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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 inadvertance as far as the farther corner
of Temple street, north: then at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing left,
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. .
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Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary? .
Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the
influence of gaslight or the light of arc and glow-lamps on the growth of adjoining
paraheliotropic trees, exposed corporation emergency dustbuckets, the Roman catholic
church, ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers, the study of
medicine, the past day, the male-cent influence of the presabbath, Stephen's collapse. .
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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. .
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Were their views on some points divergent? .
Stephen dissented openly from Bloom's view on the importance of dietary and civic self
help while Bloom dissented tacitly from Stephen's views on the eternal affirmation of the
spirit of man in literature. Bloom assented covertly to Stephen's rectification of the
anachronism involved in assigning the date of the conversion of the Irish nation to
christianity from druidism by Patrick son of Calpornus, son of Potitus, son of Odyssus,
sent by pope Celestine I in the year 432 in the reign of Leary to the year 260 or
thereabouts in the reign of Cormac MacArt (266 A.D.) suffocated by imperfect deglutition
of aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnaree. The collapse which Bloom ascribed to
gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying degrees of adulteration and
alcoholic strength, accelerated by mental exertion and the velocity of rapid circular
motion in a relaxing atmosphere, Stephen attributed to the reapparition of a matutinal
cloud (perceived by both from two different points of observation, Sandycove and Dublin)
at first no bigger than a woman's hand. .
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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. .
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Had Bloom discussed similar subjects during nocturnal perambulations in the past? .
In 1884 with Ower Goldberg and Cecil Turnbull at night on public thoroughfares between
Longwood avenue and Leonard's corner and Leonard's corner and Synge street and Synge
street and Bloomfield avenue. In 1885 with Percy Apjohn in the evenings, reclined against
the wall between Gibraltar villa and Bloomfield house in Crumlin, barony of Uppercross. In
1886 occasionally with casual acquaintances and prospective purchasers on doorsteps, in
front parlours, in third class railway carriages of suburban lines. In 1888 frequently
with major Brian Tweedy and his daughter Miss Marion Tweedy, together and separately on
the lounge in Matthew Dillon's house in Roundtown. Once in 1892 and once in 1893 with
Julius Mastiansky, on both occasions in the parlour of his (Bloom's) house in Lombard
street, west. .
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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. .
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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. .
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What action did Bloom make on their arrival at their destination? .
At the housesteps of the 4th of the equidifferent uneven numbers, number 7 Eccles
street, he inserted his hand mechanically into the back pocket of his trousers to obtain
his latchkey. .
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Was it there? .
It was in the corresponding pocket of the trousers which he had worn on the day but one
preceding. .
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Why was he doubly irritated? .
Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice
not to forget. .
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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. .
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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. .
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Did he fall? .
By his body's known weight of eleven stone and four pounds in avoirdupois measure, as
certified by the graduated machine for periodical selfweighing in the premises of Francis
Fraedman, pharmaceutical chemist of 19 Frederick street, north, on the last feast of the
Ascension, to wit, the twelfth day of May of the bissextile year one thousand nine hundred
and four of the Christian era (jewish era five thousand six hundred and sixtyfour,
mohammedan era one thousand three hundred and twentytwo), golden number $, epact 13, solar
cycle 9, dominical letters C B, Roman indication 2, Julian period 6617, MXMIV. .
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Did he rise uninjured by concussion? .
Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by the impact,
raised the latch of the area door by the exertion of force at its freely moving flange and
by leverage of the first kind applied at its fulcrum gained retarded access to the kitchen
through the subadjacent scullery, ignited a Lucifer match by friction, set free
inflammable coal gas by turning on the ventcock, lit a high flame which, by regulating, he
reduced to quiescent candescence and lit finally a portable candle. .
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What discrete succession of images did Stephen meanwhile perceive? .
Reclined against the area railings he perceived through the transparent kitchen panes a
man regulating a gasflame of 14 C P, a man lighting a candle, a man removing in turn each
of his two boots, a man leaving the kitchen holding a candle of ICP. .
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Did the man reappear elsewhere? .
Alter a lapse of four minutes the glimmer of his candle was discernible through the
semitransparent semicircular glass fanlight over the halldoor. The halldoor turned
gradually on its hinges. In the open space of the doorway the man reappeared without his
hat, with his candle. .
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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. .
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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. .
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Of what similar apparitions did Stephen think? .
