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  not for 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
Friday  (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 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
return 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
(?1.7s.0.), one pound seven shillings, advanced by the latter to the former.

     What counterproposals were  alternately  advanced, accepted,  modified,
declined, restated in other terms, reaccepted, ratified, reconfirmed?
     To  inaugurate a prearranged course of  Italian instruction, place  the
residence of the  instructed. To inaugurate a  course of  vocal instruction,
place the residence of the instructress. To  inaugurate a series of  static,
semistatic 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
National Library  of  Ireland, 10  Kildare  street,  the National  Maternity
Hospital, 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
selfexcluding 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 (2s.) 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
international 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
destruction  to procure alimentary sustenance: the painful  character of the
ultimate functions of  separate existence,  the agonies of  birth and death:
the monotonous  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
metamorphosis 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 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.

     I n  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 <i>secreto</i> of what commemorative psalm?
     The 113th, <i>modus peregrinus: In  exitu IsraËl de Egypto: domus Jacob de
populo barbaro.</i>

     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
companion of various constellations?
     Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the  moon invisible in
incipent  lunation,  approaching   perigee:   of  the  infinite  lattiginous
scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible  by daylight by an observer
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
Major) 10 lightyears  (57,000,000,000,000  miles)  distant and in volume 900
times the  dimension  of  our  planet:  of  Arcturus: of the  precession  of
equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula 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 from immeasurably remote  eons to infinitely  remote
futures in comparison with which the years,  threescore and ten, of allotted
human life formed 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
trillions  of  billions  of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by
cohesion 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
computed 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
innumerable 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 being raised to the utmost kinetic  elaboration of any power
of any of its powers.

     Did he find the problem of the inhabitability  of the planets and their
satellites 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
demarcation  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, Mercurial,
Veneral,  Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian  sufficient and equivalent
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 all that is vanity.

     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,
yellow,  crimson, vermilion, cinnabar): their degrees  of brilliancy:  their
magnitudes  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 elliptical 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 incandescence of two nonluminous exsuns) about
the period of the  birth of William Shakespeare over delta  in the recumbent
neversetting  constellation of  Cassiopeia and of a star (2nd  magnitude) of
similar origin  but lesser brilliancy 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 presumably)  appeared in and disappeared from the
constellation of Andromeda about the period of the birth of Stephen Dedalus,
and  in and  from the constellation 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 human 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
suppositions probable apposition of one or  more  bodies equally of the same
and  of different  magnitudes: a  mobility of  illusory forms immobilised in
space, remobilised  in air: a past which  possibly  had ceased to exist as a
present before its future 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
delirium  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
influences 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 intuition 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 reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising, and setting
by her appointed times,  waxing  and waning: the forced invariability of her
aspect:  her  indeterminate  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 inscrutability 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
manufacturer, 16 Aungier street.

     How  did  he elucidate the mystery  of  an invisible  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
suggestion.

     Boa 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
micturition 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
invisible audible collateral organ of the other?
     To   Bloom:  the   problems  of   irritability,  tumescence,  rigidity,
reactivity,  dimension, sanitariness, pelosity. To  Stephen:  the problem of
the sacerdotal  integrity  of  Jesus  circumcised  (1st  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 Calcata, were deserving  of
simple  hyperduly  or  of the  fourth  degree  of  latria  accorded  to  the
abscission of such divine excrescences as hair and toenails.

     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
Berenice 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 spasmodically 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
Glasnevin in the north?
     Martin  Cunningham  (in bed), Jack Power  (in bed),  Simon Dedalus  (in
bed), Tom Kernan (in  bed), Ned Lambert (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  RÉaumur:  the
incipient intimations 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
Misericordi&Aelig; hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy, Sandymount).

     What prospect of what phenomena inclined him to remain?
     The disparition of three final stars,  the diffusion  of day-break, the
apparition 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
contact 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
furnitures?
     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 centralised 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 evidence, of testimonial supermanence.

