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geographical map of Europe (political) and by suggestions for the
establishment of affiliated business premises in the various centres
mentioned.
Had time equally but differently obliterated the memory of these
migrations in narrator and listener?
In narrator by the access of years and in consequence of the use of
narcotic toxin: in listener by the access of years and in consequence of the
action of distraction upon vicarious experiences.
What idiosyncrasies of the narrator were concomitant product$ of
amnesia?
Occasionally he ate without having previously removed his hat.
Occasionally he drank voraciously the juice of gooseberry fool from an
inclined plate. Occasionally he removed from his lips the traces of food by
means of a lacerated envelope or other accessible fragment of paper.
What two phenomena of senescence were more frequent?
The myopic digital calculation of coins, eructation consequent upon
repletion.
What object offered partial consolation for these reminiscences?
The endowment policy, the bank passbook, the certificate of the
possession of scrip.
Reduce Bloom by cross multiplication of reverses of fortune, from which
these supports protected him, and by elimination of all positive values to a
negligible negative irrational unreal quantity.
Successively, in descending helotic order: Poverty: that of the outdoor
hawker of imitation jewellery, the dun for the recovery of bad and doubtful
debts, the poor rate and deputy cess collector. Mendicancy: that of the
fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1s. 4d. in the #,
sandwichman, distributor of throwaways, nocturnal vagrant, insinuating
sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling, superannuated bailiff's man,
marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric public laughingstock
seated on bench of public park under discarded perforated umbrella.
Destitution: the inmate of Old Man's House (Royal Hospital), Kilmainham, the
inmate of Simpson's Hospital for reduced but respectable men permanently
disabled by gout or want of sight. Nadir of misery: the aged impotent
disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.
With which attendant indignities?
The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the
contempt of muscular males, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the
simulated ignorance of casual acquaintances, the latration of illegitimate
unlicensed vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable
missiles, worth little or nothing or less than nothing.
By what could such a situation be precluded?
By decease (change of state), by departure (change of place).
Which preferably?
The latter, by the line of least resistance.
What considerations rendered it not entirely undesirable?
Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects.
The habit of independent purchase increasingly cultivated. The necessity to
counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest.
What considerations rendered it not irrational?
The parties concerned, uniting, had increased and multiplied, which
being done, offspring produced and educed to maturity, the parties, if now
disunited were obliged to reunite for increase and multiplication, which was
absurd, to form by reunion the original couple of uniting parties, which was
impossible.
What considerations rendered it desirable?
The attractive character of certain localities in Ireland and abroad,
as represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in
special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and hachures.
In Ireland?
The cliffs of Moher, the windy wilds of Connemara, lough Neagh with
submerged petrified city, the Giant's Causeway, Fort Camden and Fort
Carlisle, the Golden Vale of Tipperary, the islands of Aran, the pastures of
royal Meath, Brigid's elm in Kildare, the Queen's Island shipyard in
Belfast, the Salmon Leap, the lakes of Killarney.
Abroad?
Ceylon (with spicegardens supplying tea to Thomas Kernan, agent for
Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 2 Mincing lane, London, E. C., 5 Dame street,
Dublin), Jerusalem, the holy city (with mosque of Omar and gate of Damascus,
goal of aspiration), the straits of Gibraltar (the unique birthplace of
Marion Tweedy), the Parthenon (containing statues, nude Grecian divinities),
the Wall street money market (which controlled international finance), the
Plaza de Toros at La Linea, Spain (where O'Hara of the camerons had slain
the bull), Niagara (over which no human being had passed with impunity), the
land of the Eskimos (eaters of soap), the forbidden country of Thibet (from
which no traveller returns), the bay of Naples (to see which was to die),
the Dead Sea.
Under what guidance, following what signs?
At sea, septentrional, by night the polestar, located at the point of
intersection of the right line from beta to alpha in Ursa Major produced and
divided externally at omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle
formed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha delta of Ursa
Major. On land, meridional, a bispherical moon, revealed in imperfect
varying phases of lunation through the posterior interstice of the
imperfectly occluded skirt of a carnose negligent perambulating female, a
pillar of the cloud by day.
What public advertisement would divulge the occultation of the
departed?
#5 reward lost, stolen or strayed from his residence 7 Eccles street,
missing gent about 40, answering to the name of Bloom, Leopold (Poldy),
height 5 ft 9 1/2 inches, full build, olive complexion, may have since grown
a beard, when last seen was wearing a black suit. Above sum will be paid for
information leading to his discovery.
What universal binomial denominations would be his as entity and
nonentity?
Assumed by any or known to none. Everyman or Noman.
