Starting united both at normal walking pace from Beresford place they followed in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner streets and Mountjoy square, west: then, at reduced pace, each bearing left, Gardiner's place by an inadvertance as far as the farther corner of Temple street, north: then at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing right, Temple street, north, as far as Hardwicke place. Approaching, disparate, at relaxed walking pace they crossed both the circus before George's church diametrically, the chord in any circle being less than the arc which it subtends.
Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary?
Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and glow-lamps on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees, exposed corporation emergency dustbuckets, the Roman catholic church, ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers, the study of medicine, the past day, the male-cent influence of the presabbath, Stephen's collapse.
Did Bloom discover common factors of similarity between their respective like and unlike reactions to experience?
Both were sensitive to artistic impressions musical in preference to plastic or pictorial. Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of life, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence. Both indurated by early domestic training and an inherited tenacity of heterodox resistance professed their disbelief in many orthodox religious, national, social and ethical doctrines. Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual magnetism.
Were their views on some points divergent?
Stephen dissented openly from Bloom's view on the importance of dietary and civic self help while Bloom dissented tacitly from Stephen's views on the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man in literature. Bloom assented covertly to Stephen's rectification of the anachronism involved in assigning the date of the conversion of the Irish nation to christianity from druidism by Patrick son of Calpornus, son of Potitus, son of Odyssus, sent by pope Celestine I in the year 432 in the reign of Leary to the year 260 or thereabouts in the reign of Cormac MacArt (266 A.D.) suffocated by imperfect deglutition of aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnaree. The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying degrees of adulteration and alcoholic strength, accelerated by mental exertion and the velocity of rapid circular motion in a relaxing atmosphere, Stephen attributed to the reapparition of a matutinal cloud (perceived by both from two different points of observation, Sandycove and Dublin) at first no bigger than a woman's hand.
Was there one point on which their views were equal and negative?
The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees.
Had Bloom discussed similar subjects during nocturnal perambulations in the past?
In 1884 with Ower Goldberg and Cecil Turnbull at night on public thoroughfares between Longwood avenue and Leonard's corner and Leonard's corner and Synge street and Synge street and Bloomfield avenue. In 1885 with Percy Apjohn in the evenings, reclined against the wall between Gibraltar villa and Bloomfield house in Crumlin, barony of Uppercross. In 1886 occasionally with casual acquaintances and prospective purchasers on doorsteps, in front parlours, in third class railway carriages of suburban lines. In 1888 frequently with major Brian Tweedy and his daughter Miss Marion Tweedy, together and separately on the lounge in Matthew Dillon's house in Roundtown. Once in 1892 and once in 1893 with Julius Mastiansky, on both occasions in the parlour of his (Bloom's) house in Lombard street, west.
What reflection concerning the irregular sequence of dates 1884, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1904 did Bloom make before their arrival at their destination?
He reflected that the progressive extension of the field of individual development and experience was regressively accompanied by a restriction of the converse domain of interindividual relations.
As in what ways?
From inexistence to existence he came to many and was as one received: existence with existence he was with any as any with any: from existence to nonexistence gone he would be by all as none perceived.
What action did Bloom make on their arrival at their destination?
At the housesteps of the 4th of the equidifferent uneven numbers, number 7 Eccles street, he inserted his hand mechanically into the back pocket of his trousers to obtain his latchkey.
Was it there?
It was in the corresponding pocket of the trousers which he had worn on the day but one preceding.
Why was he doubly irritated?
Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget.
What were then the alternatives before the, premeditatedly (respectively) and inadvertently, keyless couple?
To enter or not to enter. To knock or not to knock.
Bloom's decision?
A stratagem. Resting his feet on the dwarf wall, he climbed over the area railings, compressed his hat on his head, grasped two points at the lower union of rails and stiles, lowered his body gradually by its length of five feet nine inches and a half to within two feet ten inches of the area pavement, and allowed his body to move freely in space by separating himself from the railings and crouching in preparation for the impact of the fall.
Did he fall?
By his body's known weight of eleven stone and four pounds in avoirdupois measure, as certified by the graduated machine for periodical selfweighing in the premises of Francis Fraedman, pharmaceutical chemist of 19 Frederick street, north, on the last feast of the Ascension, to wit, the twelfth day of May of the bissextile year one thousand nine hundred and four of the Christian era (jewish era five thousand six hundred and sixtyfour, mohammedan era one thousand three hundred and twentytwo), golden number $, epact 13, solar cycle 9, dominical letters C B, Roman indication 2, Julian period 6617, MXMIV.
Did he rise uninjured by concussion?
Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by the impact, raised the latch of the area door by the exertion of force at its freely moving flange and by leverage of the first kind applied at its fulcrum gained retarded access to the kitchen through the subadjacent scullery, ignited a Lucifer match by friction, set free inflammable coal gas by turning on the ventcock, lit a high flame which, by regulating, he reduced to quiescent candescence and lit finally a portable candle.
What discrete succession of images did Stephen meanwhile perceive?
Reclined against the area railings he perceived through the transparent kitchen panes a man regulating a gasflame of 14 C P, a man lighting a candle, a man removing in turn each of his two boots, a man leaving the kitchen holding a candle of ICP.
Did the man reappear elsewhere?
Alter a lapse of four minutes the glimmer of his candle was discernible through the semitransparent semicircular glass fanlight over the halldoor. The halldoor turned gradually on its hinges. In the open space of the doorway the man reappeared without his hat, with his candle.
Did Stephen obey his sign?
Yes, entering softly, he helped to close and chain the door and followed softly along the hallway the man's back and listed feet and lighted candle past a lighted crevice of doorway on the left and carefully down a turning staircase of more than five steps into the kitchen of Bloom's house.
What did Bloom do?
