Time: 　2 A.M., Thursday, June 17, 1904 Scene: Bloom's house at 7 Eccles Street Organ:　skeleton Art:　Science Colors:　none Symbol: comets Technique: catechism (impersonal) Correspondences: Antinous, the first suitor--Buck Mulligan; Eurymachus, the second suitor--Boylan; Bow--reason; Suitors-- scruples [it is of interest that the word "scruples" ap- pears only once in Ulysses (17.1891 [724:5]), where it is used in its literal sense of "minute quantities"]. Background: In Book 17 of The Odyssey, Telemachus and Odysseus go their separate ways to Odysseus's palace. Odysseus is still in disguise as a beggar down on his luck. In Books 17--20Odysseus--having entered his house "by a stratagem," as Bloom does (Ulysses 17.84 [668: 20))--plots to kill the suit-ors. The stateof his house "corrugates" his brow--as Bloom's brow is corrugated (17.322 [675:34]). Antinous, one of the chief suitors, is irritated by Odysseus and throws a stool at him (Book 17)--as Bloom runs into his displaced (by whom?) furn- iture (17.1274-78 1705:23--28]). On the morning of slaughter--day the suitors compete to see who can string Odysseus's great bow, but none can; the disguis- ed Odysseus finally strings it with extraordinary ease, and Zeus reassures him with a thunderclap out of a cloudless sky (Book 21)--as the liturgical review of Bloom's day is re-warded by a "loud lone crack emit- ted by the insentient material of a strainveined timber table" (17.2061-62 [729:17--19]). Odysseus and Tele- machus pen the suitors in the great hall of the palace --as Stephen helps lock the door (17.119 [669:27]). The slaughter of the suitors begins (Book 22) after O- dysseus has strung the bow (correspondence: Reason), and Antinous (the part Mulligan is playing) is the first to be killed--as Bloom has already disposed of Mulligan (16.279--99 [620:31--621: 11]). The second of the suitors to be killed is Eurymachus (Boylan's part), whom Athena has identified (Book 15) as the suitor on the verge of success because favored by Penelope's father and brothers. At the height of the killing in Book 22, the aegis of Athena shines under the roof of the hall, terri- fying the suitors as, at 17.1210 (703:23--27), a "cele- stial sign" appears. The lives of the poet and the herald are spared. When the killing is over, Telemachus is sent on an errand and Odysseus fumigates his house--as Bloom does (17.1321--29 [707:5--15]). Penelope has slept through and is unaware of the slaughter. Odysseus's approach to Penelope is extra- ordinarily circum-spect, not only when he is in disguise and wants to remain unknown to her (Book 19) but also when he re-veals himself to her in Book 23.She in her turn is painfully slow to accept the ragged, blood-be- grimed "beggar" as her husband.

What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?

Starting united both at normal walking pace from Beresford place they
followed in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner streets and
Mountjoy square, west: then, at reduced pace, each bearing left, Gardiner's
place by an inadvertence as far as the farther corner of Temple street: then,
at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing right, Temple street,
north, as far as Hardwicke place. Approaching, disparate, at relaxed
walking pace they crossed both the circus before George's church
diametrically, the chord in any circle being less than the arc which it
subtends.

Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary?

Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution,
diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and glowlamps on the
growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees, exposed corporation emergency
dustbuckets, the Roman catholic church, ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish
nation, jesuit education, careers, the study of medicine, the past day, the
maleficent influence of the presabbath, Stephen's collapse.

Did Bloom discover common factors of similarity between their respective
like and unlike reactions to experience?

Both were sensitive to artistic impressions, musical in preference to plas-
tic or pictorial. Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of life,
a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence. Both indurated by ear-
ly domestic training and an inherited tenacity of heterodox resistance
professed their disbelief in many orthodox religious, national, social and
ethical doctrines. Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding
influence of heterosexual magnetism.

Were their views on some points divergent?

Stephen dissented openly from Bloom's views on the importance of dietary
and civic selfhelp while Bloom dissented tacitly from Stephen's views on
the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man in literature. Bloom assented
covertly to Stephen's rectification of the anachronism involved in assign-
ing the date of the conversion of the Irish nation to christianity from
druidism by Patrick son of Calpornus, son of Potitus, son of Odyssus, sent
by pope Celestine I in the year 432 in the reign of Leary to the year 260
or thereabouts in the reign of Cormac MacArt (died 266 A.D.), suffocated
by imperfect deglutition of aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnaree.
The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemi-
cal compounds of varying degrees of adulteration and alcoholic strength,
accelerated by mental exertion and the velocity of rapid circular motion
in a relaxing atmosphere, Stephen attributed to the reapparition of a mat-
utinal cloud (perceived by both from two different points of observation
Sandycove and Dublin) at first no bigger than a woman's hand.

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

The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of adjoining
paraheliotropic trees.

Had Bloom discussed similar subjects during nocturnal perambulations in
the past?

In 1884 with Owen Goldberg and Cecil Turnbull at night on public thor-
oughfares between Longwood avenue and Leonard's corner and Leonard's
corner and Synge street and Synge street and Bloomfield avenue.In 1885
with Percy Apjohn in the evenings, reclined against the wall between
Gibraltar villa and Bloomfield house in Crumlin, barony of Uppercross.
In 1886 occasionally with casual acquaintances and prospective purch-
asers on doorsteps, in front parlours, in third class railway carriag-
es of suburban lines. In 1888 frequently with major Brian Tweedy and
his daughter Miss Marion Tweedy, together and separately on the lounge
in Matthew Dillon's house in Roundtown. Once in 1892 and once in 1893
with Julius (Juda) Mastiansky, on both occasions in the parlour of his
(Bloom's) house in Lombard street, west.

What reflection concerning the irregular sequence of dates 1884, 1885,
1886, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1904 did Bloom make before their arrival at their
destination?

He reflected that the progressive extension of the field of individual
development and experience was regressively accompanied by a restriction
of the converse domain of interindividual relations.

As in what ways?

From inexistence to existence he came to many and was as one received:
existence with existence he was with any as any with any: from existence
to nonexistence gone he would be by all as none perceived.

What act did Bloom make on their arrival at their destination?

At the housesteps of the 4th Of the equidifferent uneven numbers, number 7
Eccles street, he inserted his hand mechanically into the back pocket of his
trousers to obtain his latchkey.

Was it there?

It was in the corresponding pocket of the trousers which he had worn on
the day but one preceding.

Why was he doubly irritated?

Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded
himself twice not to forget.

What were then the alternatives before the, premeditatedly (respectively)
and inadvertently, keyless couple?

To enter or not to enter. To knock or not to knock.

Bloom's decision?

A stratagem. Resting his feet on the dwarf wall, he climbed over the area
railings, compressed his hat on his head, grasped two points at the lower
union of rails and stiles, lowered his body gradually by its length of five
feet nine inches and a half to within two feet ten inches of the area pave-
ment and allowed his body to move freely in space by separating himself
from the railings and crouching in preparation for the impact of the fall.

Did he fall?

By his body's known weight of eleven stone and four pounds in avoirdupois
measure, as certified by the graduated machine for periodical selfweighing
in the premises of Francis Froedman, pharmaceutical chemist of 19 Frederick
street, north, on the last feast of the Ascension, to wit, the twelfth day
of May of the bissextile year one thousand nine hundred and four of the
christian era (jewish era five thousand six hundred and sixtyfour, moham-
madan era one thousand three hundred and twentytwo), golden number 5, epact
13, solar cycle 9, dominical letters C B, Roman indiction 2, Julian period
6617, MCMIV.

Did he rise uninjured by concussion?

Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by
the impact, raised the latch of the area door by the exertion of force at
its freely moving flange and by leverage of the first kind applied at its
fulcrum, gained retarded access to the kitchen through the subadjacent
scullery, ignited a lucifer match by friction, set free inflammable coal
gas by turningon the ventcock, lit a high flame which, by regulating, he
reduced to quiescent candescence and lit finally a portable candle.

What discrete succession of images did Stephen meanwhile perceive?

Reclined against the area railings he perceived through the transparent
kitchen panes a man regulating a gasflame of 14 CP, a man lighting a
candle of 1 CP, a man removing in turn each of his two boots, a man
leaving the kitchen holding a candle.

Did the man reappear elsewhere?

After a lapse of four minutes the glimmer of his candle was discernible
through the semitransparent semicircular glass fanlight over the halldoor.
The halldoor turned gradually on its hinges. In the open space of the
doorway the man reappeared without his hat, with his candle.

Did Stephen obey his sign?

Yes, entering softly, he helped to close and chain the door and followed
softly along the hallway the man's back and listed feet and lighted candle
past a lighted crevice of doorway on the left and carefully down a turning
staircase of more than five steps into the kitchen of Bloom's house.

What did Bloom do?

He extinguished the candle by a sharp expiration of breath upon its flame,
drew two spoonseat deal chairs to the hearthstone, one for Stephen with its
back to the area window, the other for himself when necessary, knelt on one
knee, composed in the grate a pyre of crosslaid resintipped sticks and var-
ious coloured papers and irregular polygons of best Abram coal at twentyone
shillings a ton from the yard of Messrs Flower and M'Donald of 14 D'Olier
street, kindled it at three projecting points of paper with one ignited lu-
cifer match, thereby releasing the potential energy contained in the fuel
by allowing its carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union with
the oxygen of the air.

Of what similar apparitions did Stephen think?

Of others elsewhere in other times who, kneeling on one knee or on two,
had kindled fires for him, of Brother Michael in the infirmary of the col-
lege of the Society of Jesus at Clongowes Wood, Sallins, in the county of
Kildare: of his father, Simon Dedalus, in an unfurnished room of his first
residence in Dublin, number thirteen Fitzgibbon street: of his godmother
Miss Kate Morkan in the house of her dying sister Miss Julia Morkan at 15
Usher's Island: of his aunt Sara, wife of Richie (Richard) Goulding, in the
kitchen of their lodgings at 62 Clanbrassil street: of his mother Mary,
wife of Simon Dedalus, in the kitchen of number twelve North Richmond street
on the morning of the feast of Saint Francis Xavier 1898: of the dean of
studies, Father Butt, in the physics' theatre of university College, 16
Stephen's Green, north: of his sister Dilly (Delia) in his father's house
in Cabra.

What did Stephen see on raising his gaze to the height of a yard from the
fire towards the opposite wall?

Under a row of five coiled spring housebells a curvilinear rope, stretched
between two holdfasts athwart across the recess beside the chimney pier,
from which hung four smallsized square handkerchiefs folded unattached
consecutively in adjacent rectangles and one pair of ladies' grey hose with
Lisle suspender tops and feet in their habitual position clamped by three
erect wooden pegs two at their outer extremities and the third at their
point of junction.

What did Bloom see on the range?

On the right (smaller) hob a blue enamelled saucepan: on the left (larger)
hob a black iron kettle.

What did Bloom do at the range?

He removed the saucepan to the left hob, rose and carried the iron kettle to
the sink in order to tap the current by turning the faucet to let it flow.

Did it flow?

Yes. From Roundwood reservoir in county Wicklow of a cubic capacity of
2400 million gallons, percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of filter
mains of single and double pipeage constructed at an initial plant cost of 5
pounds per linear yard by way of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the Downs and
Callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a distance of 22 statute
miles, and thence, through a system of relieving tanks, by a gradient of 250
feet to the city boundary at Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, though
from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the
water had fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the
borough surveyor and waterworks engineer, Mr Spencer Harty, C. E., on
the instructions of the waterworks committee had prohibited the use of
municipal water for purposes other than those of consumption (envisaging
the possibility of recourse being had to the impotable water of the Grand
and Royal canals as in 1893) particularly as the South Dublin Guardians,
notwithstanding their ration of 15 gallons per day per pauper supplied
through a 6 inch meter, had been convicted of a wastage of 20,000 gallons
per night by a reading of their meter on the affirmation of the law agent of
the corporation, Mr Ignatius Rice, solicitor, thereby acting to the detriment
of another section of the public, selfsupporting taxpayers, solvent, sound.

What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier, return-
ing to the range, admire?

Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seek-
ing its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's projection: its
unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8000 fath-
oms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all
points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of
states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity
in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in
the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial
significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its
indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below
the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its
primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve and hold in
solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the most
precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and islands, its persistent
formation of homothetic islands, peninsulas and downwardtending promonto-
ries: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imper-
turbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the
torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in con-
tinental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their
tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equator-
ial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, erupt-
ions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, water-
partings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges,
cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in
springs and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instru-
ments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate,
saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition,
two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its
healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering
penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its
properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation:
its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist,
cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety
of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and
atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estua-
ries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its
docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power
stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, riv-
ers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable
from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its subma-
rine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally,
the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the
human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilen-
tial fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.

Having set the halffilled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he return
to the stillflowing tap?

To wash his soiled hands with a partially consumed tablet of Barrington's
lemonflavoured soap, to which paper still adhered, (bought thirteen hours
previously for fourpence and still unpaid for), in fresh cold neverchanging
everchanging water and dry them, face and hands, in a long redbordered
holland cloth passed over a wooden revolving roller.

What reason did Stephen give for declining Bloom's offer?

That he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by
submersion in cold water, (his last bath having taken place in the month of
October of the preceding year), disliking the aqueous substances of glass
and crystal, distrusting aquacities of thought and language.

What impeded Bloom from giving Stephen counsels of hygiene and prophylactic
to which should be added suggestions concerning a preliminary wetting of the
head and contraction of the muscles with rapid splashing of the face and neck
and thoracic and epigastric region in case of sea or river bathing, the parts
of the human anatomy most sensitive to cold being the nape, stomach and thenar
or sole of foot?

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

What additional didactic counsels did he similarly repress?

Dietary: concerning the respective percentage of protein and caloric energy
in bacon, salt ling and butter, the absence of the former in the lastnamed
and the abundance of the latter in the firstnamed.

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

Confidence in himself, an equal and opposite power of abandonment and
recuperation.