     What occupied the position originally occupied by the sideboard?
     A  vertical  piano (Cadby)  with  exposed  keyboard, its  closed coffin
supporting  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 <i>Love's Old Sweet Song</i> (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 <i>libitum,
forte</i>, pedal, <i>animato</i>, sustained, pedal, <i>ritirando</i>, close.

     With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?
     With strain, elevating a candlestick:  with pain,  feeling on his right
temple a contused tumescence: with  attention,  focusing his gaze on a large
dull  passive  and  slender bright  active: with  solicitation, bending  and
downturning the upturned  rugfringe: with amusement, remembering Dr  Malachi
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
diminutive  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) entitled  Agendath  Netaim,  unfolded  the same,  examined  it
superficially,  rolled   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?
     That truncated conical crater  summit of the diminutive volcano emitted
a vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense.

     What  homothetic  objects,  other than  the  candlestick,  stood on the
mantelpiece?
     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
attention?
     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
creator.

     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.
     <i>Thorn's Dublin Post Office Directory</i>, 1886.
     Denis Florence M'Carthy's <i>Poetical Works</i> (copper beechleaf  bookmark at
p. 5).
     Shakespeare's <i>Works</i> (dark crimson morocco, goldtooled).
     <i>The Useful Ready Reckoner</i> (brown cloth).
     <i>The  Secret  History  of  the Court  of Charles  II</i> (red  cloth, tooled
binding).
     <i>The Child's Guide</i> (blue cloth).
     <i>When We Were Boys</i> by William O'Brien M.P. (green cloth, slightly faded,
envelope bookmark at p. 217).
     <i>Thoughts from Spinoza</i> (maroon leather).
     <i>The Story of the Heavens</i> by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth).
     Ellis's <i>Three Trips to Madagascar</i> (brown cloth, title obliterated).
     <i>The  Stark-Munro Letters</i> 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).
     <i>Voyages  in  China</i> by `Viator'  (recovered  with  brown paper, red  ink
title).
     <i>Philosophy of the Talmud</i> (sewn pamphlet).
     Lockhart's  <i>Life of  Napoleon</i>  (cover  wanting, marginal an  notations,
minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).
     <i>Soll  und  Haben</i> by Gustav  Freytag  (black boards, Gothic  characters,
cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24).
     Hozier's <i>History of the Russo-Turkish War</i> (brown cloth, 2 volumes, with
gummed label,  Garrison Library, Governor's  Parade, Gibraltar, on verso  of
cover).
     <i>Laurence Bloomfield  in Ireland</i> by William  Allingham  (second edition,
green cloth, gilt  trefoil design, previous owner's name on recto of flyleaf
erased).
     <i>A Handbook of Astronomy</i>  (cover,  brown  leather,  detached,  5 plates,
antique  letterpress  long  primer,  author's  footnotes nonpareil, marginal
clues brevier, captions small pica).
     <i>The Hidden Life of Christ</i> (black boards).
     <i>In the  Track of the  Sun</i>  (yellow  cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent
title intestation).
     <i>Physical Strength and How to Obtain It</i> by Eugene Sandow (red cloth).
     <i>Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry</i> written in French by F. Ignat.
Pardies and rendered  into Englifh 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  closestool:  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 <i>History of the Russo - Turkish War</i>.

     What  among other data did the  second volume of  the work  In question
contain?
     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
interval 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, tranquillity, 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
articles  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
successively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along
the medial line of irregular  incrispated black hair 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  intersection of
the sixth pectoral vertebr&Aelig;, 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
imprecisely 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  (1 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.
     #. s. d. #. s. d.
     1 Pork kidney 0. 0. 3 Cash in hand 0.4.9
     2 Copy <i>Freeman's Journal</i> 0.0.2 Commission recd. <i>Freeman's Journal</i>
     1 Bath and gratification 0. 1.6 2.7.6
     Tramfare 0. 0. 2 Loan (Stephen Dedalus) 1.7.0
     2 In Memoriam Patrick
     Dignam 0.5.0
     2 Banbury cakes 0.0.1
     2 Lunch 0.0.7
     1 Rental fee for book 0.1.0
     2 Packet notepaper and
     envelopes 0.0.2
     2 Dinner and gratification 0.2.0
     2 Postal order and stamp 0.2.8
     Tramfare 0.0.1
     1 Pig's Foot 0.0.4
     1 Sheep's Trotter 0.0.3
     2 Cake Fry's plain choco
     late 0.0.
     1 Square soda bread 0.0.4
     1 Coffee and bun 0.0.4
     Loan (Stephen Dedalus)
     refunded 2.7.0
     BALANCE 0.27.5
     #.2.29. 3 #.2.19.3

