Joyce's Ulysses Concordance

Episodes text

  1. Telemachus
  2. Nestor
  3. Proteus
  4. Calypso
  5. Lotus Eaters
  6. Hades
  7. Aeolus
  8. Lestrygonians
  9. Scylla and Charybdis
  10. Wandering Rocks
  11. Sirens
  12. Cyclops
  13. Nausicaa
  14. Oxen of the Sun
  15. Circe
  16. Eumaeus
  17. Ithaca
  18. Penelope

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4. Calypso

[2408] Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.
[2429] —O, there you are, Mr Bloom said, turning from the fire.
[2435] Mr Bloom watched curiously, kindly the lithe black form. Clean to see:
[2590] their joggerfry. Mine. Slieve Bloom.
[2633] Mr Bloom pointed quickly. To catch up and walk behind her if she went
[2723] them. Mrs Marion Bloom. His quickened heart slowed at once. Bold hand.
[2789] O, Milly Bloom, you are my darling.
[3100] Might manage a sketch. By Mr and Mrs L. M. Bloom. Invent a story for

5. Lotus Eaters

[3150] By lorries along sir John Rogerson’s quay Mr Bloom walked soberly,
[3246] —Hello, Bloom. Where are you off to?
[3260] —O, no, Mr Bloom said. Poor Dignam, you know. The funeral is today.
[3266] —E...eleven, Mr Bloom answered.
[3273] Mr Bloom gazed across the road at the outsider drawn up before the door
[3306] —Yes, Mr Bloom said.
[3325] —Yes, yes, Mr Bloom said after a dull sigh. Another gone.
[3335] —O, yes, Mr Bloom said. Tiptop, thanks.
[3349] Mr Bloom turned his largelidded eyes with unhasty friendliness.
[3357] Mrs Marion Bloom. Not up yet. Queen was in her bedroom eating bread and.
[3366] —It’s a kind of a tour, don’t you see, Mr Bloom said thoughtfully.
[3306] —Yes, Mr Bloom said.
[3386] —I’ll do that, Mr Bloom said, moving to get off. That’ll be all
[3392] —That will be done, Mr Bloom answered firmly.
[3400] Mr Bloom, strolling towards Brunswick street, smiled. My missus has just
[3411] Mr Bloom stood at the corner, his eyes wandering over the multicoloured
[3433] Mr Bloom went round the corner and passed the drooping nags of the
[3650] Mr Bloom looked back towards the choir. Not going to be any music. Pity.
[3674] bless all the people. All crossed themselves and stood up. Mr Bloom
[3684] Mr Bloom put his face forward to catch the words. English. Throw them
[3306] —Yes, Mr Bloom said.
[3766] —Sweet almond oil and tincture of benzoin, Mr Bloom said, and then
[3790] —No, Mr Bloom said. Make it up, please. I’ll call later in the day
[3795] Mr Bloom raised a cake to his nostrils. Sweet lemony wax.
[3802] —Good, Mr Bloom said.
[3809] —Hello, Bloom. What’s the best news? Is that today’s? Show us a
[3826] —You can keep it, Mr Bloom said.
[3831] —I was just going to throw it away, Mr Bloom said.
[3837] —I say you can keep it, Mr Bloom answered. I was going to throw it
[3841] sheets back on Mr Bloom’s arms.
[3847] Mr Bloom folded the sheets again to a neat square and lodged the soap

6. Hades

[3896] —After you, Mr Bloom said.
[3902] —Are we all here now? Martin Cunningham asked. Come along, Bloom.
[3904] Mr Bloom entered and sat in the vacant place. He pulled the door to
[3944] smoother road past Watery lane. Mr Bloom at gaze saw a lithe young man,
[3962] —No, Mr Bloom said. He was alone.
[3968] Mr Bloom smiled joylessly on Ringsend road. Wallace Bros: the
[3992] He ceased. Mr Bloom glanced from his angry moustache to Mr Power’s
[4039] Mr Bloom set his thigh down. Glad I took that bath. Feel my feet quite
[4049] —Yes, Mr Bloom answered. He’s behind with Ned Lambert and Hynes.
[4055] —I met M’Coy this morning, Mr Bloom said. He said he’d try to
[4066] Mr Bloom put his head out of the window.
[4119] Mr Bloom took the paper from his inside pocket. That book I must change
[4124] Mr Bloom’s glance travelled down the edge of the paper, scanning the
[4146] a tramway standard by Mr Bloom’s window. Couldn’t they invent
[4181] Mr Bloom reviewed the nails of his left hand, then those of his right
[4197] —How is the concert tour getting on, Bloom?
[4199] —O, very well, Mr Bloom said. I hear great accounts of it. It’s a
[4204] —Well no, Mr Bloom said. In point of fact I have to go down to the
[4212] —Louis Werner is touring her, Mr Bloom said. O yes, we’ll have all
[4218] Mr Bloom unclasped his hands in a gesture of soft politeness and clasped
[4270] His eyes met Mr Bloom’s eyes. He caressed his beard, adding:
[4274] Mr Bloom began to speak with sudden eagerness to his companions’
[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
[4299] —No, Mr Bloom said, the son himself.....
[4313] —Yes, Mr Bloom said. But the funny part is.....
[4322] —Isn’t it awfully good? Mr Bloom said eagerly.
[4359] —The best death, Mr Bloom said.
[4407] Mr Bloom, about to speak, closed his lips again. Martin Cunningham’s
[4484] the parkgate to the quays, Mr Bloom said. All those animals could be
[4490] —Yes, Mr Bloom said, and another thing I often thought, is to have
[4500] —Why? Mr Bloom asked, turning to Mr Dedalus. Wouldn’t it be more
[4616] Change that soap now. Mr Bloom’s hand unbuttoned his hip pocket
[4660] —I was in mortal agony with you talking of suicide before Bloom.
[4673] —Was he insured? Mr Bloom asked.
[4683] —A sad case, Mr Bloom said gently. Five young children.
[4687] —Indeed yes, Mr Bloom agreed.
[4734] They halted about the door of the mortuary chapel. Mr Bloom stood behind
[4746] knelt here and there in prayingdesks. Mr Bloom stood behind near the
[4811] them out of the sidedoors into the mild grey air. Mr Bloom came last
[4843] Mr Bloom closed his eyes and sadly twice bowed his head.
[4853] Mr Bloom nodded gravely looking in the quick bloodshot eyes. Secret
[4862] Mr Bloom gave prudent assent. The language of course was another thing.
[4869] —It does, Mr Bloom said.
[4901] —Bloom, he said, Madame Marion Tweedy that was, is, I mean, the
[4973] Mr Bloom admired the caretaker’s prosperous bulk. All want to be on
[5071] Mr Bloom stood far back, his hat in his hand, counting the bared heads.
[5094] the black open space. Mr Bloom moved behind the portly kindly caretaker.
[5121] on the coffin. Mr Bloom turned away his face. And if he was alive all
[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
[5160] —Macintosh. Yes, I saw him, Mr Bloom said. Where is he now?
[5167] —No, Mr Bloom began, turning and stopping. I say, Hynes!
[5173] A seventh gravedigger came beside Mr Bloom to take up an idle spade.
[5210] Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses,
[5316] —Excuse me, sir, Mr Bloom said beside them.
[5320] —Your hat is a little crushed, Mr Bloom said pointing.
[5336] They walked on towards the gates. Mr Bloom, chapfallen, drew behind

7. Aeolus

[5387] —Just cut it out, will you? Mr Bloom said, and I’ll take it round to
[5397] —I’ll go through the printingworks, Mr Bloom said, taking the cut
[5403] —Right, Mr Bloom said with a nod. I’ll rub that in.
[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
[5430] —Or like Mario, Mr Bloom said.
[5451] Mr Bloom said slowly:
[5475] Mr Bloom halted behind the foreman’s spare body, admiring a glossy
[5508] Mr Bloom stood in his way.
[5515] —Mm, Mr Bloom said. Look sharp and you’ll catch him.
[5525] Mr Bloom laid his cutting on Mr Nannetti’s desk.
[5532] —He wants it in for July, Mr Bloom said.
[5536] —But wait, Mr Bloom said. He wants it changed. Keyes, you see. He
[5545] —Like that, Mr Bloom said, crossing his forefingers at the top.
[5549] Mr Bloom, glancing sideways up from the cross he had made, saw the
[5572] —The idea, Mr Bloom said, is the house of keys. You know, councillor,
[5581] —I can get it, Mr Bloom said. It was in a Kilkenny paper. He has a
[5591] silently. Mr Bloom stood by, hearing the loud throbs of cranks, watching
[5628] Mr Bloom took up his cutting. Time to get out.
[5667] Mr Bloom passed on out of the clanking noises through the gallery on to
[5739] —What is it? Mr Bloom asked.
[5746] —Whose land? Mr Bloom said simply.
[5753] —Is it his speech last night? Mr Bloom asked.
[5759] The doorknob hit Mr Bloom in the small of the back as the door was
[5764] Mr Bloom moved nimbly aside.
[5876] towards Mr Bloom’s face, shadowed by a smile.
[5909] Mr Bloom, seeing the coast clear, made for the inner door.
[5971] —Yes, Evening Telegraph here, Mr Bloom phoned from the inner office.
[5983] —My fault, Mr Bloom said, suffering his grip. Are you hurt? I’m in a
[5992] —Sorry, Mr Bloom said.
[6001] EXIT BLOOM
[6003] —I’m just running round to Bachelor’s walk, Mr Bloom said, about
[6013] —Back in no time, Mr Bloom said, hurrying out.
[6027] Bloom’s wake, the last zigzagging white on the breeze a mocking kite,
[6273] —If Bloom were here, the professor said. The gentle art of
[6276] —And Madam Bloom, Mr O’Madden Burke added. The vocal muse.
[6376] —Bloom is at the telephone, he said.
[6809] RETURN OF BLOOM
[6813] Mr Bloom, breathless, caught in a whirl of wild newsboys near the
[6822] A newsboy cried in Mr Bloom’s face:
[6828] —Just this ad, Mr Bloom said, pushing through towards the steps,
[6850] —Well, Mr Bloom said, his eyes returning, if I can get the design I
[6859] While Mr Bloom stood weighing the point and about to smile he strode on

