements which are pertaining to her

[18198] and human, the cogitation of which by sejunct females is to tumescence

[18200] mothers when, ostensibly far gone and reproductitive, it is come by her

[18208] mothers are wont that they lie for to thole and bring forth bairns hale

[18218] Christ’s rood made she on breastbone and him drew that he would rathe

[18223] he ere was living with dear wife and lovesome daughter that then over

[18224] land and seafloor nine years had long outwandered. Once her in townhithe

[18232] tidings sent from far coast and she with grameful sigh him answered that

[18237] goodness with masspriest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men’s oil

[18239] the dead man was died and the nun answered him and said that he was died

[18241] and she prayed to God the Allruthful to have his dear soul in his

[18245] Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the

[18250] The man that was come in to the house then spoke to the nursingwoman and

[18252] The nursingwoman answered him and said that that woman was in throes

[18253] now full three days and that it would be a hard birth unneth to bear

[18259] motherhood and he wondered to look on her face that was a fair face for

[18263] And whiles they spake the door of the castle was opened and there nighed

[18264] them a mickle noise as of many that sat there at meat. And there came

[18265] against the place as they stood a young learningknight yclept Dixon. And

[18270] horrible and dreadful dragon was smitten him for which he did do make

[18271] a salve of volatile salt and chrism as much as he might suffice. And he

[18273] them that were there. And the traveller Leopold said that he should go

[18274] otherwhither for he was a man of cautels and a subtile. Also the lady

[18275] was of his avis and repreved the learningknight though she trowed well

[18278] him in aught contrarious to his list and he said how it was a marvellous

[18279] castle. And the traveller Leopold went into the castle for to rest him

[18281] lands and sometime venery.

[18283] And in the castle was set a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy

[18284] and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that country but they durst not

[18285] move more for enchantment. And on this board were frightful swords and

[18287] flames that they fix then in the horns of buffalos and stags that there

[18288] abound marvellously. And there were vessels that are wrought by magic of

[18289] Mahound out of seasand and the air by a warlock with his breath that he

[18290] blases in to them like to bubbles. And full fair cheer and rich was on

[18291] the board that no wight could devise a fuller ne richer. And there was

[18294] thing without they see it natheless they are so. And these fishes lie

[18296] that therein is like to the juices of the olivepress. And also it was

[18299] that they do in to it swells up wondrously like to a vast mountain. And

[18301] out of the ground and of the scales of these serpents they brew out a

[18304] And the learning knight let pour for childe Leopold a draught and halp

[18305] thereto the while all they that were there drank every each. And childe

[18306] Leopold did up his beaver for to pleasure him and took apertly somewhat

[18307] in amity for he never drank no manner of mead which he then put by and

[18308] anon full privily he voided the more part in his neighbour glass and

[18309] his neighbour nist not of this wile. And he sat down in that castle with

[18312] This meanwhile this good sister stood by the door and begged them at the

[18315] fast. Sir Leopold heard on the upfloor cry on high and he wondered what

[18316] cry that it was whether of child or woman and I marvel, said he, that it

[18317] be not come or now. Meseems it dureth overlong. And he was ware and saw

[18319] any of the tother and for that they both were knights virtuous in the

[18320] one emprise and eke by cause that he was elder he spoke to him full

[18322] bounty and have joy of her childing for she hath waited marvellous long.

[18323] And the franklin that had drunken said, Expecting each moment to be her

[18325] none asking nor desiring of him to drink and, Now drink, said he, fully

[18326] delectably, and he quaffed as far as he might to their both’s health

[18327] for he was a passing good man of his lustiness. And sir Leopold that was

[18328] the goodliest guest that ever sat in scholars’ hall and that was the

[18329] meekest man and the kindest that ever laid husbandly hand under hen and

[18337] Merciable’s with other his fellows Lynch and Madden, scholars of

[18338] medicine, and the franklin that hight Lenehan and one from Alba Longa,

[18339] one Crotthers, and young Stephen that had mien of a frere that was at

[18340] head of the board and Costello that men clepen Punch Costello all long

[18341] of a mastery of him erewhile gested (and of all them, reserved young

[18342] Stephen, he was the most drunken that demanded still of more mead) and

[18344] he promised to have come and such as intended to no goodness said how

[18345] he had broke his avow. And sir Leopold sat with them for he bore fast

[18346] friendship to sir Simon and to this his son young Stephen and for that

[18351] For they were right witty scholars. And he heard their aresouns each gen

[18352] other as touching birth and righteousness, young Madden maintaining that

[18355] now was trespassed out of this world and the self night next before her

[18356] death all leeches and pothecaries had taken counsel of her case). And

[18358] the woman should bring forth in pain and wherefore they that were of

[18360] conscience to let her die. And not few and of these was young Lynch

[18365] should live and the babe to die. In colour whereof they waxed hot

[18366] upon that head what with argument and what for their drinking but the

[18369] affair and said how that she was dead and how for holy religion sake by

[18370] rede of palmer and bedesman and for a vow he had made to Saint Ultan of

[18373] Murmur, sirs, is eke oft among lay folk. Both babe and parent now

[18377] and Giver of Life? For, sirs, he said, our lust is brief. We are means

[18378] to those small creatures within us and nature has other ends than we.

[18380] overmuch drunken and the best word he could have of him was that he

[18386] him, witnessing all and several by saint Foutinus his engines that

[18388] laughed they all right jocundly only young Stephen and sir Leopold which

[18390] not bewray and also for that he rued for her that bare whoso she might

[18397] peradventure in her bath according to the opinions of Averroes and Moses

[18399] soul was infused and how in all our holy mother foldeth ever souls for

[18405] life. A wariness of mind he would answer as fitted all and, laying hand

[18407] him, who had ever loved the art of physic as might a layman, and

[18409] good for that mother Church belike at one blow had birth and death pence

[18410] and in such sort deliverly he scaped their questions. That is truth,

[18411] pardy, said Dixon, and, or I err, a pregnant word. Which hearing young

[18412] Stephen was a marvellous glad man and he averred that he who stealeth

[18414] was drunken and that he was now in that taking it appeared eftsoons.

[18418] and as he was minded of his good lady Marion that had borne him an only

[18419] manchild which on his eleventh day on live had died and no man of art

[18420] could save so dark is destiny. And she was wondrous stricken of heart

[18421] for that evil hap and for his burial did him on a fair corselet of

[18422] lamb’s wool, the flower of the flock, lest he might perish utterly and

[18423] lie akeled (for it was then about the midst of the winter) and now sir

[18425] friend’s son and was shut up in sorrow for his forepassed happiness

[18426] and as sad as he was that him failed a son of such gentle courage (for

[18428] for young Stephen for that he lived riotously with those wastrels and

[18436] quod he, of this mazer and quaff ye this mead which is not indeed parcel

[18439] will comfort more than the other will dismay. See ye here. And he showed

[18440] them glistering coins of the tribute and goldsmith notes the worth of

[18450] puissant who aventried the dear corse of our Agenbuyer, Healer and Herd,

[18451] our mighty mother and mother most venerable and Bernardus saith aptly

[18453] almightiness of petition because she is the second Eve and she won

[18456] seed, breed and generation, for a penny pippin. But here is the matter

[18457] now. Or she knew him, that second I say, and was but creature of her

[18458] creature, vergine madre, figlia di tuo figlio, or she knew him not and

[18460] lives in the house that Jack built and with Joseph the joiner patron of

[18464] consubstantiality but in no case subsubstantiality. And all cried out

[18467] Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship. With will will we

[18470] Hereupon Punch Costello dinged with his fist upon the board and would

[18477] turmoil might shorten the honour of her guard. It was an ancient and

[18478] a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun

[18479] beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of

[18480] it effect for incontinently Punch Costello was of them all embraided and

[18481] they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with

[18488] time’s occasion as most sacred and most worthy to be most sacred. In

[18493] had not cided to take friar’s vows and he answered him obedience in

[18496] deeds and how, as he heard hereof counted, he had besmirched the lily

[18497] virtue of a confiding female which was corruption of minors and they all

[18498] intershowed it too, waxing merry and toasting to his fathership. But he

[18500] the eternal son and ever virgin. Thereat mirth grew in them the more and

[18501] they rehearsed to him his curious rite of wedlock for the disrobing and

[18503] to be in guise of white and saffron, her groom in white and grain, with

[18504] burning of nard and tapers, on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and

[18507] delicate poets Master John Fletcher and Master Francis Beaumont that is

[18514] young sir, better were they named Beau Mount and Lecher for, by my

[18516] his best remembrance they had but the one doxy between them and she of

[18518] in those days and the custom of the country approved with it. Greater

[18520] his friend. Go thou and do likewise. Thus, or words to that effect,

[18524] thou wilt have the secondbest bed. Orate, fratres, pro memetipso. And

[18525] all the people shall say, Amen. Remember, Erin, thy generations and

[18526] thy days of old, how thou settedst little by me and by my word and

[18528] sight and to wax fat and kick like Jeshurum. Therefore hast thou

[18529] sinned against my light and hast made me, thy lord, to be the slave of

[18532] a merchant of jalaps and didst deny me to the Roman and to the Indian of

[18534] my people, upon the land of behest, even from Horeb and from Nebo and

[18535] from Pisgah and from the Horns of Hatten unto a land flowing with milk

[18536] and money. But thou hast suckled me with a bitter milk: my moon and my

[18537] sun thou hast quenched for ever. And thou hast left me alone for ever

[18538] in the dark ways of my bitterness: and with a kiss of ashes hast thou

[18543] Tully saith of his darling Stoics) and Hamlet his father showeth the

[18545] Egypt’s plague which in the nights of prenativity and postmortemity is

[18546] their most proper ubi and quomodo. And as the ends and ultimates of

[18547] all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and

[18550] and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it

[18555] sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage. And as

[18571] that hist his heart. And Master Lynch bade him have a care to flout and

[18572] witwanton as the god self was angered for his hellprate and paganry. And

[18574] mark and shrank together and his pitch that was before so haught uplift

[18575] was now of a sudden quite plucked down and his heart shook within the

[18577] mock and some jeer and Punch Costello fell hard again to his yale which

[18578] Master Lenehan vowed he would do after and he was indeed but a word and

[18580] old Nobodaddy was in his cups it was muchwhat indifferent and he would

[18585] him on his ribs upon that crack of doom and Master Bloom, at the

[18589] place, and all of the order of a natural phenomenon.

[18593] done away. And was he then neither calm like the one nor godly like the

[18602] as he was like the rest too a passing show. And would he not accept to

[18603] die like the rest and pass away? By no means would he though he must nor

[18607] which behoves to the king Delightful and shall be for ever where there

[18608] is no death and no birth neither wiving nor mothering at which all shall

[18609] come as many as believe on it? Yes, Pious had told him of that land and

[18612] said, is Bird-in-the-Hand and she beguiled him wrongways from the true

[18614] aside hither and I will show you a brave place, and she lay at him so

[18619] of Mothers the most lusted after and if they met with this whore

[18620] Bird-in-the-Hand (which was within all foul plagues, monsters and a

[18621] wicked devil) they would strain the last but they would make at her and

[18623] but notion and they could conceive no thought of it for, first,

[18624] Two-in-the-Bush whither she ticed them was the very goodliest grot and

[18626] printed on them, Pickaback and Topsyturvy and Shameface and Cheek by

[18627] Jowl and, second, for that foul plague Allpox and the monsters they

[18629] oxengut and, third, that they might take no hurt neither from Offspring

[18631] named Killchild. So were they all in their blind fancy, Mr Cavil and Mr

[18633] Young Boasthard and Mr Cautious Calmer. Wherein, O wretched company,

[18635] very grievous rage that he would presently lift his arm up and

[18636] spill their souls for their abuses and their spillings done by them

[18639] So Thursday sixteenth June Patk. Dignam laid in clay of an apoplexy and

[18642] fields athirst, very sadcoloured and stunk mightily, the quags and tofts

[18643] too. Hard to breathe and all the young quicks clean consumed without

[18645] rosy buds all gone brown and spread out blobs and on the hills nought

[18646] but dry flag and faggots that would catch at first fire. All the world

[18649] But by and by, as said, this evening after sundown, the wind sitting in

[18650] the west, biggish swollen clouds to be seen as the night increased and

[18651] the weatherwise poring up at them and some sheet lightnings at first and

[18652] after, past ten of the clock, one great stroke with a long thunder and

[18658] before bonedry and not one chair or coach or fiacre seen about but

[18665] from Mullingar with the stage where his coz and Mal M’s brother will

[18666] stay a month yet till Saint Swithin and asks what in the earth he does

[18667] there, he bound home and he to Andrew Horne’s being stayed for to

[18669] heifer, big of her age and beef to the heel, and all this while poured

[18670] with rain and so both together on to Horne’s. There Leop. Bloom of

[18674] fancied and Stephen D. Leop. Bloom there for a languor he had but was

[18677] those in ken to be for a change and Mistress Purefoy there, that got in

[18678] through pleading her belly, and now on the stools, poor body, two days

[18679] past her term, the midwives sore put to it and can’t deliver, she

[18681] and her breath very heavy more than good and should be a bullyboy from

[18683] chick to live, I hear, and Lady day bit off her last chick’s nails

[18684] that was then a twelvemonth and with other three all breastfed that died

[18685] written out in a fair hand in the king’s bible. Her hub fifty odd and

[18686] a methodist but takes the sacrament and is to be seen any fair sabbath

[18688] heavybraked reel or in a punt he has trailing for flounder and pollock

[18689] and catches a fine bag, I hear. In sum an infinite great fall of rain

[18690] and all refreshed and will much increase the harvest yet those in

[18691] ken say after wind and water fire shall come for a prognostication of

[18692] Malachi’s almanac (and I hear that Mr Russell has done a prophetical

[18695] bottom of reason for old crones and bairns yet sometimes they are found

[18699] was in that night’s gazette and he made a show to find it about him

[18701] Stephen’s persuasion he gave over the search and was bidden to sit

[18703] that went for a merryandrew or honest pickle and what belonged of women,

[18705] in fortunes and for the most part hankered about the coffeehouses

[18706] and low taverns with crimps, ostlers, bookies, Paul’s men, runners,

[18707] flatcaps, waistcoateers, ladies of the bagnio and other rogues of the

[18710] gossip. He took his ordinary at a boilingcook’s and if he had but

[18719] in this tin as ever came out of it and very friendly he offered to

[18721] meantime and found the place which was indeed the chief design of his

[18724] winelodge in Bordeaux and he spoke French like a gentleman too. From a

[18726] who could ill keep him to school to learn his letters and the use of

[18728] he took the bit between his teeth like a raw colt and was more familiar

[18729] with the justiciary and the parish beadle than with his volumes. One

[18731] would keep him from the bearpit and the cocking main, then he was

[18735] as a cat has lives and back again with naked pockets as many more to his

[18740] ’tis so bad, says he. And he had experience of the like brood beasts

[18741] and of springers, greasy hoggets and wether wool, having been some years

[18743] trade for live stock and meadow auctions hard by Mr Gavin Low’s yard

[18746] handsomely told him no such matter and that he had dispatches from the

[18752] Irish by name and irish by nature, says Mr Stephen, and he sent the ale

[18756] ring in his nose. True for you, says Mr Vincent cross the table, and a

[18757] bullseye into the bargain, says he, and a plumper and a portlier bull,

[18759] of gold and a sweet smoky breath coming out of his nostrils so that the

[18760] women of our island, leaving doughballs and rollingpins, followed after

[18764] himself. So be off now, says he, and do all my cousin german the lord

[18765] Harry tells you and take a farmer’s blessing, and with that he slapped

[18766] his posteriors very soundly. But the slap and the blessing stood him

[18768] of the other so that maid, wife, abbess and widow to this day affirm

[18772] all Ireland. Another then put in his word: And they dressed him, says

[18773] he, in a point shift and petticoat with a tippet and girdle and ruffles

[18774] on his wrists and clipped his forelock and rubbed him all over with

[18775] spermacetic oil and built stables for him at every turn of the road

[18777] could doss and dung to his heart’s content. By this time the father of

[18779] scarce walk to pasture. To remedy which our cozening dames and damsels

[18780] brought him his fodder in their apronlaps and as soon as his belly was

[18782] mystery and roar and bellow out of him in bulls’ language and they all

[18783] after him. Ay, says another, and so pampered was he that he would suffer

[18785] the only colour to his mind) and there was a board put up on a hillock

[18787] Harry, Green is the grass that grows on the ground. And, says Mr Dixon,

[18791] countryside rooting up with his horns whatever was planted and all by

[18793] Mr Vincent, and the lord Harry called farmer Nicholas all the old Nicks

[18794] in the world and an old whoremaster that kept seven trulls in his house

[18795] and I’ll meddle in his matters, says he. I’ll make that animal smell

[18801] and on picking up a blackthumbed chapbook that he kept in the pantry

[18805] into a cow’s drinkingtrough in the presence of all his courtiers and

[18807] running off him, he got into an old smock and skirt that had belonged to

[18808] his grandmother and bought a grammar of the bulls’ language to study

[18810] which he copied out big and got off by heart and if ever he went out for

[18813] a corkfloat. In short, he and the bull of Ireland were soon as fast

[18814] friends as an arse and a shirt. They were, says Mr Stephen, and the end

[18816] women were all of one mind, made a wherry raft, loaded themselves and

[18819] put her head between wind and water, weighed anchor, ported her helm,

[18821] pushed off in their bumboat and put to sea to recover the main of

[18831] cornetcy in the fencibles and list for the wars. Mr Mulligan was civil

[18836] printed in fair italics: Mr Malachi Mulligan. Fertiliser and Incubator.

[18839] Fopling Popinjay and sir Milksop Quidnunc in town and to devote himself

[18843] standing. Mr Mulligan accepted of the invitation and, expatiating upon

[18845] a consideration of the causes of sterility, both the inhibitory and the

[18850] defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable

[18858] certain counsellors of worth and inspected into this matter, he had

[18863] hewn and erected after the fashion of Egypt and to offer his dutiful

[18868] opulent lady of fashion, if so be their constructions and their tempers

[18871] diet of savoury tubercles and fish and coneys there, the flesh of these

[18873] broiled and stewed with a blade of mace and a pod or two of capsicum

[18877] rain and for all their mending their pace had taken water, as might be

[18880] by his auditors and won hearty eulogies from all though Mr Dixon of

[18884] upon his memory, seemed to him a sound and tasteful support of his

[18890] to their stomach, the buck and doe of the forest glade, the farmyard

[18891] drake and duck.

[18900] were those loaves and fishes and, seeing the stranger, he made him

[18901] a civil bow and said, Pray, sir, was you in need of any professional

[18903] heartily, though preserving his proper distance, and replied that he was

[18905] an interesting condition, poor body, from woman’s woe (and here he

[18916] and threw the whole room into the most violent agitations of delight.

[18922] with the young gentleman and, interrupting the narrative at a salient

[18930] and very opportunely. There wanted nothing but this cup to crown my

[18932] and a cupful of water from the well, my God, I would accept of them and

[18933] find it in my heart to kneel down upon the ground and give thanks to

[18936] complacent draught of the cordial, slicked his hair and, opening his

[18941] instant with her dainty tucker and her new coquette cap (a gift for her

[18948] favours. A sigh of affection gave eloquence to these words and, having

[18949] replaced the locket in his bosom, he wiped his eye and sighed again.

[18951] and universal must be that sweetest of Thy tyrannies which can hold in

[18952] thrall the free and the bond, the simple swain and the polished coxcomb,

[18953] the lover in the heyday of reckless passion and the husband of maturer

[18954] years. But indeed, sir, I wander from the point. How mingled and

[18959] he cried, clapping hand to his forehead, tomorrow will be a new day and,

[18973] such an ark of salvation for, as she reminded me (blushing piquantly and

[18976] our hearts and it has become a household word that il y a deux choses

[18979] first, said she (and here my pretty philosopher, as I handed her to her

[18985] Amid the general vacant hilarity of the assembly a bell rang and, while

[18986] all were conjecturing what might be the cause, Miss Callan entered and,

[18989] party of debauchees of a woman endued with every quality of modesty and

[18999] the young blood in the primrose vest, feigning a womanish simper and

[19005] surgeon, however, rose and begged the company to excuse his retreat as

[19009] fortitude and she had given birth to a bouncing boy. I want patience,

[19017] lustre of her own sex and the astonishment of ours? And at an instant

[19020] such malice have been sown and where no right reverence is rendered

[19021] to mother and maid in house of Horne. Having delivered himself of this

[19022] rebuke he saluted those present on the by and repaired to the door. A

[19023] murmur of approval arose from all and some were for ejecting the low

[19030] father and thy mother that had the best hand to a rolypoly or a hasty

[19038] were difficultly understood and not often nice: their testiness and

[19044] of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the

[19049] passed through the thousand vicissitudes of existence and, being of a

[19050] wary ascendancy and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined his

[19051] heart to repress all motions of a rising choler and, by intercepting

[19054] and all find tolerable and but tolerable. To those who create themselves

[19060] and inglorious retreat. Not but what he could feel with mettlesome youth

[19073] one) was that one must have a cold constitution and a frigid genius not

[19091] dormitory and the dissecting theatre should be the seminaries of such

[19109] if report belie him not, his own and his only enjoyer? Far be it from

[19114] too long and too persistently denied her legitimate prerogative to

[19121] question of the grazing lands his peevish asperity is notorious and

[19126] habit reprehensible at puberty is second nature and an opprobrium in

[19128] and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of

[19132] beauty may console him for a consort neglected and debauched but this

[19133] new exponent of morals and healer of ills is at his best an exotic tree

[19134] which, when rooted in its native orient, throve and flourished and was

[19137] is stagnant, acid and inoperative.

[19145] affairs and the members of the privy council, silent in unanimous

[19146] exhaustion and approbation the delegates, chafing under the length and

[19147] solemnity of their vigil and hoping that the joyful occurrence would

[19148] palliate a licence which the simultaneous absence of abigail and

[19155] section, posthumity with respect to the father and, that rarer form,

[19157] Murder and rendered memorable by the impassioned plea of Mr Advocate

[19159] of primogeniture and king’s bounty touching twins and triplets,

[19160] miscarriages and infanticides, simulated or dissimulated, the acardiac

[19161] foetus in foetu and aprosopia due to a congestion, the agnathia

[19173] recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births

[19177] problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much

[19180] by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature and

[19181] the injunction upon her in the event of a yearning, ardently and

[19185] inkle, strawberry mark and portwine stain were alleged by one as a prima

[19186] facie and natural hypothetical explanation of those swineheaded (the

[19189] Caledonian envoy and worthy of the metaphysical traditions of the land

[19193] the theory of copulation between women and the males of brutes, his

[19201] a heated argument having arisen between Mr Delegate Madden and Mr

[19202] Candidate Lynch regarding the juridical and theological dilemma created

[19208] delivered briefly and, as some thought, perfunctorily the ecclesiastical

[19213] and in the recess appeared... Haines! Which of us did not feel his flesh

[19219] Childs. And how I am punished! The inferno has no terrors for me. This

[19220] is the appearance is on me. Tare and ages, what way would I be resting

[19221] at all, he muttered thickly, and I tramping Dublin this while back

[19222] with my share of songs and himself after me the like of a soulth or a

[19223] bullawurrus? My hell, and Ireland’s, is in this life. It is what

[19227] Destruction! The black panther! With a cry he suddenly vanished and the

[19229] and said: Meet me at Westland Row station at ten past eleven. He was

[19244] merry and mournful with the downcast, so too is her age changeable as

[19246] the cud of reminiscence, that staid agent of publicity and holder of a

[19252] bandolierwise, and in it a goodly hunk of wheaten loaf, a mother’s

[19257] a thing now of the past!) and a quiverful of compliant smiles for this

[19261] eyes and oleaginous address, brought home at duskfall many a commission

[19265] month before. But hey, presto, the mirror is breathed on and the young

[19267] mist. Now he is himself paternal and these about him might be his

[19270] first. Together (she is a poor waif, a child of shame, yours and mine

[19271] and of all for a bare shilling and her luckpenny), together they hear

[19275] in nethermost darkness, the willer with the willed, and in an instant

[19280] of day. No, Leopold. Name and memory solace thee not. That youthful

[19281] illusion of thy strength was taken from thee—and in vain. No son of

[19285] The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is the

[19286] infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the soul is wafted over regions

[19294] screechowls and the sandblind upupa. Netaim, the golden, is no more. And

[19296] the ghosts of beasts. Huuh! Hark! Huuh! Parallax stalks behind and goads

[19297] them, the lancinating lightnings of whose brow are scorpions. Elk and

[19298] yak, the bulls of Bashan and of Babylon, mammoth and mastodon, they come

[19300] host! They moan, passing upon the clouds, horned and capricorned, the

[19302] and crawler, rodent, ruminant and pachyderm, all their moving moaning

[19305] Onward to the dead sea they tramp to drink, unslaked and with horrible

[19306] gulpings, the salt somnolent inexhaustible flood. And the equine portent

[19308] magnitude, till it looms, vast, over the house of Virgo. And lo, wonder

[19314] it gossamer. It floats, it flows about her starborn flesh and loose it

[19315] streams, emerald, sapphire, mauve and heliotrope, sustained on currents

[19318] metamorphoses of symbol, it blazes, Alpha, a ruby and triangled sign

[19324] past and its phantoms, Stephen said. Why think of them? If I call them

[19327] bard, am lord and giver of their life. He encircled his gadding hair

[19328] with a coronal of vineleaves, smiling at Vincent. That answer and those

[19330] more, and greatly more, than a capful of light odes can call your genius

[19336] hard it was for him to be reminded of his promise and of his recent

[19340] The flag fell and, huuh! off, scamper, the mare ran out freshly with

[19342] Even Phyllis could not contain herself. She waved her scarf and cried:

[19346] Juno, she cried, I am undone. But her lover consoled her and brought

[19349] W. Lane. Four winners yesterday and three today. What rider is like him?