     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  different  directions, then,  inclined, he  disnoded the laceknots,
unhooked and loosened the laces, took  off each  of his two  boots  for  the
second time, detached  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  unguinal
fragment.

     Why with satisfaction?
     Because the odour inhaled corresponded to other odours inhaled of other
unguinal  fragments, picked and lacerated by  Master  Bloom,  pupil  of  Mrs
Ellis's  juvenile  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 coalesced?
     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), of grazing
turbary surrounding a  baronial  hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor,
on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as <i>Rus in
Urbe</i> or  <i>Qui si Sana</i>,  but to purchase by private  treaty  in  fee simple  a
thatched   bungalowshaped  2   storey  dwellinghouse  of  southerly  aspect,
surmounted by vane  and lightning conductor, connected with the  earth, with
porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia creeper), halldoor, olive
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  over
unoccupied  and  unoccupyable interjacent  pastures  and standing  in 5 or 6
acres  of  its  own  ground,  at such  a  distance from the  nearest  public
thoroughfare 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 5 minutes from tram  or train  line  (e.g.,  Dundrum,
south,  or  Sutton,  north,  both localities equally  reported by  trial  to
resemble the terrestrial poles in  being favourable climates for  phthisical
subjects), the  premises to be held under feefarmgrant, lease 999 years, the
message 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
century  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  settees and corner fitments, upholstered in  ruby  plush
with  good  springing  and  sunk centre,  three banner  Japanese screen  and
cuspidors  (club  style, rich wine-coloured leather, gloss  renewable with a
minimum of  labour  by use  of linseed oil and  vinegar)  and  pyramidically
prismatic central chandelier lustre, bentwood perch with a fingertame parrot
(expurgated language), embossed mural paper at 10/-per dozen with transverse
swags  of  carmine  floral 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 stepped-up panel
dado, dressed with camphorated 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  brace, armrests, footstool
and  artistic oleograph  on  inner  face  of  door:  ditto, plain: servant's
apartments with separate sanitary and hygienic necessaries for cook, general
and betweenmaid (salary, rising  by biennial unearned increments of #2, with
comprehensive  fidelity insurance annual bonus (#1), and  retiring allowance
(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 throughout.

     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
rectangular grassplots set  with  eccentric  ellipses  of scarlet and chrome
tulips, blue  scillas, crocuses, polyanthus, sweet William,  sweat pea, lily
of  the  valley  (bulbs  obtainable  from  sir  James  W.  Mackey  (Limited)
(wholesale and  retail) seed  and bulb  merchant and  nurseryman, agent  for
chemical manures,  23  Sackville street, upper), an orchard,  kitchen garden
and  vinery,  protected  against  illegal trespassers  by  glasstopped mural
enclosures, a lumbershed with padlock for various inventoried implements.

     As?
     Eeltraps,  lobsterpots,  fishingrods, hatchet,  steelyard,  grindstone,
clodcrusher, swatheturner, carriagesack,  telescope ladder,  10 tooth  rake,
washing 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  chainless  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, 14h).

     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 weedladen
wheelbarrow  without excessive fatigue  at  sunset amid the scent of newmown
hay, ameliorating the soil, multiplying wisdom, achieving longevity.

