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any angle less than the sum of two right angles.
What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of
their (respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?
The sound of the peal of the hour of the night by the chime of the
bells in the church of Saint George.
What echoes of that sound were by both and each heard?
By Stephen:
Liliata rutilantium. Turma circumdet.
Iubilantium te virginum. Chorus excipiat.
By Bloom:
Heigho, heigho,
Heigho, heigho.
Where were the several members of the company which with Bloom that day
at the bidding of that peal had travelled from Sandymount in the south to
Glasnevin in the north?
Martin Cunningham (in bed), Jack Power (in bed), Simon Dedalus (in
bed), Tom Kernan (in bed), Ned Lambert (in bed), Joe Hynes (in bed), John
Henry Menton (in bed), Bernard Corrigan (in bed), Patsy Dignam (in bed),
Paddy Dignam (in the grave).
Alone, what did Bloom hear?
The double reverberation of retreating feet on the heavenborn earth,
the double vibration of a jew's harp in the resonant lane.
Alone, what did Bloom feel?
The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing
point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Rиaumur: the
incipient intimations of proximate dawn.
Of what did bellchime and handtouch and footstep and lonechill remind
him?
Of companions now in various manners in different places defunct: Percy
Apjohn (killed in action, Modder River), Philip Gilligan (phthisis, Jervis
Street hospital), Matthew F. Kane (accidental drowning, Dublin Bay), Philip
Moisel (pyemia, Heytesbury street), Michael Hart (phthisis, Mater
Misericordi&Aelig; hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy, Sandymount).
What prospect of what phenomena inclined him to remain?
The disparition of three final stars, the diffusion of day-break, the
apparition of a new solar disk.
Had he ever been a spectator of those phenomena?
Once, in 1887 after a protracted performance of charades in the house
of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited with patience the apparition of the
diurnal phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the direction of
Mizrach, the east.
He remembered the initial paraphenomena?
More active air, a matutinal distant cock, ecclesiastical clocks at
various points, avine music, the isolated tread of an early wayfarer, the
visible diffusion of the light of an invisible luminous body, the first
golden limb of the resurgent sun perceptible low on the horizon.
Did he remain?
With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, reentering
the passage, reclosing the door. With brief suspiration he reassumed the
candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room,
hallfloor, and reentered.
What suddenly arrested his ingress?
The right temporal lobe of the hollow sphere of his cranium came into
contact with a solid timber angle where, an infinitesimal but sensible
fraction of a second later, a painful sensation was located in consequence
of antecedent sensations transmitted and registered.
Describe the alterations effected in the disposition of the articles of
furnitures?
A sofa upholstered in prune plush had been translocated from opposite
the door to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack (an
alteration which he had frequently intended to execute): the blue and white
checker inlaid majolicatopped table had been placed opposite the door in the
place vacated by the prune plush sofa: the walnut sideboard (a projecting
angle of which had momentarily arrested his ingress) had been moved from its
position beside the door to a more advantageous but more perilous position
in front of the door: two chairs had been moved from right and left of the
ingleside to the position originally occupied by the blue and white checker
inlaid majolicatopped table.
Describe them.
One: a squat stuffed easychair with stout arms extended and back
slanted to the rere, which, repelled in recoil, had then upturned an
irregular fringe of a rectangular rug and now displayed on its amply
upholstered seat a centralised diffusing and diminishing discolouration. The
other: a slender splayfoot chair of glossy cane curves, placed directly
opposite the former, its frame from top to seat and from seat to base being
varnished dark brown, its seat being a bright circle of white plaited rush.
What significances attached to these two chairs?
Significances of similitude, of posture, of symbolism, of
circumstantial evidence, of testimonial supermanence.
What occupied the position originally occupied by the sideboard?
A vertical piano (Cadby) with exposed keyboard, its closed coffin
supporting a pair of long yellow ladies' gloves and an emerald ashtray
containing four consumed matches, a partly consumed cigarette and two
discoloured ends of cigarettes, its musicrest supporting the music in the
key of G natural for voice and piano of Love's Old Sweet Song (words by G.
Clifton Bingham, composed by J. L. Molloy, sung by Madam Antoinette
Sterling) open at the last page with the final indications ad libitum,
forte, pedal, animato, sustained, pedal, ritirando, close.
With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?
With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right
temple a contused tumescence: with attention, focusing his gaze on a large
dull passive and slender bright active: with solicitation, bending and
downturning the upturned rugfringe: with amusement, remembering Dr Malachi
Mulligan's scheme of colour containing the gradation of green: with
pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and perceiving through
various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant
tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration.
His next proceeding?
>From an open box on the majolicatopped table he extracted a black
diminutive cone, one inch in height, placed it on its circular base on a
small tin plate, placed his candlestick on the right corner of the
mantelpiece, produced from his waistcoat a folded page of prospectus
(illustrated) entitled Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same, examined it
superficially, rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the
candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter
reached the stage of rutilance, placed the cylinder in the basin of the
candlestick disposing its unconsumed part in such a manner as to facilitate
total combustion.
What followed this operation?
That truncated conical crater summit of the diminutive volcano emitted
a vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense.
What homothetic objects, other than the candlestick, stood on the
mantelpiece?
A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of 4.46
a.m. on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree
of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of
Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of Alderman John
Hooper.
What interchanges of looks took place between these three objects and
Bloom?
In the mirror of the giltbordered pierglass the undecorated back of the
dwarf tree regarded the upright back of the embalmed owl. Before the mirror
the matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper with a clear melancholy wise
bright motionless compassionate gaze regarded Bloom while Bloom with obscure
tranquil profound motionless compassionated gaze regarded the matrimonial
gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle.
What composite asymmetrical image in the mirror then attracted his
attention?
The image of a solitary (ipsorelative) mutable (aliorelative) man.
Why solitary (ipsorelative)?
Brothers and sisters had he none,
Yet that man's father was his grandfather's son.
Why mutable (aliorelative)?
>From infancy to maturity he had resembled his maternal procreatrix.
From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal
creator.
What final visual impression was communicated to him by the mirror?
The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged
and not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles on
the two bookshelves opposite.
Catalogue these books.
Thorn's Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886.
Denis Florence M'Carthy's Poetical Works (copper beechleaf bookmark at
p. 5).
Shakespeare's Works (dark crimson morocco, goldtooled).
The Useful Ready Reckoner (brown cloth).
The Secret History of the Court of Charles II (red cloth, tooled
binding).
The Child's Guide (blue cloth).
When We Were Boys by William O'Brien M.P. (green cloth, slightly faded,
envelope bookmark at p. 217).
Thoughts from Spinoza (maroon leather).
The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth).
Ellis's Three Trips to Madagascar (brown cloth, title obliterated).
The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of
Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel Street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve) 1904, due
4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing white
letternumber ticket).
Voyages in China by `Viator' (recovered with brown paper, red ink
title).
Philosophy of the Talmud (sewn pamphlet).
Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal an notations,
minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).
Soll und Haben by Gustav Freytag (black boards, Gothic characters,
cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24).
Hozier's History of the Russo-Turkish War (brown cloth, 2 volumes, with
gummed label, Garrison Library, Governor's Parade, Gibraltar, on verso of
cover).
Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William Allingham (second edition,
green cloth, gilt trefoil design, previous owner's name on recto of flyleaf
erased).
A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates,
antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal
clues brevier, captions small pica).
The Hidden Life of Christ (black boards).
In the Track of the Sun (yellow cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent
title intestation).
Physical Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugene Sandow (red cloth).
Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry written in French by F. Ignat.
Pardies and rendered into Englifh by John Harris D. D. London, printed for
R. Knaplock at the Bifhop's Head MDCCXI, with dedicatory epiftle to his
worthy friend Charles Cox, efquire, Member of Parliament for the burgh of
Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf certifying
that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of
May 1822 and requefting the perfon who should find it, if the book should be
loft or go aftray, to reftore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery
Gate, Ennifcorthy, county Wicklow, the fineft place in the world.
What reflections occupied his mind during the process of reversion of
the inverted volumes?
The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its
place: the deficient appreciation of literature possessed by females: the
incongruity of an apple incuneated in a tumbler and of an umbrella inclined
in a closestool: the insecurity of hiding any secret document behind,
beneath or between the pages of a book.
Which volume was the largest in bulk?
Hozier's History of the Russo - Turkish War.
What among other data did the second volume of the work In question
contain?
The name of a decisive battle (forgotten), frequently remembered by a
decisive officer, major Brian Cooper Tweedy (remembered).