[19355] could have seen my queen today, Vincent said. How young she was and

[19356] radiant (Lalage were scarce fair beside her) in her yellow shoes and

[19358] shaded us were in bloom: the air drooped with their persuasive odour and

[19362] for her teeth but the arm with which I held her and in that she nibbled

[19366] pulled her fill as we reclined together. And in your ear, my friend, you

[19377] and withheld his act, pointing to the stranger and to the scarlet label.

[19385] of the lunar chain would not assume the etheric doubles and these

[19394] animation was as astute if not astuter than any man living and anybody

[19398] by Messrs Bass and Co at Burton-on-Trent which happened to be situated

[19399] amongst a lot of others right opposite to where he was and which was

[19401] scarlet appearance. He was simply and solely, as it subsequently

[19404] before’s observations about boyhood days and the turf, recollecting

[19407] their eyes met and as soon as it began to dawn on him that the other was

[19409] to help him himself and so he accordingly took hold of the neck of the

[19410] mediumsized glass recipient which contained the fluid sought after and

[19415] The debate which ensued was in its scope and progress an epitome of the

[19418] the loftiest and most vital. The high hall of Horne’s house had never

[19419] beheld an assembly so representative and so varied nor had the

[19425] and premature wisdom. Next the Scotchman was the place assigned to

[19429] explorer’s kit of tweed shorts and salted cowhide brogues contrasted

[19430] sharply with the primrose elegance and townbred manners of Malachi

[19432] poet who found a refuge from his labours of pedagogy and metaphysical

[19434] to right and left of him were accommodated the flippant prognosticator,

[19435] fresh from the hippodrome, and that vigilant wanderer, soiled by the

[19436] dust of travel and combat and stained by the mire of an indelible

[19437] dishonour, but from whose steadfast and constant heart no lure or peril

[19442] It had better be stated here and now at the outset that the perverted

[19447] street has to face hardheaded facts that cannot be blinked and explain

[19456] Leopold and Valenti, a mixture of both? This would be tantamount to

[19458] formativus of the nemasperm on the one hand and on the other a happily

[19466] and the revolting spectacles offered by our streets, hideous publicity

[19468] and sailors, exposed scorbutic cardrivers, the suspended carcases of

[19469] dead animals, paranoic bachelors and unfructified duennas—these, he

[19470] said, were accountable for any and every fallingoff in the calibre of

[19472] and all the graces of life, genuinely good music, agreeable literature,

[19474] the classical statues such as Venus and Apollo, artistic coloured

[19479] subjected to heavy labours in the workshop and to marital discipline in

[19486] wonder is that so many pregnancies and deliveries go off so well as they

[19487] do, all things considered and in spite of our human shortcomings which

[19489] that thrown out by Mr V. Lynch (Bacc. Arith.) that both natality and

[19496] parents and seemingly a healthy child and properly looked after succumbs

[19499] Nature, we may rest assured, has her own good and cogent reasons for

[19500] whatever she does and in all probability such deaths are due to some law

[19509] that an omnivorous being which can masticate, deglute, digest and

[19513] of jaundiced politicians and chlorotic nuns, might possibly find gastric

[19515] else could and in a very unsavoury light the tendency above alluded to.

[19517] the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and

[19522] cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother. In

[19525] and 31 Holles street, of which, as is well known, Dr A. Horne (Lic. in

[19526] Midw., F. K. Q. C. P. I.) is the able and popular master, he is reported

[19529] complicated and marvellous of all nature’s processes—the act of

[19533] and measured tone in which it was delivered.

[19535] Meanwhile the skill and patience of the physician had brought about a

[19536] happy accouchement. It had been a weary weary while both for patient and

[19537] doctor. All that surgical skill could do was done and the brave woman

[19538] had manfully helped. She had. She had fought the good fight and now she

[19540] are happy too as they gaze down and smile upon the touching scene.

[19544] prayer of thanksgiving to One above, the Universal Husband. And as her

[19548] now (you and I may whisper it) and a trifle stooped in the shoulders yet

[19555] and his, Charley, Mary Alice, Frederick Albert (if he had lived), Mamy,

[19558] of Waterford and Candahar) and now this last pledge of their union, a

[19561] Mr Purefoy in the Treasury Remembrancer’s office, Dublin Castle. And

[19563] sigh break from that bosom, dear gentle Mina. And Doady, knock the ashes

[19565] for you (may it be the distant day!) and dout the light whereby you read

[19566] in the Sacred Book for the oil too has run low, and so with a tranquil

[19567] heart to bed, to rest. He knows and will call in His own good time. You

[19568] too have fought the good fight and played loyally your man’s part.

[19569] Sir, to you my hand. Well done, thou good and faithful servant!

[19573] but they abide there and wait. He may suffer their memory to grow dim,

[19574] let them be as though they had not been and all but persuade himself

[19576] call them forth suddenly and they will rise up to confront him in the

[19578] and harp soothe his senses or amid the cool silver tranquility of the

[19592] Roundtown, purple and white, fragrant slender spectators of the game but

[19594] the sward or collide and stop, one by its fellow, with a brief alert

[19595] shock. And yonder about that grey urn where the water moves at times

[19597] Atty, Tiny and their darker friend with I know not what of arresting in

[19602] the bowls are gathered and hutched) is standing on the urn secured by

[19609] Mark this farther and remember. The end comes suddenly. Enter that

[19610] antechamber of birth where the studious are assembled and note their

[19613] watch of shepherds and of angels about a crib in Bethlehem of Juda long

[19616] compass earth and sky in one vast slumber, impending above parched field

[19617] and drowsy oxen and blighted growth of shrub and verdure till in an

[19618] instant a flash rives their centres and with the reverberation of the

[19619] thunder the cloudburst pours its torrent, so and not otherwise was the

[19620] transformation, violent and instantaneous, upon the utterance of the

[19623] Burke’s! outflings my lord Stephen, giving the cry, and a tag and

[19626] ashplants, bilbos, Panama hats and scabbards, Zermatt alpenstocks and

[19632] Burke’s of Denzille and Holles their ulterior goal. Dixon follows

[19633] giving them sharp language but raps out an oath, he too, and on. Bloom

[19634] stays with nurse a thought to send a kind word to happy mother and

[19635] nurseling up there. Doctor Diet and Doctor Quiet. Looks she too not

[19644] done a doughty deed and no botch! Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest

[19648] work. Cleave to her! Serve! Toil on, labour like a very bandog and let

[19649] scholarment and all Malthusiasts go hang. Thou art all their daddies,

[19651] at home and ingots (not thine!) in the countinghouse? Head up! For every

[19654] and a rheumeyed curdog is all their progeny. Pshaw, I tell thee! He is

[19657] of the innocents were the truer name. Vegetables, forsooth, and sterile

[19661] attacks, gallstones, cold feet, varicose veins. A truce to threnes and

[19662] trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music! Twenty

[19664] will and would and wait and never—do. Thou sawest thy America, thy

[19665] lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison. How

[19672] what? Ay, but her milk is hot and sweet and fattening. No dollop

[19679] Nevil’s sawbones and ole clo? Sorra one o’ me knows. Hurrah there,

[19691] Retamplatan digidi boumboum. Ayes have it. To be printed and bound at

[19695] and there annex liquor stores. March! Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys

[19697] battleships, buggery and bishops. Whether on the scaffold high. Beer,

[19716] up. Five, seven, nine. Fine! Got a prime pair of mincepies, no kid. And

[19717] her take me to rests and her anker of rum. Must be seen to be believed.

[19718] Your starving eyes and allbeplastered neck you stole my heart, O

[19722] and papooses? Womanbody after going on the straw? Stand and deliver.

[19723] Password. There’s hair. Ours the white death and the ruddy birth. Hi!

[19729] Hielentman’s your barleybree. Lang may your lum reek and your kailpot

[19737] Machree, macruiskeen. Smutty Moll for a mattress jig. And a pull all

[19744] Two bar and a wing. You larn that go off of they there Frenchy bilks?

[19751] glint, do. Gum, I’m jiggered. And been to barber he have. Too full for

[19758] telegramboy paddock wire big bug Bass to the depot. Shove him a joey and

[19762] back Madden’s a maddening back. O lust our refuge and our strength.

[19773] most extreme poverty and one largesize grandacious thirst to terminate

[19776] Cut and come again. Right. Boniface! Absinthe the lot. Nos omnes

[19780] Play low, pardner. Slide. Bonsoir la compagnie. And snares of the

[19781] poxfiend. Where’s the buck and Namby Amby? Skunked? Leg bail. Aweel,

[19786] Item, curate, couple of cookies for this child. Cot’s plood and

[19788] and with him those other licensed spirits. Time, gents! Who wander

[19796] a prosperous cit. Man all tattered and torn that married a maiden all

[19798] of lonely canyon. Tuck and turn in. Schedule time. Nix for the hornies.

[19823] Hush! Sinned against the light and even now that day is at hand when

[19830] peanutbrained, weaseleyed fourflushers, false alarms and excess baggage!

[19834] I put it to you that He’s on the square and a corking fine business

[19835] proposition. He’s the grandest thing yet and don’t you forget it.

15. Circe

[19849] an uncobbled tramsiding set with skeleton tracks, red and green

[19850] will-o’-the-wisps and danger signals. Rows of grimy houses with gaping

[19852] ice gondola stunted men and women squabble. They grab wafers between

[19853] which are wedged lumps of coral and copper snow. Sucking, they scatter

[19855] through the murk, white and blue under a lighthouse. Whistles call and

[19858] THE CALLS: Wait, my love, and I’ll be with you.

[19868] THE IDIOT: (Lifts a palsied left arm and gurgles.) Grhahute!

[19875] between two railings, counting. A form sprawled against a dustbin and

[19876] muffled by its arm and hat snores, groans, grinding growling teeth, and

[19878] to shoulder a sack of rags and bones. A crone standing by with a smoky

[19880] booty, tugs askew his peaked cap and hobbles off mutely. The crone

[19898] (Private Carr and Private Compton, swaggersticks tight in their oxters,

[19899] as they march unsteadily rightaboutface and burst together from their

[19905] CISSY CAFFREY: More luck to me. Cavan, Cootehill and Belturbet. (She

[19912] (Private Carr and Private Compton turn and counterretort, their tunics

[19914] polls. Stephen Dedalus and Lynch pass through the crowd close to the

[19919] PRIVATE CARR: (Turns and calls.) What ho, parson!

[19940] Fallopian tube. All prick and no pence.

[19945] EDY BOARDMAN: (Bickering.) And says the one: I seen you up Faithful

[19949] likes of her! Stag that one is! Stubborn as a mule! And her walking with

[19950] two fellows the one time, Kilbride, the enginedriver, and lancecorporal

[19956] over the world. A liver and white spaniel on the prowl slinks after him,

[19967] STEPHEN: We have shrewridden Shakespeare and henpecked Socrates. Even

[19968] the allwisest Stagyrite was bitted, bridled and mounted by a light of

[19973] STEPHEN: Anyway, who wants two gestures to illustrate a loaf and a jug?

[19974] This movement illustrates the loaf and jug of bread or wine in Omar.

[19982] (Stephen thrusts the ashplant on him and slowly holds out his hands, his

[19988] customhouse. Illustrate thou. Here take your crutch and walk.

[19990] (They pass. Tommy Caffrey scrambles to a gaslamp and, clasping, climbs

[19994] nose and ejects from the farther nostril a long liquid jet of snot.

[20001] cleaves the crowd and lurches towards the tramsiding. On the farther

[20003] bread and chocolate into a sidepocket. From Gillen’s hairdresser’s

[20008] grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the

[20012] arclamp. He disappears. In a moment he reappears and hurries on.)

[20014] BLOOM: Fish and taters. N. g. Ah!

[20022] and groans.)

[20026] (He takes breath with care and goes forward slowly towards the lampset

[20061] chains and keys.)

[20065] (Bloom trickleaps to the curbstone and halts again. He brushes a

[20102] (He swerves, sidles, stepaside, slips past and on.)

[20106] lost my way and contributed to the columns of the Irish Cyclist the

[20108] and bones at midnight. A fence more likely. First place murderer makes

[20115] (Shocked, on weak hams, he halts. Tommy and Jacky vanish there, there.

[20124] of an elder in Zion and a smokingcap with magenta tassels. Horned

[20131] BLOOM: (Hides the crubeen and trotter behind his back and, crestfallen,

[20132] feels warm and cold feetmeat.) Ja, ich weiss, papachi.

[20137] left the house of his father and left the god of his fathers Abraham and

[20148] waterbury keyless watch and double curb Albert with seal attached, one

[20164] crinoline and bustle, blouse with muttonleg sleeves buttoned behind,

[20165] grey mittens and cameo brooch, her plaited hair in a crispine net,

[20167] and cries out in shrill alarm.) O blessed Redeemer, what have they done

[20168] to him! My smelling salts! (She hauls up a reef of skirt and ransacks

[20170] shrivelled potato and a celluloid doll fall out.) Sacred Heart of Mary,

[20178] BLOOM: Who? (He ducks and wards off a blow clumsily.) At your service.

[20182] and jacket, slashed with gold. A wide yellow cummerbund girdles her. A

[20184] her large dark eyes and raven hair.)

[20206] head and, grunting, with uplifted neck, fumbles to kneel. Bloom stoops

[20214] Poldy, you are a poor old stick in the mud! Go and see life. See the

[20222] soap arises, diffusing light and perfume.)

[20226] We’re a capital couple are Bloom and I.

[20231] SWENY: Three and a penny, please.

[20257] (With a squeak she flaps her bat shawl and runs. A burly rough pursues

[20266] and shows coyly her bloodied clout.)

[20268] GERTY: With all my worldly goods I thee and thou. (She murmurs.) You did

[20274] false letters. Streetwalking and soliciting. Better for your mother take

[20306] Othello black brute. Eugene Stratton. Even the bones and cornerman at

[20309] (Tom and Sam Bohee, coloured coons in white duck suits, scarlet socks,

[20310] upstarched Sambo chokers and large scarlet asters in their buttonholes,

[20312] jingle the twingtwang wires. Flashing white Kaffir eyes and tusks they

[20316] TOM AND SAM:

[20344] finding the pin blindfold and thoughtreading? Subject, what is in this

[20348] recitation and you looked the part. You were always a favourite with the

[20352] masonic badge in his buttonhole, black bow and mother-of-pearl studs, a

[20353] prismatic champagne glass tilted in his hand.) Ladies and gentlemen, I

[20354] give you Ireland, home and beauty.

[20362] MRS BREEN: (Gushingly.) Tremendously teapot! London’s teapot and I’m

[20364] mystery games and the crackers from the tree we sat on the staircase

[20368] fingers and thumb passing slowly down to her soft moist meaty palm which

[20379] BLOOM: When you made your present choice they said it was beauty and

[20386] muttering to right and left. Little Alf Bergan, cloaked in the pall of

[20387] the ace of spades, dogs him to left and right, doubled in laughter.)

[20405] weighted to one side by the black legal bag of Collis and Ward on which

[20406] a skull and crossbones are painted in white limewash. He opens it

[20407] and shows it full of polonies, kippered herrings, Findon haddies and

[20415] PAT: (Advances with a tilted dish of spillspilling gravy.) Steak and

[20429] MRS BREEN: Humbugging and deluthering as per usual with your cock and

[20450] in bandolier and a grey billycock hat.) Do you remember a long long

[20451] time, years and years ago, just after Milly, Marionette we called her,

[20454] MRS BREEN: (In smart Saxe tailormade, white velours hat and spider

[20457] BLOOM: I mean, Leopardstown. And Molly won seven shillings on a three

[20458] year old named Nevertell and coming home along by Foxrock in that old

[20459] fiveseater shanderadan of a waggonette you were in your heyday then and

[20461] Mrs Hayes advised you to buy because it was marked down to nineteen and

[20462] eleven, a bit of wire and an old rag of velveteen, and I’ll lay you

[20469] admired on you and you honestly looked just too fetching in it though

[20475] BLOOM: (Low, secretly, ever more rapidly.) And Molly was eating a

[20482] BLOOM: Yes. And Molly was laughing because Rogers and Maggot O’Reilly

[20483] were mimicking a cock as we passed a farmhouse and Marcus Tertius Moses,

[20485] was her name, and the poodle in her lap bridled up and you asked me if I

[20497] THE GAFFER: (Crouches, his voice twisted in his snout.) And when Cairns

[20504] (Their paintspeckled hats wag. Spattered with size and lime of their

[20524] the shadow a shebeenkeeper haggles with the navvy and the two redcoats.)

[20551] And free our native land.

[20561] I hadn’t heard about Mrs Beaufoy Purefoy I wouldn’t have gone and

[20572] and a phallic design.) Odd! Molly drawing on the frosted carriagepane

[20580] BLOOM: My spine’s a bit limp. Go or turn? And this food? Eat it and

[20581] get all pigsticky. Absurd I am. Waste of money. One and eightpence too

[20588] black tongue lolling out.) Influence of his surroundings. Give and have

[20591] stalestunk corner. He unrolls one parcel and goes to dump the crubeen

[20592] softly but holds back and feels the trotter.) Sizeable for threepence.

[20594] from want of use. O, let it slide. Two and six.

[20596] (With regret he lets the unrolled crubeen and trotter slide. The

[20597] mastiff mauls the bundle clumsily and gluts himself with growling greed,

[20629] scab. Bad French I got for my pains. Of course it was frosty and the

[20634] carriagewhip and a revolver with which he covers the gorging boarhound.)

[20636] SIGNOR MAFFEI: (With a sinister smile.) Ladies and gentlemen, my

[20639] thong. Block tackle and a strangling pulley will bring your lion

[20641] maneater. A redhot crowbar and some liniment rubbing on the burning part

[20647] FIRST WATCH: Come. Name and address.

[20659] a false badge of the Legion of Honour, picks up the card hastily and

[20660] offers it.) Allow me. My club is the Junior Army and Navy. Solicitors:

[20664] and besetting.

[20671] change of name. Virag. (He murmurs privately and confidentially.) We

[20676] Drop in some evening and have a glass of old Burgundy. (To the second

[20692] and lifting his right forearm on the square, he gives the sign and

[20694] Mistaken identity. The Lyons mail. Lesurques and Dubosc. You remember

[20722] guardians of our homes, the pluckiest lads and the finest body of men,

[20729] colours for king and country in the absentminded war under general

[20730] Gough in the park and was disabled at Spion Kop and Bloemfontein,

[20739] with the British and Irish press. If you ring up...

[20743] a hank of Spanish onions in one hand and holds with the other hand a

[20747] eightfour. Hello. Freeman’s Urinal and Weekly Arsewipe here. Paralyse

[20752] creased lavender trousers and patent boots. He carries a large portfolio

[20762] beneath suspicion. The Beaufoy books of love and great possessions,

[20792] a quadruple existence! Street angel and house devil. Not fit to be

[20795] BLOOM: (To the court.) And he, a bachelor, how...

[20802] the crook of her arm and a scouringbrush in her hand.)

[20807] character and was four months in my last place. I was in a situation,

[20808] six pounds a year and my chances with Fridays out and I had to leave

[20829] pin. He held me and I was discoloured in four places as a result. And he

[20835] so I had. I remonstrated with him, Your lord, and he remarked: keep it

[20840] GEORGE FOTTRELL: (Clerk of the crown and peace, resonantly.) Order in

[20843] (Bloom, pleading not guilty and holding a fullblown waterlily, begins a

[20845] his stirring address to the grand jury. He was down and out but, though

[20847] retrieve the memory of the past in a purely sisterly way and return to

[20849] carefully brought up and nurtured by an aged bedridden parent. There

[20851] a new leaf and now, when at long last in sight of the whipping post,

[20857] loveful households in Dublin city and urban district of scenes truly

[20859] and ninepence a dozen, innocent Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to

[20863] boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what

[20865] four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain

[20871] LONGHAND AND SHORTHAND: (Without looking up from their notebooks.)

[20874] PROFESSOR MACHUGH: (From the presstable, coughs and calls.) Cough it up,

[20877] (The crossexamination proceeds re Bloom and the bucket. A large bucket.

[20884] (Uproar and catcalls. Bloom in a torn frockcoat stained with whitewash,

[20888] J. J. O’MOLLOY: (In barrister’s grey wig and stuffgown, speaking

[20893] a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny. The trumped up

[20898] carnally knowing. Intimacy did not occur and the offence complained of

[20900] deal in especial with atavism. There have been cases of shipwreck and

[20905] extraction and irresponsible for his actions. Not all there, in fact.

[20907] BLOOM: (Barefoot, pigeonbreasted, in lascar’s vest and trousers,

[20908] apologetic toes turned in, opens his tiny mole’s eyes and looks about

[20910] his belt sailor fashion and with a shrug of oriental obeisance salutes

[20920] Hades, I will not have any client of mine gagged and badgered in this

[20921] fashion by a pack of curs and laughing hyenas. The Mosaic code has

[20922] superseded the law of the jungle. I say it and I say it emphatically,

[20924] was not accessory before the act and prosecutrix has not been tampered

[20926] own daughter. (Bloom takes J. J. O’Molloy’s hand and raises it to

[20943] orange citron and a pork kidney.)

[20947] (J. J. O’Molloy steps on to a low plinth and holds the lapel of his

[20948] coat with solemnity. His face lengthens, grows pale and bearded, with

[20949] sunken eyes, the blotches of phthisis and hectic cheekbones of John F.

[20950] Taylor. He applies his handkerchief to his mouth and scrutinises the

[20955] (He assumes the avine head, foxy moustache and proboscidal eloquence of

[20957] that the pensive bosom has inaugurated of soultransfigured and of

[20967] this afternoon at the viceregal lodge to my old pals, sir Robert and

[20970] MRS YELVERTON BARRY: (In lowcorsaged opal balldress and elbowlength

[20972] brilliants and panache of osprey in her hair.) Arrest him, constable. He

[20983] MRS BELLINGHAM: (In cap and seal coney mantle, wrapped up to the

[20984] nose, steps out of her brougham and scans through tortoiseshell

[20989] of the wastepipe and the ballstop in my bath cistern were frozen.

[20991] as he said, in my honour. I had it examined by a botanical expert and

[20997] (A crowd of sluts and ragamuffins surges forward.)

[20999] THE SLUTS AND RAGAMUFFINS: (Screaming.) Stop thief! Hurrah there,

[21005] compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my

[21007] as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate

[21009] and the armorial bearings of the Bellingham escutcheon garnished sable,

[21011] extremities, my swelling calves in silk hose drawn up to the limit, and

[21019] with braided drums, long train held up and hunting crop with which she

[21025] and sent me in double envelopes an obscene photograph, such as are sold

[21027] It represents a partially nude señorita, frail and lovely (his wife,

[21032] him as he richly deserves, to bestride and ride him, to give him a most

[21053] MRS BELLINGHAM: Tan his breech well, the upstart! Write the stars and

[21067] MRS BELLINGHAM: (Shakes her muff and quizzing-glasses vindictively.)

[21079] I’ll do no such thing. Pigdog and always was ever since he was

[21080] pupped! To dare address me! I’ll flog him black and blue in the public

[21089] DAVY STEPHENS: Messenger of the Sacred Heart and Evening Telegraph with

[21093] (The very reverend Canon O’Hanlon in cloth of gold cope elevates and

[21094] exposes a marble timepiece. Before him Father Conroy and the reverend

[21109] Lenehan, Paddy Leonard, Nosey Flynn, M’Coy and the featureless face of

[21125] SECOND WATCH: (Awed, whispers.) And in black. A mormon. Anarchist.

[21128] wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public

[21129] nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of

[21137] THE RECORDER: I will put an end to this white slave traffic and rid

[21139] be taken, Mr Subsheriff, from the dock where he now stands and detained

[21140] in custody in Mountjoy prison during His Majesty’s pleasure and there

[21141] be hanged by the neck until he is dead and therein fail not at your

[21148] LONG JOHN FANNING: (Scowls and calls with rich rolling utterance.)