What concomitant phenomenon took place in the vessel of liquid by the agency
of fire?

The phenomenon of ebullition. Fanned by a constant updraught of ventilation
between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the
faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal, con-
taining in compressed mineral form the foliated fossilised decidua of prime-
val forests which had in turn derived their vegetative existence from the
sun, primal source of heat (radiant), transmitted through omnipresent lum-
iniferous diathermanous ether. Heat (convected), a mode of motion develop-
ed by such combustion, was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the
source of calorification to the liquid contained in the vessel, being ra-
diated through the uneven unpolished dark surface of the metal iron, in
part reflected, in part absorbed, in part transmitted, gradually raising
the temperature of the water from normal to boiling point, a rise in tem-
perature expressible as the result of an expenditure of 72 thermal units
needed to raise 1 pound of water from 50 degrees to 212 degrees Fahren-
heit.

What announced the accomplishment of this rise in temperature?

A double falciform ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at
both sides simultaneously.

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

To shave himself.

What advantages attended shaving by night?

A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from
shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly
encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours:
quiet reflections upon the course of the day: a cleaner sensation when
awaking after a fresher sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and
perturbations, a clattered milkcan, a postman's double knock, a paper
read, reread while lathering, relathering the same spot, a shock, a shoot,
with thought of aught he sought though fraught with nought might cause a
faster rate of shaving and a nick on which incision plaster with precision
cut and humected and applied adhered: which was to be done.

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

Because of the surety of the sense of touch in his firm full masculine
feminine passive active hand.

What quality did it (his hand) possess but with what counteracting influ-
ence?

The operative surgical quality but that he was reluctant to shed human
blood even when the end justified the means, preferring, in their natural
order, heliotherapy, psychophysicotherapeutics, osteopathic surgery.

What lay under exposure on the lower, middle and upper shelves of the
kitchen dresser, opened by Bloom?

On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal break-
fast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a moustachecup, un-
inverted, and saucer of Crown Derby, four white goldrimmed eggcups, an
open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly copper, and a phial of aroma-
tic (violet) comfits. On the middle shelf a chipped eggcup containing
pepper, a drum of table salt, four conglomerated black olives in oleagi-
nous paper, an empty pot of Plumtree's potted meat, an oval wicker basket
bedded with fibre and containing one Jersey pear, a halfempty bottle of
William Gilbey and Co's white invalid port, half disrobed of its swathe
of coralpink tissue paper, a packet of Epps's soluble cocoa, five ounces
of Anne Lynch's choice tea at 2/-- per lb in a crinkled leadpaper bag, a
cylindrical canister containing the best crystallised lump sugar, two on-
ions, one, the larger, Spanish, entire, the other, smaller, Irish, bisect-
ed with augmented surface and more redolent, a jar of Irish Model Dairy's
cream, a jug of brown crockery containing a naggin and a quarter of soured
adulterated milk, converted by heat into water, acidulous serum and semi-
solidified curds, which added to the quantity subtracted for Mr Bloom's
and Mrs Fleming's breakfasts, made one imperial pint, the total quantity
originally delivered, two cloves, a halfpenny and a small dish containing
a slice of fresh ribsteak. On the upper shelf a battery of jamjars (empty)
of various sizes and proveniences.

What attracted his attention lying on the apron of the dresser?

Four polygonal fragments of two lacerated scarlet betting tickets, numbered
8 87, 88 6.

What reminiscences temporarily corrugated his brow?

Reminiscences of coincidences, truth stranger than fiction, preindicative
of the result of the Gold Cup flat handicap, the official and definitive
result of which he had read in the Evening Telegraph, late pink edition,
in the cabman's shelter, at Butt bridge.

Where had previous intimations of the result, effected or projected, been
received by him?

In Bernard Kiernan's licensed premises 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street:
in David Byrne's licensed premises, 14 Duke street: in O'Connell street
lower, outside Graham Lemon's when a dark man had placed in his hand a
throwaway (subsequently thrown away), advertising Elijah, restorer of the
church in Zion: in Lincoln place outside the premises of F. W. Sweny and
Co (Limited), dispensing chemists, when, when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons
had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy
of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he
had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded
towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths, 11 Leinster
street, with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bear-
ing in his arms the secret of the race, graven in the language of predict-
ion.

What qualifying considerations allayed his perturbations?

The difficulties of interpretation since the significance of any event fol-
lowed its occurrence as variably as the acoustic report followed the elec-
trical discharge and of counterestimating against an actual loss by failure
to interpret the total sum of possible losses proceeding originally from a
successful interpretation.

His mood?

He had not risked, he did not expect, he had not been disappointed, he was
satisfied.

What satisfied him?

To have sustained no positive loss. To have brought a positive gain to others.
Light to the gentiles.

How did Bloom prepare a collation for a gentile?

He poured into two teacups two level spoonfuls, four in all, of Epps's
soluble cocoa and proceeded according to the directions for use printed on
the label, to each adding after sufficient time for infusion the prescribed
ingredients for diffusion in the manner and in the quantity prescribed.

What supererogatory marks of special hospitality did the host show his
guest?

Relinquishing his symposiarchal right to the moustache cup of imitation
Crown Derby presented to him by his only daughter, Millicent (Milly), he
substituted a cup identical with that of his guest and served extraordinarily
to his guest and, in reduced measure, to himself the viscous cream
ordinarily reserved for the breakfast of his wife Marion (Molly).

Was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge these marks of hospital-
ity?

His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely, and he accepted
them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps's massproduct,
the creature cocoa.

Were there marks of hospitality which he contemplated but suppressed,
reserving them for another and for himself on future occasions to complete
the act begun?

The reparation of a fissure of the length of 1 1/2 inches in the right side
of his guest's jacket. A gift to his guest of one of the four lady's hand-
kerchiefs, if and when ascertained to be in a presentable condition.

Who drank more quickly?

Bloom, having the advantage of ten seconds at the initiation and taking,
from the concave surface of a spoon along the handle of which a steady
flow of heat was conducted, three sips to his opponent's one, six to
two, nine to three.

What cerebration accompanied his frequentative act?

Concluding by inspection but erroneously that his silent companion was
engaged in mental composition he reflected on the pleasures derived from
literature of instruction rather than of amusement as he himself had ap-
plied to the works of William Shakespeare more than once for the solution
of difficult problems in imaginary or real life.

Had he found their solution?

In spite of careful and repeated reading of certain classical passages, aided
by a glossary, he had derived imperfect conviction from the text, the answers
not bearing in all points.

What lines concluded his first piece of original verse written by him, po-
tential poet, at the age of 11 in 1877 on the occasion of the offering of
three prizes of 10/-, 5/-- and 2/6 respectively for competition by the
Shamrock, a weekly newspaper?

　　　　　　　　　　　An ambition to squint
　　　　　　　　　　　At my verses in print
　　　　　　　　　　　Makes me hope that for these you'll find room.
　　　　　　　　　　　If you so condescend
　　　　　　　　　　　Then please place at the end
　　　　　　　　　　　The name of yours truly, L. Bloom.

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

Name, age, race, creed.

What anagrams had he made on his name in youth?

Leopold Bloom
Ellpodbomool
Molldopeloob
Bollopedoom
Old Ollebo, M. P.

What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic poet)
sent to Miss Marion (Molly) Tweedy on the 14 February 1888?


　　　　　　　　　　　Poets oft have sung in rhyme
　　　　　　　　　　　Of music sweet their praise Divine.
　　　　　　　　　　　Let them Hymn it nine times nine.
　　　　　　　　　　　Dearer far than song or wine.
　　　　　　　　　　　You are mine. The world is mine.

What had prevented him from completing a topical song (music by R. G. John-
ston) on the events of the past, or fixtures for the actual, years, entitled
If Brian Boru could but come back and see old Dublin now, commissioned by
Michael Gunn, lessee of the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street,
and to be introduced into the sixth scene, the valley of diamonds, of the
second edition (30 January 1893) of the grand annual Christmas pantomime Si-
nbad the Sailor (produced by R Shelton 26 December 1892, written by Greenleaf
Whittier, scenery by George A. Jackson and Cecil Hicks, costumes by Mrs and
Miss Whelan under the personal supervision of Mrs Michael Gunn, ballets by
Jessie Noir, harlequinade by Thomas Otto) and sung by Nelly Bouverist, prin-
cipal girl?

Firstly, oscillation between events of imperial and of local interest, the
anticipated diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria (born 1820, acceded 1837) and
the posticipated opening of the new municipal fish market: secondly, appre-
hension of opposition from extreme circles on the questions of the respect-
ive visits of Their Royal Highnesses the duke and duchess of York (real)
and of His Majesty King Brian Boru (imaginary): thirdly, a conflict between
professional etiquette and professional emulation concerning the recent e-
rections of the Grand Lyric Hall on Burgh Quay and the Theatre Royal in
Hawkins street: fourthly, distraction resultant from compassion for Nelly
Bouverist's non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical expression of
countenance and concupiscence caused by Nelly Bouverist's revelations of
white articles of non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical underclo-
thing while she (Nelly Bouverist) was in the articles: fifthly, the diffi-
culties of the selection of appropriate music and humorous allusions from
Everybody's book of jokes (1000 pages and a laugh in every one): sixthly,
the rhymes, homophonous and cacophonous, associated with the names of the
new lord mayor, Daniel Tallon, the new high sheriff, Thomas Pile and the
new solicitorgeneral, Dunbar Plunket Barton.

What relation existed between their ages?

16 years before in 1888 when Bloom was of Stephen's present age Stephen
was 6. 16 years after in 1920 when Stephen would be of Bloom's present age
Bloom would be 54. In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages
initially in the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17 1/2 to 13 1/2, the proportion
increasing and the disparity diminishing according as arbitrary future years
were added, for if the proportion existing in 1883 had continued immutable,
conceiving that to be possible, till then 1904 when Stephen was 22 Bloom
would be 374 and in 1920 when Stephen would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom
would be 646 while in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum post-
diluvian age of 70 Bloom, being 1190 years alive having been born in the year
714, would have surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age, that of
Methusalah, 969 years, while, if Stephen would continue to live until he
would attain that age in the year 3072 A.D., Bloom would have been obliged
to have been alive 83,300 years, having been obliged to have been born in
the year 81,396 B.C.

What events might nullify these calculations?

The cessation of existence of both or either, the inauguration of a new era
or calendar, the annihilation of the world and consequent extermination of
the human species, inevitable but impredictable.

How many previous encounters proved their preexisting acquaintance?

Two. The first in the lilacgarden of Matthew Dillon's house, Medina Villa,
Kimmage road, Roundtown, in 1887, in the company of Stephen's mother,
Stephen being then of the age of 5 and reluctant to give his hand in
salutation. The second in the coffeeroom of Breslin's hotel on a rainy
Sunday in the January of 1892, in the company of Stephen's father and
Stephen's granduncle, Stephen being then 5 years older.

Did Bloom accept the invitation to dinner given then by the son and after-
wards seconded by the father?

Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gra-
titude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

Did their conversation on the subject of these reminiscences reveal a third
connecting link between them?

Mrs Riordan (Dante), a widow of independent means, had resided in the house
of Stephen's parents from 1 September 1888 to 29 December 1891 and had also
resided during the years 1892, 1893 and 1894 in the City Arms Hotel owned by
Elizabeth O'Dowd of 54 Prussia street where, during parts of the years 1893
and 1894, she had been a constant informant of Bloom who resided also in the
same hotel, being at that time a clerk in the employment of Joseph Cuffe of
5 Smithfield for the superintendence of sales in the adjacent Dublin Cattle
market on the North Circular road.

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

He had sometimes propelled her on warm summer evenings, an infirm
widow of independent, if limited, means, in her convalescent bathchair with
slow revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the North Circular
road opposite Mr Gavin Low's place of business where she had remained
for a certain time scanning through his onelensed binocular fieldglasses
unrecognisable citizens on tramcars, roadster bicycles equipped with
inflated pneumatic tyres, hackney carriages, tandems, private and hired
landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and brakes passing from the city to the
Phoenix Park and vice versa.

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

Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of
bossed glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual
changes of the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes,
vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round and round the
rim of a round and round precipitous globe.

What distinct different memories had each of her now eight years deceased?

The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her suppo-
sitious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal
deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the
Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles
Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers.

Were there no means still remaining to him to achieve the rejuvenation
which these reminiscences divulged to a younger companion rendered the
more desirable?

The indoor exercises, formerly intermittently practised, subsequently aban-
doned, prescribed in Eugen Sandow's Physical Strength and How to Obtain It
which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occu-
pations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so
as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce success-
ively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant
repristination of juvenile agility.

Had any special agility been his in earlier youth?

Though ringweight lifting had been beyond his strength and the full circle
gyration beyond his courage yet as a High school scholar he had excelled
inhis stable and protracted execution of the half lever movement on the
parallel bars in consequence of his abnormally developed abdominal musc-
les.

Did either openly allude to their racial difference?

Neither.

What, reduced to their simplest reciprocal form, were Bloom's thoughts
about Stephen's thoughts about Bloom and about Stephen's thoughts about
Bloom's thoughts about Stephen?

He thought that he thought that he was a jew whereas he knew that he knew
that he knew that he was not.

What, the enclosures of reticence removed, were their respective parentag-
es?

Bloom, only born male transubstantial heir of Rudolf Virag (subsequently
Rudolph Bloom) of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London and Dublin
and of Ellen Higgins, second daughter of Julius Higgins (born Karoly) and
Fanny Higgins (born Hegarty). Stephen, eldest surviving male consubstan-
tial heir of Simon Dedalus of Cork and Dublin and of Mary, daughter of
Richard and Christina Goulding (born Grier).

Had Bloom and Stephen been baptised, and where and by whom, cleric or
layman?