Why, firstly and secondly, did he not consult the work in question?
Firstly, in order to exercise mnemotechnic: secondly, because after an
interval of amnesia, when seated at the central table, about to consult the
work in question, he remembered by mnemotechnic the name of the military
engagement, Plevna.
What caused him consolation in his sitting posture?
The candour, nudity, pose, tranquillity, youth, grace, sex, counsel of
a statue erect in the centre of the table, an image of Narcissus purchased
by auction from P. A. Wren, 9 Bachelor's Walk.
What caused him irritation in his sitting posture?
Inhibitory pressure of collar (size 17) and waistcoat (5 buttons), two
articles of clothing superfluous in the costume of mature males and
inelastic to alterations of mass by expansion.
How was the irritation allayed?
He removed his collar, with contained black necktie and collapsible
stud, from his neck to a position on the left of the table. He unbuttoned
successively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along
the medial line of irregular incrispated black hair extending in triangular
convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of the abdomen and
umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of nodes to the intersection of
the sixth pectoral vertebr&Aelig;, thence produced both ways at right angles
and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points, right and
left, on the summits of the mammary prominences. He unbraced successively
each of six minus one braced trouser buttons, arranged in pairs, of which
one incomplete.
What involuntary actions followed?
He compressed between 2 fingers the flesh circumjacent to a cicatrice
in the left infracostal region below the diaphragm resulting from a sting
inflicted 2 weeks and 3 days previously (23 May 1904) by a bee. He scratched
imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various
points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. He inserted
his left hand into the left lower pocket of his waistcoat and extracted and
replaced a silver coin (1 shilling), placed there (presumably) on the
occasion (17 October 1903) of the interment of Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney
Parade.
Compile the budget for 16 June 1904.
#. s. d. #. s. d.
1 Pork kidney 0. 0. 3 Cash in hand 0.4.9
2 Copy Freeman's Journal 0.0.2 Commission recd. Freeman's Journal
1 Bath and gratification 0. 1.6 2.7.6
Tramfare 0. 0. 2 Loan (Stephen Dedalus) 1.7.0
2 In Memoriam Patrick
Dignam 0.5.0
2 Banbury cakes 0.0.1
2 Lunch 0.0.7
1 Rental fee for book 0.1.0
2 Packet notepaper and
envelopes 0.0.2
2 Dinner and gratification 0.2.0
2 Postal order and stamp 0.2.8
Tramfare 0.0.1
1 Pig's Foot 0.0.4
1 Sheep's Trotter 0.0.3
2 Cake Fry's plain choco
late 0.0.
1 Square soda bread 0.0.4
1 Coffee and bun 0.0.4
Loan (Stephen Dedalus)
refunded 2.7.0
BALANCE 0.27.5
#.2.29. 3 #.2.19.3
Did the process of divestiture continue?
Sensible of a benignant persistent ache in his footsoles he extended
his foot to one side and observed the creases, protuberances and salient
points caused by foot pressure in the course of walking repeatedly in
several different directions, then, inclined, he disnoded the laceknots,
unhooked and loosened the laces, took off each of his two boots for the
second time, detached the partially moistened right sock through the fore
part of which the nail of his great toe had again effracted, raised his
right foot and, having unhooked a purple elastic sock suspender, took off
his right sock, placed his unclothed right foot on the margin of the seat of
his chair, picked at and gently lacerated the protruding part of the great
toenail, raised the part lacerated to his nostrils and inhaled the odour of
the quick, then with satisfaction threw away the lacerated unguinal
fragment.
Why with satisfaction?
Because the odour inhaled corresponded to other odours inhaled of other
unguinal fragments, picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, pupil of Mrs
Ellis's juvenile school, patiently each night in the act of brief
genuflection and nocturnal prayer and ambitious meditation.
In what ultimate ambition had all concurrent and consecutive ambitions
now coalesced?
Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English,
or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of
acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation #42), of grazing
turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor,
on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in
Urbe or Qui si Sana, but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a
thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect,
surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the earth, with
porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia creeper), halldoor, olive
green, with smart carriage finish and neat doorbrasses, stucco front with
gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising, if possible, upon a gentle eminence
with agreeable prospect from balcony with stone pillar parapet over
unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures and standing in 5 or 6
acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public
thoroughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through
a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not
less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time
limit of not more than 5 minutes from tram or train line (e.g., Dundrum,
south, or Sutton, north, both localities equally reported by trial to
resemble the terrestrial poles in being favourable climates for phthisical
subjects), the premises to be held under feefarmgrant, lease 999 years, the
message to consist of 1 drawingroom with baywindow (2 lancets), thermometer
affixed, 1 sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, 2 servants rooms, tiled kitchen with
close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted with linen wallpresses, fumed
oak sectional bookcase containing the Encyclopaedia Britannica and New
century Dictionary, transverse obsolete medieval and oriental weapons,
dinner gong, alabaster lamp, bowl pendant, vulcanite automatic telephone
receiver with adjacent directory, handtufted Axminster carpet with cream
ground and trellis border, loo table with pillar and claw legs, hearth with
massive firebrasses and ormolu mantel chronometer clock, guaranteed
timekeeper with cathedral chime, barometer with hygrographic chart,
comfortable lounge settees and corner fitments, upholstered in ruby plush
with good springing and sunk centre, three banner Japanese screen and
cuspidors (club style, rich wine-coloured leather, gloss renewable with a
minimum of labour by use of linseed oil and vinegar) and pyramidically
prismatic central chandelier lustre, bentwood perch with a fingertame parrot
(expurgated language), embossed mural paper at 10/-per dozen with transverse
swags of carmine floral design and top crown frieze, staircase, three
continuous flights at successive right angles, of varnished cleargrained
oak, treads and risers, newel, balusters and handrail, with stepped-up panel
dado, dressed with camphorated wax, bathroom, hot and cold supply, reclining
and shower: water closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong
window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod brace, armrests, footstool
and artistic oleograph on inner face of door: ditto, plain: servant's
apartments with separate sanitary and hygienic necessaries for cook, general
and betweenmaid (salary, rising by biennial unearned increments of #2, with
comprehensive fidelity insurance annual bonus (#1), and retiring allowance
(based on the 65 system) after 30 years service), pantry, buttery, larder,
refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin (still and
sparkling vintages) for distinguished guests, if entertained to dinner
(evening dress), carbon monoxide gas supply throughout.
What additional attractions might the grounds contain?
As addenda, a tennis and fives court, a shrubbery, a glass summerhouse
with tropical palms, equipped in the best botanical manner a rockery with
waterspray, a beehive arranged on humane principles, oval flowerbeds in
rectangular grassplots set with eccentric ellipses of scarlet and chrome
tulips, blue scillas, crocuses, polyanthus, sweet William, sweat pea, lily
of the valley (bulbs obtainable from sir James W. Mackey (Limited)
(wholesale and retail) seed and bulb merchant and nurseryman, agent for
chemical manures, 23 Sackville street, upper), an orchard, kitchen garden
and vinery, protected against illegal trespassers by glasstopped mural
enclosures, a lumbershed with padlock for various inventoried implements.
As?
Eeltraps, lobsterpots, fishingrods, hatchet, steelyard, grindstone,
clodcrusher, swatheturner, carriagesack, telescope ladder, 10 tooth rake,
washing clogs, haytedder, tumbling rake, billhook, paintpot, brush, hoe and
so on.
What improvements might be subsequently introduced?
A rabbitry and fowlrun, a dovecote, a botanical conservatory, 2
hammocks (lady's and gentleman's), a sundial shaded and sheltered by
laburnum or lilac trees, an exotically harmonically accorded Japanese tinkle
gatebell affixed to left lateral gatepost, a capacious waterbutt, a
lawnmower with side delivery and grassbox, a lawnsprinkler with hydraulic
hose.
What facilities of transit were desirable?
When citybound frequent connection by train or tram from their
respective intermediate station or terminal. When countrybound velocipedes,
a chainless freewheel roadster cycle with side basketcar attached, or
draught conveyance, a donkey with wicker trap or smart phaeton with good
working solidungular cob (roan gelding, 14h).
What might be the name of this erigible or erected residence?
Bloom Cottage. Saint Leopold's. Flowerville.
Could Bloom of 7 Eccles street foresee Bloom of Flowerville?