What tributes his?
Honour and gifts of strangers, the friends of Everyman. A nymph
immortal, beauty, the bride of Noman.
Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear?
Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his
cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic
planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space,
passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events. Somewhere
imperceptibly he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the
summons of recall. Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the
Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the
constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination
return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark
crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition)
surpassing those of Rothschild or of the silver King.
What would render such return irrational?
An unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through
reversible space and an exodus and return in space through irreversible
time.
What play of forces, inducing inertia, rendered departure undesirable?
The lateness of the hour, rendering procrastinatory: the obscurity of
the night, rendering invisible: the uncertainty of thoroughfares, rendering
perilous: the necessity for repose, obviating movement: the proximity of an
occupied bed, obviating research: the anticipation of warmth (human)
tempered with coolness (linen), obviating desire and rendering desirable:
the statue of Narcissus, sound without echo, desired desire.
What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an
unoccupied bed?
The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human
(mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of
matutinal contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case
of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring
mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section).
What past consecutive causes, before rising preapprehended, of
accumulated fatigue did Bloom, before rising, silently recapitulate?
The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion
and premeditative defecation (holy of holies): the bath (rite of John): the
funeral (rite of Samuel): the advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and
Thummin): the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchizedek): the visit to museum
and national library (holy place): the bookhunt along Bedford row,
Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay (Simchath Torah): the music in the Ormond
Hotel (Shira Shirim): the altercation with a truculent troglodyte in Bernard
Kiernan's premises (holocaust): a blank period of time including a cardrive,
a visit to a house of mourning, a leavetaking (wilderness): the eroticism
produced by feminine exhibitionism (rite of Onan): the prolonged delivery of
Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering): the visit to the disorderly house of Mrs
Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street, lower, and subsequent brawl and chance medley
in Beaver street (Armageddon): nocturnal perambulation to and from the
cabman's shelter, Butt Bridge (atonement).
What selfimposed enigma did Bloom about to rise in order to go so as to
conclude lest he should not conclude involuntarily apprehend?
The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by
the insentient material of a strainveined timber table.
What selfinvolved enigma did Bloom risen, going, gathering
multicoloured multiform multitudinous garments, voluntarily apprehending,
not comprehend?
Who was M'Intosh?
What selfevident enigma pondered with desultory constancy during 30
years did Bloom now, having effected natural obscurity by the extinction of
artificial light, silently suddenly comprehend?
Where was Moses when the candle went out?
What imperfections in a perfect day did Bloom, walking, silently,
successively, enumerate?
A provisional failure to obtain renewal of an advertisement, to obtain
a certain quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan (agent for Pulbrook, Robertson
and Co, 5 Dame street, Dublin, and 2 Mincing lane, London, E. C.), to
certify the presence or absence of posterior rectal orifice in the case of
Hellenic female divinities, to obtain admission (gratuitous or paid) to the
performance of Leah by Mrs Bandman Palmer at the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48,
49, South King street.
What impression of an absent face did Bloom, arrested, silently recall?
The face of her father, the late Major Brian Cooper Tweedy, Royal
Dublin Fusiliers, of Gibraltar and Rehoboth, Dolphin's Barn.
What recurrent impressions of the same were possible by the hypothesis?
Retreating, at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, Amiens
street, with constant uniform acceleration, along parallel lines meeting at
infinity, if produced: along parallel lines, reproduced from infinity, with
constant uniform retardation, at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway,
Amiens street, returning.
What miscellaneous effects of female personal wearing apparel were
perceived by him?
A pair of new inodorous halfsilk black ladies' hose, a pair of new
violet garters, a pair of outsize ladies' drawers of India mull, cut on
generous lines, redolent of opoponax, jessamine and Muratti's Turkish
cigarettes and containing a long bright steel safety pin, folded
curvilinear, a camisole of baptiste with thin lace border, an accordion
underskirt of blue silk moirette, all these objects being disposed
irregularly on the top of a rectangular trunk, quadruple battened, having
capped corners, with multicoloured labels, initialled on its fore side in
white lettering B. C. T. (Brian Cooper Tweedy).
What impersonal objects were perceived?
A commode, one leg fractured, totally covered by square cretonne
cutting, apple design, on which rested a lady's black straw hat. Orangekeyed
ware, bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware and ironmongery
manufacturer, 21, 22, 23 Moore street, disposed irregularly on the washstand
and floor, and consisting of basin, soapdish and brushtray (on the
washstand, together), pitcher and night article (on the floor, separate).
Bloom's acts?