[21151] (H. Rumbold, master barber, in a bloodcoloured jerkin and tanner’s

[21153] preserver and a nailstudded bludgeon are stuck in his belt. He rubs

[21183] He grows to human size and shape. His dachshund coat becomes a brown

[21185] the nose and both thumbs are ghouleaten.)

[21191] (He lifts his mutilated ashen face moonwards and bays lugubriously.)

[21208] solicitor, commissioner for oaths and affidavits, of 27 Bachelor’s

[21216] chaplain, toadbellied, wrynecked, in a surplice and bandanna nightcap,

[21226] forward and places an ear to the ground.) My master’s voice!

[21229] Field seventeen. House of Keys. Plot, one hundred and one.

[21239] heard baying under ground: Dignam’s dead and gone below. Tom Rochford,

[21240] robinredbreasted, in cap and breeches, jumps from his twocolumned

[21247] (He executes a daredevil salmon leap in the air and is engulfed in the

[21265] the steps and accosts him.)

[21271] ZOE: No, eightyone. Mrs Cohen’s. You might go farther and fare worse.

[21273] with the vet her tipster that gives her all the winners and pays for

[21295] (Her hand slides into his left trouser pocket and brings out a hard

[21296] black shrivelled potato. She regards it and Bloom with dumb moist lips.)

[21320] smeared with salve of swinefat and rosewater.) Schorach ani wenowach,

[21325] ZOE: And you know what thought did?

[21329] sepulchre of the gold of kings and their mouldering bones.)

[21334] ZOE: (Catches a stray hair deftly and twists it to her coil.) No bloody

[21337] BLOOM: (As before.) Rarely smoke, dear. Cigar now and then. Childish

[21344] tie and apache cap.) Mankind is incorrigible. Sir Walter Ralegh brought

[21345] from the new world that potato and that weed, the one a killer of

[21355] BLOOM: (In alderman’s gown and chain.) Electors of Arran Quay, Inns

[21356] Quay, Rotunda, Mountjoy and North Dock, better run a tramline, I say,

[21367] (Several wellknown burgesses, city magnates and freemen of the city

[21368] shake hands with Bloom and congratulate him. Timothy Harrington, late

[21369] thrice Lord Mayor of Dublin, imposing in mayoral scarlet, gold chain and

[21374] chain and large white silk scarf.) That alderman sir Leo Bloom’s

[21376] which he was born be ornamented with a commemorative tablet and that the

[21388] grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and phartridges

[21389] in their purblind pomp of pelf and power. But their reign is rover for

[21390] rever and ever and ev...

[21392] (Prolonged applause. Venetian masts, maypoles and festal arches spring

[21393] up. A streamer bearing the legends Cead Mile Failte and Mah Ttob Melek

[21397] and the Welsh Fusiliers, standing to attention, keep back the crowd.

[21400] whistling and cheering. The pillar of the cloud appears. A fife and

[21402] approach with imperial eagles hoisted, trailing banners and waving

[21406] tabard, the Athlone Poursuivant and Ulster King of Arms. They are

[21409] mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish

[21410] representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth

[21413] of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of

[21417] methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society

[21418] of friends. After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands

[21421] chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers,

[21424] assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers,

[21426] hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers,

[21427] egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors. After

[21431] Stephen’s iron crown, the chalice and bible. Four buglers on foot blow

[21434] with ermine, bearing Saint Edward’s staff, the orb and sceptre with

[21439] the bystanders with branches of hawthorn and wrenbushes.)

[21447] A BLACKSMITH: (Murmurs.) For the honour of God! And is that Bloom? He

[21450] A PAVIOR AND FLAGGER: That’s the famous Bloom now, the world’s

[21459] A FEMINIST: (Masculinely.) And done!

[21465] THE BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR: I here present your undoubted

[21466] emperor-president and king-chairman, the most serene and potent and very

[21471] BLOOM: (In dalmatic and purple mantle, to the bishop of Down and Connor,

[21474] WILLIAM, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH: (In purple stock and shovel hat.)

[21475] Will you to your power cause law and mercy to be executed in all your

[21476] judgments in Ireland and territories thereunto belonging?

[21485] (Bloom assumes a mantle of cloth of gold and puts on a ruby ring. He

[21486] ascends and stands on the stone of destiny. The representative peers put

[21488] church, Saint Patrick’s, George’s and gay Malahide. Mirus bazaar

[21490] designs. The peers do homage, one by one, approaching and genuflecting.)

[21492] THE PEERS: I do become your liege man of life and limb to earthly

[21496] His palfrey neighs. Immediate silence. Wireless intercontinental and

[21500] hereditary Grand Vizier and announce that we have this day repudiated

[21501] our former spouse and have bestowed our royal hand upon the princess

[21523] Ladysmith. Our howitzers and camel swivel guns played on his lines with

[21526] left our light horse swept across the heights of Plevna and, uttering

[21549] extension several buildings and monuments are demolished. Government

[21551] are razed to the ground. The inhabitants are lodged in barrels and

[21571] commemoration medals, loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive

[21577] season tickets available for all tramlines, coupons of the royal and

[21579] the World’s Twelve Worst Books: Froggy And Fritz (politic), Care of

[21585] Way to Wealth (parsimonic). A general rush and scramble. Women press

[21587] bursts through the throng, leaps on his horse and kisses him on both

[21589] taken. Babes and sucklings are held up.)

[21593] THE BABES AND SUCKLINGS:

[21603] friends! (He plays pussy fourcorners with ragged boys and girls.)

[21606] yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet silk handkerchiefs from his

[21611] U. p: up. U. p: up. (He whispers in the ear of a blushing waitress and

[21616] takes part in a stomach race with elderly male and female cripples.)

[21624] BLOOM: (Uncloaks impressively, revealing obesity, unrolls a paper and

[21632] Majesty will now administer open air justice. Free medical and legal

[21633] advice, solution of doubles and other problems. All cordially invited.

[21637] PADDY LEONARD: What am I to do about my rates and taxes?

[21692] BLOOM: I stand for the reform of municipal morals and the plain ten

[21693] commandments. New worlds for old. Union of all, jew, moslem and gentile.

[21694] Three acres and a cow for all children of nature. Saloon motor hearses.

[21695] Compulsory manual labour for all. All parks open to the public day and

[21696] night. Electric dishscrubbers. Tuberculosis, lunacy, war and mendicancy

[21699] brotherhood. No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors.

[21700] Free money, free rent, free love and a free lay church in a free lay

[21707] BLOOM: Mixed races and mixed marriage.

[21714] goddesses, Venus Callipyge, Venus Pandemos, Venus Metempsychosis, and

[21718] Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.)

[21747] THE VEILED SIBYL: (Enthusiastically.) I’m a Bloomite and I glory in

[21753] THEODORE PUREFOY: (In fishingcap and oilskin jacket.) He employs a

[21758] (Many most attractive and enthusiastic women also commit suicide by

[21766] ALEXANDER J DOWIE: (Violently.) Fellowchristians and antiBloomites, the

[21773] nostrils. The stake faggots and the caldron of boiling oil are for him.

[21779] and lower Dorset street throw objects of little or no commercial

[21797] consequence, a reformed rake, and has metal teeth. In consequence of a

[21798] family complex he has temporarily lost his memory and I believe him

[21800] examination and, after application of the acid test to 5427 anal,

[21801] axillary, pectoral and pubic hairs, I declare him to be virgo intacta.

[21815] example of the new womanly man. His moral nature is simple and lovable.

[21820] everything. He is practically a total abstainer and I can affirm that

[21821] he sleeps on a straw litter and eats the most Spartan food, cold dried

[21823] and summer and scourges himself every Saturday. He was, I understand,

[21829] (General commotion and compassion. Women faint. A wealthy American makes

[21830] a street collection for Bloom. Gold and silver coins, blank cheques,

[21832] U’s, wedding rings, watchchains, lockets, necklaces and bracelets are

[21840] (Bloom embraces her tightly and bears eight male yellow and white

[21843] wellmade, respectably dressed and wellconducted, speaking five modern

[21844] languages fluently and interested in various arts and sciences. Each

[21873] and brown paper mitre.) Leopoldi autem generatio. Moses begat Noah and

[21874] Noah begat Eunuch and Eunuch begat O’Halloran and O’Halloran begat

[21875] Guggenheim and Guggenheim begat Agendath and Agendath begat Netaim and

[21876] Netaim begat Le Hirsch and Le Hirsch begat Jesurum and Jesurum begat

[21877] MacKay and MacKay begat Ostrolopsky and Ostrolopsky begat Smerdoz

[21878] and Smerdoz begat Weiss and Weiss begat Schwarz and Schwarz begat

[21879] Adrianopoli and Adrianopoli begat Aranjuez and Aranjuez begat Lewy

[21880] Lawson and Lewy Lawson begat Ichabudonosor and Ichabudonosor begat

[21881] O’Donnell Magnus and O’Donnell Magnus begat Christbaum and

[21882] Christbaum begat ben Maimun and ben Maimun begat Dusty Rhodes and Dusty

[21883] Rhodes begat Benamor and Benamor begat Jones-Smith and Jones-Smith begat

[21884] Savorgnanovich and Savorgnanovich begat Jasperstone and Jasperstone

[21885] begat Vingtetunieme and Vingtetunieme begat Szombathely and Szombathely

[21886] begat Virag and Virag begat Bloom et vocabitur nomen eius Emmanuel.

[21893] A FEMALE INFANT: (Shakes a rattle.) And under Ballybough bridge?

[21895] A HOLLYBUSH: And in the devil’s glen?

[21918] HORNBLOWER: (In ephod and huntingcap, announces.) And he shall carry the

[21919] sins of the people to Azazel, the spirit which is in the wilderness, and

[21920] to Lilith, the nighthag. And they shall stone him and defile him, yea,

[21921] all from Agendath Netaim and from Mizraim, the land of Ham.

[21924] travellers and ownerless dogs come near him and defile him. Mastiansky

[21925] and Citron approach in gaberdines, wearing long earlocks. They wag their

[21928] MASTIANSKY AND CITRON: Belial! Laemlein of Istria, the false Messiah!

[21947] painted flames and high pointed hat. He places a bag of gunpowder round

[21948] his neck and hands him over to the civil power, saying.) Forgive him his

[21960] Erin, in black garments, with large prayerbooks and long lighted candles

[21961] in their hands, kneel down and pray.)

[21976] Potato Preservative against Plague and Pestilence, pray for us.

[21988] father and mother of a bating. (With a tear in his eye.) All insanity.

[21999] BLOOM: (Bitterly.) Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and bottle.

[22010] say, Tommy Tittlemouse. Stop that and begin worse. Have you cash for a

[22015] ZOE: And more’s mother? (She pats him offhandedly with velvet paws.)

[22016] Are you coming into the musicroom to see our new pianola? Come and

[22032] BLOOM: (In babylinen and pelisse, bigheaded, with a caul of dark hair,

[22033] fixes big eyes on her fluid slip and counts its bronze buckles with a

[22034] chubby finger, his moist tongue lolling and lisping.) One two tlee: tlee

[22048] THE MALE BRUTES: (Exhaling sulphur of rut and dung and ramping in their

[22049] loosebox, faintly roaring, their drugged heads swaying to and fro.)

[22052] (Zoe and Bloom reach the doorway where two sister whores are seated.

[22053] They examine him curiously from under their pencilled brows and smile to

[22064] (She crosses the threshold. He hesitates. She turns and, holding out her

[22066] a man’s hat and waterproof. Bloom uncovers himself but, seeing them,

[22068] open. A man in purple shirt and grey trousers, brownsocked, passes with

[22069] an ape’s gait, his bald head and goatee beard upheld, hugging a full

[22074] chandelier. Round and round a moth flies, colliding, escaping. The

[22075] floor is covered with an oilcloth mosaic of jade and azure and cinnabar

[22079] are tapestried with a paper of yewfronds and clear glades. In the grate

[22084] her hand, sits perched on the edge of the table swinging her leg and

[22090] with a waggling forefinger.) Blemblem. (Lynch lifts up her skirt and

[22095] ZOE: More limelight, Charley. (She goes to the chandelier and turns the

[22100] LYNCH: (Deeply.) Enter a ghost and hobgoblins.

[22105] the pianola on which sprawl his hat and ashplant. With two fingers he

[22124] and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as priests haihooping round

[22125] David’s that is Circe’s or what am I saying Ceres’ altar and

[22142] the fundamental and the dominant are separated by the greatest possible

[22160] LYNCH: (With a mocking whinny of laughter grins at Bloom and Zoe

[22183] (Stephen turns and sees Bloom.)

[22185] STEPHEN: A time, times and half a time.

[22189] which protrude promissory notes and dishonoured bills. Aloft over his

[22194] and Ally Sloper nose, tumbles in somersaults through the gathering

[22199] THE HOBGOBLIN: (His jaws chattering, capers to and fro, goggling his

[22203] round and round with dervish howls.) Sieurs et dames, faites vos jeux!

[22206] Rien va plus! (The planets, buoyant balloons, sail swollen up and away.

[22214] over coughs and feetshuffling.)

[22218] Open your gates and sing

[22222] (A rocket rushes up the sky and bursts. A white star falls from it,

[22223] proclaiming the consummation of all things and second coming of Elijah.

[22225] of the World, a twoheaded octopus in gillie’s kilts, busby and tartan

[22232] (Over the possing drift and choking breathcoughs, Elijah’s voice,

[22240] time is 12.25. Tell mother you’ll be there. Rush your order and you

[22249] once nobble that, congregation, and a buck joyride to heaven becomes

[22253] vibrates. I know and I am some vibrator. Joking apart and, getting down

[22254] to bedrock, A. J. Christ Dowie and the harmonial philosophy, have you

[22269] Higgins and Miss Ricketts got religion way inside them. Certainly seems

[22272] and help me save our sisters dear. (He winks at his audience.) Our Mr

[22273] President, he twig the whole lot and he aint saying nothing.

[22275] KITTY-KATE: I forgot myself. In a weak moment I erred and did what I did

[22276] on Constitution hill. I was confirmed by the bishop and enrolled in the

[22290] Mulligan and Lynch in white surgical students’ gowns, four abreast,

[22296] LYSTER: (In quakergrey kneebreeches and broadbrimmed hat, says

[22302] mandarin’s kimono of Nankeen yellow, lizardlettered, and a high pagoda

[22305] BEST: (Smiling, lifts the hat and displays a shaven poll from the crown

[22310] JOHN EGLINTON: (Produces a greencapped dark lantern and flashes it

[22311] towards a corner: with carping accent.) Esthetics and cosmetics are for

[22313] wants the facts and means to get them.

[22318] head writhe eels and elvers. He is encrusted with weeds and shells. His

[22337] (Zoe runs to the chandelier and, crooking her leg, adjusts the mantle.)

[22359] spittle and, gazing in the mirror, smooths both eyebrows. Lipoti Virag,

[22360] basilicogrammate, chutes rapidly down through the chimneyflue and struts

[22362] overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll

[22376] VIRAG: Number two on the other hand, she of the cherry rouge and

[22378] gopherwood, is in walking costume and tightly staysed by her sit, I

[22386] VIRAG: (Not unpleasantly.) Absolutely! Well observed and those pannier

[22387] pockets of the skirt and slightly pegtop effect are devised to suggest

[22398] eye with a finger and barks hoarsely.) Hoax! Beware of the flapper

[22399] and bogus mournful. Lily of the alley. All possess bachelor’s button

[22404] bumps! The ugly duckling of the party, longcasted and deep in keel.

[22408] VIRAG: We can do you all brands, mild, medium and strong. Pay your

[22418] protuberances, suggestive of potent rectum and tumescent for palpation,

[22421] reach an elephantine size. Pellets of new bread with fennygreek and

[22430] Argumentum ad feminam, as we said in old Rome and ancient Greece in

[22431] the consulship of Diplodocus and Ichthyosauros. For the rest Eve’s

[22435] that head? Wheatenmeal with honey and nutmeg.

[22437] BLOOM: (Reflecting.) Wheatenmeal with lycopodium and syllabax. This

[22442] twirling your thumbs and have a good old thunk. See, you have forgotten.

[22456] and the Basque, have you made up your mind whether you like or dislike

[22458] an entire year to the study of the religious problem and the summer

[22459] months of 1886 to square the circle and win that million. Pomegranate!

[22477] five hundred and fifty of our era. One tablespoonful of honey will

[22480] we may resume. We were very pleased, we others. (He coughs and, bending

[22496] we? Open Sesame! Cometh forth! (He unrolls his parchment rapidly and

[22500] may help us and the truffles of Perigord, tubers dislodged through

[22508] and the serpent contradicts. Not a historical fact. Obvious analogy to

[22522] VIRAG: (Head askew, arches his back and hunched wingshoulders, peers

[22523] at the moth out of blear bulged eyes, points a horning claw and cries.)

[22528] draws back and stares sideways down with dropping underjaw.) Well, well.

[22535] Round and round a ringaring.

[22544] forward to left front centre. He wears a dark mantle and drooping plumed

[22545] sombrero. He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer and a longstemmed

[22547] wears dark velvet hose and silverbuckled pumps. He has the romantic

[22548] Saviour’s face with flowing locks, thin beard and moustache. His

[22549] spindlelegs and sparrow feet are those of the tenor Mario, prince of

[22550] Candia. He settles down his goffered ruffs and moistens his lips with a

[22560] belly with husks of swine. Too much of this. I will arise and go to my.

[22577] FLORRY: (Smirking.) The bird that can sing and won’t sing.

[22579] (The Siamese twins, Philip Drunk and Philip Sober, two Oxford dons with

[22596] FLORRY: And the song?

[22604] PHILIP DRUNK AND PHILIP SOBER: (Their lawnmowers purring with a rigadoon

[22615] the Virag who disclosed the Sex Secrets of Monks and Maidens. Why I left

[22616] the church of Rome. Read the Priest, the Woman and the Confessional.

[22620] shows joy and covers herself with featherskins. Man loves her yoni

[22640] cranes his scraggy neck forward. He lifts a mooncalf nozzle and howls.)

[22644] his eye agonising in his flat skullneck and yelps over the mute world.)

[22647] KITTY: And Mary Shortall that was in the lock with the pox she got

[22649] swallow and was smothered with the convulsions in the mattress and we

[22657] (Kitty unpins her hat and sets it down calmly, patting her henna hair.

[22658] And a prettier, a daintier head of winsome curls was never seen on a

[22661] LYNCH: (Laughs.) And to such delights has Metchnikoff inoculated

[22679] loins and genitals tightened into a pair of black bathing bagslops.)

[22684] (The virgins Nurse Callan and Nurse Quigley burst through the

[22685] ringkeepers and the ropes and mob him with open arms.)

[22697] (He yawns, showing a coalblack throat, and closes his jaws by an upward

[22701] (Henry Flower combs his moustache and beard rapidly with a pocketcomb

[22702] and gives a cow’s lick to his hair. Steered by his rapier, he glides

[22704] two ungainly stilthops, his tail cocked, and deftly claps sideways on

[22711] (Virag unscrews his head in a trice and holds it under his arm.)

[22719] Antisthenes, the dog sage, and the last end of Arius Heresiarchus. The

[22722] LYNCH: All one and the same God to her.

[22724] STEPHEN: (Devoutly.) And sovereign Lord of all things.

[22733] appears in the doorway, dressed in red soutane, sandals and socks. Seven

[22736] thumbs are stuck in his armpits and his palms outspread. Round his

[22739] gestures and proclaims with bloated pomp:)

[22745] With manacles and chains around his limbs

[22748] cheek puffed out. Then, unable to repress his merriment, he rocks to and

[22749] fro, arms akimbo, and sings with broad rollicking humour:)

[22753] He was plump, fat and heavy and brisk as a snake

[22758] with crossed arms at his ribs, grimacing, and exclaims:)

[22764] (His head aslant he blesses curtly with fore and middle fingers, imparts

[22765] the Easter kiss and doubleshuffles off comically, swaying his hat from

[22773] And the breath of the balmy night

[22781] (A male form passes down the creaking staircase and is heard taking the

[22782] waterproof and hat from the rack. Bloom starts forward involuntarily

[22783] and, half closing the door as he passes, takes the chocolate from his

[22784] pocket and offers it nervously to Zoe.)

[22794] breaks off and nibbles a piece, gives a piece to Kitty Ricketts and then

[22800] (She tosses a piece. With an adroit snap he catches it and bites it

[22804] ones. Full of the best liqueurs. And the viceroy was there with his

[22807] BLOOM: (In Svengali’s fur overcoat, with folded arms and Napoleonic

[22810] pass with impelling fingers and gives the sign of past master, drawing

[22814] (A male cough and tread are heard passing through the mist outside.

[22824] BLOOM: (Takes the chocolate.) Aphrodisiac? Tansy and pennyroyal. But I

[22827] This black makes me sad. Eat and be merry for tomorrow. (He eats.)

[22833] tasselled selvedge, and cools herself flirting a black horn fan like

[22834] Minnie Hauck in Carmen. On her left hand are wedding and keeper rings.

[22836] olive face is heavy, slightly sweated and fullnosed with orangetainted

[22843] and embonpoint. Her falcon eyes glitter.)

[22849] THE FAN: (Half opening, then closing.) And the missus is master.

[22860] before? Was then she him you us since knew? Am all them and the same now

[22874] and window open at a right angle cause a draught of thirtytwo feet per

[22879] end, remembering king David and the Sunamite, he shared his bed with

[22884] value in Dub. Fit for a prince’s. Liver and kidney.

[22894] BLOOM: (Looks downwards and perceives her unfastened bootlace.) We are

[22900] Learned when I served my time and worked the mail order line for

[22904] (Bella raises her gown slightly and, steadying her pose, lifts to the

[22905] edge of a chair a plump buskined hoof and a full pastern, silksocked.

[22906] Bloom, stifflegged, aging, bends over her hoof and with gentle fingers

[22907] draws out and in her laces.)

[22913] Raymonde I visited daily to admire her cobweb hose and stick of rhubarb

[22928] dull, darker and pouched, his nose thickens.)

[22959] sport skirt and alpine hat with moorcock’s feather, his hands stuck

[22960] deep in his breeches pockets, places his heel on her neck and grinds it

[22968] for you. I’m the Tartar to settle your little lot and break you in!

[22973] (Bloom creeps under the sofa and peers out through the fringe.)

[22988] (Bello grabs her hair violently and drags her forward.) I only want to

[23000] hamrashers and a bottle of Guinness’s porter. (He belches.) And

[23002] Victualler’s Gazette. Very possibly I shall have you slaughtered and

[23003] skewered in my stables and enjoy a slice of you with crisp crackling

[23004] from the baking tin basted and baked like sucking pig with rice and

[23030] men’s grey and green socks and brogues, floursmeared, a rollingpin

[23031] stuck with raw pastry in her bare red arm and hand, appears at the

[23034] MRS KEOGH: (Ferociously.) Can I help? (They hold and pinion Bloom.)

[23038] vicechairman of the Richmond asylum and by the by Guinness’s

[23040] that didn’t buy that lot Craig and Gardner told me about. Just my

[23041] infernal luck, curse it. And that Goddamned outsider Throwaway at twenty

[23048] prayed before. (He thrusts out a figged fist and foul cigar.) Here,

[23049] kiss that. Both. Kiss. (He throws a leg astride and, pressing with

[23052] sideways and squeezes his mount’s testicles roughly, shouting.)

[23055] and the coachman goes a trot a trot and the gentleman goes a gallop a

[23073] BELLO: (Stands up.) No more blow hot and cold. What you longed for has

[23074] come to pass. Henceforth you are unmanned and mine in earnest, a thing

[23076] garments, you understand, Ruby Cohen? and don the shot silk luxuriously

[23077] rustling over head and shoulders. And quickly too!

[23088] pretty two ounce petticoats and fringes and things stamped, of course,

[23089] with my houseflag, creations of lovely lingerie for Alice and nice

[23090] scent for Alice. Alice will feel the pullpull. Martha and Mary will be

[23094] BLOOM: (A charming soubrette with dauby cheeks, mustard hair and large

[23095] male hands and nose, leering mouth.) I tried her things on only twice,

[23099] BELLO: (Jeers.) Little jobs that make mother pleased, eh? And showed off

[23101] unskirted thighs and hegoat’s udders in various poses of surrender,

[23102] eh? Ho! ho! I have to laugh! That secondhand black operatop shift and

[23109] a nicelooking Miriam when you clipped off your backgate hairs and

[23115] and Bobs, dowager duchess of Manorhamilton. (He guffaws again.) Christ,

[23118] BLOOM: (Her hands and features working.) It was Gerald converted me to

[23121] sister’s stays. Now dearest Gerald uses pinky greasepaint and gilds

[23129] And really it’s better the position... because often I used to wet...

