literary transcript
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, north: then at reduced pace with interruptions of
halt, bearing right, Temple street, north, as far as Hardwicke place. Approaching, disparate, at relaxed walking
pace they crossed both the circus before George's church diametrically, the
chord in any circle being less than the arc which it subtends.
Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary?
Music, literature,
Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the influence of
gaslight or the light of arc and 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 maleficient 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 Celstine 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 deglution 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
What reflection
concerning the irregular sequence of dates 1884, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1892, 1893,
1904 did Bloom make before their arrival at their destination?
He reflected that the
progressive extension of the field of individual development and experience was
regressively accompanied by a restriction of the converse domain of
interindividual relations.
As in what ways?
From inexistence to
existence he came to many and was as one received: existence with existence he
was with any as any with any: from existence to nonexistence gone he would be
by all as none perceived.
What action did Bloom make on their arrival at their
destination?
At the housesteps of
the 4th of the equidifferent uneven numbers, number
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 bisextile 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 5, epact 13, solar cycle 9, dominical letters CB,
Roman indication 2, Julian period 6617, MXMIV.
Did he rise uninjured by concussion?
Regaining new stable
equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by the impact, raised the latch
of the area door by the exertion of force at its freely moving flange and by
leverage of the first kind applied at its fulcrum gained retarded access to the
kitchen through the subadjacent scullery, ignited a lucifer match by friction,
set free inflammable coal gas by turning on the ventcock, lit a high flame
which, by regulating, he reduced to quiescent candescence and lit finally a
portable candle.
What discrete succession
of images did Stephen meanwhile perceive?
Reclined against the
area railings he perceived through the transparent kitchen panes a man
regulating a gasflame of 14 CP, a man lighting a candle, a man removing in turn
each of his two boots, a man leaving the kitchen holding a candle of 1 CP.
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 of 15 Usher's Island: of his mother Mary,
wife of Simon Dedalus, in the kitchen of number twelve North Richmond street on
the morning of the feast of Saint Francis-Xavier 1898: of the dean of studies,
Father Butt, in the physics' theatre of university College, 16 Stephen's green,
north: of his sister Dilly (Delia) in his father's house in Cabra.
What did Stephen see on
raising his gaze to the height of a yard from the fire towards the opposite
wall?
Under a row of five
coiled spring housebells a curvilinear rope, stretched between two holdfasts
athwart across the recess beside the chimney pier, from which hung four
smallsized square handkerchiefs folded unattached consecutively in adjacent
rectangles and one pair of ladies' grey hose with lisle 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 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 12½ million gallons of 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 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 multicellular 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 downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume
and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation
of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular
ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing
rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents: gulfstream, north and
south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, artesian
wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds,
waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations,
deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy
in springs, and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric
instruments and exemplified by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation
of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent
parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its
buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in
runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its properties for
cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility
as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet,
snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and
bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and
sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity
in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels,
turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries,
scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving
docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling
from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe)
numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as
constituting 90% of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in
lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the
waning moon.
Having set the
halffilled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he return to the
stillflowing tap?
To wash his soiled
hands with a partially consumed tablet of Barrington's lemonflavoured soap, to
which paper still adhered (bought thirteen hours previously for fourpence and
still unpaid for), in fresh cold neverchanging everchanging water and dry them,
face and hands, in a long redbordered holland cloth passed over a wooden
revolving roller.
What reason did Stephen give for declining Bloom's offer?
That
he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by submersion
in cold water (his last bath having taken place in the month of October of the
preceding year), disliking the aqueous substances of glass and crystal,
distrusting aquacities of thought and language.
What impeded Bloom from
giving Stephen counsels of hygiene and prophylactic to which should be added
suggestions concerning a preliminary wetting of the hand 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 decidual 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° to 212° 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,
psycho-physiocotherapeutics, osteopathic surgery.
What lay under exposure
on the lower middle and upper shelves of the kitchen dresser opened by Bloom?
On the lower shelf five
vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal breakfast saucers on which rested
inverted breakfast cups, a moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown Derby,
four white goldrimmed eggcups, and open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly
copper, and a phial of aromatic violet comfits.
On the middle shelf a chipped eggcup containing pepper, a drum of table
salt, four conglomerated black olives in oleaginous paper, an empty pot of
Plumtree's potted meat, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and containing
one Jersey pear, a halfempty bottle of William Gilbey and Co's white invalid
port, half disrobed in 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 quarter of
soured adulterated milk, converted by heat into water, acidulous serum and
semi-solidified curds, which added to the quantity subtracted for Mr Bloom's
and Mrs Fleming's breakfasts made one imperial pint, the total quantity
originally delivered, two cloves, a halfpenny and a small dish containing a
slice of fresh ribsteak. On the upper shelf a battery of jamjars of various sizes and
provenances.
What attracted his attention lying on the apron of the dresser?
Four polygonal
fragments of two lacerated scarlet betting tickets, numbered 8 87, 8 86.
What reminiscences temporarily corrugated his brow?
Reminiscences of
coincidences, truth stranger than fiction, preindicative of the result of the
Gold Cup flat handicap, the official and definitive result of which he had read
in the Evening Telegraph, late pink edition, in the cabman's shelter, at
Butt bridge.
Where had previous
intimations of the result, effected or projected, been received by him?
In Bernard Kiernan's
licensed premises 8, 9 and 10 Little Britain street: in David Byrne's licensed
premises, 14 Duke street: in O'Connell street lower, outside Graham Lemon's
when a dark man had placed in his hand a throwaway (subsequently thrown away),
advertising Elijah, restorer of the church in Zion: in Lincoln place outside
the premises of F.W. Sweny and Co (Limited) dispensing chemists, when, when
Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and
restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National
Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he
had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths, 11
Leinster street, with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and
bearing in his arms the secret of the race, graven in the language of
prediction.
What qualifying considerations allayed his perturbations?
The difficulties of
interpretation since the significance of any event followed its occurrence as
variably as the acoustic report followed the electrical discharge and of
counterestimating against an actual loss by failure to interpret the total sum
of possible losses
proceeding originally from a successful interpretation.
His mood?
He 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 Epp'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 superrerogatory
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 supressed, reserving them for another and
for himself on future occasions to complete the act begun?
The
reparation of a fissure of the length of 1½ 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 on all
points.
What lines concluded
his first piece of original verse written by him, potential poet, at the age of
11 in 1877 on the occasion of the offering of three prizes of 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.
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 Tweedy
on the
Poets oft have sung in rhyme
Of music sweet their praise divine.
Let them hymn it nine times nine.
Dearer far than song or wine,
You are mine.
The world is mine.
What had prevented him from
completing a topical song (music by R.G. 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, 46-49 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 pantomine 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 form compassion for Nelly Bouverist's non-intellectual,
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 (1000 pages and a
laugh in every one): sixthly, the rhymes homophonous and cacophonous,
associated with the names of the new lord mayor, Daniel Tallon, the new high
sheriff, Thomas Pile, and the new solicitorgeneral, Dunbar Plunket Barton.
What relation existed between their ages?
16 years before in 1888
when Bloom was of Stephen's present age Stephen was 6. 16 years after in 1920 when Stephen would be
of Bloom's present age Bloom would be 54.
In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages initially in
the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17½ to 13½, 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 would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom would be 646 while in 1952 when
Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 Bloom, being
1190 years alive having been born in the year 714, would have surpassed by 221
years the maximum antediluvian age, that of Methusalah, 969 years, while, if
Stephen would continue to live until he would attain that age in the year 3072
A.D., Bloom would have been obliged to have been alive 83,300 years, having
been obliged to have been born in the year 81,396 B.C.
What events might nullify these calculations?
The
cessation of existence of both or either, the inauguration of a new era or
calendar, the annihilation of the world and consequent extermination of the
human species, inevitable but impredictable.
How many previous
encounters proved their preexisting acquaintance?
Two. The first in the lilacgarden of Matthew
Dillon's house, Medina Villa, Kimmage road, Roundtown, in 1887, in the company
of Stephen's mother, Stephen being then of the age of 5 and reluctant to give
his hand in salutation. The second in
the coffeeroom of Breslin's hotel on a rainy Sunday in the January of 1892, in
the company of Stephen's father and Stephen's granduncle, Stephen being then 5
years older.
Did Bloom accept the
invitation to dinner given then by the son and afterwards seconded by the
father?
Very gratefully, with
grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively
grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.
Did their conversation
on the subject of these reminiscences reveal a third connecting link between
them?
Mrs Riordan, a widow of
independent means, had resided in the house of Stephen's parents from 1
September 1888 to 29 December 1891 and had also resided during the years 1892,
1893 and 1894 in the City Arms Hotel owned by Elizabeth O'Dowd of 54 Prussia
street where during parts of the years 1893 and 1894 she had been a constant
informant of Bloom who resided also in the same hotel, being at that time a
clerk in the employment of Joseph Cuffe of 5 Smithfield for the superintendence
of sales in the adjacent Dublin Castle 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 this 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 the rim of a round precipitous globe.
What distinct different
memories had each of her now eight years deceased?
The older, her bezique
cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her 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?
The indoor exercises,
formerly intermittently practised, subsequently abandoned, prescribed in Eugen
Sandow's Physical Strength and How to Obtain It which, designed
particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be
made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play
the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant relaxation
and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility.
Had any special agility been his in early youth?
Though ringweight
lifting had been beyond his strength and the full circle gyration beyond his
courage yet as a High School scholar he had excelled in his table and
protracted execution of the half lever movement on the parallel bars in
consequence of his abnormally developed abdominal muscles.
Did either openly allude to their racial difference?
Neither.
What, reduced to their
simplest reciprocal form, were Bloom's thoughts about Stephen's thoughts about
Bloom and Bloom's thoughts about Stephen's thoughts about Bloom's thoughts
about Stephen?
He thought that he
thought that he was a jew whereas he knew that he knew
that he knew that he was not.
What, the enclosures of
reticence removed, were their respective parentages?