In loose allwool garments with Harris tweed cap, price 8/6, and useful
garden boots with elastic gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned young
firtrees, syringing, pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a weedladen
wheelbarrow without excessive fatigue at sunset amid the scent of newmown
hay, ameliorating the soil, multiplying wisdom, achieving longevity.
What syllabus of intellectual pursuits was simultaneously possible?
Snapshot photography, comparative study of religions, folklore relative
to various amatory and superstitious practices, contemplation of the
celestial constellations.
What lighter recreations?
Outdoor: garden and fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised causeways,
ascents of moderately high hills, natation in secluded fresh water and
unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle with kedge
anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids (period of estivation),
vespertinal perambulation or equestrian circumprocession with inspection of
sterile landscape and contrastingly agreeable cottagers' fires of smoking
peat turves (period of hibernation). Indoor discussion in tepid security of
unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic
erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl,
nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.
Might he become a gentleman farmer of field produce and live stock?
Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and
requisite farming implements, e.g., an end-to-end churn, a turnip pulper
etc.
What would be his civic functions and social status among the county
families and landed gentry?
Arranged successively in ascending powers of hierarchical order, that
of gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and at the zenith of his
career, resident magistrate or justice of the peace with a family crest and
coat of arms and appropriate classical motto (Semper paratus), duly recorded
in the court directory (Bloom, Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K. P., L. L. D.
honoris cause, Bloomville, Dundrum) and mentioned in court and fashionable
intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have left Kingstown for England).
What course of action did he outline for himself in such capacity?
A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the
dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes, incessantly
rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality of unbiassed
homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest
possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confiscation
of estate, real and personal, to the crown. Loyal to the highest constituted
power in the land, actuated by an innate love of rectitude his aims would be
the strict maintenance of public order, the repression of many abuses though
not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform or retrenchment being a
preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in the final solution), the
upholding of the letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant)
against all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of
bylaws and regulations, all resuscitators (by trespass and petty larceny of
kindlings) of venville rights, obsolete by desuetude, all orotund
instigators of international persecution, all perpetuators of international
animosities, all menial molestors of domestic conviviality, all recalcitrant
violators of domestic connubiality.
Prove that he had loved rectitude from his earliest youth.
To master Percy Apjohn at High School in 1880 he had divulged his
disbelief in the tenets of the Irish (protestant) church (to which his
father Rudolf Virag, later Rudolph Bloom, had been converted from the
Israelitic faith and communion in 1865 by the Society for promoting
Christianity among the Jews) subsequently abjured by him in favour of Roman
catholicism at the epoch of and with a view to his matrimony in 1888. To
Daniel Magrane and Francis Wade in 1882 during a juvenile friendship
(terminated by the premature emigration of the former) he had advocated
during nocturnal perambulations the political theory of colonial (e.g.
Canadian) expansion and the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin,
expounded in The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species. In 1885 he had
publicly expressed his adherence to the collective and national economic
programme advocated by James Fintan Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel,
J. F. X. O'Brien and others, the agrarian policy of Michael Davitt, the
constitutional agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell (M. P. for Cork City),
the programme of peace, retrenchment and reform of William Ewart Gladstone
(M. P. for Midlothian, N. B.) and, in support of his political convictions,
had climbed up into a secure position amid the ramifications of a tree on
Northumberland road to see the entrance (2 February 1888) into the capital
of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000, divided into 120 trade
corporations, bearing 2,000 torches in escort of the marquess of Ripon and
John Morley.
How much and how did he propose to pay for this country residence?
As per prospectus of the Industrious Foreign Acclimatised Nationalised
Friendly Stateaided Building Society (incorporated 1874), a maximum of #60
per annum, being 116th of an assured income, derived from giltedged
securities, representing at 5% simple interest on capital of #1,200
(estimate of price at 20 years purchase) of which 1/3rd to be paid on
acquisition and the balance in the form of annual rent, viz. #800 plus 2
1/2% interest on the same, repayable quarterly in equal annual instalments
until extinction by amortisation of loan advanced for purchase within a
period of 20 years, amounting to an annual rental of #64, headrent included,
the titledeeds to remain in possession of the lender or lenders with a
saving clause envisaging forced sale, foreclosure and mutual compensation in
the event of protracted failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the
messuage to become the absolute property of the tenant occupier upon expiry
of the period of years stipulated.
What rapid but insecure means to opulence might facilitate immediate
purchase?
A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash
system the result of a national equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of 1
or more miles and furlongs won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at 3 hr. 8
m. p.m. at Ascot (Greenwich time) the message being received and available
for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59 p.m. (Dunsink time). The unexpected
discovery of an object of great monetary value: precious stone, valuable
adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7-shilling, mauve, imperforate,
Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper perforate, Great Britain, 1866: 1
franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxembourg, 1878):
antique dynastical ring, unique relic in unusual repositories or by unusual
means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the
carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam,
jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl).
A Spanish prisoner's donation of a distant treasure of valuables or specie
or bullion lodged with a solvent banking corporation 100 years previously at
5% compound interest of the collective worth of #5,000,000 stg (five million
pounds sterling). A contract with an inconsiderate contractee for the
delivery of 32 consignments of some given commodity in consideration of cash
payment on delivery at the initial rate of 1/4d. to be increased constantly
in the geometrical progression of 2 (1/4d., 1/2d., 1d., 2d., 4d., 8d., 1s.
4d., 2s. 8d. to 32 terms). A prepared scheme based on a study of the laws of
probability to break the bank at Monte Carlo. A solution of the secular
problem of the quadrature of the circle, government premium #1,000,000
sterling.
Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?
The reclamation of dunams of waste arenary soil, proposed in the
prospectus of Agendath Netaim, Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W.15 by the
cultivation of orange plantations and melonfields and reafforestation. The
utilisation of waste paper, fells of sewer rodents, human excrement
possessing chemical properties, in view of the vast production of the first,
vast number of the second and immense quantity of the third, every normal
human being of average vitality and appetite producing annually, cancelling
byproducts of water, a sum total of 80 lbs. (mixed animal and vegetable
diet), to be multiplied by 4,386,035 the total population of Ireland
according to the census returns of 1901.
Were there schemes of wider scope?
A scheme to be formulated and submitted for approval to the harbour
commissioners for the exploitation of white coal (hydraulic power), obtained
by hydroelectric plant at peak of tide at Dublin bar or at head of water at
Poulaphouca or Powerscourt or catchment basins of main streams for the
economic production of 500,000 W. H. P. of electricity. A scheme to enclose
the peninsular delta of the North Bull at Dollymount and erect on the space
of the foreland, used for golf links and rifle ranges, an asphalted
esplanade with casinos, booths, shooting galleries, hotels, boardinghouses,
readingrooms, establishments for mixed bathing. A scheme for the use of
dogvans and goatvans for the delivery of early morning milk. A scheme for
the development of Irish tourist traffic in and around Dublin by means of
petrolpropelled riverboats, plying in the fluvial fairway between island
bridge and Ringsend, charabancs, narrow gauge local railways, and pleasure
steamers for coastwise navigation (10/- per person per day, guide
(trilingual) included). A scheme for the repristination of passenger and
goods traffics over Irish waterways, when freed from weedbeds. A scheme to
connect by tramline the Cattle Market (North Circular road and Prussia
street) with the quays (Sheriff street, lower, and East Wall), parallel with
the Link line railway laid (in conjunction with the Great Southern and
Western railway line) between the cattle park, Liffey junction, and terminus
of Midland Great Western railway 43 to 45 North Wall, in proximity to the
terminal stations or Dublin branches of Great Central Railway, Midland
Railway of England, City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, Lancashire
Yorkshire Railway Company, Dublin and Glasgow Steam Packet Company, Glasgow
Dublin and Londonderry Steam Packet Company (Laird line), British and Irish
Steam Packet Company, Dublin and Morecambe Steamers, London and North
Western Railway Company, Dublin Port and Docks Board Landing Sheds and
transit sheds of Palgrave, Murphy and Company, steamship owners, agents for
steamers from Mediterranean, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and Holland
and for animal transport and of additional mileage operated by the Dublin
United Tramways Company, limited, to be covered by graziers' fees.
Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes
become a natural and necessary apodosis?
Given a guarantee equal to the sum sought, the support, by deed of gift
and transfer vouchers during donor's lifetime or by bequest after donor's
painless extinction, of eminent financiery (Blum Pasha, Rothschild,
Guggenheim, Hirsch, Montefiore, Morgan, Rockefeller) possessing fortunes in
6 figures, amassed during a successful life, and joining capital with
opportunity the thing required was done.