Bloom (three times), by the reverend Mr Gilmer Johnston M. A., alone,
in the protestant church of Saint Nicholas Without, Coombe, by James
O'Connor, Philip Gilligan and James Fitzpatrick, together, under a pump
in the village of Swords, and by the reverend Charles Malone C. C., in
the church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. Stephen (once) by the reverend
Charles Malone C. C., alone, in the church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar.

Did they find their educational careers similar?

Substituting Stephen for Bloom Stoom would have passed successively
through a dame's school and the high school. Substituting Bloom for
Stephen Blephen would have passed successively through the preparatory,
junior, middle and senior grades of the intermediate and through the
matriculation, first arts, second arts and arts degree courses of the
royal university.

Why did Bloom refrain from stating that he had frequented the university
of life?

Because of his fluctuating incertitude as to whether this observation had
or had not been already made by him to Stephen or by Stephen to him.

What two temperaments did they individually represent?

The scientific. The artistic.

What proofs did Bloom adduce to prove that his tendency was towards
applied, rather than towards pure, science?

Certain possible inventions of which he had cogitated when reclining in a
state of supine repletion to aid digestion, stimulated by his appreciati-
on of the importance of inventions now common but once revolutionary, for
example, the aeronautic parachute, the reflecting telescope, the spiral
corkscrew, the safety pin, the mineral water siphon, the canal lock with
winch and sluice, the suction pump.

Were these inventions principally intended for an improved scheme of kinder-
garten?

Yes, rendering obsolete popguns, elastic airbladders, games of hazard,
catapults. They comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the twelve
constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature mechanical
orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to correspond with
zoological biscuits, globemap playing balls, historically costumed dolls.

What also stimulated him in his cogitations?

The financial success achieved by Ephraim Marks and Charles A. James, the
former by his 1d bazaar at 42 George's street, south, the latter at his
6-1/2d shop and world's fancy fair and waxwork exhibition at 30 Henry
street, admission 2d, children 1d: and the infinite possibilities hitherto
unexploited of the modern art of advertisement if condensed in triliteral
monoideal symbols, vertically of maximum visibility (divined), horizontally
of maximum legibility (deciphered) and of magnetising efficacy to arrest
involuntary attention, to interest, to convince, to decide.

Such as?

K. II. Kino's 11/-- Trousers. House of Keys. Alexander J. Keyes.

Such as not?

Look at this long candle. Calculate when it burns out and you receive gratis
1 pair of our special non-compo boots, guaranteed 1 candle power.
Address: Barclay and Cook, 18 Talbot street.
Bacilikil (Insect Powder).
Veribest (Boot Blacking).
Uwantit (Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and pipe-
cleaner).

Such as never?

What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat?

Incomplete.

With it an abode of bliss.

Manufactured by George Plumtree, 23 Merchants' quay, Dublin, put up in
4 oz pots, and inserted by Councillor Joseph P. Nannetti, M. P., Rotunda
Ward, 19 Hardwicke street, under the obituary notices and anniversaries
of deceases. The name on the label is Plumtree. A plumtree in a meatpot,
registered trade mark. Beware of imitations. Peatmot. Trumplee. Moutpat.
Plamtroo.

Which example did he adduce to induce Stephen to deduce that originality,
though producing its own reward, does not invariably conduce to success?

His own ideated and rejected project of an illuminated showcart, drawn by
a beast of burden, in which two smartly dressed girls were to be seated
engaged in writing.

What suggested scene was then constructed by Stephen?

Solitary hotel in mountain pass. Autumn. Twilight. Fire lit. In dark cor-
ner young man seated. Young woman enters. Restless. Solitary. She sits. She
goes to window. She stands. She sits. Twilight. She thinks. On solitary hotel
paper she writes. She thinks. She writes. She sighs. Wheels and hoofs. She
hurries out. He comes from his dark corner. He seizes solitary paper. He
holds it towards fire. Twilight. He reads. Solitary.

What?

In sloping, upright and backhands: Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel.
Queen's Ho . . .

What suggested scene was then reconstructed by Bloom?

The Queen's Hotel, Ennis, county Clare, where Rudolph Bloom (Rudolf
Virag) died on the evening of the 27 June 1886, at some hour unstated, in
consequence of an overdose of monkshood (aconite) selfadministered in the
form of a neuralgic liniment composed of 2 parts of aconite liniment to 1 of
chloroform liniment (purchased by him at 10.20 a.m. on the morning of 27
June 1886 at the medical hall of Francis Dennehy, 17 Church street, Ennis)
after having, though not in consequence of having, purchased at 3.15 p.m.
on the afternoon of 27 June 1886 a new boater straw hat, extra smart (after
having, though not in consequence of having, purchased at the hour and in
the place aforesaid, the toxin aforesaid), at the general drapery store of
James Cullen, 4 Main street, Ennis.

Did he attribute this homonymity to information or coincidence or intuiti-
on?

Coincidence.

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

He preferred himself to see another's face and listen to another's words by
which potential narration was realised and kinetic temperament relieved.

Did he see only a second coincidence in the second scene narrated to him,
described by the narrator as A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The Parable of
the Plums?

It, with the preceding scene and with others unnarrated but existent by
implication, to which add essays on various subjects or moral apothegms
(e.g. My Favourite Hero or Procrastination is the Thief of Time) composed
during schoolyears, seemed to him to contain in itself and in conjunction
with the personal equation certain possibilities of financial, social, per-
sonal and sexual success, whether specially collected and selected as model
pedagogic themes (of cent per cent merit) for the use of preparatory and
junior grade students or contributed in printed form, following the pre-
cedent of Philip Beaufoy or Doctor Dick or Heblon's Studies in blue, toa
publication of certified circulation and solvency or employed verbally as
intellectual stimulation for sympathetic auditors, tacitly appreciative of
successful narrative and confidently augurative of successful achievement,
during the increasingly longer nights gradually following the summer
solstice on the day but three following, videlicet, Tuesday, 21 June (S.
Aloysius Gonzaga), sunrise 3.33 a.m., sunset 8.29 p.m.

Which domestic problem as much as, if not more than, any other frequently
engaged his mind?

What to do with our wives.

What had been his hypothetical singular solutions?

Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spilikins, cup and ball, nap,
spoil five, bezique, twentyfive, beggar my neighbour, draughts, chess or
backgammon): embroidery, darning or knitting for the policeaided clothing
society: musical duets, mandoline and guitar, piano and flute, guitar and
piano: legal scrivenery or envelope addressing: biweekly visits to variety
entertainments: commercial activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasing-
ly obeyed mistress proprietress in a cool dairy shop or warm cigar divan:
the clandestine satisfaction of erotic irritation in masculine brothels,
state inspected and medically controlled: social visits, at regular infre-
quent prevented intervals and with regular frequent preventive superinten-
dence, to and from female acquaintances of recognised respectability in the
vicinity: courses of evening instruction specially designed to render liber-
al instruction agreeable.

What instances of deficient mental development in his wife inclined him in
favour of the lastmentioned (ninth) solution?

In disoccupied moments she had more than once covered a sheet of paper with
signs and hieroglyphics which she stated were Greek and Irish and Hebrew
characters. She had interrogated constantly at varying intervals as to the
correct method of writing the capital initial of the name of a city in Ca-
nada, Quebec. She understood little of political complications, internal,
or balance of power, external. In calculating the addenda of bills she fre-
quently had recourse to digital aid. After completion of laconic epistolary
compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic
pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and
nutgall. Unusual polysyllables of foreign origin she interpreted phonetic-
ally or by false analogy or by both: metempsychosis (met him pike hoses),
alias (a mendacious person mentioned in sacred scripture).

What compensated in the false balance of her intelligence for these and such
deficiencies of judgment regarding persons, places and things?

The false apparent parallelism of all perpendicular arms of all balances,
proved true by construction. The counterbalance of her proficiency of
judgment regarding one person, proved true by experiment.

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

Variously. By leaving in a conspicuous place a certain book open at a
certain page: by assuming in her, when alluding explanatorily, latent
knowledge: by open ridicule in her presence of some absent other's
ignorant lapse.

With what success had he attempted direct instruction?

She followed not all, a part of the whole, gave attention with interest
comprehended with surprise, with care repeated, with greater difficulty
remembered, forgot with ease, with misgiving reremembered, rerepeated
with error.

What system had proved more effective?

Indirect suggestion implicating selfinterest.

Example?

She disliked umbrella with rain, he liked woman with umbrella, she disliked
new hat with rain, he liked woman with new hat, he bought new hat with rain,
she carried umbrella with new hat.

Accepting the analogy implied in his guest's parable which examples of
postexilic eminence did he adduce?

Three seekers of the pure truth, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, author
of More nebukim (Guide of the Perplexed) and Moses Mendelssohn of such em-
inence that from Moses (of Egypt) to Moses (Mendelssohn) there arose none
like Moses (Maimonides).

What statement was made, under correction, by Bloom concerning a fourth
seeker of pure truth, by name Aristotle, mentioned, with permission, by
Stephen?

That the seeker mentioned had been a pupil of a rabbinical philosopher,
name uncertain.

Were other anapocryphal illustrious sons of the law and children of a
selected or rejected race mentioned?

Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (composer), Baruch Spinoza (philosopher),
Mendoza (pugilist), Ferdinand Lassalle (reformer, duellist).

What fragments of verse from the ancient Hebrew and ancient Irish lan-
guages were cited with modulations of voice and translation of texts by
guest to host and by host to guest?

By Stephen: Suil, suil, suil arun, suil go siocair agus suil go cuin (walk,
walk, walk your way, walk in safety, walk with care).

By Bloom: Kifeloch, harimon rakatejch m'baad l'zamatejch (thy temple amid
thy hair is as a slice of pomegranate).

How was a glyphic comparison of the phonic symbols of both languages made
in substantiation of the oral comparison?

By juxtaposition. On the penultimate blank page of a book of inferior
literary style, entituled Sweets of Sin (produced by Bloom and so mani-
pulated that its front cover carne in contact with the surface of the
table) with a pencil (supplied by Stephen) Stephen wrote the Irish
characters for gee, eh, dee, em, simple and modified, and Bloom in turn
wrote the Hebrew characters ghimel, aleph, daleth and (in the absence of
mem) a substituted qoph, explaining their arithmetical values as ordinal
and cardinal numbers, videlicet 3, 1, 4, and 100.

Was the knowledge possessed by both of each of these languages, the extinct
and the revived, theoretical or practical?

Theoretical, being confined to certain grammatical rules of accidence and
syntax and practically excluding vocabulary.

What points of contact existed between these languages and between the pe-
oples who spoke them?

The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and ser-
vile letters in both languages: their antiquity, both having been taught on
the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by
Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, progenitor of Israel, and ascendant of
Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their archaeological, genealogi-
cal, hagiographical, exegetical, homiletic, toponomastic, historical and
religious literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah,
Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara), Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow,
Book of Ballymote, Garland of Howth, Book of Kells: their dispersal, per-
secution, survival and revival: the isolation of their synagogical and
ecclesiastical rites in ghetto (S. Mary's Abbey) and masshouse (Adam and
Eve's tavern): the proscription of their national costumes in penal laws
and jewish dress acts: the restoration in Chanah David of Zion and the
possibility of Irish political autonomy or devolution.

What anthem did Bloom chant partially in anticipation of that multiple,
ethnically irreducible consummation?

　　　　　　　　　　　Kolod Balejwaw Pnimah
　　　　　　　　　　　Nefesch, Jehudi, Homijah.

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

In consequence of defective mnemotechnic.

How did the chanter compensate for this deficiency?

By a periphrastic version of the general text.

In what common study did their mutual reflections merge?

The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic
hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of
modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions
(Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).

Did the guest comply with his host's request?

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

What was Stephen's auditive sensation?

He heard in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation
of the past.

What was Bloom's visual sensation?

He saw in a quick young male familiar form the predestination of a future.

What were Stephen's and Bloom's quasisimultaneous volitional quasisensations
of concealed identities?

Visually, Stephen's: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted by
Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as leuc-
odermic, sesquipedalian with winedark hair.

Auditively, Bloom's: The traditional accent of the ecstasy of catastrophe.

What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the past and with
what exemplars?

In the church, Roman, Anglican or Nonconformist: exemplars, the very
reverend John Conmee S. J., the reverend T. Salmon, D. D., provost of
Trinity college, Dr Alexander J. Dowie. At the bar, English or Irish:
exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K. C., Rufus Isaacs, K. C. On the stage
modern or Shakespearean: exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high comedian
Osmond Tearle (died 1901), exponent of Shakespeare.

Did the host encourage his guest to chant in a modulated voice a strange
legend on an allied theme?

Reassuringly, their place, where none could hear them talk, being secluded,
reassured, the decocted beverages, allowing for subsolid residual sediment
of a mechanical mixture, water plus sugar plus cream plus cocoa, having
been consumed.

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

　　　　　Little Harry Hughes and his schoolfellows all
　　　　　Went out for to play ball
　　　　　And the very first ball little Harry Hughes played
　　　　　He drove it o'er the Jew's garden wall.
　　　　　And the very second ball little Harry Hughes played
　　　　　He broke the Jew's windows all.




How did the son of Rudolph receive this first part?

With unmixed feeling. Smiling, a jew he heard with pleasure and saw the
unbroken kitchen window.

Recite the second part (minor) of the legend.

　　　　　Then out there came the Jew's daughter
　　　　　And she all dressed in green.
　　　　　“Come back, come back, you pretty little boy,
　　　　　And play your ball again.”

　　　　　“I can't come back and I won't come back
　　　　　Without my schoolfellows all.
　　　　　For if my master he did hear
　　　　　He'd make it a sorry ball.”

　　　　　She took him by the lilywhite hand
　　　　　And led him along the hall
　　　　　Until she led him to a room
　　　　　Where none could hear him call.

　　　　　She took a penknife out of her pocket
　　　　　And cut off his little head.
　　　　　And now he'll play his ball no more
　　　　　For he lies among the dead.




How did the father of Millicent receive this second part?

With mixed feelings. Unsmiling, he heard and saw with wonder a jew's
daughter, all dressed in green.

