Joyce's Ulysses Concordance

17. Ithaca

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[27526]

[27527]What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?

[27528]

[27529]Starting united both at normal walking pace from Beresford place they

[27530]followed in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner streets and

[27531]Mountjoy square, west: then, at reduced pace, each bearing left,

[27532]Gardiner’s place by an inadvertence as far as the farther corner of

[27533]Temple street: then, at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing

[27534]right, Temple street, north, as far as Hardwicke place. Approaching,

[27535]disparate, at relaxed walking pace they crossed both the circus before

[27536]George’s church diametrically, the chord in any circle being less than

[27537]the arc which it subtends.

[27538]

[27539]Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary?

[27540]

[27541]Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman,

[27542]prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and

[27543]glowlamps on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees, exposed

[27544]corporation emergency dustbuckets, the Roman catholic church,

[27545]ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers,

[27546]the study of medicine, the past day, the maleficent influence of the

[27547]presabbath, Stephen’s collapse.

[27548]

[27549]Did Bloom discover common factors of similarity between their respective

[27550]like and unlike reactions to experience?

[27551]

[27552]Both were sensitive to artistic impressions, musical in preference to

[27553]plastic or pictorial. Both preferred a continental to an insular manner

[27554]of life, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence. Both

[27555]indurated by early domestic training and an inherited tenacity of

[27556]heterodox resistance professed their disbelief in many orthodox

[27557]religious, national, social and ethical doctrines. Both admitted

[27558]the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual

[27559]magnetism.

[27560]

[27561]Were their views on some points divergent?

[27562]

[27563]Stephen dissented openly from Bloom’s views on the importance

[27564]of dietary and civic selfhelp while Bloom dissented tacitly from

[27565]Stephen’s views on the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man in

[27566]literature. Bloom assented covertly to Stephen’s rectification of

[27567]the anachronism involved in assigning the date of the conversion of the

[27568]Irish nation to christianity from druidism by Patrick son of Calpornus,

[27569]son of Potitus, son of Odyssus, sent by pope Celestine I in the year

[27570]432 in the reign of Leary to the year 260 or thereabouts in the reign

[27571]of Cormac MacArt († 266 A.D.), suffocated by imperfect deglutition of

[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

[27576]atmosphere, Stephen attributed to the reapparition of a matutinal cloud

[27577](perceived by both from two different points of observation Sandycove

[27578]and Dublin) at first no bigger than a woman’s hand.

[27579]

[27580]Was there one point on which their views were equal and negative?

[27581]

[27582]The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of adjoining

[27583]paraheliotropic trees.

[27584]

[27585]Had Bloom discussed similar subjects during nocturnal perambulations in

[27586]the past?

[27587]

[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

[27591]avenue. In 1885 with Percy Apjohn in the evenings, reclined against the

[27592]wall between Gibraltar villa and Bloomfield house in Crumlin, barony

[27593]of Uppercross. In 1886 occasionally with casual acquaintances and

[27594]prospective purchasers on doorsteps, in front parlours, in third class

[27595]railway carriages of suburban lines. In 1888 frequently with major Brian

[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

[27598]once in 1893 with Julius (Juda) Mastiansky, on both occasions in the

[27599]parlour of his (Bloom’s) house in Lombard street, west.

[27600]

[27601]What reflection concerning the irregular sequence of dates 1884, 1885,

[27602]1886, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1904 did Bloom make before their arrival at

[27603]their destination?

[27604]

[27605]He reflected that the progressive extension of the field of individual

[27606]development and experience was regressively accompanied by a restriction

[27607]of the converse domain of interindividual relations.

[27608]

[27609]As in what ways?

[27610]

[27611]From inexistence to existence he came to many and was as one received:

[27612]existence with existence he was with any as any with any: from existence

[27613]to nonexistence gone he would be by all as none perceived.

[27614]

[27615]What act did Bloom make on their arrival at their destination?

[27616]

[27617]At the housesteps of the 4th of the equidifferent uneven numbers, number

[27618]7 Eccles street, he inserted his hand mechanically into the back pocket

[27619]of his trousers to obtain his latchkey.

[27620]

[27621]Was it there?

[27622]

[27623]It was in the corresponding pocket of the trousers which he had worn on

[27624]the day but one preceding.

[27625]

[27626]Why was he doubly irritated?

[27627]

[27628]Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded

[27629]himself twice not to forget.

[27630]

[27631]What were then the alternatives before the, premeditatedly

[27632](respectively) and inadvertently, keyless couple?

[27633]

[27634]To enter or not to enter. To knock or not to knock.

[27635]

[27636]Bloom’s decision?

[27637]

[27638]A stratagem. Resting his feet on the dwarf wall, he climbed over the

[27639]area railings, compressed his hat on his head, grasped two points at

[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

[27644]the impact of the fall.

[27645]

[27646]Did he fall?

[27647]

[27648]By his body’s known weight of eleven stone and four pounds in

[27649]avoirdupois measure, as certified by the graduated machine for

[27650]periodical selfweighing in the premises of Francis Froedman,

[27651]pharmaceutical chemist of 19 Frederick street, north, on the last feast

[27652]of the Ascension, to wit, the twelfth day of May of the bissextile year

[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,

[27656]dominical letters C B, Roman indiction 2, Julian period 6617, MCMIV.

[27657]

[27658]Did he rise uninjured by concussion?

[27659]

[27660]Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by

[27661]the impact, raised the latch of the area door by the exertion of force

[27662]at its freely moving flange and by leverage of the first kind applied

[27663]at its fulcrum, gained retarded access to the kitchen through the

[27664]subadjacent scullery, ignited a lucifer match by friction, set free

[27665]inflammable coal gas by turning on the ventcock, lit a high flame which,

[27666]by regulating, he reduced to quiescent candescence and lit finally a

[27667]portable candle.

[27668]

[27669]What discrete succession of images did Stephen meanwhile perceive?

[27670]

[27671]Reclined against the area railings he perceived through the transparent

[27672]kitchen panes a man regulating a gasflame of 14 CP, a man lighting a

[27673]candle of 1 CP, a man removing in turn each of his two boots, a man

[27674]leaving the kitchen holding a candle.

[27675]

[27676]Did the man reappear elsewhere?

[27677]

[27678]After a lapse of four minutes the glimmer of his candle was discernible

[27679]through the semitransparent semicircular glass fanlight over the

[27680]halldoor. The halldoor turned gradually on its hinges. In the open space

[27681]of the doorway the man reappeared without his hat, with his candle.

[27682]

[27683]Did Stephen obey his sign?

[27684]

[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

[27688]down a turning staircase of more than five steps into the kitchen of

[27689]Bloom’s house.

[27690]

[27691]What did Bloom do?

[27692]

[27693]He extinguished the candle by a sharp expiration of breath upon its

[27694]flame, drew two spoonseat deal chairs to the hearthstone, one for

[27695]Stephen with its back to the area window, the other for himself when

[27696]necessary, knelt on one knee, composed in the grate a pyre of crosslaid

[27697]resintipped sticks and various coloured papers and irregular polygons

[27698]of best Abram coal at twentyone shillings a ton from the yard of Messrs

[27699]Flower and M’Donald of 14 D’Olier street, kindled it at three

[27700]projecting points of paper with one ignited lucifer match, thereby

[27701]releasing the potential energy contained in the fuel by allowing its

[27702]carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union with the oxygen of

[27703]the air.

[27704]

[27705]Of what similar apparitions did Stephen think?

[27706]

[27707]Of others elsewhere in other times who, kneeling on one knee or on two,

[27708]had kindled fires for him, of Brother Michael in the infirmary of the

[27709]college of the Society of Jesus at Clongowes Wood, Sallins, in the

[27710]county of Kildare: of his father, Simon Dedalus, in an unfurnished room

[27711]of his first residence in Dublin, number thirteen Fitzgibbon street:

[27712]of his godmother Miss Kate Morkan in the house of her dying sister Miss

[27713]Julia Morkan at 15 Usher’s Island: of his aunt Sara, wife of Richie

[27714](Richard) Goulding, in the kitchen of their lodgings at 62 Clanbrassil

[27715]street: of his mother Mary, wife of Simon Dedalus, in the kitchen of

[27716]number twelve North Richmond street on the morning of the feast of

[27717]Saint Francis Xavier 1898: of the dean of studies, Father Butt, in the

[27718]physics’ theatre of university College, 16 Stephen’s Green, north:

[27719]of his sister Dilly (Delia) in his father’s house in Cabra.

[27720]

[27721]What did Stephen see on raising his gaze to the height of a yard from

[27722]the fire towards the opposite wall?

[27723]

[27724]Under a row of five coiled spring housebells a curvilinear rope,

[27725]stretched between two holdfasts athwart across the recess beside the

[27726]chimney pier, from which hung four smallsized square handkerchiefs

[27727]folded unattached consecutively in adjacent rectangles and one pair of

[27728]ladies’ grey hose with Lisle suspender tops and feet in their

[27729]habitual position clamped by three erect wooden pegs two at their outer

[27730]extremities and the third at their point of junction.

[27731]

[27732]What did Bloom see on the range?

[27733]

[27734]On the right (smaller) hob a blue enamelled saucepan: on the left

[27735](larger) hob a black iron kettle.

[27736]

[27737]What did Bloom do at the range?

[27738]

[27739]He removed the saucepan to the left hob, rose and carried the iron

[27740]kettle to the sink in order to tap the current by turning the faucet to

[27741]let it flow.

[27742]

[27743]Did it flow?

[27744]

[27745]Yes. From Roundwood reservoir in county Wicklow of a cubic capacity of

[27746]2400 million gallons, percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of

[27747]filter mains of single and double pipeage constructed at an initial

[27748]plant cost of £ 5 per linear yard by way of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen

[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

[27751]tanks, by a gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at Eustace bridge,

[27752]upper Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily

[27753]supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had fallen below the sill of

[27754]the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and waterworks

[27755]engineer, Mr Spencer Harty, C. E., on the instructions of the waterworks

[27756]committee had prohibited the use of municipal water for purposes other

[27757]than those of consumption (envisaging the possibility of recourse being

[27758]had to the impotable water of the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893)

[27759]particularly as the South Dublin Guardians, notwithstanding their ration

[27760]of 15 gallons per day per pauper supplied through a 6 inch meter, had

[27761]been convicted of a wastage of 20,000 gallons per night by a reading of

[27762]their meter on the affirmation of the law agent of the corporation, Mr

[27763]Ignatius Rice, solicitor, thereby acting to the detriment of another

[27764]section of the public, selfsupporting taxpayers, solvent, sound.

[27765]

[27766]What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier,

[27767]returning to the range, admire?

[27768]

[27769]Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature

[27770]in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator’s

[27771]projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific

[27772]exceeding 8000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface

[27773]particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence

[27774]of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic

[27775]quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides:

[27776]its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar

[27777]icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance:

[27778]its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its

[27779]indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region

[27780]below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability

[27781]of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve

[27782]and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of

[27783]tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and

[27784]islands, its persistent formation of homothetic islands, peninsulas

[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

[27791]in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies,

[27792]freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers,

[27793]cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts:

[27794]its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs and

[27795]latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments

[27796]and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown

[27797]gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its

[27798]composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part

[27799]of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead

[27800]Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate

[27801]dams, leaks on shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst

[27802]and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and

[27803]paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow,

[27804]hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs

[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

[27807]arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility

[27808]in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power

[27809]stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals,

[27810]rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality

[27811]derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level

[27812]to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe),

[27813]numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its

[27814]ubiquity as constituting 90 % of the human body: the noxiousness of its

[27815]effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater,

[27816]stagnant pools in the waning moon.

[27817]

[27818]Having set the halffilled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he

[27819]return to the stillflowing tap?

[27820]

[27821]To wash his soiled hands with a partially consumed tablet of

[27822]Barrington’s lemonflavoured soap, to which paper still adhered,

[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

[27826]revolving roller.

[27827]

[27828]What reason did Stephen give for declining Bloom’s offer?

[27829]

[27830]That he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by

[27831]submersion in cold water, (his last bath having taken place in the month

[27832]of October of the preceding year), disliking the aqueous substances of

[27833]glass and crystal, distrusting aquacities of thought and language.

[27834]

[27835]What impeded Bloom from giving Stephen counsels of hygiene and

[27836]prophylactic to which should be added suggestions concerning a

[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

[27839]in case of sea or river bathing, the parts of the human anatomy most

[27840]sensitive to cold being the nape, stomach and thenar or sole of foot?

[27841]

[27842]The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

[27843]

[27844]What additional didactic counsels did he similarly repress?

[27845]

[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.

[27849]

[27850]Which seemed to the host to be the predominant qualities of his guest?

[27851]

[27852]Confidence in himself, an equal and opposite power of abandonment and

[27853]recuperation.

[27854]

[27855]What concomitant phenomenon took place in the vessel of liquid by the

[27856]agency of fire?

[27857]

[27858]The phenomenon of ebullition. Fanned by a constant updraught of

[27859]ventilation between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was

[27860]communicated from the faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral

[27861]masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the

[27862]foliated fossilised decidua of primeval forests which had in turn

[27863]derived their vegetative existence from the sun, primal source of heat

[27864](radiant), transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous

[27865]ether. Heat (convected), a mode of motion developed by such

[27866]combustion, was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the source

[27867]of calorification to the liquid contained in the vessel, being radiated

[27868]through the uneven unpolished dark surface of the metal iron, in part

[27869]reflected, in part absorbed, in part transmitted, gradually raising

[27870]the temperature of the water from normal to boiling point, a rise in

[27871]temperature expressible as the result of an expenditure of 72 thermal

[27872]units needed to raise 1 pound of water from 50° to 212° Fahrenheit.

[27873]

[27874]What announced the accomplishment of this rise in temperature?

[27875]

[27876]A double falciform ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at

[27877]both sides simultaneously.

[27878]

[27879]For what personal purpose could Bloom have applied the water so boiled?

[27880]

[27881]To shave himself.

[27882]

[27883]What advantages attended shaving by night?

[27884]

[27885]A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from

[27886]shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly

[27887]encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours:

[27888]quiet reflections upon the course of the day: a cleaner sensation when

[27889]awaking after a fresher sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and

[27890]perturbations, a clattered milkcan, a postman’s double knock, a paper

[27891]read, reread while lathering, relathering the same spot, a shock, a

[27892]shoot, with thought of aught he sought though fraught with nought might

[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.

[27895]

[27896]Why did absence of light disturb him less than presence of noise?

[27897]

[27898]Because of the surety of the sense of touch in his firm full masculine

[27899]feminine passive active hand.

[27900]

[27901]What quality did it (his hand) possess but with what counteracting

[27902]influence?

[27903]

[27904]The operative surgical quality but that he was reluctant to shed human

[27905]blood even when the end justified the means, preferring, in their

[27906]natural order, heliotherapy, psychophysicotherapeutics, osteopathic

[27907]surgery.

[27908]

[27909]What lay under exposure on the lower, middle and upper shelves of the

[27910]kitchen dresser, opened by Bloom?

[27911]

[27912]On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal

[27913]breakfast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a

[27914]moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown Derby, four white

[27915]goldrimmed eggcups, an open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly

[27916]copper, and a phial of aromatic (violet) comfits. On the middle shelf

[27917]a chipped eggcup containing pepper, a drum of table salt, four

[27918]conglomerated black olives in oleaginous paper, an empty pot of

[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

[27921]Co’s white invalid port, half disrobed of its swathe of coralpink

[27922]tissue paper, a packet of Epps’s soluble cocoa, five ounces of Anne

[27923]Lynch’s choice tea at 2/- per lb in a crinkled leadpaper bag, a

[27924]cylindrical canister containing the best crystallised lump sugar, two

[27925]onions, one, the larger, Spanish, entire, the other, smaller, Irish,

[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

[27928]quarter of soured adulterated milk, converted by heat into water,

[27929]acidulous serum and semisolidified curds, which added to the quantity

[27930]subtracted for Mr Bloom’s and Mrs Fleming’s breakfasts, made one

[27931]imperial pint, the total quantity originally delivered, two cloves, a

[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

[27934]proveniences.