Of others elsewhere in other times who, kneeling on one knee or on two, had kindled
fires for him, of Brother Michael in the infirmary of the college of the Society of Jesus
at Clongowes Wood, Sallins, in the county of Kildare: of his father, Simon Dedalus, in an
unfurnished room of his first residence in Dublin, number thirteen Fitzgibbon street: of
his godmother Miss Kate Morkan in the house of her dying sister Miss Julia Morkan at 15
Usher's Island: of his mother Mary, wife of Simon Dedalus, in the kitchen of number twelve
North Richmond street on the morning of the feast of Saint Francis-Xavier 1898: of the
dean of studies, Father Butt, in the physics' theatre of university College, 16 Stephen's
green, north: of his sister Dilly (Delia) in his father's house in Cabra. .
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What did Stephen see on raising his gaze to the height of a yard from the fire towards
the opposite wall? .
Under a row of five coiled spring housebells a curvilinear rope, stretched between two
holdfasts athwart across the recess beside the chimney pier, from which hung four
smallsized square handkerchiefs folded unattached consecutively in adjacent rectangles and
one pair of ladies' grey hose with lisle suspendertops and feet in their habitual position
clamped by three erect wooden pegs two at their outer extremities and the third at their
point of junction. .
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What did Bloom see on the range? .
On the left (smaller) hob a blue enamelled saucepan: on the left (larger) hob a black
iron kettle. .
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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. .
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Did it flow? .
Yes. From Roundwood reservoir in county Wicklow of a cubic capacity of 2,400 million
gallons, percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of filter mains of single and double
pipeage constructed at an initial plant cost of 5 per linear yard by way of the Dargle,
Rathdown, Glen of the Downs and Callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a
distance of 22 statute miles, and thence, through a system of relieving tanks, by a
gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, though
from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had
fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and
waterworks engineer, Mr Spencer Harty, C.E., on the instructions of the waterworks
committee, had prohibited the use of municipal water for purposes other than those of
consumption (envisaging the possibility of recourse being had to the importable water of
the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893) particularly as the South Dublin Guardians,
notwithstanding their ration of 15 gallons per day per pauper supplied through a 6 inch
meter, had been convicted of a wastage of 20,000 gallons per night by a reading of their
meter on the affirmation of the law agent of the corporation, Mr Ignatius Rice, solicitor,
thereby acting to the detriment of another section of the public, selfsupporting
taxpayers, solvent, sound. .
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What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier returning to the
range, admire? .
Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its
own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's projection: its umplumbed profundity in
the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8,000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves
and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its
units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its
hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its
sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial
significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable
hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of
Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: Its
capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including billions of
tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and downwardtending
promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its
imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and
temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained
streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic
currents: gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes,
waterspouts, artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells,
watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations,
deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in
springs, and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and
exemplified by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of
dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one
constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead
Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on
shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation:
its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain,
sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays
and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and
fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers,
icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos,
electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals,
rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from
harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora
(anacoustic, photophobe) numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its
ubiquity as constituting 90% of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in
lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning
moon. .
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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. .
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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. .
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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. .
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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. .
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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. .
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What concomitant phenomenon took place in the vessel of liquid by the agency of fire? .
The phenomenon of ebullition. Fanned by a constant updraught of ventilation between the
kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the faggots of precombustible
fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the
foliated fossilised decidua of primeval forests which had in turn derived their vegetative
existence from the sun, primal source of heat (radiant), transmitted through omnipresent
luminiferous diathermanous ether. Heat (convected), a mode of motion developed by such
combustion, was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the source of calorification to
the liquid contained in the vessel, being radiated through the uneven unpolished dark
surface of the metal iron, in part reflected, in part absorbed, in part transmitted,
gradually raising the temperature of the water from normal to boiling point, a rise in
temperature expressible as the result of an expenditure of 72 thermal units needed to
raise I pound of water from 50 to 212 Fahrenheit. .
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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. .
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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. .
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Why did absence of light disturb him less than presence of noises .
Because of the surety of the sense of touch in his firm full masculine feminine passive
active hand. .
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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. .
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What lay under exposure on the lower middle and upper shelves of the kitchen dresser
opened by Bloom? .