He extinguished the candle by a sharp expiration of breath upon its flame, drew two spoonseat deal chairs to the hearthstone, one for Stephen with its back to the area window, the other for himself when necessary, knelt on one knee, composed in the grate a pyre of crosslaid resintipped sticks and various coloured papers and irregular polygons of best Abram coal at twentyone shillings a ton from the yard of Messrs Flower and M'Donald of 14 D'Olier street, kindled it at three projecting points of paper with one ignited lucifer match, thereby releasing the potential energy contained in the fuel by allowing its carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union with the oxygen of the air.
Of what similar apparitions did Stephen think?
Of others elsewhere in other times who, kneeling on one knee or on two, had kindled fires for him, of Brother Michael in the infirmary of the college of the Society of Jesus at Clongowes Wood, Sallins, in the county of Kildare: of his father, Simon Dedalus, in an unfurnished room of his first residence in Dublin, number thirteen Fitzgibbon street: of his godmother Miss Kate Morkan in the house of her dying sister Miss Julia Morkan at 15 Usher's Island: of his mother Mary, wife of Simon Dedalus, in the kitchen of number twelve North Richmond street on the morning of the feast of Saint Francis-Xavier 1898: of the dean of studies, Father Butt, in the physics' theatre of university College, 16 Stephen's green, north: of his sister Dilly (Delia) in his father's house in Cabra.
What did Stephen see on raising his gaze to the height of a yard from the fire towards the opposite wall?
Under a row of five coiled spring housebells a curvilinear rope, stretched between two holdfasts athwart across the recess beside the chimney pier, from which hung four smallsized square handkerchiefs folded unattached consecutively in adjacent rectangles and one pair of ladies' grey hose with lisle suspendertops and feet in their habitual position clamped by three erect wooden pegs two at their outer extremities and the third at their point of junction.
What did Bloom see on the range?
On the right (smaller) hob a blue enamelled saucepan: on the left (larger) hob a black iron kettle.
What did Bloom do at the range?
He removed the saucepan to the left hob, rose and carried the iron kettle to the sink in order to tap the current by turning the faucet to let it flow.
Did it flow?
Yes. From Roundwood reservoir in county Wicklow of a cubic capacity of 2,400 million gallons, percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of filter mains of single and double pipeage constructed at an initial plant cost of #5 per linear yard by way of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the Downs and Callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a distance of 22 statute miles, and thence, through a system of relieving tanks, by a gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and waterworks engineer, Mr Spencer Harty, C.E., on the instructions of the waterworks committee, had prohibited the use of municipal water for purposes other than those of consumption (envisaging the possibility of recourse being had to the importable water of the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893) particularly as the South Dublin Guardians, notwithstanding their ration of 15 gallons per day per pauper supplied through a 6 inch meter, had been convicted of a wastage of 20,000 gallons per night by a reading of their meter on the affirmation of the law agent of the corporation, Mr Ignatius Rice, solicitor, thereby acting to the detriment of another section of the public, selfsupporting taxpayers, solvent, sound.
What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier returning to the range, admire?
Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's projection: its umplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8,000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: Its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including billions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents: gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs, and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe) numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90% of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.
Having set the halffilled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he return to the stillflowing tap?
To wash his soiled hands with a partially consumed tablet of Barrington's lemonflavoured soap, to which paper still adhered (bought thirteen hours previously for fourpence and still unpaid for), in fresh cold neverchanging everchanging water and dry them, face and hands, in a long redbordered holland cloth passed over a wooden revolving roller.
What reason did Stephen give for declining Bloom's offer?
That he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by submersion in cold water (his last bath having taken place in the month of October of the preceding year), disliking the aqueous substances of glass and crystal, distrusting aquacities of thought and language.
What impeded Bloom from giving Stephen counsels of hygiene and prophylactic to which should be added suggestions concerning a preliminary wetting of the head and contraction of the muscles with rapid splashing of the face and neck and thoracic and epigastric region in case of sea or river bathing, the parts of the human anatomy most sensitive to cold being the nape, stomach, and thenar or sole of foot?
The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.
What additional didactic counsels did he similarly repress?
Dietary: concerning the respective percentage of protein and caloric energy in bacon, salt ling and butter, the absence of the former in the lastnamed and the abundance of the latter in the firstnamed.
Which seemed to the host to be the predominant qualities of his guest?
Confidence in himself, an equal and opposite power of abandonment and recuperation.
What concomitant phenomenon took place in the vessel of liquid by the agency of fire?
The phenomenon of ebullition. Fanned by a constant updraught of ventilation
between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the
faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal,
containing in compressed mineral form the foliated fossilised decidua of
primeval forests which had in turn derived their vegetative existence from the
sun, primal source of heat (radiant), transmitted through omnipresent
luminiferous diathermanous ether. Heat (convected), a mode of motion developed
by such combustion, was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the source of
calorification to the liquid contained in the vessel, being radiated through the
uneven unpolished dark surface of the metal iron, in part reflected, in part
absorbed, in part transmitted, gradually raising the temperature of the water
from normal to boiling point, a rise in temperature expressible as the result of
an expenditure of 72 thermal units needed to raise I pound of water from 50
What announced the accomplishment of this rise in temperature?
A double falciform ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at both
sides simultaneously.
For what personal purpose could Bloom have applied the water so boiled?
To shave himself.
What advantages attended shaving by night?
A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from shave
to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering
female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections
upon the course of the day: a cleaner sensation when awaking after a fresher
sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and perturbations, a clattered
milkcan, a postman's double knock, a paper read, reread while lathering,
relathering the same spot, a shock, a shoot, with thought of aught he sought
though fraught with nought might cause a faster rate of shaving and a nick on
which incision plaster with precision cut and humected and applied adhered which
was to be done.
Why did absence of light disturb him less than presence of noises
Because of the surety of the sense of touch in his firm full masculine
feminine passive active hand.