He deposited the articles of clothing on a chair, removed his remaining
articles of clothing, took from beneath the bolster at the head of the bed a
folded long white nightshirt, inserted his head and arms into the proper
apertures of the nightshirt, removed a pillow from the head to the foot of
the bed, prepared the bedlinen accordingly and entered the bed.
How?
With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode (his own or
not his own): with solicitude, the snakespiral springs of the mattress being
old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous under
stress and strain: prudently, as entering a lair or ambush of lust or adder:
lightly, the less to disturb: reverently, the bed of conception and of
birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of marriage, of sleep and
of death.
What did his limbs, when gradually extended, encounter?
New clean bedlinen, additional odours, the presence of a human form,
female, hers, the imprint of a human form, male, not his, some crumbs, some
flakes of potted meat, recooked, which he removed.
If he had smiled why would he have smiled?
To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to
enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the
first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last,
only and alone, whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a
series originating In and repeated to infinity.
What preceding series?
Assuming Mulvey to be the first term of his series, Penrose, Bartell
d'Arcy, professor Goodwin, Julius Mastiansky, John Henry Menton, Father
Bernard Corrigan, a farmer at the Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show, Maggot
O'Reilly, Matthew Dillon, Valentine Blake Dillon (Lord Mayor of Dublin),
Christopher Callinan, Lenehan, an Italian organgrinder, an unknown gentleman
in the Gaiety Theatre, Benjamin Dollard, Simon Dedalus, Andrew (Pisser)
Burke, Joseph Cuffe, Wisdom Hely, Alderman John Hooper, Dr Francis Brady,
Father Sebastian of Mount Argus, a bootblack at the General Post Office,
Hugh E. (Blazes) Boylan and so each and so on to nolast term.
What were his reflections concerning the last member of this series and
late occupant of the bed?
Reflections on his vigour (a bounder), corporal proportion (a
billsticker), commercial ability (a bester), impressionability (a boaster).
Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigour, corporal
proportion and commercial ability?
Because he had observed with augmenting frequency in the preceding
members of the same series the same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted
first with alarm, then with understanding, then with desire, finally with
fatigue, with alternating symptoms of epicene comprehension and
apprehension.
With what antagonistic sentiments were his subsequent reflections
affected?
Envy, jealousy, abnegation, equanimity.
Envy?
Of a bodily and mental male organism specially adapted for the
superincumbent posture of energetic human copulation and energetic piston
and cylinder movement necessary for the complete satisfaction of a constant
but not acute concupiscence resident in a bodily and mental female organism,
passive but not obtuse.
Jealousy?
Because a nature full and volatile in its free state, was alternately
the agent and reagent of attraction. Because action between agents and
reagents at all instants varied, with inverse proportion of increase and
decrease, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance. Because
the controlled contemplation of the fluctuation of attraction produced, if
desired, a fluctuation of pleasure.
Abnegation?
In virtue of a) acquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the
establishment of George Mesias, merchant tailor and outfitter, 5 Eden Quay,
b) hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and
reappropriated in person, c) comparative youth subject to impulses of
ambition and magnanimity, colleagual altruism and amorous egoism, d)
extraracial attraction, intraracial inhibition, supraracial prerogative, e)
an imminent provincial musical tour, common current expenses, net proceeds
divided.
Equanimity?
As natural as any and every natural act of a nature expressed or
understood executed in natured nature by natural creatures in accordance
with his, her and their natured natures, of dissimilar similarity. As not as
calamitous as a cataclysmic annihilation of the planet in consequence of
collision with a dark sun. As less reprehensible than theft, highway
robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false
pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money, betrayal
of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel,
blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high
seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice,
desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury,
intelligence with the king's enemies, impersonation, criminal assault,
manslaughter, wilful and premeditated murder. As not more abnormal than all
other altered processes of adaptation to altered conditions of existence,
resulting in a reciprocal equilibrium between the bodily organism and its
attendant circumstances, foods, beverages, acquired habits, indulged
inclinations, significant disease. As more than inevitable, irreparable.
Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimity?
>From outrage (matrimony) to outrage (adultery) there arose nought but
outrage (copulation) yet the matrimonial violator of the matrimonially
violated had not been outraged by the adulterous violator of the
adulterously violated.
What retribution, if any?
Assassination, never, as two wrongs did not make one right. Duel by
combat, no. Divorce, not now. Exposure by mechanical artifice (automatic
bed) or individual testimony (concealed ocular witness), not yet. Suit for
damages by legal influence or simulation of assault with evidence of
injuries sustained (selfinflicted), not impossibly. If any, positively,
connivance, introduction of emulation (material, a prosperous rival agency
of publicity: moral, a successful rival agent of intimacy), depreciation,
alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the one separated from the
other, protecting separator from both.