[27935]

[27936]What attracted his attention lying on the apron of the dresser?

[27937]

[27938]Four polygonal fragments of two lacerated scarlet betting tickets,

[27939]numbered 8 87, 88 6.

[27940]

[27941]What reminiscences temporarily corrugated his brow?

[27942]

[27943]Reminiscences of coincidences, truth stranger than fiction,

[27944]preindicative of the result of the Gold Cup flat handicap, the official

[27945]and definitive result of which he had read in the Evening Telegraph,

[27946]late pink edition, in the cabman’s shelter, at Butt bridge.

[27947]

[27948]Where had previous intimations of the result, effected or projected,

[27949]been received by him?

[27950]

[27951]In Bernard Kiernan’s licensed premises 8, 9 and 10 little Britain

[27952]street: in David Byrne’s licensed premises, 14 Duke street: in

[27953]O’Connell street lower, outside Graham Lemon’s when a dark man had

[27954]placed in his hand a throwaway (subsequently thrown away), advertising

[27955]Elijah, restorer of the church in Zion: in Lincoln place outside the

[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

[27960](subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental

[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

[27963]the secret of the race, graven in the language of prediction.

[27964]

[27965]What qualifying considerations allayed his perturbations?

[27966]

[27967]The difficulties of interpretation since the significance of any event

[27968]followed its occurrence as variably as the acoustic report followed the

[27969]electrical discharge and of counterestimating against an actual loss

[27970]by failure to interpret the total sum of possible losses proceeding

[27971]originally from a successful interpretation.

[27972]

[27973]His mood?

[27974]

[27975]He had not risked, he did not expect, he had not been disappointed, he

[27976]was satisfied.

[27977]

[27978]What satisfied him?

[27979]

[27980]To have sustained no positive loss. To have brought a positive gain to

[27981]others. Light to the gentiles.

[27982]

[27983]How did Bloom prepare a collation for a gentile?

[27984]

[27985]He poured into two teacups two level spoonfuls, four in all, of Epps’s

[27986]soluble cocoa and proceeded according to the directions for use printed

[27987]on the label, to each adding after sufficient time for infusion the

[27988]prescribed ingredients for diffusion in the manner and in the quantity

[27989]prescribed.

[27990]

[27991]What supererogatory marks of special hospitality did the host show his

[27992]guest?

[27993]

[27994]Relinquishing his symposiarchal right to the moustache cup of imitation

[27995]Crown Derby presented to him by his only daughter, Millicent (Milly),

[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

[27998]viscous cream ordinarily reserved for the breakfast of his wife Marion

[27999](Molly).

[28000]

[28001]Was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge these marks of

[28002]hospitality?

[28003]

[28004]His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely, and he

[28005]accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps’s

[28006]massproduct, the creature cocoa.

[28007]

[28008]Were there marks of hospitality which he contemplated but suppressed,

[28009]reserving them for another and for himself on future occasions to

[28010]complete the act begun?

[28011]

[28012]The reparation of a fissure of the length of 1 1/2 inches in the right

[28013]side of his guest’s jacket. A gift to his guest of one of the four

[28014]lady’s handkerchiefs, if and when ascertained to be in a presentable

[28015]condition.

[28016]

[28017]Who drank more quickly?

[28018]

[28019]Bloom, having the advantage of ten seconds at the initiation and taking,

[28020]from the concave surface of a spoon along the handle of which a steady

[28021]flow of heat was conducted, three sips to his opponent’s one, six to

[28022]two, nine to three.

[28023]

[28024]What cerebration accompanied his frequentative act?

[28025]

[28026]Concluding by inspection but erroneously that his silent companion was

[28027]engaged in mental composition he reflected on the pleasures derived from

[28028]literature of instruction rather than of amusement as he himself had

[28029]applied to the works of William Shakespeare more than once for the

[28030]solution of difficult problems in imaginary or real life.

[28031]

[28032]Had he found their solution?

[28033]

[28034]In spite of careful and repeated reading of certain classical passages,

[28035]aided by a glossary, he had derived imperfect conviction from the text,

[28036]the answers not bearing in all points.

[28037]

[28038]What lines concluded his first piece of original verse written by him,

[28039]potential poet, at the age of 11 in 1877 on the occasion of the offering

[28040]of three prizes of 10/-, 5/- and 2/6 respectively for competition by the

[28041]Shamrock, a weekly newspaper?

[28042]

[28043] An ambition to squint

[28044] At my verses in print

[28045] Makes me hope that for these you’ll find room.

[28046] If you so condescend

[28047] Then please place at the end

[28048] The name of yours truly, L. Bloom.

[28049]Did he find four separating forces between his temporary guest and him?

[28050]

[28051]Name, age, race, creed.

[28052]

[28053]What anagrams had he made on his name in youth?

[28054]

[28055] Leopold Bloom

[28056] Ellpodbomool

[28057] Molldopeloob

[28058] Bollopedoom

[28059] Old Ollebo, M. P.

[28060]What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic

[28061]poet) sent to Miss Marion (Molly) Tweedy on the 14 February 1888?

[28062]

[28063] Poets oft have sung in rhyme

[28064] Of music sweet their praise divine.

[28065] Let them hymn it nine times nine.

[28066] Dearer far than song or wine.

[28067] You are mine. The world is mine.

[28068]What had prevented him from completing a topical song (music by R. G.

[28069]Johnston) on the events of the past, or fixtures for the actual, years,

[28070]entitled If Brian Boru could but come back and see old Dublin now,

[28071]commissioned by Michael Gunn, lessee of the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48,

[28072]49 South King street, and to be introduced into the sixth scene, the

[28073]valley of diamonds, of the second edition (30 January 1893) of the grand

[28074]annual Christmas pantomime Sinbad the Sailor (produced by R. Shelton

[28075]26 December 1892, written by Greenleaf Whittier, scenery by George

[28076]A. Jackson and Cecil Hicks, costumes by Mrs and Miss Whelan under

[28077]the personal supervision of Mrs Michael Gunn, ballets by Jessie Noir,

[28078]harlequinade by Thomas Otto) and sung by Nelly Bouverist, principal

[28079]girl?

[28080]

[28081]Firstly, oscillation between events of imperial and of local interest,

[28082]the anticipated diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria (born 1820, acceded

[28083]1837) and the posticipated opening of the new municipal fish market:

[28084]secondly, apprehension of opposition from extreme circles on the

[28085]questions of the respective visits of Their Royal Highnesses the

[28086]duke and duchess of York (real) and of His Majesty King Brian Boru

[28087](imaginary): thirdly, a conflict between professional etiquette and

[28088]professional emulation concerning the recent erections of the Grand

[28089]Lyric Hall on Burgh Quay and the Theatre Royal in Hawkins street:

[28090]fourthly, distraction resultant from compassion for Nelly Bouverist’s

[28091]non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical expression of countenance

[28092]and concupiscence caused by Nelly Bouverist’s revelations of white

[28093]articles of non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical underclothing

[28094]while she (Nelly Bouverist) was in the articles: fifthly, the

[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

[28098]with the names of the new lord mayor, Daniel Tallon, the new high

[28099]sheriff, Thomas Pile and the new solicitorgeneral, Dunbar Plunket

[28100]Barton.

[28101]

[28102]What relation existed between their ages?

[28103]

[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

[28107]Stephen 54 their ages initially in the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17

[28108]1/2 to 13 1/2, the proportion increasing and the disparity diminishing

[28109]according as arbitrary future years were added, for if the proportion

[28110]existing in 1883 had continued immutable, conceiving that to be

[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

[28113]while in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian

[28114]age of 70 Bloom, being 1190 years alive having been born in the year

[28115]714, would have surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age,

[28116]that of Methusalah, 969 years, while, if Stephen would continue to live

[28117]until he would attain that age in the year 3072 A.D., Bloom would have

[28118]been obliged to have been alive 83,300 years, having been obliged to

[28119]have been born in the year 81,396 B.C.

[28120]

[28121]What events might nullify these calculations?

[28122]

[28123]The cessation of existence of both or either, the inauguration of a

[28124]new era or calendar, the annihilation of the world and consequent

[28125]extermination of the human species, inevitable but impredictable.

[28126]

[28127]How many previous encounters proved their preexisting acquaintance?

[28128]

[28129]Two. The first in the lilacgarden of Matthew Dillon’s house, Medina

[28130]Villa, Kimmage road, Roundtown, in 1887, in the company of Stephen’s

[28131]mother, Stephen being then of the age of 5 and reluctant to give his

[28132]hand in salutation. The second in the coffeeroom of Breslin’s hotel

[28133]on a rainy Sunday in the January of 1892, in the company of Stephen’s

[28134]father and Stephen’s granduncle, Stephen being then 5 years older.

[28135]

[28136]Did Bloom accept the invitation to dinner given then by the son and

[28137]afterwards seconded by the father?

[28138]

[28139]Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative

[28140]gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

[28141]

[28142]Did their conversation on the subject of these reminiscences reveal a

[28143]third connecting link between them?

[28144]

[28145]Mrs Riordan (Dante), a widow of independent means, had resided in the

[28146]house of Stephen’s parents from 1 September 1888 to 29 December 1891

[28147]and had also resided during the years 1892, 1893 and 1894 in the City

[28148]Arms Hotel owned by Elizabeth O’Dowd of 54 Prussia street where,

[28149]during parts of the years 1893 and 1894, she had been a constant

[28150]informant of Bloom who resided also in the same hotel, being at that

[28151]time a clerk in the employment of Joseph Cuffe of 5 Smithfield for the

[28152]superintendence of sales in the adjacent Dublin Cattle market on the

[28153]North Circular road.

[28154]

[28155]Had he performed any special corporal work of mercy for her?

[28156]

[28157]He had sometimes propelled her on warm summer evenings, an infirm widow

[28158]of independent, if limited, means, in her convalescent bathchair

[28159]with slow revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the North

[28160]Circular road opposite Mr Gavin Low’s place of business where she had

[28161]remained for a certain time scanning through his onelensed binocular

[28162]fieldglasses unrecognisable citizens on tramcars, roadster bicycles

[28163]equipped with inflated pneumatic tyres, hackney carriages, tandems,

[28164]private and hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and brakes passing from

[28165]the city to the Phoenix Park and vice versa.

[28166]

[28167]Why could he then support that his vigil with the greater equanimity?

[28168]

[28169]Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel

[28170]of bossed glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with

[28171]continual changes of the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds,

[28172]velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round

[28173]and round the rim of a round and round precipitous globe.

[28174]

[28175]What distinct different memories had each of her now eight years

[28176]deceased?

[28177]

[28178]The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her

[28179]suppositious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient

[28180]catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue

[28181]of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles

[28182]Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers.

[28183]

[28184]Were there no means still remaining to him to achieve the rejuvenation

[28185]which these reminiscences divulged to a younger companion rendered the

[28186]more desirable?

[28187]

[28188]The indoor exercises, formerly intermittently practised, subsequently

[28189]abandoned, prescribed in Eugen Sandow’s Physical Strength and How to

[28190]Obtain It which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in

[28191]sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in

[28192]front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of

[28193]muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant

[28194]relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility.

[28195]

[28196]Had any special agility been his in earlier youth?

[28197]

[28198]Though ringweight lifting had been beyond his strength and the full

[28199]circle gyration beyond his courage yet as a High school scholar he

[28200]had excelled in his stable and protracted execution of the half lever

[28201]movement on the parallel bars in consequence of his abnormally developed

[28202]abdominal muscles.

[28203]

[28204]Did either openly allude to their racial difference?

[28205]

[28206]Neither.

[28207]

[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?

[28211]

[28212]He thought that he thought that he was a jew whereas he knew that he

[28213]knew that he knew that he was not.

[28214]

[28215]What, the enclosures of reticence removed, were their respective

[28216]parentages?

[28217]

[28218]Bloom, only born male transubstantial heir of Rudolf Virag (subsequently

[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).

[28224]

[28225]Had Bloom and Stephen been baptised, and where and by whom, cleric or

[28226]layman?

[28227]

[28228]Bloom (three times), by the reverend Mr Gilmer Johnston M. A., alone,

[28229]in the protestant church of Saint Nicholas Without, Coombe, by James

[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.

[28232]C., in the church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. Stephen (once) by

[28233]the reverend Charles Malone C. C., alone, in the church of the Three

[28234]Patrons, Rathgar.

[28235]

[28236]Did they find their educational careers similar?

[28237]

[28238]Substituting Stephen for Bloom Stoom would have passed successively

[28239]through a dame’s school and the high school. Substituting Bloom for

[28240]Stephen Blephen would have passed successively through the preparatory,

[28241]junior, middle and senior grades of the intermediate and through the

[28242]matriculation, first arts, second arts and arts degree courses of the

[28243]royal university.

[28244]

[28245]Why did Bloom refrain from stating that he had frequented the university

[28246]of life?

[28247]

[28248]Because of his fluctuating incertitude as to whether this observation

[28249]had or had not been already made by him to Stephen or by Stephen to him.

[28250]

[28251]What two temperaments did they individually represent?

[28252]

[28253]The scientific. The artistic.

[28254]

[28255]What proofs did Bloom adduce to prove that his tendency was towards

[28256]applied, rather than towards pure, science?

[28257]

[28258]Certain possible inventions of which he had cogitated when reclining

[28259]in a state of supine repletion to aid digestion, stimulated by his

[28260]appreciation of the importance of inventions now common but once

[28261]revolutionary, for example, the aeronautic parachute, the reflecting

[28262]telescope, the spiral corkscrew, the safety pin, the mineral water

[28263]siphon, the canal lock with winch and sluice, the suction pump.

[28264]

[28265]Were these inventions principally intended for an improved scheme of

[28266]kindergarten?

[28267]

[28268]Yes, rendering obsolete popguns, elastic airbladders, games of hazard,

[28269]catapults. They comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the

[28270]twelve constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature

[28271]mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical

[28272]to correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playing balls,

[28273]historically costumed dolls.

[28274]

[28275]What also stimulated him in his cogitations?

[28276]

[28277]The financial success achieved by Ephraim Marks and Charles A. James,

[28278]the former by his 1d bazaar at 42 George’s street, south, the latter

[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

[28281]hitherto unexploited of the modern art of advertisement if condensed

[28282]in triliteral monoideal symbols, vertically of maximum visibility

[28283](divined), horizontally of maximum legibility (deciphered) and of

[28284]magnetising efficacy to arrest involuntary attention, to interest, to

[28285]convince, to decide.

[28286]

[28287]Such as?

[28288]

[28289]K. 11. Kino’s 11/- Trousers.

[28290]

[28291]House of Keys. Alexander J. Keyes.

[28292]

[28293]Such as not?

[28294]

[28295]Look at this long candle. Calculate when it burns out and you receive

[28296]gratis 1 pair of our special non-compo boots, guaranteed 1 candle power.

[28297]Address: Barclay and Cook, 18 Talbot street.

[28298]

[28299]Bacilikil (Insect Powder).

[28300]

[28301]Veribest (Boot Blacking).

[28302]

[28303]Uwantit (Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and

[28304]pipecleaner).

[28305]

[28306]Such as never?

[28307]

[28308]What is home without Plumtree’s Potted Meat?

[28309]

[28310]Incomplete.

[28311]

[28312]With it an abode of bliss.

[28313]

[28314]Manufactured by George Plumtree, 23 Merchants’ quay, Dublin, put up in

[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

[28317]of deceases. The name on the label is Plumtree. A plumtree in a meatpot,

[28318]registered trade mark. Beware of imitations. Peatmot. Trumplee. Moutpat.

[28319]Plamtroo.

[28320]

[28321]Which example did he adduce to induce Stephen to deduce that

[28322]originality, though producing its own reward, does not invariably

[28323]conduce to success?