     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
requisite 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
families 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 (<i>Semper paratus</i>), duly recorded
in  the court  directory (Bloom, Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K.  P.,  L. L. D.
<i>honoris cause</i>,  Bloomville, Dundrum) and mentioned in court  and fashionable
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  confiscation
of estate, real and personal, to the crown. Loyal to the highest constituted
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  perpetuators 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
disbelief 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 among 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  Magrane  and  Francis  Wade in 1882  during  a  juvenile  friendship
(terminated by  the  premature emigration of the  former)  he had  advocated
during nocturnal perambulations  the  political  theory  of  colonial  (e.g.
Canadian)  expansion  and  the  evolutionary  theories  of  Charles  Darwin,
expounded in  <i>The Descent of Man</i> and <i>The Origin of  Species</i>. In 1885 he  had
publicly  expressed his adherence  to  the collective and  national economic
programme advocated by James Fintan Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel,
J. F. X.  O'Brien  and others, the agrarian policy  of  Michael Davitt,  the
constitutional  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 convictions,
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, divided into 120 trade
corporations, bearing  2,000 torches in escort of the marquess of  Ripon and
John Morley.

     How much and how did he propose to pay for this country residence?
     As  per prospectus of the Industrious Foreign Acclimatised Nationalised
Friendly Stateaided Building Society (incorporated 1874),  a maximum of  #60
per  annum,  being  116th  of an  assured  income,  derived  from  giltedged
securities,  representing  at  5%  simple  interest  on  capital  of  #1,200
(estimate of  price  at  20  years  purchase) of  which  1/3rd to be paid on
acquisition and  the  balance in the form of annual rent, viz. #800  plus  2
1/2% interest on the same, repayable  quarterly in equal  annual instalments
until  extinction  by amortisation of loan advanced  for  purchase  within a
period of 20 years, amounting to an annual rental of #64, 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
messuage 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
purchase?
     A  private  wireless  telegraph which  would  transmit by  dot and dash
system the result of a national equine  handicap (flat or steeplechase) of 1
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 unexpected
discovery  of  an object of  great monetary value:  precious stone, valuable
adhesive  or  impressed  postage  stamps  (7-shilling,  mauve,  imperforate,
Hamburg, 1866:  4  pence, rose, blue paper perforate, Great Britain, 1866: 1
franc, stone,  official, rouletted,  diagonal  surcharge, Luxembourg, 1878):
antique  dynastical ring, unique relic in unusual repositories or by unusual
means: from  the  air  (dropped  by an eagle in  flight), by fire  (amid the
carbonised  remains of an incendiated edifice),  in  the sea  (amid flotsam,
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% compound interest of the collective worth of #5,000,000 stg (five million
pounds  sterling).  A  contract with  an inconsiderate  contractee  for  the
delivery of 32 consignments of some given commodity in consideration of cash
payment on delivery  at the initial 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
sterling.

     Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?
     The reclamation  of dunams  of  waste  arenary  soil,  proposed in  the
prospectus  of  Agendath  Netaim,  Bleibtreustrasse,  Berlin,  W.15  by  the
cultivation  of orange plantations and  melonfields and reafforestation. The
utilisation  of  waste  paper,  fells  of  sewer  rodents,  human  excrement
possessing 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 the 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 Dollymount 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 around Dublin by means of
petrolpropelled  riverboats,  plying in the fluvial  fairway between  island
bridge and Ringsend, charabancs, narrow gauge local  railways,  and pleasure
steamers  for  coastwise  navigation  (10/-  per  person   per   day,  guide
(trilingual) 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  Prussia
street) with the quays (Sheriff street, lower, and East Wall), parallel with
the Link line railway  laid  (in  conjunction with  the  Great  Southern and
Western railway line) between the cattle park, Liffey junction, and terminus
of Midland  Great Western  railway 43 to 45 North Wall, in proximity  to the
terminal stations  or  Dublin  branches of  Great  Central  Railway, Midland
Railway  of  England,  City  of  Dublin  Steam  Packet  Company,  Lancashire
Yorkshire Railway Company, Dublin and Glasgow Steam Packet  Company, Glasgow
Dublin and Londonderry Steam Packet Company (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  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  financiery   (Blum  Pasha,   Rothschild,
Guggenheim,  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 eventually 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 or  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 2/7ths, viz., 20  years  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  artificial  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 <i>Papli</i>, 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  professional  beauty:  a  Yuletide  card,  bearing  on it  a  pictorial
representation of a parasitic plant,  the legend <i>Mizpah</i>, the date Xmas 1892,
the name  of the senders, from  Mr  and Mrs M. Comerford, the versicle:  <i>May
this Yuletide  bring to thee, Joy and peace  and welcome glee:</i> 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 department  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:  3  typewritten letters,  addressee, Henry
Flower,  c/o  P.  O.  Westland  Row, addresser,  Martha  Clifford, c/o P. O.
Dolphin's Barn: the transliterated name and address of the  addresser of the
3 letters in  reserved alphabetic  boustrophedontic  punctated  quadrilinear
cryptogram (vowels suppressed)  N. IGS./WI.UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM: a  press
cutting  from an English weekly  periodical <i>Modern Society</i>, subject corporal
chastisement in girls' schools: a pink ribbon which had festooned  an Easter
egg in the year 1899: two partly  uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve
pockets, purchased by post  from Box 32, P. O., Charing Cross, London, W.C.:
1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and faintruled 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  photocards showing: a)  buccal coition between nude  senorita  (rere
presentation,  superior  position)  and  nude   torero  (fore  presentation,
inferior position): b) anal violation by male religious (fully clothed, eyes
abject) 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 1d. adhesive  stamp, lavender, of  the
reign  of Queen Victoria: a chart of measurements of Leopold  Bloom compiled
before,  during and after 2 months of  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 and 9 in., thigh 10  in. and 12
in., calf 11 in. and 12 in.:  1 prospectus of the  Wonderworker, the world's
greatest  remedy  for  rectal complaints direct  from Wonderworker, Coventry
House, South Place,  London  E. C.,  addressed to Mrs  L.  Bloom  with brief
accompanying note commencing: 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
discharge of gases, keeping parts clean  and free natural action, an initial
outlay of  7/6 making anew man of  you  and  life  worth living. Ladies find
Wonderworker  especially  useful,  a   pleasant  surprise  when   they  note
delightful  result  like  a  cool drink of fresh  spring  water on a  sultry
summer's  day. Recommend it to  your lady and  gentlemen  friends,  lasts  a
lifetime. 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 Calian (Christian  name unknown), a maid, Gertrude  (Gerty, family name
unknown).

     What possibility suggested itself?
     The possibility  of exercising virile  power of fascination in the most
immediate future after an expensive  repast in  a private  apartment in  the
company of an  elegant  courtesan, of corporal beauty, moderately mercenary,
variously instructed, a lady by origin.

     What did the and drawer contain?
     Documents: the birth certificate  of Leopold Paula Bloom:  an endowment
assurance  policy   of  #500  in  the  Scottish  Widows'  Assurance  Society
intestated Millicent  (Milly)  Bloom, coming  into force at 25 years as with
profit policy of #430, #462--10--0 and #500 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 (eighteen pounds, fourteen  shillings and  six  pence, sterling),
net  personalty: certificate  of possession  of #900 Canadian 4% (inscribed)
government stock (free of stamp  duty): dockets of the  Catholic Cemeteries'
(Glasnevin)  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,
formerly 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 Rudolph  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  hagadah  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 <i>To my Dear Son Leopold</i>.

     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... <i>das Herr... Gott... dein...</i>

     What  reminiscences  of  a  human  subject suffering  from  progressive
melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom?
     An  old man widower,  unkempt 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  coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants:
the  supernatural  character  of  Judaic  scripture: the ineffability of the
tetragrammaron: 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  Theresa,
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 idiosyncrasies  of  the  narrator  were  concomitant  product$  of
amnesia?
     Occasionally  he  ate  without  having  previously   removed  his  hat.
Occasionally  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 lacerated envelope or other accessible fragment of paper.

     What two phenomena of senescence were more frequent?
     The myopic  digital  calculation of coins,  eructation  consequent upon
repletion.