Condense Stephen's commentary.

One of all, the least of all, is the victim predestined. Once by inadvertence
twice by design he challenges his destiny. It comes when he is abandoned
and challenges him reluctant and, as an apparition of hope and youth, holds
him unresisting. It leads him to a strange habitation, to a secret infidel
apartment, and there, implacable, immolates him, consenting.

Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?

He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should
by him not be told.

Why was the host (reluctant, unresisting) still?

In accordance with the law of the conservation of energy.

Why was the host (secret infidel) silent?

He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the inci-
tations of the hierarchy, the superstition of the populace, the propagation
of rumour in continued fraction of veridicity, the envy of opulence, the in-
fluence of retaliation, the sporadic reappearance of atavistic delinquency,
the mitigating circumstances of fanaticism, hypnotic suggestion and somnambu-
lism.

From which (if any) of these mental or physical disorders was he not totally
immune?

From hypnotic suggestion: once, waking, he had not recognised his sleeping
apartment: more than once, waking, he had been for an indefinite time inca-
pable of moving or uttering sounds. From somnambulism: once, sleeping, his
body had risen, crouched and crawled in the direction of a heatless fire
and, having attained its destination, there, curled, unheated, in night at-
tire had lain, sleeping.

Had this latter or any cognate phenomenon declared itself in any member of
his family?

Twice, in Holles street and in Ontario terrace, his daughter Millicent
(Milly) at the ages of 6 and 8 years had uttered in sleep an exclamation of
terror and had replied to the interrogations of two figures in night attire
with a vacant mute expression.

What other infantile memories had he of her?

15 June 1889. A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause and lessen
congestion. A child renamed Padney Socks she shook with shocks her moneybox:
counted his three free moneypenny buttons, one, tloo, tlee: a doll, a boy, a
sailor she cast away: blond, born of two dark, she had blond ancestry, remote,
a violation, Herr Hauptmann Hainau, Austrian army, proximate, a hallucination,
lieutenant Mulvey, British navy.

What endemic characteristics were present?

Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a direct line of
lineage which, though interrupted, would continue at distant intervals to
more distant intervals to its most distant intervals.

What memories had he of her adolescence?

She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a recess. On the duke's lawn,
entreated by an English visitor, she declined to permit him to make and
take away her photographic image (objection not stated). On the South Cir-
cular road in the company of Elsa Potter, followed by an individual of sin-
ister aspect, she went half way down Stamer street and turned abruptly back
(reason of change not stated). On the vigil of the 15th anniversary of her
birth she wrote a letter from Mullingar, county Westmeath, making a brief
allusion to a local student (faculty and year not stated).

Did that first division, portending a second division, afflict him?

Less than he had imagined, more than he had hoped.

What second departure was contemporaneously perceived by him similarly, if
differently?

A temporary departure of his cat.

Why similarly, why differently?

Similarly, because actuated by a secret purpose the quest of a new male
(Mullingar student) or of a healing herb (valerian). Differently, because of
different possible returns to the inhabitants or to the habitation.

In other respects were their differences similar?

In passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness.

As?

Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him to ribbon it for
her (cf neckarching cat). Moreover, on the free surface of the lake in
Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit,
describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy of
its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf mousewatching
cat).Again, in order to remember the date, combatants, issue and conse-
quences of a famous military engagement she pulled a plait of her hair
(cf earwashing cat). Furthermore, silly Milly, she dreamed of having had
an unspoken unremembered conversation with a horse whose name had been
Joseph to whom (which) she had offered a tumblerful of lemonade which it
(he) had appeared to have accepted (cf hearthdreaming cat). Hence, in
passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness,
their differences were similar.

In what way had he utilised gifts 1) an owl, 2) a clock, given as matrimon-
ial auguries, to interest and to instruct her?

As object lessons to explain: 1) the nature and habits of oviparous animals,
the possibility of aerial flight, certain abnormalities of vision, the secu-
lar process of imbalsamation: 2) the principle of the pendulum, exemplified
in bob, wheelgear and regulator, the translation in terms of human or social
regulation of the various positions of clockwise moveable indicators on an
unmoving dial, the exactitude of the recurrence per hour of an instant in
each hour when the longer and the shorter indicator were at the same angle
of inclination, Videlicet, 5 5/11 minutes past each hour per hour in arith-
metical progression.

In what manners did she reciprocate?

She remembered: on the 27th anniversary of his birth she presented to
him a breakfast moustachecup of imitation Crown Derby porcelain ware.
She provided: at quarter day or thereabouts if or when purchases had been
made by him not for her she showed herself attentive to his necessities,
anticipating his desires. She admired: a natural phenomenon having been
explained by him to her she expressed the immediate desire to possess
without gradual acquisition a fraction of his science, the moiety, the
quarter, a thousandth part.

What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make
to Stephen, noctambulist?

To pass in repose the hours intervening between Thursday (proper) and Fri-
day (normal) on an extemporised cubicle in the apartment immediately above
the kitchen and immediately adjacent to the sleeping apartment of his host
and hostess.

What various advantages would or might have resulted from a prolongation of
such an extemporisation?

For the guest: security of domicile and seclusion of study. For the host:
rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction. For the hostess:
disintegration of obsession, acquisition of correct Italian pronunciation.

Why might these several provisional contingencies between a guest and a
hostess not necessarily preclude or be precluded by a permanent eventuality
of reconciliatory union between a schoolfellow and a jew's daughter?

Because the way to daughter led through mother, the way to mother through
daughter.

To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of his host did the guest re-
turn a monosyllabic negative answer?

If he had known the late Mrs Emily Sinico, accidentally killed at Sydney
Parade railway station, 14 October 1903.

What inchoate corollary statement was consequently suppressed by the
host?

A statement explanatory of his absence on the occasion of the interment
of Mrs Mary Dedalus (born Goulding), 26 June 1903, vigil of the anniversary
of the decease of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag).

Was the proposal of asylum accepted?

Promptly, inexplicably, with amicability, gratefully it was declined.

What exchange of money took place between host and guest?

The former returned to the latter, without interest, a sum of money (1-7-0),
one pound seven shillings sterling, advanced by the latter to the former.

What counterproposals were alternately advanced, accepted, modified, de-
clined, restated in other terms, reaccepted, ratified, reconfirmed?

To inaugurate a prearranged course of Italian instruction, place the resi-
dence of the instructed. To inaugurate a course of vocal instruction, place
the residence of the instructress. To inaugurate a series of static semista-
tic and peripatetic intellectual dialogues, places the residence of both
speakers (if both speakers were resident in the same place), the Ship hotel
and tavern, 6 Lower Abbey street (W. and E. Connery, proprietors), the Na-
tional Library of Ireland, 10 Kildare street, the National Maternity Hospi-
tal, 29, 30 and 31 Holles street, a public garden, the vicinity of a place
of worship, a conjunction of two or more public thoroughfares, the point of
bisection of a right line drawn between their residences (if both speakers
were resident in different places).

What rendered problematic for Bloom the realisation of these mutually self-
excluding propositions?

The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert Hengler's
circus in the Rotunda, Rutland square, Dublin, an intuitive particoloured
clown in quest of paternity had penetrated from the ring to a place in the
auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was seated and had publicly declared to
an exhilarated audience that he (Bloom) was his (the clown's) papa. The
imprevidibility of the future: once in the summer of 1898 he (Bloom) had
marked a florin (2/-) with three notches on the milled edge and tendered
it in payment of an account due to and received by J. and T. Davy, family
grocers, 1 Charlemont Mall, Grand Canal, for circulation on the waters of
civic finance, for possible, circuitous or direct, return.

Was the clown Bloom's son?

No.

Had Bloom's coin returned?

Never.

Why would a recurrent frustration the more depress him?

Because at the critical turningpoint of human existence he desired to amend
many social conditions, the product of inequality and avarice and internati-
onal animosity.

He believed then that human life was infinitely perfectible, eliminating
these conditions?

There remained the generic conditions imposed by natural, as distinct from
human law, as integral parts of the human whole: the necessity of destruct-
ion to procure alimentary sustenance: the painful character of the ultimate
functions of separate existence, the agonies of birth and death: the mono-
tonous menstruation of simian and (particularly) human females extending
from the age of puberty to the menopause: inevitable accidents at sea, in
mines and factories: certain very painful maladies and their resultant
surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital criminality, decimating
epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make terror the basis of human
mentality: seismic upheavals the epicentres of which are located in densely
populated regions: the fact of vital growth, through convulsions of metamo-
rphosis, from infancy through maturity to decay.

Why did he desist from speculation?

Because it was a task for a superior intelligence to substitute other more
acceptable phenomena in the place of the less acceptable phenomena to be
removed.

Did Stephen participate in his dejection?

He affirmed his significance as a conscious rational animal proceeding
syllogistically from the known to the unknown and a conscious rational
reagent between a micro and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the
incertitude of the void.

Was this affirmation apprehended by Bloom?

Not verbally. Substantially.

What comforted his misapprehension?

That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from
the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void.

In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus
from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation effected?

　　　　　　　　　　　　　Lighted Candle in Stick
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　borne by
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 BLOOM
　　　　　　　　　　　　Diaconal Hat on Ashplant
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　borne by
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　STEPHEN:

With what intonation secreto of what commemorative psalm?

The 113th, modus peregrinus: In exitu Israel de Egypto: domus Jacob de
populo barbaro.

What did each do at the door of egress?

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

For what creature was the door of egress a door of ingress?

For a cat.

What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest,
emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere
of the house into the penumbra of the garden?

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

With what meditations did Bloom accompany his demonstration to his compan-
ion of various constellations?

Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in
incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous
scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an obser-
ver placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep
sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha
in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in
volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the pre-
cession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and ne-
bula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund
and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging
towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic
drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from
immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison
with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life for-
med a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

Were there obverse meditations of involution increasingly less vast?

Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of the
earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed in
cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of
microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable tril-
lions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by co-
hesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human
serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves universes of void
space constellated with other bodies, each, in continuity, its universe of
divisible component bodies of which each was again divisible in divisions
of redivisible component bodies, dividends and divisors ever diminishing
without actual division till, if the progress were carried far enough,
nought nowhere was never reached.

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

Because some years previously in 1886 when occupied with the problem of the
quadrature of the circle he had learned of.the existence of a number com-
puted to a relative degree of accuracy to be of such magnitude and of so
many places, e.g., the 9th power of the 9th power of 9, that, the result
having been obtained, 33 closely printed volumes of 1000 pages each of in-
numerable quires and reams of India paper would have to be requisitioned in
order to contain the complete tale of its printed integers of units, tens,
hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions,
tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, the nucleus of the nebula
of every digit of every series containing succinctly the potentiality of be-
ing raised to the utmost kinetic elaboration of any power of any of its powers.

Did he find the problems of the inhabitability of the planets and their sat-
ellites by a race, given in species, and of the possible social and moral
redemption of said race by a redeemer, easier of solution?

Of a different order of difficulty. Conscious that the human organism,
normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when
elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered
with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demar-
cation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal
hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem
for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not
be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically
constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercur-
ial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equi-
valent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying
forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one
another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably
attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vani-
ty.

And the problem of possible redemption?

The minor was proved by the major.

Which various features of the constellations were in turn considered?

The various colours significant of various degrees of vitality (white, yel-
low,crimson, vermilion, cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy: their magni-
tudes revealed up to and including the 7th: their positions: the waggoner's
star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David: the annular cinctures of Saturn:
the condensation of spiral nebulae into suns: the interdependent gyrations
of double suns: the independent synchronous discoveries of Galileo, Simon
Marius, Piazzi, Le Verrier, Herschel, Galle: the systematisations attempted
by Bode and Kepler of cubes of distances and squares of times of revolution:
the almost infinite compressibility of hirsute comets and their vast ellip-
tical egressive and reentrant orbits from perihelion to aphelion: the
sidereal origin of meteoric stones: the Libyan floods on Mars about the
period of the birth of the younger astroscopist: the annual recurrence of
meteoric showers about the period of the feast of S. Lawrence (martyr, 10
August): the monthly recurrence known as the new moon with the old moon in
her arms: the posited influence of celestial on human bodies: the appearance
of a star (1st magnitude) of exceeding brilliancy dominating by night and
day (a new luminous sun generated by the collision and amalgamation in incan-
descence of two nonluminous exsuns) about the period of the birth of William
Shakespeare over delta in the recumbent neversetting constellation of Cassi-
opeia and of a star (2nd magnitude) of similar origin but of lesser brilli-
ancy which had appeared in and disappeared from the constellation of the
Corona Septentrionalis about the period of the birth of Leopold Bloom and
of other stars of (presumably) similar origin which had (effectively or pre-
sumably) appeared in and disappeared from the constellation of Andromeda a-
bout the period of the birth of Stephen Dedalus, and in and from the cons-
tellation of Auriga some years after the birth and death of Rudolph Bloom,
junior, and in and from other constellations some years before or after the
birth or death of other persons: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar
and lunar, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow,
taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular animals,
persistence of infernal light, obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of hu-
man beings.

His (Bloom's) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and allowing for
possible error?

That it was not a heaventree, not a heavengrot, not a heavenbeast, not a
heavenman. That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known
to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the suppositious
apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magni-
tudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air:
a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its probable
spectators had entered actual present existence.

Was he more convinced of the esthetic value of the spectacle?

Indubitably in consequence of the reiterated examples of poets in the del-
irium of the frenzy of attachment or in the abasement of rejection invoking
ardent sympathetic constellations or the frigidity of the satellite of their
planet.

Did he then accept as an article of belief the theory of astrological influ-
ences upon sublunary disasters?

It seemed to him as possible of proof as of confutation and the nomenclature
employed in its selenographical charts as attributable to verifiable intui-
tion as to fallacious analogy: the lake of dreams, the sea of rains, the gulf
of dews, the ocean of fecundity.