[28324]

[28325]His own ideated and rejected project of an illuminated showcart, drawn

[28326]by a beast of burden, in which two smartly dressed girls were to be

[28327]seated engaged in writing.

[28328]

[28329]What suggested scene was then constructed by Stephen?

[28330]

[28331]Solitary hotel in mountain pass. Autumn. Twilight. Fire lit. In dark

[28332]corner young man seated. Young woman enters. Restless. Solitary. She

[28333]sits. She goes to window. She stands. She sits. Twilight. She thinks.

[28334]On solitary hotel paper she writes. She thinks. She writes. She sighs.

[28335]Wheels and hoofs. She hurries out. He comes from his dark corner. He

[28336]seizes solitary paper. He holds it towards fire. Twilight. He reads.

[28337]Solitary.

[28338]

[28339]What?

[28340]

[28341]In sloping, upright and backhands: Queen’s Hotel, Queen’s Hotel,

[28342]Queen’s Hotel. Queen’s Ho...

[28343]

[28344]What suggested scene was then reconstructed by Bloom?

[28345]

[28346]The Queen’s Hotel, Ennis, county Clare, where Rudolph Bloom (Rudolf

[28347]Virag) died on the evening of the 27 June 1886, at some hour unstated,

[28348]in consequence of an overdose of monkshood (aconite) selfadministered in

[28349]the form of a neuralgic liniment composed of 2 parts of aconite liniment

[28350]to 1 of chloroform liniment (purchased by him at 10.20 a.m. on the

[28351]morning of 27 June 1886 at the medical hall of Francis Dennehy, 17

[28352]Church street, Ennis) after having, though not in consequence of having,

[28353]purchased at 3.15 p.m. on the afternoon of 27 June 1886 a new boater

[28354]straw hat, extra smart (after having, though not in consequence of

[28355]having, purchased at the hour and in the place aforesaid, the toxin

[28356]aforesaid), at the general drapery store of James Cullen, 4 Main street,

[28357]Ennis.

[28358]

[28359]Did he attribute this homonymity to information or coincidence or

[28360]intuition?

[28361]

[28362]Coincidence.

[28363]

[28364]Did he depict the scene verbally for his guest to see?

[28365]

[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

[28368]relieved.

[28369]

[28370]Did he see only a second coincidence in the second scene narrated to

[28371]him, described by the narrator as A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The

[28372]Parable of the Plums?

[28373]

[28374]It, with the preceding scene and with others unnarrated but existent by

[28375]implication, to which add essays on various subjects or moral apothegms

[28376](e.g. My Favourite Hero or Procrastination is the Thief of Time)

[28377]composed during schoolyears, seemed to him to contain in itself and

[28378]in conjunction with the personal equation certain possibilities of

[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

[28382]contributed in printed form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy

[28383]or Doctor Dick or Heblon’s Studies in Blue, to a publication of

[28384]certified circulation and solvency or employed verbally as intellectual

[28385]stimulation for sympathetic auditors, tacitly appreciative of successful

[28386]narrative and confidently augurative of successful achievement, during

[28387]the increasingly longer nights gradually following the summer solstice

[28388]on the day but three following, videlicet, Tuesday, 21 June (S. Aloysius

[28389]Gonzaga), sunrise 3.33 a.m., sunset 8.29 p.m.

[28390]

[28391]Which domestic problem as much as, if not more than, any other

[28392]frequently engaged his mind?

[28393]

[28394]What to do with our wives.

[28395]

[28396]What had been his hypothetical singular solutions?

[28397]

[28398]Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spilikins, cup and ball,

[28399]nap, spoil five, bezique, twentyfive, beggar my neighbour, draughts,

[28400]chess or backgammon): embroidery, darning or knitting for the

[28401]policeaided clothing society: musical duets, mandoline and guitar, piano

[28402]and flute, guitar and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope addressing:

[28403]biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial activity as

[28404]pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress in

[28405]a cool dairy shop or warm cigar divan: the clandestine satisfaction of

[28406]erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state inspected and medically

[28407]controlled: social visits, at regular infrequent prevented intervals

[28408]and with regular frequent preventive superintendence, to and from female

[28409]acquaintances of recognised respectability in the vicinity: courses of

[28410]evening instruction specially designed to render liberal instruction

[28411]agreeable.

[28412]

[28413]What instances of deficient mental development in his wife inclined him

[28414]in favour of the lastmentioned (ninth) solution?

[28415]

[28416]In disoccupied moments she had more than once covered a sheet of paper

[28417]with signs and hieroglyphics which she stated were Greek and Irish and

[28418]Hebrew characters. She had interrogated constantly at varying intervals

[28419]as to the correct method of writing the capital initial of the name of

[28420]a city in Canada, Quebec. She understood little of political

[28421]complications, internal, or balance of power, external. In calculating

[28422]the addenda of bills she frequently had recourse to digital aid.

[28423]After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned

[28424]the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to

[28425]the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall. Unusual

[28426]polysyllables of foreign origin she interpreted phonetically or by

[28427]false analogy or by both: metempsychosis (met him pike hoses), alias (a

[28428]mendacious person mentioned in sacred scripture).

[28429]

[28430]What compensated in the false balance of her intelligence for these and

[28431]such deficiencies of judgment regarding persons, places and things?

[28432]

[28433]The false apparent parallelism of all perpendicular arms of all

[28434]balances, proved true by construction. The counterbalance of her

[28435]proficiency of judgment regarding one person, proved true by experiment.

[28436]

[28437]How had he attempted to remedy this state of comparative ignorance?

[28438]

[28439]Variously. By leaving in a conspicuous place a certain book open at a

[28440]certain page: by assuming in her, when alluding explanatorily, latent

[28441]knowledge: by open ridicule in her presence of some absent other’s

[28442]ignorant lapse.

[28443]

[28444]With what success had he attempted direct instruction?

[28445]

[28446]She followed not all, a part of the whole, gave attention with interest

[28447]comprehended with surprise, with care repeated, with greater difficulty

[28448]remembered, forgot with ease, with misgiving reremembered, rerepeated

[28449]with error.

[28450]

[28451]What system had proved more effective?

[28452]

[28453]Indirect suggestion implicating selfinterest.

[28454]

[28455]Example?

[28456]

[28457]She disliked umbrella with rain, he liked woman with umbrella, she

[28458]disliked new hat with rain, he liked woman with new hat, he bought new

[28459]hat with rain, she carried umbrella with new hat.

[28460]

[28461]Accepting the analogy implied in his guest’s parable which examples of

[28462]postexilic eminence did he adduce?

[28463]

[28464]Three seekers of the pure truth, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides,

[28465]author of More Nebukim (Guide of the Perplexed) and Moses Mendelssohn

[28466]of such eminence that from Moses (of Egypt) to Moses (Mendelssohn) there

[28467]arose none like Moses (Maimonides).

[28468]

[28469]What statement was made, under correction, by Bloom concerning a fourth

[28470]seeker of pure truth, by name Aristotle, mentioned, with permission, by

[28471]Stephen?

[28472]

[28473]That the seeker mentioned had been a pupil of a rabbinical philosopher,

[28474]name uncertain.

[28475]

[28476]Were other anapocryphal illustrious sons of the law and children of a

[28477]selected or rejected race mentioned?

[28478]

[28479]Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (composer), Baruch Spinoza (philosopher),

[28480]Mendoza (pugilist), Ferdinand Lassalle (reformer, duellist).

[28481]

[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?

[28485]

[28486]By Stephen: suil, suil, suil arun, suil go siocair agus suil go cuin

[28487](walk, walk, walk your way, walk in safety, walk with care).

[28488]

[28489]By Bloom: Kifeloch, harimon rakatejch m’baad l’zamatejch (thy temple

[28490]amid thy hair is as a slice of pomegranate).

[28491]

[28492]How was a glyphic comparison of the phonic symbols of both languages

[28493]made in substantiation of the oral comparison?

[28494]

[28495]By juxtaposition. On the penultimate blank page of a book of inferior

[28496]literary style, entituled Sweets of Sin (produced by Bloom and so

[28497]manipulated that its front cover came in contact with the surface of

[28498]the table) with a pencil (supplied by Stephen) Stephen wrote the Irish

[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

[28501]mem) a substituted qoph, explaining their arithmetical values as ordinal

[28502]and cardinal numbers, videlicet 3, 1, 4, and 100.

[28503]

[28504]Was the knowledge possessed by both of each of these languages, the

[28505]extinct and the revived, theoretical or practical?

[28506]

[28507]Theoretical, being confined to certain grammatical rules of accidence

[28508]and syntax and practically excluding vocabulary.

[28509]

[28510]What points of contact existed between these languages and between the

[28511]peoples who spoke them?

[28512]

[28513]The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and

[28514]servile letters in both languages: their antiquity, both having been

[28515]taught on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary

[28516]instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, progenitor of Israel,

[28517]and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their

[28518]archaeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical, homiletic,

[28519]toponomastic, historical and religious literatures comprising the works

[28520]of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara), Massor,

[28521]Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow, Book of Ballymote, Garland of Howth,

[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

[28527]Irish political autonomy or devolution.

[28528]

[28529]What anthem did Bloom chant partially in anticipation of that multiple,

[28530]ethnically irreducible consummation?

[28531]

[28532] Kolod balejwaw pnimah

[28533] Nefesch, jehudi, homijah.

[28534]Why was the chant arrested at the conclusion of this first distich?

[28535]

[28536]In consequence of defective mnemotechnic.

[28537]

[28538]How did the chanter compensate for this deficiency?

[28539]

[28540]By a periphrastic version of the general text.

[28541]

[28542]In what common study did their mutual reflections merge?

[28543]

[28544]The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic

[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).

[28548]

[28549]Did the guest comply with his host’s request?

[28550]

[28551]Doubly, by appending his signature in Irish and Roman characters.

[28552]

[28553]What was Stephen’s auditive sensation?

[28554]

[28555]He heard in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation

[28556]of the past.

[28557]

[28558]What was Bloom’s visual sensation?

[28559]

[28560]He saw in a quick young male familiar form the predestination of a

[28561]future.

[28562]

[28563]What were Stephen’s and Bloom’s quasisimultaneous volitional

[28564]quasisensations of concealed identities?

[28565]

[28566]Visually, Stephen’s: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted

[28567]by Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as

[28568]leucodermic, sesquipedalian with winedark hair.

[28569]

[28570]Auditively, Bloom’s: The traditional accent of the ecstasy of

[28571]catastrophe.

[28572]

[28573]What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the past and with

[28574]what exemplars?

[28575]

[28576]In the church, Roman, Anglican or Nonconformist: exemplars, the very

[28577]reverend John Conmee S. J., the reverend T. Salmon, D. D., provost of

[28578]Trinity college, Dr Alexander J. Dowie. At the bar, English or Irish:

[28579]exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K. C., Rufus Isaacs, K. C. On the stage,

[28580]modern or Shakespearean: exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high comedian,

[28581]Osmond Tearle († 1901), exponent of Shakespeare.

[28582]

[28583]Did the host encourage his guest to chant in a modulated voice a strange

[28584]legend on an allied theme?

[28585]

[28586]Reassuringly, their place, where none could hear them talk, being

[28587]secluded, reassured, the decocted beverages, allowing for subsolid

[28588]residual sediment of a mechanical mixture, water plus sugar plus cream

[28589]plus cocoa, having been consumed.

[28590]

[28591]Recite the first (major) part of this chanted legend.

[28592]

[28593] Little Harry Hughes and his schoolfellows all

[28594] Went out for to play ball.

[28595] And the very first ball little Harry Hughes played

[28596] He drove it o’er the jew’s garden wall.

[28597] And the very second ball little Harry Hughes played

[28598] He broke the jew’s windows all.

[28599]How did the son of Rudolph receive this first part?

[28600]

[28601]With unmixed feeling. Smiling, a jew, he heard with pleasure and saw the

[28602]unbroken kitchen window.

[28603]

[28604]Recite the second part (minor) of the legend.

[28605]

[28606] Then out there came the jew’s daughter

[28607] And she all dressed in green.

[28608] “Come back, come back, you pretty little boy,

[28609] And play your ball again.”

[28610]

[28611] “I can’t come back and I won’t come back

[28612] Without my schoolfellows all.

[28613] For if my master he did hear

[28614] He’d make it a sorry ball.”

[28615]

[28616] She took him by the lilywhite hand

[28617] And led him along the hall

[28618] Until she led him to a room

[28619] Where none could hear him call.

[28620]

[28621] She took a penknife out of her pocket

[28622] And cut off his little head.

[28623] And now he’ll play his ball no more

[28624] For he lies among the dead.

[28625]How did the father of Millicent receive this second part?

[28626]

[28627]With mixed feelings. Unsmiling, he heard and saw with wonder a jew’s

[28628]daughter, all dressed in green.

[28629]

[28630]Condense Stephen’s commentary.

[28631]

[28632]One of all, the least of all, is the victim predestined. Once by

[28633]inadvertence twice by design he challenges his destiny. It comes when he

[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,

[28637]consenting.

[28638]

[28639]Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?

[28640]

[28641]He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him

[28642]should by him not be told.

[28643]

[28644]Why was the host (reluctant, unresisting) still?

[28645]

[28646]In accordance with the law of the conservation of energy.

[28647]

[28648]Why was the host (secret infidel) silent?

[28649]

[28650]He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the

[28651]incitations of the hierarchy, the superstition of the populace, the

[28652]propagation of rumour in continued fraction of veridicity, the envy of

[28653]opulence, the influence of retaliation, the sporadic reappearance of

[28654]atavistic delinquency, the mitigating circumstances of fanaticism,

[28655]hypnotic suggestion and somnambulism.

[28656]

[28657]From which (if any) of these mental or physical disorders was he not

[28658]totally immune?

[28659]

[28660]From hypnotic suggestion: once, waking, he had not recognised his

[28661]sleeping apartment: more than once, waking, he had been for an

[28662]indefinite time incapable of moving or uttering sounds. From

[28663]somnambulism: once, sleeping, his body had risen, crouched and

[28664]crawled in the direction of a heatless fire and, having attained

[28665]its destination, there, curled, unheated, in night attire had lain,

[28666]sleeping.

[28667]

[28668]Had this latter or any cognate phenomenon declared itself in any member

[28669]of his family?

[28670]

[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

[28674]attire with a vacant mute expression.

[28675]

[28676]What other infantile memories had he of her?

[28677]

[28678]15 June 1889. A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause and

[28679]lessen congestion. A child renamed Padney Socks she shook with shocks

[28680]her moneybox: counted his three free moneypenny buttons, one, tloo,

[28681]tlee: a doll, a boy, a sailor she cast away: blond, born of two dark,

[28682]she had blond ancestry, remote, a violation, Herr Hauptmann Hainau,

[28683]Austrian army, proximate, a hallucination, lieutenant Mulvey, British

[28684]navy.

[28685]

[28686]What endemic characteristics were present?

[28687]

[28688]Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a direct

[28689]line of lineage which, though interrupted, would continue at distant

[28690]intervals to more distant intervals to its most distant intervals.

[28691]

[28692]What memories had he of her adolescence?

[28693]

[28694]She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a recess. On the duke’s

[28695]lawn, entreated by an English visitor, she declined to permit him to

[28696]make and take away her photographic image (objection not stated). On

[28697]the South Circular road in the company of Elsa Potter, followed by an

[28698]individual of sinister aspect, she went half way down Stamer street and

[28699]turned abruptly back (reason of change not stated). On the vigil of the

[28700]15th anniversary of her birth she wrote a letter from Mullingar, county

[28701]Westmeath, making a brief allusion to a local student (faculty and year

[28702]not stated).

[28703]

[28704]Did that first division, portending a second division, afflict him?

[28705]

[28706]Less than he had imagined, more than he had hoped.

[28707]

[28708]What second departure was contemporaneously perceived by him similarly,

[28709]if differently?

