What
parallel courses
did
Bloom
and
Stephen
follow
returning? Starting united both
at
normal
walking pace
from
Beresford
place
they
followed
in
the order named
Lower
and
Middle
Gardiner streets
and
Mountjoy square, west: then,
at
reduced pace,
each
bearing left, Gardiner's
place
by
an
inadvertence
as
far
as
the
farther
corner
of
Temple
street: then,
at
reduced pace
with
interruptions
of
halt, bearing right,
Temple
street, north,
as
far
as
Hardwicke place. Approaching, disparate,
at
relaxed walking pace
they
crossed both the
circus
before George's church diametrically, the
chord
in
any
circle being less
than
the
arc
which
it
subtends.
Of
what
did
the duumvirate
deliberate
during
their
itinerary? Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the
influence
of
gaslight
or
the
light
of
arc
and
glowlamps
on
the
growth
of
adjoining paraheliotropic trees, exposed
corporation
emergency
dustbuckets, the
Roman
catholic church, ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers, the
study
of
medicine, the past day, the
maleficent
influence
of
the presabbath, Stephen's collapse.
Did
Bloom
discover
common
factors
of
similarity
between
their
respective
like
and
unlike reactions
to
experience? Both
were
sensitive
to
artistic
impressions, musical
in
preference
to
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 views
on
the
importance
of
dietary
and
civic
selfhelp
while
Bloom
dissented tacitly
from
Stephen's views
on
the
eternal
affirmation
of
the spirit
of
man
in
literature.
Bloom
assented covertly
to
Stephen's
rectification
of
the
anachronism
involved
in
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 (died 266 A.D.), suffocated
by
imperfect
deglutition
of
aliment
at
Sletty
and
interred
at
Rossnaree. The collapse
which
Bloom
ascribed
to
gastric
inanition
and
certain
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
Owen 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 (Juda) Mastiansky,
on
both occasions
in
the parlour
of
his
(Bloom's)
house
in
Lombard street, west.
What
reflection
concerning the irregular sequence
of
dates 1884, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1904
did
Bloom
make
before
their
arrival
at
their
destination?
He
reflected
that
the
progressive
extension
of
the
field
of
individual
development
and
experience
was
regressively accompanied
by
a
restriction
of
the
converse
domain
of
interindividual relations.
As
in
what
ways?
From
inexistence
to
existence
he
came
to
many
and
was
as
one
received:
existence
with
existence
he
was
with
any
as
any
with
any:
from
existence
to
nonexistence gone
he
would
be
by
all
as
none
perceived.
What
act
did
Bloom
make
on
their
arrival
at
their
destination?
At
the housesteps
of
the 4th
Of
the equidifferent
uneven
numbers,
number
7 Eccles street,
he
inserted
his
hand
mechanically
into
the
back
pocket
of
his
trousers
to
obtain
his
latchkey.
Was
it
there?
It
was
in
the corresponding
pocket
of
the
trousers
which
he
had
worn
on
the
day
but
one
preceding.
Why
was
he
doubly irritated?
Because
he
had forgotten
and
because
he
remembered
that
he
had reminded
himself
twice
not
to
forget.
What
were
then
the alternatives before the, premeditatedly (respectively)
and
inadvertently, keyless couple?
To
enter
or
not
to
enter.
To
knock
or
not
to
knock. Bloom's decision?
A
stratagem. Resting
his
feet
on
the dwarf wall,
he
climbed
over
the
area
railings, compressed
his
hat
on
his
head, grasped
two
points
at
the
lower
union
of
rails
and
stiles, lowered
his
body
gradually
by
its
length
of
five
feet
nine
inches
and
a
half
to
within
two
feet ten inches
of
the
area
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 Froedman,
pharmaceutical
chemist
of
19 Frederick street, north,
on
the
last
feast
of
the Ascension,
to
wit, the
twelfth
day
of
May
of
the bissextile
year
one
thousand
nine
hundred
and
four
of
the christian
era
(jewish
era
five
thousand
six
hundred
and
sixtyfour, mohammadan
era
one
thousand
three
hundred
and
twentytwo),
golden
number
5,
epact
13,
solar
cycle 9, dominical letters C B,
Roman
indiction
2, Julian
period
6617, MCMIV.
Did
he
rise
uninjured
by
concussion? Regaining
new
stable
equilibrium
he
rose
uninjured though concussed
by
the impact, raised the latch
of
the
area
door
by
the exertion
of
force
at
its
freely
moving
flange
and
by
leverage
of
the first
kind
applied
at
its fulcrum, gained
retarded
access
to
the
kitchen
through the subadjacent scullery, ignited
a
lucifer match
by
friction,
set
free
inflammable
coal
gas
by
turningon the ventcock,
lit
a
high
flame
which,
by
regulating,
he
reduced
to
quiescent
candescence
and
lit
finally
a
portable
candle.
What
discrete
succession
of
images
did
Stephen meanwhile perceive? Reclined against the
area
railings
he
perceived through the
transparent
kitchen
panes
a
man
regulating
a
gasflame
of
14 CP,
a
man
lighting
a
candle
of
1 CP,
a
man
removing
in
turn
each
of
his
two
boots,
a
man
leaving the
kitchen
holding
a
candle.
Did
the
man
reappear elsewhere?
After
a
lapse
of
four
minutes
the glimmer
of
his
candle
was
discernible
through the semitransparent
semicircular
glass fanlight
over
the halldoor. The halldoor turned gradually
on
its hinges.
In
the
open
space
of
the doorway the
man
reappeared without
his
hat,
with
his
candle.
Did
Stephen
obey
his
sign? Yes, entering softly,
he
helped
to
close
and
chain
the
door
and
followed softly
along
the
hallway
the man's
back
and
listed feet
and
lighted
candle
past
a
lighted
crevice
of
doorway
on
the
left
and
carefully
down
a
turning staircase
of
more
than
five
steps
into
the
kitchen
of
Bloom's house.
What
did
Bloom
do?
He
extinguished the
candle
by
a
sharp
expiration
of
breath
upon
its flame, drew
two
spoonseat
deal
chairs
to
the hearthstone,
one
for
Stephen
with
its
back
to
the
area
window, the
other
for
himself
when
necessary, knelt
on
one
knee, composed
in
the
grate
a
pyre
of
crosslaid resintipped sticks
and
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
aunt
Sara,
wife
of
Richie (Richard) Goulding,
in
the
kitchen
of
their
lodgings
at
62 Clanbrassil street:
of
his
mother Mary,
wife
of
Simon Dedalus,
in
the
kitchen
of
number
twelve
North Richmond
street
on
the
morning
of
the
feast
of
Saint Francis Xavier 1898:
of
the
dean
of
studies, Father Butt,
in
the physics'
theatre
of
university
College, 16 Stephen's Green, north:
of
his
sister
Dilly
(Delia)
in
his
father's
house
in
Cabra.