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

Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations:
her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflect-
ion: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed
times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her inde-
terminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent
and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty,
to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutabi-
lity of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable
resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation
of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters,
her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction,
when invisible.

What visible luminous sign attracted Bloom's, who attracted Stephen's,
gaze?

In the second storey (rere) of his (Bloom's) house the light of a paraffin
oil lamp with oblique shade projected on a screen of roller blind supplied
by Frank O'Hara, window blind, curtain pole and revolving shutter manufact-
urer, 16 Aungier street.

How did he elucidate the mystery of an invisible attractive person, his wife
Marion (Molly) Bloom, denoted by a visible splendid sign, a lamp?

With indirect and direct verbal allusions or affirmations: with subdued
affection and admiration: with description: with impediment: with suggest-
ion.

Both then were silent?

Silent, each contemplating the other in both mirrors of the reciprocal flesh
of theirhisnothis fellowfaces.

Were they indefinitely inactive?

At Stephen's suggestion, at Bloom's instigation both, first Stephen, then
Bloom, in penumbra urinated, their sides contiguous, their organs of mict-
urition reciprocally rendered invisible by manual circumposition, their
gazes, first Bloom's, then Stephen's, elevated to the projected luminous
and semiluminous shadow.

Similarly?

The trajectories of their, first sequent, then simultaneous, urinations were
dissimilar: Bloom's longer, less irruent, in the incomplete form of the
bifurcated penultimate alphabetical letter, who in his ultimate year at High
School (1880) had been capable of attaining the point of greatest altitude
against the whole concurrent strength of the institution, 210 scholars:
Stephen's higher, more sibilant, who in the ultimate hours of the previous
day had augmented by diuretic consumption an insistent vesical pressure.

What different problems presented themselves to each concerning the invisi-
ble audible collateral organ of the other?

To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence, rigidity, reactivity,
dimension, sanitariness, pilosity.

To Stephen: the problem of the sacerdotal integrity of Jesus circumcised (I
January, holiday of obligation to hear mass and abstain from unnecessary
servile work) and the problem as to whether the divine prepuce, the carnal
bridal ring of the holy Roman catholic apostolic church, conserved in Cal-
cata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of the fourth degree of latria
accorded to the abscission of such divine excrescences as hair and toe-
nails.

What celestial sign was by both simultaneously observed?

A star precipitated with great apparent velocity across the firmament from
Vega in the Lyre above the zenith beyond the stargroup of the Tress of Ber-
enice towards the zodiacal sign of Leo.

How did the centripetal remainer afford egress to the centrifugal departer?

By inserting the barrel of an arruginated male key in the hole of an unstable
female lock, obtaining a purchase on the bow of the key and turning its wards
from right to left, withdrawing a bolt from its staple, pulling inward spas-
modically an obsolescent unhinged door and revealing an aperture for free
egress and free ingress.

How did they take leave, one of the other, in separation?

Standing perpendicular at the same door and on different sides of its base,
the lines of their valedictory arms, meeting at any point and forming any
angle less than the sum of two right angles.

What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of their
(respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?

The sound of the peal of the hour of the night by the chime of the bells
in the church of Saint George.

What echoes of that sound were by both and each heard?

By Stephen:


　　　　　　　　　　Liliata Rutilantium. Turma Circumdet.
　　　　　　　　　　Iubilantium te Virginum. Chorus Excipiat.

By Bloom:

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Heigho, heigho,
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Heigho, heigho.

Where were the several members of the company which with Bloom that day at
the bidding of that peal had travelled from Sandymount in the south to Glas-
nevin in the north?

Martin Cunningham (in bed), Jack Power (in bed), Simon Dedalus (in bed),
Ned Lambert (in bed), Tom Kernan (in bed), Joe Hynes (in bed), John Henry
Menton (in bed), Bernard Corrigan (in bed), Patsy Dignam (in bed), Paddy
Dignam (in the grave).

Alone, what did Bloom hear?

The double reverberation of retreating feet on the heavenborn earth, the
double vibration of a jew's harp in the resonant lane.

Alone, what did Bloom feel?

The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or
the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Reaumur: the incipient inti-
mations of proximate dawn.

Of what did bellchime and handtouch and footstep and lonechill remind
him?

Of companions now in various manners in different places defunct: Percy
Apjohn (killed in action, Modder River), Philip Gilligan (phthisis, Jervis
Street hospital), Matthew F. Kane (accidental drowning, Dublin Bay), Philip
Moisel (pyemia, Heytesbury street), Michael Hart (phthisis, Mater Miseri-
cordiae hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy, Sandymount).

What prospect of what phenomena inclined him to remain?

The disparition of three final stars, the diffusion of daybreak, the appa-
rition of a new solar disk.

Had he ever been a spectator of those phenomena?

Once, in 1887, after a protracted performance of charades in the house of
Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited with patience the apparition of the
diurnal phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the direction of
Mizrach, the east.

He remembered the initial paraphenomena?

More active air, a matutinal distant cock, ecclesiastical clocks at various
points, avine music, the isolated tread of an early wayfarer, the visible
diffusion of the light of an invisible luminous body, the first golden limb
of the resurgent sun perceptible low on the horizon.

Did he remain?

With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, reentering the
passage, reclosing the door. With brief suspiration he reassumed the candle,
reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room, hallfloor,
and reentered.

What suddenly arrested his ingress?

The right temporal lobe of the hollow sphere of his cranium came into con-
tact with a solid timber angle where, an infinitesimal but sensible fraction
of a second later, a painful sensation was located in consequence of antecedent
sensations transmitted and registered.

Describe the alterations effected in the disposition of the articles of furni-
ture.

A sofa upholstered in prune plush had been translocated from opposite the
door to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack (an alteration
which he had frequently intended to execute): the blue and white checker
inlaid majolicatopped table had been placed opposite the door in the place
vacated by the prune plush sofa: the walnut sideboard (a projecting angle
of which had momentarily arrested his ingress) had been moved from its
position beside the door to a more advantageous but more perilous position
in front of the door: two chairs had been moved from right and left of the
ingleside to the position originally occupied by the blue and white checker
inlaid majolicatopped table.

Describe them.

One: a squat stuffed easychair, with stout arms extended and back slanted
to the rere, which, repelled in recoil, had then upturned an irregular fringe
of a rectangular rug and now displayed on its amply upholstered seat a centra-
lised diffusing and diminishing discolouration. The other: a slender splayfoot
chair of glossy cane curves, placed directly opposite the former, its frame
from top to seat and from seat to base being varnished dark brown, its seat
being a bright circle of white plaited rush.

What significances attached to these two chairs?

Significances of similitude, of posture, of symbolism, of circumstantial evi-
dence, of testimonial supermanence.

What occupied the position originally occupied by the sideboard?

A vertical piano (Cadby) with exposed keyboard, its closed coffin support-
ing a pair of long yellow ladies' gloves and an emerald ashtray containing
four consumed matches, a partly consumed cigarette and two discoloured ends
of cigarettes, its musicrest supporting the music in the key of G natural
for voice and piano of Love's Old Sweet Song (words by G. Clifton Bingham,
composed by J. L. Molloy, sung by Madam Antoinette Sterling) open at the
last page with the final indications ad libitum, forte, pedal, animato,
sustained pedal, ritirando, close.

With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?

With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right tem-
ple a contused tumescence: with attention, focussing his gaze on a large
dull passive and a slender bright active: with solicitation, bending and
downturning the upturned rugfringe: with amusement, remembering Dr Mala-
chi Mulligan's scheme of colour containing the gradation of green: with
pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and perceiving through
various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant
tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration.

His next proceeding?

From an open box on the majolicatopped table he extracted a black diminu-
tive cone, one inch in height, placed it on its circular base on a small
tin plate, placed his candlestick on the right corner of the mantelpiece,
produced from his waistcoat a folded page of prospectus (illustrated) en-
titled Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same, examined it superficially, rol-
led it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the candleflame, applied it when
ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter reached the stage of rutilance,
placed the cylinder in the basin of the candlestick disposing its unconsumed
part in such a manner as to facilitate total combustion.

What followed this operation?

The truncated conical crater summit of the diminutive volcano emitted a ver-
tical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense.

What homothetic objects, other than the candlestick, stood on the mantel-
piece?

A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of 4.46 a.m.
on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree of
glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of
Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of Alderman
John Hooper.

What interchanges of looks took place between these three objects and
Bloom?

In the mirror of the giltbordered pierglass the undecorated back of
the dwarf tree regarded the upright back of the embalmed owl. Before
the mirror the matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper with a clear
melancholy wise bright motionless compassionate gaze regarded Bloom
while Bloom with obscure tranquil profound motionless compassionated
gaze regarded the matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle.

What composite asymmetrical image in the mirror then attracted his atten-
tion?

The image of a solitary (ipsorelative) mutable (aliorelative) man.

Why solitary (ipsorelative)?

　　　　　　　　　　Brothers and sisters had he none.
　　　　　　　　　　Yet that man's father was his grandfather's son.

Why mutable (aliorelative)?

From infancy to maturity he had resembled his maternal procreatrix. From
maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal procreator.

What final visual impression was communicated to him by the mirror?

The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged and
not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles on the
two bookshelves opposite.

Catalogue these books.

Thom's Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886.
Denis Florence M'Carthy's Poetical Works (copper beechleaf bookmark at
　　p. 5).
Shakespeare's Works (dark crimson morocco, goldtooled).
The Useful Ready Reckoner (brown cloth).
The Secret History of the Court of Charles II (red cloth, tooled binding).
The Child's Guide (blue cloth).
The Beauties of Killarney (wrappers).
When We Were Boys by William O'Brien M. P. (green cloth, slightly faded,
　　envelope bookmark at p. 217).
Thoughts from Spinoza (maroon leather).
The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth).
Ellis's Three Trips to Madagascar (brown cloth, title obliterated).
The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of
　　Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve)
　　1904, due 4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing
　　white letternumber ticket).
Voyages in China by “Viator” (recovered with brown paper, red ink title).
Philosophy of the Talmud (sewn pamphlet).
Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal annotations,
　　minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).
Soll und Haben by Gustav Freytag (black boards, Gothic characters,
　　cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24).
Hozier's History of the Russo-Turkish War (brown cloth, a volumes, with
　　gummed label, Garrison Library, Governor's Parade, Gibraltar, on verso
　　of cover).
Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William Allingham (second edition,
　　green cloth, gilt trefoil design, previous owner's name on recto of flyleaf
　　erased).
A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates,
　　antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal
　　clues brevier, captions small pica).
The hidden Life of Christ (black boards).
In the Track of the Sun (yellow cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent title
　　intestation).
Physical Strength and How to Obtain it by Eugen Sandow (red cloth).
Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry written in French by F. Ignat.
　　Pardies and rendered into English by John Harris D. D. London, printed
　　for R. Knaplock at the Bifhop's Head, Mdccxi, with dedicatory epiftle
　　to his worthy friend Charles Cox, efquire, Member of Parliament for the
　　burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf
　　certifying that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher, dated
　　this 10th day of May 1822 and requefting the perfon who should find it,
　　if the book should be loft or go aftray, to reftore it to Michael Gallagher,
　　carpenter, Dufery Gate, Ennifcorthy, county Wicklow, the fineft place in
　　the world.

What reflections occupied his mind during the process of reversion of the
inverted volumes?

The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its place:
the deficient appreciation of literature possessed by females: the incongruity
of an apple incuneated in a tumbler and of an umbrella inclined in a close-
stool: the insecurity of hiding any secret document behind, beneath or
between the pages of a book.

Which volume was the largest in bulk?

Hozier's History of the Russo-Turkish War.

What among other data did the second volume of the work in question con-
tain?

The name of a decisive battle (forgotten), frequently remembered by a decisive
officer, major Brian Cooper Tweedy (remembered).

Why, firstly and secondly, did he not consult the work in question?

Firstly, in order to exercise mnemotechnic: secondly, because after an int-
erval of amnesia, when, seated at the central table, about to consult the
work in question, he remembered by mnemotechnic the name of the military
engagement, Plevna.

What caused him consolation in his sitting posture?

The candour, nudity, pose, tranquility, youth, grace, sex, counsel of a statue
erect in the centre of the table, an image of Narcissus purchased by auction
from P. A. Wren, 9 Bachelor's Walk.

What caused him irritation in his sitting posture?

Inhibitory pressure of collar (size 17) and waistcoat (5 buttons), two arti-
cles of clothing superfluous in the costume of mature males and inelastic
to alterations of mass by expansion.

How was the irritation allayed?

He removed his collar, with contained black necktie and collapsible stud,
from his neck to a position on the left of the table. He unbuttoned success-
ively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the
medial line of irregular incrispated black hairs extending in triangular
convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of the abdomen
and umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of nodes to the intersect-
ion of the sixth pectoral vertebrae, thence produced both ways at right
angles and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points,
right and left, on the summits of the mammary prominences. He unbraced
successively each of six minus one braced trouser buttons, arranged in
pairs, of which one incomplete.

What involuntary actions followed?

He compressed between 2 fingers the flesh circumjacent to a cicatrice in the
left infracostal region below the diaphragm resulting from a sting inflicted
2 weeks and 3 days previously (23 May 1904) by a bee. He scratched imprecis-
ely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and
surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. He inserted his left
hand into the left lower pocket of his waistcoat and extracted and replaced
a silver coin (I shilling), placed there (presumably) on the occasion (17
October 1903) of the interment of Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney Parade.

Compile the budget for 16 June 1904.




Did the process of divestiture continue?

Sensible of a benignant persistent ache in his footsoles he extended his
foot to one side and observed the creases, protuberances and salient points
caused by foot pressure in the course of walking repeatedly in several dif-
ferent directions, then, inclined, he disnoded the laceknots, unhooked and
loosened the laces, took off each of his two boots for the second time, de-
tached the partially moistened right sock through the fore part of which the
nail of his great toe had again effracted, raised his right foot and, having
unhooked a purple elastic sock suspender, took off his right sock, placed his
unclothed right foot on the margin of the seat of his chair, picked at and
gently lacerated the protruding part of the great toenail, raised the part
lacerated to his nostrils and inhaled the odour of the quick, then, with
satisfaction, threw away the lacerated ungual fragment.