[28710]

[28711]A temporary departure of his cat.

[28712]

[28713]Why similarly, why differently?

[28714]

[28715]Similarly, because actuated by a secret purpose the quest of a new

[28716]male (Mullingar student) or of a healing herb (valerian). Differently,

[28717]because of different possible returns to the inhabitants or to the

[28718]habitation.

[28719]

[28720]In other respects were their differences similar?

[28721]

[28722]In passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in

[28723]unexpectedness.

[28724]

[28725]As?

[28726]

[28727]Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him to ribbon it

[28728]for her (cf neckarching cat). Moreover, on the free surface of the lake

[28729]in Stephen’s green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented

[28730]spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the

[28731]constancy of its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf

[28732]mousewatching cat). Again, in order to remember the date, combatants,

[28733]issue and consequences of a famous military engagement she pulled a

[28734]plait of her hair (cf earwashing cat). Furthermore, silly Milly, she

[28735]dreamed of having had an unspoken unremembered conversation with a horse

[28736]whose name had been Joseph to whom (which) she had offered a

[28737]tumblerful of lemonade which it (he) had appeared to have accepted (cf

[28738]hearthdreaming cat). Hence, in passivity, in economy, in the instinct of

[28739]tradition, in unexpectedness, their differences were similar.

[28740]

[28741]In what way had he utilised gifts (1) an owl, 2) a clock, given as

[28742]matrimonial auguries, to interest and to instruct her?

[28743]

[28744]As object lessons to explain: 1) the nature and habits of oviparous

[28745]animals, the possibility of aerial flight, certain abnormalities of

[28746]vision, the secular process of imbalsamation: 2) the principle of the

[28747]pendulum, exemplified in bob, wheelgear and regulator, the translation

[28748]in terms of human or social regulation of the various positions of

[28749]clockwise moveable indicators on an unmoving dial, the exactitude of the

[28750]recurrence per hour of an instant in each hour when the longer and the

[28751]shorter indicator were at the same angle of inclination, videlicet, 5

[28752]5/11 minutes past each hour per hour in arithmetical progression.

[28753]

[28754]In what manners did she reciprocate?

[28755]

[28756]She remembered: on the 27th anniversary of his birth she presented to

[28757]him a breakfast moustachecup of imitation Crown Derby porcelain ware.

[28758]She provided: at quarter day or thereabouts if or when purchases

[28759]had been made by him not for her she showed herself attentive to his

[28760]necessities, anticipating his desires. She admired: a natural phenomenon

[28761]having been explained by him to her she expressed the immediate desire

[28762]to possess without gradual acquisition a fraction of his science, the

[28763]moiety, the quarter, a thousandth part.

[28764]

[28765]What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make

[28766]to Stephen, noctambulist?

[28767]

[28768]To pass in repose the hours intervening between Thursday (proper) and

[28769]Friday (normal) on an extemporised cubicle in the apartment immediately

[28770]above the kitchen and immediately adjacent to the sleeping apartment of

[28771]his host and hostess.

[28772]

[28773]What various advantages would or might have resulted from a prolongation

[28774]of such an extemporisation?

[28775]

[28776]For the guest: security of domicile and seclusion of study. For the

[28777]host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction. For the

[28778]hostess: disintegration of obsession, acquisition of correct Italian

[28779]pronunciation.

[28780]

[28781]Why might these several provisional contingencies between a guest and

[28782]a hostess not necessarily preclude or be precluded by a permanent

[28783]eventuality of reconciliatory union between a schoolfellow and a jew’s

[28784]daughter?

[28785]

[28786]Because the way to daughter led through mother, the way to mother

[28787]through daughter.

[28788]

[28789]To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of his host did the guest

[28790]return a monosyllabic negative answer?

[28791]

[28792]If he had known the late Mrs Emily Sinico, accidentally killed at Sydney

[28793]Parade railway station, 14 October 1903.

[28794]

[28795]What inchoate corollary statement was consequently suppressed by the

[28796]host?

[28797]

[28798]A statement explanatory of his absence on the occasion of the interment

[28799]of Mrs Mary Dedalus (born Goulding), 26 June 1903, vigil of the

[28800]anniversary of the decease of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag).

[28801]

[28802]Was the proposal of asylum accepted?

[28803]

[28804]Promptly, inexplicably, with amicability, gratefully it was declined.

[28805]

[28806]What exchange of money took place between host and guest?

[28807]

[28808]The former returned to the latter, without interest, a sum of money (£

[28809]1-7-0), one pound seven shillings sterling, advanced by the latter to

[28810]the former.

[28811]

[28812]What counterproposals were alternately advanced, accepted, modified,

[28813]declined, restated in other terms, reaccepted, ratified, reconfirmed?

[28814]

[28815]To inaugurate a prearranged course of Italian instruction, place

[28816]the residence of the instructed. To inaugurate a course of vocal

[28817]instruction, place the residence of the instructress. To inaugurate a

[28818]series of static, semistatic and peripatetic intellectual dialogues,

[28819]places the residence of both speakers (if both speakers were resident in

[28820]the same place), the Ship hotel and tavern, 6 Lower Abbey street (W. and

[28821]E. Connery, proprietors), the National Library of Ireland, 10 Kildare

[28822]street, the National Maternity Hospital, 29, 30 and 31 Holles street, a

[28823]public garden, the vicinity of a place of worship, a conjunction of two

[28824]or more public thoroughfares, the point of bisection of a right line

[28825]drawn between their residences (if both speakers were resident in

[28826]different places).

[28827]

[28828]What rendered problematic for Bloom the realisation of these mutually

[28829]selfexcluding propositions?

[28830]

[28831]The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert

[28832]Hengler’s circus in the Rotunda, Rutland square, Dublin, an intuitive

[28833]particoloured clown in quest of paternity had penetrated from the ring

[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

[28836](the clown’s) papa. The imprevidibility of the future: once in the

[28837]summer of 1898 he (Bloom) had marked a florin (2/-) with three notches

[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

[28840]Canal, for circulation on the waters of civic finance, for possible,

[28841]circuitous or direct, return.

[28842]

[28843]Was the clown Bloom’s son?

[28844]

[28845]No.

[28846]

[28847]Had Bloom’s coin returned?

[28848]

[28849]Never.

[28850]

[28851]Why would a recurrent frustration the more depress him?

[28852]

[28853]Because at the critical turningpoint of human existence he desired to

[28854]amend many social conditions, the product of inequality and avarice and

[28855]international animosity.

[28856]

[28857]He believed then that human life was infinitely perfectible, eliminating

[28858]these conditions?

[28859]

[28860]There remained the generic conditions imposed by natural, as distinct

[28861]from human law, as integral parts of the human whole: the necessity of

[28862]destruction to procure alimentary sustenance: the painful character of

[28863]the ultimate functions of separate existence, the agonies of birth and

[28864]death: the monotonous menstruation of simian and (particularly) human

[28865]females extending from the age of puberty to the menopause: inevitable

[28866]accidents at sea, in mines and factories: certain very painful maladies

[28867]and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital

[28868]criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make

[28869]terror the basis of human mentality: seismic upheavals the epicentres

[28870]of which are located in densely populated regions: the fact of vital

[28871]growth, through convulsions of metamorphosis, from infancy through

[28872]maturity to decay.

[28873]

[28874]Why did he desist from speculation?

[28875]

[28876]Because it was a task for a superior intelligence to substitute other

[28877]more acceptable phenomena in the place of the less acceptable phenomena

[28878]to be removed.

[28879]

[28880]Did Stephen participate in his dejection?

[28881]

[28882]He affirmed his significance as a conscious rational animal proceeding

[28883]syllogistically from the known to the unknown and a conscious rational

[28884]reagent between a micro and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the

[28885]incertitude of the void.

[28886]

[28887]Was this affirmation apprehended by Bloom?

[28888]

[28889]Not verbally. Substantially.

[28890]

[28891]What comforted his misapprehension?

[28892]

[28893]That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from

[28894]the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void.

[28895]

[28896]In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus

[28897]from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation effected?

[28898]

[28899] Lighted Candle in Stick

[28900] borne by

[28901] BLOOM

[28902] Diaconal Hat on Ashplant

[28903] borne by

[28904] STEPHEN

[28905]With what intonation secreto of what commemorative psalm?

[28906]

[28907]The 113th, modus peregrinus: In exitu Israël de Egypto: domus Jacob de

[28908]populo barbaro.

[28909]

[28910]What did each do at the door of egress?

[28911]

[28912]Bloom set the candlestick on the floor. Stephen put the hat on his head.

[28913]

[28914]For what creature was the door of egress a door of ingress?

[28915]

[28916]For a cat.

[28917]

[28918]What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the

[28919]guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from

[28920]the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?

[28921]

[28922]The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

[28923]

[28924]With what meditations did Bloom accompany his demonstration to his

[28925]companion of various constellations?

[28926]

[28927]Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in

[28928]incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous

[28929]scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an

[28930]observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000

[28931]ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius

[28932](alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant

[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

[28935]nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund

[28936]and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging

[28937]towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic

[28938]drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from

[28939]immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with

[28940]which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a

[28941]parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

[28942]

[28943]Were there obverse meditations of involution increasingly less vast?

[28944]

[28945]Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of the

[28946]earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed

[28947]in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds,

[28948]of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable

[28949]trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained

[28950]by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe

[28951]of human serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves

[28952]universes of void space constellated with other bodies, each, in

[28953]continuity, its universe of divisible component bodies of which each was

[28954]again divisible in divisions of redivisible component bodies, dividends

[28955]and divisors ever diminishing without actual division till, if the

[28956]progress were carried far enough, nought nowhere was never reached.

[28957]

[28958]Why did he not elaborate these calculations to a more precise result?

[28959]

[28960]Because some years previously in 1886 when occupied with the problem of

[28961]the quadrature of the circle he had learned of the existence of a number

[28962]computed to a relative degree of accuracy to be of such magnitude and

[28963]of so many places, e.g., the 9th power of the 9th power of 9, that, the

[28964]result having been obtained, 33 closely printed volumes of 1000 pages

[28965]each of innumerable quires and reams of India paper would have to be

[28966]requisitioned in order to contain the complete tale of its printed

[28967]integers of units, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands,

[28968]hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions,

[28969]billions, the nucleus of the nebula of every digit of every series

[28970]containing succinctly the potentiality of being raised to the utmost

[28971]kinetic elaboration of any power of any of its powers.

[28972]

[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

[28975]moral redemption of said race by a redeemer, easier of solution?

[28976]

[28977]Of a different order of difficulty. Conscious that the human organism,

[28978]normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons,

[28979]when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere

[28980]suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as

[28981]the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was

[28982]approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo,

[28983]when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a

[28984]working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more

[28985]adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might

[28986]subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian,

[28987]Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though

[28988]an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite

[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.

[28992]

[28993]And the problem of possible redemption?

[28994]

[28995]The minor was proved by the major.

[28996]

[28997]Which various features of the constellations were in turn considered?

[28998]

[28999]The various colours significant of various degrees of vitality (white,

[29000]yellow, crimson, vermilion, cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy:

[29001]their magnitudes revealed up to and including the 7th: their positions:

[29002]the waggoner’s star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David: the annular

[29003]cinctures of Saturn: the condensation of spiral nebulae into suns: the

[29004]interdependent gyrations of double suns: the independent synchronous

[29005]discoveries of Galileo, Simon Marius, Piazzi, Le Verrier, Herschel,

[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

[29010]meteoric stones: the Libyan floods on Mars about the period of the birth

[29011]of the younger astroscopist: the annual recurrence of meteoric showers

[29012]about the period of the feast of S. Lawrence (martyr, 10 August): the

[29013]monthly recurrence known as the new moon with the old moon in her arms:

[29014]the posited influence of celestial on human bodies: the appearance of a

[29015]star (1st magnitude) of exceeding brilliancy dominating by night and

[29016]day (a new luminous sun generated by the collision and amalgamation in

[29017]incandescence of two nonluminous exsuns) about the period of the

[29018]birth of William Shakespeare over delta in the recumbent neversetting

[29019]constellation of Cassiopeia and of a star (2nd magnitude) of similar

[29020]origin but of lesser brilliancy which had appeared in and disappeared

[29021]from the constellation of the Corona Septentrionalis about the period

[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

[29024]from the constellation of Andromeda about the period of the birth of

[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

[29027]other constellations some years before or after the birth or death of

[29028]other persons: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar,

[29029]from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow,

[29030]taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular

[29031]animals, persistence of infernal light, obscurity of terrestrial waters,

[29032]pallor of human beings.

[29033]

[29034]His (Bloom’s) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and

[29035]allowing for possible error?

[29036]

[29037]That it was not a heaventree, not a heavengrot, not a heavenbeast, not

[29038]a heavenman. That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from

[29039]the known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the

[29040]suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of

[29041]different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space,

[29042]remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a

[29043]present before its probable spectators had entered actual present

[29044]existence.

[29045]

[29046]Was he more convinced of the esthetic value of the spectacle?

[29047]

[29048]Indubitably in consequence of the reiterated examples of poets in the

[29049]delirium of the frenzy of attachment or in the abasement of rejection

[29050]invoking ardent sympathetic constellations or the frigidity of the

[29051]satellite of their planet.

[29052]

[29053]Did he then accept as an article of belief the theory of astrological

[29054]influences upon sublunary disasters?

[29055]

[29056]It seemed to him as possible of proof as of confutation and the

[29057]nomenclature employed in its selenographical charts as attributable to

[29058]verifiable intuition as to fallacious analogy: the lake of dreams, the

[29059]sea of rains, the gulf of dews, the ocean of fecundity.

[29060]

[29061]What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and

[29062]woman?

[29063]

[29064]Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian

[29065]generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence:

[29066]her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising

[29067]and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced

[29068]invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative

[29069]interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power

[29070]to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to

[29071]incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her

[29072]visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent

[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

[29075]arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction,

[29076]when invisible.

[29077]

[29078]What visible luminous sign attracted Bloom’s, who attracted

[29079]Stephen’s, gaze?

[29080]

[29081]In the second storey (rere) of his (Bloom’s) house the light of a

[29082]paraffin oil lamp with oblique shade projected on a screen of roller

[29083]blind supplied by Frank O’Hara, window blind, curtain pole and

[29084]revolving shutter manufacturer, 16 Aungier street.

[29085]

[29086]How did he elucidate the mystery of an invisible attractive person, his

[29087]wife Marion (Molly) Bloom, denoted by a visible splendid sign, a lamp?

[29088]

[29089]With indirect and direct verbal allusions or affirmations: with subdued

[29090]affection and admiration: with description: with impediment: with

[29091]suggestion.

[29092]

[29093]Both then were silent?

[29094]

[29095]Silent, each contemplating the other in both mirrors of the reciprocal

[29096]flesh of theirhisnothis fellowfaces.

[29097]

[29098]Were they indefinitely inactive?

[29099]

[29100]At Stephen’s suggestion, at Bloom’s instigation both, first Stephen,

[29101]then Bloom, in penumbra urinated, their sides contiguous, their organs

[29102]of micturition reciprocally rendered invisible by manual circumposition,

[29103]their gazes, first Bloom’s, then Stephen’s, elevated to the

[29104]projected luminous and semiluminous shadow.

[29105]

[29106]Similarly?

[29107]

[29108]The trajectories of their, first sequent, then simultaneous, urinations

[29109]were dissimilar: Bloom’s longer, less irruent, in the incomplete form

[29110]of the bifurcated penultimate alphabetical letter, who in his ultimate

[29111]year at High School (1880) had been capable of attaining the point

[29112]of greatest altitude against the whole concurrent strength of the

[29113]institution, 210 scholars: Stephen’s higher, more sibilant, who in the

[29114]ultimate hours of the previous day had augmented by diuretic consumption

[29115]an insistent vesical pressure.

[29116]

[29117]What different problems presented themselves to each concerning the

[29118]invisible audible collateral organ of the other?