What
did
Stephen
see
on
raising
his
gaze
to
the
height
of
a
yard
from
the
fire
towards
the
opposite
wall? Under
a
row
of
five
coiled
spring
housebells
a
curvilinear
rope, stretched
between
two
holdfasts athwart
across
the recess
beside
the
chimney
pier,
from
which
hung
four smallsized
square
handkerchiefs folded unattached consecutively
in
adjacent
rectangles
and
one
pair
of
ladies' grey hose
with
Lisle
suspender
tops
and
feet
in
their
habitual
position clamped
by
three
erect
wooden
pegs
two
at
their
outer
extremities
and
the
third
at
their
point
of
junction.
What
did
Bloom
see
on
the range?
On
the
right
(smaller) hob
a
blue enamelled saucepan:
on
the
left
(larger) hob
a
black
iron kettle.
What
did
Bloom
do
at
the range?
He
removed the saucepan
to
the
left
hob,
rose
and
carried the iron
kettle
to
the sink
in
order
to
tap
the
current
by
turning the
faucet
to
let
it
flow.
Did
it
flow? Yes.
From
Roundwood
reservoir
in
county
Wicklow
of
a
cubic
capacity
of
2400
million
gallons, percolating through
a
subterranean
aqueduct
of
filter
mains
of
single
and
double
pipeage constructed
at
an initial
plant
cost
of
5 pounds
per
linear
yard
by
way
of
the Dargle, Rathdown,
Glen
of
the Downs
and
Callowhill
to
the 26
acre
reservoir
at
Stillorgan,
a
distance
of
22
statute
miles,
and
thence, through
a
system
of
relieving tanks,
by
a
gradient
of
250 feet
to
the
city
boundary
at
Eustace bridge,
upper
Leeson street, though
from
prolonged
summer
drouth
and
daily
supply
of
12 1/2
million
gallons the
water
had fallen
below
the
sill
of
the overflow
weir
for
which
reason
the
borough
surveyor
and
waterworks engineer, Mr Spencer Harty, C. E.,
on
the instructions
of
the waterworks
committee
had prohibited the
use
of
municipal
water
for
purposes
other
than
those
of
consumption
(envisaging the
possibility
of
recourse
being had
to
the impotable
water
of
the
Grand
and
Royal canals
as
in
1893) particularly
as
the
South
Dublin Guardians,
notwithstanding
their
ration
of
15 gallons
per
day
per
pauper
supplied through
a
6 inch meter, had been convicted
of
a
wastage
of
20,000 gallons
per
night
by
a
reading
of
their
meter
on
the
affirmation
of
the
law
agent
of
the corporation, Mr Ignatius Rice, solicitor,
thereby
acting
to
the
detriment
of
another
section
of
the public, selfsupporting taxpayers, solvent, sound.
What
in
water
did
Bloom, waterlover, drawer
of
water, watercarrier, 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 unplumbed
profundity
in
the Sundam
trench
of
the Pacific exceeding 8000 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 millions
of
tons
of
the
most
precious metals: its
slow
erosions
of
peninsulas
and
islands, its
persistent
formation
of
homothetic islands, 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
well
by
the
hole
in
the
wall
at
Ashtown gate,
saturation
of
air,
distillation
of
dew: the
simplicity
of
its composition,
two
constituent
parts
of
hydrogen
with
one
constituent
part
of
oxygen: its
healing
virtues: its buoyancy
in
the waters
of
the
Dead
Sea: its persevering penetrativeness
in
runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks
on
shipboard: its properties
for
cleansing, quenching
thirst
and
fire, nourishing vegetation: its
infallibility
as
paradigm
and
paragon: its metamorphoses
as
vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its
strength
in
rigid
hydrants: its
variety
of
forms
in
loughs
and
bays
and
gulfs
and
bights
and
guts
and
lagoons
and
atolls
and
archipelagos
and
sounds
and
fjords
and
minches
and
tidal
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 percent
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
1
pound
of
water
from
50 degrees
to
212 degrees Fahrenheit.
What
announced the
accomplishment
of
this
rise
in
temperature?
A
double
falciform
ejection
of
water
vapour
from
under the kettlelid
at
both sides simultaneously.
For
what
personal
purpose
could
Bloom
have
applied the
water
so
boiled?
To
shave
himself.
What
advantages attended shaving
by
night?
A
softer beard:
a
softer brush
if
intentionally allowed
to
remain
from
shave
to
shave
in
its agglutinated lather:
a
softer skin
if
unexpectedly encountering
female
acquaintances
in
remote
places
at
incustomary hours:
quiet
reflections
upon
the
course
of
the day:
a
cleaner
sensation
when
awaking
after
a
fresher
sleep
since
matutinal
noises, premonitions
and
perturbations,
a
clattered milkcan,
a
postman's
double
knock,
a
paper read, reread
while
lathering, relathering the
same
spot,
a
shock,
a
shoot,
with
thought
of
aught
he
sought though
fraught
with
nought
might
cause
a
faster
rate
of
shaving
and
a
nick
on
which
incision
plaster
with
precision
cut
and
humected
and
applied adhered:
which
was
to
be
done.
Why
did
absence
of
light
disturb
him
less
than
presence
of
noise?
Because
of
the
surety
of
the sense
of
touch
in
his
firm
full
masculine
feminine
passive
active
hand.
What
quality
did
it
(his hand)
possess
but
with
what
counteracting 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, an
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
naggin
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 (empty)
of
various
sizes
and
proveniences.
What
attracted
his
attention
lying
on
the
apron
of
the dresser? Four polygonal fragments
of
two
lacerated
scarlet
betting tickets, numbered 8 87, 88 6.
What
reminiscences temporarily corrugated
his
brow?
Where
had
previous
intimations
of
the result, effected
or
projected, been received
by
him?
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
had not risked,
he
did
not expect,
he
had not been disappointed,
he
was
satisfied.
What
satisfied him?
To
have
sustained no positive loss.
To
have
brought
a
positive
gain
to
others.
Light
to
the gentiles.
How
did
Bloom
prepare
a
collation
for
a
gentile?
He
poured
into
two
teacups
two
level
spoonfuls, four
in
all,
of
Epps's
soluble
cocoa
and
proceeded according
to
the directions
for
use
printed
on
the label,
to
each
adding
after
sufficient
time
for
infusion
the prescribed ingredients
for
diffusion
in
the
manner
and
in
the
quantity
prescribed.
What
supererogatory
marks
of
special
hospitality
did
the host
show
his
guest? Relinquishing
his
symposiarchal
right
to
the moustache
cup
of
imitation
Crown
Derby
presented
to
him
by
his
only
daughter, Millicent (Milly),
he
substituted
a
cup
identical
with
that
of
his
guest
and
served extraordinarily
to
his
guest
and,
in
reduced measure,
to
himself
the
viscous
cream ordinarily reserved
for
the
breakfast
of
his
wife
Marion (Molly).
Was
the
guest
conscious
of
and
did
he
acknowledge
these
marks
of
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
and
taking,
from
the
concave
surface
of
a
spoon
along
the
handle
of
which
a
steady flow
of
heat
was
conducted,
three
sips
to
his
opponent's one,
six
to
two,
nine
to
three.