8. Lestrygonians

[6990] Graham Lemon’s, placed a throwaway in a hand of Mr Bloom.
[7122] Mr Bloom moved forward, raising his troubled eyes. Think no more about
[7129] Mr Bloom smiled O rocks at two windows of the ballastoffice. She’s
[7229] —O, Mr Bloom, how do you do?
[7236] —In the pink, Mr Bloom said gaily. Milly has a position down in
[7250] —No, Mr Bloom said. I have just come from a funeral.
[7259] —Dignam, Mr Bloom said. An old friend of mine. He died quite suddenly,
[7280] from Harrison’s. The heavy noonreek tickled the top of Mr Bloom’s
[7300] —What? Mr Bloom asked.
[7310] —The ace of spades! Mr Bloom said.
[7316] —What is it? Mr Bloom asked, taking the card. U. P.?
[7321] —Indeed it is, Mr Bloom said.
[7347] —Do you ever see anything of Mrs Beaufoy? Mr Bloom asked.
[7360] —O, Mr Bloom said. I’m sorry to hear that.
[7365] —O, Mr Bloom said.
[7377] Mr Bloom touched her funnybone gently, warning her:
[7386] —Watch him, Mr Bloom said. He always walks outside the lampposts.
[7392] Bloom said smiling. Watch!
[7402] —I will, Mr Bloom said.
[7413] Mr Bloom walked on again easily, seeing ahead of him in sunlight the
[7658] They passed from behind Mr Bloom along the curbstone. Beard and bicycle.
[7745] Mr Bloom, quickbreathing, slowlier walking passed Adam court.
[7878] Mr Bloom raised two fingers doubtfully to his lips. His eyes said:
[7935] —Hello, Bloom, Nosey Flynn said from his nook.
[7995] Mr Bloom cut his sandwich into slender strips. Mr MacTrigger. Easier
[8013] A warm shock of air heat of mustard hanched on Mr Bloom’s heart. He
[8056] Mr Bloom ate his strips of sandwich, fresh clean bread, with relish of
[8092] Mr Bloom, champing, standing, looked upon his sigh. Nosey numbskull.
[8274] O, Bloom has his good points. But there’s one thing he’ll never do.
[8337] Mr Bloom on his way out raised three fingers in greeting.
[8352] Mr Bloom walked towards Dawson street, his tongue brushing his teeth
[8358] having fully digested the contents. First sweet then savoury. Mr Bloom
[8405] Mr Bloom turned at Gray’s confectioner’s window of unbought tarts
[8415] —Do you want to cross? Mr Bloom asked.
[8420] —You’re in Dawson street, Mr Bloom said. Molesworth street is
[8423] The cane moved out trembling to the left. Mr Bloom’s eye followed its
[8428] —There’s a van there, Mr Bloom said, but it’s not moving. I’ll
[8433] —Come, Mr Bloom said.
[8461] Mr Bloom walked behind the eyeless feet, a flatcut suit of herringbone
[8539] Mr Bloom came to Kildare street. First I must. Library.

9. Scylla and Charybdis

[9450] —What’s his name? Ikey Moses? Bloom.

10. Wandering Rocks

[11053] —Leopoldo or the Bloom is on the Rye, Lenehan said.
[11087] catering and yours truly was chief bottlewasher. Bloom and the wife were
[11099] winter’s night on the Featherbed Mountain. Bloom and Chris Callinan
[11115] gamey mare and no mistake. Bloom was pointing out all the stars and the
[11120] Poldy? says she. By God, she had Bloom cornered. That one, is it? says
[11132] —He’s a cultured allroundman, Bloom is, he said seriously. He’s
[11134] artist about old Bloom.
[11136] Mr Bloom turned over idly pages of The Awful Disclosures of Maria
[11159] Mr Bloom, alone, looked at the titles. Fair Tyrants by James Lovebirch.
[11188] Mr Bloom read again: The beautiful woman.
[11212] Mr Bloom beheld it.
[11717] office. I see Bloom put his name down for five shillings.
[11924] As he strode past Mr Bloom’s dental windows the sway of his dustcoat

11. Sirens

[12126] Blew. Blue bloom is on the.
[12211] By bronze, by gold, in oceangreen of shadow. Bloom. Old Bloom.
[12221] Last rose Castile of summer left bloom I feel so sad alone.
[12309] Bloom.
[12362] But Bloom?
[12392] By Bassi’s blessed virgins Bloom’s dark eyes went by. Bluerobed,
[12431] Married to Bloom, to greaseabloom.
[12509] In came Lenehan. Round him peered Lenehan. Mr Bloom reached Essex
[12510] bridge. Yes, Mr Bloom crossed bridge of Yessex. To Martha I must write.
[12511] Buy paper. Daly’s. Girl there civil. Bloom. Old Bloom. Blue bloom is
[12621] Wisdom Hely’s wise Bloom in Daly’s Henry Flower bought. Are you
[12624] Respectable girl meet after mass. Thanks awfully muchly. Wise Bloom eyed
[12691] Between the car and window, warily walking, went Bloom, unconquered
[12718] See, not be seen. I think I’ll join you. Come on. Richie led on. Bloom
[12772] The bag of Goulding, Collis, Ward led Bloom by ryebloom flowered tables.
[12860] And Bloom? Let me see. Not make him walk twice. His corns. Four now. How
[12877] Bloom heard a jing, a little sound. He’s off. Light sob of breath
[12878] Bloom sighed on the silent bluehued flowers. Jingling. He’s gone.
[12906] —Our friend Bloom turned in handy that night, Mr Dedalus said.
[12936] —Ay, ay, Mr Dedalus nodded. Mrs Marion Bloom has left off clothes of
[12980] kidney, bite by bite of pie he ate Bloom ate they ate.
[12982] Bloom with Goulding, married in silence, ate. Dinners fit for princes.
[13023] In liver gravy Bloom mashed mashed potatoes. Love and War someone is.
[13043] Bloom ate liv as said before. Clean here at least. That chap in the
[13101] Steak, kidney, liver, mashed, at meat fit for princes sat princes Bloom
[13109] Tenderly Bloom over liverless bacon saw the tightened features strain.
[13127] —Which air is that? asked Leopold Bloom.
[13139] Bloom bent leopold ear, turning a fringe of doyley down under the vase.
[13145] —A beautiful air, said Bloom lost Leopold. I know it well.
[13152] Bloom askance over liverless saw. Face of the all is lost. Rollicking
[13188] endearing flow over skin limbs human heart soul spine. Bloom signed to
[13203] Love that is singing: love’s old sweet song. Bloom unwound slowly the
[13204] elastic band of his packet. Love’s old sweet sonnez la gold. Bloom
[13234] Bloom looped, unlooped, noded, disnoded.
[13236] Bloom. Flood of warm jamjam lickitup secretness flowed to flow in music
[13255] how look, form, word charmed him Gould Lidwell, won Pat Bloom’s heart.
[13321] And Richie Goulding drank his Power and Leopold Bloom his cider drank,
[13331] admired. But Bloom sang dumb.
[13342] Goulding, a flush struggling in his pale, told Mr Bloom, face of the
[13345] He, Mr Bloom, listened while he, Richie Goulding, told him, Mr Bloom, of
[13357] Bloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked the
[13365] Thou lost one. All songs on that theme. Yet more Bloom stretched his
[13398] —Yes, Mr Bloom said, teasing the curling catgut line. It certainly is.
[13405] —It is, Bloom said.
[13439] Down the edge of his Freeman baton ranged Bloom’s, your other eye,
[13444] Can’t see now. Remember write Greek ees. Bloom dipped, Bloo mur: dear
[13449] Bore this. Bored Bloom tambourined gently with I am just reflecting
[13476] —Answering an ad? keen Richie’s eyes asked Bloom.
[13478] —Yes, Mr Bloom said. Town traveller. Nothing doing, I expect.
[13480] Bloom mur: best references. But Henry wrote: it will excite me. You
[13543] Bloom through the bardoor saw a shell held at their ears. He heard more
[13635] Must go prince Bloom told Richie prince. No, Richie said. Yes, must.
[13674] Listen. Bloom listened. Richie Goulding listened. And by the door deaf
[13733] struggling in his pale, to Bloom soon old. But when was young?
[13742] Bloom looked, unblessed to go. Got up to kill: on eighteen bob a week.
[13812] blue. Ow. Bloom stood up. Soap feeling rather sticky behind. Must have
[13816] By deaf Pat in the doorway straining ear Bloom passed.
[13824] faint gold in deepseashadow, went Bloom, soft Bloom, I feel so lonely
[12309] Bloom.
[13832] Scaring eavesdropping boots croppy bootsboy Bloom in the Ormond hallway
[13890] ’Tis the last rose of summer dollard left bloom felt wind wound round
[13923] Pwee! A wee little wind piped eeee. In Bloom’s little wee.
[13955] sardine of summer. Bloom alone.
[13961] Bloom went by Barry’s. Wish I could. Wait. That wonderworker if I had.
[13996] along the quay towards Mr Bloom. When first he saw that form endearing?
[14006] Leopold dear Henry Flower earnestly Mr Leopold Bloom envisaged battered
[14022] Bloom viewed a gallant pictured hero in Lionel Marks’s window. Robert