[23141] the instrument in the callbox. By word and deed he frankly encouraged

[23142] a nocturnal strumpet to deposit fecal and other matter in an unsanitary

[23145] strongmembered males. And by the offensively smelling vitriol works did

[23146] he not pass night after night by loving courting couples to see if and

[23147] what and how much he could see? Did he not lie in bed, the gross boar,

[23149] him by a nasty harlot, stimulated by gingerbread and a postal order?

[23177] BELLO: (Satirically.) By day you will souse and bat our smelling

[23178] underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines

[23179] with dress pinned up and a dishclout tied to your tail. Won’t that be

[23180] nice? (He places a ruby ring on her finger.) And there now! With this

[23187] one. Ay, and rinse the seven of them well, mind, or lap it up like

[23189] lecture you on your misdeeds, Miss Ruby, and spank your bare bot right

[23192] fortythreebutton gloves newpowdered with talc and having delicately

[23198] Marsh (I was in bed with him just now and another gentleman out of the

[23199] Hanaper and Petty Bag office) is on the lookout for a maid of all work

[23201] (He points.) For that lot. Trained by owner to fetch and carry, basket

[23202] in mouth. (He bares his arm and plunges it elbowdeep in Bloom’s

[23204] hardon? (He shoves his arm in a bidder’s face.) Here wet the deck and

[23213] A VOICE: One and eightpence too much.

[23217] BELLO: (Gives a rap with his gavel.) Two bar. Rockbottom figure and

[23218] cheap at the price. Fourteen hands high. Touch and examine shis points.

[23220] I had only my gold piercer here! And quite easy to milk. Three newlaid

[23233] potent weapon and transparent stockings, emeraldgartered, with the

[23240] BLOOM: (Bends his blushing face into his armpit and simpers with

[23244] stoops and, peering, pokes with his fan rudely under the fat suet folds

[23256] for you, you muff, if you had that weapon with knobs and lumps and warts

[23260] months, my lad! Holy ginger, it’s kicking and coughing up and down in

[23274] Return and see.

[23283] Mat Dillon’s! But that dress, the green! And her hair is dyed gold and

[23290] in the seawind simply swirling, breaks from the arms of her lover and

[23297] and his menfriends are living there in clover. The Cuckoos’ Rest!

[23310] of astronomy to make them pipespills. And they will spit in your ten

[23313] BLOOM: Ten and six. The act of low scoundrels. Let me go. I will return.

[23318] (Bloom clenches his fists and crawls forward, a bowieknife between his

[23322] secondbest bed and others must lie in it. Your epitaph is written. You

[23323] are down and out and don’t you forget it, old bean.

[23328] BELLO: Die and be damned to you if you have any sense of decency or

[23330] skipping to hell and back. Sign a will and leave us any coin you have!

[23332] bury you in our shrubbery jakes where you’ll be dead and dirty with

[23334] and sodomite with a crick in his neck, and my other ten or eleven

[23348] circumcised, in sackcloth and ashes, stand by the wailing wall. M.

[23362] incense smoke screens and disperses. Out of her oakframe a nymph with

[23364] grotto and passing under interlacing yews stands over Bloom.)

[23376] fleshtights and the nifty shimmy dancers, La Aurora and Karini, musical

[23379] disturb callow youth, ads for transparencies, truedup dice and bustpads,

[23380] proprietary articles and why wear a truss with testimonial from ruptured

[23393] THE NYMPH: I do. You bore me away, framed me in oak and tinsel, set me

[23395] four places. And with loving pencil you shaded my eyes, my bosom and my

[23411] THE NYMPH: (Her fingers in her ears.) And words. They are not in my

[23428] after weaning. It was a crack and want of glue. Eh? And that absurd

[23454] juvenile grey and black striped suit, too small for him, white tennis

[23455] shoes, bordered stockings with turnover tops and a red schoolcap with

[23457] a jolting car, the mingling odours of the ladies’ cloakroom and

[23459] love crushes, instinct of the herd, and the dark sexsmelling theatre

[23460] unbridles vice), even a pricelist of their hosiery. And then the heat.

[23461] There were sunspots that summer. End of school. And tipsycake. Halcyon

[23464] (Halcyon days, high school boys in blue and white football jerseys and

[23467] of the trees and shout to Master Leopold Bloom.)

[23480] the boles and among the leaves and break, blossoming into bloom.) Who

[23485] THE YEWS: (Sweeping downward.) Sister, yes. And on our virgin sward.

[23499] She climbed their crooked tree and I... A saint couldn’t resist it.

[23516] BLOOM: (Hatless, flushed, covered with burrs of thistledown and

[23526] (Far out in the bay between Bailey and Kish lights the Erin’s King

[23532] place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my

[23538] a place and no hair there either. We are stonecold and pure. We eat

[23548] THE NYMPH: In my presence. The powderpuff. (She blushes and makes a

[23549] knee.) And the rest!

[23568] THE VOICE OF VIRAG: (A birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war

[23570] beechmast and acorns.) Hot! Hot! Ware Sitting Bull!

[23583] THE NYMPH: (Eyeless, in nun’s white habit, coif and hugewinged wimple,

[23585] Carmel. The apparitions of Knock and Lourdes. No more desire. (She

[23602] were only ethereal where would you all be, postulants and novices? Shy

[23606] aging and swaying.) Deciduously!

[23612] no more lovesongs. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. (She draws a poniard and,

[23617] lives! Fair play, madam. No pruningknife. The fox and the grapes, is it?

[23627] yourselves. No jerks and multiple mucosities all over you. I tried it.

[23631] me. And would a jury give me five shillings alimony tomorrow, eh? Fool

[23639] in the tooth and superfluous hair. A raw onion the last thing at night

[23640] would benefit your complexion. And take some double chin drill. Your

[23650] hay and wipe yourself.

[23654] BLOOM: I saw him, kipkeeper! Pox and gleet vendor!

[23659] ZOE: Me. Mind your cornflowers. (She darts to the piano and bangs chords

[23662] to the table.) What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own.

[23669] ZOE: Forfeits, a fine thing and a superfine thing.

[23675] Give a thing and take it back

[23684] and unrolls the potato from the top of her stocking.) Those that hides

[23687] BELLA: (Frowns.) Here. This isn’t a musical peepshow. And don’t you

[23690] (She goes to the pianola. Stephen fumbles in his pocket and, taking out

[23695] indicates vaguely Lynch and Bloom.) We are all in the same sweepstake,

[23696] Kinch and Lynch. Dans ce bordel où tenons nostre état.

[23702] BELLA: (Looks at the money, then at Stephen, then at Zoe, Florry and

[23706] and takes out and hands her two crowns.) Permit, brevi manu, my sight is

[23711] Zoe’s neck. Lynch gets up, rights his cap and, clasping Kitty’s

[23717] BELLA, ZOE, KITTY, LYNCH, BLOOM: (Chattering and squabbling.) The

[23727] ZOE: (Lifting up her pettigown and folding a half sovereign into the top

[23734] FLORRY: And me?

[23738] (He lifts her, carries her and bumps her down on the sofa.)

[23747] BLOOM: (Quietly lays a half sovereign on the table between Bella and

[23755] sofa and kisses her. Bloom goes with the poundnote to Stephen.)

[23760] again in his pocket and draws out a handful of coins. An object falls.)

[23763] BLOOM: (Stooping, picks up and hands a box of matches.) This.

[23772] BLOOM: I will but is it wise? (He counts.) One, seven, eleven, and five.

[23779] BLOOM: That is one pound six and eleven. One pound seven, say.

[23786] cigarette from the sofa to the table.) And so Georgina Johnson is dead

[23787] and married. (A cigarette appears on the table. Stephen looks at it.)

[23788] Wonder. Parlour magic. Married. Hm. (He strikes a match and proceeds to

[23800] ZOE: It was a commercial traveller married her and took her away with

[23809] (The cigarette slips from Stephen’s fingers. Bloom picks it up and

[23817] STEPHEN: (Extends his hand to her smiling and chants to the air of the

[23828] LYNCH: Sheet lightning courage. The youth who could not shiver and

[23866] BLOOM: (Detaches her fingers and offers his palm.) More harm than good.

[23872] ZOE: (Peering at Bloom’s palm.) Gridiron. Travels beyond the sea and

[23881] stretches her wings and clucks.)

[23885] (She sidles from her newlaid egg and waddles off.)

[23887] BLOOM: (Points to his hand.) That weal there is an accident. Fell and

[23897] (Zoe whispers to Florry. They giggle. Bloom releases his hand and writes

[23902] (A hackneycar, number three hundred and twentyfour, with a

[23904] Donnybrook, trots past. Blazes Boylan and Lenehan sprawl swaying on the

[23906] crossblind Lydia Douce and Mina Kennedy gaze.)

[23908] THE BOOTS: (Jogging, mocks them with thumb and wriggling wormfingers.)

[23918] sideways, a red flower in his mouth. Lenehan in yachtsman’s cap and

[23933] LENEHAN: (Smells gleefully.) Ah! Lobster and mayonnaise. Ah!

[23935] ZOE AND FLORRY: (Laugh together.) Ha ha ha ha.

[23937] BOYLAN: (Jumps surely from the car and calls loudly for all to hear.)

[23940] BLOOM: (In flunkey’s prune plush coat and kneebreeches, buff stockings

[23941] and powdered wig.) I’m afraid not, sir. The last articles...

[23943] BOYLAN: (Tosses him sixpence.) Here, to buy yourself a gin and splash.

[23950] out of the water.) Raoul darling, come and dry me. I’m in my pelt.

[23951] Only my new hat and a carriage sponge.

[23959] MARION: Let him look, the pishogue! Pimp! And scourge himself! I’ll

[23961] raise weals out on him an inch thick and make him bring me back a signed

[23962] and stamped receipt.

[23970] keyhole and play with yourself while I just go through her a few times.

[23973] the deed and take a snapshot? (He holds out an ointment jar.) Vaseline,

[23982] geraniums and lovely peaches! O, he simply idolises every bit of her!

[23986] the room doing it! Ride a cockhorse. You could hear them in Paris and

[23987] New York. Like mouthfuls of strawberries and cream.

[24004] (Stephen and Bloom gaze in the mirror. The face of William Shakespeare,

[24015] ZOE: Before you’re twice married and once a widower.

[24020] (Mrs Dignam, widow woman, her snubnose and cheeks flushed with

[24021] deathtalk, tears and Tunney’s tawny sherry, hurries by in her weeds,

[24022] her bonnet awry, rouging and powdering her cheeks, lips and nose, a

[24024] husband’s everyday trousers and turnedup boots, large eights. She

[24025] holds a Scottish widow’s insurance policy and a large marquee umbrella

[24039] aside. Under the umbrella appears Mrs Cunningham in Merry Widow hat and

[24040] kimono gown. She glides sidling and bowing, twirling japanesily.)

[24044] And they call me the jewel of Asia!

[24051] of the house of Lambert. And Noah was drunk with wine. And his ark was

[24058] ZOE: (Runs to stephen and links him.) O go on! Give us some parleyvoo.

[24060] (Stephen claps hat on head and leaps over to the fireplace where he

[24068] and other things perhaps hers heart beerchops perfect fashionable

[24070] princesses like are dancing cancan and walking there parisian clowneries

[24072] how much smart they are on things love and sensations voluptuous.

[24073] Misters very selects for is pleasure must to visit heaven and hell show

[24074] with mortuary candles and they tears silver which occur every night.

[24077] disrobe and squeal loud to see vampire man debauch nun very fresh young

[24086] Great success of laughing. Angels much prostitutes like and holy

[24090] grotesque gestures which Lynch and the whores reply to.) Caoutchouc

[24102] Waterloo. Watercloset. (He ceases suddenly and holds up a forefinger.)

[24110] ZOE: Go abroad and love a foreign lady.

[24122] STEPHEN: No, I flew. My foes beneath me. And ever shall be. World

[24140] (The fronds and spaces of the wallpaper file rapidly across country.

[24145] Union huntsmen and huntswomen live with them, hot for a kill. From Six

[24149] waving torches. The crowd bawls of dicers, crown and anchor players,

[24150] thimbleriggers, broadsmen. Crows and touts, hoarse bookies in high

[24175] THE ORANGE LODGES: (Jeering.) Get down and push, mister. Last lap!

[24184] (A yoke of buckets leopards all over him and his rearing nag a torrent

[24190] (Private Carr, Private Compton and Cissy Caffrey pass beneath the

[24197] PRIVATE CARR, PRIVATE COMPTON AND CISSY CAFFREY:

[24209] augur’s rod? (He runs to the piano and takes his ashplant, beating his

[24214] (She drops two pennies in the slot. Gold, pink and violet lights

[24218] room, his hands fluttering. He sits tinily on the pianostool and

[24219] lifts and beats handless sticks of arms on the keyboard, nodding with

[24226] Girl’s a Yorkshire Girl. Stephen throws his ashplant on the table and

[24227] seizes Zoe round the waist. Florry and Bella push the table towards the

[24232] hat. With a deft kick he sends it spinning to his crown and jauntyhatted

[24235] kerchief, tight lavender trousers, patent pumps and canary gloves. In

[24238] lightly on his breastbone, bows, and fondles his flower and buttons.)

[24248] time sounds. Stephen and Zoe circle freely. The lights change, glow,

[24264] (The morning and noon hours waltz in their places, turning, advancing to

[24266] arch and suspend their arms, with hands descending to, touching, rising

[24280] (Zoe and Stephen turn boldly with looser swing. The twilight hours

[24282] cheeks delicate with cipria and false faint bloom. They are in grey

[24287] (The night hours, one by one, steal to the last place. Morning, noon and

[24289] and bracelets of dull bells. Weary they curchycurchy under veils.)

[24302] (She frees herself, droops on a chair. Stephen seizes Florry and turns

[24308] each with arching arms in a mosaic of movements. Stephen and Florry turn

[24321] (She runs to Stephen. He leaves Florry brusquely and seizes Kitty. A

[24331] Yorkshire through and through. Come on all!

[24333] (She seizes Florry and waltzes her.)

[24338] the table and takes the floor. All wheel whirl waltz twirl. Bloombella

[24343] snakes dangled, bowels fandango leaping spurn soil foot and fall again.)

[12076] And wears no fancy clothes.

[24359] piglings, Conmee on Christass, lame crutch and leg sailor in cockboat

[24360] armfolded ropepulling hitching stamp hornpipe through and through.

[24366] up and down bump mashtub sort of viceroy and reine relish for tublumber

[24376] grey with a wreath of faded orangeblossoms and a torn bridal veil, her

[24377] face worn and noseless, green with gravemould. Her hair is scant and

[24378] lank. She fixes her bluecircled hollow eyesockets on Stephen and opens

[24379] her toothless mouth uttering a silent word. A choir of virgins and

[24387] dress of puce and yellow and clown’s cap with curling bell, stands

[24408] STEPHEN: (Choking with fright, remorse and horror.) They say I killed

[24420] Ursuline manual and forty days’ indulgence. Repent, Stephen.

[24425] boiled rice every night after your brainwork. Years and years I loved

[24437] head and bloody bones.

[24439] THE MOTHER: (Her face drawing near and nearer, sending out an ashen

[24445] STEPHEN: (Strangled with rage.) Shite! (His features grow drawn and grey

[24446] and old.)

[24464] grief and agony on Mount Calvary.

[24468] (He lifts his ashplant high with both hands and smashes the chandelier.

[24469] Time’s livid final flame leaps and, in the following darkness, ruin of

[24470] all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry.)

[24476] LYNCH: (Rushes forward and seizes Stephen’s hand.) Here! Hold on!

[24481] (Stephen, abandoning his ashplant, his head and arms thrown back stark,

[24482] beats the ground and flies from the room, past the whores at the door.)

[24486] (The two whores rush to the halldoor. Lynch and Kitty and Zoe stampede

[24500] BELLA: (Her eyes hard with anger and cupidity, points.) Who’s to pay

[24513] BELLA: (Shrinks back and screams.) Jesus! Don’t!

[24528] and paying nothing. Are you my commander here or? Where is he? I’ll

[24531] BLOOM: (Urgently.) And if it were your own son in Oxford? (Warningly.) I

[24538] BLOOM: What? Where? (He throws a shilling on the table and starts.)

[24549] lewd smile. The silent lechers turn to pay the jarvey. Zoe and Kitty

[24551] hood and poncho and hurries down the steps with sideways face. Incog

[24552] Haroun al Raschid he flits behind the silent lechers and hastens on by

[24556] in tallyho cap and an old pair of grey trousers, follows from far,

[24561] slipperslappers. After him freshfound the hue and cry zigzag gallops

[24580] and Stanislaus Moran of Roebuck, the managing clerk of Drimmie’s,

[24584] the mystery man on the beach, a retriever, Mrs Miriam Dandrade and all

[24587] THE HUE AND CRY: (Helterskelterpelterwelter.) He’s Bloom! Stop Bloom!

[24592] jot what hi! hi! row and wrangle round the whowhat brawlaltogether.)

[24594] STEPHEN: (With elaborate gestures, breathing deeply and slowly.) You are

[24595] my guests. Uninvited. By virtue of the fifth of George and seventh of

[24604] Cohen’s. What’s up? Soldier and civilian.

[24606] CISSY CAFFREY: I was in company with the soldiers and they left me to

[24607] do—you know, and the young man run up behind me. But I’m faithful to

[24610] STEPHEN: (Catches sight of Lynch’s and Kitty’s heads.) Hail,

[24611] Sisyphus. (He points to himself and the others.) Poetic. Uropoetic.

[24615] CISSY CAFFREY: Yes, to go with him. And me with a soldier friend.

[24620] PRIVATE CARR: (To Cissy.) Was he insulting you while me and him was

[24623] LORD TENNYSON: (Gentleman poet in Union Jack blazer and cricket

[24647] Dolly. Dream of the girl you left behind and she will dream of you.

[24664] forgotten the trick. Let us sit down somewhere and discuss. Struggle

[24666] tsar and the king of England, have invented arbitration. (He taps his

[24667] brow.) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king.

[24677] CUNTY KATE: Indeed, yes. And at the same time with such apposite

[24680] PRIVATE CARR: (Pulls himself free and comes forward.) What’s that

[24685] Garter and Thistle, Golden Fleece, Elephant of Denmark, Skinner’s and

[24686] Probyn’s horse, Lincoln’s Inn bencher and ancient and honourable

[24688] as a grand elect perfect and sublime mason with trowel and apron, marked

[24695] and we heartily wish both men the best of good luck. Mahak makar a bak.

[24697] (He shakes hands with Private Carr, Private Compton, Stephen, Bloom and

[24711] EDWARD THE SEVENTH: (Levitates over heaps of slain, in the garb and with

[24714] My methods are new and are causing surprise.

[24716] STEPHEN: Kings and unicorns! (He falls back a pace.) Come somewhere and

[24726] STEPHEN: (Nods, smiling and laughing.) Gentleman, patriot, scholar and

[24735] (Kevin Egan of Paris in black Spanish tasselled shirt and peep-o’-day

[24758] THE BAWD: The red’s as good as the green. And better. Up the soldiers!

[24763] THE CITIZEN: (With a huge emerald muffler and shillelagh, calls.)

[24777] advances with gladstone bag which he opens.) Ladies and gents,

[24779] dismembered the wife of a compatriot and hid remains in a sheet in the

[24784] (He jerks the rope. The assistants leap at the victim’s legs and drag

[24792] Bellingham, Mrs Yelverton Barry and the Honourable Mrs Mervyn Talboys

[24797] (He plunges his head into the gaping belly of the hanged and draws out

[24798] his head again clotted with coiled and smoking entrails.) My painful

[24801] EDWARD THE SEVENTH: (Dances slowly, solemnly, rattling his bucket, and

[24806] Drinking whisky, beer and wine!

[24810] wants my money and my life, though want must be his master, for some

[24827] OLD GUMMY GRANNY: (Rocking to and fro.) Ireland’s sweetheart, the king

[24830] (She wails.) You met with poor old Ireland and how does she stand?

[24847] (Major Tweedy and the Citizen exhibit to each other medals, decorations,

[24863] bearskin cap with hackleplume and accoutrements, with epaulettes, gilt

[24864] chevrons and sabretaches, his breast bright with medals, toes the line.

[24867] MAJOR TWEEDY: (Growls gruffly.) Rorke’s Drift! Up, guards, and at

[24875] (Massed bands blare Garryowen and God save the King.)

[24879] CUNTY KATE: The brave and the fair.

[24883] CUNTY KATE: (Blushing deeply.) Nay, madam. The gules doublet and merry

[24894] dumb? You are the link between nations and generations. Speak, woman,

[2242] And thy quarrons dainty is.

[24918] from Prospect and Mount Jerome in white sheepskin overcoats and black

[24919] goatfell cloaks arise and appear to many. A chasm opens with a noiseless

[24920] yawn. Tom Rochford, winner, in athlete’s singlet and breeches, arrives

[24921] at the head of the national hurdle handicap and leaps into the void.

[24922] He is followed by a race of runners and leapers. In wild attitudes they

[24928] furrows. They exchange in amity the pass of knights of the red cross and

[24935] the fieldaltar of Saint Barbara. Black candles rise from its gospel and

[24939] swollen belly. Father Malachi O’Flynn in a lace petticoat and reversed

[24941] Reverend Mr Hugh C Haines Love M. A. in a plain cassock and mortarboard,

[24942] his head and collar back to the front, holds over the celebrant’s head

[24950] FATHER MALACHI O’FLYNN: (Takes from the chalice and elevates a

[24971] (In strident discord peasants and townsmen of Orange and Green factions

[24972] sing Kick the Pope and Daily, daily sing to Mary.)

[24981] him, acushla. At 8.35 a.m. you will be in heaven and Ireland will be

[25006] (He rushes towards Stephen, fist outstretched, and strikes him in the

[25008] face to the sky, his hat rolling to the wall. Bloom follows and picks it

[25019] A HAG: What call had the redcoat to strike the gentleman and he under

[25020] the influence. Let them go and fight the Boers!

[25025] (They grab at each other’s hair, claw at each other and spit.)

[25036] PRIVATE COMPTON: We were with this lady. And he insulted us. And

[25066] FIRST WATCH: Name and address.

[25091] CORNY KELLEHER: (Nudges the second watch.) Come and wipe your name off

[25129] quid on the race. Drowning his grief. And were on for a go with the

[25130] jolly girls. So I landed them up on Behan’s car and down to nighttown.

[25135] No, by God, says I. Not for old stagers like myself and yourself. (He

[25136] laughs again and leers with lacklustre eye.) Thanks be to God we have it

[25141] fellow, he’s laid up for the past week) and we had a liquor together

[25142] and I was just making my way home...

[25149] left the two commercials in Mrs Cohen’s and I told him to pull up and

[25158] CORNY KELLEHER: (Scratches his nape.) Sandycove! (He bends down and

[25162] BLOOM: No, no, no. I have his money and his hat here and stick.

[25170] BLOOM: Good night. I’ll just wait and take him along in a few...

[25172] (Corny Kelleher returns to the outside car and mounts it. The horse

[25179] (The jarvey chucks the reins and raises his whip encouragingly. The

[25180] car and horse back slowly, awkwardly, and turn. Corny Kelleher on the

[25181] sideseat sways his head to and fro in sign of mirth at Bloom’s plight.

[25184] and palm Corny Kelleher reassures that the two bobbies will allow the

[25189] Kelleher that he is reassuraloomtay. The tinkling hoofs and jingling

[25191] in his hand Stephen’s hat, festooned with shavings, and ashplant,

[25192] stands irresolute. Then he bends to him and shakes him by the shoulder.)

[25196] and, hesitating, brings his mouth near the face of the prostrate form.)

[25199] STEPHEN: (Groans.) Who? Black panther. Vampire. (He sighs and stretches

[25203] And pierce... wood’s woven shade?...

[25206] BLOOM: Poetry. Well educated. Pity. (He bends again and undoes

[25208] woodshavings from Stephen’s clothes with light hand and fingers.) One

[25215] (He stretches out his arms, sighs again and curls his body. Bloom,

[25216] holding the hat and ashplant, stands erect. A dog barks in the distance.

[25217] Bloom tightens and loosens his grip on the ashplant. He looks down on

[25218] Stephen’s face and form.)