What
cerebration
accompanied
his
frequentative
act? Concluding
by
inspection
but erroneously
that
his
silent
companion
was
engaged
in
mental
composition
he
reflected
on
the pleasures derived
from
literature
of
instruction
rather
than
of
amusement
as
he
himself
had 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
in
all points.
Did
he
find four separating forces
between
his
temporary
guest
and
him? Name, age, race, creed.
What
anagrams had
he
made
on
his
name
in
youth? Leopold
Bloom
Ellpodbomool Molldopeloob Bollopedoom
Old
Ollebo, M. P.
What
acrostic
upon
the
abbreviation
of
his
first
name
had
he
(kinetic poet) sent
to
Miss
Marion (Molly) Tweedy
on
the 14 February 1888?
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 (Dante),
a
widow
of
independent
means, had resided
in
the
house
of
Stephen's parents
from
1 September 1888
to
29 December 1891
and
had
also
resided
during
the years 1892, 1893
and
1894
in
the
City
Arms
Hotel
owned
by
Elizabeth O'Dowd
of
54 Prussia
street
where,
during
parts
of
the years 1893
and
1894,
she
had been
a
constant
informant
of
Bloom
who
resided
also
in
the
same
hotel, being
at
that
time
a
clerk
in
the
employment
of
Joseph Cuffe
of
5 Smithfield
for
the
superintendence
of
sales
in
the
adjacent
Dublin
Cattle
market
on
the North Circular road. Had
he
performed
any
special
corporal
work
of
mercy
for
her?
He
had sometimes propelled her
on
warm
summer
evenings, an
infirm
widow
of
independent,
if
limited, means,
in
her
convalescent
bathchair
with
slow
revolutions
of
its wheels
as
far
as
the
corner
of
the North Circular
road
opposite
Mr Gavin Low's
place
of
business
where
she
had remained
for
a
certain
time
scanning through
his
onelensed
binocular
fieldglasses unrecognisable citizens
on
tramcars, roadster bicycles equipped
with
inflated
pneumatic
tyres, hackney carriages, tandems,
private
and
hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps
and
brakes passing
from
the
city
to
the
Phoenix
Park
and
vice
versa.
Why
could
he
then
support
that
his
vigil
with
the greater equanimity?
Because
in
middle
youth
he
had
often
sat observing through
a
rondel
of
bossed glass
of
a
multicoloured
pane
the
spectacle
offered
with
continual
changes
of
the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round
and
round
and
round the
rim
of
a
round
and
round
precipitous
globe.
What
distinct
different
memories had
each
of
her
now
eight
years deceased? The older, her
bezique
cards
and
counters, her Skye terrier, her suppositious 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? 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
stable
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
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 Rudolph Bloom)
of
Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London
and
Dublin
and
of
Ellen Higgins,
second
daughter
of
Julius Higgins (born Karoly)
and
Fanny
Higgins (born Hegarty). Stephen,
eldest
surviving
male
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 Nicholas Without, Coombe,
by
James O'Connor, Philip Gilligan
and
James Fitzpatrick, together, under
a
pump
in
the
village
of
Swords,
and
by
the
reverend
Charles Malone C. C.,
in
the church
of
the
Three
Patrons, Rathgar. Stephen (once)
by
the
reverend
Charles Malone C. C., alone,
in
the church
of
the
Three
Patrons, Rathgar.
Did
they
find
their
educational careers similar? Substituting Stephen
for
Bloom
Stoom would
have
passed successively through
a
dame's
school
and
the high school. Substituting
Bloom
for
Stephen Blephen would
have
passed successively through the preparatory, junior,
middle
and
senior grades
of
the intermediate
and
through the matriculation, first arts,
second
arts
and
arts
degree
courses
of
the royal university.
Why
did
Bloom
refrain
from
stating
that
he
had frequented the
university
of
life?
Because
of
his
fluctuating
incertitude
as
to
whether
this
observation
had
or
had not been
already
made
by
him
to
Stephen
or
by
Stephen
to
him.
What
two
temperaments
did
they
individually represent? The scientific. The artistic.
What
proofs
did
Bloom
adduce
to
prove
that
his
tendency
was
towards
applied,
rather
than
towards
pure, science?
Certain
possible
inventions
of
which
he
had cogitated
when
reclining
in
a
state
of
supine
repletion
to
aid
digestion, stimulated
by
his
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 playing balls, historically costumed dolls.
What
also
stimulated
him
in
his
cogitations? The financial
success
achieved
by
Ephraim Marks
and
Charles A. James, the
former
by
his
1d
bazaar
at
42 George's street, south, the
latter
at
his
6 1/2d shop
and
world's fancy
fair
and
waxwork
exhibition
at
30 Henry street,
admission
2d, children 1d:
and
the
infinite
possibilities hitherto unexploited
of
the
modern
art
of
advertisement
if
condensed
in
triliteral monoideal symbols, vertically
of
maximum
visibility
(divined), horizontally
of
maximum
legibility (deciphered)
and
of
magnetising
efficacy
to
arrest
involuntary
attention,
to
interest,
to
convince,
to
decide.
Such
as? K. II. Kino's 11/- Trousers.
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What
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bliss. Manufactured
by
George Plumtree, 23 Merchants' quay, Dublin,
put
up
in
4 oz pots,
and
inserted
by
Councillor Joseph P. Nannetti, M. P.,
Rotunda
Ward, 19 Hardwicke street, under the
obituary
notices
and
anniversaries
of
deceases. The
name
on
the label
is
Plumtree.
A
plumtree
in
a
meatpot, registered
trade
mark.
Beware
of
imitations. Peatmot. Trumplee. Moutpat. Plamtroo.
Which
example
did
he
adduce
to
induce
Stephen
to
deduce
that
originality, though producing its
own
reward, does not invariably
conduce
to
success?
His
own
ideated
and
rejected
project
of
an illuminated showcart, drawn
by
a
beast
of
burden,
in
which
two
smartly dressed girls
were
to
be
seated engaged
in
writing.
What
suggested
scene
was
then
constructed
by
Stephen?
Solitary
hotel
in
mountain
pass. Autumn. Twilight.
Fire
lit.
In
dark
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 Hotel. Queen's Ho...
What
suggested
scene
was
then
reconstructed
by
Bloom? The Queen's Hotel, Ennis,
county
Clare,
where
Rudolph
Bloom
(Rudolf Virag) died
on
the
evening
of
the 27 June 1886,
at
some
hour
unstated,
in
consequence
of
an overdose
of
monkshood (aconite) selfadministered
in
the
form
of
a
neuralgic
liniment
composed
of
2 parts
of
aconite
liniment
to
I
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.
Which
domestic
problem
as
much
as,
if
not
more
than,
any
other
frequently engaged
his
mind?
What
to
do
with
our
wives.