12. Cyclops

[14344] Who comes through Michan’s land, bedight in sable armour? O’Bloom,
[14575] —Bloom, says he. He’s on point duty up and down there for the last
[14622] Old Garryowen started growling again at Bloom that was skeezing round
[14627] So Bloom slopes in with his cod’s eye on the dog and he asks Terry was
[14663] them to hell out of my sight, Alf. Hello, Bloom, says he, what will you
[14666] So they started arguing about the point, Bloom saying he wouldn’t and
[14688] So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom
[14709] —That can be explained by science, says Bloom. It’s only a natural
[14751] And the citizen and Bloom having an argument about the point, the
[14754] she’s far from the land. And Bloom, of course, with his knockmedown
[14759] Bloom trying to get the soft side of her doing the mollycoddle playing
[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
[14775] glaring at Bloom.
[14779] —You don’t grasp my point, says Bloom. What I mean is...
[14948] quid and Bloom putting in his old goo with his twopenny stump that
[15042] —Thank you, no, says Bloom. As a matter of fact I just wanted to
[15052] —Well, that’s a point, says Bloom, for the wife’s admirers.
[15056] —The wife’s advisers, I mean, says Bloom.
[15069] So Bob Doran comes lurching around asking Bloom to tell Mrs Dignam he
[15073] Choking with bloody foolery. And shaking Bloom’s hand doing the tragic
[15141] sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his
[15164] —Are you sure, says Bloom, the councillor is going? I wanted to see
[15169] —That’s too bad, says Bloom. I wanted particularly. Perhaps only Mr
[15219] —Yes, says Bloom. That’s well known. Did you not know that?
[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
[15245] strength and prowess handed down to us from ancient ages. L. Bloom, who
[15286] And says Bloom:
[15299] And Bloom cuts in again about lawn tennis and the circulation of the
[15345] —Who? says Bloom. Ah, yes. That’s quite true. Yes, a kind of summer
[15350] —My wife? says Bloom. She’s singing, yes. I think it will be a
[15439] —Still, says Bloom, on account of the poor woman, I mean his wife.
[15444] —How half and half? says Bloom. Do you mean he...
[15454] Begob I saw there was trouble coming. And Bloom explaining he meant on
[15562] So Bloom lets on he heard nothing and he starts talking with Joe,
[15567] —Because, you see, says Bloom, for an advertisement you must have
[15575] —O, I’m sure that will be all right, Hynes, says Bloom. It’s just
[15580] —Very kind of you, says Bloom.
[15588] And Bloom letting on to be awfully deeply interested in nothing, a
[15635] a nation, and Bloom trying to back him up moderation and botheration and
[15695] And J. J. and the citizen arguing about law and history with Bloom
[15698] —Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others’ eyes but they
[15853] —But, says Bloom, isn’t discipline the same everywhere. I mean
[15872] —Perfectly true, says Bloom. But my point was...
[15931] Bloom was talking and talking with John Wyse and he quite excited with
[15939] —Yes, says Bloom.
[15943] —A nation? says Bloom. A nation is the same people living in the same
[15949] So of course everyone had the laugh at Bloom and says he, trying to muck
[15958] —Ireland, says Bloom. I was born here. Ireland.
[16002] —And I belong to a race too, says Bloom, that is hated and persecuted.
[16013] —I’m talking about injustice, says Bloom.
[16029] —Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred. I must go now, says
[16124] —Bloom, says he. The courthouse is a blind. He had a few bob on
[16131] back that horse only I put him off it and he told me Bloom gave him the
[16155] was Bloom gave the ideas for Sinn Fein to Griffith to put in his paper
[16161] mouseabout. Mr Bloom with his argol bargol. And his old fellow before
[16162] him perpetrating frauds, old Methusalem Bloom, the robbing bagman, that
[16221] So in comes Martin asking where was Bloom.
[16226] about Bloom and the Sinn Fein?
[16250] —Isn’t he a cousin of Bloom the dentist? says Jack Power.
[16268] —O, by God, says Ned, you should have seen Bloom before that son of
[16520] Aughty, Slieve Bernagh and Slieve Bloom. Amid cheers that rent the
[16620] Him even Him, ben Bloom Elijah, amid clouds of angels ascend to

13. Nausicaa

[17482] was leaning back against the rock behind. Leopold Bloom (for it is he)
[17518] Mr Bloom watched her as she limped away. Poor girl! That’s why she’s
[17606] Mr Bloom with careful hand recomposed his wet shirt. O Lord, that little
[17816] Mr Bloom inserted his nose. Hm. Into the. Hm. Opening of his waistcoat.
[17837] Leopold Bloom. Payment at the rate of one guinea per column. And that
[17972] anchored lightship twinkled, winked at Mr Bloom.
[18042] Mr Bloom stooped and turned over a piece of paper on the strand. He
[18054] Mr Bloom with his stick gently vexed the thick sand at his foot. Write a
[18070] Mr Bloom effaced the letters with his slow boot. Hopeless thing sand.
[18094] A bat flew. Here. There. Here. Far in the grey a bell chimed. Mr Bloom

14. Oxen of the Sun

[18227] young then had looked. Light swift her eyes kindled, bloom of blushes
[18585] him on his ribs upon that crack of doom and Master Bloom, at the
[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
[18853] bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might
[19033] To revert to Mr Bloom who, after his first entry, had been conscious of
[19150] tongues. In vain the voice of Mr Canvasser Bloom was heard endeavouring
[19204] by mutual consent was referred to Mr Canvasser Bloom for instant
[19358] shaded us were in bloom: the air drooped with their persuasive odour and
[19450] by Mr L. Bloom (Pubb. Canv.) regarding the future determination of sex.
[19523] a recent public controversy with Mr L. Bloom (Pubb. Canv.) which took
[19543] to see), in the first bloom of her new motherhood, breathing a silent
[19625] punctual Bloom at heels with a universal grabbing at headgear,
[19633] giving them sharp language but raps out an oath, he too, and on. Bloom
[19778] Closingtime, gents. Eh? Rome boose for the Bloom toff. I hear you say