What quality did it (his hand) possess but with what counteracting influence?
The operative surgical quality but that he was reluctant to shed human blood
even when the end justified the means, preferring in their natural order,
heliotherapy, psychophysicotherapeutics, osteopathic surgery.
What lay under exposure on the lower middle and upper shelves of the kitchen
dresser opened by Bloom?
On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal breakfast
saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a moustachecup, uninverted, and
saucer of Crown Derby, four white goldrimmed eggcups, and open shammy purse
displaying coins, mostly copper, and a phial of aromatic violet comfits. On the
middle shelf a chipped eggcup containing pepper, a drum of table salt, four
conglomerated black olives in oleaginous paper, an empty pot of Plumtree's
potted meat, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and containing one Jersey
pear, a halfempty bottle of William Gilbey and Co's white invalid port, half
disrobed of its swathe of coralpink tissue paper, a packet of Epps's soluble
cocoa, five ounces of Anne Lynch's choice tea at 2/- per lb. in a crinkled
leadpaper bag, a cylindrical canister containing the best crystallised lump
sugar, two onions, one the larger, Spanish, entire, the other, smaller, Irish,
bisected with augmented surface and more redolent, a jar of Irish Model Dairy's
cream, a jug of brown crockery containing a noggin and a quarter of soured
adulterated milk, converted by heat into water, acidulous serum and
semisolidified curds, which added to the quantity subtracted for Mr Bloom's and
Mrs Fleming's breakfasts made one imperial pint, the total quantity originally
delivered, two cloves, a halfpenny and a small dish containing a slice of fresh
ribsteak. On the upper shelf a battery of jamjars of various sizes and
proveniences.
What attracted his attention lying on the apron of the dresser?
Four polygonal fragments of two lacerated scarlet betting tickets, numbered
887, 886.
What reminiscences temporarily corrugated his brow?
Reminiscences of coincidences, truth stranger than fiction, preindicative of
the result of the Gold Cup flat handicap, the official and definitive result of
which he had read in the Evening Telegraph, late pink edition, in the
cabman's shelter, at Butt bridge.
Where had previous intimations of the result, effected or projected, been
received by him?
In Bernard Kiernan's licensed premises 8, 9 and 10 Little Britain street: in
David Byrne's licensed premises, 14 Duke street: in O'Connell street lower,
outside Graham Lemon's when a dark man had placed in his hand a throwaway
(subsequently thrown away), advertising Elijah, restorer of the church in Zion:
in Lincoln place outside the premises of F. W. Sweny and Co (Limited) dispensing
chemists, when, when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively
requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the
Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to
throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental
edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths, 11 Leinster street, with the light of
inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in his arms the secret of the
race, graven in the language of prediction.
What qualifying considerations allayed his perturbations?
The difficulties of interpretation since the significance of any event
followed its occurrence as variably as the acoustic report followed the
electrical discharge and of counterestimating against an actual loss by failure
to interpret the total sum of possible losses proceeding originally from a
successful interpretation.
His mood?
He hid not risked, he did not expect, he had not been disappointed, he was
satisfied.
What satisfied him?
To have sustained no positive loss. To have brought a positive gain to
others. Light to the gentiles.
How did Bloom prepare a collation for a gentile?
He poured into two teacups two level spoonfuls, four in all, of Epps's
soluble cocoa and proceeded according to the directions for use printed on the
label, to each adding after sufficient time for infusion the prescribed
ingredients for diffusion in the manner and in the quantity prescribed.
What supererogatory marks of special hospitality did the host show his guest?
Relinquishing his symposiarchal right to the moustache cup of imitation Crown
Derby presented to him by his only daughter, Millicent (Milly), he substituted a
cup identical with that of his guest and served extraordinarily to his guest
and, in reduced measure, to himself the viscous cream ordinarily reserved for
the breakfast of his wife Marion (Molly).
Was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge these marks of hospitality?
His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely and he accepted them
seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps's massproduct, the creature
cocoa.
Were there marks of hospitality which he contemplated but suppressed,
reserving them for another and for himself on future occasions to complete the
act begun?
The reparation of a fissure of the length of 1 1/2 inches in the right side
of his guest's jacket. A gift to his guest of one of the four lady's
handkerchiefs, if and when ascertained to be in a presentable condition.
Who drank more quickly?
Bloom, having the advantage of ten seconds at the initiation ad taking, from
the concave surface of a spoon along the handle of which a steady flow of heat
was conducted, three sips to his opponent's one, six to two, nine to three.
What cerebration accompanied his frequentative act?
Concluding by inspection but erroneously that his silent companion was
engaged in mental composition he reflected on the pleasures derived from
literature of instruction rather than of amusement as he himself had applied to
the works of William Shakespeare more than once for the solution of difficult
problems in imaginary or real life.
Had he found their solution?
In spite of careful and repeated reading of certain classical passages, aided
by a glossary, he had derived imperfect conviction from the text, the answers
not bearing on all points.
What lines concluded his first piece of original verse written by him,
potential poet, at the age of 11 in 1877 on the occasion of the offering of
three prizes at 10/-, 5/- and 2/6 respectively by the Shamrock, a weekly
newspaper?
Did he find four separating forces between his temporary guest and him?
Name, age, race, creed.
What anagrams had he made on his name in youth?
Leopold Bloom
Ellpodbomool
Molldopeloob.
Bollo edoom
Old Ollebo, M. P.
What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic poet)
sent to Miss Marion Tweedy on the 14 February 1888?
What had prevented him from completing a topical song (music by R. G.