On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal breakfast saucers on
which rested inverted breakfast cups, a moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown
Derby, four white goldrimmed eggcups, and open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly
copper, and a phial of aromatic violet comfits. On the middle shelf a chipped eggcup
containing pepper, a drum of table salt, four conglomerated black olives in oleaginous
paper, an empty pot of Plumtree's potted meat, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and
containing one Jersey pear, a halfempty bottle of William Gilbey and Co's white invalid
port, half disrobed of its swathe of coralpink tissue paper, a packet of Epps's soluble
cocoa, five ounces of Anne Lynch's choice tea at 2/- per lb. in a crinkled leadpaper bag,
a cylindrical canister containing the best crystallised lump sugar, two onions, one the
larger, Spanish, entire, the other, smaller, Irish, bisected with augmented surface and
more redolent, a jar of Irish Model Dairy's cream, a jug of brown crockery containing a
noggin and a quarter of soured adulterated milk, converted by heat into water, acidulous
serum and semisolidified curds, which added to the quantity subtracted for Mr Bloom's and
Mrs Fleming's breakfasts made one imperial pint, the total quantity originally delivered,
two cloves, a halfpenny and a small dish containing a slice of fresh ribsteak. On the
upper shelf a battery of jamjars of various sizes and proveniences. .
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What attracted his attention lying on the apron of the dresser? .
Four polygonal fragments of two lacerated scarlet betting tickets, numbered 887, 886. .
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What reminiscences temporarily corrugated his brow? .
Reminiscences of coincidences, truth stranger than fiction, preindicative of the result
of the Gold Cup flat handicap, the official and definitive result of which he had read in
the Evening Telegraph, late pink edition, in the cabman's shelter, at Butt bridge. .
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Where had previous intimations of the result, effected or projected, been received by
him? .
In Bernard Kiernan's licensed premises 8, 9 and 10 Little Britain street: in David
Byrne's licensed premises, 14 Duke street: in O'Connell street lower, outside Graham
Lemon's when a dark man had placed in his hand a throwaway (subsequently thrown away),
advertising Elijah, restorer of the church in Zion: in Lincoln place outside the premises
of F. W. Sweny and Co (Limited) dispensing chemists, when, when Frederick M. (Bantam)
Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the
current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw
away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the
Turkish and Warm Baths, 11 Leinster street, with the light of inspiration shining in his
countenance and bearing in his arms the secret of the race, graven in the language of
prediction. .
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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. .
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His mood? .
He hid not risked, he did not expect, he had not been disappointed, he was satisfied. .
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What satisfied him? .
To have sustained no positive loss. To have brought a positive gain to others. Light to
the gentiles. .
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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. .
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What supererogatory marks of special hospitality did the host show his guest? .
Relinquishing his symposiarchal left 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). .
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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. .
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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 left 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. .
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Who drank more quickly? .
Bloom, having the advantage of ten seconds at the initiation ad taking, from the
concave surface of a spoon along the handle of which a steady flow of heat was conducted,
three sips to his opponent's one, six to two, nine to three. .
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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. .
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Had he found their solution? .
In spite of careful and repeated reading of certain classical passages, aided by a
glossary, he had derived imperfect conviction from the text, the answers not bearing on
all points. .
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What lines concluded his first piece of original verse written by him, potential poet,
at the age of 11 in 1877 on the occasion of the offering of three prizes at 10/-, 5/- and
2/6 respectively by the Shamrock, a weekly newspaper? .
An ambition to squint
At my verses in print
Makes me hope that for these you'll find room.
If you so condescend
Then please place at the end
The name of yours truly, L. Bloom. .
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Did he find four separating forces between his temporary guest and him? .
Name, age, race, creed. .
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What anagrams had he made on his name in youth? .
Leopold Bloom .
Ellpodbomool .
Molldopeloob. .
Bollo edoom .
Old Ollebo, M. P. .
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What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic poet) sent to
Miss Marion Tweedy on the 14 February 1888? .
Poets oft have sung in rhyme
Of music sweet their praise divine.
Let them hymn it nine times nine.
Bearer far than song or wine,
You are mine. The world is mine. .
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What had prevented him from completing a topical song (music by R. G. Johnston) on the
events of the past, or fixtures for the actual years, entitled If Brian Boru could but
come back and see old Dublin now, commissioned by Michael Gunn, lessee of the Gaiety
Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street, and to be introduced into the sixth scene, the
valley of diamonds, of the second edition (30 January 1893) of the grand annual Christmas
pantomime Sinbad the Sailor (written by Greenleaf Whittier, scenery by George A. Jackson
and Cecil Hicks, costumes by Mrs and Miss Whelan, produced by R. Shelton 26 December 1892
under the personal supervision of Mrs Michael Gunn, ballets by Jessie Noir, harlequinade
by Thomas Otto) and sung by Nelly Bouverist principal girl? .