     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
negligible 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 doubtful
debts, the  poor rate  and  deputy cess collector. Mendicancy: that  of  the
fraudulent  bankrupt  with  negligible  assets  paying  1s. 4d.  in  the  #,
sandwichman,  distributor  of  throwaways,  nocturnal  vagrant,  insinuating
sycophant,  maimed sailor,  blind  stripling,  superannuated bailiff's  man,
marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric  public  laughingstock
seated  on  bench  of  public  park  under  discarded  perforated  umbrella.
Destitution: the inmate of Old Man's House (Royal Hospital), Kilmainham, 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 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 it 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 it not irrational?
     The  parties concerned,  uniting,  had increased  and multiplied, which
being done, offspring produced and educed to  maturity, the parties, if  now
disunited 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 it 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
submerged  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, 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
intersection of the right line from beta to alpha in Ursa Major produced and
divided externally  at omega and the hypotenuse  of the rightangled triangle
formed by the  line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha delta of Ursa
Major.  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 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
nonentity?
     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 of 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
unoccupied 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  trousers  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
Thummin): the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchizedek): 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 comprehend?
     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
artificial light, silently suddenly comprehend?
     Where was Moses when the candle went out?

     What  imperfections  in  a perfect  day did Bloom,  walking,  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, Robertson
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 Bandman 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 the 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 baptiste  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, initialled on  its fore  side  in
white lettering B. C. T. (Brian Cooper Tweedy).

     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 washstand
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 adder:
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'Reilly, Matthew  Dillon, Valentine Blake Dillon  (Lord  Mayor  of Dublin),
Christopher Callinan, Lenehan, an Italian organgrinder, an unknown gentleman
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 nolast 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
proportion 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
apprehension.

     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  movement necessary for the complete satisfaction of a constant
but not acute concupiscence 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 action  between agents and
reagents 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,  colleagual  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 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 as
calamitous as  a cataclysmic  annihilation  of the planet in consequence  of
collision  with  a  dark  sun.  As less  reprehensible than  theft,  highway
robbery,  cruelty  to children  and  animals,  obtaining  money under  false
pretences, 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,
desertion  from  armed  forces  in  the  field,  perjury,  poaching,  usury,
intelligence  with  the  king's  enemies,  impersonation,  criminal assault,
manslaughter,  wilful and premeditated murder. As not more abnormal than all
other altered processes  of adaptation to  altered conditions of  existence,
resulting  in a reciprocal equilibrium between the bodily  organism and  its
attendant  circumstances,   foods,  beverages,  acquired  habits,   indulged
inclinations, 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
adulterously 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 witness),  not yet. Suit  for
damages  by  legal  influence  or  simulation of  assault  with evidence  of
injuries  sustained  (selfinflicted),  not  impossibly.  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 separator from both.

     By  what  reflections  did he, a  conscious  reactor  against  the void
incertitude, 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 selfprolonging tension of the thing proposed to be  done and the
self abbreviating relaxation of  the  thing done: the  fallaciously inferred
debility  of  the female,  the  muscularity of  the male: the variations  of
ethical  codes: the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving no
alteration of sense of an aorist preterite  proposition (parsed as masculine
subject, monosyllabic  onomatop<oe>ic transitive verb  with direct  feminine
object)  from  the  active  voice  into  its  correlative  aorist  preterite
proposition   (parsed   as    feminine    subject,   auxiliary    verb   and
quasimonosyllabic   onomatop<oe>ic   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 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
impression  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,  Limited, 8, 9
and  10 Little  Britain street, the erotic provocation and response  thereto
caused by the exhibitionism of Gertrude  (Gerty), surname unknown. Positive:
he included mention of  a  performance by Mrs Bandman 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  entitled  <i>Sweets  of Sin</i>,  anonymous,
author  a gentleman of  fashion, a temporary concussion caused by  a falsely
calculated movement in the course of postcenal 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  aforesaid,  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 10  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 intercourse between  himself and
the  listener  had not  taken  place  since  the  consummation  of  puberty,
indicated  by  catamenic  hemorrhage, of the female  issue  of narrator  and
listener, 15 September  1903, there remained a period of 9  months and 1 day
during  which in consequence  of a  preestablished natural  comprehension in
incomprehension  between  the  consummated  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
latitude, N. and  6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an  angle of 45Ø  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 attitude
of Gea-Tellus,  fulfilled,  recumbent,  big  with seed.  Narrator:  reclined
laterally,  left, with right and left legs flexed, the indexfinger and thumb
of the  right  hand resting  on  the bridge of  the  nose,  in the  attitude
depicted on 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  a 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?