What eventually would render him independent of such wealth?
The independent discovery of a goldseam of inexhaustible ore.
For what reason did he meditate on schemes so difficult of realisation?
It was one or his axioms that similar meditations or the automatic
relation to himself of a narrative concerning himself or tranquil
recollection of the past when practised habitually before retiring for the
night alleviated fatigue and produced as a result sound repose and renovated
vitality.
His justifications?
As a physicist he had learned that of the 70 years of complete human
life at least 2/7ths, viz., 20 years passed in sleep. As a philosopher he
knew that at the termination of any allotted life only an infinitesimal part
of any person's desires has been realised. As a physiologist he believed in
the artificial placation of malignant agencies chiefly operative during
somnolence.
What did he fear?
The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an aberration of
the light of reason, the incommensurable categorical intelligence situated
in the cerebral convolutions.
What were habitually his final meditations?
Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause passers to stop in
wonder, a poster novelty, with all extraneous accretions excluded, reduced
to its simplest and most efficient terms not exceeding the span of casual
vision and congruous with the velocity of modern life.
What did the first drawer unlocked contain?
A Vere Foster's handwriting copybook, property of Milly (Millicent)
Bloom, certain pages of which bore diagram drawings marked Papli, which
showed a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile, the
trunk full front with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot: 2 fading
photographs of queen Alexandra of England and of Maud Branscombe, actress
and professional beauty: a Yuletide card, bearing on it a pictorial
representation of a parasitic plant, the legend Mizpah, the date Xmas 1892,
the name of the senders, from Mr and Mrs M. Comerford, the versicle: May
this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome glee: a butt of red
partly liquefied sealing wax, obtained from the stores department of Messrs
Hely's, Ltd., 89, 90 and 91 Dame street: a box containing the remainder of a
gross of gilt `J' pennibs, obtained from same department of same firm: an
old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed prophecy
(never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the
consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule
bill of 1886 (never passed into law): a bazaar ticket No 2004, of S. Kevin's
Charity Fair, price 6d. 100 prizes: an infantile epistle, dated, small em
monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of
interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph signature
with flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a cameo brooch, property of Ellen
Bloom (born Higgins), deceased: 3 typewritten letters, addressee, Henry
Flower, c/o P. O. Westland Row, addresser, Martha Clifford, c/o P. O.
Dolphin's Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the
3 letters in reserved alphabetic boustrophedontic punctated quadrilinear
cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS./WI.UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM: a press
cutting from an English weekly periodical Modern Society, subject corporal
chastisement in girls' schools: a pink ribbon which had festooned an Easter
egg in the year 1899: two partly uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve
pockets, purchased by post from Box 32, P. O., Charing Cross, London, W.C.:
1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and faintruled notepaper, watermarked,
now reduced by 3: some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins: 2 coupons of the
Royal and Privileged Hungarian Lottery: a lowpower magnifying glass: 2
erotic photocards showing: a) buccal coition between nude senorita (rere
presentation, superior position) and nude torero (fore presentation,
inferior position): b) anal violation by male religious (fully clothed, eyes
abject) of female religious (partly clothed, eyes direct), purchased by post
from Box 32, P. O., Charing Cross, London, W.C.: a press cutting of recipe
for renovation of old tan boots: a 1d. adhesive stamp, lavender, of the
reign of Queen Victoria: a chart of measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled
before, during and after 2 months of consecutive use of Sandow-Whiteley's
pulley exerciser (men's 15/-, athlete's 20/-) viz., chest 28 in. and 29 1/2
in., biceps 9 in. and 10 in., forearm 8 1/2 and 9 in., thigh 10 in. and 12
in., calf 11 in. and 12 in.: 1 prospectus of the Wonderworker, the world's
greatest remedy for rectal complaints direct from Wonderworker, Coventry
House, South Place, London E. C., addressed to Mrs L. Bloom with brief
accompanying note commencing: Dear Madam.
Quote the textual terms in which the prospectus claimed advantages for
this thaumaturgic remedy.
It heals and soothes while you sleep, in case of trouble in breaking
wind, assists nature in the most formidable way, insuring instant relief in
discharge of gases, keeping parts clean and free natural action, an initial
outlay of 7/6 making anew man of you and life worth living. Ladies find
Wonderworker especially useful, a pleasant surprise when they note
delightful result like a cool drink of fresh spring water on a sultry
summer's day. Recommend it to your lady and gentlemen friends, lasts a
lifetime. Insert long round end. Wonderworker.
Were there testimonials?
Numerous. From clergyman, British naval officer, wellknown author, city
man, hospital nurse, lady, mother of five, absentminded beggar.
How did absentminded beggar's concluding testimonial conclude?
What a pity the government did not supply our men with wonderworkers
during the South African campaign! What a relief it would have been!
What object did Bloom add to this collection of objects?
A 4th typewritten letter received by Henry Flower (let H. F. be L. B.)
from Martha Clifford (find M. C.).
What pleasant reflection accompanied this action?
The reflection that, apart from the letter in question, his magnetic
face, form and address had been favourably received during the course of the
preceding day by a wife (Mrs Josephine Breen, born Josie Powell); a nurse,
Miss Calian (Christian name unknown), a maid, Gertrude (Gerty, family name
unknown).
What possibility suggested itself?
The possibility of exercising virile power of fascination in the most
immediate future after an expensive repast in a private apartment in the
company of an elegant courtesan, of corporal beauty, moderately mercenary,
variously instructed, a lady by origin.
What did the and drawer contain?
Documents: the birth certificate of Leopold Paula Bloom: an endowment
assurance policy of #500 in the Scottish Widows' Assurance Society
intestated Millicent (Milly) Bloom, coming into force at 25 years as with
profit policy of #430, #462--10--0 and #500 at 60 years or death, 65 years
or death and death, respectively, or with profit policy (paidup) of
#299--10--0 together with cash payment of #133--10--0, at option: a bank
passbook issued by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch showing statement
of a/c for half year ending 31 December 1903, balance in depositor's favour:
#18--14--6 (eighteen pounds, fourteen shillings and six pence, sterling),
net personalty: certificate of possession of #900 Canadian 4% (inscribed)
government stock (free of stamp duty): dockets of the Catholic Cemeteries'
(Glasnevin) Committee, relative to a graveplot purchased: a local press
cutting concerning change of name by deedpoll.
Quote the textual terms of this notice.
I, Rudolph Virag, now resident at no 52 Clanbrassil street, Dublin,
formerly of Szombathely in the kingdom of Hungary, hereby give notice that I
have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times to be
known by the name of Rudolph Bloom.
What other objects relative to Rudolph Bloom (born Virag) were in the
2nd drawer?
An indistinct daguerreotype of Rudolph Virag and his father Leopold
Virag executed in the year 1852 in the portrait atelier of their
(respectively) 1st and 2nd cousin, Stefan Virag of Szesfehervar, Hungary. An
ancient hagadah book in which a pair of hornrimmed convex spectacles
inserted marked the passage of thanksgiving in the ritual prayers for
Pessach (Passover): a photocard of the Queen's Hotel, Ennis, proprietor,
Rudolph Bloom: an envelope addressed To my Dear Son Leopold.
What fractions of phrases did the lecture of those five whole words
evoke?
Tomorrow will be a week that I received... it is no use Leopold to
be... with your dear mother... that is not more to stand... to her... all
for me is out... be kind to Athos, Leopold... my dear son... always... of
me... das Herr... Gott... dein...
What reminiscences of a human subject suffering from progressive
melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom?
An old man widower, unkempt hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing:
an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and
scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a
septuagenarian suicide by poison.
Why did Bloom experience a sentiment of remorse?
Because in immature impatience he had treated with disrespect certain
beliefs and practices.
As?
The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal, the
hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete
mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants:
the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the
tetragrammaron: the sanctity of the sabbath.
How did these beliefs and practices now appear to him?
Not more rational than they had then appeared, not less rational than
other beliefs and practices now appeared.
What first reminiscence had he of Rudolph Bloom (deceased)?
Rudolph Bloom (deceased) narrated to his son Leopold Bloom (aged 6) a
retrospective arrangement of migrations and settlements in and between
Dublin, London, Florence, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Szombathely, with
statements of satisfaction (his grandfather having seen Maria Theresa,
empress of Austria, queen of Hungary), with commercial advice (having taken
care of pence, the pounds having taken care of themselves). Leopold Bloom
(aged 6) had accompanied these narrations by constant consultation of a
What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of
their (respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?