What
had been
his
hypothetical
singular
solutions? Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spilikins,
cup
and
ball, nap,
spoil
five, bezique, twentyfive, beggar my neighbour, draughts,
chess
or
backgammon): embroidery, darning
or
knitting
for
the policeaided clothing society: musical duets, mandoline
and
guitar,
piano
and
flute,
guitar
and
piano:
legal
scrivenery
or
envelope
addressing: biweekly visits
to
variety
entertainments: commercial
activity
as
pleasantly commanding
and
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?
What
compensated
in
the
false
balance
of
her
intelligence
for
these
and
such
deficiencies
of
judgment
regarding persons, places
and
things? The
false
apparent
parallelism
of
all
perpendicular
arms
of
all balances, proved true
by
construction. The counterbalance
of
her
proficiency
of
judgment
regarding
one
person, proved true
by
experiment.
How
had
he
attempted
to
remedy
this
state
of
comparative
ignorance? Variously.
By
leaving
in
a
conspicuous
place
a
certain
book
open
at
a
certain
page:
by
assuming
in
her,
when
alluding explanatorily,
latent
knowledge:
by
open
ridicule
in
her
presence
of
some
absent other's
ignorant
lapse.
With
what
success
had
he
attempted
direct
instruction?
She
followed not all,
a
part
of
the whole, gave
attention
with
interest
comprehended
with
surprise,
with
care
repeated,
with
greater
difficulty
remembered, forgot
with
ease,
with
misgiving
reremembered, rerepeated
with
error.
What
system
had proved
more
effective?
Indirect
suggestion
implicating selfinterest. Example?
She
disliked
umbrella
with
rain,
he
liked
woman
with
umbrella,
she
disliked
new
hat
with
rain,
he
liked
woman
with
new
hat,
he
bought
new
hat
with
rain,
she
carried
umbrella
with
new
hat. Accepting the
analogy
implied
in
his
guest's
parable
which
examples
of
postexilic
eminence
did
he
adduce?
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?
How
was
a
glyphic
comparison
of
the
phonic
symbols
of
both languages
made
in
substantiation
of
the
oral
comparison?
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
archaeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical, homiletic, toponomastic,
historical
and
religious
literatures comprising the
works
of
rabbis
and
culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna
and
Ghemara), Massor, Pentateuch,
Book
of
the
Dun
Cow,
Book
of
Ballymote, Garland
of
Howth,
Book
of
Kells:
their
dispersal, 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
Chanah David
of
Zion
and
the
possibility
of
Irish
political
autonomy
or
devolution.
What
anthem
did
Bloom
chant
partially
in
anticipation
of
that
multiple, ethnically irreducible consummation?
Why
was
the
chant
arrested
at
the
conclusion
of
this
first distich?
In
consequence
of
defective
mnemotechnic.
How
did
the
chanter
compensate
for
this
deficiency?
By
a
periphrastic
version
of
the
general
text.
In
what
common
study
did
their
mutual reflections merge? The increasing
simplification
traceable
from
the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs
to
the Greek
and
Roman
alphabets
and
the
anticipation
of
modern
stenography
and
telegraphic
code
in
the
cuneiform
inscriptions (Semitic)
and
the virgular quinquecostate
ogham
writing
(Celtic).
Did
the
guest
comply
with
his
host's request? Doubly,
by
appending
his
signature
in
Irish
and
Roman
characters.
What
was
Stephen's auditive sensation?
He
heard
in
a
profound
ancient
male
unfamiliar
melody
the
accumulation
of
the past.
What
was
Bloom's
visual
sensation?
He
saw
in
a
quick
young
male
familiar
form
the
predestination
of
a
future.
What
were
Stephen's
and
Bloom's quasisimultaneous volitional quasisensations
of
concealed identities? Visually, Stephen's: The traditional
figure
of
hypostasis, depicted
by
Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus
and
Epiphanius Monachus
as
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 (died 1901),
exponent
of
Shakespeare.
Did
the host
encourage
his
guest
to
chant
in
a
modulated voice
a
strange
legend
on
an allied theme? Reassuringly,
their
place,
where
none
could
hear
them
talk, being secluded, reassured, the decocted beverages, allowing
for
subsolid residual
sediment
of
a
mechanical mixture,
water
plus
sugar
plus
cream
plus
cocoa, having been consumed.
Recite
the first (major)
part
of
this
chanted legend.
How
did
the
son
of
Rudolph
receive
this
first part?
With
unmixed feeling. Smiling,
a
jew
he
heard
with
pleasure
and
saw
the
unbroken
kitchen
window.
Recite
the
second
part
(minor)
of
the legend.
How
did
the father
of
Millicent
receive
this
second
part?
With
mixed feelings. Unsmiling,
he
heard
and
saw
with
wonder
a
jew's daughter, all dressed
in
green.
Condense
Stephen's commentary.
One
of
all, the
least
of
all,
is
the
victim
predestined.
Once
by
inadvertence
twice
by
design
he
challenges
his
destiny.
It
comes
when
he
is
abandoned
and
challenges
him
reluctant
and,
as
an
apparition
of
hope
and
youth, holds
him
unresisting.
It
leads
him
to
a
strange
habitation,
to
a
secret
infidel apartment,
and
there, implacable, immolates him, consenting.
Why
was
the host (victim predestined) sad?
He
wished
that
a
tale
of
a
deed
should
be
told
of
a
deed
not
by
him
should
by
him
not
be
told.
Why
was
the host (reluctant, unresisting) still?
In
accordance
with
the
law
of
the
conservation
of
energy.
Why
was
the host (secret infidel) silent?
He
weighed the
possible
evidences
for
and
against ritual murder: the incitations
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
more
distant
intervals
to
its
most
distant
intervals.
What
memories had
he
of
her adolescence?
She
relegated her
hoop
and
skippingrope
to
a
recess.
On
the duke's lawn, entreated
by
an English visitor,
she
declined
to
permit
him
to
make
and
take
away
her photographic
image
(objection not stated).
On
the
South
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?
In
what
manners
did
she
reciprocate?
She
remembered:
on
the 27th
anniversary
of
his
birth
she
presented
to
him
a
breakfast
moustachecup
of
imitation
Crown
Derby
porcelain
ware.
She
provided:
at
quarter
day
or
thereabouts
if
or
when
purchases had been
made
by
him
not
for
her
she
showed herself
attentive
to
his
necessities, anticipating
his
desires.
She
admired:
a
natural
phenomenon
having been explained
by
him
to
her
she
expressed the
immediate
desire
to
possess
without
gradual
acquisition
a
fraction
of
his
science, the moiety, the quarter,
a
thousandth part.
What
proposal
did
Bloom, diambulist, father
of
Milly, somnambulist,
make
to
Stephen, noctambulist?
To
pass
in
repose
the hours intervening
between
Thursday (proper)
and
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
an extemporisation?
For
the guest:
security
of
domicile
and
seclusion
of
study.
For
the host: rejuvenation
of
intelligence,
vicarious
satisfaction.
For
the hostess: disintegration
of
obsession,
acquisition
of
correct
Italian pronunciation.