Bloom, only born male
transubstantial heir of Rudolf Virag (subsequently Rudolf Bloom) of
Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London and Dublin and of Ellen Higgins,
second daughter of Julius Higgins (born Karoly) and Fanny Higgins (born
Hegarty); Stephen, eldest surviving male consubstantial heir of Simon Dedalus
of Cork and Dublin and of Mary, daughter of Richard and Christian Goulding
(born Grier).
Had
Bloom and Stephen been baptised, and where and by whom, cleric or layman?
Bloom (three times) by
the reverend Mr Gilmer Johnston M.A. alone in the protestant church of Saint
Nicolas Without, Coombe; by James O'Connor, Philip Gilligan and James
Fitzpatrick, together under a pump in the village of Swords; and by the
reverend Charles Malone C.C., in the church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. Stephen (once) by the
reverend Charles Malone, C.C., alone, in the church of the Three Patrons,
Rathgar.
Did they find their educational careers similar?
Substituting Stephen
for Bloom Stoom would have passed successively through a dame's school and the
high school. Substituting Bloom for
Stephen Blephen would have passed successively through the preparatory, junior,
middle and senior grades of the intermediate and through the matriculation,
first arts, second arts and arts degree course of the royal university.
Why did Bloom refrain
from stating that he had frequented the university of life?
Because of his
fluctuating incertitude as to whether this observation had or had not been
already made by him to Stephen or by Stephen to him.
What two temperaments did they individually represent?
The
scientific. The
artistic.
What proofs did Bloom
adduce to prove that his tendency was towards applied, rather than towards
pure, science?
Certain possible
inventions of which he had cogitated when reclining in a state of supine
repletion to aid digestion, stimulated by his appreciation of the importance of
inventions now common but once revolutionary for example, the aeronautic
parachute, the reflecting telescope, the spiral corkscrew, the safety pin, the
mineral water siphon, the canal lock with winch and sluice, the suction pump.
Were these inventions
principally intended for an improved scheme of kindergarten?
Yes, rendering obsolete
popguns, elastic airbladders, games of hazard, catapults. They comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes
exhibiting the twelve constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces,
miniature mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to
correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playingballs, historically
costumed dolls.
What also stimulated him in his cogitations?
The financial success
achieved by Ephraim Marks and Charles A. James, the former by his 1d. bazaar at 42 George's street, South, the latter at his 6½d.
shop and world's fancy fair and waxwork exhibition at 30 Henry street,
admission 2d., children 1d.; and the infinite possibilities hitherto
unexploited of the modern art of advertisement if condensed in triliteral
monoideal symbols, vertically of maximum visibility (divined), horizontally of
maximum legibility (deciphered) and of magnetising efficacy to arrest involuntary
attention, to interest, to convince, to decide.
Such as?
K. 11. Kino's 11/- Trousers.
House
of Keys. Alexander J. Keyes.
Such as not?
Look at this long
candle. Calculate when it burns out and you
receive gratis 1 pair of our special non-compo boots, guaranteed 1 candle
power. Address: Barclay and Cook, 18
Talbot Street.
Bacilikil
(Insect Powder).
Veribest
(Boot Blacking).
Uwantit
(Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and pipecleaner).
Such as never?
What is home without
Plumtree's Potted Meat?
Incomplete.
With
it an abode of bliss.
Manufactured by George
Plumtree, 23 Merchants quay,
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 form his dark corner. He seizes solitary paper. He holds it towards fire. Twilight. He reads.
Solitary.
What?
In sloping, upright and
backhands: Queen's hotel, Queen's hotel, Queen's Ho ...
What suggested scene was then reconstructed by Bloom?
The Queen's Hotel, Ennis,
County 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 (purchased by
him at 10.20 a.m. on the morning of 27 June 1886 at the medical hall of Francis
Dennehy, 17 Church street, Ennis) after having, though not in consequence of
having, purchased at 3.15 p.m. on the afternoon of 27 June 1886 a new boater
straw hat, extra smart (after having, though not in consequence of having,
purchased at the hour and in the place aforesaid, the toxin aforesaid), at the
general drapery store of James Cullen, 4 Main street, Ennis.
Did he attribute this
homonymity to information or coincidence or intuition?
Coincidence.
Did he depict the scene verbally for his guest to see?
He preferred himself to
see another's face and listen to another's words by which potential narration
was realised and kinetic temperament relieved.
Did he see only a
second coincidence in the second scene narrated to him, described by the
narrator as A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The
Parable of the Plums?
It, with the preceding
scene and with others unnarrated but existent by implication, to which add
essays on various subjects or moral apothegms (e.g. My Favourite Hero or
Procrastination is the Thief of Time) composed during schoolyears,
seemed to him to contain in itself and in conjunction with the personal
equation certain possibilities of financial, social, personal and sexual success,
whether specially collected and selected as model pedagogic themes (of cent per
cent merit) for the use of preparatory and junior grade students or contributed
in printed form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy or Doctor Dick or
Heblon's Studies in Blue, to a publication of certified circulation and
solvency or employed verbally as intellectual stimulation for sympathetic
auditors, tacitly appreciative of successful narrative and confidently
augurative of successful achievement, during the increasingly longer nights
gradually following the summer solstice on the day but three following,
videlicit, Tuesday, 21 June (S. Aloysius Gonzaga), sunrise 3.33 a.m., sunset
8.29 p.m.
What 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, tiddlywinks, spillikins, cup and ball, nap, spoil five, bezique,
twentyfive, beggar my neighbour, draughts, chess or backgammon): embroidery,
darning or knitting for the policeaided clothing society: musical duets,
mandoline and guitar, piano and flute, guitar and piano: legal scrivenery or
envelope addressing: biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial
activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress
in a cool dairy shop or warm cigar divan: the clandestine satisfaction of
erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state inspected and medically
controlled: social visits, at regular infrequent prevented intervals and with
regular frequent preventive superintendence, to and from female acquaintances
of recognised respectability in the vicinity: courses of evening instruction
specially designed to render liberal instruction agreeable.
What instances of
deficient mental development in his wife inclined him in favour of the
lastmentioned (ninth) solution?
In disoccupied moments
she had more than once covered a sheet of paper with signs and hieroglyphics
which she stated were Greek and Irish and Hebrew characters. She had interrogated constantly at varying
intervals as to the correct method of writing the capital initial of the name
of a city in Canada, Quebec. She
understood little of political complications, internal, or balance of power, external. In calculating the addenda of bills she
frequently had recourse to digital aid.
After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the
implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment exposed to the corrosive
action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall.
Unusual polysyllables of foreign origin she interpreted phonetically or
by false analogy or by both: metempsychosis (met him pike hoses), alias
(a mendacious person mentioned in sacred Scripture).
What compensated in the
false balance of her intelligence for these and such deficiencies of judgement
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 judgement 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 at
all, a part of the whole, gave attention with interest, comprehended with
surprise, with care repeated, with greater difficulty remembered, forgot with
ease, with misgiving reremembered, rerepeated with error.
What system had proved more effective?
Indirect
suggestion implicating self-interest.
Example?
She disliked umbrella
with rain, he liked woman with umbrella, she disliked new hat with rain, he
liked woman with new hat, he bought new hat with rain, she carried umbrella
with new hat.
Accepting the analogy
implied in his guest's parable which examples of postexilic eminence did he
adduce?
Three seekers of the
pure truth, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, author of More Neubkim (Guide
of the Perplexed) and Moses Mendelssohn of such eminence that from Moses (of
Egypt) to Moses (Mendelssohn) there arose none like Moses (Maimonides).
What statement was
made, under correction, by Bloom concerning a fourth seeker of pure truth, by
name Aristotle, mentioned, with permission, by Stephen?
That the seeker
mentioned had been a pupil of a rabbinical philosopher, name uncertain.
Were other anapocryphal
illustrious sons of the law and children of a selected or rejected race
mentioned?
Felix Bartholdy
Mendelssohn (composer), Baruch Spinoza (philosopher), Mendoza (pugilist),
Ferdinand Lassalle (reformer, duellist).
What fragments of verse
from the ancient Hebrew and ancient Irish languages were cited with modulations
of voice and translation of texts by guest to host and by host to guest?
By Stephen: suil,
suil, suil arun, suil go siocair agus, suil go cuin (walk, walk, walk your
way, walk in safety, walk with care).
By Bloom: Kifeloch,
harimon raketejch m'baad l'zamatejch (thy temple amid thy hair is as a
slice of pomegranate).
How was a glyphic
comparison of the phonic symbols of both languages made in substantiation of
the oral comparison?
On the penultimate
blank page of a book of inferior literary style, entitled Sweets of Sin (produced
by Bloom and so manipulated that its front cover came in contact with the
surface of the table) with a pencil (supplied by Stephen) Stephen wrote the
Irish characters for gee, eh, dee, em, simple and modified, and Bloom in turn
wrote the Hebrew characters ghimel, aleph, daleth and (in the absence of mem) a
substituted goph, explaining their arithmetical values as ordinal and cardinal
numbers, videlicet 3, 1, 4 and 100.
Was the knowledge
possessed by both of each of these languages, the extinct and the revived,
theoretical or practical?
Theoretical,
being confined to certain grammatical rules of accidence and syntax and practically
excluding vocabulary.
What points of contact
existed between these languages and between the peoples who spoke them?
The presence of
guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters in both
languages: their antiquity, both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242
years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh,
descendant of Noah, progenitor of Israel, and ascendant of Heber and Heremon,
progenitors of Ireland: their archeological, genealogical, hagiographical,
exegetical, homilectic, toponomastic, historical and religious literatures
comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara)
Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow, Book of Ballymote, Garland of Howth,
Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the
isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto (S. Mary's
Abbey) and masshouse (Adam and Eve's tavern): the proscription of their
national costumes in penal laws and jewish dress acts: the restoration in
Chanan David of Zion and the possibility of Irish political autonomy or
devolution.
What anthem did Bloom
chant partially in anticipation of that multiple, ethnically irreducible
consummation?