The sound of the peal of the hour of the night by the chime of the
bells in the church of Saint George.
What echoes of that sound were by both and each heard?
By Stephen:
Liliata rutilantium. Turma circumdet.
Iubilantium te virginum. Chorus excipiat.
By Bloom:
Heigho, heigho,
Heigho, heigho.
Where were the several members of the company which with Bloom that day
at the bidding of that peal had travelled from Sandymount in the south to
Glasnevin in the north?
Martin Cunningham (in bed), Jack Power (in bed), Simon Dedalus (in
bed), Tom Kernan (in bed), Ned Lambert (in bed), Joe Hynes (in bed), John
Henry Menton (in bed), Bernard Corrigan (in bed), Patsy Dignam (in bed),
Paddy Dignam (in the grave).
Alone, what did Bloom hear?
The double reverberation of retreating feet on the heavenborn earth,
the double vibration of a jew's harp in the resonant lane.
Alone, what did Bloom feel?
The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing
point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Rиaumur: the
incipient intimations of proximate dawn.
Of what did bellchime and handtouch and footstep and lonechill remind
him?
Of companions now in various manners in different places defunct: Percy
Apjohn (killed in action, Modder River), Philip Gilligan (phthisis, Jervis
Street hospital), Matthew F. Kane (accidental drowning, Dublin Bay), Philip
Moisel (pyemia, Heytesbury street), Michael Hart (phthisis, Mater
Misericordi&Aelig; hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy, Sandymount).
What prospect of what phenomena inclined him to remain?
The disparition of three final stars, the diffusion of day-break, the
apparition of a new solar disk.
Had he ever been a spectator of those phenomena?
Once, in 1887 after a protracted performance of charades in the house
of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited with patience the apparition of the
diurnal phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the direction of
Mizrach, the east.
He remembered the initial paraphenomena?
More active air, a matutinal distant cock, ecclesiastical clocks at
various points, avine music, the isolated tread of an early wayfarer, the
visible diffusion of the light of an invisible luminous body, the first
golden limb of the resurgent sun perceptible low on the horizon.
Did he remain?
With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, reentering
the passage, reclosing the door. With brief suspiration he reassumed the
candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room,
hallfloor, and reentered.
What suddenly arrested his ingress?
The right temporal lobe of the hollow sphere of his cranium came into
contact with a solid timber angle where, an infinitesimal but sensible
fraction of a second later, a painful sensation was located in consequence
of antecedent sensations transmitted and registered.
Describe the alterations effected in the disposition of the articles of
furnitures?
A sofa upholstered in prune plush had been translocated from opposite
the door to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack (an
alteration which he had frequently intended to execute): the blue and white
checker inlaid majolicatopped table had been placed opposite the door in the
place vacated by the prune plush sofa: the walnut sideboard (a projecting
angle of which had momentarily arrested his ingress) had been moved from its
position beside the door to a more advantageous but more perilous position
in front of the door: two chairs had been moved from right and left of the
ingleside to the position originally occupied by the blue and white checker
inlaid majolicatopped table.
Describe them.
One: a squat stuffed easychair with stout arms extended and back
slanted to the rere, which, repelled in recoil, had then upturned an
irregular fringe of a rectangular rug and now displayed on its amply
upholstered seat a centralised diffusing and diminishing discolouration. The
other: a slender splayfoot chair of glossy cane curves, placed directly
opposite the former, its frame from top to seat and from seat to base being
varnished dark brown, its seat being a bright circle of white plaited rush.
What significances attached to these two chairs?
Significances of similitude, of posture, of symbolism, of
circumstantial evidence, of testimonial supermanence.
What occupied the position originally occupied by the sideboard?
A vertical piano (Cadby) with exposed keyboard, its closed coffin
supporting a pair of long yellow ladies' gloves and an emerald ashtray
containing four consumed matches, a partly consumed cigarette and two
discoloured ends of cigarettes, its musicrest supporting the music in the
key of G natural for voice and piano of Love's Old Sweet Song (words by G.
Clifton Bingham, composed by J. L. Molloy, sung by Madam Antoinette
Sterling) open at the last page with the final indications ad libitum,
forte, pedal, animato, sustained, pedal, ritirando, close.
With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?
With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right
temple a contused tumescence: with attention, focusing his gaze on a large
dull passive and slender bright active: with solicitation, bending and
downturning the upturned rugfringe: with amusement, remembering Dr Malachi
Mulligan's scheme of colour containing the gradation of green: with
pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and perceiving through
various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant
tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration.
His next proceeding?
>From an open box on the majolicatopped table he extracted a black
diminutive cone, one inch in height, placed it on its circular base on a
small tin plate, placed his candlestick on the right corner of the
mantelpiece, produced from his waistcoat a folded page of prospectus
(illustrated) entitled Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same, examined it
superficially, rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the
candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter
reached the stage of rutilance, placed the cylinder in the basin of the
candlestick disposing its unconsumed part in such a manner as to facilitate
total combustion.
What followed this operation?
That truncated conical crater summit of the diminutive volcano emitted
a vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense.
What homothetic objects, other than the candlestick, stood on the
mantelpiece?
A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of 4.46
a.m. on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree
of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of
Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of Alderman John
Hooper.
What interchanges of looks took place between these three objects and
Bloom?
In the mirror of the giltbordered pierglass the undecorated back of the
dwarf tree regarded the upright back of the embalmed owl. Before the mirror
the matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper with a clear melancholy wise
bright motionless compassionate gaze regarded Bloom while Bloom with obscure
tranquil profound motionless compassionated gaze regarded the matrimonial
gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle.
What composite asymmetrical image in the mirror then attracted his
attention?
The image of a solitary (ipsorelative) mutable (aliorelative) man.
Why solitary (ipsorelative)?
Brothers and sisters had he none,
Yet that man's father was his grandfather's son.
Why mutable (aliorelative)?
>From infancy to maturity he had resembled his maternal procreatrix.
From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal
creator.
What final visual impression was communicated to him by the mirror?
The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged
and not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles on
the two bookshelves opposite.
Catalogue these books.
Thorn's Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886.
Denis Florence M'Carthy's Poetical Works (copper beechleaf bookmark at
p. 5).
Shakespeare's Works (dark crimson morocco, goldtooled).
The Useful Ready Reckoner (brown cloth).
The Secret History of the Court of Charles II (red cloth, tooled
binding).
The Child's Guide (blue cloth).
When We Were Boys by William O'Brien M.P. (green cloth, slightly faded,
envelope bookmark at p. 217).
Thoughts from Spinoza (maroon leather).
The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth).
Ellis's Three Trips to Madagascar (brown cloth, title obliterated).
The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of
Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel Street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve) 1904, due
4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing white
letternumber ticket).
Voyages in China by `Viator' (recovered with brown paper, red ink
title).
Philosophy of the Talmud (sewn pamphlet).
Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal an notations,
minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).
Soll und Haben by Gustav Freytag (black boards, Gothic characters,
cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24).
Hozier's History of the Russo-Turkish War (brown cloth, 2 volumes, with
gummed label, Garrison Library, Governor's Parade, Gibraltar, on verso of
cover).
Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William Allingham (second edition,
green cloth, gilt trefoil design, previous owner's name on recto of flyleaf
erased).
A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates,
antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal
clues brevier, captions small pica).
The Hidden Life of Christ (black boards).
In the Track of the Sun (yellow cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent
title intestation).
Physical Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugene Sandow (red cloth).
Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry written in French by F. Ignat.
Pardies and rendered into Englifh by John Harris D. D. London, printed for
R. Knaplock at the Bifhop's Head MDCCXI, with dedicatory epiftle to his
worthy friend Charles Cox, efquire, Member of Parliament for the burgh of
Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf certifying
that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of
May 1822 and requefting the perfon who should find it, if the book should be
loft or go aftray, to reftore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery
Gate, Ennifcorthy, county Wicklow, the fineft place in the world.
What reflections occupied his mind during the process of reversion of
the inverted volumes?
The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its
place: the deficient appreciation of literature possessed by females: the
incongruity of an apple incuneated in a tumbler and of an umbrella inclined
in a closestool: the insecurity of hiding any secret document behind,
beneath or between the pages of a book.
Which volume was the largest in bulk?
Hozier's History of the Russo - Turkish War.
What among other data did the second volume of the work In question
contain?
The name of a decisive battle (forgotten), frequently remembered by a
decisive officer, major Brian Cooper Tweedy (remembered).