Why
might
these
several
provisional
contingencies
between
a
guest
and
a
hostess
not necessarily
preclude
or
be
precluded
by
a
permanent
eventuality
of
reconciliatory union
between
a
schoolfellow
and
a
jew's daughter?
Because
the
way
to
daughter
led through mother, the
way
to
mother through daughter.
To
what
inconsequent
polysyllabic
question
of
his
host
did
the
guest
return
a
monosyllabic
negative
answer?
If
he
had known the
late
Mrs Emily Sinico, accidentally killed
at
Sydney
Parade
railway station, 14 October 1903.
What
inchoate
corollary
statement
was
consequently suppressed
by
the host?
A
statement
explanatory
of
his
absence
on
the
occasion
of
the
interment
of
Mrs Mary Dedalus (born Goulding), 26 June 1903,
vigil
of
the
anniversary
of
the decease
of
Rudolph
Bloom
(born Virag).
Was
the proposal
of
asylum
accepted? Promptly, inexplicably,
with
amicability, gratefully
it
was
declined.
What
exchange
of
money
took
place
between
host
and
guest? The
former
returned
to
the latter, without interest,
a
sum
of
money
(1-7-0),
one
pound
seven
shillings sterling, 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
(2/-)
with
three
notches
on
the milled
edge
and
tendered
it
m
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
the
place
of
the less
acceptable
phenomena
to
be
removed.
Did
Stephen
participate
in
his
dejection?
He
affirmed
his
significance
as
a
conscious
rational
animal proceeding syllogistically
from
the known
to
the
unknown
and
a
conscious
rational
reagent
between
a
micro
and
a
macrocosm
ineluctably constructed
upon
the
incertitude
of
the void.
Was
this
affirmation
apprehended
by
Bloom? Not verbally. Substantially.
What
comforted
his
misapprehension?
That
as
a
competent
keyless
citizen
he
had proceeded energetically
from
the
unknown
to
the known through the
incertitude
of
the void.
In
what
order
of
precedence,
with
what
attendant
ceremony
was
the exodus
from
the
house
of
bondage
to
the
wilderness
of
inhabitation effected? Lighted
Candle
in
Stick
borne
by
BLOOM
Diaconal
Hat
on
Ashplant borne
by
STEPHEN:
With
what
intonation
secreto
of
what
commemorative psalm?
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
incipient
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 Maior) 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 wanderers
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 problems
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
to
all
that
is
vanity.
And
the
problem
of
possible
redemption? The
minor
was
proved
by
the major.
Which
various
features
of
the constellations
were
in
turn
considered? The
various
colours
significant
of
various
degrees
of
vitality
(white, yellow, crimson, vermilion, cinnabar):
their
degrees
of
brilliancy:
their
magnitudes revealed
up
to
and
including the 7th:
their
positions: the waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the
chariot
of
David: the
annular
cinctures
of
Saturn: the
condensation
of
spiral nebulae
into
suns: the interdependent gyrations
of
double
suns: the
independent
synchronous
discoveries
of
Galileo, Simon Marius, Piazzi, Le Verrier, Herschel, Galle: the systematisations attempted
by
Bode
and
Kepler
of
cubes
of
distances
and
squares
of
times
of
revolution: the
almost
infinite
compressibility
of
hirsute
comets
and
their
vast
elliptical egressive
and
reentrant orbits
from
perihelion
to
aphelion: the
sidereal
origin
of
meteoric stones: the Libyan floods
on
Mars
about
the
period
of
the
birth
of
the younger astroscopist: the annual recurrence
of
meteoric showers
about
the
period
of
the
feast
of
S. Lawrence (martyr,
lo
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
of
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 suppositious
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
probable
spectators had entered
actual
present
existence.
Was
he
more
convinced
of
the esthetic
value
of
the spectacle? Indubitably
in
consequence
of
the reiterated examples
of
poets
in
the
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
attractive
person,
his
wife
Marion (Molly) Bloom, denoted
by
a
visible
splendid
sign,
a
lamp?
With
indirect
and
direct
verbal
allusions
or
affirmations:
with
subdued
affection
and
admiration:
with
description:
with
impediment:
with
suggestion. Both
then
were
silent? Silent,
each
contemplating the
other
in
both mirrors
of
the
reciprocal
flesh
of
theirhisnothis fellowfaces.
Were
they
indefinitely inactive?
At
Stephen's suggestion,
at
Bloom's
instigation
both, first Stephen,
then
Bloom,
in
penumbra
urinated,
their
sides contiguous,
their
organs
of
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, pilosity.
To
Stephen: the
problem
of
the
sacerdotal
integrity
of
Jesus circumcised (I January,
holiday
of
obligation
to
hear
mass
and
abstain
from
unnecessary
servile
work)
and
the
problem
as
to
whether
the
divine
prepuce, the
carnal
bridal
ring
of
the
holy
Roman
catholic
apostolic
church, conserved
in
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:
By
Bloom:
Where
were
the
several
members
of
the
company
which
with
Bloom
that
day
at
the bidding
of
that
peal had travelled
from
Sandymount
in
the
south
to
Glasnevin
in
the north?
Martin
Cunningham (in bed),
Jack
Power (in bed), Simon Dedalus (in bed), Ned Lambert (in bed), Tom Kernan (in bed), Joe Hynes (in bed), John Henry Menton (in bed), Bernard Corrigan (in bed),
Patsy
Dignam (in bed), Paddy Dignam (in the grave). Alone,
what
did
Bloom
hear? The
double
reverberation
of
retreating feet
on
the heavenborn earth, the
double
vibration
of
a
jew's
harp
in
the
resonant
lane. Alone,
what
did
Bloom
feel? The cold
of
interstellar space, thousands
of
degrees
below
freezing
point
or
the
absolute
zero
of
Fahrenheit,
Centigrade
or
Reaumur: the
incipient
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 Misericordiae hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy, Sandymount).
What
prospect
of
what
phenomena inclined
him
to
remain? The disparition
of
three
final
stars, the
diffusion
of
daybreak, the
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
furniture.
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?
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, focussing
his
gaze
on
a
large
dull
passive
and
a
slender
bright
active:
with
solicitation, bending
and
downturning the upturned rugfringe:
with
amusement, remembering Dr 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? The 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
procreator.
What
final
visual
impression
was
communicated
to
him
by
the mirror? The optical
reflection
of
several
inverted volumes improperly arranged
and
not
in
the order
of
their
common
letters
with
scintillating titles
on
the
two
bookshelves opposite. Catalogue
these
books.
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?
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, tranquility, youth, grace, sex,
counsel
of
a
statue
erect
in
the centre
of
the table, an
image
of
Narcissus
purchased
by
auction
from
P. A. Wren, 9 Bachelor's Walk.
What
caused
him
irritation
in
his
sitting posture?
Inhibitory
pressure
of
collar (size 17)
and
waistcoat (5 buttons),
two
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
hairs extending
in
triangular
convergence
from
the
pelvic
basin
over
the
circumference
of
the
abdomen
and
umbilicular fossicle
along
the medial line
of
nodes
to
the
intersection
of
the
sixth
pectoral
vertebrae,
thence
produced both ways
at
right
angles
and
terminating
in
circles described
about
two
equidistant
points,
right
and
left,
on
the summits
of
the
mammary
prominences.