Kolod balejwaw pnimah
Nefesch, jehudi, homijah.
Why was the chant arrested at the conclusion of this first
distich?
In
consequence of defective mnemotechnic.
How the 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 Demascenus, Lentulus
Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic, sesquipedalian with winedark
hair.
What future careers had
been possible for Bloom in the past and with what exemplars?
In the church, Roman,
Anglican, or Nonconformist: exemplars, the very reverend John Conmee S.J., the
reverend T. Salmon, D.D., provost of Trinity college, Dr Alexander J.
Dowie. At the bar, English or Irish:
exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K.C., Rufus Isaacs, K.C. On the stage, modern or
Shakespearean exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high comedian, Osmond Tearle (1901), exponent of Shakespeare.
Did the host encourage
his guest to chant in a modulated voice a strange legend on an allied theme?
Reassuringly, their
place where none could hear them talk being secluded, reassured, the dococted
beverages, allowing for subsolid residual sediment of a mechanical mixture,
water plus sugar plus cream plus cocoa, having been consumed.
Recite the first (major) part of this chanted legend?
Little Harry Hughes and his schoolfellows
all
Went out for to play ball.
And the very first ball little Harry Hughes
played
He drove it o'er the jew's
garden wall.
And the very second ball little Harry Hughes played
He broke the jew's
windows all.
How did the son of Rudolph receive this first part?
With
unmixed feeling. Smiling, a jew, he heard with pleasure and saw the unbroken kitchen
window.
Recite the second part (minor) of the legend.
Then out there came the jew's
daughter
And she all dressed in green.
"Come back, come back, you pretty little
boy,
And play your ball again."
"I can't come back and I won't come back
Without my schoolfellows all,
For if my master he did hear
He'd make it a sorry ball."
She took him by the lilywhite hand
And led him along the hall
Until she led him to a room
Where none could hear him
call.
She took a penknife out of her pocket
And cut off his little head,
And now he'll play his ball no more
For he lies among the dead.
How did the father of Millicent receive this second part?
With mixed
feelings. Unsmiling, he heard and saw
with wonder a jew's daughter, all dressed in green.
Condense Stephen's
commentary.
One of all, the least
of all, is the victim predestined. Once
by inadvertence, twice by design he challenges his destiny. It comes when he is abandoned and challenges him
reluctant and, as an apparition of hope and youth holds him unresisting. It leads him to a strange habitation, to a
secret infidel apartment, and there, implacable, immolates him, consenting.
Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?
He wished that a tale
of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told.
Why was the host (reluctant, unresisting) still?
In
accordance with the law of the conservation of energy.
Why was the host (secret infidel) silent?
He weighed the possible
evidences for and against ritual murder: the incitation of the hierarchy, the
superstition of the populace, the propagation of rumour in continued fraction
of veridicity, the envy of opulence, the influence of retaliation, the sporadic
reappearance of atavistic delinquency, the mitigating circumstances of
fanaticism, hypnotic suggestion and somnambulism.
From which (if any) of
these mental or physical disorders was he not totally immune?
From hypnotic
suggestion: once, walking, he had not recognised his sleeping apartment: more
than once, waking, he had been for an indefinite time incapable of moving or
uttering sounds. From somnambulism:
once, sleeping, his body had risen, crouched and crawled in the direction of a
heatless fire and, having attained its destination, there, curled, unheated, in
night attire had lain, sleeping.
Had this latter or any
cognate phenomenon declared itself in any member of his family?
Twice, in Holles street
and in Ontario terrace, his daughter Millicent (Milly) at the ages of 6 and 8
years had uttered in sleep an exclamation of terror and had replied to the
interrogations of two figures in night attire with a vacant mute expression.
What other infantile memories had he of her?
15 June 1889. A querulous newborn female
infant crying to cause and lessen congestion. A child renamed Padney Socks she shook with
shocks her moneybox: counted his three free moneypenny buttons one, tloo, tlee:
a doll, a boy, a sailor she cast away: blond, born of two dark, she had blond
ancestry, remote, a violation, Herr Hauptmann Hainau, Austrian army, proximate,
a hallucination, lieutenant Mulvey, British navy.
What endemic characteristics were present?
Conversely the nasal and
frontal formation was derived in a direct line of lineage which, though
interrupted, would continue at distant intervals to its most distant intervals.
What memories had he of her adolescence?
She relegated her hoop
and skippingrope to a recess. On the
duke's lawn entreated by an English visitor, she declined to permit him to make
and take away her photographic image (objection not stated). On the South Circular road in the company of
Elsa Potter, followed by an individual of sinister aspect, she went half way
down
Did that first division, portending a second division, afflict
him?
Less than he had
imagined, more than he had hoped.
What second departure
was contemporaneously perceived by him similarly if differently?
A
temporary departure of his cat.
Why similarly, why differently?
Similarly, because
actuated by a secret purpose the quest of a new male (Mullingar student) or of
a healing herb (valerian). Differently, because of different possible returns to the
inhabitants or to the habitation.
In other respects were their differences similar?
In
passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness.
As?
Inasmuch as leaning she
sustained her blond hair for him to ribbon it for her (cf. neckarching
cat). Moreover, on the free surface of
the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented
spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy
of its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf. mousewatching
cat). Again, in order to remember the
date, combatants, issue and consequences of a famous military engagement she
pulled a plait of her hair (cf. earwashing cat). Furthermore, silly Milly, she dreamed of
having had an unspoken unremembered conversation with a horse whose name had
been Joseph to whom (which) she had offered a tumblerful of lemonade which it
(he) had appeared to have accepted (cf. hearthdreaming cat). Hence in passivity, in economy, in the
instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness, their differences were similar.
In what way had he
utilised gifts 1) an owl, 2) a clock, given as matrimonial auguries, to
interest and to instruct her?
As object lessons to
explain: 1) the nature and habits of oviparous animals, the possibility of
aerial flight, certain abnormalities of vision, the secular process of
imbalsamation: 2) the principle of the pendulum, exemplified in bob, wheelgear
and regulator, the translation in terms of human or social regulation of the
various positions clockwise of movable indicators on an unmoving dial, the
exactitude of the recurrence per hour of an instant in each hour, when the
longer and the shorter indicator were at the same angle of inclination, videlicet,
5 5/11 minutes past each hour per hour in arithmetical progression.
In what manners did she reciprocate?
She remembered: on the
27th anniversary of his birth she presented to him a breakfast moustachecup of
imitation crown Derby porcelain ware.
She provided: at quarter day or thereabouts if or when purchases had
been made by him not for her she showed herself attentive to his necessities,
anticipating his desires. She admired: a
natural phenomenon having been explained by him not for her she expressed the
immediate desire to possess without gradual acquisition a fraction of his
science, the moiety, the quarter, a thousandth part.
What proposal did
Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen,
noctambulist?
To pass in repose the
hours intervening between Thursday (proper) and Friday (normal) on an extemporised
cubicle in the apartment immediately above the kitchen and immediately adjacent
to the sleeping apartment of his host and hostess.
What various advantages
would or might have resulted from a prolongation of such extemporisation?
For the guest: security
of domicile and seclusion of study. For
the host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction. For the hostess: disintegration of obsession,
acquisition of correct Italian pronunciation.
Why might these several
provisional contingencies between a guest and a hostess not necessarily
preclude or be precluded by a permanent eventuality of reconciliatory union
between a schoolfellow and a jew's daughter?
Because
the way to daughter led through mother, the way to mother through daughter.
To what inconsequence
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,
What inchoate corollary
statement was consequently suppressed by the host?
A statement explanatory
of his absence on the occasion of the interment of Mrs Mary Dedalus, born
Goulding, 26 June 1903, vigil of the anniversary of the decease of Rudolph
Bloom (born Virag).
Was the proposal of asylum accepted?
Promptly, inexplicably,
with amicability, gratefully it was declined.
What exchange of money took place between host and guest?
The former returned to
the latter, without interest, a sum of money (£1. 7s. 0.),
one pound seven shillings, advanced by the latter to the former.
What counterproposals
were alternately advanced, accepted, modified, declined, restated in other
terms, reaccepted, ratified, reconfirmed?
To inaugurate a prearranged
course of Italian instruction, place the residence of the instructed. To inaugurate a course of vocal instruction,
place the residence of the instructress.
To inaugurate a series of static, semistatic and peripatetic
intellectual dialogues, places the residence of both speakers (if both speakers
were resident in the same place), the Ship hotel and tavern, 6 Lower Abbey
street (W. and E. Connery, proprietors), the National Library of Ireland, 10
Kildare street, the National Maternity Hospital, 29-31 Holles street, a public
garden, the vicinity of a place of worship, a conjunction of two or more public
thoroughfares, the point of bisection of a right line drawn between their
residences (if both speakers were resident in different places).
What rendered
problematic for Bloom the realisation of these mutually selfexcluding
propositions?
The irreparability of
the past: once at a performance of Albert Hengler's circus in the Rotunda,
Rutland square, Dublin, an intuitive particoloured clown in quest of paternity
had penetrated from the ring to a place in the auditorium where Bloom,
solitary, was seated and had publicly declared to an exhilarated audience that
he (Bloom) was his (the clown's) papa.
The imprevidibility of the future: once in the summer of 1898 he (Bloom)
had marked a florin (2s.) with three notches on the milled edge and tendered it
in payment of an account due to and received by J. and T. Davy, family grocers,
1 Charlemont Mall, Grand Canal, for circulation on the waters of civic finance,
for possible, circuitous or direct, return.
Was the clown Bloom's son?
No.
Had Bloom's coin returned?
Never.
Why would a recurrent frustration the more depress him?
Because
at the critical turningpoint of human existence he desired to amend many social
conditions, the product of inequality and avarice and international animosity.
He believed then that
human life was infinitely perfectible, eliminating these conditions?