Johnston) on the events of the past, or fixtures for the actual years, entitled
If Brian Boru could but come back and see old Dublin now, commissioned by
Michael Gunn, lessee of the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street,
and to be introduced into the sixth scene, the valley of diamonds, of the second
edition (30 January 1893) of the grand annual Christmas pantomime Sinbad the
Sailor (written by Greenleaf Whittier, scenery by George A. Jackson and
Cecil Hicks, costumes by Mrs and Miss Whelan, produced by R. Shelton 26 December
1892 under the personal supervision of Mrs Michael Gunn, ballets by Jessie Noir,
harlequinade by Thomas Otto) and sung by Nelly Bouverist principal girl?
Firstly, oscillation between events of imperial and of local interest, the
anticipated diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria (born 1820, acceded 1837) and the
posticipated opening of the new municipal fish market: secondly, apprehension of
opposition from extreme circles on the questions of the respective visits of
Their Royal Highnesses, the duke and duchess of York (real), and of His Majesty
King Brian Boru (imaginary); thirdly, a conflict between professional etiquette
and professional emulation concerning the recent erections of the Grand Lyric
Hall on Burgh Quay and the Theatre Royal in Hawkins street: fourthly,
distraction resultant from compassion for Nelly Bouverist's non-intellectual,
non-political, nontopical expression of countenance and concupiscence caused by
Nelly Bouverist's revelations of white articles of nonintellectual,
non-political, non-topical underclothing while she (Nelly Bouverist) was in the
articles: fifthly, the difficulties of the selection of appropriate music and
humorous allusions from Everybody's Book of Jokes (1,000 pages and a
laugh in every one); sixthly, the rhymes homophonous and cacophonous, associated
with the names of the new lord mayor, Daniel Tallon, the new high sheriff,
Thomas Pile and the new solicitorgeneral, Dunbar Plunket Barton.
What relation existed between their ages?
16 years before in 1888 when Bloom was of Stephen's present age Stephen was
6.16 years after in 1920 when Stephen would be of Bloom's present age Bloom
would be 54. In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages initially
in the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17 1/2 to 13 1/2, the proportion increasing
and the disparity diminishing according as arbitrary future years were added,
for if the proportion existing in 1883 had continued immutable, conceiving that
to be possible, till then 1904 when Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in
1920 when Stephen would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom would be 646 while in
1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 Bloom,
being 1190 years alive having been born in the year 714, would have surpassed by
221 years the maximum antediluvian age, that of Methusalah, 969 years, while, if
Stephen would continue to live until he would attain that age in the year 3072
A.D., Bloom would have been obliged to have been alive 83,300 years, having been
obliged to have been born in the year 81,396 B.C.
What events might nullify these calculations?
The cessation of existence of both or either, the inauguration of a new era
or calendar, the annihilation of the world and consequent extermination of the
human species, inevitable but impredictable.
How many previous encounters proved their preexisting acquaintance?
Two. The first in the lilacgarden of Matthew Dillon's house, Medina Villa,
Kimmage road, Roundtown, in 1887, in the company of Stephen's mother, Stephen
being then of the age of 5 and reluctant to give his hand in salutation. The
second in the coffeeroom of Breslin's hotel on a rainy Sunday in the January of
1892, in the company of Stephen's father and Stephen's granduncle, Stephen being
then 5 years older.
Did Bloom accept the invitation to dinner given then by the son and
afterwards seconded by the father?
Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative
gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.
Did their conversation on the subject of these reminiscences reveal a third
connecting link between them?
Mrs Riordan, a widow of independent means, had resided in the house of
Stephen's parents from 1 September 1888 to 29 December 1891 and had also resided
during the years 1892, 1893 and 1894 in the City Arms Hotel owned by Elizabeth
O'Dowd of 54 Prussia street where during parts of the years 1893 and 1894 she
had been a constant informant of Bloom who resided also in the same hotel, being
at that time a clerk in the employment of Joseph Cuffe of 5 Smithfield for the
superintendence of sales in the adjacent Dublin Cattle market on the North
Circular road.
Had he performed any special corporal work of mercy for her?
He had sometimes propelled her on warm summer evenings, an infirm widow of
independent, if limited means, in her convalescent bathchair with slow
revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the North Circular road
opposite Mr Gavin Low's place of business where she had remained for a certain
time scanning through his onelensed binocular fieldglasses unrecognisable
citizens on tramcars, roadster bicycles, equipped with inflated pneumatic tyres,
hackney carriages, tandems, private and hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and
brakes passing from the city to the Phoenix Park and vice versa.
Why could he then support that his vigil with the greater equanimity?
Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of bossed
glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of
the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes, vehicles,
passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round and round the rim of a round
precipitous globe.
What distinct different memories had each of her now eight years deceased?
The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her suppositions
wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the
younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the Immaculate Conception,
her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt,
her tissue papers.
Were there no means still remaining to him to achieve the rejuvenation which
these reminiscences divulged to a younger companion rendered the more desirable?
The indoor exercises, formerly intermittently practised, subsequently
abandoned, prescribed in Eugen Sandow's Physical Strength and How To Obtain
It which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary
occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so
as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a
pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility.
Had any special agility been his in earlier youth?
Though ringweight lifting had been beyond his strength and the full circle
gyration beyond his courage yet as a High School scholar he had excelled in his
table and protracted execution of the half lever movement on the parallel bars
in consequence of his abnormally developed abdominal muscles.
Did either openly allude to their racial difference?
Neither.
What, reduced to their simplest reciprocal form, were Bloom's thoughts about
Stephen's thoughts about Bloom and Bloom's thoughts about Stephen's thoughts
about Bloom's thoughts about Stephen?
He thought that he thought that he was a jew whereas he knew that he knew
that he knew that he was not.
What, the enclosures of reticence removed, were their respective parentages?
Bloom, only born male transubstantial heir of Rudolf Virag (subsequently
Rudolf Bloom) of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London and Dublin and of
Ellen Higgins, second daughter of Julius Higgins (born Karoly) and Fanny Higgins
(born Hegarty); Stephen, eldest surviving male consubstantial heir of Simon
Dedalus of Cork and Dublin and of Mary, daughter of Richard and Christina
Goulding (born Grier).