15. Circe

[20002] side under the railway bridge Bloom appears, flushed, panting, cramming
[20006] Booloohoom. Grave Gladstone sees him level, Bloom for Bloom. He passes,
[20011] At Antonio Rabaiotti’s door Bloom halts, sweated under the bright
[20014] BLOOM: Fish and taters. N. g. Ah!
[20024] BLOOM: Stitch in my side. Why did I run?
[20029] BLOOM: What is that? A flasher? Searchlight.
[20033] BLOOM: Aurora borealis or a steel foundry? Ah, the brigade, of course.
[20049] BLOOM: (Halts erect, stung by a spasm.) Ow!
[20058] (The brake cracks violently. Bloom, raising a policeman’s whitegloved
[20065] (Bloom trickleaps to the curbstone and halts again. He brushes a
[20068] BLOOM: No thoroughfare. Close shave that but cured the stitch. Must take
[20086] BLOOM: Buenas noches, señorita Blanca, que calle es esta?
[20090] BLOOM: Haha. Merci. Esperanto. Slan leath. (He mutters.) Gaelic league
[20096] BLOOM: I beg.
[20096] BLOOM: I beg.
[20104] BLOOM: Keep to the right, right, right. If there is a signpost planted
[20111] (Jacky Caffrey, hunted by Tommy Caffrey, runs full tilt against Bloom.)
[20113] BLOOM: O.
[20116] Bloom pats with parcelled hands watch, fobpocket, bookpocket, pursepoke,
[20119] BLOOM: Beware of pickpockets. Old thieves’ dodge. Collide. Then snatch
[20131] BLOOM: (Hides the crubeen and trotter behind his back and, crestfallen,
[20135] vulture talons he feels the silent face of Bloom.) Are you not my son
[20140] BLOOM: (With precaution.) I suppose so, father. Mosenthal. All that’s
[20146] BLOOM: (In youth’s smart blue Oxford suit with white vestslips,
[20155] BLOOM: (Weakly.) They challenged me to a sprint. It was muddy. I
[20161] BLOOM: Mamma!
[20163] ELLEN BLOOM: (In pantomime dame’s stringed mobcap, widow Twankey’s
[20173] (Bloom, mumbling, his eyes downcast, begins to bestow his parcels in his
[20178] BLOOM: Who? (He ducks and wards off a blow clumsily.) At your service.
[20186] BLOOM: Molly!
[20191] BLOOM: (Shifts from foot to foot.) No, no. Not the least little bit.
[20206] head and, grunting, with uplifted neck, fumbles to kneel. Bloom stoops
[20209] BLOOM: I can give you... I mean as your business menagerer... Mrs
[20217] BLOOM: I was just going back for that lotion whitewax, orangeflower
[20226] We’re a capital couple are Bloom and I.
[20233] BLOOM: Yes. For my wife. Mrs Marion. Special recipe.
[20237] BLOOM: Yes, ma’am?
[20244] BLOOM: Are you sure about that Voglio? I mean the pronunciati...
[20271] BLOOM: I? When? You’re dreaming. I never saw you.
[20277] GERTY: (To Bloom.) When you saw all the secrets of my bottom drawer.
[20287] BLOOM: (Coughs gravely.) Madam, when we last had this pleasure by letter
[20290] MRS BREEN: Mr Bloom! You down here in the haunts of sin! I caught you
[20293] BLOOM: (Hurriedly.) Not so loud my name. Whatever do you think of me?
[20304] BLOOM: (Looks behind.) She often said she’d like to visit. Slumming.
[20325] BLOOM: (With a sour tenderish smile.) A little frivol, shall we, if you
[20331] BLOOM: For old sake’ sake. I only meant a square party, a mixed
[20340] BLOOM: (Seizes her wrist with his free hand.) Josie Powell that was,
[20351] BLOOM: (Squire of dames, in dinner jacket with wateredsilk facings, blue
[20358] BLOOM: (Meaningfully dropping his voice.) I confess I’m teapot with
[20367] BLOOM: (Wearing a purple Napoleon hat with an amber halfmoon, his
[20379] BLOOM: When you made your present choice they said it was beauty and
[20391] MRS BREEN: (To Bloom.) High jinks below stairs. (She gives him the glad
[20394] BLOOM: (Shocked.) Molly’s best friend! Could you?
[20399] BLOOM: (Offhandedly.) Kosher. A snack for supper. The home without
[20426] BLOOM: (Points to the navvy.) A spy. Don’t attract attention. I hate
[20432] BLOOM: I want to tell you a little secret about how I came to be here.
[20438] BLOOM: Let’s walk on. Shall us?
[20442] (The bawd makes an unheeded sign. Bloom walks on with Mrs Breen. The
[20447] BLOOM: (In an oatmeal sporting suit, a sprig of woodbine in the lapel,
[20457] BLOOM: I mean, Leopardstown. And Molly won seven shillings on a three
[20467] BLOOM: Because it didn’t suit you one quarter as well as the other
[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
[20507] BLOOM: Coincidence too. They think it funny. Anything but that. Broad
[20513] (Bloom passes. Cheap whores, singly, coupled, shawled, dishevelled, call
[20552] (He staggers forward, dragging them with him. Bloom stops, at fault. The
[20555] BLOOM: Wildgoose chase this. Disorderly houses. Lord knows where they
[20580] BLOOM: My spine’s a bit limp. Go or turn? And this food? Eat it and
[20601] THE WATCH: Bloom. Of Bloom. For Bloom. Bloom.
[20603] (Each lays hand on Bloom’s shoulder.)
[20607] BLOOM: (Stammers.) I am doing good to others.
[20614] BLOOM: The friend of man. Trained by kindness.
[20627] BLOOM: (Enthusiastically.) A noble work! I scolded that tramdriver on
[20649] BLOOM: I have forgotten for the moment. Ah, yes! (He takes off his high
[20650] grade hat, saluting.) Dr Bloom, Leopold, dental surgeon. You have heard
[20656] (A card falls from inside the leather headband of Bloom’s hat.)
[20658] BLOOM: (In red fez, cadi’s dress coat with broad green sash, wearing
[20668] BLOOM: (Produces from his heartpocket a crumpled yellow flower.) This
[20670] name. (Plausibly.) You know that old joke, rose of Castile. Bloom. The
[20691] BLOOM: (Scared, hats himself, steps back, then, plucking at his heart
[20703] BLOOM: (Behind his hand.) She’s drunk. The woman is inebriated. (He
[20706] SECOND WATCH: (Tears in his eyes, to Bloom.) You ought to be thoroughly
[20709] BLOOM: Gentlemen of the jury, let me explain. A pure mare’s nest. I am
[20719] BLOOM: (Turns to the gallery.) The royal Dublins, boys, the salt of the
[20727] BLOOM: (His hand on the shoulder of the first watch.) My old dad too was
[20736] BLOOM: Well, I follow a literary occupation, author-journalist. In fact
[20748] Europe. You which? Bluebags? Who writes? Is it Bloom?
[20766] BLOOM: (Murmurs with hangdog meekness glum.) That bit about the laughing
[20777] BLOOM: (Indistinctly.) University of life. Bad art.
[20788] BLOOM: (Bravely.) Overdrawn.
[20795] BLOOM: (To the court.) And he, a bachelor, how...
[20797] FIRST WATCH: The King versus Bloom. Call the woman Driscoll.
[20816] BLOOM: (In housejacket of ripplecloth, flannel trousers, heelless
[20832] BLOOM: She counterassaulted.
[20843] (Bloom, pleading not guilty and holding a fullblown waterlily, begins a
[20877] (The crossexamination proceeds re Bloom and the bucket. A large bucket.
[20878] Bloom himself. Bowel trouble. In Beaver street. Gripe, yes. Quite bad.
[20884] (Uproar and catcalls. Bloom in a torn frockcoat stained with whitewash,
[20907] BLOOM: (Barefoot, pigeonbreasted, in lascar’s vest and trousers,
[20926] own daughter. (Bloom takes J. J. O’Molloy’s hand and raises it to
[20928] the hidden hand is again at its old game. When in doubt persecute Bloom.
[20936] shown. (To Bloom.) I suggest that you will do the handsome thing.
[20938] BLOOM: A penny in the pound.
[20963] BLOOM: (In court dress.) Can give best references. Messrs Callan,
[20990] Subsequently he enclosed a bloom of edelweiss culled on the heights,
[21040] received from Bloom.)
[21047] BLOOM: (His eyes closing, quails expectantly.) Here? (He squirms.)
[21059] BLOOM: All these people. I meant only the spanking idea. A warm tingling
[21071] BLOOM: (Shuddering, shrinking, joins his hands: with hangdog mien.) O
[21085] BLOOM: (Trembling, beginning to obey.) The weather has been so warm.
[21127] THE CRIER: (Loudly.) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a
[21164] BLOOM: (Desperately.) Wait. Stop. Gulls. Good heart. I saw. Innocence.
[21177] BLOOM: No, no. Pig’s feet. I was at a funeral.
[21193] BLOOM: (In triumph.) You hear?
[21195] PADDY DIGNAM: Bloom, I am Paddy Dignam’s spirit. List, list, O list!
[21197] BLOOM: The voice is the voice of Esau.
[21249] Bloom plodges forward again through the sump. Kisses chirp amid
[21261] BLOOM: A man’s touch. Sad music. Church music. Perhaps here.
[21269] BLOOM: Is this Mrs Mack’s?
[21277] BLOOM: Not I!
[21286] BLOOM: Off side. Curiously they are on the right. Heavier, I suppose.
[21291] BLOOM: Not likely.
[21296] black shrivelled potato. She regards it and Bloom with dumb moist lips.)
[21298] BLOOM: A talisman. Heirloom.
[21309] BLOOM: (Forlornly.) I never loved a dear gazelle but it was sure to...
[21323] BLOOM: (Fascinated.) I thought you were of good stock by your accent.
[21331] BLOOM: (Draws back, mechanically caressing her right bub with a flat
[21337] BLOOM: (As before.) Rarely smoke, dear. Cigar now and then. Childish
[21343] BLOOM: (In workman’s corduroy overalls, black gansy with red floating
[21355] BLOOM: (In alderman’s gown and chain.) Electors of Arran Quay, Inns
[21368] shake hands with Bloom and congratulate him. Timothy Harrington, late
[21374] chain and large white silk scarf.) That alderman sir Leo Bloom’s
[21378] designated Boulevard Bloom.
[21382] BLOOM: (Impassionedly.) These flying Dutchmen or lying Dutchmen as
[21433] of triumph Bloom appears, bareheaded, in a crimson velvet mantle trimmed
[21438] air is perfumed with essences. The men cheer. Bloom’s boys run amid
[21441] BLOOM’S BOYS:
[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
[21463] (Bloom’s weather. A sunburst appears in the northwest.)
[21471] BLOOM: (In dalmatic and purple mantle, to the bishop of Down and Connor,
[21478] BLOOM: (Placing his right hand on his testicles, swears.) So may the