There remained the
generic conditions imposed by natural, as distinct from human law, as integral
parts of the human whole: the necessity of destruction to procure alimentary
sustenance: the painful character of the ultimate functions of separate
existence, the agonies of birth and death: the monotonous menstruation of simian
and (particularly) human females extending from the age of puberty to the
menopause: inevitable accidents at sea, in mines and factories: certain very
painful maladies and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and
congenital criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which
make terror the basis of human mentality: seismic upheavals the epicentres of
which are located in densely populated regions: the fact of vital growth,
through convulsions of metamorphosis form infancy through maturity to decay.
Why did he desist from speculation?
Because
it was a task for a superior intelligence to substitute other more acceptable
phenomena in place of the less acceptable phenomena to be removed.
Did Stephen participate in his dejection?
He affirmed the
significance as a conscious rational animal proceeding syllogistically from the
known to the unknown and a conscious rational reagent between a micro- and a
macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the incertitude of the void.
Was this affirmation apprehended by Bloom?
Not verbally. Substantially.
What comforted his misapprehension?
That as a competent
keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known
through the incertitude of the void.
In what order of precedence,
with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the
wilderness of inhabitation effected?
Lighted Candle in Stick borne
by
BLOOM.
Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne
by
STEPHEN.
With what intonation secreto of what
commemorative psalm?
The 113th, modus
peregrinus: In exitu Israël de Egypto: domus Jacob de populo barbaro.
What did each do at the door of egress?
Bloom set the
candlestick on the floor. Stephen put
the hat on his head.
For what creature was the door of egress a door of ingress?
For a
cat.
What spectacle
confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently,
doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rear 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 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 alloted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal
brevity.
Were there obverse
meditations of involution increasingly less vast?
Of the eons of geological
periods recorded in the stratifications of the earth: of the myriad minute
entomological organic existences concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath
removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli,
spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of
imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single
pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies,
themselves universes of void space constellated with other bodies, each, in
continuity, its universe of divisible component bodies of which each was again
divisible in divisions of redivisible component bodies, dividends and divisors
ever diminishing without actual division till, if the progress were carried far
enough, nought nowhere was never reached.
Why did he not
elaborate these calculations to a more precise result?
Because some years
previously in 1886 when occupied with the problem of the quadrature of the
circle he had learned of the existence of a number computed to a relative
degree of accuracy to be of such magnitude and of so many places, e.g., the 9th
power of the 9th power of 9, that, the result having been obtained, 33 closely
printed volumes of 1000 pages each of innumerable quires and reams of India
paper would have to be requisitioned in order to contain the complete tale of
its printed integers of units, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions,
the nucleus of the nebula of every digit of every series containing succinctly
the potentiality of being raised to the utmost kinetic elaboration of any power
of any of its powers.
Did he find the problem
of the inhabitabiity of the planets and their satellites by a race, given in
species, and of the possible social and moral redemption of said race by a
redeemer, easier of solution?
Of a
different order of difficulty.
Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of sustaining an
atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in
the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity,
according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was
approximated, from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when
proposing this problem for solution he had conjectured as a working hypothesis
which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently
anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian,
Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and
equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying
forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another
would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to
vanities, to vanities of vanities and all that is vanity.
And the problem of possible redemption?
The minor was proved by
the major.
Which various features of
the constellations were in turn considered?
The various colours
significant of various degrees of vitality (white, yellow, crimson, vermilion,
cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy: their magnitudes revealed up to and
including the 7th: their positions: the waggoner's star: Walshingham 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 the
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 and after the
birth or death of other persons: the attendant phenomenon 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 probable apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same
and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space,
remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present
before its future spectators had entered actual present existence.
Was he more convinced of the aesthetic 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
(rear) of his (Bloom's) house the light of a paraffin oil lamp with oblique
shade projected on a screen of roller blind supplied by Frank O'Hara, window
blind, curtain pole and revolving shutter manufacturer, 16 Aungier street.
How did he elucidate
the mystery of an invisible person, his wife Marion (Molly) Bloom, denoted by a
visible splendid sign, a lamp?
With indirect and
direct verbal allusions or affirmations: with subdued affection and admiration:
with description: with impediment: with suggestion.
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,
pelosity. To Stephen: the problem of the
sacredotal integrity of Jesus circumcised (1st January, holiday of obligation
to hear mass and abstain from unnecessary servile work) and the problem as to
whether the divine prepuce, the carnal bridal ring of the holy Roman catholic
apostolic church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or
of the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine
excrescences as hair and toenails.
What celestial sign was by both simultaneously observed?
A star precipitated
with great apparent velocity across the firmament from Vega in the Lyre above
the zenith beyond the stargroup of the Tress of Berenice towards the zodiacal
sign of Leo.
How did the centripetal
remainer afford egress to the centrifugal departer?
By inserting the barrel
of an arruginated male key in the hole of an unstable female lock, obtaining a
purchase on the bow of the key and turning its wards from right to left,
withdrawing a bolt from its staple, pulling inward spasmodically an obsolescent
unhinged door and revealing an aperture for free egress and free ingress.
How did they take leave, one of the other, in separation?
Standing
perpendicular at the same door and on different sides of its base, the lines of
their valedictory arms, meeting at any point and forming any angle less than
the sum of two right angles.
What sound accompanied
the union of their tangent, the disunion of their (respectively) contrifugal
and centripetal hands?
The
sound of the peal of the hour of the night by the chime of the bells in the
What echoes of that sound were by both and each heard?
By Stephen:
Liliata rutilantium. Turma circumdet.
Iubilantium te
virginum. Chorus
excipiat.
By Bloom:
Heigho, heigho,
Heigho, heigho.
Where were the several
members of the company which with Bloom that day at the bidding of that peal
had travelled from Sandymount in the south to Glasnevin in the north?
Martin Cunningham (in
bed), Jack Power (in bed), Simon Dedalus (in bed), Tom Kernan (in bed), Ned
Lambert (in bed), Joe Hynes (in bed), John Henry Menton (in bed), Bernard
Corrigan (in bed), Patsy Dignam (in bed), Paddy Dignam (in the grave).
Alone, what did Bloom hear?
The double
reverberations 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 these 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 gazed turned in the direction of Mizrach, the east.
He remembered the initial paraphenomena?
More active air, a
matutinal distant cock, ecclesiastical clocks at various points, avine music,
the isolated tread of an early wayfarer, the visible diffusion of the light of
an invisible luminous body, the first golden limb of the resurgent sun
perceptible low on the horizon.
Did he remain?
With deep inspiration
he returned, retraversing the garden, reentering the passage, reclosing the
door. With brief suspiration he
reassumed the candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front
room, hallfloor, and reentered.
What suddenly arrested his ingress?
The right temporal lobe
of the hollow sphere of his cranium came into contact with a solid timber angle
where, an infinitesimal but sensible fraction of a second later, a painful
sensation was located in consequence of antecedent sensations transmitted and
registered.
Describe the
alterations effected in the disposition of the articles of furnitures?
A sofa upholstered in
prune plush had been translocated from opposite the door to the ingleside near
the compactly furled Union Jack (an alteration which he had frequently intended
to execute): the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table had been
placed opposite the door in the place vacated by the prune plush sofa: the
walnut sideboard (a projecting angle of which had momentarily arrested his
ingress) had been moved from its position beside the door to a more
advantageous but more perilous position in front of the door: two chairs had
been moved from right and left of the ingleside to the position originally
occupied by the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table.
Describe them?
One: a squat stuffed
easychair with stout arms extended and back slanted to the rear, which,
repelled in recoil, had then upturned an irregular fringe of a rectangular rug
and now displayed on its amply upholstered seat a centralised diffusing and
diminishing discolouration. The other: a
slender splayfoot chair of glossy cane curves, placed directly opposite the
former, its frame from top to seat and from seat to base being varnished dark
brown, its seat being a bright circle of white plaited rush.
What significances attached to these two chairs?
Significances
of similitude, of posture, of symbolism, of circumstantial evidence, of
testimonial supermanence.
What occupied the position originally occupied by the
sideboard?
A vertical piano
(Cadby) with exposed keyboard, its closed coffin supporting a pair of long
yellow ladies' gloves and an emerald ashtray containing four consumed matches,
a partly consumed cigarette and two discoloured ends of cigarettes, its
musicrest supporting the music in the key of G natural for voice and piano of Love's
Old Sweet Song (words by G. Clifton Bingham, composed by J.L. Molloy, sung by Madam Antoinette Sterling)
open at the last page with the final indications ad libitum, forte,
pedal, animato, sustained, pedal, ritirando, close.
With what sensations did
Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?
With strain, elevating
a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right temple a contused tumescence:
with attention, focusing his gaze on a large dull passive and slender bright
active: with solicitation, bending and downturning the upturned rugfringe: with
amusement, remembering Dr Malachi Mulligan's scheme of colour containing the
gradation of green: with pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and
perceiving through various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and
concomitant tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration.
His next proceeding?
From an open box on the
majolicatopped table he extracted a black diminutive cone, one inch in height,
placed it on its circular base on a small tin plate, placed his candlestick on
the right corner of the mantelpiece, produced from his waistcoat a folded page
of prospectus (illustrated) entitled Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same,
examined it superficially, rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the
candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter
reached the stage of rutilance, placed the cylinder in the basin of the
candlestick disposing its unconsumed part in such a manner as to facilitate
total combustion.
What followed this operation?
That truncated conical
crater summit of the diminutive volcano emitted a vertical and serpentine fume
redolent of aromatic oriental incense.
What homothetic
objects, other than the candlestick, stood on the mantelpiece?
A timepiece of striated
Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of 4.46 a.m. on the 21 March 1896,
matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree of glacial arborescence under
a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed
owl, matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper.
What interchanges of
looks took place between these three objects and Bloom?
In the mirror of the
giltbordered pierglass the undecorated back of the dwarf tree regarded the
upright back of the embalmed owl. Before
the mirror the matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper with a clear melancholy
wise bright motionless compassionate gaze regarded Bloom while Bloom with
obscure tranquil profound motionless compassionated gaze regarded the
matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle.
What composite
asymmetrical image in the mirror then attracted his attention?