By what reflections did he, a conscious reactor against the void
incertitude, justify to himself his sentiments?
The preordained frangibility of the hymen, the presupposed
intangibility of the thing in itself: the incongruity and disproportion
between the selfprolonging tension of the thing proposed to be done and the
self abbreviating relaxation of the thing done: the fallaciously inferred
debility of the female, the muscularity of the male: the variations of
ethical codes: the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving no
alteration of sense of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as masculine
subject, monosyllabic onomatopic transitive verb with direct feminine
object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite
proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and
quasimonosyllabic onomatopic 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 this interrogation?
Negative: he omitted to mention the clandestine correspondence between
Martha Clifford and Henry Flower, the public altercation at, in and in the
vicinity of the licensed premises of Bernard Kiernan and Co, Limited, 8, 9
and 10 Little Britain street, the erotic provocation and response thereto
caused by the exhibitionism of Gertrude (Gerty), surname unknown. Positive:
he included mention of a performance by Mrs Bandman Palmer of Leah at the
Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street, an invitation to supper at
Wynn's (Murphy's) Hotel, 35, 36, and 37 Lower Abbey street, a volume of
peccaminous pornographical tendency entitled Sweets of Sin, anonymous,
author a gentleman of fashion, a temporary concussion caused by a falsely
calculated movement in the course of postcenal gymnastic display, the victim
(since completely recovered) being Stephen Dedalus, professor and author,
eldest surviving son of Simon Dedalus, of no fixed occupation, an
aeronautical feat executed by him (narrator) in the presence of a witness,
the professor and author aforesaid, with promptitude of decision and
gymnastic flexibility.
Was the narration otherwise unaltered by modifications?
Absolutely.
Which event or person emerged as the salient point of his narration?
Stephen Dedalus, professor and author.
What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were
perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the course
of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?
By the listener a limitation of fertility inasmuch as marriage had been
celebrated 1 calendar month after the 18th anniversary of her birth (8
September 1870), viz. 8 October, and consummated on the same date with
female issue born 15 June 1889, having been anticipatorily consummated on
the 10 September of the same year and complete carnal intercourse, with
ejaculation of semen within the natural female organ, having last taken
place 5 weeks previous, viz. 27 November 1893, to the birth on 29 December
1893 of second (and only male) issue, deceased 9 January 1894, aged 11 days,
there remained a period of 10 years, 5 months and 18 days during which
carnal intercourse had been incomplete, without ejaculation of semen within
the natural female organ. By the narrator a limitation of activity, mental
and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental intercourse between himself and
the listener had not taken place since the consummation of puberty,
indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, of the female issue of narrator and
listener, 15 September 1903, there remained a period of 9 months and 1 day
during which in consequence of a preestablished natural comprehension in
incomprehension between the consummated females (listener and issue),
complete corporal liberty of action had been circumscribed.
How?
By various reiterated feminine interrogation concerning the masculine
destination whither, the place where, the time at which, the duration for
which, the object with which in the case of temporary absences, projected or
effected.
What moved visibly above the listener's and the narrator's invisible
thoughts?
The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of
concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.
In what directions did listener and narrator lie?
Listener, S. E. by E.; Narrator, N. W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of
latitude, N. and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45ь to the
terrestrial equator.
In what state of rest or motion?
At rest relatively to themselves and to each other. In motion being
each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the
proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of
neverchanging space.
In what posture?
Listener: reclined semilaterally, left, left hand under head, right leg
extended in a straight line and resting on left leg, flexed, in the attitude
of Gea-Tellus, fulfilled, recumbent, big with seed. Narrator: reclined
laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the indexfinger and thumb
of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in the attitude
depicted on a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the childman weary,
the manchild in the womb.
Womb? Weary?
He rests. He has travelled.
With?
Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and
Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad
the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer
and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and
Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.
When?
Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's
auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad
the Brightdayler.
Where?