[21481] MICHAEL, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH: (Pours a cruse of hairoil over Bloom’s
[21485] (Bloom assumes a mantle of cloth of gold and puts on a ruby ring. He
[21495] (Bloom holds up his right hand on which sparkles the Koh-i-Noor diamond.
[21499] BLOOM: My subjects! We hereby nominate our faithful charger Copula Felix
[21504] (The former morganatic spouse of Bloom is hastily removed in the Black
[21509] JOHN HOWARD PARNELL: (Raises the royal standard.) Illustrious Bloom!
[21512] BLOOM: (Embraces John Howard Parnell.) We thank you from our heart,
[21522] BLOOM: On this day twenty years ago we overcame the hereditary enemy at
[21540] BLOOM: My beloved subjects, a new era is about to dawn. I, Bloom, tell
[21541] you verily it is even now at hand. Yea, on the word of a Bloom, ye shall
[21559] elongated finger at Bloom.)
[21565] BLOOM: Shoot him! Dog of a christian! So much for M’Intosh!
[21567] (A cannonshot. The man in the macintosh disappears. Bloom with his
[21570] committees, are reported. Bloom’s bodyguard distribute Maundy money,
[21586] forward to touch the hem of Bloom’s robe. The lady Gwendolen Dubedat
[21597] (Bloom, bending down, pokes Baby Boardman gently in the stomach.)
[21601] BLOOM: (Shaking hands with a blind stripling.) My more than Brother!
[21624] BLOOM: (Uncloaks impressively, revealing obesity, unrolls a paper and
[21639] BLOOM: Pay them, my friend.
[21645] BLOOM: (Obdurately.) Sirs, take notice that by the law of torts you are
[21655] BLOOM:
[21664] BLOOM: Pleased to hear from you, Chris. K. 11.
[21668] BLOOM: When my progenitor of sainted memory wore the uniform of the
[21673] BLOOM: Embellish (beautify) suburban gardens.
[21677] BLOOM: Father (pater, dad) starts thinking.
[21683] BLOOM: (Coldly.) You have the advantage of me. Lady Bloom accepts no
[21688] BLOOM: (Solemnly.) You call it a festivity. I call it a sacrament.
[21692] BLOOM: I stand for the reform of municipal morals and the plain ten
[21707] BLOOM: Mixed races and mixed marriage.
[21711] (Bloom explains to those near him his schemes for social regeneration.
[21726] MOTHER GROGAN: (Removes her boot to throw it at Bloom.) You beast! You
[21729] NOSEY FLYNN: Give us a tune, Bloom. One of the old sweet songs.
[21731] BLOOM: (With rollicking humour.)
[21736] HOPPY HOLOHAN: Good old Bloom! There’s nobody like him after all.
[21740] BLOOM: What railway opera is like a tramline in Gibraltar? The Rows of
[21745] LENEHAN: Plagiarist! Down with Bloom!
[21751] BLOOM: (Winks at the bystanders.) I bet she’s a bonny lassie.
[21767] man called Bloom is from the roots of hell, a disgrace to christian
[21778] (Mother Grogan throws her boot at Bloom. Several shopkeepers from upper
[21783] BLOOM: (Excitedly.) This is midsummer madness, some ghastly joke again.
[21790] DR MULLIGAN: (In motor jerkin, green motorgoggles on his brow.) Dr Bloom
[21803] (Bloom holds his high grade hat over his genital organs.)
[21814] DR DIXON: (Reads a bill of health.) Professor Bloom is a finished
[21830] a street collection for Bloom. Gold and silver coins, blank cheques,
[21835] BLOOM: O, I so want to be a mother.
[21840] (Bloom embraces her tightly and bears eight male yellow and white
[21852] A VOICE: Bloom, are you the Messiah ben Joseph or ben David?
[21854] BLOOM: (Darkly.) You have said it.
[21860] (Bloom walks on a net, covers his left eye with his left ear, passes
[21886] begat Virag and Virag begat Bloom et vocabitur nomen eius Emmanuel.
[21888] A DEADHAND: (Writes on the wall.) Bloom is a cod.
[21897] BLOOM: (Blushes furiously all over from frons to nates, three tears
[21903] (Bloom with asses’ ears seats himself in the pillory with crossed
[21923] (All the people cast soft pantomime stones at Bloom. Many bonafide
[21926] beards at Bloom.)
[21931] (George R Mesias, Bloom’s tailor, appears, a tailor’s goose under
[21936] BLOOM: (Rubs his hands cheerfully.) Just like old times. Poor Bloom!
[21946] BROTHER BUZZ: (Invests Bloom in a yellow habit with embroidery of
[21952] fire to Bloom. Lamentations.)
[21956] BLOOM: (In a seamless garment marked I. H. S. stands upright amid
[21965] Kidney of Bloom, pray for us
[21979] reigneth, accompanied on the organ by Joseph Glynn. Bloom becomes mute,
[21984] BLOOM: (In caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an
[21999] BLOOM: (Bitterly.) Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and bottle.
[22005] BLOOM: (Repentantly.) I am very disagreeable. You are a necessary evil.
[22013] BLOOM: (Smiles, nods slowly.) More, houri, more.
[22019] BLOOM: (Feeling his occiput dubiously with the unparalleled
[22028] BLOOM: Laughing witch! The hand that rocks the cradle.
[22032] BLOOM: (In babylinen and pelisse, bigheaded, with a caul of dark hair,
[22052] (Zoe and Bloom reach the doorway where two sister whores are seated.
[22059] BLOOM: The just man falls seven times. (He stands aside at the
[22066] a man’s hat and waterproof. Bloom uncovers himself but, seeing them,
[22071] face quickly Bloom bends to examine on the halltable the spaniel eyes
[22160] LYNCH: (With a mocking whinny of laughter grins at Bloom and Zoe
[22183] (Stephen turns and sees Bloom.)
[22244] Stephen Christ, Zoe Christ, Bloom Christ, Kitty Christ, Lynch Christ,
[22355] (Squinting in mock shame she glances with sidelong meaning at Bloom,
[22357] fluid again flows over her flesh. Bloom stands, smiling desirously,
[22374] BLOOM: Granpapachi. But...
[22384] BLOOM: She is rather lean.
[22394] BLOOM: (An elbow resting in a hand, a forefinger against his cheek.) She
[22406] BLOOM: (Regretfully.) When you come out without your gun.
[22411] BLOOM: With...?
[22427] BLOOM: The stye I dislike.
[22437] BLOOM: (Reflecting.) Wheatenmeal with lycopodium and syllabax. This
[22446] BLOOM: Rosemary also did I understand you to say or willpower over
[22465] (Bloom surveys uncertainly the three whores then gazes at the veiled
[22468] BLOOM: I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence
[22488] (He blows into Bloom’s ear.) Buzz!
[22490] BLOOM: Bee or bluebottle too other day butting shadow on wall dazed self
[22506] BLOOM: (Absently.) Ocularly woman’s bivalve case is worse. Always open
[22517] BLOOM: I am going to scream. I beg your pardon. Ah? So. (He repeats.)
[22556] (Virag truculent, his jowl set, stares at the lamp. Grave Bloom regards
[22633] BLOOM: Poor man!
[22637] BLOOM: How?
[22782] waterproof and hat from the rack. Bloom starts forward involuntarily
[22789] BLOOM: (Hearing a male voice in talk with the whores on the doorstep,
[22807] BLOOM: (In Svengali’s fur overcoat, with folded arms and Napoleonic
[22815] Bloom’s features relax. He places a hand in his waistcoat, posing
[22818] BLOOM: (Solemnly.) Thanks.
[22824] BLOOM: (Takes the chocolate.) Aphrodisiac? Tansy and pennyroyal. But I
[22841] (She glances round her at the couples. Then her eyes rest on Bloom with
[22847] BLOOM: Yes. Partly, I have mislaid...
[22852] BLOOM: (Looks down with a sheepish grin.) That is so.
[22857] BLOOM: Nes. Yo.
[22865] BLOOM: (Wincing.) Powerful being. In my eyes read that slumber which
[22870] BLOOM: (Cowed.) Exuberant female. Enormously I desiderate your
[22888] BLOOM: (Undecided.) All now? I should not have parted with my talisman.
[22894] BLOOM: (Looks downwards and perceives her unfastened bootlace.) We are
[22899] BLOOM: (With desire, with reluctance.) I can make a true black knot.
[22906] Bloom, stifflegged, aging, bends over her hoof and with gentle fingers
[22909] BLOOM: (Murmurs lovingly.) To be a shoefitter in Manfield’s was my
[22918] BLOOM: (Crosslacing.) Too tight?
[22922] BLOOM: Not to lace the wrong eyelet as I did the night of the bazaar
[22926] (He knots the lace. Bella places her foot on the floor. Bloom raises
[22930] BLOOM: (Mumbles.) Awaiting your further orders we remain, gentlemen,...
[22935] BLOOM: (Infatuated.) Empress!
[22939] BLOOM: (Plaintively.) Hugeness!
[22943] BLOOM: (With sinews semiflexed.) Magmagnificence!
[22949] BLOOM: (Her eyes upturned in the sign of admiration, closing, yaps.)
[22965] BLOOM: (Enthralled, bleats.) I promise never to disobey.
[22973] (Bloom creeps under the sofa and peers out through the fringe.)
[22977] BLOOM: (Closing her eyes.) She’s not here.
[22987] sweety. (Bloom puts out her timid head.) There’s a good girly now.
[22992] BLOOM: (Fainting.) Don’t tear my...
[23005] lemon or currant sauce. It will hurt you. (He twists her arm. Bloom
[23008] BLOOM: Don’t be cruel, nurse! Don’t!
[23012] BLOOM: (Screams.) O, it’s hell itself! Every nerve in my body aches
[23019] BLOOM: (Whimpers.) You’re after hitting me. I’ll tell...
[23034] MRS KEOGH: (Ferociously.) Can I help? (They hold and pinion Bloom.)
[23036] BELLO: (Squats with a grunt on Bloom’s upturned face, puffing
[23042] to one. (He quenches his cigar angrily on Bloom’s ear.) Where’s that
[23045] BLOOM: (Goaded, buttocksmothered.) O! O! Monsters! Cruel one!
[23064] BLOOM: (Stifling.) Can’t.
[23071] BLOOM: (A sweat breaking out over him.) Not man. (He sniffs.) Woman.
[23079] BLOOM: (Shrinks.) Silk, mistress said! O crinkly! scrapy! Must I
[23094] BLOOM: (A charming soubrette with dauby cheeks, mustard hair and large
[23106] BLOOM: Miriam. Black. Demimondaine.
[23118] BLOOM: (Her hands and features working.) It was Gerald converted me to
[23128] BLOOM: Science. To compare the various joys we each enjoy. (Earnestly.)
[23160] BLOOM: Don’t ask me! Our mutual faith. Pleasants street. I only
[23168] BLOOM: (Docile, gurgles.) I rererepugnosed in rerererepugnant...
[23173] BLOOM: (Bows.) Master! Mistress! Mantamer!