The
image of a solitary (ipsorelative) mutable (aliorelative) man.
Why solitary (ipsorelative)?
Brothers and sisters had he none,
Yet the man's father was his grandfather's
son.
Why mutable (aliorelative)?
From infancy to
maturity he had resembled his maternal procreatrix. From maturity to senility he would
increasingly resemble his paternal creator.
What final visual
impression was communicated to him by the mirror?
The
optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged and not in
the order of their common letters with scintillating titles on the two
bookshelves opposite.
Catalogue these books.
Thom's
Denis Florence
M'Carthy's Poetical Works (copper beechleaf bookmark at p.5).
Shakespeare's
Works (dark crimson morocco, gold-tooled).
The
Useful Ready Reckoner (brown cloth).
The
Secret History of the Court of Charles II (red cloth, tooled binding).
The
Child's Guide (blue cloth).
When We Were Boys by
William O'Brien M.P. (green cloth, slightly faded, envelope bookmark at p.217).
Thoughts from
Spinoza (maroon leather).
The Story of the
Heavens by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth).
Ellis's Three Trips
to Madagascar (brown cloth, title obliterated).
The Stark-Munro
Letters by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of Dublin Public Library,
106 Capel Street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve) 1904, due 4 June 1904, 13 days
overdue (black cloth binding, bearing white letternumber ticket).
Voyages in China by
'Viator' (recovered with brown paper, red ink title).
Philosophy
of the Talmud (sewn pamphlet).
Lockhart's
Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal annotations, minimising
victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).
Soll und Haben by
Gustav Freytag (black boards, Gothic characters, cigarette coupon bookmark at
p.24).
Hozier's History of
the Russo-Turkish War (brown cloth, 2 volumes, with gummed label, Garrison
Library, Governor's Parade, Gibraltar, on verso of cover).
Laurence Bloomfield
in Ireland by William Allingham (second edition, green cloth, gilt trefoil
design, previous owner's name on recto of flyleaf erased).
A Handbook of
Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates, antique letterpress
long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions
small pica).
The
Hidden Life of Christ (black boards).
In the Track of the
Sun (yellow cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent title intestation).
Physical Strength
and How to Obtain It by Eugene Sandow (red cloth).
Short but yet Plain
Elements of Geometry written in French by F. Ignat. Pardies and rendered
into Englifh by John Harris D.D. London, printed for R. Knaplock at the
Bifhop's Head MDCCXI, with dedicatory epiftle to his worthy friend Charles Cox,
efquire, Member of Parliament for the burgh of Southwark and having ink
calligraphed statement on the flyleaf certifying that the book was the property
of Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requefting the perfon
who should find it, if the book should be loft or go aftray, to reftore to
Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Ennifcorthy, county Wicklow, the
fineft place in the world.
What reflections
occupied his mind during the process of reversion of the inverted volumes?
The necessity of order,
a place for everything and everything in its place: the deficient appreciation
of literature possessed by females: the incongruity of an apple incuneated in a
tumbler and of an umbrella inclined in a closestool: the insecurity of hiding
any secret document behind, beneath or between the pages of a book.
Which volume was the largest in bulk?
Hozier's History of
the Russo-Turkish War.
What among other data
did the second volume of the work in question contain?
The name of a decisive
battle (forgotten), frequently remembered, by a decisive officer, major Brian Cooper Tweedy (remembered).
Why, firstly and
secondly, did he not consult the work in question?
Firstly, in order to
exercise mnemotechnic: secondly, because after an interval of amnesia, when
seated at the central table, about to consult the work in question, he
remembered by mnemotechnic the name of the military engagement, Plevna.
What caused him consolation in his sitting posture?
The candour, nudity,
pose, tranquillity, youth, grace, sex, counsel of a statue erect in the centre
of the table, an image of Narcissus purchased by auction from P.A. Wren, 9
Bachelor's Walk.
What caused him irritation in his sitting posture?
Inhibitory
pressure of collar (size 17) and waistcoat (5 buttons), two articles of
clothing superfluous in the costume of mature males and inelastic to alteration
of mass by expansion.
How was the irritation allayed?
He removed his collar,
with contained black necktie and collapsible stud, from his neck to a position
on the left of the table. He unbuttoned
successively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along
the medial line of irregular incrispated black hair extending in triangular
convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of the abdomen and
umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of nodes to the intersection of the
sixth pectoral vertebrae, thence produced both ways at the 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 imcomplete.
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 3 weeks and 3 days
previously (23 May 1904) by a bee. He
scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition,
various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. He inserted his left hand into the left lower
pocket of his waistcoat and extracted and replaced a silver coin (1 shilling),
placed there (presumably) on the occasion (17 October 1903) of the interment of
Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney Parade.
Compile the budget for
Debit Credit
£
s. d. £
s. d.
1
Pork kidney 0 0 3 Cash
in hand 0 4 9
1
Copy Freeman's Commission
received
Journal 0 0 1 Freeman's Journal 1 7 6
1
Dedalus) 1 7 0
Tramfare 0 0 1
1
In Memoriam
Patrick Dignam 0 5 0
2
Banbury cakes 0 0 1
1
Lunch 0 0 7
1
Renewal fee for book 0 1 0
1
Packet notepaper
and envelopes 0 0 2
1
Dinner and
gratification 0 2 0
1
Postal order
and stamp 0 2 8
Tramfare 0 0 1
1
Pig's Foot 0 0 4
1
Sheep's Trotter 0 0 3
1
Cake Fry's plain
chocolate 0 0 1
1
Square soda bread 0 0 4
1
Coffee and bun 0 0 4
Loan (Stephen
Dedalus) refunded 1 7 0
BALANCE 0
17 5
£2 19
3 £2 19 3
Did this 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 tow 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 unguical
fragment.
Why with satisfaction?
Because the odour
inhaled corresponded to other odours inhaled of other unguical fragments,
picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, pupil of Mrs Ellis's juvenile school,
patiently each night in the act of brief genuflection and nocturnal prayer and
ambitious meditation.
In what ultimate
ambition had all concurrent and consecutive ambitions now coalesced?
Not to inherit by right
of primogeniture, gravelkind or borough English, or possess in perpetuity an
extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute
land measure (valuation £42), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall
with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or
semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si Sana, but
to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey
dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor,
connected with the earth, with porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or
Virginia creeper), halldoor, olive green, with smart carriage finish and neat
doorbrasses, stucco front with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising, if
possible, upon a gentle eminence with agreeable prospect from balcony with
stone pillar parapet over unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures and
standing in 5 or 6 acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest
public thoroughfare at to render its houselights visible at night above and
through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point
not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a
time limit of not more than 5 minutes from tram or train line (e.g. Dundrum,
south, or Sutton, north, both localities equally reported by trial to resemble
the terrestrial poles in being favourable climates for phthisical subjects),
the premises to be held under feefarmgrant, lease 999 years, the messuage to
consist of 1 drawingroom with baywindow (2 lancets), thermometer affixed, 1
sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, 2 servant's rooms, tiled kitchen with close range and
scullery, lounge hall fitted with linen wallpresses, fumed oak sectional
bookcase containing the Encyclopedia Britannica and New Century Dictionary,
transverse obsolete medieval and oriental weapons, dinner gong, alabaster lamp,
bowl pendant, vulcanite automatic telephone receiver with adjacent directory,
handtufted Axminster carpet with cream ground and trellis border, loo table
with pillar and claw legs, hearth with massive firebrasses and ormolu mantel
chronometer clock, guaranteed timekeeper with cathedral chime, barometer with
hygrographic chart, comfortable lounge settees and corner fitments, upholstered
in ruby plush with good springing and sunk centre, three banner Japanese screen
and cuspidors (club style, rich wine-coloured leather, gloss renewable with a
minimum of labour by use of linseed oil and vinegar) and pyramidically
prismatic central chandelier lustre, bentwood perch with a fingertame parrot
(expurgated language), embossed mural paper at 10/- per dozen with transverse
swags of carmine floral design and top crown frieze, staircase, three
continuous flights at successive right angles, of varnished cleargrained oak,
treads and risers, newel, balusters and handrail, with steppedup panel dado,
dressed with camphorated wax, bathroom, hot and cold supply, reclining and
shower: water closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong
window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod brace, armrests, footstool and
artistic oleograph on inner face of door: ditto, plain: servant's apartments
with separate sanitary and hygienic necessaries for cook, general and
betweenmaid (salary, rising by biennial unearned increments of £2, with
comprehensive fidelity insurance annual bonus (£1) and retiring allowance
(based on the 65 system) after 30 years' service), pantry, buttery, larder,
refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin (still and
sparkling vintages) for distinguished guests, if entertained to dinner (evening
dress), carbon monoxide gas supply throughout.
What additional attractions might the grounds contain?
As addenda, a tennis
and fives court, a shrubbery, a glass summerhouse with tropical palms, equipped
in the best botanical manner, a rockery with waterspray, a beehive arranged on
humane principles, oval flowerbeds in rectangular grassplots set with eccentric
ellipses of scarlet and chrome tulips, blue scillas, crocuses, polyanthus,
sweet William, sweet pea, lily of the valley (bulbs obtainable from sir James
W. Mackay Limited [wholesale and retail] seed and bulb merchant and nurseryman,
agent for chemical manures, 23 Sackville street, upper), an orchard, kitchen
garden and vinery, protected against illegal trespassers by glasstopped mural
enclosures, a lumbershed with padlock for various inventoried implements.
As?
Eeltraps, lobsterpots,
fishingrods, hatchet, steelyard, grindstone, clodcrusher, swathturner,
carriagesack, telescope ladder, 10 tooth rake, washing clogs, haytedder,
tumbling rake, bilhook, 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 exoticallay
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 a wicker trap or smart phaeton with good working solidungular cob (ram
gelding, 14h).
What might be the name of this erigible or erected residence?
Bloom Cottage. Saint Leopold's. Flowerville.
Could Bloom of 7 Eccles street foresee Bloom of Flowerville?