Why with satisfaction?

Because the odour inhaled corresponded to other odours inhaled of other ungual
fragments, picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, pupil of Mrs Ellis's juven-
ile school, patiently each night in the act of brief genuflection and nocturnal
prayer and ambitious meditation.

In what ultimate ambition had all concurrent and consecutive ambitions now coa-
lesced?

Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English, or
possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres,
roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation 42 pounds), of grazing
turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor,
on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus
in urbe or Qui si sana, but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a
thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, sur-
mounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the earth, with
porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia creeper), halldoor, o-
live green, with smart carriage finish and neat doorbrasses, stucco front
with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising, if possible, upon a gentle
eminence with agreeable prospect from balcony with stone pillar parapet o-
ver unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures and standing in 5 or
6 acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public tho-
roughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through
a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not
less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time
limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e.g., Dundrum,
south, or Sutton, north, both localities equally reported by trial to resem-
ble the terrestrial poles in being favourable climates for phthisical sub-
jects), the premises to be held under feefarm grant, lease 999 years, the
messuage to consist of 1 drawingroom with baywindow (2 lancets), thermometer
affixed, 1 sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, 2 servants' rooms, tiled kitchen with
close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted with linen wallpresses, fumed
oak sectional bookcase containing the Encyclopaedia Britannica and New Cen-
tury Dictionary, transverse obsolete medieval and oriental weapons, dinner
gong, alabaster lamp, bowl pendant, vulcanite automatic telephone receiver
with adjacent directory, handtufted Axminster carpet with cream ground and
trellis border, loo table with pillar and claw legs, hearth with massive
firebrasses and ormolu mantel chronometer clock, guaranteed timekeeper with
cathedral chime, barometer with hygrographic chart, comfortable lounge set-
tees and corner fitments, upholstered in ruby plush with good springing and
sunk centre, three banner Japanese screen and cuspidors (club style, rich
winecoloured leather, gloss renewable with a minimum of labour by use of
linseed oil and vinegar) and pyramidically prismatic central chandelier
lustre, bentwood perch with fingertame parrot (expurgated language), em-
bossed mural paper at 10/-- per dozen with transverse swags of carmine flo-
ral design and top crown frieze, staircase, three continuous flights at
successive right angles, of varnished cleargrained oak, treads and risers,
newel, balusters and handrail, with steppedup panel dado, dressed with cam-
phorated wax: bathroom, hot and cold supply, reclining and shower: water
closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong window, tipup
seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod and brace, armrests, footstool and artis-
tic oleograph on inner face of door: ditto, plain: servants' apartments
with separate sanitary and hygienic necessaries for cook, general and be-
tweenmaid (salary, rising by biennial unearned increments of 2 pounds, with
comprehensive fidelity insurance, annual bonus (1 pound) and retiring allow-
ance (based on the 65 system) after 30 years' service), pantry, buttery,
larder, refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin
(still and sparkling vintages) for distinguished guests, if entertained
to dinner (evening dress), carbon monoxide gas supply through-
out.

What additional attractions might the grounds contain?

As addenda, a tennis and fives court, a shrubbery, a glass summerhouse
with tropical palms, equipped in the best botanical manner, a rockery with
waterspray, a beehive arranged on humane principles, oval flowerbeds in rec-
tangular grassplots set with eccentric ellipses of scarlet and chrome tulips,
blue scillas, crocuses, polyanthus, sweet William, sweet pea, lily of the
valley (bulbs obtainable from sir James W. Mackey (Limited) wholesale and
retail seed and bulb merchants and nurserymen, agents for chemical manures,
23 Sackville street, upper), an orchard, kitchen garden and vinery protect-
ed against illegal trespassers by glasstopped mural enclosures, a lumber-
shed with padlock for various inventoried implements.

As?

Eeltraps, lobsterpots, fishingrods, hatchet, steelyard, grindstone, clod-
crusher, swatheturner, carriagesack, telescope ladder, 10 tooth rake, wash-
ing clogs, haytedder, tumbling rake, billhook, paintpot, brush, hoe and
so on.

What improvements might be subsequently introduced?

A rabbitry and fowlrun, a dovecote, a botanical conservatory, 2 hammocks
(lady's and gentleman's), a sundial shaded and sheltered by laburnum or
lilac trees, an exotically harmonically accorded Japanese tinkle gatebell
affixed to left lateral gatepost, a capacious waterbutt, a lawnmower with
side delivery and grassbox, a lawnsprinkler with hydraulic hose.

What facilities of transit were desirable?

When citybound frequent connection by train or tram from their respective
intermediate station or terminal. When countrybound velocipedes, a chain-
less freewheel roadster cycle with side basketcar attached, or draught
conveyance, a donkey with wicker trap or smart phaeton with good
working solidungular cob (roan gelding, 14 h).

What might be the name of this erigible or erected residence?

Bloom Cottage. Saint Leopold's. Flowerville.

Could Bloom of 7 Eccles street foresee Bloom of Flowerville?

In loose allwool garments with Harris tweed cap, price 8/6, and useful
garden boots with elastic gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned young
firtrees, syringing, pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a weed-
laden wheelbarrow without excessive fatigue at sunset amid the scent of
newmown hay, ameliorating the soil, multiplying wisdom, achieving longev-
ity.

What syllabus of intellectual pursuits was simultaneously possible?

Snapshot photography, comparative study of religions, folklore relative to
various amatory and superstitious practices, contemplation of the celestial
constellations.

What lighter recreations?

Outdoor: garden and fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised causeways
ascents of moderately high hills, natation in secluded fresh water and
unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle with kedge
anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids (period of estivation),
vespertinal perambulation or equestrian circumprocession with inspection
of sterile landscape and contrastingly agreeable cottagers' fires of smoking
peat turves (period of hibernation). Indoor: discussion in tepid security of
unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic
erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl
nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.

Might he become a gentleman farmer of field produce and live stock?

Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and requi-
site farming implements, e.g., an end-to-end churn, a turnip pulper etc.

What would be his civic functions and social status among the county fami-
lies and landed gentry?

Arranged successively in ascending powers of hierarchical order, that of
gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and at the zenith of his career,
resident magistrate or justice of the peace with a family crest and coat
of arms and appropriate classical motto (Semper paratus), duly recorded
in the court directory (Bloom, Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K. P., L. L. D.
(Honoris causa), Bloomville, Dundrum) and mentioned in court and fashi-
onable intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have left Kingstown for
England).

What course of action did he outline for himself in such capacity?

A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the
dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes, incessantly
rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality, of unbiassed
homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest
possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confisca-
tion of estate, real and personal, to the crown. Loyal to the highest con-
stituted power in the land, actuated by an innate love of rectitude his
aims would be the strict maintenance of public order, the repression of
many abuses though not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform
or retrenchment being a preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion
in the final solution), the upholding of the letter of the law (common,
statute and law merchant) against all traversers in covin and trespassers
acting in contravention of bylaws and regulations, all resuscitators (by
trespass and petty larceny of kindlings) of venville rights, obsolete by
desuetude, all orotund instigators of international persecution, all per-
petuators of international animosities, all menial molestors of domestic
conviviality, all recalcitrant violators of domestic connubiality.

Prove that he had loved rectitude from his earliest youth.

To Master Percy Apjohn at High School in 1880 he had divulged his disbe-
lief in the tenets of the Irish (protestant) church (to which his father
Rudolf Virag (later Rudolph Bloom) had been converted from the Israelitic
faith and communion in 1865 by the Society for promoting Christianity a-
mong the jews) subsequently abjured by him in favour of Roman catholicism
at the epoch of and with a view to his matrimony in 1888. To Daniel Mag-
rane and Francis Wade in 1882 during a juvenile friendship (terminated
by the premature emigration of the former) he had advocated during noct-
urnal perambulations the political theory of colonial (e.g. Canadian)
expansion and the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin, expounded in
The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species. In 1885 he had publicly ex-
pressed his adherence to the collective andnational economic programme ad-
vocated by James Fintan Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel, J. F. X.
O'Brien and others, the agrarian policy of Michael Davitt, the constitu-
tional agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell (M. P. for Cork City), the
programme of peace, retrenchment and reform of William Ewart Gladstone
(M. P. for Midlothian, N. B.) and, in support of his political convicti-
ons, had climbed up into a secure position amid the ramifications of a
tree on Northumberland road to see the entrance (2 February 1888) into
the capital of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000 torchbea-
rers, divided into 120 trade corporations, bearing 2000 torches in escort
of the marquess of Ripon and (honest) John Morley.

How much and how did he propose to pay for this country residence?

As per prospectus of the Industrious Foreign Acclimatised Nationalised Fri-
endly Stateaided Building Society (incorporated 1874), a maximum of 60 pounds
per annum, being 1/6 of an assured income, derived from giltedged securities,
representing at 5 percent simple interest on capital of 1200 pounds (estimate
of price at 20 years' purchase), of which to be paid on acquisition and the
balance in the form of annual rent, viz. 800 pounds plus 2 1/2 percent inter-
est on the same, repayable quarterly in equal annual instalments until extin-
ction by amortisation of loan advanced for purchase within a period of 20
years, amounting to an annual rental of 64 pounds, headrent included, the
titledeeds to remain in possession of the lender or lenders with a saving
clause envisaging forced sale, foreclosure and mutual compensation in the
event of protracted failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the mess-
uage to become the absolute property of the tenant occupier upon expiry of
the period of years stipulated.

What rapid but insecure means to opulence might facilitate immediate pur-
chase?

A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system
the result of a national equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of I or
more miles and furlongs won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at 3 hr 8 m
p.m. at Ascot (Greenwich time), the message being received and available
for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59 p.m. (Dunsink time). The unexpect-
ed discovery of an object of great monetary value (precious stone, valua-
ble adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7 schilling, mauve, imperforate,
Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate, Great Britain, 1855:
1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxemburg, 1878),
antique dynastical ring, unique relic) in unusual repositories or by unu-
sual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid
the carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flot-
sam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible
fowl). A Spanish prisoner's donation of a distant treasure of valuables
or specie or bullion lodged with a solvent banking corporation 100 years
previously at 5 percent compound interest of the collective worth of 5,000,
000 pounds stg (five million pounds sterling). A contract with an inconsi-
derate contractee for the delivery of 32 consignments of some given commo-
dity in consideration of cash payment on delivery per delivery at the ini-
tial rate of 1/4d to be increased constantly in the geometrical progression
of 2 (1/4d, 1/2d, 1d, 2d, 4d, 8d, 1s 4d, 2s 8d to 32 terms). A prepared
scheme based on a study of the laws of probability to break the bank at
Monte Carlo. A solution of the secular problem of the quadrature of the
circle, government premium 1,000,000 pounds sterling.

Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?

The reclamation of dunams of waste arenary soil, proposed in the pros-
pectus of Agendath Netaim, Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W. 15, by the cul-
tivation of orange plantations and melonfields and reafforestation. The
utilisation of waste paper, fells of sewer rodents, human excrement pos
sessing chemical properties, in view of the vast production of the first,
vast number of the second and immense quantity of the third, every normal
human being of average vitality and appetite producing annually, cancelling
byproducts of water, a sum total of 80 lbs. (mixed animal and vegetable
diet), to be multiplied by 4,386,035, the total population of Ireland
according to census returns of 1901.

Were there schemes of wider scope?

A scheme to be formulated and submitted for approval to the harbour
commissioners for the exploitation of white coal (hydraulic power),
obtained by hydroelectric plant at peak of tide at Dublin bar or at
head of water at Poulaphouca or Powerscourt or catchment basins of main
streams for the economic production of 500,000 W. H. P. of electricity.
A scheme to enclose the peninsular delta of the North Bull at Dolly-
mount and erect on the space of the foreland, used for golf links and
rifle ranges, an asphalted esplanade with casinos, booths, shooting
galleries, hotels, boardinghouses, readingrooms, establishments for
mixed bathing. A scheme for the use of dogvans and goatvans for the
delivery of early morning milk. A scheme for the development of Irish
tourist traffic in and aro-und Dublin by means of petrolpropelled ri-
verboats, plying in the fluvial fairway between Island bridge and
Ringsend, charabancs, narrow gauge local railways, and pleasure ste-
amers for coastwise navigation (10/-- per person per day, guide (tri-
lingual) included). A scheme for the repristination of passenger and
goods traffics over Irish waterways, when freed from weedbeds. A scheme
to connect by tramline the Cattle Market (North Circular road and Prus-
sia street) with the quays (Sheriff street, lower, and East Wall), par-
allel with the Link line railway laid (in conjunction with the Great
Southern and Western railway line) between the cattle park, Liffey jun-
ction, and terminus of Midland Great Western Railway 43 to 45 North Wall,
in proximity to the terminal stations or Dublin branches of Great Cen-
tral Railway, Midland Railway of England, City of Dublin Steam Packet
Company, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Dublin and Glasgow
Steam Packet Company, Glasgow, Dublin and Londonderry Steam Packet Com-
pany (Laird line), British and Irish Steam Packet Company, Dublin and
Morecambe Steamers, London and North Western Railway Company, Dublin Port
and Docks Board Landing Sheds and transit sheds of Palgrave, Murphy and
Company, steamship owners, agents for steamers from Mediterranean, Spain,
Portugal, France, Belgium and Holland and for Liverpool Underwriters'
Association, the cost of acquired rolling stock for animal transport and
of additional mileage operated by the Dublin United Tramways Company,
limited, to be covered by graziers' fees.

Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes
become a natural and necessary apodosis?