Had Bloom and Stephen been baptised, and where and by whom, cleric or layman?
Bloom (three times) by the reverend Mr Gilmer Johnston M. A. alone in the
protestant church of Saint Nicolas Without, Coombe; by James O'Connor, Philip
Gilligan and James Fitzpatrick, together, under a pump in the village of Swords;
and by the reverend Charles Malone C. C., in the church of the Three Patrons,
Rathgar. Stephen (once) by the reverend Charles Malone, C. C., alone, in the
church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar.
Did they find their educational careers similar?
Substituting Stephen for Bloom Stoom would have passed successively through a
dame's school and the high school. Substituting Bloom for Stephen Blephen would
have passed successively through the preparatory, junior, middle and senior
grades of the intermediate and through the matriculation, first arts, second
arts and arts degree course of the royal university.
Why did Bloom refrain from stating that he had frequented the university of
life?
Because of his fluctuating incertitude as to whether this observation had or
had not been already made by him to Stephen or by Stephen to him.
What two temperaments did they individually represent?
The scientific. The artistic.
What proofs did Bloom adduce to prove that his tendency was towards applied,
rather than towards pure, science?
Certain possible inventions of which he had cogitated when reclining in a
state of supine repletion to aid digestion, stimulated by his appreciation of
the importance of inventions now common but once revolutionary for example, the
aeronautic parachute, the reflecting telescope, the spiral corkscrew, the safety
pin, the mineral water siphon, the canal lock with winch and sluice, the suction
pump.
Were these inventions principally intended for an improved scheme of
kindergarten?
Yes, rendering obsolete popguns, elastic airbladders, games of hazard,
catapults. They comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the twelve
constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature mechanical
orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to correspond with
zoological biscuits, globemap playingballs, historically costumed dolls.
What also stimulated him in his cogitations?
The financial success achieved by Ephraim Marks and Charles A. James, the
former by his 1d. bazaar at 42 George's street, South, the latter at his 6 1/2d.
shop and world's fancy fair and waxwork exhibition at 30 Henry street, admission
2d., children 1d.; and the infinite possibilities hitherto unexploited of the
modern art of advertisement if condensed in triliteral monoideal symbols,
vertically of maximum visibility (divined), horizontally of maximum legibility
(deciphered) and of magnetising efficacy to arrest involuntary attention, to
interest, to convince, to decide.
Such as?
K. 11. Kino's 111- Trousers.
House of Keys. Alexander J. Keyes.
Such as not?
Look at this long candle. Calculate when it burns out and you receive gratis
I pair of our special non-compo boots, guaranteed I candle power. Address:
Barclay and Cook, 18 Talbot Street.
Bacilikil (Insect Powder).
Veribest (Boot Blacking).
Uwantit (Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and
pipecleaner).
Such as never?
What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat?
Incomplete.
With it an abode of bliss.
Manufactured by George Plumtree, 23 Merchants' quay, Dublin, put up in 4 oz.
pots, and inserted by Councillor Joseph P. Nannetti, M. P., Rotunda Ward, 19
Hardwicke street, under the obituary notices and anniversaries of deceases. The
name on the label is Plumtree. A plumtree is a meatpot, registered trade mark.
Beware of imitations. Peatmot. Trumplee. Montpat. Plamtroo.
Which example did he adduce to induce Stephen to deduce that originality,
though producing its own reward, does not invariably conduce to success?
His own ideated and rejected project of an illuminated showcart, drawn by a
beast of burden, in which two smartly dressed girls were to be seated engaged in
writing.
What suggested scene was then constructed by Stephen?
Solitary hotel in mountain pass. Autumn. Twilight. Fire lit. In dark corner
young man seated. Young woman enters. Restless. Solitary. She sits. She goes to
window. She stands. She sits. Twilight. She thinks. On solitary hotel paper she
writes. She thinks. She writes. She sighs. Wheels and hoofs. She hurries out. He
comes from his dark corner. He seizes solitary paper. He holds it towards fire.
Twilight. He reads. Solitary
What?
In sloping, upright and backhands: Queen's hotel, Queen's hotel, Queen's
Ho...
What suggested scene was then reconstructed by Bloom?
The Queen's Hotel, Ennis, County, Glare, where Rudolph Bloom (Rudolf Virag)
died on the evening of the 27 June 1886, at some hour unstated, in consequence
of an overdose of monkshood (aconite) selfadministered in the form of a
neuralgic liniment, composed of 2 parts of aconite liniment to 1 of chloroform
liniment (purchased by him at 10.20 a.m. on the morning of 27 June 1886 at the
medical hall of Francis Dennehy, 17 Church street, Ennis) after having, though
not in consequence of having, purchased at 3.15 p.m. on the afternoon of 27 June
1886 a new boater straw hat, extra smart (after having, though not in
consequence of having, purchased at the hour and in the place aforesaid, the
toxin aforesaid), at the general drapery store of James Cullen, 4 Main street,
Ennis.
Did he attribute this homonymity to information or coincidence or intuition?
Coincidence.
Did he depict the scene verbally for his guest to see?
He preferred himself to see another's face and listen to another's words by
which potential narration was realised and kinetic temperament relieved.
Did he see only a second coincidence in the second scene narrated to him,
described by the narrator as A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The
Parable of the Plums?
It, with the preceding scene and with others unnarrated but existent by
implication, to which add essays on various subjects or moral apothegms (e.g.