In loose allwool
garments with Harris tweed cap, price 8/6, and useful garden boots with elastic
gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned young firtrees, syringing, pruning,
staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a weedladen wheelbarrow without excessive
fatigue at sunset amid the scent of newmown hay, ameliorating the soil, multiplying
wisdom, achieving longevity.
What syllabus of
intellectual pursuits was simultaneously possible?
Snapshot photography,
comparative study of religions, folklore relative to various amatory and
superstitious practices, contemplation of the
celestial constellations.
What lighter recreations?
Outdoor: garden and
fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised causeways, ascents of moderately high
hills, natation in secluded fresh water and unmolested river boating in secure
wherry or light curricle with kedge anchor on reaches free from weirs and
rapids (period of estivation), vespertinal perambulation or equestrian
circumprocession with inspection of sterile landscape and contrastingly
agreeable cottagers' fires of smoking peat turves (period of hibernation). Indoor: discussion in tepid security of
unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic
erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl,
nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.
Might he become a
gentleman farmer of field produce and livestock?
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 country families and landed gentry?
Arranged successively
in ascending powers of hierarchical order, that of gardener, groundsman,
cultivator, breeder, and at the zenith of his career, resident magistrate or
justice of the peace with a family crest and coat of arms and appropriate
classical motto (Semper paratus), duly recorded in the court directory
(Bloom, Leopold P., M.P., P.C., K.P., L.L.D. honoris causa, Bloomville,
Dundrum) and mentioned in court and fashionable intelligence (Mr and Mrs
Leopold Bloom have left Kingstown for England).
What course of action did he outline for himself in such
capacity?
A course that lay
between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the dispensation in a
heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes, incessantly rearranged in terms of
greater and lesser social inequality of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable
justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude but exactable
to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to
the crown. Loyal to the highest
constituted power in the land, actuated by an innate love of rectitude his aims
would be the strict maintenance of public order, the repression of many abuses
though not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform or retrenchment being
a preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in the final solution), the
upholding of the letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant) against
all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of bylaws and
regulations, all resuscitators (by trespass and petty larceny of kindlings) of
venville rights, obsolete by desuetude, all orotund instigators of
international persecution, all perpetuators of international animosities, all
menial molestors of domestic conviviality, all recalcitrant violators of
domestic connubiality.
Prove that he had loved
rectitude form his earliest youth.
To master Percy Aphohn
at High School in 1880 he had divulged his disbelief in the tenets of the Irish
(protestant) church (to which his father Rudolf Virag, later Rudolph Bloom, had
been converted from the Israelite faith and communion in 1865 by the Society
for promoting Christianity among the Jews) subsequently abjured by him in
favour of Roman catholicism at the epoch of and with a view to his matrimony in
1888. To Daniel Magrane and Francis Wade
in 1882 during a juvenile friendship (terminated by the premature emigration of
the former) he had advocated during nocturnal perambulations the political
theory of colonial (e.g. Canadian) expansion and the evolutionary theories of
Charles Darwin, expounded in The Descent of Man and The Origin of
Species. In 1885 he had publicly
expressed his adherence to the collective and national economic programme
advocated by James Fintan Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel, J.F.X.
O'Brien and others, the agrarian policy of Michael Davitt, the constitutional
agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell (M.P. for Cork City), the programme of
peace, retrenchment and reform of William Ewart Gladstone (M.P. for Midlothian,
N.B.) and, in support of his political convictions, had climbed up into a
secure position amid the ramifications of a tree on Northumberland road to see
the entrance (2 February 1888) into the capital of a demonstrative torchlight
procession of 20,000, divided into 120 trade corporations, bearing 2,000 in
escort of the marquess of Ripon and John Morley.
How much and how did he
propose to pay for this country residence?
As per prospectus of
the Industrious Foreign Acclimatised Nationalised Friendly Stateaided Building
Society (incorporated 1874), a maximum of £60 per annum, being 1/6th of an
assured income, derived from giltedged securities, representing at 5% simple
interest on capital of £1,200 (estimate of price at 20 years purchase) of which
1/3rd to be paid on acquisition and the balance in the form of annual rent,
viz. £800 plus 2½% interest on the same, repayable quarterly in equal annual
instalments until extinction by amortisation of loan advanced for purchase within
a period of 20 years, amounting to an annual rental of £64, headrent included,
the titledeeds to remain in the possession of the lender or lenders with a
saving clause envisaging forced sale, foreclosure and mutual compensation in
the event of protracted failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the
messuage to become the absolute property of the tenant occupier upon expiry of
the period of years stipulated.
What rapid but insecure
means to opulence might facilitate immediate purchase?
A private wireless
telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system the result of a national
equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of 1 or more miles and furlongs won by
an outsider and odds of 50 to 1 at 3 hr. 8 m. p.m at Ascot (Greenwich time) the
message being received and available for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59
p.m. (Dunsink time). The unexpected
discovery of an object of great monetary value: precious stone, valuable
adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7-shilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg,
1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper perforate, Great Britain, 1855: 1 franc, stone,
official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxembourg, 1878): antique dynastical
ring, unique relic in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air
(dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and
derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl). A Spanish prisoner's donation of a distant
treasure of valuables or specie or bullion lodged with a solvent banking
corporation 100 years previously at 5% compound interest of the collective
worth of £5,000,000 stg (five million pounds sterling). A contract with an inconsiderate contractee
for the delivery of 32 consignments of some given commodity in consideration of
cash payment on delivery at the initial rate of 1/4d to be increased constantly
in the geometrical progression of 2 (1/4d, 1/2d, 1d, 2d, 4d, 8d, 1s.4d., 2s.8d.
to 32 terms). A prepared scheme based on
a study of the laws of probability to break the bank of Monte Carlo. A solution of the secular
problem of the quadrature of the circle, government premium £1,000,000
sterling.
Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?
The reclamation of
dunams of waste arenary soil, proposed in the prospectus of Agendath Netaim,
Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W.15, by the cultivation of orange plantations and
melonfields and reafforestation. The
utilisation of waste paper, fells of sewer rodents, human excrement possessing
chemical properties, in view of the vast production of the first, vast number
of the second and immense quantity of the third, every normal human being of
average vitality and appetite producing annually, cancelling byproducts of
water, a sum total of 80 lbs. (mixed animal and vegetable diet), to be
multiplied by 4,386,035, the total population of Ireland according to the
census returns of 1901.
Were there schemes of wider scope?
A scheme to be
formulated and submitted for approval to the harbour commissioners for the exploitation
of white coal (hydraulic power), obtained by hydroelectric plant at peak of
tide at Dublin bar or at head of water at Poulaphouca or Powerscourt or
catchment basins of main streams for the economic production of 500,000 W.H.P.
of electricity. A scheme to enclose the
peninsular delta of the North Bull at Dollymount and erect on the space of the
foreland, used for golf links and rifle ranges, an asphalted esplanade with
casinos, booths, shooting galleries, hotels, boardinghouses, readingrooms, establishments
for mixed bathing. A
scheme for the use of dogvans and goatvans for the delivery of early morning
milk. A scheme for the
development of Irish tourist traffic in and around Dublin by means of
petrolpropelled riverboats, plying in the fluvial fairway between Island bridge
and Ringsend, charabancs, narrow gauge local railways, and pleasure steamers
for coastwise navigation [10/- per person per day, guide (trilingual)
included]. A scheme for the repristination
of passenger and goods traffics over Irish waterways, when freed from
weedbeds. A scheme to connect by
tramline the Cattle Market (North Circular road and Prussia street) with the
quays (Sheriff street, lower, and East Wall), parallel with the Link line
railway laid (in conjunction with the Great Southern and Western railway line)
between the cattle park, Liffey junction, and terminus of Midland Great Western
railway 43 to 45 North Wall, in proximity to the terminal stations or Dublin
branches of Great Central Railway, Midland Railway of England, City of Dublin
Steam Packet Company, Lancashire Yorkshire Railway Company, Dublin and Glasgow
Steam Packet Company, Glasgow Dublin and Londonderry Steam Packet Company
(Laird line), British and Irish Steam Packet Company, Dublin and Morecambe Steamers,
London and North Western Railway Company, Dublin Port and Docks Board Landing
Sheds and transit sheds of Palgrave, Murphy and Company, steamship owners,
agents for steamers from Mediterranean, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and
Holland and for animal transport and of additional mileage operated by the
Dublin United Tramways Company, limited, to be covered by graziers' fees.
Positing what protasis
would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary
apodosis?
Given a guarantee equal
to the sum sought, the support, by deed of gift and transfer vouchers during
doner's lifetime or by bequest after doner's painless extinction, of eminent
financiers (Blum Pasha, Rothschild, Guggenheim, Hirsch, Montefiore, Morgan, Rockerfeller) possessing fortunes in 6 figures, amassed
during a successful life, and joining capital with opportunity the thing
required was done.
What eventually would render him independent of such wealth?
The
independent discovery of a goldseam of inexhaustible ore.
For what reason did he
meditate on schemes so difficult of realisation?
It was one 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 2/7ths, viz. 20
years, passed in sleep. As a philosopher
he knew that at the termination of any allotted life only an infinitesimal part
of any person's desires has been realised.
As a physiologist he believed in the artificial placation of malignant
agencies chiefly operative during somnolence.
What did he fear?
The
committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an aberration of the light of
reason, the incommensurable categorical intelligence situated in the cerebral
convolutions.
What were habitually his final meditations?
Of some one sole unique
advertisement to cause passers to stop in wonder, a poster novelty, with all
extraneous accretions excluded, reduced to its simplest and most efficient
terms not exceeding the span of casual vision and congruous with the velocity
of modern life.
What did the first drawer unlocked contain?