        Ulysses 18: Penelope

     YES BECAUSE HE  NEVER  DID A THING LIKE THAT BEFORE  AS  ASK To get his
breakfast in bed with  a couple of eggs  since  the  <i>City arms</i> hotel when he
used to be  pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to
make himself interesting  to that old faggot Mrs  Riordan that he thought he
had  a great leg of and she never  left  us a farthing  all for  masses  for
herself and her soul greatest  miser ever  was actually afraid to lay out 4d
for her methylated spirit telling me all her ailments she had  too  much old
chat in her about politics and earthquakes and  the end  of the world let us
have a bit of  fun first God  help the world if  all the women were her sort
down on bathing-suits  and lownecks  of  course  nobody wanted her to wear I
suppose  she was pious because no man  would look  at  her twice I hope I'll
never be like her a wonder  she didnt want us to cover our faces but she was
a welleducated woman certainly and her gabby talk about Mr  Riordan here and
Mr Riordan  there  I suppose he was glad  to get shut  of her  and  her  dog
smelling my fur and always edging to get  up  under my petticoats especially
then still I like that in him polite to old  women like that and waiters and
beggars too hes not proud  out of  nothing  but not  always if  ever he  got
anything really serious the matter with him its much better for them go into
a hospital where everything is clean but I suppose Id have to dring  it into
him  for a month yes and then wed have a  hospital nurse  next  thing on the
carpet have him staying there till  they throw  him out  or a nun maybe like
the  smutty photo he has shes as much a nun  as Im not yes because theyre so
weak and puling when theyre sick they want a  woman to get well if his  nose
bleeds  youd  think it was O tragic and that dyinglooking one  off the south
circular  when  he  sprained  his  foot at the choir party at the  sugarloaf
Mountain the day I wore that dress Miss Stack bringing him flowers the worst
old ones  she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at  all to get
into a mans bedroom with her old maids voice trying to imagine he  was dying
on account of her  to never see thy face again though he looked  more like a
man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate
bandaging and  dosing when he  cut  his toe with the razor  paring his corns
afraid hed get blood poisoning but if it was a thing I was sick then wed see
what attention only of course the woman hides it not to give all the trouble
they do yes he came somewhere Im sure by his appetite anyway love its not or
hed be off  his feed thinking  of her so  either it  was one  of those night
women if it was  down there  he was really and the hotel  story he made up a
pack of lies to hide it planning it Hynes kept me who  did I meet  ah yes  I
met do you remember  Menton and who else who let me see that big babbyface I
saw  him  and he  not long  married  flirting with  a young  girl at  Pooles
Myriorama  and  turned  my back on  him  when he  slinked  out looking quite
conscious what harm but he had the impudence  to make up to me one time well
done to him mouth almighty and his boiled eyes of all the big stupoes I ever
met and thats  called a solicitor only for I hate  having a long wrangle  in
bed  or else  if its not that its some little bitch or other he  got in with
somewhere or picked up on the sly if they only knew him as well as I do  yes
because the day before yesterday he was scribbling something a letter when I
came into the front room for the matches to show him  Dignams  death in  the
paper as if something  told me  and  he covered it up with the blottingpaper
pretending  to be thinking about business  so very  probably  that was it to
somebody who thinks she has a softy in  him because  all men get  a bit like
that at his  age  especially getting on to forty he is now so  as to wheedle
any  money  she can out of him no fool like an old fool and  then the  usual
kissing my bottom was to hide it not  that I care two straws who  he does it
with  or knew before  that way though Id like to find out so long as  I dont
have the two  of them under my nose all the time like that slut that Mary we
had in Ontario terrace padding out her false bottom to excite him bad enough
to  get the  smell of those  painted women off  him  once or twice  I had  a
suspicion by getting him to come near  me when I found the long  hair on his