Why, firstly and secondly, did he not consult the work in question?
Firstly, in order to exercise mnemotechnic: secondly, because after an
interval of amnesia, when seated at the central table, about to consult the
work in question, he remembered by mnemotechnic the name of the military
engagement, Plevna.
What caused him consolation in his sitting posture?
The candour, nudity, pose, tranquillity, youth, grace, sex, counsel of
a statue erect in the centre of the table, an image of Narcissus purchased
by auction from P. A. Wren, 9 Bachelor's Walk.
What caused him irritation in his sitting posture?
Inhibitory pressure of collar (size 17) and waistcoat (5 buttons), two
articles of clothing superfluous in the costume of mature males and
inelastic to alterations of mass by expansion.
How was the irritation allayed?
He removed his collar, with contained black necktie and collapsible
stud, from his neck to a position on the left of the table. He unbuttoned
successively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along
the medial line of irregular incrispated black hair extending in triangular
convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of the abdomen and
umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of nodes to the intersection of
the sixth pectoral vertebr&Aelig;, thence produced both ways at right angles
and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points, right and
left, on the summits of the mammary prominences. He unbraced successively
each of six minus one braced trouser buttons, arranged in pairs, of which
one incomplete.
What involuntary actions followed?
He compressed between 2 fingers the flesh circumjacent to a cicatrice
in the left infracostal region below the diaphragm resulting from a sting
inflicted 2 weeks and 3 days previously (23 May 1904) by a bee. He scratched
imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various
points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. He inserted
his left hand into the left lower pocket of his waistcoat and extracted and
replaced a silver coin (1 shilling), placed there (presumably) on the
occasion (17 October 1903) of the interment of Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney
Parade.
Compile the budget for 16 June 1904.
#. s. d. #. s. d.
1 Pork kidney 0. 0. 3 Cash in hand 0.4.9
2 Copy Freeman's Journal 0.0.2 Commission recd. Freeman's Journal
1 Bath and gratification 0. 1.6 2.7.6
Tramfare 0. 0. 2 Loan (Stephen Dedalus) 1.7.0
2 In Memoriam Patrick
Dignam 0.5.0
2 Banbury cakes 0.0.1
2 Lunch 0.0.7
1 Rental fee for book 0.1.0
2 Packet notepaper and
envelopes 0.0.2
2 Dinner and gratification 0.2.0
2 Postal order and stamp 0.2.8
Tramfare 0.0.1
1 Pig's Foot 0.0.4
1 Sheep's Trotter 0.0.3
2 Cake Fry's plain choco
late 0.0.
1 Square soda bread 0.0.4
1 Coffee and bun 0.0.4
Loan (Stephen Dedalus)
refunded 2.7.0
BALANCE 0.27.5
#.2.29. 3 #.2.19.3
Did the process of divestiture continue?
Sensible of a benignant persistent ache in his footsoles he extended
his foot to one side and observed the creases, protuberances and salient
points caused by foot pressure in the course of walking repeatedly in
several different directions, then, inclined, he disnoded the laceknots,
unhooked and loosened the laces, took off each of his two boots for the
second time, detached the partially moistened right sock through the fore
part of which the nail of his great toe had again effracted, raised his
right foot and, having unhooked a purple elastic sock suspender, took off
his right sock, placed his unclothed right foot on the margin of the seat of
his chair, picked at and gently lacerated the protruding part of the great
toenail, raised the part lacerated to his nostrils and inhaled the odour of
the quick, then with satisfaction threw away the lacerated unguinal
fragment.
Why with satisfaction?
Because the odour inhaled corresponded to other odours inhaled of other
unguinal fragments, picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, pupil of Mrs
Ellis's juvenile school, patiently each night in the act of brief
genuflection and nocturnal prayer and ambitious meditation.
In what ultimate ambition had all concurrent and consecutive ambitions
now coalesced?
Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English,
or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of
acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation #42), of grazing
turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor,
on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in
Urbe or Qui si Sana, but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a
thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect,
surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the earth, with
porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia creeper), halldoor, olive
green, with smart carriage finish and neat doorbrasses, stucco front with
gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising, if possible, upon a gentle eminence
with agreeable prospect from balcony with stone pillar parapet over
unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures and standing in 5 or 6
acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public
thoroughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through
a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not
less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time
limit of not more than 5 minutes from tram or train line (e.g., Dundrum,
south, or Sutton, north, both localities equally reported by trial to
resemble the terrestrial poles in being favourable climates for phthisical
subjects), the premises to be held under feefarmgrant, lease 999 years, the
message to consist of 1 drawingroom with baywindow (2 lancets), thermometer
affixed, 1 sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, 2 servants rooms, tiled kitchen with
close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted with linen wallpresses, fumed
oak sectional bookcase containing the Encyclopaedia Britannica and New
century Dictionary, transverse obsolete medieval and oriental weapons,
dinner gong, alabaster lamp, bowl pendant, vulcanite automatic telephone
receiver with adjacent directory, handtufted Axminster carpet with cream
ground and trellis border, loo table with pillar and claw legs, hearth with
massive firebrasses and ormolu mantel chronometer clock, guaranteed
timekeeper with cathedral chime, barometer with hygrographic chart,
comfortable lounge settees and corner fitments, upholstered in ruby plush
with good springing and sunk centre, three banner Japanese screen and
cuspidors (club style, rich wine-coloured leather, gloss renewable with a
minimum of labour by use of linseed oil and vinegar) and pyramidically
prismatic central chandelier lustre, bentwood perch with a fingertame parrot
(expurgated language), embossed mural paper at 10/-per dozen with transverse
swags of carmine floral design and top crown frieze, staircase, three
continuous flights at successive right angles, of varnished cleargrained
oak, treads and risers, newel, balusters and handrail, with stepped-up panel
dado, dressed with camphorated wax, bathroom, hot and cold supply, reclining
and shower: water closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong
window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod brace, armrests, footstool
and artistic oleograph on inner face of door: ditto, plain: servant's
apartments with separate sanitary and hygienic necessaries for cook, general
and betweenmaid (salary, rising by biennial unearned increments of #2, with
comprehensive fidelity insurance annual bonus (#1), and retiring allowance
(based on the 65 system) after 30 years service), pantry, buttery, larder,
refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin (still and
sparkling vintages) for distinguished guests, if entertained to dinner
(evening dress), carbon monoxide gas supply throughout.
What additional attractions might the grounds contain?
As addenda, a tennis and fives court, a shrubbery, a glass summerhouse
with tropical palms, equipped in the best botanical manner a rockery with
waterspray, a beehive arranged on humane principles, oval flowerbeds in
rectangular grassplots set with eccentric ellipses of scarlet and chrome
tulips, blue scillas, crocuses, polyanthus, sweet William, sweat pea, lily
of the valley (bulbs obtainable from sir James W. Mackey (Limited)
(wholesale and retail) seed and bulb merchant and nurseryman, agent for
chemical manures, 23 Sackville street, upper), an orchard, kitchen garden
and vinery, protected against illegal trespassers by glasstopped mural
enclosures, a lumbershed with padlock for various inventoried implements.
As?
Eeltraps, lobsterpots, fishingrods, hatchet, steelyard, grindstone,
clodcrusher, swatheturner, carriagesack, telescope ladder, 10 tooth rake,
washing clogs, haytedder, tumbling rake, billhook, paintpot, brush, hoe and
so on.
What improvements might be subsequently introduced?
A rabbitry and fowlrun, a dovecote, a botanical conservatory, 2
hammocks (lady's and gentleman's), a sundial shaded and sheltered by
laburnum or lilac trees, an exotically harmonically accorded Japanese tinkle
gatebell affixed to left lateral gatepost, a capacious waterbutt, a
lawnmower with side delivery and grassbox, a lawnsprinkler with hydraulic
hose.
What facilities of transit were desirable?
When citybound frequent connection by train or tram from their
respective intermediate station or terminal. When countrybound velocipedes,
a chainless freewheel roadster cycle with side basketcar attached, or
draught conveyance, a donkey with wicker trap or smart phaeton with good
working solidungular cob (roan gelding, 14h).
What might be the name of this erigible or erected residence?
Bloom Cottage. Saint Leopold's. Flowerville.
Could Bloom of 7 Eccles street foresee Bloom of Flowerville?