A Vere Foster's
handwriting copybook, property of Milly (Millicent) Bloom, certain pages of
which bore diagram drawings marked Papli, which showed a large globular
head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile, the trunk full front with 3 large
buttons, 1 triangular foot: 2 fading photographs of queen Alexandra of England
and of Maud Branscombe, actress and professional beauty: a Yuletide card,
bearing on it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend Mizpah
the date Xmas 1892, the name of the senders, from Mr and Mrs M. Comerford,
the versicle: May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome
glee: a butt of red partly liquefied sealing wax, obtained from the stores
department of Messrs Hely's, Ltd., 89, 90 and 91 Dame street: a box containing
the remainder of a gross of gilt 'J' pennibs, obtained from same department of
same firm: an old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed
prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the
consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule
bill of 1886 (never passed into law): a bazaar ticket No. 2004, of S. Kevin's
Charity Fair, price 6d. 100 prizes: an infantile epistle, dated, small em
monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of
interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph signature with
flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a cameo brooch, property of Ellem Bloom
(born Higgins), deceased: 3 typewritten letters, addressee, Henry Flower, c/o
P.O. Westland Row, addresser, Martha Clifford, c/o P.O. Dolphin's Barn: the
transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reserved
alphabetic boustrophedontic punctuated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels
suppressed) N.IGS./WI.UU.OX/W.OKS.MH/ Y.IM: a press cutting from an English
weekly periodical Modern Society, subject corporal chastisement in
girls' schools: a pink ribbon which had festooned an Easter egg in the year
1899: two partly uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve pockets, purchased
by post form Box 32, P.O. Charring Cross, London, W.C.: 1 pack of 1 dozen
creamlaid envelopes and faintruled notepaper, watermarked, now reduced by 3: some
assorted Austro-Hungarian coins: 2 coupons of the Royal and Privileged
Hungarian Lottery: a low-power magnifying glass: 2 erotic postcards showing: a)
buccal coition between nude senorita (rear presentation, superior position): b)
anal violation by male religious (fully clothed, eyes abject) of female
religious (partly clothed, eyes direct), purchased by post from Box 32, P.O.
Charring Cross, London, W.C.: a press cutting of recipe for renovation of old
tan boots: a 1d. adhesive stamp, lavender, of the reign of Queen Victoria: a
chart of measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled before, during and after 2
months of consecutive use of Sandow-Whiteley's pulley exerciser (men's 15/-,
athlete's 20/-) viz., chest 28in. and 29½ in., biceps 9 in. and 10 in., forearm
8½ and 9 in., thigh 10 in. and 12 in., calf 11 in. and 12 in.: 1 prospectus of
the Wonderworker, the world's greatest remedy for rectal complaints direct from
Wonderworker, Coventry House, South Place, London E.C., addressed to Mrs L.
Bloom with brief accompanying note commencing: Dear Madam.
Quote the textual terms
in which the prospectus claimed advantages for this thaumaturgic remedy.
It heals and soothes
while you sleep, in case of trouble in breaking wind, assists nature in the
most formidable way, insuring instant relief in discharge of gases, keeping
parts clean and free natural action, an initial outlay of 7/6 making 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, well- known 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 (Christina name unknown),
a maid, Gertrude (Gerty, family name unknown).
What possibility suggested itself?
The possibility of
exercising virile power of fascination in the most immediate future after an
expensive repast in a private apartment in the company of an elegant courtesan,
of corporal beauty, moderately mercenary, variously instructed, a lady by
origin.
What did the 2nd drawer contain?
Documents: the birth
certificate of Leopold Paula Bloom: an endowment assurance policy of £500 in
the Scottish Widows' Assurance Society intestated Millicent (Milly) Bloom,
coming into force at 25 years as with profit policy of £430, £462-10-0 and £500
at 60 years or death, 65 years or death and death, respectively, or with profit
policy (paidup) of £299-10-0 together with cash payment of £133-10-0, an
option: a bank passbook issued by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch showing
statement of a/c for half year ending 31 December 1903, balance in depositor's
favour: £18-14-6 (eighteen pounds, fourteen shillings and sixpence, sterling),
net personality: certificate of possession of £900 Canadian 4% (inscribed)
government stock (free of stamp duty): dockets of the Catholic Cemeteries'
(Glasnevin) Committee, relative to a graveplot purchased: a local press cutting
concerning change of name by deedpoll.
Quote the textual terms
of this notice.
I, Rudolph Virag, now
resident at n°
What other objects
relative to Rudolph Bloom (born Virag) were in the 2nd drawer?
An indistinct
daguerreotype of Rudolph Virag and his father Leopold Virag executed in the year
1852 in the portrait atelier of their (respectively) 1st and 2nd cousin, Stefan
Virag of Szesfehervar, Hungary. An
ancient hagadah book in which a pair of hornrimmed convex spectacles inserted
marked the passage of thanksgiving in the ritual prayers for Pessach
(Passover): a photocard of the Queen's Hotel, Ennis, proprietor, Rudolph Bloom:
an envelope addressed To my Dear Son Leopold.
What fractions of
phrases did the lecture of those five whole words evoke?
Tomorrow will be a week
that I received ... it is no use Leopold to be ... with your dear mother ...
that is not more to stand ... to her ... all for me is out ... be kind to
Athos, Leopold ... my dear son ... always ... of me ... das Herz ... Gott
... dein ...
What reminiscences of a
human subject suffering from progressive melancholia did these objects evoke in
Bloom?
An old man widower,
unkempt hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing: an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and
scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a
septuagenarian suicide by poison.
Why did Bloom experience a sentiment of remorse?
Because
in immature impatience he had treated with disrespect certain beliefs and
practices.
As?
The prohibition of the
use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal, the hebdomadary symposium of
incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist
excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of
Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaron: the sanctity of the sabbath.
How did these beliefs and practices now appear to him?
Not more rational than
they had then appeared, not less rational than other beliefs and practices now
appeared.
What first reminiscence had he of Rudolph Bloom (deceased)?
Rudolph Bloom
(deceased) narrated to his son Leopold Bloom (aged 6) a retrospective
arrangement of migrations and settlements in and between Dublin, London,
Florence, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Szombathely, with statements of satisfaction
(his grandfather having seen Maria Theresa, empress of Austria, queen of
Hungary), with commercial advice (having taken care of pence, the pounds having
taken care of themselves). Leopold Bloom
(aged 6) had accompanied these narrations by constant consultation of
geographical map of Europe (political) and by suggestions for the establishment
of affiliated business premises in the various centres mentioned.
Had time equally but
differently obliterated the memory of these migrations in narrator and listener?
In narrator by the
access of years and in consequence of the use of narcotic toxin: in listener by
the access of years and in consequence of the action of distraction upon
vicarious experiences.
What idiosyncrasies of
the narrator were concomitant products of amnesia?
Occasionally he ate
without having previously removed his hat.
Occasionally he drank voraciously the juice of gooseberry fool form an
inclined plate. Occasionally he removed
from his lips the traces of food by means of a lacerated envelope or other
accessible fragment of paper.
What two phenomena of senescence were more frequent?
The
myopic digital calculation of coins, eructation consequent upon repletion.
What object offered partial consolation for these
reminiscences?
The
endowment policy, the bank passbook, the certificate of the possession of
scrip.
Reduce Bloom by cross
multiplication of reverses of fortune, from which these supports protected him,
and by elimination of all positive values to a negligible negative irrational
unreal quantity.
Successively, in
descending helotic order: Poverty: that of the outdoor hawker of imitation
jewellery, the dun for the recovery of bad and doubtful debts, the poor rate
and deputy cess collector. Mendicancy:
that of the fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1s 4d in the £,
sandwichman, distributor of throwaways, nocturnal vagrant, insinuating
sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling, superannuated bailiff's man,
marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric public laughingstock
seated on bench of public park under discarded perforated umbrella. Destitution: the inmate of Old Man's House
(Royal Hospital), Kilmainham, the inmate of Simpson's Hospital for reduced but
respectable men permanently disabled by gout or want of sight. Nadir of misery: the aged impotent
disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.
With which attendant indignities?
The unsympathetic
indifference of previously amiable females, the contempt of muscular males, the
acceptance of fragments of bread, the simulated ignorance of casual
acquaintances, the latration of illegitimate unlicensed vagabond dogs, the
infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable missiles, worth little or nothing
or less than nothing.
By which could such a situation be precluded?
By
decease (change of state), by departure (change of place).
Which preferably?
The
latter, by the line of least resistance.
What considerations rendered it not entirely undesirable?
Constant
cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects. The habit of independent purchase
increasingly cultivated. The necessity to counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence
of arrest.
What consideration rendered it not irrational?
The parties concerned,
uniting, had increased and multiplied, which being done, offspring produced and
educed to maturity, the parties if now disunited were obliged to reunite for
increase and multiplication, which was absurd, to form by reunion the original
couple of uniting parties, which was impossible.
What consideration rendered it desirable?
The
attractive character of certain localities in
In
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 Pulpwood, Robertson and
Co, 2 Mincing lane, London E.C., 5 Dame street, Dublin), Jerusalem, the holy
city (with mosque of Omar and gate of Damascus, goal of aspiration), the
straits of Gibraltar (the unique birthplace of Marion Tweedy), the Parthenon
(containing statues, nude Grecian divinities), the Wall Street money market
(which controlled international finance), the Plaza de Toros at La Linea, Spain
(where O'Hara of the Camerons had slain the bull), Niagara (over which no human
being had passed with impunity), the land of the Eskimos (eaters of soap), the
forbidden country of Tibet (from which no traveller returns), the bay of Naples
(to see which was to die), the Dead Sea.
Under what guidance, following what signs?
At sea, septentrional,
by night the polestar, located at the point of intersection of the right line
from beta to alpha in Ursa Major produced and divided externally at omega and
the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle formed by the line alpha omega so
produced and the line alpha delta of Ursa Major. On land, meridional, a
bispherical moon, revealed in imperfect varying phases of lunation through the
posterior interstice of the imperfectly occluded skirt of a carnose negligent
perambulating female, a pillar of the cloud by day.
What public
advertisement would divulge the occultation of the departed?