Firstly, oscillation between events of imperial and of local interest, the anticipated
diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria (born 1820, acceded 1837) and the posticipated opening
of the new municipal fish market: secondly, apprehension of opposition from extreme
circles on the questions of the respective visits of Their Royal Highnesses, the duke and
duchess of York (real), and of His Majesty King Brian Boru (imaginary); thirdly, a
conflict between professional etiquette and professional emulation concerning the recent
erections of the Grand Lyric Hall on Burgh Quay and the Theatre Royal in Hawkins street:
fourthly, distraction resultant from compassion for Nelly Bouverist's non-intellectual,
non-political, nontopical expression of countenance and concupiscence caused by Nelly
Bouverist's revelations of white articles of nonintellectual, non-political, non-topical
underclothing while she (Nelly Bouverist) was in the articles: fifthly, the difficulties
of the selection of appropriate music and humorous allusions from Everybody's Book of
Jokes (1,000 pages and a laugh in every one); sixthly, the rhymes homophonous and
cacophonous, associated with the names of the new lord mayor, Daniel Tallon, the new high
sheriff, Thomas Pile and the new solicitorgeneral, Dunbar Plunket Barton. .
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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. .
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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. .
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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. .
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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. .
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Did their conversation on the subject of these reminiscences reveal a third connecting
link between them? .
Mrs Riordan, a widow of independent means, had resided in the house of Stephen's
parents from 1 September 1888 to 29 December 1891 and had also resided during the years
1892, 1893 and 1894 in the City Arms Hotel owned by Elizabeth O'Dowd of 54 Prussia street
where during parts of the years 1893 and 1894 she had been a constant informant of Bloom
who resided also in the same hotel, being at that time a clerk in the employment of Joseph
Cuffe of 5 Smithfield for the superintendence of sales in the adjacent Dublin Cattle
market on the North Circular road. .
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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. .
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Why could he then support that his vigil with the greater equanimity? .
Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of bossed glass of
a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of the thoroughfare
without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly,
round and round and round the rim of a round precipitous globe. .
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What distinct different memories had each of her now eight years deceased? .
The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her suppositions wealth,
her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of
colza oil before the statue of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for
Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers. .
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Were there no means still remaining to him to achieve the rejuvenation which these
reminiscences divulged to a younger companion rendered the more desirable? .
The indoor exercises, formerly intermittently practised, subsequently abandoned,
prescribed in Eugen Sandow's Physical Strength and How To Obtain It which, designed
particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with
mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of
muscles and produce successively a pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant
repristination of juvenile agility. .
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Had any special agility been his in earlier youth? .
Though ringweight lifting had been beyond his strength and the full circle gyration
beyond his courage yet as a High School scholar he had excelled in his table and
protracted execution of the half lever movement on the parallel bars in consequence of his
abnormally developed abdominal muscles. .
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Did either openly allude to their racial difference? .
Neither. .
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What, reduced to their simplest reciprocal form, were Bloom's thoughts about Stephen's
thoughts about Bloom and Bloom's thoughts about Stephen's thoughts about Bloom's thoughts
about Stephen? .
He thought that he thought that he was a jew whereas he knew that he knew that he knew
that he was not. .
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What, the enclosures of reticence removed, were their respective parentages? .
Bloom, only born male transubstantial heir of Rudolf Virag (subsequently Rudolf Bloom)
of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London and Dublin and of Ellen Higgins, second
daughter of Julius Higgins (born Karoly) and Fanny Higgins (born Hegarty); Stephen, eldest
surviving male consubstantial heir of Simon Dedalus of Cork and Dublin and of Mary,
daughter of Richard and Christina Goulding (born Grier). .
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Had Bloom and Stephen been baptised, and where and by whom, cleric or layman? .
Bloom (three times) by the reverend Mr Gilmer Johnston M. A. alone in the protestant
church of Saint Nicolas Without, Coombe; by James O'Connor, Philip Gilligan and James
Fitzpatrick, together, under a pump in the village of Swords; and by the reverend Charles
Malone C. C., in the church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. Stephen (once) by the reverend
Charles Malone, C. C., alone, in the church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. .
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Did they find their educational careers similar? .
Substituting Stephen for Bloom Stoom would have passed successively through a dame's
school and the high school. Substituting Bloom for Stephen Blephen would have passed
successively through the preparatory, junior, middle and senior grades of the intermediate
and through the matriculation, first arts, second arts and arts degree course of the royal
university. .
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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. .
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What two temperaments did they individually represent? .
The scientific. The artistic. .
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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. .
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Were these inventions principally intended for an improved scheme of kindergarten? .