My Favourite Hero or Procrastination is the Thief of Time)
composed during schoolyears, seemed to him to contain in itself and in
conjunction with the personal equation certain possibilities of financial,
social, personal and sexual success, whether specially collected and selected as
model pedagogic themes (of cent per cent merit) for the use of preparatory and
junior grade students or contributed in printed form, following the precedent of
Philip Beaufoy or Doctor Dick or Heblon's Studies in Blue, to a
publication of certified circulation and solvency or employed verbally as
intellectual stimulation for sympathetic auditors, tacitly appreciative of
successful narrative and confidently augurative of successful achievement,
during the increasingly longer nights gradually following the summer solstice on
the day but three following, videlict, Tuesday, 21 June (S. Aloysius Gonzaga),
sunrise 3.33 a.m., sunset 8.29 p.m.
Which domestic problem as much as, if not more than, any other frequently
engaged his mind?
What to do with our wives.
What had been his hypothetical singular solutions?
Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spillikins, cup and ball, nap,
spoil five, bezique, twentyfive, beggar my neighbour, draughts, chess or
backgammon): embroidery, darning or knitting for the policeaided clothing
society: musical duets, mandoline and guitar, piano and flute, guitar and piano:
legal scrivenery or envelope addressing: biweekly visits to variety
entertainments: commercial activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasingly
obeyed mistress proprietress in a cool dairy shop or warm cigar divan: the
clandestine satisfaction of erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state
inspected and medically controlled: social visits, at regular infrequent
prevented intervals and with regular frequent preventive superintendence, to and
from female acquaintances of recognised respectability in the vicinity: courses
of evening instruction specially designed to render liberal instruction
agreeable.
What instances of deficient mental development in his wife inclined him in
favour of the lastmentioned (ninth) solution?
In disoccupied moments she had more than once covered a sheet of paper with
signs and hieroglyphics which she stated were Greek and Irish and Hebrew
characters. She had interrogated constantly at varying intervals as to the
correct method of writing the capital initial of the name of a city in Canada,
Quebec. She understood little of political complications, internal, or balance
of power, external. In calculating the addenda of bills she frequently had
recourse to digital aid. After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she
abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment exposed to the
corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall. Unusual polysyllables
of foreign origin she interpreted phonetically or by false analogy or by both:
metempsychosis (met him pike hoses), alias (a mendacious person mentioned
in sacred Scripture).
What compensated in the false balance of her intelligence for these and such
deficiencies of judgment regarding persons, places and things?
The false apparent parallelism of all perpendicular arms of all balances,
proved true by construction. The counterbalance of her proficiency of judgment
regarding one person, proved true by experiment.
How had he attempted to remedy this state of comparative ignorance?
Variously. By leaving in a conspicuous place a certain book open at a certain
page: by assuming in her, when alluding explanatorily, latent knowledge: by open
ridicule in her presence of some absent other's ignorant lapse.
With what success had he attempted direct instruction?
She followed not all, a part of the whole, gave attention with interest,
comprehended with surprise, with care repeated, with greater difficulty
remembered, forgot with ease, with misgiving reremembered, rerepeated with
error.
What system had proved more effective?
Indirect suggestion implicating self-interest.
Example?
She disliked umbrella with rain, he liked woman with umbrella, she disliked
new hat with rain, he liked woman with new hat, he bought new hat with rain, she
carried umbrella with new hat.
Accepting the analogy implied in his guest's parable which examples of
postexilic eminence did he adduce?
Three seekers of the pure truth, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, author of
More Neubkim (Guide of the Perplexed) and Moses Mendelssohn of such
eminence that from Moses (of Egypt) to Moses (Mendelssohn) there arose none like
Moses (Maimonides).
What statement was made, under correction, by Bloom concerning a fourth
seeker of pure truth, by name Aristotle, mentioned, with permission, by Stephen?
That the seeker mentioned had been a pupil of a rabbinical philosopher, name
uncertain.
Were other anapocryphal illustrious sons of the law and children of a
selected or rejected race mentioned?
Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (composer), Baruch Spinoza (philosopher), Mendoza
(pugilist), Ferdinand Lassalle (reformer, duellist).
What fragments of verse from the ancient Hebrew and ancient Irish languages
were cited with modulations of voice and translation of texts by guest to host
and by host to guest?
By Stephen: suil, suil, suil arun, suil go siocair agus, suil go cuin
(walk, walk, walk your way, walk in safety, walk with care).
By Bloom: Kifeloch, harimon rakatejch m'baad l'zamatejch (thy temple
amid thy hair is as a slice of pomegranate).
How was a glyphic comparison of the phonic symbols of both languages made in
substantiation of the oral comparison?
On the penultimate blank page of a book of inferior literary style, entitled
Sweets of Sin (produced by Bloom and so manipulated that its front cover
came in contact with the surface of the table) with a pencil (supplied by
Stephen) Stephen wrote the Irish characters for gee, eh, dee, em, simple and
modified, and Bloom in turn wrote the Hebrew characters ghimel, aleph, daleth
and (in the absence of mem) a substituted goph, explaining their arithmetical
values as ordinal and cardinal numbers, videlicet 3, 1,4 and 100.
Was the knowledge possessed by both of each of these languages, the extinct
and the revived, theoretical or practical?
Theoretical, being confined to certain grammatical rules of accidence and
syntax and practically excluding vocabulary.
What points of contact existed between these languages and between the
peoples who spoke them?
The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and
servile letters in both languages: their antiquity, both having been taught on
the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by
Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, progenitor of Israel, and ascendant of
Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their archeological, genealogical,
hagiographical, exegetical, homilectic, toponomastic, historical and religious
literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna
and Ghemara) Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow, Book of Ballymote, Garland
of Howth, Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the
isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto (S. Mary's
Abbey) and masshouse (Adam and Eve's tavern): the proscription of their national
costumes in penal laws and Jewish dress acts: the restoration in Chanan David of
Zion and the possibility of Irish political autonomy or devolution.
What anthem did Bloom chant partially in anticipation of that multiple,
ethnically irreductible consummation?
In consequence of defective mnemotechnic.