[25225] cabletow’s length from the shore... where the tide ebbs... and flows

[25231] Eton suit with glass shoes and a little bronze helmet, holding a book

[25237] RUDY: (Gazes, unseeing, into Bloom’s eyes and goes on reading,

[25239] diamond and ruby buttons. In his free left hand he holds a slim ivory

16. Eumaeus

[25258] the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up

[25261] bit unsteady and on his expressed desire for some beverage to drink Mr

[25262] Bloom in view of the hour it was and there being no pump of Vartry water

[25266] where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and

[25269] to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means

[25278] street or, more properly, lane as far as the farrier’s and the

[25284] fellows inside on the spree, outside the North Star hotel and there was

[25290] there was nothing for it but put a good face on the matter and foot it

[25291] which they accordingly did. So, bevelling around by Mullett’s and the

[25298] for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it

[25302] sandstrewer happened to be returning and the elder man recounted to his

[25306] course all traffic was suspended at that late hour and passing the

[25309] Dock Tavern and in due course turned into Store street, famous for its

[25310] C division police station. Between this point and the high at present

[25317] of the public the primary and most indispensable. Bread, the staff of

[25321] En route to his taciturn and, not to put too fine a point on it, not

[25325] and swell mobsmen, which, barely permissible once in a while though not

[25334] candidate for the accident ward or, failing that, the bridewell and

[25339] were admittedly unscrupulous in the service of the Crown and, as Mr

[25348] anything. You frittered away your time, he very sensibly maintained, and

[25349] health and also character besides which, the squandermania of the thing,

[25351] the bargain and the greatest danger of all was who you got drunk with

[25353] glass of choice old wine in season as both nourishing and bloodmaking

[25354] and possessing aperient virtues (notably a good burgundy which he was

[25362] —And that one was Judas, Stephen said, who up to then had said nothing

[25365] Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back

[25366] of the Customhouse and passed under the Loop Line bridge where a brazier

[25369] no special reason to look at the heap of barren cobblestones and by

[25385] Stephen of course started rather dizzily and stopped to return the

[25391] to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising

[25397] to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.

[25402] and his genealogy came about in this wise. He was the eldest son of

[25409] fine residence of its kind and well worth seeing, her mother or aunt or

[25418] had all deserted him. Furthermore he had a row with Lenehan and called

[25420] uncalledfor expressions. He was out of a job and implored of Stephen to

[25428] —I wouldn’t ask you only, pursued he, on my solemn oath and God

[25444] Maloney’s, but it was only a tanner touch and full of undesirables but

[25459] affluence and hadn’t a thing to do but hand out the needful. Whereas.

[25462] so that he might endeavour at all events and get sufficient to eat but

[25476] And so in point of fact they turned out to be. Stephen anyhow lent him

[25488] Subsequently being not quite so down in the mouth after the two and six

[25492] O’Mara and a little chap with a stutter the name of Tighe. Anyhow

[25493] he was lagged the night before last and fined ten bob for a drunk and

[25494] disorderly and refusing to go with the constable.

[25499] was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own

[25501] time now and then at Stephen’s anything but immaculately attired

[25506] dilapidated hat and slouchy wearing apparel generally testifying to a

[25509] neighbour all round, in every deep, so to put it, a deeper depth and for

[25516] The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his

[25527] moored alongside Customhouse quay and quite possibly out of repair,

[25538] the intelligence, I can quite credit the assertion and I guarantee he

[25542] question. And even supposing you did you won’t get in after what

[25558] than one and a born raconteur if ever there was one. He takes great

[25562] that is, and that English tourist friend of his, who eventually euchred

[25572] and he could drink it with the oatmealwater for milk after the Friday

[25574] Boody and Katey, the cat meanwhile under the mangle devouring a mess of

[25575] eggshells and charred fish heads and bones on a square of brown paper,

[25576] in accordance with the third precept of the church to fast and abstain

[25582] element, Dr Mulligan, as a guide, philosopher and friend if I were in

[25591] coming to the fore in his line and, if the report was verified, bade

[25595] certain drowning by artificial respiration and what they call first

[25600] pure and simple.

[25602] —Except it simply amounts to one thing and he is what they call

[25610] through the affair and for some reason or other best known to himself

[25612] and he more than conjectured that, high educational abilities though he

[25633] Mr Bloom and Stephen entered the cabman’s shelter, an unpretentious

[25641] of waifs and strays and other nondescript specimens of the genus homo

[25642] already there engaged in eating and drinking diversified by conversation

[25659] was still raging fast and furious:

[25663] and full. Belladonna. Voglio.

[25677] and a rather antediluvian specimen of a bun, or so it seemed. After

[25695] —And what might your name be?

[25705] Hollands and water.

[25715] same way and nodding. All Irish.

[25720] and he was just asking himself what possible connection when the sailor

[25727] Though he was slightly hampered by an occasional stammer and his

[25734] screwed his features up someway sideways and glared out into the night

[25744] Egg two evidently demolished, he nodded and winked, adding

[25769] —That’s right, the sailor said. Fort Camden and Fort Carlisle.

[25772] For England, home and beauty. She’s my own true wife I haven’t seen

[25779] Enoch Arden and Rip van Winkle and does anybody hereabouts remember Caoc

[25780] O’Leary, a favourite and most trying declamation piece by the way of

[25781] poor John Casey and a bit of perfect poetry in its own small way.

[25784] finally did breast the tape and the awful truth dawned upon him anent

[25786] but I’ve come to stay and make a fresh start. There she sits, a

[25788] cradle of the deep. And there sits uncle Chubb or Tomkin, as the case

[25789] might be, the publican of the Crown and Anchor, in shirtsleeves, eating

[25790] rumpsteak and onions. No chair for father. Broo! The wind! Her brandnew

[25791] arrival is on her knee, post mortem child. With a high ro! and a randy

[25792] ro! and my galloping tearing tandy, O! Bow to the inevitable. Grin

[25793] and bear it. I remain with much love your brokenhearted husband W. B.

[25802] plug from his good jacket hanging on a nail and the desired object was

[25807] He deposited the quid in his gob and, chewing and with some slow

[25815] and handed to his neighbour a not very cleanlooking folded document.

[25822] I was in China and North America and South America. We was chased by

[25824] and the Black Sea, the Dardanelles under Captain Dalton, the best bloody

[25831] queer things too, ups and downs. I seen a crocodile bite the fluke of an

[25834] He took out of his mouth the pulpy quid and, lodging it between his

[25837] —Khaan! Like that. And I seen maneaters in Peru that eats corpses and

[25842] be in its way a species of repository and pushed it along the table. The

[25867] card to peruse the partially obliterated address and postmark. It ran

[25871] eggsniping transaction for that matter despite William Tell and the

[25875] he represented himself to be and not sailing under false colours

[25876] after having boxed the compass on the strict q.t. somewhere) and

[25887] down the needful and breaking Boyd’s heart it was not so dear,

[25889] Mullingar where he figured on going was five and six, there and back.

[25890] The trip would benefit health on account of the bracing ozone and be in

[25893] Falmouth, Southampton and so on culminating in an instructive tour of

[25900] Margate with mixed bathing and firstrate hydros and spas, Eastbourne,

[25901] Scarborough, Margate and so on, beautiful Bournemouth, the Channel

[25902] islands and similar bijou spots, which might prove highly remunerative.

[25903] Not, of course, with a hole and corner scratch company or local ladies

[25904] on the job, witness Mrs C P M’Coy type lend me your valise and I’ll

[25907] as leading lady as a sort of counterblast to the Elster Grimes and

[25908] Moody-Manners, perfectly simple matter and he was quite sanguine of

[25910] fellow with a bit of bounce who could pull the indispensable wires and

[25917] usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and

[25919] and enterprise to meet the travelling needs of the public at large, the

[25920] average man, i.e. Brown, Robinson and Co.

[25922] It was a subject of regret and absurd as well on the face of it and no

[25926] of being always and ever cooped up since my old stick-in-the-mud took me

[25927] for a wife. After all, hang it, they had their eleven and more humdrum

[25928] months of it and merited a radical change of venue after the grind

[25933] of attractions as well as a bracing tonic for the system in and around

[25934] Dublin and its picturesque environs even, Poulaphouca to which there was

[25937] wheelmen so long as it didn’t come down, and in the wilds of Donegal

[25942] associations and otherwise, Silken Thomas, Grace O’Malley, George IV,

[25944] with all sorts and conditions of men especially in the spring when young

[25949] in its infancy, so to speak, and the accommodation left much to be

[25951] curiosity, pure and simple, was whether it was the traffic that created

[25953] other side of the card, picture, and passed it along to Stephen.

[25956] little pills like putty and he put them in the water and they opened and

[25964] —And I seen a man killed in Trieste by an Italian chap. Knife in his

[25968] keeping with his character and held it in the striking position.

[25981] snapped the blade to and stowed the weapon in question away as before in

[25990] is bliss Mr B. and Stephen, each in his own particular way, both

[25998] There ensued a somewhat lengthy pause. One man was reading in fits and

[26020] sawdust, and shook his head with a sort of lazy scorn.

[26027] —I’m tired of all them rocks in the sea, he said, and boats and

[26034] it covered fully three fourths of it and he fully realised accordingly

[26039] it and it at him, dreaming of fresh woods and pastures new as someone

[26040] somewhere sings. And it left him wondering why. Possibly he had tried to

[26041] find out the secret for himself, floundering up and down the antipodes

[26042] and all that sort of thing and over and under, well, not exactly under,

[26043] tempting the fates. And the odds were twenty to nil there was really no

[26046] its glory and in the natural course of things somebody or other had to

[26047] sail on it and fly in the face of providence though it merely went to

[26049] other fellow like the hell idea and the lottery and insurance which were

[26054] gratitude also to the harbourmasters and coastguard service who had

[26055] to man the rigging and push off and out amid the elements whatever the

[26056] season when duty called Ireland expects that every man and so on and

[26058] Irish lights, Kish and others, liable to capsize at any moment, rounding

[26063] himself a rover, proceeded, went ashore and took up a soft job as

[26065] on me and he gave me an oilskin and that jackknife. I’m game for that

[26066] job, shaving and brushup. I hate roaming about. There’s my son now,

[26067] Danny, run off to sea and his mother got him took in a draper’s in

[26072] from the carking cares of office, unwashed of course and in a seedy

[26073] getup and a strong suspicion of nosepaint about the nasal appendage.

[26079] shirt with his two hands and scratched away at his chest on which was to

[26089] mariner’s hope and rest they had a full view of the figure 16 and a

[26101] —See here, he said, showing Antonio. There he is cursing the mate. And

[26103] fingers, some special knack evidently, and he laughing at a yarn.

[26105] And in point of fact the young man named Antonio’s livid face did

[26106] actually look like forced smiling and the curious effect excited the

[26118] —And what’s the number for? loafer number two queried.

[26126] And then he added with rather gallowsbird humour considering his alleged

[26131] The face of a streetwalker glazed and haggard under a black straw hat

[26135] flusterfied but outwardly calm, and, picking up from the table the pink

[26137] laid aside, he picked it up and looked at the pink of the paper though

[26142] and begged the chance of his washing. Also why washing which seemed

[26145] street and women would and did too a man’s similar garments initialled

[26146] with Bewley and Draper’s marking ink (hers were, that is) if they

[26154] Murphy’s nautical chest and then there was no more of her.

[26165] Stephen had not noticed her and shrugged his shoulders, merely

[26168] —In this country people sell much more than she ever had and do a

[26170] buy the soul. She is a bad merchant. She buys dear and sells cheap.

[26176] licensed and medically inspected by the proper authorities, a thing, he

[26179] he said, and ventilated the matter thoroughly would confer a lasting

[26182] —You as a good catholic, he observed, talking of body and soul,

[26190] and concentrate and remember before he could say:

[26192] —They tell me on the best authority it is a simple substance and

[26196] practical jokes, corruptio per se and corruptio per accidens both being

[26209] and the same applies to the laws, for example, of a farreaching natural

[26218] were both in schooling and everything else with the marked difference in

[26223] That’s a matter for everyman’s opinion and, without dragging in the

[26228] Hamlet and Bacon, as, you who know your Shakespeare infinitely better

[26230] by the way? Let me stir it. And take a piece of that bun. It’s like

[26238] or try to the clotted sugar from the bottom and reflected with something

[26239] approaching acrimony on the Coffee Palace and its temperance (and

[26240] lucrative) work. To be sure it was a legitimate object and beyond yea or

[26243] and useful lectures (admittance free) by qualified men for the lower

[26244] orders. On the other hand he had a distinct and painful recollection

[26248] to do good and net a profit, there being no competition to speak

[26260] from the brown puddle it clopped out of when taken up by the handle and

[26264] solid food, his one and only reason being not gormandising in the least

[26273] Mr Bloom promptly did as suggested and removed the incriminated article,

[26280] genuine? He could spin those yarns for hours on end all night long and

[26283] Yet still though his eyes were thick with sleep and sea air life was

[26284] full of a host of things and coincidences of a terrible nature and it

[26290] He had been meantime taking stock of the individual in front of him and

[26294] delivery and it required no violent stretch of imagination to associate

[26295] such a weirdlooking specimen with the oakum and treadmill fraternity. He

[26298] and had served his four or five goodlooking years in durance vile to say

[26305] seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera.

[26306] And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself

[26321] However reverting to friend Sinbad and his horrifying adventures (who

[26324] management in the Flying Dutchman, a stupendous success, and his host

[26330] was none the less free to admit those icecreamers and friers in the fish

[26331] way not to mention the chip potato variety and so forth over in little

[26336] the quiet and, he added, on the cheap.

[26340] hands and give you your quietus doublequick with those poignards they

[26354] —Then, Stephen said staring and rambling on to himself or some unknown

[26355] listener somewhere, we have the impetuosity of Dante and the isosceles

[26356] triangle miss Portinari he fell in love with and Leonardo and san

[26362] and I was just looking at those antique statues there. The splendid

[26364] of women here. An exception here and there. Handsome yes, pretty in a

[26371] Interest, however, was starting to flag somewhat all round and then the

[26374] had his own say to say. He had doubled the cape a few odd times and

[26375] weathered a monsoon, a kind of wind, in the China seas and through all

[26385] running over her and crowds and crowds on the shore in commotion

[26388] opposite tack in rather muggyish weather and lost with all hands on

[26400] stepped heavily down the one step there was out of the shelter and bore

[26404] burning interior, saw him produce a bottle and uncork it or unscrew and,

[26409] to all intents and purposes, could by straining just perceive him, when

[26410] duly refreshed by his rum puncheon exploit, gaping up at the piers and

[26412] radically altered since his last visit and greatly improved. Some person

[26419] new foothold after sleep and harness jingled. Slightly disturbed in his

[26421] stones who, though now broken down and fast breaking up, was none other

[26425] and shuffled in his box before composing his limbs again in to the arms

[26427] form on a fellow most respectably connected and familiarised with decent

[26430] ducks and drakes of. And there he was at the end of his tether after

[26432] He drank needless to be told and it pointed only once more a moral

[26437] coastwise and foreign as well, which was all part and parcel of the same

[26442] There were wrecks and wreckers, the keeper said, who was evidently au

[26452] his private potation and the rest of his exertions.

[26458] time being in his fist while he did the drinking and making water jobs

[26459] and found it a bit sour after the liquid fire in question. Anyhow in

[26465] And the beef as salt as Lot’s wife’s arse.

[26469] and regaining his seat he sank rather than sat heavily on the form

[26474] the face of God’s earth, far and away superior to England, with coal

[26476] year, ten millions between butter and eggs and all the riches drained

[26478] the nose always and gobbling up the best meat in the market and a lot

[26480] became general and all agreed that that was a fact. You could grow

[26481] any mortal thing in Irish soil, he stated, and there was that colonel

[26486] on account of her crimes. There would be a fall and the greatest fall

[26487] in history. The Germans and the Japs were going to have their little

[26489] England was toppling already and her downfall would be Ireland, her

[26494] birth and work for Ireland and live for Ireland. Ireland, Parnell said,

[26503] To which cold douche referring to downfall and so on the keeper

[26507] interrogated. And the best jumpers and racers? And the best admirals and

[26517] he cared nothing for any empire, ours or his, and considered no Irishman

[26521] as they didn’t indulge in recriminations and come to blows.

[26530] the coal seam of the sister island would be played out and if, as

[26536] whores and chummies, to put it in common parlance, reminded him Irish

[26538] fact. And now, why? So the scene between the pair of them, the licensee

[26540] invincible, and the other, obviously bogus, reminded him forcibly as

[26543] the others seeing least of the game. And as for the lessee or keeper,

[26545] feeling and most properly it was better to give people like that the

[26546] goby unless you were a blithering idiot altogether and refuse to have

[26547] anything to do with them as a golden rule in private life and their

[26549] forward and turning queen’s evidence or king’s now like Denis or

[26551] disliked those careers of wrongdoing and crime on principle. Yet, though

[26553] shape or form, he certainly did feel and no denying it (while inwardly

[26564] outrage and so was not, if he was reliably informed, actually party to

[26566] saved his skin on. In any case that was very ancient history by now and

[26575] Ireland tavern, come back to Erin and so on. Then as for the other he

[26580] whole eventempered person declared, I let slip. He called me a jew and

[26582] in the least told him his God, I mean Christ, was a jew too and all his

[26596] of the question. It is hard to lay down any hard and fast rules as to

[26597] right and wrong but room for improvement all round there certainly is

[26601] I resent violence and intolerance in any shape or form. It never

[26604] people because they live round the corner and speak another vernacular,

[26607] —Memorable bloody bridge battle and seven minutes’ war, Stephen

[26608] assented, between Skinner’s alley and Ormond market.

[26611] was overwhelmingly right. And the whole world was full of that sort of

[26619] erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag, were

[26621] everything, greed and jealousy, people never knowing when to stop.

[26624] probably… and spoke nearer to, so as the others… in case they…

[26629] when the inquisition hounded the jews out and England prospered when

[26632] spirit. They are practical and are proved to be so. I don’t want to

[26633] indulge in any because you know the standard works on the subject and

[26641] about at the outset and I want to see everyone, concluded he, all

[26642] creeds and classes pro rata having a comfortable tidysized income, in

[26644] annum. That’s the vital issue at stake and it’s feasible and would

[26645] be provocative of friendlier intercourse between man and man. At least

[26655] beneath or seemed to. Then he looked up and saw the eyes that said or

[26669] entitled to recoup yourself and command your price. You have every bit

[26671] peasant has. What? You both belong to Ireland, the brain and the brawn.

[26687] Stephen, patently crosstempered, repeated and shoved aside his mug of

[26702] the eyes more especially reminding him forcibly of father and sister,

[26705] bud of premature decay and nobody to blame but themselves. For instance

[26708] among whose other gay doings when rotto and making himself a nuisance

[26710] in public a suit of brown paper (a fact). And then the usual dénouement

[26711] after the fun had gone on fast and furious he got landed into hot water

[26712] and had to be spirited away by a few friends, after a strong hint to a

[26717] and two together, six sixteen which he pointedly turned a deaf ear to,

[26718] Antonio and so forth, jockeys and esthetes and the tattoo which was

[26721] the other members of the upper ten and other high personages simply

[26723] the errors of notorieties and crowned heads running counter to morality

[26729] dress and all the rest of it. Ladies who like distinctive underclothing

[26730] should, and every welltailored man must, trying to make the gap wider

[26731] between them by innuendo and give more of a genuine filip to acts of

[26732] impropriety between the two, she unbuttoned his and then he untied her,

[26739] For which and further reasons he felt it was his interest and duty even

[26740] to wait on and profit by the unlookedfor occasion though why he could

[26747] old salt of the here today and gone tomorrow type, night loafers, the

[26758] lay, as luck would have it, beside his elbow and as he was just puzzling

[26759] again, far from satisfied, over a country belonging to him and the

[26760] preceding rebus the vessel came from Bridgwater and the postcard was

[26770] New York disaster. Thousand lives lost. Foot and Mouth. Funeral of the

[26780] most popular and genial personality in city life and his demise after a

[26784] a nudge from Corny) by Messrs H. J. O’Neill and Son, 164 North Strand

[26790] M’C Hynes, L. Boom, C P M’Coy,—M’Intosh and several others.

[26792] Nettled not a little by L. Boom (as it incorrectly stated) and the line

[26793] of bitched type but tickled to death simultaneously by C. P. M’Coy and

[26800] jaw would let him, in? Text: open thy mouth and put thy foot in it.

[26803] the archbishop till he added about foot and mouth with which there could

[26804] be no possible connection) overjoyed to set his mind at rest and a bit

[26809] and starts with the account of the third event at Ascot on page three,

[26811] entire colts and fillies. Mr F. Alexander’s Throwaway, b. h. by

[26816] lead, beating Lord Howard de Walden’s chestnut colt and Mr W. Bass’s

[26833] One morning you would open the paper, the cabman affirmed, and read:

[26835] that shelter one night and said he saw him in South Africa. Pride it was

[26842] general. He made a mistake to fight the priests. And so forth and so on.

[26845] memories for in nine cases out of ten it was a case of tarbarrels and

[26846] not singly but in their thousands and then complete oblivion because it

[26848] of truth in the stones and, even supposing, he thought a return highly

[26853] change his boots and clothes after a wetting when a cold resulted and

[26860] starting to go under several aliases such as Fox and Stewart so the

[26863] of men which undoubtedly he was and a commanding figure, a sixfooter

[26865] Messrs So and So who, though they weren’t even a patch on the former

[26866] man, ruled the roost after their redeeming features were very few and

[26868] and then seventytwo of his trusty henchmen rounding on him with mutual

[26869] mudslinging. And the identical same with murderers. You had to come

[26873] a privilege he keenly appreciated, and, in point of fact, handed him his

[26874] silk hat when it was knocked off and he said Thank you, excited as he

[26876] misadventure mentioned between the cup and the lip: what’s bred in the

[26879] usually followed, Tom for and Dick and Harry against. And then, number

[26880] one, you came up against the man in possession and had to produce your

[26883] he, the heir, went down in as the evidence went to show and there was

[26885] easily have picked up the details from some pal on board ship and then,

[26887] Excuse me, my name is So and So or some such commonplace remark. A more

[26896] Campbell remarked, and plenty of her. She loosened many a man’s

[26900] —Ay, Skin-the-Goat amusingly added, he was and a cottonball one.

[26905] and reflected upon the historic story which had aroused extraordinary

[26909] and an attachment sprang up between them till bit by bit matters came to

[26910] a climax and the matter became the talk of the town till the staggering

[26916] particular necessity to proclaim it to the rank and file from the

[26920] swearing to having witnessed him on such and such a particular date in

[26926] nothing in common between them beyond the name, and then a real man

[26928] to her siren charms and forgetting home ties, the usual sequel, to bask

[26937] the light dragoons, the 18th hussars to be accurate) and inflammable

[26941] priests and ministers of the gospel as a whole, his erstwhile staunch

[26942] adherents, and his beloved evicted tenants for whom he had done yeoman

[26948] kind of dream. And then coming back was the worst thing you ever did

[26954] pure and simple, upsetting the applecart with a vengeance and just bore

[26960] Stephen, about blood and the sun. And, if I don’t greatly mistake she

[26964] other rather muddled about farewell and adieu to you Spanish onions and

[26965] the first land called the Deadman and from Ramhead to Scilly was so and

[26974] pocketbook and, turning over the various contents it contained rapidly

[26984] vision of breasts, her full lips parted and some perfect teeth, standing

[26998] Brian Tweedy and displayed at an early age remarkable proficiency as a

[27002] lot of notice usually and which did not come out to the best advantage

[27014] good example and leave the likeness there for a very few minutes to

[27020] storm. And he did feel a kind of need there and then to follow suit like

[27021] a kind of inward voice and satisfy a possible need by moving a motion.

[27023] by opulent curves, none the worse for wear however, and looked away

[27030] then recollected the morning littered bed etcetera and the book about

[27036] distingué and impulsive into the bargain, far and away the pick of

[27039] was though at the moment she was distinctly stouter. And why not? An

[27043] the newest stage favourite instead of being honest and aboveboard about

[27044] the whole business. How they were fated to meet and an attachment sprang

[27046] eye was told in court with letters containing the habitual mushy and

[27048] cohabited two or three times a week at some wellknown seaside hotel and

[27050] intimate. Then the decree nisi and the King’s proctor tries to show

[27051] cause why and, he failing to quash it, nisi was made absolute. But as

[27062] appropriate appellative) and broke up the typecases with hammers or

[27075] a silk one was inadvertently knocked off and, as a matter of strict

[27077] witnessing the occurrence meaning to return it to him (and return it to

[27078] him he did with the utmost celerity) who panting and hatless and whose

[27084] once because he turned round to the donor and thanked him with perfect

[27093] jokes of the cabman and so on who passed it all off as a jest, laughing

[27094] immoderately, pretending to understand everything, the why and the

[27095] wherefore, and in reality not knowing their own minds, it being a case

[27100] attention to their illicit proceedings and leading up to a domestic

[27101] rumpus and the erring fair one begging forgiveness of her lord and

[27102] master upon her knees and promising to sever the connection and not

[27104] the matter and let bygones be bygones with tears in her eyes though

[27107] bias, believed and didn’t make the smallest bones about saying so

[27110] world and they got on fairly well together for the sake of argument,

[27112] and was on for a little flutter in polite debauchery to press their

[27115] attractive married women getting on for fair and forty and younger men,

[27128] would find much satisfaction basking in the boy and girl courtship idea

[27129] and the company of smirking misses without a penny to their names bi or

[27130] triweekly with the orthodox preliminary canter of complimentplaying and

[27131] walking out leading up to fond lovers’ ways and flowers and chocs. To

[27132] think of him house and homeless, rooked by some landlady worse than any

[27140] —At what o’clock did you dine? he questioned of the slim form and

[27164] mistake, he was subsequently partially cured of) and even was twitted

[27169] he, though often considerably misunderstood and the least pugnacious of

[27173] invariably resulting from propaganda and displays of mutual animosity

[27174] and the misery and suffering it entailed as a foregone conclusion on

[27177] Anyhow upon weighing up the pros and cons, getting on for one, as it

[27180] (somebody having a temper of her own sometimes) and spoil the hash

[27185] other hand it was altogether far and away too late for the Sandymount

[27191] you call jump at the idea, if approached, and what mostly worried him

[27197] Epps’s cocoa and a shakedown for the night plus the use of a rug or

[27198] two and overcoat doubled into a pillow at least he would be in safe

[27199] hands and as warm as a toast on a trivet he failed to perceive any very

[27204] dearly beloved Queenstown and it was highly likely some sponger’s

[27209] calculated to freeze the marrow of anybody’s bones and mauling their

[27210] largesized charms betweenwhiles with rough and tumble gusto to the

[27211] accompaniment of large potations of potheen and the usual blarney about

[27212] himself for as to who he in reality was let x equal my right name and

[27214] chuckled over his gentle repartee to the blood and ouns champion about

[27223] just come home with me and talk things over. My diggings are quite close

[27237] with hydros and seaside theatres, turning money away, duets in Italian

[27238] with the accent perfectly true to nature and a quantity of other

[27239] things, no necessity, of course, to tell the world and his wife from the

[27240] housetops about it, and a slice of luck. An opening was all was wanted.