Given a guarantee equal to the sum sought, the support, by deed of gift
and transfer vouchers during donor's lifetime or by bequest after donor's
painless extinction, of eminent financiers (Blum Pasha, Rothschild Gug-
genheim, Hirsch, Montefiore, Morgan, Rockefeller) possessing fortunes
in 6 figures, amassed during a successful life, and joining capital with
opportunity the thing required was done.

What eventuality would render him independent of such wealth?

The independent discovery of a goldseam of inexhaustible ore.

For what reason did he meditate on schemes so difficult of realisation?

It was one of his axioms that similar meditations or the automatic relation
to himself of a narrative concerning himself or tranquil recollection of the
past when practised habitually before retiring for the night alleviated
fatigue and produced as a result sound repose and renovated vitality.

His justifications?

As a physicist he had learned that of the 70 years of complete human life at
least 2/7, viz. 20 years are passed in sleep. As a philosopher he knew that
at the termination of any allotted life only an infinitesimal part of any
person's desires has been realised. As a physiologist he believed in the art-
ificial placation of malignant agencies chiefly operative during somnolence.

What did he fear?

The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an aberration of the
light of reason, the incommensurable categorical intelligence situated in
the cerebral convolutions.

What were habitually his final meditations?

Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause passers to stop in wonder,
a poster novelty, with all extraneous accretions excluded, reduced to its
simplest and most efficient terms not exceeding the span of casual vision
and congruous with the velocity of modern life.

What did the first drawer unlocked contain?

A Vere Foster's handwriting copybook, property of Milly (Millicent) Bloom,
certain pages of which bore diagram drawings, marked Papli, which showed
a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile, the trunk
full front with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot: 2 fading photographs
of queen Alexandra of England and of Maud Branscombe, actress and pro-
fessional beauty: a Yuletide card, bearing on it a pictorial representa-
tion of a parasitic plant, the legend Mizpah, the date Xmas 1892, the
name of the senders: from Mr + Mrs M. Comerford, the versicle: May this
Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome glee: a butt of red
partly liquefied sealing wax, obtained from the stores department of
Messrs Hely's, Ltd., 89, 90, and 91 Dame street: a box containing the
remainder of a gross of gilt “J” pennibs, obtained from same depart-
ment of same firm: an old sandglass which rolled containing sand which
rolled: a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in
1886 concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart
Gladstone's Home Rule bill of 1886 (never passed into law): a bazaar ticket,
no 2004, of S. Kevin's Charity Fair, price 6d, 100 prizes: an infantile
epistle, dated, small em monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital
aitch How are you note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full
stop new paragraph signature with flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a
cameo brooch, property of Ellen Bloom (born Higgins), deceased: a cameo
scarfpin, property of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag), deceased: 3 typewritten
letters, addressee, Henry Flower, c/o. P. O. Westland Row, addresser, Mar-
tha Clifford, c/o. P. O. Dolphin's Barn: the transliterated name and add-
ress of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophe-
donic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS./WI.
UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM: a press cutting from an English weekly periodi-
cal Modern Society, subject corporal chastisement in girls' schools: a
pink ribbon which had festooned an Easter egg in the year 1899: two part-
ly uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve pockets, purchased by post
from Box 32, P. O., Charing Cross, London, W. C.: 1 pack of 1 dozen cre-
amlaid envelopes and feintruled notepaper, watermarked, now reduced by
3: some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins: 2 coupons of the Royal and
Privileged Hungarian Lottery: a lowpower magnifying glass: 2 erotic pho-
tocards showing a) buccal coition between nude senorita (rere presen-
tation, superior position) and nude torero (fore presentation, inferior
position) b) anal violation by male religious (fully clothed, eyes ab-
ject) of female religious (partly clothed, eyes direct), purchased by
post from Box 32, P. O., Charing Cross, London, W. C.: a press cutting
of recipe for renovation of old tan boots: a Id adhesive stamp, laven-
der, of the reign of Queen Victoria: a chart of the measurements of Le-
opold Bloom compiled before, during and after 2 months' consecutive use
of Sandow-Whiteley's pulley exerciser (men's 15/-, athlete's 20/-) viz.
chest 28 in and 29 1/2 in, biceps 9 in and 10 in, forearm 8 1/2 in and 9
in, thigh 10 in and 12 in, calf 11 in and 12 in: 1 prospectus of The Won-
derworker, the world's greatest remedy for rectal complaints, direct from
Wonderworker, Coventry House, South Place, London E C, addressed (errone-
ously) to Mrs L. Bloom with brief accompanying note commencing (erroneo
usly): Dear Madam.

Quote the textual terms in which the prospectus claimed advantages for this
thaumaturgic remedy.

It heals and soothes while you sleep, in case of trouble in breaking wind,
assists nature in the most formidable way, insuring instant relief in dis-
charge of gases, keeping parts clean and free natural action, an initial
outlay of 7/6 making a new man of you and life worth living. Ladies find
Wonderworker especially useful, a pleasant surprise when they note del-
ightful result like a cool drink of fresh spring water on a sultry sum-
mer's day. Recommend it to your lady and gentlemen friends, lasts a life-
time. Insert long round end. Wonderworker.

Were there testimonials?

Numerous. From clergyman, British naval officer, wellknown author, city
man, hospital nurse, lady, mother of five, absentminded beggar.

How did absentminded beggar's concluding testimonial conclude?

What a pity the government did not supply our men with wonderworkers during
the South African campaign! What a relief it would have been!

What object did Bloom add to this collection of objects?

A 4th typewritten letter received by Henry Flower (let H. F. be L. B.) from
Martha Clifford (find M. C.).

What pleasant reflection accompanied this action?

The reflection that, apart from the letter in question, his magnetic face,
form and address had been favourably received during the course of the
preceding day by a wife (Mrs Josephine Breen, born Josie Powell), a nurse,
Miss Callan (Christian name unknown), a maid, Gertrude (Gerty, family
name unknown).

What possibility suggested itself?

The possibility of exercising virile power of fascination in the not immediate
future after an expensive repast in a private apartment in the company of an
elegant courtesan, of corporal beauty, moderately mercenary, variously instruct-
ed, a lady by origin.

What did the 2nd drawer contain?

Documents: the birth certificate of Leopold Paula Bloom: an endowment assur-
ance policy of 500 pounds in the Scottish Widows' Assurance Society, intest-
ated Millicent (Milly) Bloom, coming into force at 25 years as with profit
policy of 430 pounds, 462/10/0 and 500 pounds at 60 years or death, 65 years
or death and death, respectively, or with profit policy (paidup) of 299/10/0
together with cash payment of 133/10/0, at option: a bank passbook issued
by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch showing statement of a/c for half-
year ending 31 December 1903, balance in depositor's favour: 18/14/6 (eight-
een pounds, fourteen shillings and sixpence, sterling), net personalty: cer-
tificate of possession of 900 pounds, Canadian 4 percent (inscribed) govern-
ment stock (free of stamp duty): dockets of the Catholic Cemeteries' (Glas-
nevin) Committee, relative to a graveplot purchased: a local press cutting
concerning change of name by deedpoll.

Quote the textual terms of this notice.

I, Rudolph Virag, now resident at no 52 Clanbrassil street, Dublin, former-
ly of Szombathely in the kingdom of Hungary, hereby give notice that I have
assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times to be known
by the name of Rudolph Bloom.

What other objects relative to Rudolph Bloom (born Virag) were in the 2nd
drawer?

An indistinct daguerreotype of Rudolf Virag and his father Leopold Virag
executed in the year 1852 in the portrait atelier of their (respectively)
1st and 2nd cousin, Stefan Virag of Szesfehervar, Hungary. An ancient
haggadah book in which a pair of hornrimmed convex spectacles inserted
marked the passage of thanksgiving in the ritual prayers for Pessach
(Passover): a photocard of the Queen's Hotel, Ennis, proprietor, Rudolph
Bloom: an envelope addressed: To My Dear Son Leopold.

What fractions of phrases did the lecture of those five whole words evoke?

Tomorrow will be a week that I received...it is no use Leopold to be...
with your dear mother...that is not more to stand...to her...all for me is
out...be kind to Athos, Leopold...my dear son...always...of me...das
herz...Gott...dein . . .

What reminiscences of a human subject suffering from progressive melancholia
did these objects evoke in Bloom?

An old man, widower, unkempt of hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing:
an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and
scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a
septuagenarian, suicide by poison.

Why did Bloom experience a sentiment of remorse?

Because in immature impatience he had treated with disrespect certain beliefs
and practices.

As?

The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the hebdomadary
symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coex-
religionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural
character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the
sanctity of the sabbath.

How did these beliefs and practices now appear to him?

Not more rational than they had then appeared, not less rational than other
beliefs and practices now appeared.

What first reminiscence had he of Rudolph Bloom (deceased)?

Rudolph Bloom (deceased) narrated to his son Leopold Bloom (aged 6) a
retrospective arrangement of migrations and settlements in and between
Dublin, London, Florence, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Szombathely with
statements of satisfaction (his grandfather having seen Maria Theresia,
empress of Austria, queen of Hungary), with commercial advice (having
taken care of pence, the pounds having taken care of themselves). Leopold
Bloom (aged 6) had accompanied these narrations by constant consultation
of a geographical map of Europe (political) and by suggestions for the
establishment of affiliated business premises in the various centres
mentioned.

Had time equally but differently obliterated the memory of these migrations
in narrator and listener?

In narrator by the access of years and in consequence of the use of narcotic
toxin: in listener by the access of years and in consequence of the action of
distraction upon vicarious experiences.

What idiosyncracies of the narrator were concomitant products of amnesia?

Occasionally he ate without having previously removed his hat. Occasional-
ly he drank voraciously the juice of gooseberry fool from an inclined plate.
Occasionally he removed from his lips the traces of food by means of a lac-
erated envelope or other accessible fragment of paper.

What two phenomena of senescence were more frequent?

The myopic digital calculation of coins, eructation consequent upon repleti-
on.

What object offered partial consolation for these reminiscences?

The endowment policy, the bank passbook, the certificate of the possession
of scrip.

Reduce Bloom by cross multiplication of reverses of fortune, from which these
supports protected him, and by elimination of all positive values to a negligi-
ble negative irrational unreal quantity.

Successively, in descending helotic order: Poverty: that of the outdoor
hawker of imitation jewellery, the dun for the recovery of bad and doubt
ful debts, the poor rate and deputy cess collector. Mendicancy: that of
the fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1s. 4d. in the pound,
sandwichman, distributor of throwaways, nocturnal vagrant, insinuating
sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling, superannuated bailiffs man,
marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric public laughing-
stock seated on bench of public park under discarded perforated umbrel-
la. Destitution: the inmate of Old Man's House (Royal Hospital) Kilma-
inham, the inmate of Simpson's Hospital for reduced but respectable men
permanently disabled by gout or want of sight. Nadir of misery: the
aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.

With which attendant indignities?

The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the contempt
of muscular males, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the simulated
ignorance of casual acquaintances, the latration of illegitimate unlicensed
vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable missiles,
worth little or nothing, nothing or less than nothing.

By what could such a situation be precluded?

By decease (change of state): by departure (change of place).

Which preferably?

The latter, by the line of least resistance.

What considerations rendered departure not entirely undesirable?

Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects. The
habit of independent purchase increasingly cultivated. The necessity to
counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest.

What considerations rendered departure not irrational?

The parties concerned, uniting, had increased and multiplied, which being
done, offspring produced and educed to maturity, the parties, if not disu-
nited were obliged to reunite for increase and multiplication, which was
absurd, to form by reunion the original couple of uniting parties, which
was impossible.

What considerations rendered departure desirable?

The attractive character of certain localities in Ireland and abroad, as
represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in
special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and
hachures.

In Ireland?

The cliffs of Moher, the windy wilds of Connemara, lough Neagh with submerge-
d petrified city, the Giant's Causeway, Fort Camden and Fort Carlisle, the
Golden Vale of Tipperary, the islands of Aran, the pastures of royal Meath,
Brigid's elm in Kildare, the Queen's Island shipyard in Belfast, the Salmon
Leap, the lakes of Killarney.

Abroad?

Ceylon (with spicegardens supplying tea to Thomas Kernan, agent for Pulbrook,
Robertson and Co, 2 Mincing Lane, London, E. C., 5 Dame street, Dublin),
Jerusalem, the holy city (with mosque of Omar and gate of Damascus, goal
of aspiration), the straits of Gibraltar (the unique birthplace of Marion
Tweedy), the Parthenon (containing statues of nude Grecian divinities), the
Wall street money market (which controlled international finance), the Plaza
de Toros at La Linea, Spain (where O'Hara of the Camerons had slain the bull),
Niagara (over which no human being had passed with impunity), the land of
the Eskimos (eaters of soap), the forbidden country of Thibet (from which
no traveller returns), the bay of Naples (to see which was to die), the Dead
Sea.

Under what guidance, following what signs?

At sea, septentrional, by night the polestar, located at the point of inter-
section of the right line from beta to alpha in Ursa Maior produced and div-
ided externally at omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle form-
ed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha delta of Ursa Maior.
On land, meridional, a bispherical moon, revealed in imperfect varying phases
of lunation through the posterior interstice of the imperfectly occluded skirt
of a carnose negligent perambulating female, a pillar of the cloud by
day.

What public advertisement would divulge the occultation of the departed?

5 pounds reward, lost, stolen or strayed from his residence 7 Eccles street,
missing gent about 40, answering to the name of Bloom, Leopold (Poldy), height
5 ft 9 1/2 inches, full build, olive complexion, may have since grown a beard,
when last seen was wearing a black suit. Above sum will be paid for
information leading to his discovery.

What universal binomial denominations would be his as entity and nonenti-
ty?

Assumed by any or known to none. Everyman or Noman.

What tributes his?

Honour and gifts of strangers, the friends of Everyman. A nymph immortal,
beauty, the bride of Noman.

Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear?

Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary
orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets,
astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space, passing
from land to land, among peoples, amid events. Somewhere imperceptibly
he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons
of recall. Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern
Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation
of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an
estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader,
a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing
those of Rothschild or the silver king.