How did the chanter compensate for this deficiency? By a periphrastic version
of the general text.
In what common study did their mutual reflections merge?
The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic
hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of modern
stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions (Semitic) and the
virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).
Did the guest comply with his host's request?
Doubly, by appending his signature in Irish and Roman characters.
What was Stephen's auditive sensation?
He heard in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation of the
past.
What was Bloom's visual sensation?
He saw in a quick young male familiar form the predestination of a future.
What were Stephen's and Bloom's quasisimultaneous volitional quasisensations
of concealed identities?
Visually, Stephen's: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted by
Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic,
sesquipedalian with winedark hair.
Auditively, Bloom's: The traditional accent of the ecstasy of catastrophe.
What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the past and with what
exemplars?
In the church, Roman, Anglican, or Nonconformist: exemplars, the very
reverend John Conmee S.J., the reverend T. Salmon, D.D., provost of Trinity
college, Dr Alexander J. Dowie. At the bar, English or Irish: exemplars, Seymour
Bushe, K.C., Rufus Isaacs, K.C. On the stage, modern or Shakespearean exemplars,
Charles Wyndham, high comedian, Osmond Tearle (1901), exponent of Shakespeare.
Did the host encourage his guest to chant in a modulated voice a strange
legend on an allied theme?
Reassuringly, their place where none could hear them talk being secluded,
reassured, the decocted beverages, allowing for subsolid residual sediment of a
mechanical mixture, water plus sugar plus cream plus cocoa, having been
consumed.
Recite the first (major) part of this chanted legend?
With unmixed feeling. Smiling, a jew, he heard with pleasure and saw the
unbroken kitchen window.
Recite the second part (minor) of the legend.
`I can't come back and I won't come back She took him by the lilywhite hand She took a penknife out of her pocket With mixed feelings. Unsmiling, he heard and saw with wonder a jew's
daughter, all dressed in green.
Condense Stephen's commentary.
Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?
He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by
him not be told.
Why was the host (reluctant, unresisting) still?
In accordance with the law of the conservation of energy.
Why was the host (secret infidel) silent?
He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the
incitation of the hierarchy, the superstition of the populace, the propagation
of rumour in continued fraction of veridicity, the envy of opulence, the
influence of retaliation, the sporadic reappearance of atavistic delinquency,
the mitigating circumstances of fanaticism, hypnotic suggestion and
somnambulism.
From which (if any) of these mental or physical disorders was he not totally
immune?
From hypnotic suggestion: once, waking, he had not recognised his sleeping
apartment: more than once, waking, he had been for an indefinite time incapable
of moving or uttering sounds. From somnambulism: once, sleeping, his body had
risen, crouched and crawled in the direction of a heatless fire and, having
attained its destination, there, curled, unheated in night attire had lain,
sleeping.
Had this latter or any cognate phenomenon declared itself in any member of
his family?
Twice, in Holles street and in Ontario terrace, his daughter Millicent
(Milly) at the ages of 6 and 8 years had uttered in sleep an exclamation of
terror and had replied to the interrogations of two figures in night attire with
a vacant mute expression.
What other infantile memories had he of her?
15 June 1889. A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause and lessen
congestion. A child renamed Padney Socks she shook with shocks her moneybox:
counted his three free moneypenny buttons one, tloo, tlee: a doll, a boy, a
sailor she cast away: blond, born of two dark, she had blond ancestry, remote, a
violation, Herr Hauptmann Hainau, Austrian army, proximate, a hallucination,
lieutenant Mulvey, British navy.
What endemic characteristics were present?
Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a direct line of
lineage which, though interrupted, would continue at distant intervals to its
most distant intervals.
What memories had he of her adolescence?
She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a recess. On the duke's lawn
entreated by an English visitor, she declined to permit him to make and take
away her photographic image (objection not stated). On the South Circular road
in the company of Elsa Potter, followed by an individual of sinister aspect, she
went half way down Stamer street and turned abruptly back (reason of change not
stated). On the vigil of the 15th anniversary of her birth she wrote a letter
from Mullingar, county Westmeath, making a brief allusion to a local student
(faculty and year not stated).
Did that first division, portending a second division, afflict him?
Less than he had imagined, more than he had hoped.
What second departure was contemporaneously perceived by him similarly if
differently?
A temporary departure of his cat.
Why similarly, why differently?
Similarly, because actuated by a secret purpose the quest of a new male
(Mullingar student) or of a healing herb (valerian). Differently, because of
different possible returns to the inhabitants or to the habitation.
In other respects were their differences similar?
In passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness.
As?
Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him to ribbon it for her
(cf. neckarching cat). Moreover, on the free surface of the lake in Stephen's
green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing
concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy of its permanence
the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf. mousewatching cat). Again, in order
to remember the date, combatants, issue and consequences of a famous military
engagement she pulled a plait of her hair (cf. earwashing cat). Furthermore,
silly Milly, she dreamed of having had an unspoken unremembered conversation
with a horse whose name had been Joseph to whom (which) she had offered a
tumblerful of lemonade which it (he) had appeared to have accepted (cf.
hearthdreaming cat). Hence in passivity, in economy, in the instinct of
tradition, in unexpectedness, their differences were similar.
In what way had he utilised gifts 1) an owl, 2) a clock, given as matrimonial
auguries, to interest and to instruct her?
As object lessons to explain: 1) the nature and habits of oviparous animals,
the possibility of aerial flight, certain abnormalities of vision, the secular
process of imbalsamation: 2) the principle of the pendulum, exemplified in bob,
wheelgear and regulator, the translation in terms of human or social regulation
of the various positions clockwise of movable indicators on an unmoving dial,
the exactitude of the recurrence per hour of an instant in each hour, when the
longer and the shorter indicator were at the same angle of inclination,
videlicet, 5 5/11 minutes past each hour per hour in arithmetical
progression.