Yes, rendering obsolete popguns, elastic airbladders, games of hazard, catapults. They
comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the twelve constellations of the zodiac
from Aries to Pisces, miniature mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges,
geometrical to correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playingballs, historically
costumed dolls. .
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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. .
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Such as? .
K. 11. Kino's 111- Trousers. .
House of Keys. Alexander J. Keyes. .
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Such as not? .
Look at this long candle. Calculate when it burns out and you receive gratis I pair of
our special non-compo boots, guaranteed I candle power. Address: Barclay and Cook, 18
Talbot Street. .
Bacilikil (Insect Powder). .
Veribest (Boot Blacking). .
Uwantit (Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and pipecleaner). .
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Such as never? .
What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat? .
Incomplete. .
With it an abode of bliss. .
Manufactured by George Plumtree, 23 Merchants' quay, Dublin, put up in 4 oz. pots, and
inserted by Councillor Joseph P. Nannetti, M. P., Rotunda Ward, 19 Hardwicke street, under
the obituary notices and anniversaries of deceases. The name on the label is Plumtree. A
plumtree is a meatpot, registered trade mark. Beware of imitations. Peatmot. Trumplee.
Montpat. Plamtroo. .
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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. .
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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 .
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What? .
In sloping, upright and backhands: Queen's hotel, Queen's hotel, Queen's Ho... .
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What suggested scene was then reconstructed by Bloom? .
The Queen's Hotel, Ennis, County, Glare, where Rudolph Bloom (Rudolf Virag) died on the
evening of the 27 June 1886, at some hour unstated, in consequence of an overdose of
monkshood (aconite) selfadministered in the form of a neuralgic liniment, composed of 2
parts of aconite liniment to 1 of chloroform liniment (purchased by him at 10.20 a.m. on
the morning of 27 June 1886 at the medical hall of Francis Dennehy, 17 Church street,
Ennis) after having, though not in consequence of having, purchased at 3.15 p.m. on the
afternoon of 27 June 1886 a new boater straw hat, extra smart (after having, though not in
consequence of having, purchased at the hour and in the place aforesaid, the toxin
aforesaid), at the general drapery store of James Cullen, 4 Main street, Ennis. .
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Did he attribute this homonymity to information or coincidence or intuition? .
Coincidence. .
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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. .
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Did he see only a second coincidence in the second scene narrated to him, described by
the narrator as A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The Parable of the Plums? .
It, with the preceding scene and with others unnarrated but existent by implication, to
which add essays on various subjects or moral apothegms (e.g. My Favourite Hero or
Procrastination is the Thief of Time) composed during schoolyears, seemed to him to
contain in itself and in conjunction with the personal equation certain possibilities of
financial, social, personal and sexual success, whether specially collected and selected
as model pedagogic themes (of cent per cent merit) for the use of preparatory and junior
grade students or contributed in printed form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy
or Doctor Dick or Heblon's Studies in Blue, to a publication of certified circulation and
solvency or employed verbally as intellectual stimulation for sympathetic auditors,
tacitly appreciative of successful narrative and confidently augurative of successful
achievement, during the increasingly longer nights gradually following the summer solstice
on the day but three following, videlict, Tuesday, 21 June (S. Aloysius Gonzaga), sunrise
3.33 a.m., sunset 8.29 p.m. .
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Which domestic problem as much as, if not more than, any other frequently engaged his
mind? .
What to do with our wives. .
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What had been his hypothetical singular solutions? .
Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spillikins, cup and ball, nap, spoil
five, bezique, twentyfive, beggar my neighbour, draughts, chess or backgammon):
embroidery, darning or knitting for the policeaided clothing society: musical duets,
mandoline and guitar, piano and flute, guitar and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope
addressing: biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial activity as pleasantly
commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress in a cool dairy shop or warm cigar
divan: the clandestine satisfaction of erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state
inspected and medically controlled: social visits, at regular infrequent prevented
intervals and with regular frequent preventive superintendence, to and from female
acquaintances of recognised respectability in the vicinity: courses of evening instruction
specially designed to render liberal instruction agreeable. .
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What instances of deficient mental development in his wife inclined him in favour of
the lastmentioned (ninth) solution? .
In disoccupied moments she had more than once covered a sheet of paper with signs and
hieroglyphics which she stated were Greek and Irish and Hebrew characters. She had
interrogated constantly at varying intervals as to the correct method of writing the
capital initial of the name of a city in Canada, Quebec. She understood little of
political complications, internal, or balance of power, external. In calculating the
addenda of bills she frequently had recourse to digital aid. After completion of laconic
epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic
pigment exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall. Unusual
polysyllables of foreign origin she interpreted phonetically or by false analogy or by
both: metempsychosis (met him pike hoses), alias (a mendacious person mentioned in sacred
Scripture). .