YES BECAUSE HE NEVER DID A THING LIKE THAT BEFORE AS ASK To get his
breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City arms hotel when he
used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to
make himself interesting to that old faggot Mrs Riordan that he thought he
had a great leg of and she never left us a farthing all for masses for
herself and her soul greatest miser ever was actually afraid to lay out 4d
for her methylated spirit telling me all her ailments she had too much old
chat in her about politics and earthquakes and the end of the world let us
have a bit of fun first God help the world if all the women were her sort
down on bathing-suits and lownecks of course nobody wanted her to wear I
suppose she was pious because no man would look at her twice I hope I'll
never be like her a wonder she didnt want us to cover our faces but she was
a welleducated woman certainly and her gabby talk about Mr Riordan here and
Mr Riordan there I suppose he was glad to get shut of her and her dog
smelling my fur and always edging to get up under my petticoats especially
then still I like that in him polite to old women like that and waiters and
beggars too hes not proud out of nothing but not always if ever he got
anything really serious the matter with him its much better for them go into
a hospital where everything is clean but I suppose Id have to dring it into
him for a month yes and then wed have a hospital nurse next thing on the
carpet have him staying there till they throw him out or a nun maybe like
the smutty photo he has shes as much a nun as Im not yes because theyre so
weak and puling when theyre sick they want a woman to get well if his nose
bleeds youd think it was O tragic and that dyinglooking one off the south
circular when he sprained his foot at the choir party at the sugarloaf
Mountain the day I wore that dress Miss Stack bringing him flowers the worst
old ones she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at all to get
into a mans bedroom with her old maids voice trying to imagine he was dying
on account of her to never see thy face again though he looked more like a
man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate
bandaging and dosing when he cut his toe with the razor paring his corns
afraid hed get blood poisoning but if it was a thing I was sick then wed see
what attention only of course the woman hides it not to give all the trouble
they do yes he came somewhere Im sure by his appetite anyway love its not or
hed be off his feed thinking of her so either it was one of those night
women if it was down there he was really and the hotel story he made up a
pack of lies to hide it planning it Hynes kept me who did I meet ah yes I
met do you remember Menton and who else who let me see that big babbyface I
saw him and he not long married flirting with a young girl at Pooles
Myriorama and turned my back on him when he slinked out looking quite
conscious what harm but he had the impudence to make up to me one time well
done to him mouth almighty and his boiled eyes of all the big stupoes I ever
met and thats called a solicitor only for I hate having a long wrangle in
bed or else if its not that its some little bitch or other he got in with
somewhere or picked up on the sly if they only knew him as well as I do yes
because the day before yesterday he was scribbling something a letter when I
came into the front room for the matches to show him Dignams death in the
paper as if something told me and he covered it up with the blottingpaper
pretending to be thinking about business so very probably that was it to
somebody who thinks she has a softy in him because all men get a bit like
that at his age especially getting on to forty he is now so as to wheedle
any money she can out of him no fool like an old fool and then the usual
kissing my bottom was to hide it not that I care two straws who he does it
with or knew before that way though Id like to find out so long as I dont
have the two of them under my nose all the time like that slut that Mary we
had in Ontario terrace padding out her false bottom to excite him bad enough
to get the smell of those painted women off him once or twice I had a
suspicion by getting him to come near me when I found the long hair on his
coat without that one when I went into the kitchen pretending he was
drinking water I woman is not enough for them it was all his fault of course
ruining servants then proposing that she could eat at our table on Christmas
if you please O no thank you not in my house stealing my potatoes and the
oysters 2/6 per doz going out to see her aunt if you please common robbery
so it was but I was sure he had something on with that one it takes me to
find out a thing like that he said you have no proof it was her proof O yes
her aunt was very fond of oysters but I told her what I thought of her
suggesting me to go out to be alone with her I wouldnt lower myself to spy
on them the garters I found in her room the Friday she was out that was
enough for me a little bit too much I saw too that her face swelled up on
her with temper when I gave her her weeks notice better do without them
altogether do out the rooms myself quicker only for the damn cooking and
throwing out the dirt I gave it to him anyhow either she or me leaves the
house I couldnt even touch him if I thought he was with a dirty barefaced
liar and sloven like that one denying it up to my face and singing about the
place in the W C too because she knew she was too well off yes because he
couldnt possibly do without it that long so he must do it somewhere and the
last time he came on my bottom when was it the night Boylan gave my hand a
great squeeze going along by the Tolka in my hand there steals another I
just pressed the back of his like that with my thumb to squeeze back singing
the young May Moon shes beaming love because he has an idea about him and me
hes not such a fool he said Im dining out and going to the Gaiety though Im
not going to give him the satisfaction in any case God knows hes change in a
way not to be always and ever wearing the same old hat unless] paid some
nicelooking boy to do it since I cant do it myself a young boy would like me