In loose allwool garments with Harris tweed cap, price 8/6, and useful
garden boots with elastic gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned young
firtrees, syringing, pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a weedladen
wheelbarrow without excessive fatigue at sunset amid the scent of newmown
hay, ameliorating the soil, multiplying wisdom, achieving longevity.
What syllabus of intellectual pursuits was simultaneously possible?
Snapshot photography, comparative study of religions, folklore relative
to various amatory and superstitious practices, contemplation of the
celestial constellations.
What lighter recreations?
Outdoor: garden and fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised causeways,
ascents of moderately high hills, natation in secluded fresh water and
unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle with kedge
anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids (period of estivation),
vespertinal perambulation or equestrian circumprocession with inspection of
sterile landscape and contrastingly agreeable cottagers' fires of smoking
peat turves (period of hibernation). Indoor discussion in tepid security of
unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic
erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl,
nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.
Might he become a gentleman farmer of field produce and live stock?
Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and
requisite farming implements, e.g., an end-to-end churn, a turnip pulper
etc.
What would be his civic functions and social status among the county
families and landed gentry?
Arranged successively in ascending powers of hierarchical order, that
of gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and at the zenith of his
career, resident magistrate or justice of the peace with a family crest and
coat of arms and appropriate classical motto (Semper paratus), duly recorded
in the court directory (Bloom, Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K. P., L. L. D.
honoris cause, Bloomville, Dundrum) and mentioned in court and fashionable
intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have left Kingstown for England).
What course of action did he outline for himself in such capacity?
A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the
dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes, incessantly
rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality of unbiassed
homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest
possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confiscation
of estate, real and personal, to the crown. Loyal to the highest constituted
power in the land, actuated by an innate love of rectitude his aims would be
the strict maintenance of public order, the repression of many abuses though
not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform or retrenchment being a
preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in the final solution), the
upholding of the letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant)
against all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of
bylaws and regulations, all resuscitators (by trespass and petty larceny of
kindlings) of venville rights, obsolete by desuetude, all orotund
instigators of international persecution, all perpetuators of international
animosities, all menial molestors of domestic conviviality, all recalcitrant
violators of domestic connubiality.
Prove that he had loved rectitude from his earliest youth.
To master Percy Apjohn at High School in 1880 he had divulged his
disbelief in the tenets of the Irish (protestant) church (to which his
father Rudolf Virag, later Rudolph Bloom, had been converted from the
Israelitic faith and communion in 1865 by the Society for promoting
Christianity among the Jews) subsequently abjured by him in favour of Roman
catholicism at the epoch of and with a view to his matrimony in 1888. To
Daniel Magrane and Francis Wade in 1882 during a juvenile friendship
(terminated by the premature emigration of the former) he had advocated
during nocturnal perambulations the political theory of colonial (e.g.
Canadian) expansion and the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin,
expounded in The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species. In 1885 he had
publicly expressed his adherence to the collective and national economic
programme advocated by James Fintan Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel,
J. F. X. O'Brien and others, the agrarian policy of Michael Davitt, the
constitutional agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell (M. P. for Cork City),
the programme of peace, retrenchment and reform of William Ewart Gladstone
(M. P. for Midlothian, N. B.) and, in support of his political convictions,
had climbed up into a secure position amid the ramifications of a tree on
Northumberland road to see the entrance (2 February 1888) into the capital
of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000, divided into 120 trade
corporations, bearing 2,000 torches in escort of the marquess of Ripon and
John Morley.
How much and how did he propose to pay for this country residence?
As per prospectus of the Industrious Foreign Acclimatised Nationalised
Friendly Stateaided Building Society (incorporated 1874), a maximum of #60
per annum, being 116th of an assured income, derived from giltedged
securities, representing at 5% simple interest on capital of #1,200
(estimate of price at 20 years purchase) of which 1/3rd to be paid on
acquisition and the balance in the form of annual rent, viz. #800 plus 2
1/2% interest on the same, repayable quarterly in equal annual instalments
until extinction by amortisation of loan advanced for purchase within a
period of 20 years, amounting to an annual rental of #64, headrent included,
the titledeeds to remain in possession of the lender or lenders with a
saving clause envisaging forced sale, foreclosure and mutual compensation in
the event of protracted failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the
messuage to become the absolute property of the tenant occupier upon expiry
of the period of years stipulated.
What rapid but insecure means to opulence might facilitate immediate
purchase?
A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash
system the result of a national equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of 1
or more miles and furlongs won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at 3 hr. 8
m. p.m. at Ascot (Greenwich time) the message being received and available
for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59 p.m. (Dunsink time). The unexpected
discovery of an object of great monetary value: precious stone, valuable
adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7-shilling, mauve, imperforate,
Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper perforate, Great Britain, 1866: 1
franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxembourg, 1878):
antique dynastical ring, unique relic in unusual repositories or by unusual
means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the
carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam,
jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl).
A Spanish prisoner's donation of a distant treasure of valuables or specie
or bullion lodged with a solvent banking corporation 100 years previously at
5% compound interest of the collective worth of #5,000,000 stg (five million
pounds sterling). A contract with an inconsiderate contractee for the
delivery of 32 consignments of some given commodity in consideration of cash
payment on delivery at the initial rate of 1/4d. to be increased constantly
in the geometrical progression of 2 (1/4d., 1/2d., 1d., 2d., 4d., 8d., 1s.
4d., 2s. 8d. to 32 terms). A prepared scheme based on a study of the laws of
probability to break the bank at Monte Carlo. A solution of the secular
problem of the quadrature of the circle, government premium #1,000,000
sterling.
Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?
The reclamation of dunams of waste arenary soil, proposed in the
prospectus of Agendath Netaim, Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W.15 by the
cultivation of orange plantations and melonfields and reafforestation. The
utilisation of waste paper, fells of sewer rodents, human excrement
possessing chemical properties, in view of the vast production of the first,
vast number of the second and immense quantity of the third, every normal
human being of average vitality and appetite producing annually, cancelling
byproducts of water, a sum total of 80 lbs. (mixed animal and vegetable
diet), to be multiplied by 4,386,035 the total population of Ireland
according to the census returns of 1901.
Were there schemes of wider scope?
A scheme to be formulated and submitted for approval to the harbour
commissioners for the exploitation of white coal (hydraulic power), obtained
by hydroelectric plant at peak of tide at Dublin bar or at head of water at
Poulaphouca or Powerscourt or catchment basins of main streams for the
economic production of 500,000 W. H. P. of electricity. A scheme to enclose
the peninsular delta of the North Bull at Dollymount and erect on the space
of the foreland, used for golf links and rifle ranges, an asphalted
esplanade with casinos, booths, shooting galleries, hotels, boardinghouses,
readingrooms, establishments for mixed bathing. A scheme for the use of
dogvans and goatvans for the delivery of early morning milk. A scheme for
the development of Irish tourist traffic in and around Dublin by means of
petrolpropelled riverboats, plying in the fluvial fairway between island
bridge and Ringsend, charabancs, narrow gauge local railways, and pleasure
steamers for coastwise navigation (10/- per person per day, guide
(trilingual) included). A scheme for the repristination of passenger and
goods traffics over Irish waterways, when freed from weedbeds. A scheme to
connect by tramline the Cattle Market (North Circular road and Prussia
street) with the quays (Sheriff street, lower, and East Wall), parallel with
the Link line railway laid (in conjunction with the Great Southern and
Western railway line) between the cattle park, Liffey junction, and terminus
of Midland Great Western railway 43 to 45 North Wall, in proximity to the
terminal stations or Dublin branches of Great Central Railway, Midland
Railway of England, City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, Lancashire
Yorkshire Railway Company, Dublin and Glasgow Steam Packet Company, Glasgow
Dublin and Londonderry Steam Packet Company (Laird line), British and Irish
Steam Packet Company, Dublin and Morecambe Steamers, London and North
Western Railway Company, Dublin Port and Docks Board Landing Sheds and
transit sheds of Palgrave, Murphy and Company, steamship owners, agents for
steamers from Mediterranean, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and Holland
and for animal transport and of additional mileage operated by the Dublin
United Tramways Company, limited, to be covered by graziers' fees.
Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes
become a natural and necessary apodosis?
Given a guarantee equal to the sum sought, the support, by deed of gift
and transfer vouchers during donor's lifetime or by bequest after donor's
painless extinction, of eminent financiery (Blum Pasha, Rothschild,
Guggenheim, Hirsch, Montefiore, Morgan, Rockefeller) possessing fortunes in
6 figures, amassed during a successful life, and joining capital with
opportunity the thing required was done.