[27257] —And welcome, answered the elderly party thus addressed.

[27260] which he very slowly hooked over his nose and both ears.

[27270] and Red as a Rose is She.

[27272] Hereupon he pawed the journal open and pored upon Lord only knows what,

[27274] hundred and something second wicket not out for Notts, during which

[27284] and foremost, being as good as his word that he would foot the bill for

[27291] in unmistakable figures, coffee 2d, confectionery do, and honestly well

[27296] Seeing that the ruse worked and the coast was clear they left the

[27297] shelter or shanty together and the élite society of oilskin and company

[27299] niente. Stephen, who confessed to still feeling poorly and fagged out,

[27320] Accordingly he passed his left arm in Stephen’s right and led him on

[27324] kind of flesh of a different man approach him, sinewless and wobbly and

[27328] the municipal supernumerary, ex Gumley, was still to all intents and

[27330] of fresh fields and pastures new. And apropos of coffin of stones the

[27333] time of the split and chiefly the belauded peasant class, probably the

[27339] confessedly grand in its way, was a bit too heavy for Bloom and hard to

[27341] Meyerbeer’s Seven Last Words on the Cross and Mozart’s Twelfth Mass

[27346] as those Moody and Sankey hymns or Bid me to live and I will live

[27350] sensation, he might safely say, greatly adding to her other laurels and

[27354] opinion that there was none to come up to her and suffice it to say in

[27357] light opera of the Don Giovanni description and Martha, a gem in its

[27359] severe classical school such as Mendelssohn. And talking of that, taking

[27371] certainly sounded familiar, for sixtyfive guineas and Farnaby and son

[27372] with their dux and comes conceits and Byrd (William) who played the

[27374] them and one Tomkins who made toys or airs and John Bull.

[27380] guineas and John Bull. He inquired if it was John Bull the political

[27392] near so that it seemed new, a different grouping of bones and even flesh

[27405] harpoon hairpin, alligator tickle the small of his back and he sees the

[27409] manœuvring and Stephen went on about the highly interesting old.

[27422] industries, concert on the preceding Monday, and aristocracy in general.

[27427] the clear sea and the voices of sirens, sweet murderers of men, which

[27432] These opening bars he sang and translated extempore. Bloom, nodding,

[27433] said he perfectly understood and begged him to go on by all means which

[27439] such as Barraclough and being able to read music into the bargain,

[27440] command its own price where baritones were ten a penny and procure for

[27443] way of business and titled people where with his university degree of

[27444] B. A. (a huge ad in its way) and gentlemanly bearing to all the more

[27447] purpose and other requisites, if his clothes were properly attended

[27451] matter of months and he could easily foresee him participating in

[27452] their musical and artistic conversaziones during the festivities of the

[27454] of the fair sex and being made a lot of by ladies out for sensation,

[27462] was beyond yea or nay and both monetarily and mentally it contained

[27463] no reflection on his dignity in the smallest and it often turned in

[27469] solos foisted on a confiding public by Ivan St Austell and Hilton St

[27470] Just and their genus omne. Yes, beyond a shadow of a doubt he could with

[27471] all the cards in his hand and he had a capital opening to make a name

[27472] for himself and win a high place in the city’s esteem where he could

[27473] command a stiff figure and, booking ahead, give a grand concert for

[27478] fellows. And it need not detract from the other by one iota as, being

[27482] a matter for himself alone. In fact, he had the ball at his feet and

[27486] The horse was just then. And later on at a propitious opportunity he

[27490] prone to disparage and even to a slight extent with some hilarious

[27495] The horse having reached the end of his tether, so to speak, halted and,

[27497] the floor which the brush would soon brush up and polish, three smoking

[27499] crupper he mired. And humanely his driver waited till he (or she) had

[27503] through the gap of the chains, divided by the upright, and, stepping

[27511] Maher. As they walked they at times stopped and walked again continuing

[27517] simply sat in his seat near the end of lower Gardiner street and looked

17. Ithaca

[27527] What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?

[27530] followed in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner streets and

[27542] prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and

[27550] like and unlike reactions to experience?

[27555] indurated by early domestic training and an inherited tenacity of

[27557] religious, national, social and ethical doctrines. Both admitted

[27558] the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual

[27564] of dietary and civic selfhelp while Bloom dissented tacitly from

[27572] aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnaree. The collapse which Bloom

[27573] ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying

[27574] degrees of adulteration and alcoholic strength, accelerated by mental

[27575] exertion and the velocity of rapid circular motion in a relaxing

[27578] and Dublin) at first no bigger than a woman’s hand.

[27580] Was there one point on which their views were equal and negative?

[27588] In 1884 with Owen Goldberg and Cecil Turnbull at night on public

[27589] thoroughfares between Longwood avenue and Leonard’s corner and

[27590] Leonard’s corner and Synge street and Synge street and Bloomfield

[27592] wall between Gibraltar villa and Bloomfield house in Crumlin, barony

[27593] of Uppercross. In 1886 occasionally with casual acquaintances and

[27596] Tweedy and his daughter Miss Marion Tweedy, together and separately on

[27597] the lounge in Matthew Dillon’s house in Roundtown. Once in 1892 and

[27606] development and experience was regressively accompanied by a restriction

[27611] From inexistence to existence he came to many and was as one received:

[27628] Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded

[27632] (respectively) and inadvertently, keyless couple?

[27640] the lower union of rails and stiles, lowered his body gradually by its

[27641] length of five feet nine inches and a half to within two feet ten inches

[27642] of the area pavement and allowed his body to move freely in space by

[27643] separating himself from the railings and crouching in preparation for

[27648] By his body’s known weight of eleven stone and four pounds in

[27653] one thousand nine hundred and four of the christian era (jewish era five

[27654] thousand six hundred and sixtyfour, mohammadan era one thousand three

[27655] hundred and twentytwo), golden number 5, epact 13, solar cycle 9,

[27662] at its freely moving flange and by leverage of the first kind applied

[27666] by regulating, he reduced to quiescent candescence and lit finally a

[27685] Yes, entering softly, he helped to close and chain the door and followed

[27686] softly along the hallway the man’s back and listed feet and lighted

[27687] candle past a lighted crevice of doorway on the left and carefully

[27697] resintipped sticks and various coloured papers and irregular polygons

[27699] Flower and M’Donald of 14 D’Olier street, kindled it at three

[27702] carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union with the oxygen of

[27727] folded unattached consecutively in adjacent rectangles and one pair of

[27728] ladies’ grey hose with Lisle suspender tops and feet in their

[27730] extremities and the third at their point of junction.

[27739] He removed the saucepan to the left hob, rose and carried the iron

[27747] filter mains of single and double pipeage constructed at an initial

[27749] of the Downs and Callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a

[27750] distance of 22 statute miles, and thence, through a system of relieving

[27752] upper Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily

[27754] the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and waterworks

[27758] had to the impotable water of the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893)

[27769] Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature

[27772] exceeding 8000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface

[27775] quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides:

[27777] icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance:

[27782] and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of

[27783] tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and

[27785] and downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and

[27786] volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns:

[27787] its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones:

[27788] its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and

[27789] confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic

[27790] currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence

[27794] its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs and

[27796] and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown

[27802] and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and

[27805] and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and

[27806] archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and

[27810] rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality

[27812] to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe),

[27823] (bought thirteen hours previously for fourpence and still unpaid for),

[27824] in fresh cold neverchanging everchanging water and dry them, face

[27825] and hands, in a long redbordered holland cloth passed over a wooden

[27833] glass and crystal, distrusting aquacities of thought and language.

[27835] What impeded Bloom from giving Stephen counsels of hygiene and

[27837] preliminary wetting of the head and contraction of the muscles with

[27838] rapid splashing of the face and neck and thoracic and epigastric region

[27840] sensitive to cold being the nape, stomach and thenar or sole of foot?

[27846] Dietary: concerning the respective percentage of protein and caloric

[27847] energy in bacon, salt ling and butter, the absence of the former in the

[27848] lastnamed and the abundance of the latter in the firstnamed.

[27852] Confidence in himself, an equal and opposite power of abandonment and

[27859] ventilation between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was

[27866] combustion, was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the source

[27889] awaking after a fresher sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and

[27893] cause a faster rate of shaving and a nick on which incision plaster with

[27894] precision cut and humected and applied adhered: which was to be done.

[27909] What lay under exposure on the lower, middle and upper shelves of the

[27914] moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown Derby, four white

[27916] copper, and a phial of aromatic (violet) comfits. On the middle shelf

[27919] Plumtree’s potted meat, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and

[27920] containing one Jersey pear, a halfempty bottle of William Gilbey and

[27926] bisected with augmented surface and more redolent, a jar of Irish Model

[27927] Dairy’s cream, a jug of brown crockery containing a naggin and a

[27929] acidulous serum and semisolidified curds, which added to the quantity

[27930] subtracted for Mr Bloom’s and Mrs Fleming’s breakfasts, made one

[27932] halfpenny and a small dish containing a slice of fresh ribsteak. On

[27933] the upper shelf a battery of jamjars (empty) of various sizes and

[27945] and definitive result of which he had read in the Evening Telegraph,

[27951] In Bernard Kiernan’s licensed premises 8, 9 and 10 little Britain

[27956] premises of F. W. Sweny and Co (Limited), dispensing chemists, when,

[27957] when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested,

[27958] perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman’s

[27959] Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away

[27961] edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths, 11 Leinster street, with the

[27962] light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in his arms

[27969] electrical discharge and of counterestimating against an actual loss

[27986] soluble cocoa and proceeded according to the directions for use printed

[27988] prescribed ingredients for diffusion in the manner and in the quantity

[27996] he substituted a cup identical with that of his guest and served

[27997] extraordinarily to his guest and, in reduced measure, to himself the

[28001] Was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge these marks of

[28004] His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely, and he

[28009] reserving them for another and for himself on future occasions to

[28014] lady’s handkerchiefs, if and when ascertained to be in a presentable

[28019] Bloom, having the advantage of ten seconds at the initiation and taking,

[28034] In spite of careful and repeated reading of certain classical passages,

[28040] of three prizes of 10/-, 5/- and 2/6 respectively for competition by the

[28049] Did he find four separating forces between his temporary guest and him?

[28070] entitled If Brian Boru could but come back and see old Dublin now,

[28072] 49 South King street, and to be introduced into the sixth scene, the

[28076] A. Jackson and Cecil Hicks, costumes by Mrs and Miss Whelan under

[28078] harlequinade by Thomas Otto) and sung by Nelly Bouverist, principal

[28081] Firstly, oscillation between events of imperial and of local interest,

[28083] 1837) and the posticipated opening of the new municipal fish market:

[28086] duke and duchess of York (real) and of His Majesty King Brian Boru

[28087] (imaginary): thirdly, a conflict between professional etiquette and

[28089] Lyric Hall on Burgh Quay and the Theatre Royal in Hawkins street:

[28092] and concupiscence caused by Nelly Bouverist’s revelations of white

[28095] difficulties of the selection of appropriate music and humorous

[28096] allusions from Everybody’s Book of Jokes (1000 pages and a laugh in

[28097] every one): sixthly, the rhymes, homophonous and cacophonous, associated

[28099] sheriff, Thomas Pile and the new solicitorgeneral, Dunbar Plunket

[28106] present age Bloom would be 54. In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and

[28108] 1/2 to 13 1/2, the proportion increasing and the disparity diminishing

[28111] possible, till then 1904 when Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in

[28124] new era or calendar, the annihilation of the world and consequent

[28131] mother, Stephen being then of the age of 5 and reluctant to give his

[28134] father and Stephen’s granduncle, Stephen being then 5 years older.

[28136] Did Bloom accept the invitation to dinner given then by the son and

[28147] and had also resided during the years 1892, 1893 and 1894 in the City

[28149] during parts of the years 1893 and 1894, she had been a constant

[28164] private and hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and brakes passing from

[28165] the city to the Phoenix Park and vice versa.

[28172] velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round

[28173] and round the rim of a round and round precipitous globe.

[28178] The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her

[28179] suppositious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient

[28181] of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles

[28182] Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers.

[28189] abandoned, prescribed in Eugen Sandow’s Physical Strength and How to

[28193] muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant

[28194] relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility.

[28198] Though ringweight lifting had been beyond his strength and the full

[28200] had excelled in his stable and protracted execution of the half lever

[28209] about Stephen’s thoughts about Bloom and about Stephen’s thoughts

[28219] Rudolph Bloom) of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London and

[28220] Dublin and of Ellen Higgins, second daughter of Julius Higgins (born

[28221] Karoly) and Fanny Higgins (born Hegarty). Stephen, eldest surviving male

[28222] consubstantial heir of Simon Dedalus of Cork and Dublin and of Mary,

[28223] daughter of Richard and Christina Goulding (born Grier).

[28225] Had Bloom and Stephen been baptised, and where and by whom, cleric or

[28230] O’Connor, Philip Gilligan and James Fitzpatrick, together, under a

[28231] pump in the village of Swords, and by the reverend Charles Malone C.

[28239] through a dame’s school and the high school. Substituting Bloom for

[28241] junior, middle and senior grades of the intermediate and through the

[28242] matriculation, first arts, second arts and arts degree courses of the

[28263] siphon, the canal lock with winch and sluice, the suction pump.

[28277] The financial success achieved by Ephraim Marks and Charles A. James,

[28279] at his 6 1/2d shop and world’s fancy fair and waxwork exhibition at 30

[28280] Henry street, admission 2d, children 1d: and the infinite possibilities

[28283] (divined), horizontally of maximum legibility (deciphered) and of

[28295] Look at this long candle. Calculate when it burns out and you receive

[28297] Address: Barclay and Cook, 18 Talbot street.

[28303] Uwantit (Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and

[28315] 4 oz pots, and inserted by Councillor Joseph P. Nannetti, M. P., Rotunda

[28316] Ward, 19 Hardwicke street, under the obituary notices and anniversaries

[28325] His own ideated and rejected project of an illuminated showcart, drawn

[28335] Wheels and hoofs. She hurries out. He comes from his dark corner. He

[28341] In sloping, upright and backhands: Queen’s Hotel, Queen’s Hotel,

[28355] having, purchased at the hour and in the place aforesaid, the toxin

[28366] He preferred himself to see another’s face and listen to another’s

[28367] words by which potential narration was realised and kinetic temperament

[28374] It, with the preceding scene and with others unnarrated but existent by

[28377] composed during schoolyears, seemed to him to contain in itself and

[28379] financial, social, personal and sexual success, whether specially

[28380] collected and selected as model pedagogic themes (of cent per cent

[28381] merit) for the use of preparatory and junior grade students or

[28384] certified circulation and solvency or employed verbally as intellectual

[28386] narrative and confidently augurative of successful achievement, during

[28398] Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spilikins, cup and ball,

[28401] policeaided clothing society: musical duets, mandoline and guitar, piano

[28402] and flute, guitar and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope addressing:

[28404] pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress in

[28406] erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state inspected and medically

[28408] and with regular frequent preventive superintendence, to and from female

[28417] with signs and hieroglyphics which she stated were Greek and Irish and

[28425] the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall. Unusual

[28430] What compensated in the false balance of her intelligence for these and

[28431] such deficiencies of judgment regarding persons, places and things?

[28465] author of More Nebukim (Guide of the Perplexed) and Moses Mendelssohn

[28476] Were other anapocryphal illustrious sons of the law and children of a

[28482] What fragments of verse from the ancient Hebrew and ancient Irish

[28483] languages were cited with modulations of voice and translation of texts

[28484] by guest to host and by host to guest?

[28496] literary style, entituled Sweets of Sin (produced by Bloom and so

[28499] characters for gee, eh, dee, em, simple and modified, and Bloom in turn

[28500] wrote the Hebrew characters ghimel, aleph, daleth and (in the absence of

[28502] and cardinal numbers, videlicet 3, 1, 4, and 100.

[28505] extinct and the revived, theoretical or practical?

[28508] and syntax and practically excluding vocabulary.

[28510] What points of contact existed between these languages and between the

[28513] The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and

[28517] and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their

[28519] toponomastic, historical and religious literatures comprising the works

[28520] of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara), Massor,

[28522] Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the

[28523] isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto

[28524] (S. Mary’s Abbey) and masshouse (Adam and Eve’s tavern): the

[28525] proscription of their national costumes in penal laws and jewish dress

[28526] acts: the restoration in Chanah David of Zion and the possibility of

[28545] hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of

[28546] modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions

[28547] (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).

[28551] Doubly, by appending his signature in Irish and Roman characters.

[28563] What were Stephen’s and Bloom’s quasisimultaneous volitional

[28567] by Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as

[28573] What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the past and with

[28593] Little Harry Hughes and his schoolfellows all

[28595] And the very first ball little Harry Hughes played

[28597] And the very second ball little Harry Hughes played

[28601] With unmixed feeling. Smiling, a jew, he heard with pleasure and saw the

[28607] And she all dressed in green.

[28609] And play your ball again.”

[28611] “I can’t come back and I won’t come back

[28617] And led him along the hall

[28622] And cut off his little head.

[28623] And now he’ll play his ball no more

[28627] With mixed feelings. Unsmiling, he heard and saw with wonder a jew’s

[28634] is abandoned and challenges him reluctant and, as an apparition of hope

[28635] and youth, holds him unresisting. It leads him to a strange habitation,

[28636] to a secret infidel apartment, and there, implacable, immolates him,

[28650] He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the

[28655] hypnotic suggestion and somnambulism.

[28663] somnambulism: once, sleeping, his body had risen, crouched and

[28664] crawled in the direction of a heatless fire and, having attained

[28671] Twice, in Holles street and in Ontario terrace, his daughter Millicent

[28672] (Milly) at the ages of 6 and 8 years had uttered in sleep an exclamation

[28673] of terror and had replied to the interrogations of two figures in night

[28678] 15 June 1889. A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause and

[28688] Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a direct

[28694] She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a recess. On the duke’s

[28696] make and take away her photographic image (objection not stated). On

[28698] individual of sinister aspect, she went half way down Stamer street and

[28701] Westmeath, making a brief allusion to a local student (faculty and year

[28733] issue and consequences of a famous military engagement she pulled a

[28742] matrimonial auguries, to interest and to instruct her?

[28744] As object lessons to explain: 1) the nature and habits of oviparous

[28747] pendulum, exemplified in bob, wheelgear and regulator, the translation

[28750] recurrence per hour of an instant in each hour when the longer and the

[28768] To pass in repose the hours intervening between Thursday (proper) and

[28770] above the kitchen and immediately adjacent to the sleeping apartment of

[28771] his host and hostess.

[28776] For the guest: security of domicile and seclusion of study. For the

[28781] Why might these several provisional contingencies between a guest and

[28783] eventuality of reconciliatory union between a schoolfellow and a jew’s

[28806] What exchange of money took place between host and guest?

[28818] series of static, semistatic and peripatetic intellectual dialogues,

[28820] the same place), the Ship hotel and tavern, 6 Lower Abbey street (W. and

[28822] street, the National Maternity Hospital, 29, 30 and 31 Holles street, a

[28834] to a place in the auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was seated and had

[28838] on the milled edge and tendered it in payment of an account due to and

[28839] received by J. and T. Davy, family grocers, 1 Charlemont Mall, Grand

[28854] amend many social conditions, the product of inequality and avarice and

[28863] the ultimate functions of separate existence, the agonies of birth and

[28864] death: the monotonous menstruation of simian and (particularly) human

[28866] accidents at sea, in mines and factories: certain very painful maladies

[28867] and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital

[28883] syllogistically from the known to the unknown and a conscious rational

[28884] reagent between a micro and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the

[28933] and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the

[28934] precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and

[28936] and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging

[28940] which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a

[28947] in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds,

[28951] of human serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves

[28955] and divisors ever diminishing without actual division till, if the

[28962] computed to a relative degree of accuracy to be of such magnitude and

[28965] each of innumerable quires and reams of India paper would have to be

[28973] Did he find the problems of the inhabitability of the planets and their

[28974] satellites by a race, given in species, and of the possible social and

[28981] the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was

[28982] approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo,

[28985] adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might

[28987] Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though

[28989] differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would

[28990] probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to

[28991] vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.

[28993] And the problem of possible redemption?

[29001] their magnitudes revealed up to and including the 7th: their positions:

[29006] Galle: the systematisations attempted by Bode and Kepler of cubes

[29007] of distances and squares of times of revolution: the almost infinite

[29008] compressibility of hirsute comets and their vast elliptical egressive

[29009] and reentrant orbits from perihelion to aphelion: the sidereal origin of

[29015] star (1st magnitude) of exceeding brilliancy dominating by night and

[29016] day (a new luminous sun generated by the collision and amalgamation in

[29019] constellation of Cassiopeia and of a star (2nd magnitude) of similar

[29020] origin but of lesser brilliancy which had appeared in and disappeared

[29022] of the birth of Leopold Bloom and of other stars of (presumably) similar

[29023] origin which had (effectively or presumably) appeared in and disappeared

[29025] Stephen Dedalus, and in and from the constellation of Auriga some years

[29026] after the birth and death of Rudolph Bloom, junior, and in and from

[29028] other persons: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar,

[29034] His (Bloom’s) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and

[29040] suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of

[29056] It seemed to him as possible of proof as of confutation and the

[29061] What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and

[29064] Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian

[29067] and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced

[29069] interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power

[29071] incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her

[29073] propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her

[29074] light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her

[29083] blind supplied by Frank O’Hara, window blind, curtain pole and

[29089] With indirect and direct verbal allusions or affirmations: with subdued

[29090] affection and admiration: with description: with impediment: with

[29104] projected luminous and semiluminous shadow.

[29124] (1 January, holiday of obligation to hear mass and abstain from

[29125] unnecessary servile work) and the problem as to whether the divine

[29129] excrescences as hair and toenails.

[29141] unstable female lock, obtaining a purchase on the bow of the key and

[29143] staple, pulling inward spasmodically an obsolescent unhinged door and

[29144] revealing an aperture for free egress and free ingress.

[29148] Standing perpendicular at the same door and on different sides of its

[29149] base, the lines of their valedictory arms, meeting at any point and

[29153] (respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?

[29158] What echoes of that sound were by both and each heard?

[29188] Of what did bellchime and handtouch and footstep and lonechill remind

[29221] hallfloor, and reentered.

[29228] consequence of antecedent sensations transmitted and registered.

[29235] alteration which he had frequently intended to execute): the blue and

[29241] from right and left of the ingleside to the position originally occupied

[29242] by the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table.

[29246] One: a squat stuffed easychair, with stout arms extended and back

[29248] irregular fringe of a rectangular rug and now displayed on its amply

[29249] upholstered seat a centralised diffusing and diminishing discolouration.

[29251] directly opposite the former, its frame from top to seat and from seat

[29263] supporting a pair of long yellow ladies’ gloves and an emerald ashtray

[29264] containing four consumed matches, a partly consumed cigarette and two

[29266] the key of G natural for voice and piano of Love’s Old Sweet Song

[29275] a large dull passive and a slender bright active: with solicitation,

[29276] bending and downturning the upturned rugfringe: with amusement,

[29278] gradation of green: with pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent

[29279] act and perceiving through various channels of internal sensibility

[29280] the consequent and concomitant tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual

[29299] vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense.