[23183] BLOOM: Thank you, mistress.
[23202] in mouth. (He bares his arm and plunges it elbowdeep in Bloom’s
[23224] Bloom’s croup.) So! Warranted Cohen! What advance on two bob,
[23240] BLOOM: (Bends his blushing face into his armpit and simpers with
[23245] of Bloom’s haunches.) Up! Up! Manx cat! What have we here? Where’s
[23251] BLOOM: Eccles street...
[23264] BLOOM: I was indecently treated, I... Inform the police. Hundred pounds.
[23270] BLOOM: To drive me mad! Moll! I forgot! Forgive! Moll... We... Still...
[23272] BELLO: (Ruthlessly.) No, Leopold Bloom, all is changed by woman’s will
[23280] BLOOM: (In tattered mocassins with a rusty fowlingpiece, tiptoeing,
[23289] (Milly Bloom, fairhaired, greenvested, slimsandalled, her blue scarf
[23303] BLOOM: They... I...
[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
[23325] BLOOM: Justice! All Ireland versus one! Has nobody...? (He bites his
[23339] BLOOM: (Clasps his head.) My willpower! Memory! I have sinned! I have
[23346] (Bloom, broken, closely veiled for the sacrifice, sobs, his face to
[23352] recreant Bloom.)
[23357] VOICES: (Sighing.) So he’s gone. Ah yes. Yes, indeed. Bloom? Never
[23364] grotto and passing under interlacing yews stands over Bloom.)
[23370] BLOOM: (Crawls jellily forward under the boughs, streaked by sunlight,
[23383] BLOOM: (Lifts a turtle head towards her lap.) We have met before. On
[23391] BLOOM: You mean Photo Bits?
[23398] BLOOM: (Humbly kisses her long hair.) Your classic curves, beautiful
[23404] BLOOM: (Quickly.) Yes, yes. You mean that I... Sleep reveals the worst
[23414] BLOOM: You understood them?
[23421] BLOOM: (Apologetically.) I know. Soiled personal linen, wrong side up
[23426] BLOOM: (Reflects precautiously.) That antiquated commode. It wasn’t
[23448] BLOOM: (Scared.) High School of Poula? Mnemo? Not in full possession of
[23453] BLOOM: (Pigeonbreasted, bottleshouldered, padded, in nondescript
[23467] of the trees and shout to Master Leopold Bloom.)
[23471] BLOOM: (Hobbledehoy, warmgloved, mammamufflered, starred with spent
[23480] the boles and among the leaves and break, blossoming into bloom.) Who
[23493] BLOOM: I was precocious. Youth. The fauna. I sacrificed to the god of
[23494] the forest. The flowers that bloom in the spring. It was pairing
[23508] BLOOM: Simply satisfying a need I... (With pathos.) No girl would when I
[23516] BLOOM: (Hatless, flushed, covered with burrs of thistledown and
[23520] printer’s clerk. (Through silversilent summer air the dummy of Bloom,
[23535] BLOOM: Done. Prff!
[23543] BLOOM: (Pawing the heather abjectly.) O, I have been a perfect pig.
[23551] BLOOM: (Dejected.) Yes. Peccavi! I have paid homage on that living altar
[23572] BLOOM: It overpowers me. The warm impress of her warm form. Even to sit
[23589] (Bloom half rises. His back trouserbutton snaps.)
[23601] BLOOM: (Coldly.) You have broken the spell. The last straw. If there
[23616] BLOOM: (Starts up, seizes her hand.) Hoy! Nebrakada! Cat o’ nine
[23626] BLOOM: (Calls after her.) As if you didn’t get it on the double
[23638] BLOOM: (Composed, regards her.) Passée. Mutton dressed as lamb. Long
[23648] BLOOM: (Contemptuously.) Clean your nailless middle finger first, your
[23654] BLOOM: I saw him, kipkeeper! Pox and gleet vendor!
[23664] (Kitty, disconcerted, coats her teeth with the silver paper. Bloom
[23667] BLOOM: (Gently.) Give me back that potato, will you?
[23671] BLOOM: (With feeling.) It is nothing, but still, a relic of poor mamma.
[23679] BLOOM: There is a memory attached to it. I should like to have it.
[23695] indicates vaguely Lynch and Bloom.) We are all in the same sweepstake,
[23715] over to the table. Bloom approaches.)
[23717] BELLA, ZOE, KITTY, LYNCH, BLOOM: (Chattering and squabbling.) The
[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.)
[23757] BLOOM: This is yours.
[23763] BLOOM: (Stooping, picks up and hands a box of matches.) This.
[23767] BLOOM: (Quietly.) You had better hand over that cash to me to take care
[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.
[23783] BLOOM: No, but...
[23809] (The cigarette slips from Stephen’s fingers. Bloom picks it up and
[23812] BLOOM: Don’t smoke. You ought to eat. Cursed dog I met. (To Zoe.) You
[23866] BLOOM: (Detaches her fingers and offers his palm.) More harm than good.
[23869] BELLA: Show. (She turns up Bloom’s hand.) I thought so. Knobby
[23872] ZOE: (Peering at Bloom’s palm.) Gridiron. Travels beyond the sea and
[23875] BLOOM: Wrong.
[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
[23938] Hello, Bloom! Mrs Bloom dressed yet?
[23940] BLOOM: (In flunkey’s prune plush coat and kneebreeches, buff stockings
[23944] (He hangs his hat smartly on a peg of Bloom’s antlered head.) Show me
[23947] BLOOM: Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Madam Tweedy is in her bath, sir.
[23969] BOYLAN: (To Bloom, over his shoulder.) You can apply your eye to the
[23972] BLOOM: Thank you, sir. I will, sir. May I bring two men chums to witness
[23997] BLOOM: (His eyes wildly dilated, clasps himself.) Show! Hide! Show!
[24004] (Stephen and Bloom gaze in the mirror. The face of William Shakespeare,
[24009] the vacant mind. (To Bloom.) Thou thoughtest as how thou wastest
[24013] BLOOM: (Smiles yellowly at the three whores.) When will I hear the joke?
[24017] BLOOM: Lapses are condoned. Even the great Napoleon when measurements
[24120] BLOOM: (Approaching Stephen.) Look...
[24125] BLOOM: I say, look...
[24204] BLOOM: Who’ll...?
[24229] her round the room. Bloom stands aside. Her sleeve falling from gracing
[24282] cheeks delicate with cipria and false faint bloom. They are in grey
[24432] BLOOM: (Goes to the window to open it more.) Giddy.
[24448] BLOOM: (At the window.) What?
[24474] BLOOM: Stop!
[24487] from the room. They talk excitedly. Bloom follows, returns.)
[24493] BELLA: Who pays for the lamp? (She seizes Bloom’s coattail.) Here, you
[24496] BLOOM: (Rushes to the hall, rushes back.) What lamp, woman?
[24503] BLOOM: (Snatches up Stephen’s ashplant.) Me? Ten shillings? Haven’t
[24509] BLOOM: (His head under the lamp, pulls the chain. Pulling, the gasjet
[24515] BLOOM: (Warding off a blow.) To show you how he hit the paper. There’s
[24522] BLOOM: O, I know. Bulldog on the premises. But he’s a Trinity student.
[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.)
[24545] of the house. Bloom at the halldoor perceives Corny Kelleher who is
[24550] still point right. Bloom, parting them swiftly, draws his caliph’s
[24576] dental surgeon Bloom with tweezers, Mrs Bob Doran, Mrs Kennefick,
[24587] THE HUE AND CRY: (Helterskelterpelterwelter.) He’s Bloom! Stop Bloom!
[24590] (At the corner of Beaver street beneath the scaffolding Bloom panting
[24651] BLOOM: (Elbowing through the crowd, plucks Stephen’s sleeve
[24661] BLOOM: (Propping him.) Retain your own.
[24697] (He shakes hands with Private Carr, Private Compton, Stephen, Bloom and
[24722] BLOOM: (To the privates, softly.) He doesn’t know what he’s saying.
[24749] BLOOM: (To Stephen.) Come home. You’ll get into trouble.
[24842] BLOOM: (Terrified.) He said nothing. Not a word. A pure
[24854] BLOOM: (To the redcoats.) We fought for you in South Africa, Irish
[24893] BLOOM: (Shakes Cissy Caffrey’s shoulders.) Speak, you! Are you struck
[24984] BLOOM: (Runs to Lynch.) Can’t you get him away?
[24986] LYNCH: He likes dialectic, the universal language. Kitty! (To Bloom.)
[24993] BLOOM: (Runs to Stephen.) Come along with me now before worse happens.
[25002] BLOOM: (Over Stephen’s shoulder.) Yes, go. You see he’s incapable.
[25008] face to the sky, his hat rolling to the wall. Bloom follows and picks it
[25029] BLOOM: (Shoves them back, loudly.) Get back, stand back!
[25043] BLOOM: (Glances sharply at the man.) Leave him to me. I can easily...
[25049] BLOOM: (Angrily.) You hit him without provocation. I’m a witness.
[25063] BLOOM: (Peering over the crowd.) I just see a car there. If you give me
[25071] BLOOM: (Quickly.) O, the very man! (He whispers.) Simon Dedalus’ son.
[25103] BLOOM: (Shakes hands with both of the watch in turn.) Thank you very
[25115] BLOOM: (Nods rapidly.) Naturally. Quite right. Only your bounden duty.
[25124] BLOOM: (Blows.) Providential you came on the scene. You have a car?...
[25132] BLOOM: I was just going home by Gardiner street when I happened to...
[25139] BLOOM: (Tries to laugh.) He, he, he! Yes. Matter of fact I was just
[25153] BLOOM: No, in Sandycove, I believe, from what he let drop.
[25156] at the horse. Bloom, in gloom, looms down.)
[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...
[25177] BLOOM: Night.
[25181] sideseat sways his head to and fro in sign of mirth at Bloom’s plight.
[25183] farther seat. Bloom shakes his head in mute mirthful reply. With thumb
[25185] sleep to continue for what else is to be done. With a slow nod Bloom
[25188] again reassuralooms with his hand. Bloom with his hand assuralooms Corny
[25190] harness grow fainter with their tooralooloo looloo lay. Bloom, holding
[25194] BLOOM: Eh! Ho! (There is no answer; he bends again.) Mr Dedalus! (There
[25206] BLOOM: Poetry. Well educated. Pity. (He bends again and undoes
[25215] (He stretches out his arms, sighs again and curls his body. Bloom,
[25217] Bloom tightens and loosens his grip on the ashplant. He looks down on
[25220] BLOOM: (Communes with the night.) Face reminds me of his poor mother.
[25235] BLOOM: (Wonderstruck, calls inaudibly.) Rudy!
[25237] RUDY: (Gazes, unseeing, into Bloom’s eyes and goes on reading,