What eventually would render him independent of such wealth?
The independent discovery of a goldseam of inexhaustible ore.
For what reason did he meditate on schemes so difficult of realisation?
It was one or his axioms that similar meditations or the automatic
relation to himself of a narrative concerning himself or tranquil
recollection of the past when practised habitually before retiring for the
night alleviated fatigue and produced as a result sound repose and renovated
vitality.
His justifications?
As a physicist he had learned that of the 70 years of complete human
life at least 2/7ths, viz., 20 years passed in sleep. As a philosopher he
knew that at the termination of any allotted life only an infinitesimal part
of any person's desires has been realised. As a physiologist he believed in
the artificial placation of malignant agencies chiefly operative during
somnolence.
What did he fear?
The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an aberration of
the light of reason, the incommensurable categorical intelligence situated
in the cerebral convolutions.
What were habitually his final meditations?
Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause passers to stop in
wonder, a poster novelty, with all extraneous accretions excluded, reduced
to its simplest and most efficient terms not exceeding the span of casual
vision and congruous with the velocity of modern life.
What did the first drawer unlocked contain?
A Vere Foster's handwriting copybook, property of Milly (Millicent)
Bloom, certain pages of which bore diagram drawings marked Papli, which
showed a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile, the
trunk full front with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot: 2 fading
photographs of queen Alexandra of England and of Maud Branscombe, actress
and professional beauty: a Yuletide card, bearing on it a pictorial
representation of a parasitic plant, the legend Mizpah, the date Xmas 1892,
the name of the senders, from Mr and Mrs M. Comerford, the versicle: May
this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome glee: a butt of red
partly liquefied sealing wax, obtained from the stores department of Messrs
Hely's, Ltd., 89, 90 and 91 Dame street: a box containing the remainder of a
gross of gilt `J' pennibs, obtained from same department of same firm: an
old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed prophecy
(never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the
consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule
bill of 1886 (never passed into law): a bazaar ticket No 2004, of S. Kevin's
Charity Fair, price 6d. 100 prizes: an infantile epistle, dated, small em
monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of
interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph signature
with flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a cameo brooch, property of Ellen
Bloom (born Higgins), deceased: 3 typewritten letters, addressee, Henry
Flower, c/o P. O. Westland Row, addresser, Martha Clifford, c/o P. O.
Dolphin's Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the
3 letters in reserved alphabetic boustrophedontic punctated quadrilinear
cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS./WI.UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM: a press
cutting from an English weekly periodical Modern Society, subject corporal
chastisement in girls' schools: a pink ribbon which had festooned an Easter
egg in the year 1899: two partly uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve
pockets, purchased by post from Box 32, P. O., Charing Cross, London, W.C.:
1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and faintruled notepaper, watermarked,
now reduced by 3: some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins: 2 coupons of the
Royal and Privileged Hungarian Lottery: a lowpower magnifying glass: 2
erotic photocards showing: a) buccal coition between nude senorita (rere
presentation, superior position) and nude torero (fore presentation,
inferior position): b) anal violation by male religious (fully clothed, eyes
abject) of female religious (partly clothed, eyes direct), purchased by post
from Box 32, P. O., Charing Cross, London, W.C.: a press cutting of recipe
for renovation of old tan boots: a 1d. adhesive stamp, lavender, of the
reign of Queen Victoria: a chart of measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled
before, during and after 2 months of consecutive use of Sandow-Whiteley's
pulley exerciser (men's 15/-, athlete's 20/-) viz., chest 28 in. and 29 1/2
in., biceps 9 in. and 10 in., forearm 8 1/2 and 9 in., thigh 10 in. and 12
in., calf 11 in. and 12 in.: 1 prospectus of the Wonderworker, the world's
greatest remedy for rectal complaints direct from Wonderworker, Coventry
House, South Place, London E. C., addressed to Mrs L. Bloom with brief
accompanying note commencing: Dear Madam.
Quote the textual terms in which the prospectus claimed advantages for
this thaumaturgic remedy.
It heals and soothes while you sleep, in case of trouble in breaking
wind, assists nature in the most formidable way, insuring instant relief in
discharge of gases, keeping parts clean and free natural action, an initial
outlay of 7/6 making anew man of you and life worth living. Ladies find
Wonderworker especially useful, a pleasant surprise when they note
delightful result like a cool drink of fresh spring water on a sultry
summer's day. Recommend it to your lady and gentlemen friends, lasts a
lifetime. Insert long round end. Wonderworker.
Were there testimonials?
Numerous. From clergyman, British naval officer, wellknown author, city
man, hospital nurse, lady, mother of five, absentminded beggar.
How did absentminded beggar's concluding testimonial conclude?
What a pity the government did not supply our men with wonderworkers
during the South African campaign! What a relief it would have been!
What object did Bloom add to this collection of objects?
A 4th typewritten letter received by Henry Flower (let H. F. be L. B.)
from Martha Clifford (find M. C.).
What pleasant reflection accompanied this action?
The reflection that, apart from the letter in question, his magnetic
face, form and address had been favourably received during the course of the
preceding day by a wife (Mrs Josephine Breen, born Josie Powell); a nurse,
Miss Calian (Christian name unknown), a maid, Gertrude (Gerty, family name
unknown).
What possibility suggested itself?
The possibility of exercising virile power of fascination in the most
immediate future after an expensive repast in a private apartment in the
company of an elegant courtesan, of corporal beauty, moderately mercenary,
variously instructed, a lady by origin.
What did the and drawer contain?
Documents: the birth certificate of Leopold Paula Bloom: an endowment
assurance policy of #500 in the Scottish Widows' Assurance Society
intestated Millicent (Milly) Bloom, coming into force at 25 years as with
profit policy of #430, #462--10--0 and #500 at 60 years or death, 65 years
or death and death, respectively, or with profit policy (paidup) of
#299--10--0 together with cash payment of #133--10--0, at option: a bank
passbook issued by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch showing statement
of a/c for half year ending 31 December 1903, balance in depositor's favour:
#18--14--6 (eighteen pounds, fourteen shillings and six pence, sterling),
net personalty: certificate of possession of #900 Canadian 4% (inscribed)
government stock (free of stamp duty): dockets of the Catholic Cemeteries'
(Glasnevin) Committee, relative to a graveplot purchased: a local press
cutting concerning change of name by deedpoll.
Quote the textual terms of this notice.
I, Rudolph Virag, now resident at no 52 Clanbrassil street, Dublin,
formerly of Szombathely in the kingdom of Hungary, hereby give notice that I
have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times to be
known by the name of Rudolph Bloom.
What other objects relative to Rudolph Bloom (born Virag) were in the
2nd drawer?
An indistinct daguerreotype of Rudolph Virag and his father Leopold
Virag executed in the year 1852 in the portrait atelier of their
(respectively) 1st and 2nd cousin, Stefan Virag of Szesfehervar, Hungary. An
ancient hagadah book in which a pair of hornrimmed convex spectacles
inserted marked the passage of thanksgiving in the ritual prayers for
Pessach (Passover): a photocard of the Queen's Hotel, Ennis, proprietor,
Rudolph Bloom: an envelope addressed To my Dear Son Leopold.
What fractions of phrases did the lecture of those five whole words
evoke?
Tomorrow will be a week that I received... it is no use Leopold to
be... with your dear mother... that is not more to stand... to her... all
for me is out... be kind to Athos, Leopold... my dear son... always... of
me... das Herr... Gott... dein...
What reminiscences of a human subject suffering from progressive
melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom?
An old man widower, unkempt hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing:
an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and
scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a
septuagenarian suicide by poison.
Why did Bloom experience a sentiment of remorse?
Because in immature impatience he had treated with disrespect certain
beliefs and practices.
As?
The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal, the
hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete
mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants:
the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the
tetragrammaron: the sanctity of the sabbath.
How did these beliefs and practices now appear to him?
Not more rational than they had then appeared, not less rational than
other beliefs and practices now appeared.
What first reminiscence had he of Rudolph Bloom (deceased)?
Rudolph Bloom (deceased) narrated to his son Leopold Bloom (aged 6) a
retrospective arrangement of migrations and settlements in and between
Dublin, London, Florence, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Szombathely, with
statements of satisfaction (his grandfather having seen Maria Theresa,
empress of Austria, queen of Hungary), with commercial advice (having taken
care of pence, the pounds having taken care of themselves). Leopold Bloom
(aged 6) had accompanied these narrations by constant consultation of a