[29119]

[29120]To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence, rigidity,

[29121]reactivity, dimension, sanitariness, pilosity.

[29122]

[29123]To Stephen: the problem of the sacerdotal integrity of Jesus circumcised

[29124](1 January, holiday of obligation to hear mass and abstain from

[29125]unnecessary servile work) and the problem as to whether the divine

[29126]prepuce, the carnal bridal ring of the holy Roman catholic apostolic

[29127]church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of

[29128]the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine

[29129]excrescences as hair and toenails.

[29130]

[29131]What celestial sign was by both simultaneously observed?

[29132]

[29133]A star precipitated with great apparent velocity across the firmament

[29134]from Vega in the Lyre above the zenith beyond the stargroup of the Tress

[29135]of Berenice towards the zodiacal sign of Leo.

[29136]

[29137]How did the centripetal remainer afford egress to the centrifugal

[29138]departer?

[29139]

[29140]By inserting the barrel of an arruginated male key in the hole of an

[29141]unstable female lock, obtaining a purchase on the bow of the key and

[29142]turning its wards from right to left, withdrawing a bolt from its

[29143]staple, pulling inward spasmodically an obsolescent unhinged door and

[29144]revealing an aperture for free egress and free ingress.

[29145]

[29146]How did they take leave, one of the other, in separation?

[29147]

[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

[29150]forming any angle less than the sum of two right angles.

[29151]

[29152]What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of their

[29153](respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?

[29154]

[29155]The sound of the peal of the hour of the night by the chime of the bells

[29156]in the church of Saint George.

[29157]

[29158]What echoes of that sound were by both and each heard?

[29159]

[29160]By Stephen:

[29161]

[29162] Liliata rutilantium. Turma circumdet.

[29163] Iubilantium te virginum. Chorus excipiat.

[29164]By Bloom:

[29165]

[29166] Heigho, heigho,

[29167] Heigho, heigho.

[29168]Where were the several members of the company which with Bloom that day

[29169]at the bidding of that peal had travelled from Sandymount in the south

[29170]to Glasnevin in the north?

[29171]

[29172]Martin Cunningham (in bed), Jack Power (in bed), Simon Dedalus (in bed),

[29173]Ned Lambert (in bed), Tom Kernan (in bed), Joe Hynes (in bed), John

[29174]Henry Menton (in bed), Bernard Corrigan (in bed), Patsy Dignam (in bed),

[29175]Paddy Dignam (in the grave).

[29176]

[29177]Alone, what did Bloom hear?

[29178]

[29179]The double reverberation of retreating feet on the heavenborn earth, the

[29180]double vibration of a jew’s harp in the resonant lane.

[29181]

[29182]Alone, what did Bloom feel?

[29183]

[29184]The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing

[29185]point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the

[29186]incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

[29187]

[29188]Of what did bellchime and handtouch and footstep and lonechill remind

[29189]him?

[29190]

[29191]Of companions now in various manners in different places defunct: Percy

[29192]Apjohn (killed in action, Modder River), Philip Gilligan (phthisis,

[29193]Jervis Street hospital), Matthew F. Kane (accidental drowning, Dublin

[29194]Bay), Philip Moisel (pyemia, Heytesbury street), Michael Hart (phthisis,

[29195]Mater Misericordiae hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy, Sandymount).

[29196]

[29197]What prospect of what phenomena inclined him to remain?

[29198]

[29199]The disparition of three final stars, the diffusion of daybreak, the

[29200]apparition of a new solar disk.

[29201]

[29202]Had he ever been a spectator of those phenomena?

[29203]

[29204]Once, in 1887, after a protracted performance of charades in the house

[29205]of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited with patience the apparition

[29206]of the diurnal phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the

[29207]direction of Mizrach, the east.

[29208]

[29209]He remembered the initial paraphenomena?

[29210]

[29211]More active air, a matutinal distant cock, ecclesiastical clocks at

[29212]various points, avine music, the isolated tread of an early wayfarer,

[29213]the visible diffusion of the light of an invisible luminous body, the

[29214]first golden limb of the resurgent sun perceptible low on the horizon.

[29215]

[29216]Did he remain?

[29217]

[29218]With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, reentering

[29219]the passage, reclosing the door. With brief suspiration he reassumed the

[29220]candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room,

[29221]hallfloor, and reentered.

[29222]

[29223]What suddenly arrested his ingress?

[29224]

[29225]The right temporal lobe of the hollow sphere of his cranium came into

[29226]contact with a solid timber angle where, an infinitesimal but sensible

[29227]fraction of a second later, a painful sensation was located in

[29228]consequence of antecedent sensations transmitted and registered.

[29229]

[29230]Describe the alterations effected in the disposition of the articles of

[29231]furniture.

[29232]

[29233]A sofa upholstered in prune plush had been translocated from opposite

[29234]the door to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack (an

[29235]alteration which he had frequently intended to execute): the blue and

[29236]white checker inlaid majolicatopped table had been placed opposite the

[29237]door in the place vacated by the prune plush sofa: the walnut sideboard

[29238](a projecting angle of which had momentarily arrested his ingress) had

[29239]been moved from its position beside the door to a more advantageous but

[29240]more perilous position in front of the door: two chairs had been moved

[29241]from right and left of the ingleside to the position originally occupied

[29242]by the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table.

[29243]

[29244]Describe them.

[29245]

[29246]One: a squat stuffed easychair, with stout arms extended and back

[29247]slanted to the rere, which, repelled in recoil, had then upturned an

[29248]irregular fringe of a rectangular rug and now displayed on its amply

[29249]upholstered seat a centralised diffusing and diminishing discolouration.

[29250]The other: a slender splayfoot chair of glossy cane curves, placed

[29251]directly opposite the former, its frame from top to seat and from seat

[29252]to base being varnished dark brown, its seat being a bright circle of

[29253]white plaited rush.

[29254]

[29255]What significances attached to these two chairs?

[29256]

[29257]Significances of similitude, of posture, of symbolism, of circumstantial

[29258]evidence, of testimonial supermanence.

[29259]

[29260]What occupied the position originally occupied by the sideboard?

[29261]

[29262]A vertical piano (Cadby) with exposed keyboard, its closed coffin

[29263]supporting a pair of long yellow ladies’ gloves and an emerald ashtray

[29264]containing four consumed matches, a partly consumed cigarette and two

[29265]discoloured ends of cigarettes, its musicrest supporting the music in

[29266]the key of G natural for voice and piano of Love’s Old Sweet Song

[29267](words by G. Clifton Bingham, composed by J. L. Molloy, sung by Madam

[29268]Antoinette Sterling) open at the last page with the final indications ad

[29269]libitum, forte, pedal, animato, sustained pedal, ritirando, close.

[29270]

[29271]With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?

[29272]

[29273]With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right

[29274]temple a contused tumescence: with attention, focussing his gaze on

[29275]a large dull passive and a slender bright active: with solicitation,

[29276]bending and downturning the upturned rugfringe: with amusement,

[29277]remembering Dr Malachi Mulligan’s scheme of colour containing the

[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

[29281]discolouration.

[29282]

[29283]His next proceeding?

[29284]

[29285]From an open box on the majolicatopped table he extracted a black

[29286]diminutive cone, one inch in height, placed it on its circular base on

[29287]a small tin plate, placed his candlestick on the right corner of the

[29288]mantelpiece, produced from his waistcoat a folded page of prospectus

[29289](illustrated) entitled Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same, examined

[29290]it superficially, rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the

[29291]candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the

[29292]latter reached the stage of rutilance, placed the cylinder in the basin

[29293]of the candlestick disposing its unconsumed part in such a manner as to

[29294]facilitate total combustion.

[29295]

[29296]What followed this operation?

[29297]

[29298]The truncated conical crater summit of the diminutive volcano emitted a

[29299]vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense.

[29300]

[29301]What homothetic objects, other than the candlestick, stood on the

[29302]mantelpiece?

[29303]

[29304]A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of 4.46

[29305]a.m. on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf

[29306]tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial

[29307]gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of

[29308]Alderman John Hooper.

[29309]

[29310]What interchanges of looks took place between these three objects and

[29311]Bloom?

[29312]

[29313]In the mirror of the giltbordered pierglass the undecorated back of the

[29314]dwarf tree regarded the upright back of the embalmed owl. Before

[29315]the mirror the matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper with a clear

[29316]melancholy wise bright motionless compassionate gaze regarded Bloom

[29317]while Bloom with obscure tranquil profound motionless compassionated

[29318]gaze regarded the matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle.

[29319]

[29320]What composite asymmetrical image in the mirror then attracted his

[29321]attention?

[29322]

[29323]The image of a solitary (ipsorelative) mutable (aliorelative) man.

[29324]

[29325]Why solitary (ipsorelative)?

[29326]

[29327] Brothers and sisters had he none.

[29328] Yet that man’s father was his grandfather’s son.

[29329]Why mutable (aliorelative)?

[29330]

[29331]From infancy to maturity he had resembled his maternal procreatrix.

[29332]From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal

[29333]procreator.

[29334]

[29335]What final visual impression was communicated to him by the mirror?

[29336]

[29337]The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged

[29338]and not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles

[29339]on the two bookshelves opposite.

[29340]

[29341]Catalogue these books.

[29342]

[29343]Thom’s Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886.

[29344]

[29345]Denis Florence M’Carthy’s Poetical Works (copper beechleaf bookmark

[29346]at p. 5).

[29347]

[29348]Shakespeare’s Works (dark crimson morocco, goldtooled).

[29349]

[29350]The Useful Ready Reckoner (brown cloth).

[29351]

[29352]The Secret History of the Court of Charles II (red cloth, tooled

[29353]binding).

[29354]

[29355]The Child’s Guide (blue cloth).

[29356]

[29357]The Beauties of Killarney (wrappers).

[29358]

[29359]When We Were Boys by William O’Brien M. P. (green cloth, slightly

[29360]faded, envelope bookmark at p. 217).

[29361]

[29362]Thoughts from Spinoza (maroon leather).

[29363]

[29364]The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth).

[29365]

[29366]Ellis’s Three Trips to Madagascar (brown cloth, title obliterated).

[29367]

[29368]The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of

[29369]Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve) 1904,

[29370]due 4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing white

[29371]letternumber ticket).

[29372]

[29373]Voyages in China by “Viator” (recovered with brown paper, red ink

[29374]title).

[29375]

[29376]Philosophy of the Talmud (sewn pamphlet).

[29377]

[29378]Lockhart’s Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal annotations,

[29379]minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).

[29380]

[29381]Soll und Haben by Gustav Freytag (black boards, Gothic characters,

[29382]cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24).

[29383]

[29384]Hozier’s History of the Russo-Turkish War (brown cloth, 2 volumes,

[29385]with gummed label, Garrison Library, Governor’s Parade, Gibraltar, on

[29386]verso of cover).

[29387]

[29388]Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William Allingham (second edition,

[29389]green cloth, gilt trefoil design, previous owner’s name on recto of

[29390]flyleaf erased).

[29391]

[29392]A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates,

[29393]antique letterpress long primer, author’s footnotes nonpareil,

[29394]marginal clues brevier, captions small pica).

[29395]

[29396]The Hidden Life of Christ (black boards).

[29397]

[29398]In the Track of the Sun (yellow cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent

[29399]title intestation).

[29400]

[29401]Physical Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugen Sandow (red cloth).

[29402]

[29403]Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry written in French by F. Ignat.

[29404]Pardies and rendered into Engli?h by John Harris D. D. London, printed

[29405]for R. Knaplock at the Bi?hop’s Head, MDCCXI, with dedicatory epi?tle

[29406]to his worthy friend Charles Cox, e?quire, Member of Parliament for the

[29407]burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf

[29408]certifying that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher, dated

[29409]this 10th day of May 1822 and reque?ting the per?on who should find

[29410]it, if the book should be lo?t or go a?tray, to re?tore it to Michael

[29411]Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Enni?corthy, county Wicklow, the

[29412]fine?t place in the world.

[29413]

[29414]What reflections occupied his mind during the process of reversion of

[29415]the inverted volumes?

[29416]

[29417]The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its

[29418]place: the deficient appreciation of literature possessed by females:

[29419]the incongruity of an apple incuneated in a tumbler and of an umbrella

[29420]inclined in a closestool: the insecurity of hiding any secret document

[29421]behind, beneath or between the pages of a book.

[29422]

[29423]Which volume was the largest in bulk?

[29424]

[29425]Hozier’s History of the Russo-Turkish War.

[29426]

[29427]What among other data did the second volume of the work in question

[29428]contain?

[29429]

[29430]The name of a decisive battle (forgotten), frequently remembered by a

[29431]decisive officer, major Brian Cooper Tweedy (remembered).

[29432]

[29433]Why, firstly and secondly, did he not consult the work in question?

[29434]

[29435]Firstly, in order to exercise mnemotechnic: secondly, because after an

[29436]interval of amnesia, when, seated at the central table, about to consult

[29437]the work in question, he remembered by mnemotechnic the name of the

[29438]military engagement, Plevna.

[29439]

[29440]What caused him consolation in his sitting posture?

[29441]

[29442]The candour, nudity, pose, tranquility, youth, grace, sex, counsel of a

[29443]statue erect in the centre of the table, an image of Narcissus purchased

[29444]by auction from P. A. Wren, 9 Bachelor’s Walk.

[29445]

[29446]What caused him irritation in his sitting posture?

[29447]

[29448]Inhibitory pressure of collar (size 17) and waistcoat (5 buttons), two

[29449]articles of clothing superfluous in the costume of mature males and

[29450]inelastic to alterations of mass by expansion.

[29451]

[29452]How was the irritation allayed?

[29453]

[29454]He removed his collar, with contained black necktie and collapsible

[29455]stud, from his neck to a position on the left of the table. He

[29456]unbuttoned successively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt

[29457]and vest along the medial line of irregular incrispated black hairs

[29458]extending in triangular convergence from the pelvic basin over the

[29459]circumference of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the medial

[29460]line of nodes to the intersection of the sixth pectoral vertebrae,

[29461]thence produced both ways at right angles and terminating in circles

[29462]described about two equidistant points, right and left, on the summits

[29463]of the mammary prominences. He unbraced successively each of six minus

[29464]one braced trouser buttons, arranged in pairs, of which one incomplete.

[29465]

[29466]What involuntary actions followed?

[29467]

[29468]He compressed between 2 fingers the flesh circumjacent to a cicatrice in

[29469]the left infracostal region below the diaphragm resulting from a sting

[29470]inflicted 2 weeks and 3 days previously (23 May 1904) by a bee.

[29471]He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of

[29472]prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly

[29473]abluted skin. He inserted his left hand into the left lower pocket of

[29474]his waistcoat and extracted and replaced a silver coin (1 shilling),

[29475]placed there (presumably) on the occasion (17 October 1903) of the

[29476]interment of Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney Parade.

[29477]

[29478]Compile the budget for 16 June 1904.

[29479]

[29480] Debit

[29481] £. s. d.

[29482] 1 Pork kidney 0—0—3

[29483] 1 Copy Freeman’s Journal 0—0—1

[29484] 1 Bath and Gratification 0—1—6

[29485] Tramfare 0—0—1

[29486] 1 In Memoriam Patrick Dignam 0—5—0

[29487] 2 Banbury cakes 0—0—1

[29488] 1 Lunch 0—0—7

[29489] 1 Renewal fee for book 0—1—0

[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

[29493] Tramfare 0—0—1

[29494] 1 Pig’s Foot 0—0—4

[29495] 1 Sheep’s Trotter 0—0—3

[29496] 1 Cake Fry’s Plain Chocolate 0—0—1

[29497] 1 Square Soda Bread 0—0—4

[29498] 1 Coffee and Bun 0—0—4

[29499] Loan (Stephen Dedalus) refunded 1—7—0

[29500] BALANCE 0—16—6

[29501] —————

[29502] 2—19—3

[29503] Credit

[29504] £. s. d.