16. Eumaeus

[25257] Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of
[25262] Bloom in view of the hour it was and there being no pump of Vartry water
[25285] no symptom of its budging a quarter of an inch when Mr Bloom, who was
[25293] direction of Amiens street railway terminus, Mr Bloom being handicapped
[25322] yet perfectly sober companion Mr Bloom who at all events was in complete
[25340] Bloom put it, recalling a case or two in the A division in Clanbrassil
[25378] —Someone saluted you, Mr Bloom said.
[25386] compliment. Mr Bloom actuated by motives of inherent delicacy inasmuch
[25496] Mr Bloom in the meanwhile kept dodging about in the vicinity of the
[25516] The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his
[25525] Bloom gazed abstractedly for the space of a half a second or so in the
[25537] —Needs! Mr Bloom ejaculated, professing not the least surprise at
[25549] —I met your respected father on a recent occasion, Mr Bloom
[25557] —A gifted man, Mr Bloom said of Mr Dedalus senior, in more respects
[25580] —No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn’t personally repose much
[25633] Mr Bloom and Stephen entered the cabman’s shelter, an unpretentious
[25645] —Now touching a cup of coffee, Mr Bloom ventured to plausibly suggest
[25655] floor. Mr Bloom, availing himself of the right of free speech, he having
[25670] —Is that so? Mr Bloom asked. Of course, he subjoined pensively, at the
[25678] which he beat a retreat to his counter, Mr Bloom determining to have
[25688] —Yes, to be sure, Mr Bloom unaffectedly concurred. Of course. Our name
[25697] Just in the nick of time Mr Bloom touched his companion’s boot but
[25711] Mr Bloom was all at sea for a moment, seeing the others evidently
[25719] As for Mr Bloom he could neither make head or tail of the whole business
[25749] A silence ensued till Mr Bloom for agreeableness’ sake just felt
[25755] —Long ago? Mr Bloom pursued without flinching a hairsbreadth.
[25762] —Curious coincidence, Mr Bloom confided to Stephen unobtrusively.
[25775] Mr Bloom could easily picture his advent on this scene, the homecoming
[25866] Mr Bloom, without evincing surprise, unostentatiously turned over the
[26000] natives choza de, another the seaman’s discharge. Mr Bloom, so far
[26012] —Have you seen the rock of Gibraltar? Mr Bloom inquired.
[26017] —Ah, you’ve touched there too, Mr Bloom said, Europa point, thinking
[26134] Bloom, scarcely knowing which way to look, turned away on the moment
[26158] —It beats me, Mr Bloom confided to Stephen, medically I am speaking,
[26199] Mr Bloom thoroughly acquiesced in the general gist of this though the
[26237] Faultfinding being a proverbially bad hat Mr Bloom thought well to stir
[26273] Mr Bloom promptly did as suggested and removed the incriminated article,
[26278] —Our mutual friend’s stories are like himself, Mr Bloom apropos
[26352] —Quite so, Mr Bloom dittoed.
[26359] —It’s in the blood, Mr Bloom acceded at once. All are washed in
[26401] due left. While he was in the act of getting his bearings Mr Bloom who
[26406] it with a gurgling noise. The irrepressible Bloom, who also had a
[26456] in seconds or thirds. Mr Bloom’s sharp ears heard him then expectorate
[26523] From inside information extending over a series of years Mr Bloom was
[26592] four eyes conversing, Christus or Bloom his name is or after all any
[26610] Yes, Mr Bloom thoroughly agreed, entirely endorsing the remark, that
[26678] —I would go a step farther, Mr Bloom insinuated.
[26683] —What belongs, queried Mr Bloom bending, fancying he was perhaps under
[26692] At this pertinent suggestion Mr Bloom, to change the subject, looked
[26802] —It is. Really, Mr Bloom said (though first he fancied he alluded to
[26828] —There was every indication they would arrive at that, he, Bloom,
[26844] All the same Bloom (properly so dubbed) was rather surprised at their
[26888] prudent course, as Bloom said to the not over effusive, in fact like the
[26903] amount of laughter among his entourage. As regards Bloom he, without the
[26968] —Was she? Bloom ejaculated, surprised though not astonished by any
[26982] was in the full bloom of womanhood in evening dress cut ostentatiously
[26992] —Mrs Bloom, my wife the prima donna Madam Marion Tweedy, Bloom
[27071] As those were particularly hot times in the general hullaballoo Bloom
[27076] history, Bloom was the man who picked it up in the crush after
[27086] from the ornament of the legal profession whose headgear Bloom also set
[27145] —Yesterday! exclaimed Bloom till he remembered it was already tomorrow
[27150] Literally astounded at this piece of intelligence Bloom reflected.
[27282] To cut a long story short Bloom, grasping the situation, was the first
[27305] neverfailing Bloom replied without a moment’s hesitation, saying
[27316] —It will (the air) do you good, Bloom said, meaning also the walk, in
[27337] Bloom, as a pure amateur, possessed the greatest love, as they made
[27339] confessedly grand in its way, was a bit too heavy for Bloom and hard to
[27378] brushing a long swathe of mire up so that with the noise Bloom was not
[27384] By the chains the horse slowly swerved to turn, which perceiving, Bloom,
[27390] They thereupon stopped. Bloom looked at the head of a horse not worth
[27428] boggled Bloom a bit:
[27432] These opening bars he sang and translated extempore. Bloom, nodding,
[27437] which Bloom appreciated at the very first note he got out, could easily,
[27487] purposed (Bloom did), without anyway prying into his private affairs
[27492] which in Bloom’s humble opinion threw a nasty sidelight on that side
[27502] Side by side Bloom, profiting by the contretemps, with Stephen passed