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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. .
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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. .
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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. .
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What system had proved more effective? .
Indirect suggestion implicating self-interest. .
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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. .
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Accepting the analogy implied in his guest's parable which examples of postexilic
eminence did he adduce? .
Three seekers of the pure truth, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, author of More
Neubkim (Guide of the Perplexed) and Moses Mendelssohn of such eminence that from Moses
(of Egypt) to Moses (Mendelssohn) there arose none like Moses (Maimonides). .
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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.
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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). .
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What fragments of verse from the ancient Hebrew and ancient Irish languages were cited
with modulations of voice and translation of texts by guest to host and by host to guest? .
By Stephen: suil, suil, suil arun, suil go siocair agus, suil go cuin (walk, walk, walk
your way, walk in safety, walk with care). .
By Bloom: Kifeloch, harimon rakatejch m'baad l'zamatejch (thy temple amid thy hair is
as a slice of pomegranate). .
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How was a glyphic comparison of the phonic symbols of both languages made in
substantiation of the oral comparison? .
On the penultimate blank page of a book of inferior literary style, entitled Sweets of
Sin (produced by Bloom and so manipulated that its front cover came in contact with the
surface of the table) with a pencil (supplied by Stephen) Stephen wrote the Irish
characters for gee, eh, dee, em, simple and modified, and Bloom in turn wrote the Hebrew
characters ghimel, aleph, daleth and (in the absence of mem) a substituted goph,
explaining their arithmetical values as ordinal and cardinal numbers, videlicet 3, 1,4 and
100. .
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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. .
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What points of contact existed between these languages and between the peoples who
spoke them? .
The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters
in both languages: their antiquity, both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242
years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah,
progenitor of Israel, and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their
archeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical, homilectic, toponomastic,
historical and religious literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah,
Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara) Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow, Book of Ballymote,
Garland of Howth, Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the
isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto (S. Mary's Abbey) and
masshouse (Adam and Eve's tavern): the proscription of their national costumes in penal
laws and Jewish dress acts: the restoration in Chanan David of Zion and the possibility of
Irish political autonomy or devolution. .
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What anthem did Bloom chant partially in anticipation of that multiple, ethnically
irreductible consummation? .
Kolod balejwaw pnimali
Nefesch, jehudi, homijah.
Why was the chant arrested at the conclusion of this first distich?
In consequence of defective mnemotechnic. .
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How did the chanter compensate for this deficiency? By a periphrastic version of the
general text. .
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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). .
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Did the guest comply with his host's request? .
Doubly, by appending his signature in Irish and Roman characters. .
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What was Stephen's auditive sensation? .
He heard in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation of the past. .
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What was Bloom's visual sensation? .
He saw in a quick young male familiar form the predestination of a future. .
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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. .
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What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the past and with what exemplars? .
In the church, Roman, Anglican, or Nonconformist: exemplars, the very reverend John
Conmee S.J., the reverend T. Salmon, D.D., provost of Trinity college, Dr Alexander J.
Dowie. At the bar, English or Irish: exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K.C., Rufus Isaacs, K.C. On
the stage, modern or Shakespearean exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high comedian, Osmond
Tearle (1901), exponent of Shakespeare. .
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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. .
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Recite the first (major) part of this chanted legend? .
d Little Harry Hughes and his schoolfellows all Went out for to play ball
And the very first ball little Harry Hughes played
He drove it o'er the jew's garden wall.
And the very second ball little Harry Hughes played
He broke the jew's windows all.
How did the son of Rudolph receive this first part?
With unmixed feeling. Smiling, a jew, he heard with pleasure and saw the unbroken kitchen
window. .
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Recite the second part (minor) of the legend. .
Then out there came the jew's daughter
And she all dressed in green.
`Come back, come back, you pretty little boy,
And play your ball again.'
`I can't come back and I won't come back
Without my schoolfellows all,
For if my master he did hear
He'd make it a sorry ball.' .
She took him by the lilywhite hand
And led him along the hall
Until she led him to a room
Where none could hear him call. .
She took a penknife out of her pocket
And cut off his little head,
And now he'll play his ball no more
For he lies among the dead. .
How did the father of Millicent receive this second part?
With mixed feelings. Unsmiling, he heard and saw with wonder a jew's daughter, all dressed
in green. .