Id confuse him a little alone with him if we were Id let him see my garters
the new ones and make him turn red looking at him seduce him I know what
boys feel with that down on their cheek doing that frigging drawing out the
thing by the hour question and answer would you do this that and the other
with the coalman yes with a bishop yes I would because I told him about some
Dean or Bishop was sitting beside me in the jews Temples gardens when I was
knitting that woollen thing a stranger to Dublin what place was it and so on
about the monuments and he tired me out with statues encouraging him making
him worse than he is who is in your mind now tell me who are you thinking of
who is it tell me his name who tell me who the German Emperor is it yes
imagine Im him think of him can you feel him trying to make a whore of me
what he never will he ought to give it up now at this age of his life simply
ruination for any woman and no satisfaction in it pretending to like it till
( he comes and then finish it off myself anyway and it makes your lips pale
anyhow its done now once and for all with all the talk of the world about it
people make its only the first time after that its just the ordinary do it
and think no more about it why cant you kiss a man without going and
marrying him first you sometimes love to wildly when you feel that way so
nice all over you you cant help yourself I wish some man or other would take
me sometime when hes there and kiss me in his arms theres nothing like a
kiss long and hot down to your soul almost paralyses you then I hate that
confession when I used to go to Father Corrigan he touched me father and
what harm if he did where and I said on the canal bank like a fool but
whereabouts on your person my child on the leg behind high up was it yes
rather high up was it where you sit down yes O Lord couldnt he say bottom
right out and have done with it what has that got to do with it and did you
whatever way he put it I forget no father and I always think of the real
father what did he want to know for when I already confessed it to God he
had a nice fat hand the palm moist always I wouldnt mind feeling it neither
would he Id say by the bullneck in his horsecollar I wonder did he know me
in the box I could see his face he couldnt see mine of course hed never turn
or let on still his eyes were red when his father died theyre lost for a
woman of course must be terrible when a man cries let alone them Id like to
be embraced by one in his vestments and the smell of incense off him like
the pope besides theres no danger with a priest if youre married hes too
careful about himself then give something to H H the pope for a penance I
wonder was he satisfied with me one thing I didnt like his slapping me
behind going away so familiarly in the hall though I laughed Im not a horse
or an ass am I I suppose he was thinking of his father I wonder is he awake
thinking of me or dreaming am I in it who gave him that flower he said he
bought he smelt of some kind of drink not whisky or stout or perhaps the
sweety kind of paste they stick their bills up with some liquor Id like to
sip those richlooking green and yellow expensive drinks those stagedoor
johnnies drink with the opera hats I tasted one with my finger dipped out of
that American that had the squirrel talking stamps with father he had all he
could do to keep himself from falling asleep after the last time we took the
port and potted meat it had a fine salty taste yes because I felt lovely and
tired myself and fell asleep as sound as a top the moment I popped straight
into bed till that thunder woke me up as if the world was coming to an end
God be merciful to us I thought the heavens were coming down about us to
punish when I blessed myself and said a Hail Mary like those awful
thunderbolts in Gibraltar and they come and tell you theres no God what
could you do if it was running and rushing about nothing only make an act of
contrition the candle I lit that evening in Whitefriars street chapel for
the month of May see it brought its luck though hed scoff if he heard
because he never goes to church mass or meeting he says your soul you have
no soul inside only grey matter because he doesnt know what it is to have
one yes when I lit the lamp yes because he must have come 3 or 4 times with
that tremendous big red brute of a thing he has I thought the vein or
whatever the dickens they call it was going to burst though his nose is not
so big after I took off all my things with the blinds down after my hours
dressing and perfuming and combing it like iron or some kind of a thick
crowbar standing all the time he must have eaten oysters I think a few dozen
he was in great singing voice no I never in all my life felt anyone had one
the size of that to make you feel full up he must have eaten a whole sheep
after whats the idea making us like that with a big hole in the middle of us
like a Stallion driving it up into you because thats all they want out of
you with that determined vicious look in his eye I had to halfshut my eyes
still he hasnt such a tremendous amount of spunk in him when I made him pull
it out and do it on me considering how big it is so much the better in case
any of it wasnt washed out properly the last time I let him finish it in me
nice invention they made for women for him to get all the pleasure but if
someone gave them a touch of it themselves theyd know what I went through
with Milly nobody would believe cutting her teeth too and Mina Purefoys
husband give us a swing out of your whiskers filling her up with a child or
twins once a year as regular as the clock always with a smell of children
off her the one they called budgers or something like a nigger with a shock
of hair on it Jesusjack the child is a black the last time I was there a
squad of them falling over one another and bawling you couldnt hear your ear
supposed to be healthy not satisfied till they have us swollen out like
elephants or I dont know what supposing I risked having another not off him
though still if he was married I m sure hed have a fine strong child but I