He
unbraced successively
each
of
six
minus
one
braced trouser buttons, arranged
in
pairs,
of
which
one
incomplete.
What
involuntary
actions followed?
He
compressed
between
2 fingers the flesh
circumjacent
to
a
cicatrice
in
the
left
infracostal
region
below
the
diaphragm
resulting
from
a
sting
inflicted 2 weeks
and
3 days previously (23
May
1904)
by
a
bee.
He
scratched 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
(I shilling), placed there (presumably)
on
the
occasion
(17 October 1903)
of
the
interment
of
Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney Parade.
Compile
the budget
for
16 June 1904.
DEBIT
1
Pork
Kidney
1
Copy
FREEMAN'S
JOURNAL
1
Bath
And
Gratification Tramfare 1
In
Memoriam Patrick Dignam 2 Banbury cakes 1
Lunch
1
Renewal
fee
for
book
1
Packet
Notepaper
and
Envelopes 1
Dinner
and
Gratification 1
Postal
Order
and
Stamp
Tramfare 1 Pig's
Foot
1 Sheep's Trotter 1
Cake
Fry's
Plain
Chocolate 1
Square
Soda
Bread 1
Coffee
and
Bun
Loan
(Stephen Dedalus) refunded
BALANCE
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
ungual
fragment.
Why
with
satisfaction?
Because
the
odour
inhaled corresponded
to
other
odours inhaled
of
other
ungual
fragments, picked
and
lacerated
by
Master
Bloom,
pupil
of
Mrs Ellis's
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?
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,
sweet
pea,
lily
of
the
valley
(bulbs obtainable
from
sir James W. Mackey (Limited) wholesale
and
retail
seed
and
bulb
merchants
and
nurserymen, agents
for
chemical manures, 23 Sackville street, upper), an orchard,
kitchen
garden
and
vinery 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, 14 h).
What
might
be
the
name
of
this
erigible
or
erected residence?
Bloom
Cottage. Saint Leopold's. Flowerville.
Could
Bloom
of
7 Eccles
street
foresee
Bloom
of
Flowerville?
In
loose
allwool garments
with
Harris tweed cap,
price
8/6,
and
useful
garden
boots
with
elastic
gussets
and
wateringcan,
planting
aligned
young
firtrees, syringing, pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling
a
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?
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.
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 pounds
per
annum, being 1/6
of
an assured income, derived
from
giltedged securities, representing
at
5 %
simple
interest
on
capital
of
1200 pounds (estimate
of
price
at
20 years' purchase),
of
which
to
be
paid
on
acquisition
and
the
balance
in
the
form
of
annual rent, viz. 800 pounds
plus
2 1/2 %
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 pounds, headrent included, the titledeeds
to
remain
in
possession
of
the
lender
or
lenders
with
a
saving
clause
envisaging forced sale, foreclosure
and
mutual
compensation
in
the
event
of
protracted
failure
to
pay
the terms assigned,
otherwise
the
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
I
or
more
miles
and
furlongs won
by
an outsider
at
odds
of
50
to
1
at
3 hr 8 m p.m.
at
Ascot (Greenwich time), the
message
being received
and
available
for
betting purposes
in
Dublin
at
2.59 p.m. (Dunsink time). The unexpected discovery
of
an
object
of
great
monetary
value
(precious stone, valuable adhesive
or
impressed postage stamps (7 schilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate,
Great
Britain, 1855: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted,
diagonal
surcharge, Luxemburg, 1878), antique dynastical ring,
unique
relic)
in
unusual repositories
or
by
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
loo
years previously
at
5% compound
interest
of
the
collective
worth
of
5,000,000 pounds 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
per
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 pounds 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
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
and
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
Liverpool Underwriters' Association, the
cost
of
acquired rolling stock
for
animal transport
and
of
additional mileage operated
by
the Dublin United Tramways Company, limited,
to
be
covered
by
graziers' fees. Positing
what
protasis would the
contraction
for
such
several
schemes
become
a
natural
and
necessary
apodosis?
Given
a
guarantee equal
to
the
sum
sought, the support,
by
deed
of
gift
and
transfer vouchers
during
donor's
lifetime
or
by
bequest
after
donor's painless extinction,
of
eminent
financiers (Blum Pasha, Rothschild 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
eventuality
would render
him
independent
of
such
wealth? The
independent
discovery
of
a
goldseam
of
inexhaustible ore.
For
what
reason
did
he
meditate
on
schemes
so
difficult
of
realisation?
It
was
one
of
his
axioms
that
similar
meditations
or
the automatic
relation
to
himself
of
a
narrative
concerning
himself
or
tranquil
recollection
of
the past
when
practised habitually before retiring
for
the
night
alleviated
fatigue
and
produced
as
a
result
sound
repose
and
renovated vitality.
His
justifications?
As
a
physicist
he
had learned
that
of
the 70 years
of
complete
human
life
at
least
2/7, viz. 20 years
are
passed
in
sleep.
As
a
philosopher
he
knew
that
at
the
termination
of
any
allotted
life
only
an
infinitesimal
part
of
any
person's desires has been realised.
As
a
physiologist
he
believed
in
the
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? 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
a
new
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
Callan (Christian
name
unknown),
a
maid, Gertrude (Gerty,
family
name
unknown).
What
possibility
suggested itself? The
possibility
of
exercising
virile
power
of
fascination
in
the not
immediate
future
after
an expensive
repast
in
a
private
apartment
in
the
company
of
an
elegant
courtesan,
of
corporal
beauty, moderately mercenary, variously instructed,
a
lady
by
origin.
What
did
the 2nd drawer contain? Documents: the
birth
certificate
of
Leopold Paula Bloom: an endowment
assurance
policy
of
500 pounds
in
the Scottish Widows'
Assurance
Society, intestated Millicent (Milly) Bloom, coming
into
force
at
25 years
as
with
profit
policy
of
430 pounds, 462/10/0
and
500 pounds
at
60 years
or
death, 65 years
or
death
and
death, respectively,
or
with
profit
policy
(paidup)
of
299/10/0
together
with
cash
payment
of
133/10/0,
at
option:
a
bank
passbook issued
by
the Ulster Bank,
College
Green
branch
showing statement
of
a/c
for
halfyear
ending
31 December 1903,
balance
in
depositor's favour: 18/14/6 (eighteen pounds,
fourteen
shillings
and
sixpence, sterling),
net
personalty:
certificate
of
possession
of
900 pounds, Canadian 4 percent (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?
What
fractions
of
phrases
did
the lecture
of
those
five
whole
words evoke?
What
reminiscences
of
a
human
subject
suffering
from
progressive
melancholia
did
these
objects
evoke
in
Bloom? An
old
man, widower,
unkempt
of
hair,
in
bed,
with
head
covered, sighing: an
infirm
dog, Athos: aconite, resorted
to
by
increasing doses
of
grains
and
scruples
as
a
palliative
of
recrudescent neuralgia: the face
in
death
of
a
septuagenarian,
suicide
by
poison.