What would render such return irrational?

An unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through
reversible space and an exodus and return in space through irreversible
time.

What play of forces, inducing inertia, rendered departure undesirable?

The lateness of the hour, rendering procrastinatory: the obscurity of the
night, rendering invisible: the uncertainty of thoroughfares, rendering
perilous: the necessity for repose, obviating movement: the proximity of
an occupied bed, obviating research: the anticipation of warmth (human)
tempered with coolness (linen), obviating desire and rendering desirable:
the statue of Narcissus, sound without echo, desired desire.

What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccu-
pied bed?

The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human (mature
female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of matutinal
contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case of trou-
sers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring mattress
(striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section).

What past consecutive causes, before rising preapprehended, of accumulated
fatigue did Bloom, before rising, silently recapitulate?

The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion and
premeditative defecation (holy of holies): the bath (rite of John): the
funeral (rite of Samuel): the advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and
Thummim): the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchisedek): the visit to
museum and national library (holy place): the bookhunt along Bedford
row, Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay (Simchath Torah): the music in
the Ormond Hotel (Shira Shirim): the altercation with a truculent
troglodyte in Bernard Kiernan's premises (holocaust): a blank period of
time including a cardrive, a visit to a house of mourning, a leavetaking
(wilderness): the eroticism produced by feminine exhibitionism (rite of
Onan): the prolonged delivery of Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering): the
visit to the disorderly house of Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street, lower
and subsequent brawl and chance medley in Beaver street (Armageddon)
nocturnal perambulation to and from the cabman's shelter, Butt Bridge
(atonement).

What selfimposed enigma did Bloom about to rise in order to go so as to
conclude lest he should not conclude involuntarily apprehend?

The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by the
insentient material of a strainveined timber table.

What selfinvolved enigma did Bloom risen, going, gathering multicoloured
multiform multitudinous garments, voluntarily apprehending, not compre-
hend?

Who was M'Intosh?

What selfevident enigma pondered with desultory constancy during 30 years
did Bloom now, having effected natural obscurity by the extinction of art-
ificial light, silently suddenly comprehend?

Where was Moses when the candle went out?

What imperfections in a perfect day did Bloom, walking, charged with
collected articles of recently disvested male wearing apparel, silently,
successively, enumerate?

A provisional failure to obtain renewal of an advertisement: to obtain
a certain quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan (agent for Pulbrook, Rob-
ertson and Co, 5 Dame Street, Dublin, and 2 Mincing Lane, London E. C.):
to certify the presence or absence of posterior rectal orifice in the
case of Hellenic female divinities: to obtain admission (gratuitous or
paid) to the performance of Leah by Mrs Bandmann Palmer at the Gaiety
Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street.

What impression of an absent face did Bloom, arrested, silently recall?

The face of her father, the late Major Brian Cooper Tweedy, Royal Dublin
Fusiliers, of Gibraltar and Rehoboth, Dolphin's Barn.

What recurrent impressions of the same were possible by hypothesis?

Retreating, at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, Amiens street,
with constant uniform acceleration, along parallel lines meeting at infinity,
if produced: along parallel lines, reproduced from infinity, with constant
uniform retardation, at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, Amiens
street, returning.

What miscellaneous effects of female personal wearing apparel were perceived
by him?

A pair of new inodorous halfsilk black ladies' hose, a pair of new violet
garters, a pair of outsize ladies' drawers of India mull, cut on generous
lines, redolent of opoponax, jessamine and Muratti's Turkish cigarettes and
containing a long bright steel safety pin, folded curvilinear, a camisole of
batiste with thin lace border, an accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette,
all these objects being disposed irregularly on the top of a rectangular trunk,
quadruple battened, having capped corners, with multicoloured labels, init-
ialled on its fore side in white lettering B. C. T. (Brian Cooper Twee-
dy).

What impersonal objects were perceived?

A commode, one leg fractured, totally covered by square cretonne cutting,
apple design, on which rested a lady's black straw hat. Orangekeyed ware,
bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware and ironmongery
manufacturer, 21, 22, 23 Moore street, disposed irregularly on the wash-
stand and floor and consisting of basin, soapdish and brushtray (on the
washstand, together), pitcher and night article (on the floor, separate).

Bloom's acts?

He deposited the articles of clothing on a chair, removed his remaining
articles of clothing, took from beneath the bolster at the head of the bed
a folded long white nightshirt, inserted his head and arms into the proper
apertures of the nightshirt, removed a pillow from the head to the foot of
the bed, prepared the bedlinen accordingly and entered the bed.

How?

With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode (his own or not
his own): with solicitude, the snakespiral springs of the mattress being
old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous under
stress and strain: prudently, as entering a lair or ambush of lust or add-
ers: lightly, the less to disturb: reverently, the bed of conception and
of birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of marriage, of sleep
and of death.

What did his limbs, when gradually extended, encounter?

New clean bedlinen, additional odours, the presence of a human form, female,
hers, the imprint of a human form, male, not his, some crumbs, some flakes
of potted meat, recooked, which he removed.

If he had smiled why would he have smiled?

To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter
whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term
of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone
whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating
in and repeated to infinity.

What preceding series?

Assuming Mulvey to be the first term of his series, Penrose, Bartell d'Arcy,
professor Goodwin, Julius Mastiansky, John Henry Menton, Father Bernard
Corrigan, a farmer at the Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show, Maggot O'Re-
illy, Matthew Dillon, Valentine Blake Dillon (Lord Mayor of Dublin),
Christopher Callinan, Lenehan, an Italian organgrinder, an unknown gen-
tleman in the Gaiety Theatre, Benjamin Dollard, Simon Dedalus, Andrew
(Pisser) Burke, Joseph Cuffe, Wisdom Hely, Alderman John Hooper, Dr
Francis Brady, Father Sebastian of Mount Argus, a bootblack at the
General Post Office, Hugh E. (Blazes) Boylan and so each and so on to
no last term.

What were his reflections concerning the last member of this series and late
occupant of the bed?

Reflections on his vigour (a bounder), corporal proportion (a billsticker),
commercial ability (a bester), impressionability (a boaster).

Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigour, corporal propor-
tion and commercial ability?

Because he had observed with augmenting frequency in the preceding members
of the same series the same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted, first
with alarm, then with understanding, then with desire, finally with fatigue,
with alternating symptoms of epicene comprehension and apprehensi-
on.

With what antagonistic sentiments were his subsequent reflections affected?

Envy, jealousy, abnegation, equanimity.

Envy?

Of a bodily and mental male organism specially adapted for the superincumbent
posture of energetic human copulation and energetic piston and cylinder move-
ment necessary for the complete satisfaction of a constant but not acute con-
cupiscence resident in a bodily and mental female organism, passive but not
obtuse.

Jealousy?

Because a nature full and volatile in its free state, was alternately the
agent and reagent of attraction. Because attraction between agent(s) and
reagent(s) at all instants varied, with inverse proportion of increase and
decrease, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance. Because
the controlled contemplation of the fluctuation of attraction produced, if
desired, a fluctuation of pleasure.

Abnegation?

In virtue of a) acquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the establishment
of George Mesias, merchant tailor and outfitter, 5 Eden Quay, b) hospitality
extended and received in kind, reciprocated and reappropriated in person,
c) comparative youth subject to impulses of ambition and magnanimity, col-
leagual altruism and amorous egoism, d) extraracial attraction, intraracial
inhibition, supraracial prerogative, e) an imminent provincial musical tour,
common current expenses, net proceeds divided.

Equanimity?

As as natural as any and every natural act of a nature expressed or
understood executed in natured nature by natural creatures in accordance
with his, her and their natured natures, of dissimilar similarity. As not
so calamitous as a cataclysmic annihilation of the planet in consequence
of a collision with a dark sun. As less reprehensible than theft, highway
robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false pre-
tences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money, betrayal
of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel,
blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high
seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice, deser-
tion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intellig-
ence with the king's enemies, impersonation, criminal assault, manslaugh-
ter, wilful and premeditated murder. As not more abnormal than all other
parallel processes of adaptation to altered conditions of existence, re-
sulting in a reciprocal equilibrium between the bodily organism and its
attendant circumstances, foods, beverages, acquired habits, indulged in-
clinations, significant disease. As more than inevitable, irreparable.

Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimity?

From outrage (matrimony) to outrage (adultery) there arose nought but
outrage (copulation) yet the matrimonial violator of the matrimonially
violated had not been outraged by the adulterous violator of the adult-
erously violated.

What retribution, if any?

Assassination, never, as two wrongs did not make one right. Duel by combat,
no. Divorce, not now. Exposure by mechanical artifice (automatic bed) or
individual testimony (concealed ocular witnesses), not yet. Suit for dam-
ages by legal influence or simulation of assault with evidence of injuries
sustained (selfinflicted), not impossibly. Hushmoney by moral influence
possibly. If any, positively, connivance, introduction of emulation (material,
a prosperous rival agency of publicity: moral, a successful rival agent of
intimacy), depreciation, alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the
one separated from the other, protecting the separator from both.

By what reflections did he, a conscious reactor against the void of incert-
itude, justify to himself his sentiments?

The preordained frangibility of the hymen: the presupposed intangibility
of the thing in itself: the incongruity and disproportion between the self-
prolonging tension of the thing proposed to be done and the selfabbreviating
relaxation of the thing done; the fallaciously inferred debility of the fe-
male: the muscularity of the male: the variations of ethical codes: the na-
tural grammatical transition by inversion involving no alteration of sense
of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as masculine subject, monosyl-
labic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object) from the
active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition (parsed as
feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past
participle with complementary masculine agent) in the passive voice: the
continued product of seminators by generation: the continual production of
semen by distillation: the futility of triumph or protest or vindication:
the inanity of extolled virtue: the lethargy of nescient matter: the
apathy of the stars.

In what final satisfaction did these antagonistic sentiments and reflections,
reduced to their simplest forms, converge?

Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial hemispheres,
in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored (the land of the
midnight sun, the islands of the blessed, the isles of Greece, the land of
promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female hemispheres, redolent of
milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent
of secular families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of im-
pression or of contrarieties of expression, expressive of mute immutable
mature animality.

The visible signs of antesatisfaction?

An approximate erection: a solicitous adversion: a gradual elevation: a
tentative revelation: a silent contemplation.

Then?

He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each
plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure
prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.

The visible signs of postsatisfaction?

A silent contemplation: a tentative velation: a gradual abasement: a
solicitous aversion: a proximate erection.

What followed this silent action?

Somnolent invocation, less somnolent recognition, incipient excitation,
catechetical interrogation.

With what modifications did the narrator reply to this interrogation?

Negative: he omitted to mention the clandestine correspondence between
Martha Clifford and Henry Flower, the public altercation at, in and in
the vicinity of the licensed premises of Bernard Kiernan and Co, Limit-
ed, 8, 9 and 10 Little Britain street, the erotic provocation and re-
sponse thereto caused by the exhibitionism of Gertrude (Gerty), surname
unknown. Positive: he included mention of a performance by Mrs Bandmann
Palmer of Leah at the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street,
an invitation to supper at Wynn's (Murphy's) Hotel, 35, 36 and 37 Lower
Abbey street, a volume of peccaminous pornographical tendency entituled
Sweets of Sin, anonymous author a gentleman of fashion, a temporary con-
cussion caused by a falsely calculated movement in the course of a post-
cenal gymnastic display, the victim (since completely recovered) being
Stephen Dedalus, professor and author, eldest surviving son of Simon
Dedalus, of no fixed occupation, an aeronautical feat executed by him
(narrator) in the presence of a witness, the professor and author afore-
said, with promptitude of decision and gymnastic flexibility.

Was the narration otherwise unaltered by modifications?

Absolutely.

Which event or person emerged as the salient point of his narration?

Stephen Dedalus, professor and author.

What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were
perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the course
of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?

By the listener a limitation of fertility inasmuch as marriage had been
celebrated 1 calendar month after the 18th anniversary of her birth (8
September 1870), viz. 8 October, and consummated on the same date with
female issue born 15 June 1889, having been anticipatorily consummated
on the lo September of the same year and complete carnal intercourse,
with ejaculation of semen within the natural female organ, having last
taken place 5 weeks previous, viz. 27 November 1893, to the birth on 29
December 1893 of second (and only male) issue, deceased 9 January 1894,
aged 11 days, there remained a period of 10 years, 5 months and 18 days
during which carnal intercourse had been incomplete, without ejaculation
of semen within the natural female organ. By the narrator a limitation
of activity, mental and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental inter-
course between himself and the listener had not taken place since the
consummation of puberty, indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, of the fem-
ale issue of narrator and listener, 15 September 1903, there remained
a period of 9 months and 1 day during which, in consequence of a pre-
established natural comprehension in incomprehension between the con-
summated females (listener and issue), complete corporal liberty of
action had been circumscribed.

How?

By various reiterated feminine interrogation concerning the masculine
destination whither, the place where, the time at which, the duration for
which, the object with which in the case of temporary absences, projected
or effected.

What moved visibly above the listener's and the narrator's invisible
thoughts?

The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of
concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.

In what directions did listener and narrator lie?

Listener, S. E. by E.: Narrator, N. W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of lat-
itude, N., and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45 degrees
to the terrestrial equator.

In what state of rest or motion?

At rest relatively to themselves and to each other. In motion being each and
both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the proper
perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging
space.

In what posture?

Listener: reclined semilaterally, left, left hand under head, right leg
extended in a straight line and resting on left leg, flexed, in the atti-
tude of Gea-Tellus, fulfilled, recumbent, big with seed. Narrator: reclined
laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the index finger and thumb
of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in the attitude depict-
ed in a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the childman weary, the
manchild in the womb.

Womb? Weary?

He rests. He has travelled.

With?

Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad
the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the
Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer
and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and
Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.

When?

Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's
egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the
Brightdayler.

Where?

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