coat  without  that one when  I went  into  the  kitchen pretending  he  was
drinking water I woman is not enough for them it was all his fault of course
ruining servants then proposing that she could eat at our table on Christmas
if you please O no thank  you not in my  house stealing my potatoes and  the
oysters 2/6  per doz going out  to see her aunt if you please common robbery
so  it was but I was  sure he had something  on with that one it takes me to
find out a thing like that he said you  have no proof it was her proof O yes
her aunt was very  fond  of oysters but I told her  what  I  thought  of her
suggesting me to go out to be alone  with her I wouldnt lower  myself to spy
on them  the garters  I  found in her room the Friday  she  was out that was
enough for me  a little bit too  much I  saw too that her face swelled up on
her  with temper when I gave  her her weeks  notice better  do without  them
altogether  do out the rooms  myself  quicker only for  the damn cooking and
throwing out the dirt I gave  it  to him  anyhow either she or me leaves the
house I couldnt even touch him  if I thought he was  with  a dirty barefaced
liar and sloven like that one denying it up to my face and singing about the
place in the W  C too because she knew she was too  well off yes because  he
couldnt possibly do without it that long so he must  do it somewhere and the
last time he came on my bottom when was it the  night Boylan  gave my hand a
great  squeeze going along  by the  Tolka in my hand there steals another  I
just pressed the back of his like that with my thumb to squeeze back singing
the young May Moon shes beaming love because he has an idea about him and me
hes not  such a fool he said Im dining out and going to the Gaiety though Im
not going to give him the satisfaction in any case God knows hes change in a
way  not  to  be always and ever wearing the same old hat unless] paid  some
nicelooking boy to do it since I cant do it myself a young boy would like me
Id confuse him a little alone with him if we were Id let him  see my garters
the new ones and  make him turn  red looking at him seduce him  I know  what
boys feel with  that down on their cheek doing that frigging drawing out the
thing by the hour question  and answer would you  do this that and the other
with the coalman yes with a bishop yes I would because I told him about some
Dean or Bishop  was sitting beside me in the jews Temples gardens when I was
knitting that woollen thing a stranger to Dublin what place was it and so on
about the monuments and he tired me out with statues  encouraging him making
him worse than he is who is in your mind now tell me who are you thinking of
who is it tell  me his name who  tell me  who the German  Emperor is it  yes
imagine Im him think  of  him can you feel  him trying to make a whore of me
what he never will he ought to give it up now at this age of his life simply
ruination for any woman and no satisfaction in it pretending to like it till
( he comes and then finish it off myself anyway and  it makes your lips pale
anyhow its done now once and for all with all the talk of the world about it
people make its only  the first time after that its just  the ordinary do it
and think  no  more  about it why  cant you kiss  a  man  without going  and
marrying him first you sometimes love to  wildly when you  feel that way  so
nice all over you you cant help yourself I wish some man or other would take
me  sometime when hes  there  and kiss me in his arms theres nothing  like a
kiss  long and hot down to  your soul almost paralyses  you then I hate that
confession when I  used  to go to Father  Corrigan he touched me father  and
what harm  if  he did  where and I  said on the  canal bank like a  fool but
whereabouts on  your  person my  child on the leg  behind high up was it yes
rather high up  was it where  you sit down yes  O Lord couldnt he say bottom
right out and have done with it what has that got to do with it and  did you
whatever way he put it I forget no  father  and I always think of  the  real
father  what did he  want to know for when I already  confessed it to God he
had a  nice fat hand the palm moist always I wouldnt mind feeling it neither
would he Id say by the bullneck  in his horsecollar  I wonder did he know me
in the box I could see his face he couldnt see mine of course hed never turn
or let on still his eyes were red  when his  father died theyre