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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. .
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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. .
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Why was the host (reluctant, unresisting) still? .
In accordance with the law of the conservation of energy. .
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Why was the host (secret infidel) silent? .
He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the incitation of the
hierarchy, the superstition of the populace, the propagation of rumour in continued
fraction of veridicity, the envy of opulence, the influence of retaliation, the sporadic
reappearance of atavistic delinquency, the mitigating circumstances of fanaticism,
hypnotic suggestion and somnambulism. .
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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. .
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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. .
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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. .
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What endemic characteristics were present? .
Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a direct line of lineage
which, though interrupted, would continue at distant intervals to its most distant
intervals. .
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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). .
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Did that first division, portending a second division, afflict him? .
Less than he had imagined, more than he had hoped. .
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What second departure was contemporaneously perceived by him similarly if differently? .
A temporary departure of his cat. .
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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. .
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In other respects were their differences similar? .
In passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness. .
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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. .
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In what way had he utilised gifts 1) an owl, 2) a clock, given as matrimonial auguries,
to interest and to instruct her? .
As object lessons to explain: 1) the nature and habits of oviparous animals, the
possibility of aerial flight, certain abnormalities of vision, the secular process of
imbalsamation: 2) the principle of the pendulum, exemplified in bob, wheelgear and
regulator, the translation in terms of human or social regulation of the various positions
clockwise of movable indicators on an unmoving dial, the exactitude of the recurrence per
hour of an instant in each hour, when the longer and the shorter indicator were at the
same angle of inclination, videlicet, 5 5/11 minutes past each hour per hour in
arithmetical progression. .
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In what manners did she reciprocate? .
She remembered: on the 27th anniversary of his birth she presented to him a breakfast
moustachecup of imitation crown Derby porcelain ware. She provided: at quarter day or
thereabouts if or when purchases had been made by him not for her she showed herself
attentive to his necessities, anticipating his desires. She admired: a natural phenomenon
having been explained by him not for her she expressed the immediate desire to possess
without gradual acquisition a fraction of his science, the moiety, the quarter, a
thousandth part. .
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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. .
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What various advantages would or might have resulted from a prolongation of such
extemporisation? .
For the guest: security of domicile and seclusion of study. For the host: rejuvenation
of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction. For the hostess: disintegration of obsession,
acquisition of correct Italian pronunciation. .
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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. .
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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. .
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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). .
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Was the proposal of asylum accepted? .
Promptly, inexplicably, with amicability, gratefully it was declined. .
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What exchange of money took place between host and guest? .
The former returned to the latter, without interest, a sum of money (?1.7s.0.), one
pound seven shillings, advanced by the latter to the former. .
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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
left line drawn between their residences (if both speakers were resident in different
places). .
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What rendered problematic for Bloom the realisation of these mutually selfexcluding
propositions? .
The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert Hengler's circus in the
Rotunda, Rutland square, Dublin, an intuitive particoloured clown in quest of paternity
had penetrated from the ring to a place in the auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was
seated and had publicly declared to an exhilarated audience that he (Bloom) was his (the
clown's) papa. The imprevidibility of the future: once in the summer of 1898 he (Bloom)
had marked a florin (2s.) with three notches on the milled edge and tendered it in payment
of an account due to and received by J. and T. Davy, family grocers, 1 Charlemont Mall,
Grand Canal, for circulation on the waters of civic finance, for possible, circuitous or
direct, return. .
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Was the clown Bloom's son? .
No. .
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Had Bloom's coin returned? .
Never. .
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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. .
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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. .
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Why did he desist from speculation? .
Because it was a task for a superior intelligence to substitute other more acceptable
phenomena in place of the less acceptable phenomena to be removed. .
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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. .
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Was this affirmation apprehended by Bloom? .
Not verbally. Substantially. .
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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. .
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I n what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the
house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation effected? .
Lighted Candle in Stick borne by
BLOOM.
Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by
STEPHEN. .
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With what intonation secreto of what commemorative psalm? .
The 113th, modus peregrinus: In exitu Isra?l de Egypto: domus Jacob de populo barbaro. .
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What did each do at the door of egress? .
Bloom set the candlestick on the floor. Stephen put the hat on his head. .
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For what creature was the door of egress a door of ingress? .
For a cat. .
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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. .
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With what meditations did Bloom accompany his demonstration to his companion of various
constellations? .
Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipent
lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky
way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical
vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of
Sirius (alpha in Canis Major) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in
volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes:
of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems
could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our
system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic
drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving from immeasurably remote eons to
infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of
allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity. .