£5 reward lost, stolen
or strayed from his residence 7 Eccles street, missing gent about 40, answering
to the name of Bloom, Leopold (Poldy), height 5 ft 9½ 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 nowhow 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 people, amid
events. Somewhere imperceptibly he would
hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons of recall. Whence, disappearing from the constellation
of the Northern Crown, he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the
constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return
an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a
sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of
Rothschild or of the silver king.
What would render such return irrational?
An
unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through reversible
space and an exodus and return in space through irreversible time.
What play of forces,
inducing inertia, rendered departure undesirable?
The lateness of the
hour, rendering procrastinatory: the obscurity of the night, rendering invisible:
the uncertainty of thoroughfares, rendering perilous: the necessity for repose,
obviating movement: the proximity of an occupied bed, obviating research: the
anticipation of warmth (human) tempered with coolness (linen), obviating desire
and rendering desirable: the statue of Narcissus, sound without echo, desired
desire.
What advantages were
possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccupied bed?
The removal of
nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human (mature female) to inhuman
(hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of matutinal contact, the economy of
mangling done on the premises in the case of trousers accurately folded and
placed lengthwise between the spring mattress (striped) and the woollen
mattress (biscuit section).
What past consecutive
causes, before rising preapprehended, of accumulated fatigue did Bloom, before
rising, silently recapitulate?
The preparation of
breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion and premeditative defecation
(holy of holies): the bath (rite of John): the funeral (rite of Samuel): the
advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and Thummin): the unsubstantial lunch
(rite of Melchizedek): the visit to museum and national library (holy place):
the bookhunt along Bedford row, Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay (Simchath
Torah): the music in the Ormond Hotel (Shira Shirim): the altercation with a
truculent troglodyte in Bernard Kiernan's premises (holocaust): a blank period
of time including a cardrive, a visit to a house of mourning, a leavetaking (wilderness):
the eroticism produced by feminine exhibitionism (rite of Onan): the prolonged
delivery of Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering): the visit to the disorderly
house of Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street, lower, and subsequent brawl and
chance medley in Beaver street (Armageddon): nocturnal perambulation to and
from the cabman's shelter, Butt Bridge (atonement).
What selfimposed enigma
did Bloom about to rise in order to go so as to conclude lest he should not
conclude involuntarily apprehend?
The cause of a brief
sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by the insentient material of a
strainveined timber table.
What selfinvolved
enigma did Bloom risen, going, gathering multicoloured multiform multitudinous
garments, voluntarily apprehending, not comprehend?
Who was M'Intosh?
What selfevident enigma
pondered with desultory constancy during 30 years did Bloom now, having
effected natural obscurity by the extinction of artificial light, silently
suddenly comprehend?
Where was Moses when
the candle went out?
What imperfections in a
perfect day did Bloom, walking, silently successively, enumerate?
A provisional failure
to obtain renewal of an advertisement, to obtain a certain quantity of tea from
Thomas Kernan (agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and C°, 5 Dame street, Dublin, and
2 Mincing lane, London E.C.), to certify the presence or absence of posterior
rectal orifice in the case of Hellenic female divinities, to obtain admission
(gratuitous or paid) to the performance of Leah by Mrs Bandman Palmer at
the Gaiety Theatre, 46-49 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
What recurrent
impressions of the same were possible by the hypothesis?
Retreating, at the
terminus of the Great Northern Railway, Amiens street, with constant uniform
acceleration, along parallel lines meeting at infinity, if produced: along
parallel lines, reproduced from infinity, with constant uniform retardation, at
the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, Amiens street, returning.
What miscellaneous
effects of female personal wearing apparel were perceived by him?
A pair of new inodorous
halfsilk black ladies' hose, a pair of new violet garters, a pair of outsize
ladies' drawers of India mull, cut on generous lines, redolent of opoponax,
jessamine and Muratti's Turkish cigarettes and containing a long bright steel
safety pin, folded curvilinear, a camisole of 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, 21-23 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 form the head to the foot of the bed, prepared the bedlinen
accordingly and entered the bed.
How?
With circumspection, as
invariably when entering an abode (his own or not his own): with solicitude,
the snakespiral springs of the mattress being old, the brass quoits and pendent
viper radii loose and tremulous under stress and strain: prudently, as entering
a lair or ambush of lust or adder: lightly, the less to disturb: reverently,
the bed of conception and of birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach
of marriage, of sleep and of death.
What did his limbs, when gradually extended, encounter?
New clean bedlinen,
additional odours, the presence of a human form, female, hers, the imprint of a
human form, male, not his, some crumbs, some flakes of potted meat, recooked,
which he removed.
If he had smiled why would he have smiled?
To reflect that each
one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always
the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one,
each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone, whereas he is neither
first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to
infinity.
What preceding series?
Assuming Mulvey to be
the first term of his series, Penrose, Bartell d'Arcy, professor Goodwin,
Julius Mastiansky, John Henry Menton, Father Bernard Corrigan, a farmer at the
Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show, Maggot O'Reilly, Matthew Dillon, Valentine
Black 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
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, collegual altruism and amorous egoism,
d) extraracial attraction, interracial inhibition, supraracial prerogative, e)
an imminent provincial musical tour, common current expenses, net proceeds
divided.
Equanimity?
As
natural as any and every natural act of a nature expressed or understood
executed in natured nature by natural creatures in accordance with his, her and
their natured natures, of dissimilar similarity. As not as calamitous as a
cataclysmic annihilation of the planet in consequence of collision with a dark
sun. As less reprehensible than
theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under
false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money,
betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal
libel, blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high
seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice, desertion
from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the
king's enemies, impersonation, criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and
premeditated murder. As not more
abnormal than all other altered processes of adaptation to altered conditions
of existence, resulting in a reciprocal equilibrium between the bodily organism
and its attendant circumstances, foods, beverages, acquired habits, indulged
inclinations, significant disease. As more than inevitable, irreparable.
Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimity?
From outrage
(matrimony) to outrage (adultery) there arose nought but outrage (copulation)
yet the matrimonial violator of the matrimonially violated had not been
outraged by the adulterous violator of the adulterously violated.
What retribution, if any?
Assassination,
never, as two wrongs did not make one right. Duel by combat, no. Divorce, not now. Exposure by mechanical
artifice (automatic bed) or individual testimony (concealed ocular witness),
not yet. Suit for damages by
legal influence or stimulation of assault with evidence of injuries sustained
(selfinflicted), not impossibly. If any,
positively, connivance, introduction of emulation (material, a prosperous rival
agency of publicity: moral, a successful rival agent of intimacy), depreciation,
alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the one separated from the
other, protecting separator from both.
By what reflections did
he, a conscious reactor against the void incertitude, justify to himself his
sentiments?
The preordained frangibility
of the hymen, the presupposed intangibility of the thing in itself: the
incongruity and disproportion between the selfprolonging tension of the thing
proposed to be done and the 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, auxillary 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 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 his
interrogation?
Negative: he omitted to
mention the clandestine correspondence between Martin Clifford and Henry
Flower, the public altercation at, in and in the vicinity of the licensed
premises of Bernard Kiernan and Co, Limited, 8-10 Little Britain street, the
erotic provocation and response thereto caused by the exhibitionism of Gertrude
(Gerty), surname unknown. Positive: he
included mention of a performance by Mrs Bandman Palmer of Leah at the
Gaiety Theatre, 46-49 South King street, an invitation to supper at Wynn's
(Murphy's) Hotel, 35-37 Lower Abbey street, a volume of peccaminous
pornographical tendency entitled Sweets of Sin, anonymous, author a
gentleman of fashion, a temporary concussion caused by a falsely calculated
movement in the course of postcenal gymnastic display, the victim (since
completely recovered) being Stephen Dedalus, professor and author, eldest
surviving son of Simon Dedalus, of no fixed occupation, an aeronautical feat
executed by him (narrator) in the presence of a witness, the professor and
author aforesaid, with promptitude of decision and gymnastic flexibility.
Was the narration otherwise unaltered by modification?
Absolutely.
Which event or person
emerged as the salient point of his narration?
Stephen Dedalus,
professor and author.
What limitations of
activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were perceived by listener and
narrator concerning themselves during the course of
this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?
By the listener a
limitation of fertility inasmuch as marriage had been celebrated 1 calendar
month after the 18th anniversary of her birth (8 September 1870), viz. 8 October,
and consummated on the same date with female issue born 15 June 1889, having
been anticipatorily consummated on the 10 September of the same year and
complete carnal intercourse, with ejaculation of semen within the natural
female organ, having last taken place 5 weeks previous, viz. 27 November 1893,
to the birth on 29 December 1893 of second (and only male) issue, deceased 9
January 1894, aged 11 days, there remained a period of 10 years, 5 months and
18 days, during which carnal intercourse had been incomplete, without
ejaculation of semen within the natural female organ. By the narrator a limitation of activity,
mental and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental intercourse between himself
and the listener had not taken place since the consummation of puberty,
indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, of the female issue of narrator and
listener, 15 September 1903, there remained a period of 9 months and 1 day
during which in consequence of a preestablished natural comprehension in
incomprehension between the consummated females (listener and issue), complete
corporal liberty of action had been circumscribed.
How?
By various reiterated
feminine interrogation concerning the masculine destination whither, the place
where, the time at which, the duration for which, the object with which in the
case of temporary absences, projected or effected.
What moved visibly
above the listener's and the narrator's invisible thoughts?
The
upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of concentric circles
of varying gradations of light and shadow.
In what directions did listener and narrator lie?
Listener, S.E. by E.;
Narrator, N.W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of latitude, N. and 6th meridian of
longitude, W.: at an angle of 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 rearward 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 the left leg, flexed, in the attitude of Gea-Tellus,
fulfilled, recumbent, big with seed.
Narrator: reclined laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the
indexfinger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in
the attitude depicted on a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the
childman weary, the manchild in the womb.
Womb?
Weary?
He rests. He has travelled.
With?
Sinbad the Sailor and
Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the
Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and
Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the
Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.
When?
Going to a dark bed
there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc'c auk's egg in the night of the
bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.
Where?