[29307] gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of

[29310] What interchanges of looks took place between these three objects and

[29318] gaze regarded the matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle.

[29327] Brothers and sisters had he none.

[29338] and not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles

[29401] Physical Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugen Sandow (red cloth).

[29404] Pardies and rendered into Engli?h by John Harris D. D. London, printed

[29407] burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf

[29409] this 10th day of May 1822 and reque?ting the per?on who should find

[29417] The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its

[29419] the incongruity of an apple incuneated in a tumbler and of an umbrella

[29433] Why, firstly and secondly, did he not consult the work in question?

[29448] Inhibitory pressure of collar (size 17) and waistcoat (5 buttons), two

[29449] articles of clothing superfluous in the costume of mature males and

[29454] He removed his collar, with contained black necktie and collapsible

[29457] and vest along the medial line of irregular incrispated black hairs

[29459] circumference of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the medial

[29461] thence produced both ways at right angles and terminating in circles

[29462] described about two equidistant points, right and left, on the summits

[29470] inflicted 2 weeks and 3 days previously (23 May 1904) by a bee.

[29472] prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly

[29474] his waistcoat and extracted and replaced a silver coin (1 shilling),

[29484] 1 Bath and Gratification 0—1—6

[29490] 1 Packet Notepaper and Envelopes 0—0—2

[29491] 1 Dinner and Gratification 0—2—0

[29492] 1 Postal Order and Stamp 0—2—8

[29498] 1 Coffee and Bun 0—0—4

[29513] his foot to one side and observed the creases, protuberances and salient

[29516] unhooked and loosened the laces, took off each of his two boots for the

[29519] his right foot and, having unhooked a purple elastic sock suspender,

[29521] of the seat of his chair, picked at and gently lacerated the protruding

[29522] part of the great toenail, raised the part lacerated to his nostrils and

[29529] ungual fragments, picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, pupil of Mrs

[29531] genuflection and nocturnal prayer and ambitious meditation.

[29533] In what ultimate ambition had all concurrent and consecutive ambitions

[29538] of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation £ 42), of

[29539] grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage

[29543] southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected

[29545] creeper), halldoor, olive green, with smart carriage finish and neat

[29546] doorbrasses, stucco front with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising,

[29548] with stone pillar parapet over unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent

[29549] pastures and standing in 5 or 6 acres of its own ground, at such

[29551] houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge

[29560] tiled kitchen with close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted

[29562] Encyclopaedia Britannica and New Century Dictionary, transverse obsolete

[29563] medieval and oriental weapons, dinner gong, alabaster lamp, bowl

[29565] handtufted Axminster carpet with cream ground and trellis border, loo

[29566] table with pillar and claw legs, hearth with massive firebrasses and

[29568] chime, barometer with hygrographic chart, comfortable lounge settees and

[29569] corner fitments, upholstered in ruby plush with good springing and sunk

[29570] centre, three banner Japanese screen and cuspidors (club style, rich

[29572] linseed oil and vinegar) and pyramidically prismatic central chandelier

[29575] floral design and top crown frieze, staircase, three continuous flights

[29577] and risers, newel, balusters and handrail, with steppedup panel dado,

[29578] dressed with camphorated wax: bathroom, hot and cold supply, reclining

[29579] and shower: water closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane

[29580] oblong window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod and brace,

[29581] armrests, footstool and artistic oleograph on inner face of door:

[29582] ditto, plain: servants’ apartments with separate sanitary and hygienic

[29583] necessaries for cook, general and betweenmaid (salary, rising by

[29585] insurance, annual bonus (£ 1) and retiring allowance (based on the

[29587] refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin (still

[29588] and sparkling vintages) for distinguished guests, if entertained to

[29593] As addenda, a tennis and fives court, a shrubbery, a glass summerhouse

[29597] scarlet and chrome tulips, blue scillas, crocuses, polyanthus, sweet

[29599] W. Mackey (Limited) wholesale and retail seed and bulb merchants and

[29601] an orchard, kitchen garden and vinery, protected against illegal

[29610] brush, hoe and so on.

[29614] A rabbitry and fowlrun, a dovecote, a botanical conservatory, 2 hammocks

[29615] (lady’s and gentleman’s), a sundial shaded and sheltered by laburnum

[29618] a lawnmower with side delivery and grassbox, a lawnsprinkler with

[29635] In loose allwool garments with Harris tweed cap, price 8/6, and useful

[29636] garden boots with elastic gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned

[29645] to various amatory and superstitious practices, contemplation of the

[29650] Outdoor: garden and fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised causeways,

[29651] ascents of moderately high hills, natation in secluded fresh water and

[29653] anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids (period of estivation),

[29655] of sterile landscape and contrastingly agreeable cottagers’ fires of

[29657] tepid security of unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of

[29660] bullnose plane and turnscrew.

[29662] Might he become a gentleman farmer of field produce and live stock?

[29664] Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and

[29668] What would be his civic functions and social status among the county

[29669] families and landed gentry?

[29672] of gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and at the zenith of his

[29674] and coat of arms and appropriate classical motto (Semper paratus), duly

[29676] L. L. D. (honoris causa), Bloomville, Dundrum) and mentioned in court

[29677] and fashionable intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have left

[29682] A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour:

[29684] incessantly rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality,

[29687] with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to the crown. Loyal to

[29693] of the law (common, statute and law merchant) against all traversers in

[29694] covin and trespassers acting in contravention of bylaws and regulations,

[29695] all resuscitators (by trespass and petty larceny of kindlings) of

[29706] Israelitic faith and communion in 1865 by the Society for promoting

[29708] Roman catholicism at the epoch of and with a view to his matrimony

[29709] in 1888. To Daniel Magrane and Francis Wade in 1882 during a juvenile

[29712] colonial (e.g. Canadian) expansion and the evolutionary theories of

[29713] Charles Darwin, expounded in The Descent of Man and The Origin of

[29715] collective and national economic programme advocated by James Fintan

[29716] Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel, J. F. X. O’Brien and others,

[29719] peace, retrenchment and reform of William Ewart Gladstone (M. P. for

[29720] Midlothian, N. B.) and, in support of his political convictions, had

[29725] the marquess of Ripon and (honest) John Morley.

[29727] How much and how did he propose to pay for this country residence?

[29734] acquisition and the balance in the form of annual rent, viz. £ 800

[29740] foreclosure and mutual compensation in the event of protracted failure

[29748] A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system

[29750] more miles and furlongs won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at 3 hr

[29751] 8 m p.m. at Ascot (Greenwich time), the message being received and

[29760] edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on

[29778] cultivation of orange plantations and melonfields and reafforestation.

[29781] first, vast number of the second and immense quantity of the third,

[29782] every normal human being of average vitality and appetite producing

[29784] animal and vegetable diet), to be multiplied by 4,386,035, the total

[29789] A scheme to be formulated and submitted for approval to the harbour

[29795] and erect on the space of the foreland, used for golf links and rifle

[29798] A scheme for the use of dogvans and goatvans for the delivery of early

[29800] and around Dublin by means of petrolpropelled riverboats, plying in the

[29801] fluvial fairway between Island bridge and Ringsend, charabancs, narrow

[29802] gauge local railways, and pleasure steamers for coastwise navigation

[29804] the repristination of passenger and goods traffics over Irish waterways,

[29806] Market (North Circular road and Prussia street) with the quays (Sheriff

[29807] street, lower, and East Wall), parallel with the Link line railway

[29808] laid (in conjunction with the Great Southern and Western railway line)

[29809] between the cattle park, Liffey junction, and terminus of Midland

[29812] England, City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, Lancashire and Yorkshire

[29813] Railway Company, Dublin and Glasgow Steam Packet Company, Glasgow,

[29814] Dublin and Londonderry Steam Packet Company (Laird line), British and

[29815] Irish Steam Packet Company, Dublin and Morecambe Steamers, London and

[29816] North Western Railway Company, Dublin Port and Docks Board Landing Sheds

[29817] and transit sheds of Palgrave, Murphy and Company, steamship owners,

[29819] and Holland and for Liverpool Underwriters’ Association, the cost of

[29820] acquired rolling stock for animal transport and of additional mileage

[29825] become a natural and necessary apodosis?

[29828] and transfer vouchers during donor’s lifetime or by bequest after

[29831] possessing fortunes in 6 figures, amassed during a successful life, and

[29843] the night alleviated fatigue and produced as a result sound repose and

[29865] reduced to its simplest and most efficient terms not exceeding the span

[29866] of casual vision and congruous with the velocity of modern life.

[29874] photographs of queen Alexandra of England and of Maud Branscombe,

[29875] actress and professional beauty: a Yuletide card, bearing on it a

[29878] the versicle: May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome

[29880] stores department of Messrs Hely’s, Ltd., 89, 90, and 91 Dame street:

[29894] Clifford, c/o. P. O. Dolphin’s Barn: the transliterated name and

[29902] 1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and feintruled notepaper,

[29904] 2 coupons of the Royal and Privileged Hungarian Lottery: a lowpower

[29906] nude senorita (rere presentation, superior position) and nude torero

[29913] during and after 2 months’ consecutive use of Sandow-Whiteley’s

[29914] pulley exerciser (men’s 15/-, athlete’s 20/-) viz. chest 28 in and

[29915] 29 1/2 in, biceps 9 in and 10 in, forearm 8 1/2 in and 9 in, thigh 10 in

[29916] and 12 in, calf 11 in and 12 in: 1 prospectus of The Wonderworker,

[29925] It heals and soothes while you sleep, in case of trouble in breaking

[29927] in discharge of gases, keeping parts clean and free natural action, an

[29928] initial outlay of 7/6 making a new man of you and life worth living.

[29931] sultry summer’s day. Recommend it to your lady and gentlemen friends,

[29952] face, form and address had been favourably received during the course of

[29969] with profit policy of £ 430, £ 462-10-0 and £ 500 at 60 years or

[29970] death, 65 years or death and death, respectively, or with profit policy

[29975] and sixpence, sterling), net personalty: certificate of possession of

[29985] that I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all

[29991] An indistinct daguerreotype of Rudolf Virag and his father Leopold

[29993] (respectively) 1st and 2nd cousin, Stefan Virag of Szesfehervar,

[30013] of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the

[30019] beliefs and practices.

[30023] The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the

[30029] How did these beliefs and practices now appear to him?

[30032] other beliefs and practices now appeared.

[30037] retrospective arrangement of migrations and settlements in and between

[30043] consultation of a geographical map of Europe (political) and by

[30048] migrations in narrator and listener?

[30050] In narrator by the access of years and in consequence of the use of

[30051] narcotic toxin: in listener by the access of years and in consequence of

[30073] these supports protected him, and by elimination of all positive values

[30077] hawker of imitation jewellery, the dun for the recovery of bad and

[30078] doubtful debts, the poor rate and deputy cess collector. Mendicancy:

[30115] The parties concerned, uniting, had increased and multiplied, which

[30116] being done, offspring produced and educed to maturity, the parties, if

[30117] not disunited were obliged to reunite for increase and multiplication,

[30123] The attractive character of certain localities in Ireland and abroad,

[30125] in special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and

[30131] submerged petrified city, the Giant’s Causeway, Fort Camden and

[30139] Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 2 Mincing Lane, London, E. C., 5 Dame

[30140] street, Dublin), Jerusalem, the holy city (with mosque of Omar and gate

[30154] and divided externally at omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled

[30155] triangle formed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha

[30169] What universal binomial denominations would be his as entity and

[30176] Honour and gifts of strangers, the friends of Everyman. A nymph

[30182] cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic

[30183] planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of

[30185] imperceptibly he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey

[30188] constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination

[30195] An unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through

[30196] reversible space and an exodus and return in space through irreversible

[30205] warmth (human) tempered with coolness (linen), obviating desire and

[30215] case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the

[30216] spring mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section).

[30221] The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion and

[30223] funeral (rite of Samuel): the advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and

[30225] museum and national library (holy place): the bookhunt along Bedford

[30233] 82 Tyrone street, lower, and subsequent brawl and chance medley in

[30234] Beaver street (Armageddon): nocturnal perambulation to and from the

[30261] Robertson and Co, 5 Dame Street, Dublin, and 2 Mincing Lane, London E.

[30270] Fusiliers, of Gibraltar and Rehoboth, Dolphin’s Barn.

[30285] cut on generous lines, redolent of opoponax, jessamine and Muratti’s

[30286] Turkish cigarettes and containing a long bright steel safety pin, folded

[30298] and ironmongery manufacturer, 21, 22, 23 Moore street, disposed

[30299] irregularly on the washstand and floor and consisting of basin, soapdish

[30300] and brushtray (on the washstand, together), pitcher and night article

[30307] bed a folded long white nightshirt, inserted his head and arms into the

[30309] the foot of the bed, prepared the bedlinen accordingly and entered the

[30316] being old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous

[30317] under stress and strain: prudently, as entering a lair or ambush of

[30319] conception and of birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of

[30320] marriage, of sleep and of death.

[30333] last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor

[30334] alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

[30347] and so each and so on to no last term.

[30349] What were his reflections concerning the last member of this series and

[30357] proportion and commercial ability?

[30363] comprehension and apprehension.

[30372] Of a bodily and mental male organism specially adapted for the

[30373] superincumbent posture of energetic human copulation and energetic

[30374] piston and cylinder movement necessary for the complete satisfaction of

[30375] a constant but not acute concupiscence resident in a bodily and mental

[30380] Because a nature full and volatile in its free state, was alternately

[30381] the agent and reagent of attraction. Because attraction between agent(s)

[30382] and reagent(s) at all instants varied, with inverse proportion of

[30383] increase and decrease, with incessant circular extension and radial

[30390] establishment of George Mesias, merchant tailor and outfitter, 5 Eden

[30391] Quay, b) hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and

[30393] ambition and magnanimity, colleagual altruism and amorous egoism, d)

[30400] As as natural as any and every natural act of a nature expressed or

[30402] with his, her and their natured natures, of dissimilar similarity.

[30405] theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money

[30412] impersonation, criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and premeditated

[30415] equilibrium between the bodily organism and its attendant circumstances,

[30443] of the thing in itself: the incongruity and disproportion between

[30444] the selfprolonging tension of the thing proposed to be done and the

[30452] and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary

[30459] In what final satisfaction did these antagonistic sentiments and

[30462] Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial

[30463] hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored

[30465] Greece, the land of promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female

[30466] hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and

[30495] Martha Clifford and Henry Flower, the public altercation at, in and

[30496] in the vicinity of the licensed premises of Bernard Kiernan and Co,

[30497] Limited, 8, 9 and 10 Little Britain street, the erotic provocation

[30498] and response thereto caused by the exhibitionism of Gertrude (Gerty),

[30502] 36 and 37 Lower Abbey street, a volume of peccaminous pornographical

[30506] completely recovered) being Stephen Dedalus, professor and author,

[30509] witness, the professor and author aforesaid, with promptitude of

[30510] decision and gymnastic flexibility.

[30518] Stephen Dedalus, professor and author.

[30520] What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were

[30521] perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the

[30522] course of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?

[30526] September 1870), viz. 8 October, and consummated on the same date with

[30528] on the 10 September of the same year and complete carnal intercourse,

[30531] December 1893 of second (and only male) issue, deceased 9 January 1894,

[30532] aged 11 days, there remained a period of 10 years, 5 months and 18 days

[30535] of activity, mental and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental

[30536] intercourse between himself and the listener had not taken place since

[30538] female issue of narrator and listener, 15 September 1903, there remained

[30539] a period of 9 months and 1 day during which, in consequence of a

[30541] consummated females (listener and issue), complete corporal liberty of

[30551] What moved visibly above the listener’s and the narrator’s invisible

[30554] The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of

[30555] concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.

[30557] In what directions did listener and narrator lie?

[30560] latitude, N., and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45° to

[30565] At rest relatively to themselves and to each other. In motion being each

[30566] and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the

[30573] leg extended in a straight line and resting on left leg, flexed, in the

[30575] reclined laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the index

[30576] finger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in

[30586] Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and

[30587] Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and

[30588] Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad

[30589] the Hailer and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the

[30590] Quailer and Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.