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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. .
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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. .
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Did he find the problem of the inhabitability of the planets and their satellites by a
race, given in species, and of the possible social and moral redemption of said race by a
redeemer, easier of solution? .
Of a different order of difficulty. Conscious that the human organism, normally capable
of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude
in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity,
according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was
approximated, from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this
problem for solution he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved
impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings
might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or
Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created
in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another
would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to
vanities of vanities and all that is vanity. .
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And the problem of possible redemption?
The minor was proved by the major. .
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Which various features of the constellations were in turn considered? .
The various colours significant of various degrees of vitality (white, yellow, crimson,
vermilion, cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy: their magnitudes revealed up to and
including the 7th: their positions: the waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the chariot of
David: the annular cinctures of Saturn: the condensation of spiral nebulae into suns: the
interdependent gyrations of double suns: the independent synchronous discoveries of
Galileo, Simon Marius, Piazzi, Le Verrier, Herschel, Galle: the systematisations attempted
by Bode and Kepler of cubes of distances and squares of times of revolution: the almost
infinite compressibility of hirsute comets and their vast elliptical egressive and
reentrant orbits from perihelion to aphelion: the sidereal origin of meteoric stones: the
Libyan floods on Mars about the period of the birth of the younger astroscopist: the
annual recurrence of meteoric showers about the period of the feast of S. Lawrence
(martyr, 10 August): the monthly recurrence known as the new moon with the old moon in her
arms: the posited influence of celestial on human bodies: the appearance of a star (1st
magnitude) of exceeding brilliancy dominating by night and day (a new luminous sun
generated by the collision and amalgamation in incandescence of two nonluminous exsuns)
about the period of the birth of William Shakespeare over delta in the recumbent
neversetting constellation of Cassiopeia and of a star (2nd magnitude) of similar origin
but lesser brilliancy which had appeared in and disappeared from the constellation of the
Corona Septentrionalis about the period of the birth of Leopold Bloom and of other stars
of (presumably) similar origin which had (effectively or presumably) appeared in and
disappeared from the constellation of Andromeda about the period of the birth of Stephen
Dedalus, and in and from the constellation of Auriga some years after the birth and death
of Rudolph Bloom, junior, and in and from other constellations some years before or after
the birth or death of other persons: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar,
from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow, taciturnity of winged
creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular animals, persistence of infernal light,
obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of human beings. .
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His (Bloom's) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and allowing for possible
error? .
That it was not a heaventree, not a heavengrot, not a heavenbeast, not a heavenman.
That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an
infinity, renderable equally finite by the suppositions probable apposition of one or more
bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms
immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a
present before its future spectators had entered actual present existence. .
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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. .
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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. .
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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. .
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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. .
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How did he elucidate the mystery of an invisible person, his wife Marion (Molly) Bloom,
denoted by a visible splendid sign, a lamp? .
With indirect and direct verbal allusions or affirmations: with subdued affection and
admiration: with description: with impediment: with suggestion. .
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Boa then were silent? .
Silent, each contemplating the other in both mirrors of the reciprocal flesh of
theirhisnothis fellowfaces. .
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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. .
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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. .
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What different problems presented themselves to each concerning the invisible audible
collateral organ of the other? .
To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence, rigidity, reactivity, dimension,
sanitariness, pelosity. To Stephen: the problem of the sacerdotal integrity of Jesus
circumcised (1st January, holiday of obligation to hear mass and abstain from unnecessary
servile work) and the problem as to whether the divine prepuce, the carnal bridal ring of
the holy Roman catholic apostolic church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple
hyperduly or of the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine
excrescences as hair and toenails. .
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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. .
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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 left 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. .
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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 left angles. .
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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. .
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What echoes of that sound were by both and each heard? .
By Stephen: .
Liliata rutilantium. Turma circumdet.
Iubilantium te virginum. Chorus excipiat.
By Bloom:
Heigho, heigho,
Heigho, heigho.
Where were the several members of the company which with Bloom that day at the bidding of
that peal had travelled from Sandymount in the south to Glasnevin in the north?
Martin Cunningham (in bed), Jack Power (in bed), Simon Dedalus (in bed), Tom Kernan (in
bed), Ned Lambert (in bed), Joe Hynes (in bed), John Henry Menton (in bed), Bernard
Corrigan (in bed), Patsy Dignam (in bed), Paddy Dignam (in the grave). .
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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. .
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Alone, what did Bloom feel? .
The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the
absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or R
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