Why
did
Bloom
experience
a
sentiment
of
remorse?
Because
in
immature
impatience
he
had treated
with
disrespect
certain
beliefs
and
practices. As? The
prohibition
of
the
use
of
fleshmeat
and
milk
at
one
meal: the hebdomadary
symposium
of
incoordinately abstract, perfervidly
concrete
mercantile
coexreligionist excompatriots: the
circumcision
of
male
infants: the supernatural
character
of
Judaic scripture: the ineffability
of
the tetragrammaton: the
sanctity
of
the sabbath.
How
did
these
beliefs
and
practices
now
appear
to
him? Not
more
rational
than
they
had
then
appeared, not less
rational
than
other
beliefs
and
practices
now
appeared.
What
first
reminiscence
had
he
of
Rudolph
Bloom
(deceased)? Rudolph
Bloom
(deceased) narrated
to
his
son
Leopold
Bloom
(aged 6)
a
retrospective
arrangement
of
migrations
and
settlements
in
and
between
Dublin, London, Florence, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Szombathely
with
statements
of
satisfaction
(his
grandfather
having seen Maria Theresia,
empress
of
Austria,
queen
of
Hungary),
with
commercial
advice
(having taken
care
of
pence, the pounds having taken
care
of
themselves). Leopold
Bloom
(aged 6) had accompanied
these
narrations
by
constant
consultation
of
a
geographical
map
of
Europe (political)
and
by
suggestions
for
the establishment
of
affiliated
business
premises
in
the
various
centres mentioned. Had
time
equally but differently obliterated the
memory
of
these
migrations
in
narrator
and
listener?
In
narrator
by
the access
of
years
and
in
consequence
of
the
use
of
narcotic
toxin:
in
listener
by
the access
of
years
and
in
consequence
of
the
action
of
distraction
upon
vicarious
experiences.
What
idiosyncracies
of
the
narrator
were
concomitant
products
of
amnesia? Occasionally
he
ate without having previously removed
his
hat. 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 pound, sandwichman,
distributor
of
throwaways,
nocturnal
vagrant, insinuating sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling,
superannuated
bailiffs 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,
nothing
or
less
than
nothing.
By
what
could
such
a
situation
be
precluded?
By
decease (change
of
state):
by
departure
(change
of
place).
Which
preferably? The latter,
by
the line
of
least
resistance.
What
considerations rendered
departure
not entirely undesirable? Constant
cohabitation
impeding mutual
toleration
of
personal
defects. The
habit
of
independent
purchase
increasingly cultivated. The
necessity
to
counteract
by
impermanent
sojourn
the
permanence
of
arrest.
What
considerations rendered
departure
not irrational? The parties concerned, uniting, had increased
and
multiplied,
which
being done,
offspring
produced
and
educed
to
maturity, the parties,
if
not 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
departure
desirable? The
attractive
character
of
certain
localities
in
Ireland
and
abroad,
as
represented
in
general
geographical
maps
of
polychrome
design
or
in
special
ordnance survey charts
by
employment
of
scale numerals
and
hachures.
In
Ireland? The cliffs
of
Moher, the
windy
wilds
of
Connemara,
lough
Neagh
with
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
of
nude
Grecian divinities), the
Wall
street
money
market
(which controlled
international
finance), the
Plaza
de
Toros
at
La Linea, Spain (where O'Hara
of
the Camerons had
slain
the bull), Niagara (over
which
no
human
being had passed
with
impunity), the
land
of
the Eskimos (eaters
of
soap), the forbidden
country
of
Thibet (from
which
no traveller returns), the
bay
of
Naples (to
see
which
was
to
die), the
Dead
Sea. Under
what
guidance,
following
what
signs?
At
sea, septentrional,
by
night
the polestar, located
at
the
point
of
intersection
of
the
right
line
from
beta
to
alpha
in
Ursa Maior 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 Maior.
On
land, meridional,
a
bispherical moon, revealed
in
imperfect
varying phases
of
lunation
through the posterior
interstice
of
the imperfectly occluded
skirt
of
a
carnose
negligent
perambulating female,
a
pillar
of
the
cloud
by
day.
What
public
advertisement
would
divulge
the
occultation
of
the departed? 5 pounds reward, lost, stolen
or
strayed
from
his
residence
7 Eccles street, missing gent
about
40, answering
to
the
name
of
Bloom, Leopold (Poldy),
height
5 ft 9 1/2 inches,
full
build,
olive
complexion,
may
have
since
grown
a
beard,
when
last
seen
was
wearing
a
black
suit.
Above
sum
will
be
paid
for
information
leading
to
his
discovery.
What
universal
binomial denominations would
be
his
as
entity
and
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
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
Thummim): the unsubstantial
lunch
(rite
of
Melchisedek): the
visit
to
museum
and
national
library
(holy place): the bookhunt
along
Bedford row, Merchants' Arch, Wellington
Quay
(Simchath Torah): the
music
in
the Ormond
Hotel
(Shira Shirim): the
altercation
with
a
truculent
troglodyte
in
Bernard Kiernan's premises (holocaust):
a
blank
period
of
time
including
a
cardrive,
a
visit
to
a
house
of
mourning,
a
leavetaking (wilderness): the eroticism produced
by
feminine
exhibitionism (rite
of
Onan): the prolonged
delivery
of
Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering): the
visit
to
the disorderly
house
of
Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street,
lower
and
subsequent
brawl
and
chance
medley
in
Beaver
street
(Armageddon)—nocturnal
perambulation
to
and
from
the cabman's shelter,
Butt
Bridge
(atonement).
What
selfimposed
enigma
did
Bloom
about
to
rise
in
order
to
go
so
as
to
conclude
lest
he
should not
conclude
involuntarily apprehend? The
cause
of
a
brief
sharp
unforeseen
heard
loud
lone
crack emitted
by
the insentient
material
of
a
strainveined
timber
table.
What
selfinvolved
enigma
did
Bloom
risen, going,
gathering
multicoloured
multiform
multitudinous
garments, voluntarily apprehending, not 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, charged
with
collected articles
of
recently disvested
male
wearing apparel, silently, successively, enumerate?
A
provisional
failure
to
obtain
renewal
of
an advertisement:
to
obtain
a
certain
quantity
of
tea
from
Thomas Kernan (agent
for
Pulbrook, 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 Bandmann
Palmer
at
the
Gaiety
Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49
South
King
street.
What
impression
of
an absent face
did
Bloom, arrested, silently recall? The face
of
her father, the
late
Major
Brian
Cooper
Tweedy, Royal Dublin Fusiliers,
of
Gibraltar
and
Rehoboth, Dolphin's Barn.
What
recurrent
impressions
of
the
same
were
possible
by
hypothesis? Retreating,
at
the
terminus
of
the
Great
Northern
Railway, Amiens street,
with
constant uniform acceleration,
along
parallel lines
meeting
at
infinity,
if
produced:
along
parallel lines, reproduced
from
infinity,
with
constant uniform retardation,
at
the
terminus
of
the
Great
Northern
Railway, Amiens street, returning.