18. Penelope

[30613] thought he had a great leg of and she never left us a farthing all for

[30614] masses for herself and her soul greatest miser ever was actually afraid

[30616] had too much old chat in her about politics and earthquakes and the end

[30618] the women were her sort down on bathingsuits and lownecks of course

[30622] and her gabby talk about Mr Riordan here and Mr Riordan there I suppose

[30623] he was glad to get shut of her and her dog smelling my fur and always

[30625] in him polite to old women like that and waiters and beggars too hes

[30629] into him for a month yes and then wed have a hospital nurse next thing

[30632] because theyre so weak and puling when theyre sick they want a woman

[30633] to get well if his nose bleeds youd think it was O tragic and that

[30640] a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate bandaging and

[30646] night women if it was down there he was really and the hotel story he

[30648] meet ah yes I met do you remember Menton and who else who let me see

[30649] that big babbyface I saw him and he not long married flirting with a

[30650] young girl at Pooles Myriorama and turned my back on him when he slinked

[30652] up to me one time well done to him mouth almighty and his boiled eyes of

[30653] all the big stupoes I ever met and thats called a solicitor only for

[30659] me and he covered it up with the blottingpaper pretending to be thinking

[30663] can out of him no fool like an old fool and then the usual kissing my

[30674] house stealing my potatoes and the oysters 2/6 per doz going out to see

[30683] rooms myself quicker only for the damn cooking and throwing out the dirt

[30685] touch him if I thought he was with a dirty barefaced liar and sloven

[30686] like that one denying it up to my face and singing about the place in

[30688] possibly do without it that long so he must do it somewhere and the last

[30693] about him and me hes not such a fool he said Im dining out and going to

[30695] God knows hes a change in a way not to be always and ever wearing the

[30698] him if we were Id let him see my garters the new ones and make him turn

[30701] question and answer would you do this that and the other with the

[30704] knitting that woollen thing a stranger to Dublin what place was it and

[30705] so on about the monuments and he tired me out with statues encouraging

[30710] age of his life simply ruination for any woman and no satisfaction in it

[30711] pretending to like it till he comes and then finish it off myself anyway

[30712] and it makes your lips pale anyhow its done now once and for all with

[30714] after that its just the ordinary do it and think no more about it why

[30715] cant you kiss a man without going and marrying him first you sometimes

[30718] and kiss me in his arms theres nothing like a kiss long and hot down to

[30720] to go to Father Corrigan he touched me father and what harm if he did

[30721] where and I said on the canal bank like a fool but whereabouts on your

[30723] it where you sit down yes O Lord couldnt he say bottom right out and

[30724] have done with it what has that got to do with it and did you whatever

[30725] way he put it I forget no father and I always think of the real father

[30732] them Id like to be embraced by one in his vestments and the smell of

[30742] and yellow expensive drinks those stagedoor johnnies drink with the

[30746] port and potted meat it had a fine salty taste yes because I felt lovely

[30747] and tired myself and fell asleep as sound as a top the moment I popped

[30750] blessed myself and said a Hail Mary like those awful thunderbolts in

[30751] Gibraltar as if the world was coming to an end and then they come and

[30752] tell you theres no God what could you do if it was running and rushing

[30761] off all my things with the blinds down after my hours dressing and

[30762] perfuming and combing it like iron or some kind of a thick crowbar

[30770] him when I made him pull out and do it on me considering how big it is

[30775] believe cutting her teeth too and Mina Purefoys husband give us a swing

[30780] them falling over one another and bawling you couldnt hear your ears

[30785] I suppose it was meeting Josie Powell and the funeral and thinking about

[30786] me and Boylan set him off well he can think what he likes now if thatll

[30788] he was dancing and sitting out with her the night of Georgina Simpsons

[30789] housewarming and then he wanted to ram it down my neck it was on account

[30794] he was gone on me and the first socialist he said He was he annoyed me

[30796] things especially about the body and the inside I often wanted to study

[30798] always hear his voice talking when the room was crowded and watch him

[30801] to and I said over to Floey and he made me the present of Byrons poems

[30802] and the three pairs of gloves so that finished that I could quite easily

[30804] with her again and was going out to see her somewhere Id know if he

[30806] collar of my blouse or touch him with my veil and gloves on going out 1

[30809] mad in love with him that I wouldnt so much mind Id just go to her and

[30810] ask her do you love him and look her square in the eyes she couldnt fool

[30811] me but he might imagine he was and make a declaration to her with his

[30814] hold in and wasnt to be got for the asking he was on the pop of asking

[30817] in a temper with my hands and arms full of pasty flour in any case I let

[30820] Josie whenever he was there meaning him of course glauming me over and

[30821] when I said I washed up and down as far as possible asking me and did

[30827] was too beautiful for a man and he was a little before we got engaged

[30836] face beginning to look drawn and run down the last time I saw her she

[30838] was edging to draw down a conversation about husbands and talk about him

[30844] in wet or shine and always blacks his own boots too and he always takes

[30845] off his hat when he comes up in the street like then and now hes going

[30851] put up with him the way I do know me come sleep with me yes and he knows

[30854] found out on her wasnt she the downright villain to go and do a thing

[30856] and always the worst word in the world what do they ask us to marry them

[30863] to go and hang a woman surely are they

[30867] with Poldy laughing and trying to listen I was waggling my foot we both

[30868] ordered 2 teas and plain bread and butter I saw him looking with his

[30869] two old maids of sisters when I stood up and asked the girl where it was

[30870] what do I care with it dropping out of me and that black closed breeches

[30874] some robber of a woman and he wanted me to put it in the Irish times

[30876] Marion Bloom and I saw his eyes on my feet going out through the turning

[30877] door he was looking when I looked back and I went there for tea 2 days

[30882] and a gold bracelet I dont like my foot so much still I made him spend

[30884] and windy it was well we had that rum in the house to mull and the fire

[30886] hearthrug in Lombard street west and another time it was my muddy boots

[30889] could give 9 points in 10 to Katty Lanner and beat her what does that

[30891] just passed and the man with the curly hair in the Lucan dairy thats so

[30896] straight on the brow and part which is my brown part he was pretty hot

[30901] and surprise him ay and Ill take him there and show him the very place

[30907] me in the eye of my glove and I had to take it off asking me questions

[30912] skirts blowing up to their navels even when Milly and I were out with

[30918] and the brown hat looking slyboots as usual what was he doing there

[30919] where hed no business they can go and get whatever they like from

[30920] anything at all with a skirt on it and were not to ask any questions but

[30924] halfturned and stopped then he pestered me to say yes till I took off my

[30930] hungry to look at them and beseeched of me to lift the orange petticoat

[30932] down in the wet if I didnt so persevering he would too and ruin his new

[30934] savage for it if anyone was passing so I lifted them a bit and touched

[30938] to do everything too quick take all the pleasure out of it and father

[30940] the butchers and had to go back for it what a Deceiver then he wrote me

[30946] man and if I knew what it meant of course I had to say no for form sake

[30947] dont understand you I said and wasnt it natural so it is of course

[30957] think its the vegetables then its somebody and you all undressed or

[30959] Goodwin called about the concert in Lombard street and I just after

[30960] dinner all flushed and tossed with boiling old stew dont look at me

[30964] it was a putoff first him sending the port and the peaches first and I

[30970] the penny to that lame sailor for England home and beauty when I was

[30971] whistling there is a charming girl I love and I hadnt even put on my

[30975] were beside each other and any fooling went on in the new bed I couldnt

[30976] tell him to stop and not bother me with him in the next room or perhaps

[30984] splashing about taking spoonfuls of it hadnt he the nerve and the waiter

[30985] after him making a holy show of us screeching and confusion for the

[31001] chits of missies they have now singing Kathleen Kearney and her like

[31002] on account of father being in the army and my singing the absentminded

[31003] beggar and wearing a brooch for Lord Roberts when I had the map of it

[31004] all and Poldy not Irish enough was it him managed it this time I wouldnt

[31008] lead Thou me on copied from some old opera yes and he was going about

[31010] talking his usual trash and nonsense he says that little man he showed

[31014] the war that Pretoria and Ladysmith and Bloemfontein where Gardner lieut

[31016] fellow in khaki and just the right height over me Im sure he was brave

[31019] seen from the road he couldnt stand properly and I so hot as I never

[31021] and the rest of the other old Krugers go and fight it out between them

[31035] this ring behind want to keep turning and turning to get it over the

[31037] tell the police on me but theyd think were married O let them all go and

[31038] smother themselves for the fat lot I care he has plenty of money and hes

[31045] Mrs Mastiansky told me her husband made her like the dogs do it and

[31046] stick out her tongue as far as ever she could and he so quiet and mild

[31048] them lovely stuff in that blue suit he had on and stylish tie and socks

[31050] cut his clothes have and his heavy watch but he was like a perfect devil

[31052] tickets and swearing blazes because he lost 20 quid he said he lost over

[31053] that outsider that won and half he put on for me on account of Lenehans

[31059] morsel of that chicken out of my fingers it was so tasty and browned

[31060] and as tender as anything only for I didnt want to eat everything on my

[31061] plate those forks and fishslicers were hallmarked silver too I wish I

[31067] least two other good chemises for one thing and but I dont know what

[31068] kind of drawers he likes none at all I think didnt he say yes and half

[31071] she hadnt yes and the second pair of silkette stockings is laddered

[31073] morning and kicked up a row and made that one change them only not to

[31074] upset myself and run the risk of walking into him and ruining the whole

[31075] thing and one of those kidfitting corsets Id want advertised cheap in

[31082] call him the old mangy parcel he sent at Xmas a cottage cake and a

[31090] over and over again get that made up in the same place and dont forget

[31093] beeftea or chickensoup with some of that opoponax and violet I thought

[31096] it isnt all like that and the four paltry handkerchiefs about 6/- in all

[31097] sure you cant get on in this world without style all going in food and

[31099] want to throw a handful of tea into the pot measuring and mincing if I

[31101] they Ive no clothes at all the brown costume and the skirt and jacket

[31102] and the one at the cleaners 3 whats that for any woman cutting up this

[31103] old hat and patching up the other the men wont look at you and women try

[31111] combing it as if she loved it and was full of it pity I only got to

[31112] know her the day before we left and that Mrs Langtry the jersey lily the

[31116] funny story about the jealous old husband what was it at all and an

[31118] and the prince of Wales yes he had the oyster knife cant be true a thing

[31122] and her a—e as if any fool wouldnt know what that meant I hate that

[31124] can see its not true and that Ruby and Fair Tyrants he brought me that

[31130] a child that big taken out of her and I thought first it came out of her

[31131] side because how could she go to the chamber when she wanted to and she

[31136] chuck that Freeman with the paltry few shillings he knocks out of it and

[31143] what he did then sending me to try and patch it up I could have got him

[31145] first he was as stiff as the mischief really and truly Mrs Bloom only I

[31149] I changed my mind of going to Todd and Burns as I said and not Lees it

[31152] thinks he knows a great lot about a womans dress and cooking mathering

[31156] me or the dishcover one coming down on my backside on pins and needles

[31158] to bring him into and she as insolent as ever she could be with her

[31160] for but I stared it out of her yes he was awfully stiff and no wonder

[31165] first time after him being insulted and me being supposed to be his wife

[31167] said Im extremely sorry and Im sure you were

[31172] and Ill take those eggs beaten up with marsala fatten them out for him

[31173] what are all those veins and things curious the way its made 2 the same

[31177] like with his two bags full and his other thing hanging down out of

[31187] 7 wonders of the world O and the stink of those rotten places the night

[31188] coming home with Poldy after the Comerfords party oranges and lemonade

[31189] to make you feel nice and watery I went into 1 of them it was so biting

[31197] job in Helys and I was selling the clothes and strumming in the coffee

[31200] he has nymphs used they go about like that I asked him about her and

[31201] that word met something with hoses in it and he came out with some

[31203] the way a body can understand then he goes and burns the bottom out of

[31213] to suck them they were so hard he said it was sweeter and thicker than

[31216] the one half of the things and write a book out of it the works of

[31217] Master Poldy yes and its so much smoother the skin much an hour he was

[31221] he was here or somebody to let myself go with and come again like that I

[31229] he does it and doesnt talk I gave my eyes that look with my hair a bit

[31230] loose from the tumbling and my tongue between my lips up to him the

[31235] have in them like big giants and the water rolling all over and out of

[31237] that have to be out all the night from their wives and families in those

[31239] those old Freemans and Photo Bits leaving things like that lying about

[31240] hes getting very careless and threw the rest of them up in the W C

[31243] last Januarys paper and all those old overcoats I bundled out of

[31244] the hall making the place hotter than it is that rain was lovely and

[31247] as night and the glare of the rock standing up in it like a big giant

[31249] sentries here and there the poplars and they all whitehot and the smell

[31254] you I sent the little present have just had a jolly warm bath and feel

[31256] anything to be back in Gib and hear you sing Waiting and in old Madrid

[31260] the lovely teas we had together scrumptious currant scones and raspberry

[31261] wafers I adore well now dearest Doggerina be sure and write soon kind

[31271] banderilleros with the sashes and the 2 things in their hats and the

[31275] his heart at me taking off the dog barking in bell lane poor brute and

[31280] it at the back when I put it up and whats this else how to make a knot

[31285] when I was with father and Captain Grove I looked up at the church first

[31286] and then at the windows then down and our eyes met I felt something go

[31290] looking disappointed and gay at the same time he was like Thomas in

[31291] the shadow of Ashlydyat I had a splendid skin from the sun and the

[31295] Lynne I read and the shadow of Ashlydyat Mrs Henry Wood Henry Dunbar by

[31297] see I wasnt without and Lord Lytton Eugene Aram Molly bawn she gave me

[31300] always shoplifting anything she could cloth and stuff and yards of it

[31302] nightdress this thing gets all rolled under me besides him and his

[31305] when I stood up they were so fattish and firm when I got up on the sofa

[31306] cushions to see with my clothes up and the bugs tons of them at night

[31307] and the mosquito nets I couldnt read a line Lord how long ago it seems

[31308] centuries of course they never came back and she didnt put her address

[31310] going away and we never I remember that day with the waves and the

[31311] boats with their high heads rocking and the smell of ship those Officers

[31313] very serious I had the high buttoned boots on and my skirt was blowing

[31317] peculiarly to one side like and it was extremely pretty it got as dull

[31321] his flying feet their damn guns bursting and booming all over the shop

[31322] especially the Queens birthday and throwing everything down in all

[31325] ship and old Sprague the consul that was there from before the flood

[31326] dressed up poor man and he in mourning for the son then the same old

[31327] bugles for reveille in the morning and drums rolling and the unfortunate

[31329] more than the old longbearded jews in their jellibees and levites

[31330] assembly and sound clear and gunfire for the men to cross the lines and

[31331] the warden marching with his keys to lock the gates and the bagpipes and

[31332] only captain Groves and father talking about Rorkes drift and Plevna and

[31333] sir Garnet Wolseley and Gordon at Khartoum lighting their pipes for

[31343] with the one eye and his heass of an instrument singing his heah heah

[31347] nurse was after when I put on my gloves and hat at the window to show

[31355] the bulls and cows they were selling the meat and the coalmans bell that

[31357] hat what a pair of paws and pots and pans and kettles to mend any broken

[31358] bottles for a poor man today and no visitors or post ever except his

[31360] addressed dear Madam only his letter and the card from Milly this

[31365] believe all I hear with a villa and eight rooms her father was an

[31373] me the wrong things and no stops to say like making a speech your sad

[31374] bereavement symph?athy I always make that mistake and new?phew with 2

[31379] would write me a loveletter his wasnt much and I told him he could write

[31382] be some truth in it true or no it fills up your whole day and life

[31383] always something to think about every moment and see it all round you

[31394] Mulveys was the first when I was in bed that morning and Mrs Rubio

[31396] to hand me and I pointing at them I couldnt think of the word a hairpin

[31397] to open it with ah horquilla disobliging old thing and it staring her

[31398] in the face with her switch of false hair on her and vain about her

[31401] Atlantic fleet coming in half the ships of the world and the Union Jack

[31403] all the rock from them and because I didnt run into mass often enough in

[31405] a marriage on with all her miracles of the saints and her black blessed

[31406] virgin with the silver dress and the sun dancing 3 times on Easter

[31407] Sunday morning and when the priest was going by with the bell bringing

[31413] in every hole and corner while father was up at the drill instructing to

[31415] shall I wear a white rose and I wanted to put on the old stupid clock to

[31421] la Flora and he believed me that I was to be married to him in 3 years

[31426] brought me he couldnt count the pesetas and the perragordas till I

[31431] I told him it was struck by lightning and all about the old Barbary apes

[31434] the chickens out of Inces farm and throw stones at you if you went anear

[31439] galleries and casemates and those frightful rocks and Saint Michaels

[31440] cave with the icicles or whatever they call them hanging down and

[31443] chips that was the Malta boat passing yes the sea and the sky you could

[31452] with the Banana but I was afraid it might break and get lost up in me

[31455] where they come out of youd think they could never go far enough up and

[31462] rrrsssstt awokwokawok his eyes shut and a bird flying below us he was

[31464] when I got over him that way when I unbuttoned him and took his out and

[31470] hed come back Lord its just like yesterday to me and if I was married

[31471] hed do it to me and I promised him yes faithfully Id let him block me

[31473] 20 years if I said firtree cove he would if he came up behind me and

[31475] still about 40 perhaps hes married some girl on the black water and is

[31481] Bros and exploded it Lord what a bang all the woodcocks and pigeons

[31483] by the old guardhouse and the jews burialplace pretending to read out

[31488] higher functions about girls now riding the bicycle and wearing peak

[31489] caps and the new woman bloomers God send him sense and me more money I

[31492] visiting card or practising for the butcher and oblige M Bloom youre

[31499] Europa point twisting in and out all round the other side of Jersey they

[31500] were shaking and dancing about in my blouse like Millys little ones now

[31502] up at the pepper trees and the white poplars pulling the leaves off and

[31504] men have to make to the ends of the world and back its the least they

[31509] from the B Marche paris and the coral necklace the straits shining I

[31510] could see over to Morocco almost the bay of Tangier white and the Atlas

[31511] mountain with snow on it and the straits like a river so clear Harry

[31513] mass when my petticoat began to slip down at the elevation weeks and

[31516] dEspagne that faded and left a stink on you more than anything else I

[31519] him with their war and fever but they were well beaten all the same as

[31522] you get in a place like that the sandfrog shower from Africa and that

[31530] and her lot of squealers Miss This Miss That Miss Theother lot of

[31533] interesting Irish homemade beauties soldiers daughter am I ay and whose

[31534] are you bootmakers and publicans I beg your pardon coach I thought you

[31538] poor head I knew more about men and life when I was 15 than theyll all

[31540] man could look at my mouth and teeth smiling like that and not think of

[31542] left me in spite of his stamps Ive my mothers eyes and figure anyhow

[31545] first thats fit to be looked at and a daughter like mine or see if they

[31546] can excite a swell with money that can pick and choose whoever he wants

[31550] Bower is too long for an encore about the moated grange at twilight and

[31553] to show off my bubs and Ill yes by God Ill get that big fan mended make

[31557] and sides if we had even a bath itself or my own room anyway I wish hed

[31572] dressing her up and undressing that icy wind skeeting across from those

[31577] summer and I in my skin hopping around I used to love myself then

[31578] stripped at the washstand dabbing and creaming only when it came to the

[31584] money and getting drunker and drunker couldnt they drink water then he

[31585] starts giving us his orders for eggs and tea and Findon haddy and hot

[31587] the country pumping the wrong end of the spoon up and down in his egg

[31588] wherever he learned that from and I love to hear him falling up the

[31589] stairs of a morning with the cups rattling on the tray and then play

[31591] fleas shes as bad as a woman always licking and lecking but I hate their

[31593] she sits at the top of the stairs so long and listening as I wait always

[31597] mixed plum and apple from the London and Newcastle Williams and Woods

[31600] sick of that everlasting butchers meat from Buckleys loin chops and leg

[31601] beef and rib steak and scrag of mutton and calfs pluck the very name is

[31602] enough or a picnic suppose we all gave 5/- each and or let him pay it

[31603] and invite some other woman for him who Mrs Fleming and drove out to the

[31606] yes with some cold veal and ham mixed sandwiches there are little houses

[31613] yes then it came on to get rough the old thing crookeding about and the

[31615] left and the tide all swamping in floods in through the bottom and his

[31619] all the people and give him what that one calls flagellate till he was

[31620] black and blue do him all the good in the world only for that longnosed

[31628] all ruined with the saltwater and the hat I had with that feather all

[31629] blowy and tossed on me how annoying and provoking because the smell of

[31630] the sea excited me of course the sardines and the bream in Catalan bay

[31632] baskets old Luigi near a hundred they said came from Genoa and the tall

[31634] get at I suppose theyre all dead and rotten long ago besides I dont like

[31639] and ruin himself altogether the way his father did down in Ennis like

[31640] all the things he told father he was going to do and me but I saw

[31642] honeymoon Venice by moonlight with the gondolas and the lake of Como he

[31643] had a picture cut out of some paper of and mandolines and lanterns O

[31648] with his long story might be a tramp and put his foot in the way to

[31650] was called in Lloyds Weekly news 20 years in jail then he comes out and

[31653] till I bolted all the doors and windows to make sure but its worse again

[31658] I heard burglars in the kitchen and he went down in his shirt with a

[31659] candle and a poker as if he was looking for a mouse as white as a sheet

[31666] that all the same on account of me and Boylan thats why he did it Im

[31667] certain the way he plots and plans everything out I couldnt turn round

[31673] little gimcrack statue with her roughness and carelessness before she

[31677] lately at the table explaining things in the paper and she pretending to

[31679] cant say I pretend things can he Im too honest as a matter of fact and

[31681] me shed tell not him I suppose he thinks Im finished out and laid on

[31688] skatingrink and smoking their cigarettes through their nose I smelt it

[31691] only I oughtnt to have stitched it and it on her it brings a parting and

[31694] open too low she says to me the pan calling the kettle blackbottom and

[31704] her barebum every two minutes tipping me there and looking away hes a

[31707] on the moment the face and everything but he didnt remember me yes and

[31710] was down with the mumps and her glands swollen wheres this and wheres

[31713] usual girls nonsense and giggling that Conny Connolly writing to her in

[31716] Harvey for breakfast dinner and supper I thought to myself afterwards

[31723] queer to go and poison himself after her still poor old man I suppose

[31730] potatoes the day we met Mrs Joe Gallaher at the trottingmatches and she

[31733] herself take that now for answering me like that and that for your

[31736] didnt sleep the night before cheese I ate was it and I told her over and

[31745] putting the things into her hands sneezing and farting into the pots

[31748] something and opened the area window to let out the smell bringing in

[31752] the cricket match and a great big hole in his sock one thing laughing at

[31753] the other and his son that got all those prizes for whatever he won them

[31761] else and she never even rendered down the fat I told her and now shes

[31764] an operation or if its not that its drink and he beats her Ill have to

[31769] you of course all the poking and rooting and ploughing he had up in me

[31773] isnt it simply sickening that night it came on me like that the one and

[31775] and her husband at the Gaiety something he did about insurance for him

[31777] gentleman of fashion staring down at me with his glasses and him the

[31778] other side of me talking about Spinoza and his soul thats dead I suppose

[31783] shouted I suppose he went and had a woman in the next lane running round

[31789] it on too damn it damn it and they always want to see a stain on the

[31794] what between clothes and cooking and children this damned old bed too

[31804] and skirt first in the other room he was so busy where he oughtnt to be

[31811] here how soft like a peach easy God I wouldnt mind being a man and get

[31819] thing coming from me and Floey made me go to that dry old stick Dr

[31821] suppose thats how he got all the gilt mirrors and carpets getting round

[31823] fiddlefaddle her vagina and her cochinchina theyve money of course so

[31829] for him with all my compriments I suppose hed know then and could you

[31833] squeeze and pull the chain then to flush it nice cool pins and needles

[31836] paying him for that how much is that doctor one guinea please and asking

[31843] that of course that was all thinking of him and his mad crazy letters

[31845] underlined that comes from it is a thing of beauty and of joy for ever

[31847] myself 4 and 5 times a day sometimes and I said I hadnt are you sure

[31854] and all the Doyles said he was going to stand for a member of Parliament

[31856] and the land league sending me that long strool of a song out of the

[31858] that I never even sang once explaining and rigmaroling about religion

[31859] and persecution he wont let you enjoy anything naturally then might he

[31862] wash it off with the Albion milk and sulphur soap I used to use and the

[31872] sticking out that he said was a bigger religion than the jews and

[31883] often enough and he thinks father bought it from Lord Napier that I used

[31886] houses were we in at all Raymond terrace and Ontario terrace and Lombard

[31887] street and Holles street and he goes about whistling every time were on

[31889] men with our 4 sticks of furniture and then the City Arms hotel worse

[31890] and worse says Warden Daly that charming place on the landing always

[31893] something happens or he puts his big foot in it Thoms and Helys and Mr

[31894] Cuffes and Drimmies either hes going to be run into prison over his old

[31895] lottery tickets that was to be all our salvations or he goes and gives

[31900] consolation that he says is so capable and sincerely Irish he is indeed

[31912] with those rotten pictures children with two heads and no legs thats the

[31915] tea and toast for him buttered on both sides and newlaid eggs I suppose

[31919] to them and wouldnt eat any breakfast or speak a word wanting to be

[31920] petted so I thought I stood out enough for one time and let him he does

[31923] it again if he doesnt mind himself and lock him down to sleep in the

[31926] with a married woman thats why he wants me and Boylan though as for her

[31931] his sheeps eyes at those two doing skirt duty up and down I tried to

[31932] wink at him first no use of course and thats the way his money goes this

[31936] walking behind in black L Boom and Tom Kernan that drunken little

[31938] in some place or other and Martin Cunningham and the two Dedaluses and

[31940] her eye trying to sing my songs shed want to be born all over again and

[31942] way like dabbling on a rainy day I see it all now plainly and they call

[31943] that friendship killing and then burying one another and they all with

[31944] their wives and families at home more especially Jack Power keeping that

[31946] or just getting better of it and hes a goodlooking man still though

[31951] penny piece he earns down their gullets and looks after his wife and

[31953] way for him what are his wife and 5 children going to do unless he was

[31954] insured comical little teetotum always stuck up in some pub corner and

[31958] and Ben Dollard base barreltone the night he borrowed the swallowtail

[31959] to sing out of in Holles street squeezed and squashed into them and

[31963] that to see him trotting off in his trowlers and Simon Dedalus too he

[31972] for my register even transposed and he was married at the time to May

[31975] and going to be a university professor of Italian and Im to take lessons

[31979] altogether and me too after all why not I saw him driving down to the

[31980] Kingsbridge station with his father and mother I was in mourning thats

[31985] this time he was an innocent boy then and a darling little fellow in his

[31986] lord Fauntleroy suit and curly hair like a prince on the stage when I

[31993] its way and scandals too the 3 queens and the 8 of diamonds for a rise

[31994] in society yes wait it all came out and 2 red 8s for new garments look

[31995] at that and didnt I dream something too yes there was something about

[31998] getting themselves and their poetry laughed at I always liked poetry

[31999] when I was a girl first I thought he was a poet like lord Byron and not

[32005] down in the old kitchen with him taking Eppss cocoa and talking of

[32011] poetry is in the air the blue sea and the moon shining so beautifully

[32018] to about yourself not always listening to him and Billy Prescotts ad

[32019] and Keyess ad and Tom the Devils ad then if anything goes wrong in their

[32024] and then plunging into the sea with them why arent all men like that

[32026] bought I could look at him all day long curly head and his shoulders

[32027] his finger up for you to listen theres real beauty and poetry for you

[32030] looking as if it was asking you to suck it so clean and white he looks

[32038] the lady herself and see if he comes out Ill read and study all I can

[32040] me stupid if he thinks all women are the same and I can teach him the

[32042] me then hell write about me lover and mistress publicly too with our 2

[32050] pulling off his shoes and trousers there on the chair before me so

[32051] barefaced without even asking permission and standing out that vulgar

[32057] they were so plump and tempting in my short petticoat he couldnt resist

[32059] they get off a womans body were so round and white for them always I

[32061] have swelling up on you so hard and at the same time so soft when you

[32064] because it was dark and they knew a girl was passing it didnt make me

[32065] blush why should it either its only nature and he puts his thing long

[32066] into my aunt Marys hairy etcetera and turns out to be you put the handle

[32067] in a sweepingbrush men again all over they can pick and choose what they

[32073] out what they did together well naturally and if he did can he undo it

[32074] hes coronado anyway whatever he does and then he going to the other

[32077] and he gets her what else were we given all those desires for Id like to

[32091] evening where nobodyd know me and pick up a sailor off the sea thatd be

[32092] hot on for it and not care a pin whose I was only do it off up in a gate

[32094] camp pitched near the Bloomfield laundry to try and steal our things if

[32096] laundry sending me back over and over some old ones odd stockings that

[32098] in the dark and ride me up against the wall without a word or a murderer

[32102] match of course it was for me he gave it I knew him by his gaiters and

[32103] the walk and when I turned round a minute after just to see there was

[32108] well he may sleep and sigh the great Suggester Don Poldo de la Flora if

[32111] Lord knows what he does that I dont know and Im to be slooching around

[32114] to see myself at it show them attention and they treat you like dirt

[32116] governed by the women in it you wouldnt see women going and killing one

[32117] another and slaughtering when do you ever see women rolling around drunk

[32118] like they do or gambling every penny they have and losing it on horses

[32121] be a woman and a mother how could they where would they all of them be

[32124] and studies and not living at home on account of the usual rowy house I

[32126] theyre not satisfied and I none was he not able to make one it wasnt my

[32135] God knows who nightwalkers and pickpockets his poor mother wouldnt

[32148] Siete Revueltas and Pisimbo and Mrs Opisso in Governor street O what a

[32149] name Id go and drown myself in the first river if I had a name like

[32150] her O my and all the bits of streets Paradise ramp and Bedlam ramp and

[32151] Rodgers ramp and Crutchetts ramp and the devils gap steps well small

[32159] tell him the Spanish and he tell me the Italian then hell see Im not

[32161] tired and wanted a good sleep badly I could have brought him in his

[32164] watercress and something nice and tasty there are a few olives in the

[32172] why not theres the room upstairs empty and Millys bed in the back room

[32173] he could do his writing and studies at the table in there for all the

[32174] scribbling he does at it and if he wants to read in bed in the morning

[32179] slippers like those Turks with the fez used to sell or yellow and a

[32184] the vegetables and cabbages and tomatoes and carrots and all kinds of

[32185] splendid fruits all coming in lovely and fresh who knows whod be the 1st

[32187] to say they are and the night too that was her massgoing Id love a

[32189] longing way then Ill throw him up his eggs and tea in the moustachecup

[32192] bit now and then mi fa pieta Masetto then Ill start dressing myself to

[32193] go out presto non son piu forte Ill put on my best shift and drawers let

[32195] let him know if thats what he wanted that his wife is fucked yes and

[32199] me feel my belly unless I made him stand there and put him into me Ive a

[32200] mind to tell him every scrap and make him do it out in front of me serve

[32206] wants to kiss my bottom Ill drag open my drawers and bulge it right out

[32211] do I could often have written out a fine cheque for myself and write his

[32217] bottom well and let out a few smutty words smellrump or lick my shit or

[32219] now sonny my turn is coming Ill be quite gay and friendly over it O

[32221] which to laugh or cry were such a mixture of plum and apple no Ill have

[32234] something only I only wore it twice better lower this lamp and try again

[32235] so as I can get up early Ill go to Lambes there beside Findlaters and

[32239] asleep then we can have music and cigarettes I can accompany him first I

[32242] big shop at 7 1/2d a lb or the other ones with the cherries in them and

[32246] of heaven theres nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and

[32247] the waves rushing then the beautiful country with the fields of oats and

[32248] wheat and all kinds of things and all the fine cattle going about that

[32249] would do your heart good to see rivers and lakes and flowers all sorts

[32250] of shapes and smells and colours springing up even out of the ditches

[32251] primroses and violets nature it is as for them saying theres no God I

[32253] they go and create something I often asked him atheists or whatever they

[32254] call themselves go and wash the cobbles off themselves first then they

[32255] go howling for the priest and they dying and why why because theyre

[32261] Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to

[32263] and it was leapyear like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long

[32266] said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes that was why I

[32267] liked him because I saw he understood or felt what a woman is and I knew

[32268] I could always get round him and I gave him all the pleasure I could

[32269] leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first

[32270] only looked out over the sea and the sky I was thinking of so many

[32271] things he didnt know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and

[32272] old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly and I say stoop

[32273] and washing up dishes they called it on the pier and the sentry in front

[32275] half roasted and the Spanish girls laughing in their shawls and their

[32276] tall combs and the auctions in the morning the Greeks and the jews and

[32277] the Arabs and the devil knows who else from all the ends of Europe and

[32278] Duke street and the fowl market all clucking outside Larby Sharons

[32279] and the poor donkeys slipping half asleep and the vague fellows in the

[32280] cloaks asleep in the shade on the steps and the big wheels of the carts

[32281] of the bulls and the old castle thousands of years old yes and those

[32282] handsome Moors all in white and turbans like kings asking you to sit

[32283] down in their little bit of a shop and Ronda with the old windows of the

[32285] and the wineshops half open at night and the castanets and the night we

[32287] lamp and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson

[32288] sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the

[32289] Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and the pink

[32290] and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and

[32291] geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower

[32293] girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the

[32294] Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked

[32295] him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to

[32296] say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and

[32297] drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his

[32298] heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.