dont know Poldy has more spunk in him yes thatd be awfully jolly I suppose
it was meeting Josie Powell and the funeral and thinking about me and Boylan
set him off well he can think what he likes now if thatll do him any good I
know they were spooning a bit when I came on the scene he was dancing and
sitting out with her the night of Georgina Simpsons housewarming and then he
wanted to ram it down my neck on account of not liking to see her a
wallflower that was why we had the standup row over politics he began it not
me when he said about Our Lord being a carpenter at last he made me cry of
course a woman is so sensitive about everything I was fuming with myself
after for giving in only for I knew he was gone on me and the first
socialist he said He was he annoyed me so much I couldnt put him into a
temper still he knows a lot of mixed up things especially about the body and
the insides I often wanted to study up that myself what we have inside us in
that family physician I could always hear his voice talking when the room
was crowded and watch him after that I pretended I had on a coolness with
her over him because he used to be a bit on the jealous side whenever he
asked who are you going to and I aid over to Floey and he made me the
present of lord Byrons poems and the three pairs of gloves so that finished
that I could quite easily get him to make it up any time I know how Id even
supposing he got in with her again and was going out to see her somewhere Id
know if he refused to eat the onions I know plenty of ways ask him to tuck
down the collar of my blouse or touch him with my veil and gloves on going
out 1 kiss then would send them all spinning however alright well seen then
let him go to her she of course would only be too delighted to pretend shes
mad in love with him that I wouldnt so much mind Id just go to her and ask
her do you love him and look her square in the eyes she couldnt fool me but
he might imagine he was and make a declaration with his plabbery kind of a
manner to her like he did to me though I had the devils own job to get it
out of him though I liked him for that it showed he could hold in and wasnt
to be got for the asking he was on the pop of asking me too the night in the
kitchen I was rolling the potato cake theres something I want to say to you
only for I put him off letting on I was in a temper with my hands and arms
full of pasty flour in any case I let out too much the night before talking
of dreams so I didnt want to let him know more than was good for him she
used to be always embracing me Josie whenever he was there meaning him of
course glauming me over and when I said I washed up and down as far as
possible asking me did you wash possible the women are always egging on to
that putting it on thick when hes there they know by his sly eye blinking a
bit putting on the indifferent when they come out with something the kind he
is what spoils him I dont wonder in the least because he was very handsome
at that time trying to look like lord Byron I said I liked though he was too
beautiful for a man and he was a little before we got engaged afterwards
though she didnt like it so much the day I was in fits of laughing with the
giggles I couldnt stop about all my hairpins falling one after another with
the mass of hair I had youre always in great humour she said yes because it
grigged her because she knew what it meant because I used to tell her a good
bit of what went on between us not all but just enough to make her mouth
water but that wasnt my fault she didnt darken the door much after we were
married I wonder what shes got like now after living with that dotty husband
of hers she had her face beginning to look drawn and run down the last time
I saw her she must have been just after a row with him because I saw on the
moment she was edging to draw down a conversation about husbands and talk
about him to run him down what was it she told me O yes that sometimes he
used to go to bed with his muddy boots on when the maggot takes him just
imagine having to get into bed with a thing like that that might murder you
any moment what a man well its not the one way everyone goes mad Poldy
anyway whatever he does always wipes his feet on the mat when he comes in
wet or shine and always blacks his own boots too and he always takes off his
hat when he comes up in the street like that and now hes going about in his
slippers to look for #10000 for a postcard up up O Sweetheart May wouldnt a
thing like that simply bore you stiff to extinction actually too stupid even
to take his boots off now what could you make of a man like that Id rather
die 20 times over than marry another of their sex of course hed never find
another woman like me to put up with him the way I do know me come sleep
with me yes and he knows that too at the bottom of his heart take that Mrs
Maybrick that poisoned her husband for what I wonder in love with some other
man yet it was found out on her wasnt she the downright villain to go and do
a thing like that of course some men can be dreadfully aggravating drive you
mad and always the worst word in the world what do they ask us to marry them
for if were so bad as all that comes to yes because they cant get on without
us white Arsenic she put in his tea off flypaper wasnt it I wonder why they
call it that if I asked him hed say its from the Greek leave us as wise as
we were before she must have been madly in love with the other fellow to run
the chance of being hanged O she didnt care if that was her nature what
could she do besides theyre not brutes enough to go and hang a woman surely
are they
theyre all so different Boylan talking about the shape of my foot he
establishment of affiliated business premises in the various centres
mentioned.
Had time equally but differently obliterated the memory of these
migrations in narrator and listener?
In narrator by the access of years and in consequence of the use of
narcotic toxin: in listener by the access of years and in consequence of the
action of distraction upon vicarious experiences.
What idiosyncrasies of the narrator were concomitant product$ of
amnesia?
Occasionally he ate without having previously removed his hat.