What
miscellaneous
effects
of
female
personal
wearing
apparel
were
perceived
by
him?
A
pair
of
new
inodorous halfsilk
black
ladies' hose,
a
pair
of
new
violet
garters,
a
pair
of
outsize ladies' drawers
of
India mull,
cut
on
generous
lines,
redolent
of
opoponax,
jessamine
and
Muratti's Turkish cigarettes
and
containing
a
long
bright
steel
safety
pin, folded curvilinear,
a
camisole
of
batiste
with
thin
lace
border, an
accordion
underskirt
of
blue
silk
moirette, all
these
objects being disposed irregularly
on
the
top
of
a
rectangular
trunk,
quadruple
battened, having capped corners,
with
multicoloured labels, 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
adders: 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
no
last
term.
What
were
his
reflections concerning the
last
member
of
this
series
and
late
occupant
of
the bed? Reflections
on
his
vigour
(a bounder),
corporal
proportion
(a billsticker), commercial
ability
(a bester), impressionability (a boaster).
Why
for
the observer impressionability
in
addition
to
vigour,
corporal
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
attraction
between
agent(s)
and
reagent(s)
at
all instants varied,
with
inverse
proportion
of
increase
and
decrease,
with
incessant
circular
extension
and
radial
reentrance.
Because
the controlled
contemplation
of
the
fluctuation
of
attraction
produced,
if
desired,
a
fluctuation
of
pleasure. Abnegation?
In
virtue
of
a)
acquaintance
initiated
in
September 1903
in
the establishment
of
George Mesias,
merchant
tailor
and
outfitter, 5 Eden Quay, b)
hospitality
extended
and
received
in
kind, reciprocated
and
reappropriated
in
person, c)
comparative
youth
subject
to
impulses
of
ambition
and
magnanimity, 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
as
natural
as
any
and
every
natural
act
of
a
nature
expressed
or
understood executed
in
natured
nature
by
natural
creatures
in
accordance
with
his, her
and
their
natured natures,
of
dissimilar
similarity.
As
not
so
calamitous
as
a
cataclysmic
annihilation
of
the
planet
in
consequence
of
a
collision
with
a
dark sun.
As
less
reprehensible
than
theft,
highway
robbery,
cruelty
to
children
and
animals, obtaining
money
under
false
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
parallel 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
witnesses), not yet. Suit
for
damages
by
legal
influence
or
simulation
of
assault
with
evidence
of
injuries sustained (selfinflicted), not impossibly. Hushmoney
by
moral
influence
possibly.
If
any, positively, connivance,
introduction
of
emulation
(material,
a
prosperous
rival
agency
of
publicity: moral,
a
successful rival agent
of
intimacy), depreciation, alienation, humiliation,
separation
protecting the
one
separated
from
the other, protecting the separator
from
both.
By
what
reflections
did
he,
a
conscious
reactor
against the void
of
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 selfabbreviating
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
onomatopoeic
transitive
verb
with
direct
feminine
object)
from
the
active
voice
into
its correlative
aorist
preterite
proposition (parsed
as
feminine
subject, auxiliary
verb
and
quasimonosyllabic
onomatopoeic
past
participle
with
complementary
masculine
agent)
in
the
passive
voice: the continued
product
of
seminators
by
generation: the
continual
production
of
semen
by
distillation: the
futility
of
triumph
or
protest
or
vindication: the
inanity
of
extolled virtue: the
lethargy
of
nescient
matter: the
apathy
of
the stars.
In
what
final
satisfaction
did
these
antagonistic sentiments
and
reflections, reduced
to
their
simplest forms, converge?
Satisfaction
at
the
ubiquity
in
eastern
and
western
terrestrial
hemispheres,
in
all
habitable
lands
and
islands explored
or
unexplored (the
land
of
the
midnight
sun, the islands
of
the blessed, the isles
of
Greece, the
land
of
promise),
of
adipose
anterior
and
posterior
female
hemispheres,
redolent
of
milk
and
honey
and
of
excretory
sanguine
and
seminal
warmth,
reminiscent
of
secular
families
of
curves
of
amplitude, insusceptible
of
moods
of
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 Bandmann
Palmer
of
LEAH
at
the
Gaiety
Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49
South
King
street, an
invitation
to
supper
at
Wynn's (Murphy's) Hotel, 35, 36
and
37
Lower
Abbey
street,
a
volume
of
peccaminous pornographical
tendency
entituled SWEETS
OF
SIN,
anonymous
author
a
gentleman
of
fashion,
a
temporary
concussion
caused
by
a
falsely calculated
movement
in
the
course
of
a
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
lo
September
of
the
same
year
and
complete
carnal
intercourse,
with
ejaculation
of
semen
within the
natural
female
organ, having
last
taken
place
5 weeks previous, viz. 27 November 1893,
to
the
birth
on
29 December 1893
of
second
(and
only
male) issue, deceased 9 January 1894, aged 11 days, there remained
a
period
of
10 years, 5 months
and
18 days
during
which
carnal
intercourse
had been incomplete, without
ejaculation
of
semen
within the
natural
female
organ.
By
the
narrator
a
limitation
of
activity,
mental
and
corporal, inasmuch
as
complete
mental
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
45 degrees
to
the
terrestrial
equator.
In
what
state
of
rest
or
motion?
At
rest
relatively
to
themselves
and
to
each
other.
In
motion
being
each
and
both carried westward, forward
and
rereward respectively,
by
the
proper
perpetual
motion
of
the
earth
through everchanging tracks
of
neverchanging space.
In
what
posture? Listener: reclined semilaterally, left,
left
hand
under head,
right
leg
extended
in
a
straight line
and
resting
on
left
leg, flexed,
in
the
attitude
of
Gea-Tellus, fulfilled, recumbent,
big
with
seed. Narrator: reclined laterally, left,
with
right
and
left
legs flexed, the
index
finger
and
thumb
of
the
right
hand
resting
on
the
bridge
of
the nose,
in
the
attitude
depicted
in
a
snapshot photograph
made
by
Percy Apjohn, the childman weary, the manchild
in
the womb. Womb? Weary?
He
rests.
He
has travelled. With? Sinbad the
Sailor
and
Tinbad the
Tailor
and
Jinbad the
Jailer
and
Whinbad the
Whaler
and
Ninbad the Nailer
and
Finbad the Failer
and
Binbad the Bailer
and
Pinbad the Pailer
and
Minbad the Mailer
and
Hinbad the Hailer
and
Rinbad the Railer
and
Dinbad the Kailer
and
Vinbad the Quailer
and
Linbad the Yailer
and
Xinbad the Phthailer. When? Going
to
dark
bed
there
was
a
square
round Sinbad the
Sailor
roc's auk's
egg
in
the
night
of
the
bed
of
all the auks
of
the rocs
of
Darkinbad the Brightdayler. Where?