[29505] Cash in hand 0—4—9

[29506] Commission recd. Freeman’s Journal 1—7—6

[29507] Loan (Stephen Dedalus) 1—7—0

[29508] —————

[29509] 2—19—3

[29510]Did the process of divestiture continue?

[29511]

[29512]Sensible of a benignant persistent ache in his footsoles he extended

[29513]his foot to one side and observed the creases, protuberances and salient

[29514]points caused by foot pressure in the course of walking repeatedly in

[29515]several different directions, then, inclined, he disnoded the laceknots,

[29516]unhooked and loosened the laces, took off each of his two boots for the

[29517]second time, detached the partially moistened right sock through the

[29518]fore part of which the nail of his great toe had again effracted, raised

[29519]his right foot and, having unhooked a purple elastic sock suspender,

[29520]took off his right sock, placed his unclothed right foot on the margin

[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

[29523]inhaled the odour of the quick, then, with satisfaction, threw away the

[29524]lacerated ungual fragment.

[29525]

[29526]Why with satisfaction?

[29527]

[29528]Because the odour inhaled corresponded to other odours inhaled of other

[29529]ungual fragments, picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, pupil of Mrs

[29530]Ellis’s juvenile school, patiently each night in the act of brief

[29531]genuflection and nocturnal prayer and ambitious meditation.

[29532]

[29533]In what ultimate ambition had all concurrent and consecutive ambitions

[29534]now coalesced?

[29535]

[29536]Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English,

[29537]or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number

[29538]of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation £ 42), of

[29539]grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage

[29540]drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa,

[29541]described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana, but to purchase by private

[29542]treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of

[29543]southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected

[29544]with the earth, with porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia

[29545]creeper), halldoor, olive green, with smart carriage finish and neat

[29546]doorbrasses, stucco front with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising,

[29547]if possible, upon a gentle eminence with agreeable prospect from balcony

[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

[29550]a distance from the nearest public thoroughfare as to render its

[29551]houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge

[29552]of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute

[29553]mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not

[29554]more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e.g., Dundrum, south, or

[29555]Sutton, north, both localities equally reported by trial to resemble the

[29556]terrestrial poles in being favourable climates for phthisical subjects),

[29557]the premises to be held under feefarm grant, lease 999 years, the

[29558]messuage to consist of 1 drawingroom with baywindow (2 lancets),

[29559]thermometer affixed, 1 sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, 2 servants’ rooms,

[29560]tiled kitchen with close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted

[29561]with linen wallpresses, fumed oak sectional bookcase containing the

[29562]Encyclopaedia Britannica and New Century Dictionary, transverse obsolete

[29563]medieval and oriental weapons, dinner gong, alabaster lamp, bowl

[29564]pendant, vulcanite automatic telephone receiver with adjacent directory,

[29565]handtufted Axminster carpet with cream ground and trellis border, loo

[29566]table with pillar and claw legs, hearth with massive firebrasses and

[29567]ormolu mantel chronometer clock, guaranteed timekeeper with cathedral

[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

[29571]winecoloured leather, gloss renewable with a minimum of labour by use of

[29572]linseed oil and vinegar) and pyramidically prismatic central chandelier

[29573]lustre, bentwood perch with fingertame parrot (expurgated language),

[29574]embossed mural paper at 10/- per dozen with transverse swags of carmine

[29575]floral design and top crown frieze, staircase, three continuous flights

[29576]at successive right angles, of varnished cleargrained oak, treads

[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

[29584]biennial unearned increments of £ 2, with comprehensive fidelity

[29585]insurance, annual bonus (£ 1) and retiring allowance (based on the

[29586]65 system) after 30 years’ service), pantry, buttery, larder,

[29587]refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin (still

[29588]and sparkling vintages) for distinguished guests, if entertained to

[29589]dinner (evening dress), carbon monoxide gas supply throughout.

[29590]

[29591]What additional attractions might the grounds contain?

[29592]

[29593]As addenda, a tennis and fives court, a shrubbery, a glass summerhouse

[29594]with tropical palms, equipped in the best botanical manner, a rockery

[29595]with waterspray, a beehive arranged on humane principles, oval

[29596]flowerbeds in rectangular grassplots set with eccentric ellipses of

[29597]scarlet and chrome tulips, blue scillas, crocuses, polyanthus, sweet

[29598]William, sweet pea, lily of the valley (bulbs obtainable from sir James

[29599]W. Mackey (Limited) wholesale and retail seed and bulb merchants and

[29600]nurserymen, agents for chemical manures, 23 Sackville street, upper),

[29601]an orchard, kitchen garden and vinery, protected against illegal

[29602]trespassers by glasstopped mural enclosures, a lumbershed with padlock

[29603]for various inventoried implements.

[29604]

[29605]As?

[29606]

[29607]Eeltraps, lobsterpots, fishingrods, hatchet, steelyard, grindstone,

[29608]clodcrusher, swatheturner, carriagesack, telescope ladder, 10 tooth

[29609]rake, washing clogs, haytedder, tumbling rake, billhook, paintpot,

[29610]brush, hoe and so on.

[29611]

[29612]What improvements might be subsequently introduced?

[29613]

[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

[29616]or lilac trees, an exotically harmonically accorded Japanese tinkle

[29617]gatebell affixed to left lateral gatepost, a capacious waterbutt,

[29618]a lawnmower with side delivery and grassbox, a lawnsprinkler with

[29619]hydraulic hose.

[29620]

[29621]What facilities of transit were desirable?

[29622]

[29623]When citybound frequent connection by train or tram from their

[29624]respective intermediate station or terminal. When countrybound

[29625]velocipedes, a chainless freewheel roadster cycle with side basketcar

[29626]attached, or draught conveyance, a donkey with wicker trap or smart

[29627]phaeton with good working solidungular cob (roan gelding, 14 h).

[29628]

[29629]What might be the name of this erigible or erected residence?

[29630]

[29631]Bloom Cottage. Saint Leopold’s. Flowerville.

[29632]

[29633]Could Bloom of 7 Eccles street foresee Bloom of Flowerville?

[29634]

[29635]In loose allwool garments with Harris tweed cap, price 8/6, and useful

[29636]garden boots with elastic gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned

[29637]young firtrees, syringing, pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a

[29638]weedladen wheelbarrow without excessive fatigue at sunset amid the scent

[29639]of newmown hay, ameliorating the soil, multiplying wisdom, achieving

[29640]longevity.

[29641]

[29642]What syllabus of intellectual pursuits was simultaneously possible?

[29643]

[29644]Snapshot photography, comparative study of religions, folklore relative

[29645]to various amatory and superstitious practices, contemplation of the

[29646]celestial constellations.

[29647]

[29648]What lighter recreations?

[29649]

[29650]Outdoor: garden and fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised causeways,

[29651]ascents of moderately high hills, natation in secluded fresh water and

[29652]unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle with kedge

[29653]anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids (period of estivation),

[29654]vespertinal perambulation or equestrian circumprocession with inspection

[29655]of sterile landscape and contrastingly agreeable cottagers’ fires of

[29656]smoking peat turves (period of hibernation). Indoor: discussion in

[29657]tepid security of unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of

[29658]unexpurgated exotic erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox

[29659]containing hammer, awl, nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers,

[29660]bullnose plane and turnscrew.

[29661]

[29662]Might he become a gentleman farmer of field produce and live stock?

[29663]

[29664]Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and

[29665]requisite farming implements, e.g., an end-to-end churn, a turnip pulper

[29666]etc.

[29667]

[29668]What would be his civic functions and social status among the county

[29669]families and landed gentry?

[29670]

[29671]Arranged successively in ascending powers of hierarchical order, that

[29672]of gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and at the zenith of his

[29673]career, resident magistrate or justice of the peace with a family crest

[29674]and coat of arms and appropriate classical motto (Semper paratus), duly

[29675]recorded in the court directory (Bloom, Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K. P.,

[29676]L. L. D. (honoris causa), Bloomville, Dundrum) and mentioned in court

[29677]and fashionable intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have left

[29678]Kingstown for England).

[29679]

[29680]What course of action did he outline for himself in such capacity?

[29681]

[29682]A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour:

[29683]the dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes,

[29684]incessantly rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality,

[29685]of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants

[29686]of the widest possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing

[29687]with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to the crown. Loyal to

[29688]the highest constituted power in the land, actuated by an innate love of

[29689]rectitude his aims would be the strict maintenance of public order,

[29690]the repression of many abuses though not of all simultaneously (every

[29691]measure of reform or retrenchment being a preliminary solution to be

[29692]contained by fluxion in the final solution), the upholding of the letter

[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

[29696]venville rights, obsolete by desuetude, all orotund instigators

[29697]of international persecution, all perpetuators of international

[29698]animosities, all menial molestors of domestic conviviality, all

[29699]recalcitrant violators of domestic connubiality.

[29700]

[29701]Prove that he had loved rectitude from his earliest youth.

[29702]

[29703]To Master Percy Apjohn at High School in 1880 he had divulged his

[29704]disbelief in the tenets of the Irish (protestant) church (to which his

[29705]father Rudolf Virag (later Rudolph Bloom) had been converted from the

[29706]Israelitic faith and communion in 1865 by the Society for promoting

[29707]Christianity among the jews) subsequently abjured by him in favour of

[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

[29710]friendship (terminated by the premature emigration of the former) he

[29711]had advocated during nocturnal perambulations the political theory of

[29712]colonial (e.g. Canadian) expansion and the evolutionary theories of

[29713]Charles Darwin, expounded in The Descent of Man and The Origin of

[29714]Species. In 1885 he had publicly expressed his adherence to the

[29715]collective and national economic programme advocated by James Fintan

[29716]Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel, J. F. X. O’Brien and others,

[29717]the agrarian policy of Michael Davitt, the constitutional agitation of

[29718]Charles Stewart Parnell (M. P. for Cork City), the programme of

[29719]peace, retrenchment and reform of William Ewart Gladstone (M. P. for

[29720]Midlothian, N. B.) and, in support of his political convictions, had

[29721]climbed up into a secure position amid the ramifications of a tree

[29722]on Northumberland road to see the entrance (2 February 1888) into the

[29723]capital of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000 torchbearers,

[29724]divided into 120 trade corporations, bearing 2000 torches in escort of

[29725]the marquess of Ripon and (honest) John Morley.

[29726]

[29727]How much and how did he propose to pay for this country residence?

[29728]

[29729]As per prospectus of the Industrious Foreign Acclimatised Nationalised

[29730]Friendly Stateaided Building Society (incorporated 1874), a maximum of

[29731]£ 60 per annum, being 1/6 of an assured income, derived from giltedged

[29732]securities, representing at 5 % simple interest on capital of £ 1200

[29733](estimate of price at 20 years’ purchase), of which 1/3 to be paid on

[29734]acquisition and the balance in the form of annual rent, viz. £ 800

[29735]plus 2 1/2 % interest on the same, repayable quarterly in equal annual

[29736]instalments until extinction by amortisation of loan advanced for

[29737]purchase within a period of 20 years, amounting to an annual rental of

[29738]£ 64, headrent included, the titledeeds to remain in possession of

[29739]the lender or lenders with a saving clause envisaging forced sale,

[29740]foreclosure and mutual compensation in the event of protracted failure

[29741]to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the messuage to become the absolute

[29742]property of the tenant occupier upon expiry of the period of years

[29743]stipulated.

[29744]

[29745]What rapid but insecure means to opulence might facilitate immediate

[29746]purchase?

[29747]

[29748]A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system

[29749]the result of a national equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of 1 or

[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

[29752]available for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59 p.m. (Dunsink time).

[29753]The unexpected discovery of an object of great monetary value (precious

[29754]stone, valuable adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7 schilling,

[29755]mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate,

[29756]Great Britain, 1855: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal

[29757]surcharge, Luxemburg, 1878), antique dynastical ring, unique relic) in

[29758]unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air (dropped by an

[29759]eagle in flight), by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an incendiated

[29760]edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on

[29761]earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl). A Spanish prisoner’s

[29762]donation of a distant treasure of valuables or specie or bullion lodged

[29763]with a solvent banking corporation 100 years previously at 5% compound

[29764]interest of the collective worth of £ 5,000,000 stg (five million

[29765]pounds sterling). A contract with an inconsiderate contractee for the

[29766]delivery of 32 consignments of some given commodity in consideration of

[29767]cash payment on delivery per delivery at the initial rate of 1/4d to be

[29768]increased constantly in the geometrical progression of 2 (1/4d, 1/2d,

[29769]1d, 2d, 4d, 8d, 1s 4d, 2s 8d to 32 terms). A prepared scheme based on

[29770]a study of the laws of probability to break the bank at Monte Carlo.

[29771]A solution of the secular problem of the quadrature of the circle,

[29772]government premium £ 1,000,000 sterling.

[29773]

[29774]Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?

[29775]

[29776]The reclamation of dunams of waste arenary soil, proposed in the

[29777]prospectus of Agendath Netaim, Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W. 15, by the

[29778]cultivation of orange plantations and melonfields and reafforestation.

[29779]The utilisation of waste paper, fells of sewer rodents, human excrement

[29780]possessing chemical properties, in view of the vast production of the

[29781]first, vast number of the second and immense quantity of the third,

[29782]every normal human being of average vitality and appetite producing

[29783]annually, cancelling byproducts of water, a sum total of 80 lbs. (mixed

[29784]animal and vegetable diet), to be multiplied by 4,386,035, the total

[29785]population of Ireland according to census returns of 1901.

[29786]

[29787]Were there schemes of wider scope?

[29788]

[29789]A scheme to be formulated and submitted for approval to the harbour

[29790]commissioners for the exploitation of white coal (hydraulic power),

[29791]obtained by hydroelectric plant at peak of tide at Dublin bar or at

[29792]head of water at Poulaphouca or Powerscourt or catchment basins of main

[29793]streams for the economic production of 500,000 W. H. P. of electricity.

[29794]A scheme to enclose the peninsular delta of the North Bull at Dollymount

[29795]and erect on the space of the foreland, used for golf links and rifle

[29796]ranges, an asphalted esplanade with casinos, booths, shooting galleries,

[29797]hotels, boardinghouses, readingrooms, establishments for mixed bathing.

[29798]A scheme for the use of dogvans and goatvans for the delivery of early

[29799]morning milk. A scheme for the development of Irish tourist traffic in

[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

[29803](10/- per person per day, guide (trilingual) included). A scheme for

[29804]the repristination of passenger and goods traffics over Irish waterways,

[29805]when freed from weedbeds. A scheme to connect by tramline the Cattle

[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

[29810]Great Western Railway 43 to 45 North Wall, in proximity to the terminal

[29811]stations or Dublin branches of Great Central Railway, Midland Railway of

[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,

[29818]agents for steamers from Mediterranean, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium

[29819]and Holland and for Liverpool Underwriters’ Association, the cost of

[29820]acquired rolling stock for animal transport and of additional mileage

[29821]operated by the Dublin United Tramways Company, limited, to be covered

[29822]by graziers’ fees.

[29823]

[29824]Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes

[29825]become a natural and necessary apodosis?

[29826]

[29827]Given a guarantee equal to the sum sought, the support, by deed of gift

[29828]and transfer vouchers during donor’s lifetime or by bequest after

[29829]donor’s painless extinction, of eminent financiers (Blum Pasha,

[29830]Rothschild, Guggenheim, Hirsch, Montefiore, Morgan, Rockefeller)

[29831]possessing fortunes in 6 figures, amassed during a successful life, and

[29832]joining capital with opportunity the thing required was done.

[29833]

[29834]What eventuality would render him independent of such wealth?

[29835]

[29836]The independent discovery of a goldseam of inexhaustible ore.

[29837]

[29838]For what reason did he meditate on schemes so difficult of realisation?

[29839]

[29840]It was one of his axioms that similar meditations or the automatic

[29841]relation to himself of a narrative concerning himself or tranquil

[29842]recollection of the past when practised habitually before retiring for

[29843]the night alleviated fatigue and produced as a result sound repose and

[29844]renovated vitality.