In what manners did she reciprocate?
She remembered: on the 27th anniversary of his birth she presented to him a
breakfast moustachecup of imitation crown Derby porcelain ware. She provided: at
quarter day or thereabouts if or when purchases had been made by him not for her
she showed herself attentive to his necessities, anticipating his desires. She
admired: a natural phenomenon having been explained by him 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
(œ1.7s.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?
With what intonation secreto of what commemorative psalm?
The 113th, modus peregrinus: In exitu Israël de Egypto: domus Jacob de
populo barbaro.
What did each do at the door of egress?
Bloom set the candlestick on the floor. Stephen put the hat on his head.
For what creature was the door of egress a door of ingress?
For a cat.
What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest,
emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the
house into the penumbra of the garden?
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
With what meditations did Bloom accompany his demonstration to his 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.
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:
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 Love's Old Sweet Song (words by G. Clifton Bingham, composed
by J. L. Molloy, sung by Madam Antoinette Sterling) open at the last page with
the final indications ad libitum, forte, pedal, animato,
sustained, pedal, ritirando, close.
With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?
With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right 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)?
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.
Thorn's Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886.
Denis Florence M'Carthy's Poetical Works (copper beechleaf bookmark
at p. 5).
Shakespeare's Works (dark crimson morocco, goldtooled).
The Useful Ready Reckoner (brown cloth).
The Secret History of the Court of Charles II (red cloth, tooled
binding).
The Child's Guide (blue cloth).
When We Were Boys by William O'Brien M.P. (green cloth, slightly
faded, envelope bookmark at p. 217).
Thoughts from Spinoza (maroon leather).
The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth).
Ellis's Three Trips to Madagascar (brown cloth, title obliterated).
The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of
Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel Street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve) 1904, due 4
June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing white letternumber
ticket).
Voyages in China by `Viator' (recovered with brown paper, red ink
title).
Philosophy of the Talmud (sewn pamphlet).
Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal an notations,
minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).
Soll und Haben by Gustav Freytag (black boards, Gothic characters,
cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24).
Hozier's History of the Russo-Turkish War (brown cloth, 2 volumes,
with gummed label, Garrison Library, Governor's Parade, Gibraltar, on verso of
cover).
Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William Allingham (second edition,
green cloth, gilt trefoil design, previous owner's name on recto of flyleaf
erased).
A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates,
antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues
brevier, captions small pica).
The Hidden Life of Christ (black boards).
In the Track of the Sun (yellow cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent
title intestation).
Physical Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugene Sandow (red cloth).
Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry 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 History of the Russo - Turkish War.
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.
1 Pork kidney 0. 0. 3 Cash in hand 0.4.9
2 Copy Freeman's Journal 0.0.2 Commission recd. Freeman's
Journal
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 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 Rus in Urbe or
Qui si Sana, but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched
bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, 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 (Semper paratus), duly recorded in the
court directory (Bloom, Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K. P., L. L. D. honoris
cause, 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 The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species.
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 Papli, which showed a
large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile, the trunk full front
with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot: 2 fading photographs of queen Alexandra
of England and of Maud Branscombe, actress and professional beauty: a Yuletide
card, bearing on it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend
Mizpah, the date Xmas 1892, the name of the senders, from Mr and Mrs M.
Comerford, the versicle: May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and
welcome glee: a butt of red partly liquefied sealing wax, obtained from the
stores department of Messrs Hely's, Ltd., 89, 90 and 91 Dame street: a box
containing the remainder of a gross of gilt `J' pennibs, obtained from same
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 Modern Society, 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 To my
Dear Son Leopold.
What fractions of phrases did the lecture of those five whole words evoke?
Tomorrow will be a week that I received... it is no use Leopold to be... with
your dear mother... that is not more to stand... to her... all for me is out...
be kind to Athos, Leopold... my dear son... always... of me... das Herr...
Gott... dein...
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
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 Sweets of Sin, 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?
An ambition to squint
At my verses in print
Makes me hope
that for these you'll find room.
If you so condescend
Then please
place at the end
The name of yours truly, L. Bloom.
Poets oft have sung in rhyme
Of music sweet their praise
divine.
Let them hymn it nine times nine.
Bearer far than song or
wine,
You are mine. The world is mine.
Kolod balejwaw pnimali
Why
was the chant arrested at the conclusion of this first distich?
Nefesch, jehudi, homijah.
d Little Harry Hughes and his schoolfellows all Went out for to
play ball
How did the son of
Rudolph receive this first part?
And the very first ball little Harry Hughes played
He drove
it o'er the jew's garden wall.
And the very second ball little Harry
Hughes played
He broke the jew's windows all.
Then out there came the jew's daughter
How did the father of Millicent receive this second part?
And she all dressed in
green.
`Come back, come back, you pretty little boy,
And play your
ball again.'
Without my schoolfellows all,
For if my master he did hear
He'd make it a sorry ball.'
And led him along the hall
Until
she led him to a room
Where none could hear him call.
And cut off his little head,
And now he'll play his ball no more
For he lies among the
dead.
One of all, the least of all, is the
victim predestined. Once by inadvertence, twice by design he challenges his
destiny. It comes when he is abandoned and challenges him reluctant and, as an
apparition of hope and youth holds him unresisting. It leads him to a strange
habitation, to a secret infidel apartment, and there, implacable, immolates him,
consenting.
Lighted Candle in Stick borne by
BLOOM.
Diaconal Hat on
Ashplant borne by
STEPHEN.
And the problem of possible redemption?
The minor was proved
by the major.
Liliata rutilantium. Turma circumdet.
By Bloom:
Iubilantium te virginum.
Chorus excipiat.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?
Heigho, heigho.
Brothers and sisters had he none,
Yet that man's father was
his grandfather's son.
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