17. Ithaca

[27527] What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?
[27549] Did Bloom discover common factors of similarity between their respective
[27563] Stephen dissented openly from Bloom’s views on the importance
[27564] of dietary and civic selfhelp while Bloom dissented tacitly from
[27566] literature. Bloom assented covertly to Stephen’s rectification of
[27572] aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnaree. The collapse which Bloom
[27585] Had Bloom discussed similar subjects during nocturnal perambulations in
[27599] parlour of his (Bloom’s) house in Lombard street, west.
[27602] 1886, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1904 did Bloom make before their arrival at
[27615] What act did Bloom make on their arrival at their destination?
[27636] Bloom’s decision?
[27689] Bloom’s house.
[27691] What did Bloom do?
[27732] What did Bloom see on the range?
[27737] What did Bloom do at the range?
[27766] What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier,
[27828] What reason did Stephen give for declining Bloom’s offer?
[27835] What impeded Bloom from giving Stephen counsels of hygiene and
[27879] For what personal purpose could Bloom have applied the water so boiled?
[27910] kitchen dresser, opened by Bloom?
[27930] subtracted for Mr Bloom’s and Mrs Fleming’s breakfasts, made one
[27983] How did Bloom prepare a collation for a gentile?
[28019] Bloom, having the advantage of ten seconds at the initiation and taking,
[28048] The name of yours truly, L. Bloom.
[28055] Leopold Bloom
[28104] 16 years before in 1888 when Bloom was of Stephen’s present age
[28105] Stephen was 6. 16 years after in 1920 when Stephen would be of Bloom’s
[28106] present age Bloom would be 54. In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and
[28111] possible, till then 1904 when Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in
[28112] 1920 when Stephen would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom would be 646
[28114] age of 70 Bloom, being 1190 years alive having been born in the year
[28117] until he would attain that age in the year 3072 A.D., Bloom would have
[28136] Did Bloom accept the invitation to dinner given then by the son and
[28150] informant of Bloom who resided also in the same hotel, being at that
[28208] What, reduced to their simplest reciprocal form, were Bloom’s thoughts
[28209] about Stephen’s thoughts about Bloom and about Stephen’s thoughts
[28210] about Bloom’s thoughts about Stephen?
[28218] Bloom, only born male transubstantial heir of Rudolf Virag (subsequently
[28219] Rudolph Bloom) of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London and
[28225] Had Bloom and Stephen been baptised, and where and by whom, cleric or
[28228] Bloom (three times), by the reverend Mr Gilmer Johnston M. A., alone,
[28238] Substituting Stephen for Bloom Stoom would have passed successively
[28239] through a dame’s school and the high school. Substituting Bloom for
[28245] Why did Bloom refrain from stating that he had frequented the university
[28255] What proofs did Bloom adduce to prove that his tendency was towards
[28344] What suggested scene was then reconstructed by Bloom?
[28346] The Queen’s Hotel, Ennis, county Clare, where Rudolph Bloom (Rudolf
[28469] What statement was made, under correction, by Bloom concerning a fourth
[28489] By Bloom: Kifeloch, harimon rakatejch m’baad l’zamatejch (thy temple
[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
[28529] What anthem did Bloom chant partially in anticipation of that multiple,
[28558] What was Bloom’s visual sensation?
[28563] What were Stephen’s and Bloom’s quasisimultaneous volitional
[28570] Auditively, Bloom’s: The traditional accent of the ecstasy of
[28573] What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the past and with
[28765] What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make
[28800] anniversary of the decease of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag).
[28828] What rendered problematic for Bloom the realisation of these mutually
[28834] to a place in the auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was seated and had
[28835] publicly declared to an exhilarated audience that he (Bloom) was his
[28837] summer of 1898 he (Bloom) had marked a florin (2/-) with three notches
[28843] Was the clown Bloom’s son?
[28847] Had Bloom’s coin returned?
[28887] Was this affirmation apprehended by Bloom?
[28901] BLOOM
[28912] Bloom set the candlestick on the floor. Stephen put the hat on his head.
[28924] With what meditations did Bloom accompany his demonstration to his
[29022] of the birth of Leopold Bloom and of other stars of (presumably) similar
[29026] after the birth and death of Rudolph Bloom, junior, and in and from
[29034] His (Bloom’s) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and
[29078] What visible luminous sign attracted Bloom’s, who attracted
[29081] In the second storey (rere) of his (Bloom’s) house the light of a
[29087] wife Marion (Molly) Bloom, denoted by a visible splendid sign, a lamp?
[29100] At Stephen’s suggestion, at Bloom’s instigation both, first Stephen,
[29101] then Bloom, in penumbra urinated, their sides contiguous, their organs
[29103] their gazes, first Bloom’s, then Stephen’s, elevated to the
[29109] were dissimilar: Bloom’s longer, less irruent, in the incomplete form
[29120] To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence, rigidity,
[29164] By Bloom:
[29168] Where were the several members of the company which with Bloom that day
[29177] Alone, what did Bloom hear?
[29182] Alone, what did Bloom feel?
[29271] With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?
[29311] Bloom?
[29316] melancholy wise bright motionless compassionate gaze regarded Bloom
[29317] while Bloom with obscure tranquil profound motionless compassionated
[29529] ungual fragments, picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, pupil of Mrs
[29631] Bloom Cottage. Saint Leopold’s. Flowerville.
[29633] Could Bloom of 7 Eccles street foresee Bloom of Flowerville?
[29675] recorded in the court directory (Bloom, Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K. P.,
[29677] and fashionable intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have left
[29705] father Rudolf Virag (later Rudolph Bloom) had been converted from the
[29871] Bloom, certain pages of which bore diagram drawings, marked Papli, which
[29884] written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the
[29891] property of Ellen Bloom (born Higgins), deceased: a cameo scarfpin,
[29892] property of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag), deceased: 3 typewritten letters,
[29912] Victoria: a chart of the measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled before,
[29919] (erroneously) to Mrs L. Bloom with brief accompanying note commencing
[29944] What object did Bloom add to this collection of objects?
[29966] Documents: the birth certificate of Leopold Paula Bloom: an endowment
[29968] intestated Millicent (Milly) Bloom, coming into force at 25 years as
[29986] times to be known by the name of Rudolph Bloom.
[29988] What other objects relative to Rudolph Bloom (born Virag) were in the
[29997] Ennis, proprietor, Rudolph Bloom: an envelope addressed: To My Dear Son
[30009] melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom?
[30016] Why did Bloom experience a sentiment of remorse?
[30034] What first reminiscence had he of Rudolph Bloom (deceased)?
[30036] Rudolph Bloom (deceased) narrated to his son Leopold Bloom (aged 6) a
[30042] Leopold Bloom (aged 6) had accompanied these narrations by constant
[30072] Reduce Bloom by cross multiplication of reverses of fortune, from which
[30164] missing gent about 40, answering to the name of Bloom, Leopold (Poldy),
[30219] accumulated fatigue did Bloom, before rising, silently recapitulate?
[30237] What selfimposed enigma did Bloom about to rise in order to go so as to
[30243] What selfinvolved enigma did Bloom risen, going, gathering multicoloured
[30250] years did Bloom now, having effected natural obscurity by the extinction
[30255] What imperfections in a perfect day did Bloom, walking, charged with
[30267] What impression of an absent face did Bloom, arrested, silently recall?
[30303] Bloom’s acts?

18. Penelope

[30876] Marion Bloom and I saw his eyes on my feet going out through the turning
[31145] first he was as stiff as the mischief really and truly Mrs Bloom only I
[31164] Im extremely sorry Mrs Bloom believe me without making it too marked the
[31491] name Bloom when I used to write it in print to see how it looked on a
[31492] visiting card or practising for the butcher and oblige M Bloom youre