[29845]

[29846]His justifications?

[29847]

[29848]As a physicist he had learned that of the 70 years of complete human

[29849]life at least 2/7, viz. 20 years are passed in sleep. As a philosopher

[29850]he knew that at the termination of any allotted life only an

[29851]infinitesimal part of any person’s desires has been realised. As

[29852]a physiologist he believed in the artificial placation of malignant

[29853]agencies chiefly operative during somnolence.

[29854]

[29855]What did he fear?

[29856]

[29857]The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an aberration

[29858]of the light of reason, the incommensurable categorical intelligence

[29859]situated in the cerebral convolutions.

[29860]

[29861]What were habitually his final meditations?

[29862]

[29863]Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause passers to stop in

[29864]wonder, a poster novelty, with all extraneous accretions excluded,

[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.

[29867]

[29868]What did the first drawer unlocked contain?

[29869]

[29870]A Vere Foster’s handwriting copybook, property of Milly (Millicent)

[29871]Bloom, certain pages of which bore diagram drawings, marked Papli, which

[29872]showed a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile,

[29873]the trunk full front with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot: 2 fading

[29874]photographs of queen Alexandra of England and of Maud Branscombe,

[29875]actress and professional beauty: a Yuletide card, bearing on it a

[29876]pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend Mizpah, the

[29877]date Xmas 1892, the name of the senders: from Mr + Mrs M. Comerford,

[29878]the versicle: May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome

[29879]glee: a butt of red partly liquefied sealing wax, obtained from the

[29880]stores department of Messrs Hely’s, Ltd., 89, 90, and 91 Dame street:

[29881]a box containing the remainder of a gross of gilt “J” pennibs,

[29882]obtained from same department of same firm: an old sandglass which

[29883]rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed prophecy (never unsealed)

[29884]written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the

[29885]passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone’s Home Rule bill of 1886

[29886](never passed into law): a bazaar ticket, No 2004, of S. Kevin’s

[29887]Charity Fair, price 6d, 100 prizes: an infantile epistle, dated, small

[29888]em monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you

[29889]note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph

[29890]signature with flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a cameo brooch,

[29891]property of Ellen Bloom (born Higgins), deceased: a cameo scarfpin,

[29892]property of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag), deceased: 3 typewritten letters,

[29893]addressee, Henry Flower, c/o. P. O. Westland Row, addresser, Martha

[29894]Clifford, c/o. P. O. Dolphin’s Barn: the transliterated name and

[29895]address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic

[29896]boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N.

[29897]IGS./WI. UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM: a press cutting from an English weekly

[29898]periodical Modern Society, subject corporal chastisement in girls’

[29899]schools: a pink ribbon which had festooned an Easter egg in the year

[29900]1899: two partly uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve pockets,

[29901]purchased by post from Box 32, P. O., Charing Cross, London, W. C.:

[29902]1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and feintruled notepaper,

[29903]watermarked, now reduced by 3: some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins:

[29904]2 coupons of the Royal and Privileged Hungarian Lottery: a lowpower

[29905]magnifying glass: 2 erotic photocards showing a) buccal coition between

[29906]nude senorita (rere presentation, superior position) and nude torero

[29907](fore presentation, inferior position) b) anal violation by male

[29908]religious (fully clothed, eyes abject) of female religious (partly

[29909]clothed, eyes direct), purchased by post from Box 32, P. O., Charing

[29910]Cross, London, W. C.: a press cutting of recipe for renovation of

[29911]old tan boots: a 1d adhesive stamp, lavender, of the reign of Queen

[29912]Victoria: a chart of the measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled before,

[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,

[29917]the world’s greatest remedy for rectal complaints, direct from

[29918]Wonderworker, Coventry House, South Place, London E C, addressed

[29919](erroneously) to Mrs L. Bloom with brief accompanying note commencing

[29920](erroneously): Dear Madam.

[29921]

[29922]Quote the textual terms in which the prospectus claimed advantages for

[29923]this thaumaturgic remedy.

[29924]

[29925]It heals and soothes while you sleep, in case of trouble in breaking

[29926]wind, assists nature in the most formidable way, insuring instant relief

[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.

[29929]Ladies find Wonderworker especially useful, a pleasant surprise when

[29930]they note delightful result like a cool drink of fresh spring water on a

[29931]sultry summer’s day. Recommend it to your lady and gentlemen friends,

[29932]lasts a lifetime. Insert long round end. Wonderworker.

[29933]

[29934]Were there testimonials?

[29935]

[29936]Numerous. From clergyman, British naval officer, wellknown author, city

[29937]man, hospital nurse, lady, mother of five, absentminded beggar.

[29938]

[29939]How did absentminded beggar’s concluding testimonial conclude?

[29940]

[29941]What a pity the government did not supply our men with wonderworkers

[29942]during the South African campaign! What a relief it would have been!

[29943]

[29944]What object did Bloom add to this collection of objects?

[29945]

[29946]A 4th typewritten letter received by Henry Flower (let H. F. be L. B.)

[29947]from Martha Clifford (find M. C.).

[29948]

[29949]What pleasant reflection accompanied this action?

[29950]

[29951]The reflection that, apart from the letter in question, his magnetic

[29952]face, form and address had been favourably received during the course of

[29953]the preceding day by a wife (Mrs Josephine Breen, born Josie Powell),

[29954]a nurse, Miss Callan (Christian name unknown), a maid, Gertrude (Gerty,

[29955]family name unknown).

[29956]

[29957]What possibility suggested itself?

[29958]

[29959]The possibility of exercising virile power of fascination in the not

[29960]immediate future after an expensive repast in a private apartment in

[29961]the company of an elegant courtesan, of corporal beauty, moderately

[29962]mercenary, variously instructed, a lady by origin.

[29963]

[29964]What did the 2nd drawer contain?

[29965]

[29966]Documents: the birth certificate of Leopold Paula Bloom: an endowment

[29967]assurance policy of £ 500 in the Scottish Widows’ Assurance Society,

[29968]intestated Millicent (Milly) Bloom, coming into force at 25 years as

[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

[29971](paidup) of £ 299-10-0 together with cash payment of £ 133-10-0, at

[29972]option: a bank passbook issued by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch

[29973]showing statement of a/c for halfyear ending 31 December 1903, balance

[29974]in depositor’s favour: £ 18-14-6 (eighteen pounds, fourteen shillings

[29975]and sixpence, sterling), net personalty: certificate of possession of

[29976]£ 900, Canadian 4% (inscribed) government stock (free of stamp duty):

[29977]dockets of the Catholic Cemeteries’ (Glasnevin) Committee, relative to

[29978]a graveplot purchased: a local press cutting concerning change of name

[29979]by deedpoll.

[29980]

[29981]Quote the textual terms of this notice.

[29982]

[29983]I, Rudolph Virag, now resident at no 52 Clanbrassil street, Dublin,

[29984]formerly of Szombathely in the kingdom of Hungary, hereby give notice

[29985]that I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all

[29986]times to be known by the name of Rudolph Bloom.

[29987]

[29988]What other objects relative to Rudolph Bloom (born Virag) were in the

[29989]2nd drawer?

[29990]

[29991]An indistinct daguerreotype of Rudolf Virag and his father Leopold

[29992]Virag executed in the year 1852 in the portrait atelier of their

[29993](respectively) 1st and 2nd cousin, Stefan Virag of Szesfehervar,

[29994]Hungary. An ancient haggadah book in which a pair of hornrimmed convex

[29995]spectacles inserted marked the passage of thanksgiving in the ritual

[29996]prayers for Pessach (Passover): a photocard of the Queen’s Hotel,

[29997]Ennis, proprietor, Rudolph Bloom: an envelope addressed: To My Dear Son

[29998]Leopold.

[29999]

[30000]What fractions of phrases did the lecture of those five whole words

[30001]evoke?

[30002]

[30003]Tomorrow will be a week that I received... it is no use Leopold to be

[30004]... with your dear mother... that is not more to stand... to her... all

[30005]for me is out... be kind to Athos, Leopold... my dear son... always...

[30006]of me... das Herz... Gott... dein...

[30007]

[30008]What reminiscences of a human subject suffering from progressive

[30009]melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom?

[30010]

[30011]An old man, widower, unkempt of hair, in bed, with head covered,

[30012]sighing: an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses

[30013]of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the

[30014]face in death of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison.

[30015]

[30016]Why did Bloom experience a sentiment of remorse?

[30017]

[30018]Because in immature impatience he had treated with disrespect certain

[30019]beliefs and practices.

[30020]

[30021]As?

[30022]

[30023]The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the

[30024]hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete

[30025]mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of

[30026]male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the

[30027]ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath.

[30028]

[30029]How did these beliefs and practices now appear to him?

[30030]

[30031]Not more rational than they had then appeared, not less rational than

[30032]other beliefs and practices now appeared.

[30033]

[30034]What first reminiscence had he of Rudolph Bloom (deceased)?

[30035]

[30036]Rudolph Bloom (deceased) narrated to his son Leopold Bloom (aged 6) a

[30037]retrospective arrangement of migrations and settlements in and between

[30038]Dublin, London, Florence, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Szombathely with

[30039]statements of satisfaction (his grandfather having seen Maria Theresia,

[30040]empress of Austria, queen of Hungary), with commercial advice (having

[30041]taken care of pence, the pounds having taken care of themselves).

[30042]Leopold Bloom (aged 6) had accompanied these narrations by constant

[30043]consultation of a geographical map of Europe (political) and by

[30044]suggestions for the establishment of affiliated business premises in the

[30045]various centres mentioned.

[30046]

[30047]Had time equally but differently obliterated the memory of these

[30048]migrations in narrator and listener?

[30049]

[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

[30052]the action of distraction upon vicarious experiences.

[30053]

[30054]What idiosyncracies of the narrator were concomitant products of

[30055]amnesia?

[30056]

[30057]Occasionally he ate without having previously removed his hat.

[30058]Occasionally he drank voraciously the juice of gooseberry fool from an

[30059]inclined plate. Occasionally he removed from his lips the traces of food

[30060]by means of a lacerated envelope or other accessible fragment of paper.

[30061]

[30062]What two phenomena of senescence were more frequent?

[30063]

[30064]The myopic digital calculation of coins, eructation consequent upon

[30065]repletion.

[30066]

[30067]What object offered partial consolation for these reminiscences?

[30068]

[30069]The endowment policy, the bank passbook, the certificate of the

[30070]possession of scrip.

[30071]

[30072]Reduce Bloom by cross multiplication of reverses of fortune, from which

[30073]these supports protected him, and by elimination of all positive values

[30074]to a negligible negative irrational unreal quantity.

[30075]

[30076]Successively, in descending helotic order: Poverty: that of the outdoor

[30077]hawker of imitation jewellery, the dun for the recovery of bad and

[30078]doubtful debts, the poor rate and deputy cess collector. Mendicancy:

[30079]that of the fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1/4d

[30080]in the £, sandwichman, distributor of throwaways, nocturnal vagrant,

[30081]insinuating sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling, superannuated

[30082]bailiff’s man, marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric

[30083]public laughingstock seated on bench of public park under discarded

[30084]perforated umbrella. Destitution: the inmate of Old Man’s House (Royal

[30085]Hospital), Kilmainham, the inmate of Simpson’s Hospital for reduced

[30086]but respectable men permanently disabled by gout or want of sight.

[30087]Nadir of misery: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund

[30088]lunatic pauper.

[30089]

[30090]With which attendant indignities?

[30091]

[30092]The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the

[30093]contempt of muscular males, the acceptance of fragments of bread,

[30094]the simulated ignorance of casual acquaintances, the latration of

[30095]illegitimate unlicensed vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of

[30096]decomposed vegetable missiles, worth little or nothing, nothing or less

[30097]than nothing.

[30098]

[30099]By what could such a situation be precluded?

[30100]

[30101]By decease (change of state): by departure (change of place).

[30102]

[30103]Which preferably?

[30104]

[30105]The latter, by the line of least resistance.

[30106]

[30107]What considerations rendered departure not entirely undesirable?

[30108]

[30109]Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects.

[30110]The habit of independent purchase increasingly cultivated. The necessity

[30111]to counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest.

[30112]

[30113]What considerations rendered departure not irrational?

[30114]

[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,

[30118]which was absurd, to form by reunion the original couple of uniting

[30119]parties, which was impossible.

[30120]

[30121]What considerations rendered departure desirable?

[30122]

[30123]The attractive character of certain localities in Ireland and abroad,

[30124]as represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or

[30125]in special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and

[30126]hachures.

[30127]

[30128]In Ireland?

[30129]

[30130]The cliffs of Moher, the windy wilds of Connemara, lough Neagh with

[30131]submerged petrified city, the Giant’s Causeway, Fort Camden and

[30132]Fort Carlisle, the Golden Vale of Tipperary, the islands of Aran, the

[30133]pastures of royal Meath, Brigid’s elm in Kildare, the Queen’s Island

[30134]shipyard in Belfast, the Salmon Leap, the lakes of Killarney.

[30135]

[30136]Abroad?

[30137]

[30138]Ceylon (with spicegardens supplying tea to Thomas Kernan, agent for

[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

[30141]of Damascus, goal of aspiration), the straits of Gibraltar (the unique

[30142]birthplace of Marion Tweedy), the Parthenon (containing statues of nude

[30143]Grecian divinities), the Wall street money market (which controlled

[30144]international finance), the Plaza de Toros at La Linea, Spain (where

[30145]O’Hara of the Camerons had slain the bull), Niagara (over which no

[30146]human being had passed with impunity), the land of the Eskimos (eaters

[30147]of soap), the forbidden country of Thibet (from which no traveller

[30148]returns), the bay of Naples (to see which was to die), the Dead Sea.

[30149]

[30150]Under what guidance, following what signs?

[30151]

[30152]At sea, septentrional, by night the polestar, located at the point of

[30153]intersection of the right line from beta to alpha in Ursa Maior produced

[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

[30156]delta of Ursa Maior. On land, meridional, a bispherical moon, revealed

[30157]in imperfect varying phases of lunation through the posterior interstice

[30158]of the imperfectly occluded skirt of a carnose negligent perambulating

[30159]female, a pillar of the cloud by day.

[30160]

[30161]What public advertisement would divulge the occultation of the departed?

[30162]

[30163]£ 5 reward, lost, stolen or strayed from his residence 7 Eccles street,

[30164]missing gent about 40, answering to the name of Bloom, Leopold (Poldy),

[30165]height 5 ft 9 1/2 inches, full build, olive complexion, may have since

[30166]grown a beard, when last seen was wearing a black suit. Above sum will

[30167]be paid for information leading to his discovery.

[30168]

[30169]What universal binomial denominations would be his as entity and

[30170]nonentity?

[30171]

[30172]Assumed by any or known to none. Everyman or Noman.

[30173]

[30174]What tributes his?

[30175]

[30176]Honour and gifts of strangers, the friends of Everyman. A nymph

[30177]immortal, beauty, the bride of Noman.

[30178]

[30179]Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear?

[30180]

[30181]Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his

[30182]cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic

[30183]planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of

[30184]space, passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events. Somewhere

[30185]imperceptibly he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey

[30186]the summons of recall. Whence, disappearing from the constellation of

[30187]the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the

[30188]constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination

[30189]return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark

[30190]crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition)

[30191]surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king.

[30192]

[30193]What would render such return irrational?

[30194]

[30195]An unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through

[30196]reversible space and an exodus and return in space through irreversible

[30197]time.

[30198]

[30199]What play of forces, inducing inertia, rendered departure undesirable?

[30200]

[30201]The lateness of the hour, rendering procrastinatory: the obscurity

[30202]of the night, rendering invisible: the uncertainty of thoroughfares,

[30203]rendering perilous: the necessity for repose, obviating movement: the

[30204]proximity of an occupied bed, obviating research: the anticipation of

[30205]warmth (human) tempered with coolness (linen), obviating desire and

[30206]rendering desirable: the statue of Narcissus, sound without echo,

[30207]desired desire.

[30208]

[30209]What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an

[30210]unoccupied bed?

[30211]

[30212]The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human

[30213](mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of

[30214]matutinal contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the

[30215]case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the

[30216]spring mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section).

[30217]

[30218]What past consecutive causes, before rising preapprehended, of

[30219]accumulated fatigue did Bloom, before rising, silently recapitulate?

[30220]

[30221]The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion and

[30222]premeditative defecation (holy of holies): the bath (rite of John): the

[30223]funeral (rite of Samuel): the advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and

[30224]Thummim): the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchisedek): the visit to

[30225]museum and national library (holy place): the bookhunt along Bedford

[30226]row, Merchants’ Arch, Wellington Quay (Simchath Torah): the music

[30227]in the Ormond Hotel (Shira Shirim): the altercation with a truculent

[30228]troglodyte in Bernard Kiernan’s premises (holocaust): a blank

[30229]period of time including a cardrive, a visit to a house of mourning,

[30230]a leavetaking (wilderness): the eroticism produced by feminine

[30231]exhibitionism (rite of Onan): the prolonged delivery of Mrs Mina Purefoy

[30232](heave offering): the visit to the disorderly house of Mrs Bella Cohen,

[30233]82 Tyrone street, lower, and subsequent brawl and chance medley in

[30234]Beaver street (Armageddon): nocturnal perambulation to and from the

[30235]cabman’s shelter, Butt Bridge (atonement).

[30236]

[30237]What selfimposed enigma did Bloom about to rise in order to go so as to

[30238]conclude lest he should not conclude involuntarily apprehend?

[30239]

[30240]The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by

[30241]the insentient material of a strainveined timber table.

[30242]

[30243]What selfinvolved enigma did Bloom risen, going, gathering multicoloured

[30244]multiform multitudinous garments, voluntarily apprehending, not

[30245]comprehend?

[30246]

[30247]Who was M’Intosh?

[30248]

[30249]What selfevident enigma pondered with desultory constancy during 30

[30250]years did Bloom now, having effected natural obscurity by the extinction

[30251]of artificial light, silently suddenly comprehend?

[30252]

[30253]Where was Moses when the candle went out?

[30254]

[30255]What imperfections in a perfect day did Bloom, walking, charged with

[30256]collected articles of recently disvested male wearing apparel, silently,

[30257]successively, enumerate?

[30258]

[30259]A provisional failure to obtain renewal of an advertisement: to obtain

[30260]a certain quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan (agent for Pulbrook,

[30261]Robertson and Co, 5 Dame Street, Dublin, and 2 Mincing Lane, London E.

[30262]C.): to certify the presence or absence of posterior rectal orifice in

[30263]the case of Hellenic female divinities: to obtain admission (gratuitous

[30264]or paid) to the performance of Leah by Mrs Bandmann Palmer at the Gaiety

[30265]Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street.

[30266]

[30267]What impression of an absent face did Bloom, arrested, silently recall?

[30268]

[30269]The face of her father, the late Major Brian Cooper Tweedy, Royal Dublin

[30270]Fusiliers, of Gibraltar and Rehoboth, Dolphin’s Barn.

[30271]

[30272]What recurrent impressions of the same were possible by hypothesis?

[30273]

[30274]Retreating, at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, Amiens

[30275]street, with constant uniform acceleration, along parallel lines

[30276]meeting at infinity, if produced: along parallel lines, reproduced from

[30277]infinity, with constant uniform retardation, at the terminus of the

[30278]Great Northern Railway, Amiens street, returning.

[30279]

[30280]What miscellaneous effects of female personal wearing apparel were

[30281]perceived by him?

[30282]

[30283]A pair of new inodorous halfsilk black ladies’ hose, a pair of new

[30284]violet garters, a pair of outsize ladies’ drawers of India mull,

[30285]cut on generous lines, redolent of opoponax, jessamine and Muratti’s

[30286]Turkish cigarettes and containing a long bright steel safety pin, folded

[30287]curvilinear, a camisole of batiste with thin lace border, an accordion

[30288]underskirt of blue silk moirette, all these objects being disposed

[30289]irregularly on the top of a rectangular trunk, quadruple battened,

[30290]having capped corners, with multicoloured labels, initialled on its fore

[30291]side in white lettering B. C. T. (Brian Cooper Tweedy).

[30292]

[30293]What impersonal objects were perceived?

[30294]

[30295]A commode, one leg fractured, totally covered by square cretonne

[30296]cutting, apple design, on which rested a lady’s black straw hat.

[30297]Orangekeyed ware, bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware

[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

[30301](on the floor, separate).

[30302]

[30303]Bloom’s acts?

[30304]

[30305]He deposited the articles of clothing on a chair, removed his remaining

[30306]articles of clothing, took from beneath the bolster at the head of the

[30307]bed a folded long white nightshirt, inserted his head and arms into the

[30308]proper apertures of the nightshirt, removed a pillow from the head to

[30309]the foot of the bed, prepared the bedlinen accordingly and entered the

[30310]bed.

[30311]

[30312]How?

[30313]

[30314]With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode (his own or

[30315]not his own): with solicitude, the snakespiral springs of the mattress

[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

[30318]lust or adders: lightly, the less to disturb: reverently, the bed of

[30319]conception and of birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of

[30320]marriage, of sleep and of death.

[30321]

[30322]What did his limbs, when gradually extended, encounter?

[30323]

[30324]New clean bedlinen, additional odours, the presence of a human form,

[30325]female, hers, the imprint of a human form, male, not his, some crumbs,

[30326]some flakes of potted meat, recooked, which he removed.

[30327]

[30328]If he had smiled why would he have smiled?

[30329]

[30330]To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to

[30331]enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if

[30332]the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first,

[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.

[30335]

[30336]What preceding series?

[30337]

[30338]Assuming Mulvey to be the first term of his series, Penrose, Bartell

[30339]d’Arcy, professor Goodwin, Julius Mastiansky, John Henry Menton,

[30340]Father Bernard Corrigan, a farmer at the Royal Dublin Society’s Horse

[30341]Show, Maggot O’Reilly, Matthew Dillon, Valentine Blake Dillon

[30342](Lord Mayor of Dublin), Christopher Callinan, Lenehan, an Italian

[30343]organgrinder, an unknown gentleman in the Gaiety Theatre, Benjamin

[30344]Dollard, Simon Dedalus, Andrew (Pisser) Burke, Joseph Cuffe, Wisdom

[30345]Hely, Alderman John Hooper, Dr Francis Brady, Father Sebastian of Mount

[30346]Argus, a bootblack at the General Post Office, Hugh E. (Blazes) Boylan

[30347]and so each and so on to no last term.

[30348]

[30349]What were his reflections concerning the last member of this series and

[30350]late occupant of the bed?

[30351]

[30352]Reflections on his vigour (a bounder), corporal proportion (a

[30353]billsticker), commercial ability (a bester), impressionability (a

[30354]boaster).

[30355]

[30356]Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigour, corporal

[30357]proportion and commercial ability?

[30358]

[30359]Because he had observed with augmenting frequency in the preceding

[30360]members of the same series the same concupiscence, inflammably

[30361]transmitted, first with alarm, then with understanding, then with

[30362]desire, finally with fatigue, with alternating symptoms of epicene

[30363]comprehension and apprehension.

[30364]

[30365]With what antagonistic sentiments were his subsequent reflections

[30366]affected?

[30367]

[30368]Envy, jealousy, abnegation, equanimity.

[30369]

[30370]Envy?

[30371]

[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

[30376]female organism, passive but not obtuse.

[30377]

[30378]Jealousy?

[30379]

[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

[30384]reentrance. Because the controlled contemplation of the fluctuation of

[30385]attraction produced, if desired, a fluctuation of pleasure.

[30386]

[30387]Abnegation?

[30388]

[30389]In virtue of a) acquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the

[30390]establishment of George Mesias, merchant tailor and outfitter, 5 Eden

[30391]Quay, b) hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and

[30392]reappropriated in person, c) comparative youth subject to impulses of

[30393]ambition and magnanimity, colleagual altruism and amorous egoism, d)

[30394]extraracial attraction, intraracial inhibition, supraracial prerogative,

[30395]e) an imminent provincial musical tour, common current expenses, net

[30396]proceeds divided.

[30397]

[30398]Equanimity?

[30399]

[30400]As as natural as any and every natural act of a nature expressed or

[30401]understood executed in natured nature by natural creatures in accordance

[30402]with his, her and their natured natures, of dissimilar similarity.

[30403]As not so calamitous as a cataclysmic annihilation of the planet in

[30404]consequence of a collision with a dark sun. As less reprehensible than

[30405]theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money

[30406]under false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public

[30407]money, betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of

[30408]minors, criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason,

[30409]felony, mutiny on the high seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking,

[30410]practice of unnatural vice, desertion from armed forces in the field,

[30411]perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the king’s enemies,

[30412]impersonation, criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and premeditated

[30413]murder. As not more abnormal than all other parallel processes of

[30414]adaptation to altered conditions of existence, resulting in a reciprocal

[30415]equilibrium between the bodily organism and its attendant circumstances,

[30416]foods, beverages, acquired habits, indulged inclinations, significant

[30417]disease. As more than inevitable, irreparable.

[30418]

[30419]Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimity?

[30420]

[30421]From outrage (matrimony) to outrage (adultery) there arose nought but

[30422]outrage (copulation) yet the matrimonial violator of the matrimonially

[30423]violated had not been outraged by the adulterous violator of the

[30424]adulterously violated.

[30425]

[30426]What retribution, if any?

[30427]

[30428]Assassination, never, as two wrongs did not make one right. Duel by

[30429]combat, no. Divorce, not now. Exposure by mechanical artifice (automatic

[30430]bed) or individual testimony (concealed ocular witnesses), not yet. Suit

[30431]for damages by legal influence or simulation of assault with evidence of

[30432]injuries sustained (selfinflicted), not impossibly. Hushmoney by moral

[30433]influence, possibly. If any, positively, connivance, introduction of

[30434]emulation (material, a prosperous rival agency of publicity: moral,

[30435]a successful rival agent of intimacy), depreciation, alienation,

[30436]humiliation, separation protecting the one separated from the other,

[30437]protecting the separator from both.

[30438]

[30439]By what reflections did he, a conscious reactor against the void of

[30440]incertitude, justify to himself his sentiments?

[30441]

[30442]The preordained frangibility of the hymen: the presupposed intangibility

[30443]of the thing in itself: the incongruity and disproportion between

[30444]the selfprolonging tension of the thing proposed to be done and the

[30445]selfabbreviating relaxation of the thing done: the fallaciously inferred

[30446]debility of the female: the muscularity of the male: the variations of

[30447]ethical codes: the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving

[30448]no alteration of sense of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as

[30449]masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct

[30450]feminine object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist

[30451]preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb

[30452]and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary

[30453]masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of

[30454]seminators by generation: the continual production of semen by

[30455]distillation: the futility of triumph or protest or vindication: the

[30456]inanity of extolled virtue: the lethargy of nescient matter: the apathy

[30457]of the stars.

[30458]

[30459]In what final satisfaction did these antagonistic sentiments and

[30460]reflections, reduced to their simplest forms, converge?

[30461]

[30462]Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial

[30463]hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored

[30464](the land of the midnight sun, the islands of the blessed, the isles of

[30465]Greece, the land of promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female

[30466]hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and

[30467]seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of curves of amplitude,

[30468]insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarieties of expression,

[30469]expressive of mute immutable mature animality.

[30470]

[30471]The visible signs of antesatisfaction?

[30472]

[30473]An approximate erection: a solicitous adversion: a gradual elevation: a

[30474]tentative revelation: a silent contemplation.

[30475]

[30476]Then?

[30477]

[30478]He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each

[30479]plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure

[30480]prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.

[30481]

[30482]The visible signs of postsatisfaction?

[30483]

[30484]A silent contemplation: a tentative velation: a gradual abasement: a

[30485]solicitous aversion: a proximate erection.

[30486]

[30487]What followed this silent action?

[30488]

[30489]Somnolent invocation, less somnolent recognition, incipient excitation,

[30490]catechetical interrogation.

[30491]

[30492]With what modifications did the narrator reply to this interrogation?

[30493]

[30494]Negative: he omitted to mention the clandestine correspondence between

[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),

[30499]surname unknown. Positive: he included mention of a performance by Mrs

[30500]Bandmann Palmer of Leah at the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King

[30501]street, an invitation to supper at Wynn’s (Murphy’s) Hotel, 35,

[30502]36 and 37 Lower Abbey street, a volume of peccaminous pornographical

[30503]tendency entituled Sweets of Sin, anonymous author a gentleman of

[30504]fashion, a temporary concussion caused by a falsely calculated movement

[30505]in the course of a postcenal gymnastic display, the victim (since

[30506]completely recovered) being Stephen Dedalus, professor and author,

[30507]eldest surviving son of Simon Dedalus, of no fixed occupation, an

[30508]aeronautical feat executed by him (narrator) in the presence of a

[30509]witness, the professor and author aforesaid, with promptitude of

[30510]decision and gymnastic flexibility.

[30511]

[30512]Was the narration otherwise unaltered by modifications?

[30513]

[30514]Absolutely.

[30515]

[30516]Which event or person emerged as the salient point of his narration?

[30517]

[30518]Stephen Dedalus, professor and author.

[30519]

[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?

[30523]

[30524]By the listener a limitation of fertility inasmuch as marriage had been

[30525]celebrated 1 calendar month after the 18th anniversary of her birth (8

[30526]September 1870), viz. 8 October, and consummated on the same date with

[30527]female issue born 15 June 1889, having been anticipatorily consummated

[30528]on the 10 September of the same year and complete carnal intercourse,

[30529]with ejaculation of semen within the natural female organ, having last

[30530]taken place 5 weeks previous, viz. 27 November 1893, to the birth on 29

[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

[30533]during which carnal intercourse had been incomplete, without ejaculation

[30534]of semen within the natural female organ. By the narrator a limitation

[30535]of activity, mental and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental

[30536]intercourse between himself and the listener had not taken place since

[30537]the consummation of puberty, indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, of the

[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

[30540]preestablished natural comprehension in incomprehension between the

[30541]consummated females (listener and issue), complete corporal liberty of

[30542]action had been circumscribed.

[30543]

[30544]How?

[30545]

[30546]By various reiterated feminine interrogation concerning the masculine

[30547]destination whither, the place where, the time at which, the duration

[30548]for which, the object with which in the case of temporary absences,

[30549]projected or effected.

[30550]

[30551]What moved visibly above the listener’s and the narrator’s invisible

[30552]thoughts?

[30553]

[30554]The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of

[30555]concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.

[30556]

[30557]In what directions did listener and narrator lie?

[30558]

[30559]Listener, S. E. by E.: Narrator, N. W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of

[30560]latitude, N., and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45° to

[30561]the terrestrial equator.

[30562]

[30563]In what state of rest or motion?

[30564]

[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

[30567]proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of

[30568]neverchanging space.

[30569]

[30570]In what posture?

[30571]

[30572]Listener: reclined semilaterally, left, left hand under head, right

[30573]leg extended in a straight line and resting on left leg, flexed, in the

[30574]attitude of Gea-Tellus, fulfilled, recumbent, big with seed. Narrator:

[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

[30577]the attitude depicted in a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the

[30578]childman weary, the manchild in the womb.

[30579]

[30580]Womb? Weary?

[30581]

[30582]He rests. He has travelled.

[30583]

[30584]With?

[30585]

[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.

[30591]

[30592]When?

[30593]

[30594]Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc’s

[30595]auk’s egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of

[30596]Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

[30597]

[30598]Where?

[30599]

[30600]•

[30601]

[30602]

[30603]

[30604]

[30605]

[30606]

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