Occasionally he drank voraciously the juice of gooseberry fool from an
inclined plate. Occasionally he removed from his lips the traces of food by
means of a lacerated envelope or other accessible fragment of paper.
What two phenomena of senescence were more frequent?
The myopic digital calculation of coins, eructation consequent upon
repletion.
What object offered partial consolation for these reminiscences?
The endowment policy, the bank passbook, the certificate of the
possession of scrip.
Reduce Bloom by cross multiplication of reverses of fortune, from which
these supports protected him, and by elimination of all positive values to a
negligible negative irrational unreal quantity.
Successively, in descending helotic order: Poverty: that of the outdoor
hawker of imitation jewellery, the dun for the recovery of bad and doubtful
debts, the poor rate and deputy cess collector. Mendicancy: that of the
fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1s. 4d. in the #,
sandwichman, distributor of throwaways, nocturnal vagrant, insinuating
sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling, superannuated bailiff's man,
marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric public laughingstock
seated on bench of public park under discarded perforated umbrella.
Destitution: the inmate of Old Man's House (Royal Hospital), Kilmainham, the
inmate of Simpson's Hospital for reduced but respectable men permanently
disabled by gout or want of sight. Nadir of misery: the aged impotent
disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.
With which attendant indignities?
The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the
contempt of muscular males, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the
simulated ignorance of casual acquaintances, the latration of illegitimate
unlicensed vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable
missiles, worth little or nothing or less than nothing.
By what could such a situation be precluded?
By decease (change of state), by departure (change of place).
Which preferably?
The latter, by the line of least resistance.
What considerations rendered it not entirely undesirable?
Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects.
The habit of independent purchase increasingly cultivated. The necessity to
counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest.
What considerations rendered it not irrational?
The parties concerned, uniting, had increased and multiplied, which
being done, offspring produced and educed to maturity, the parties, if now
disunited were obliged to reunite for increase and multiplication, which was
absurd, to form by reunion the original couple of uniting parties, which was
impossible.
What considerations rendered it desirable?
The attractive character of certain localities in Ireland and abroad,
as represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in
special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and hachures.
In Ireland?
The cliffs of Moher, the windy wilds of Connemara, lough Neagh with
submerged petrified city, the Giant's Causeway, Fort Camden and Fort
Carlisle, the Golden Vale of Tipperary, the islands of Aran, the pastures of
royal Meath, Brigid's elm in Kildare, the Queen's Island shipyard in
Belfast, the Salmon Leap, the lakes of Killarney.
Abroad?
Ceylon (with spicegardens supplying tea to Thomas Kernan, agent for
Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 2 Mincing lane, London, E. C., 5 Dame street,
Dublin), Jerusalem, the holy city (with mosque of Omar and gate of Damascus,
goal of aspiration), the straits of Gibraltar (the unique birthplace of
Marion Tweedy), the Parthenon (containing statues, nude Grecian divinities),
the Wall street money market (which controlled international finance), the
Plaza de Toros at La Linea, Spain (where O'Hara of the camerons had slain
the bull), Niagara (over which no human being had passed with impunity), the
land of the Eskimos (eaters of soap), the forbidden country of Thibet (from
which no traveller returns), the bay of Naples (to see which was to die),
the Dead Sea.
Under what guidance, following what signs?
At sea, septentrional, by night the polestar, located at the point of
intersection of the right line from beta to alpha in Ursa Major produced and
divided externally at omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle
formed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha delta of Ursa
Major. On land, meridional, a bispherical moon, revealed in imperfect
varying phases of lunation through the posterior interstice of the
imperfectly occluded skirt of a carnose negligent perambulating female, a
pillar of the cloud by day.
What public advertisement would divulge the occultation of the
departed?
#5 reward lost, stolen or strayed from his residence 7 Eccles street,
missing gent about 40, answering to the name of Bloom, Leopold (Poldy),
height 5 ft 9 1/2 inches, full build, olive complexion, may have since grown
a beard, when last seen was wearing a black suit. Above sum will be paid for
information leading to his discovery.
What universal binomial denominations would be his as entity and
nonentity?
Assumed by any or known to none. Everyman or Noman.
What tributes his?
Honour and gifts of strangers, the friends of Everyman. A nymph
immortal, beauty, the bride of Noman.
Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear?
Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his
cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic
planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space,
passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events. Somewhere
imperceptibly he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the
summons of recall. Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the
Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the
constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination
return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark
crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition)
surpassing those of Rothschild or of the silver King.
What would render such return irrational?
An unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through
reversible space and an exodus and return in space through irreversible
time.
What play of forces, inducing inertia, rendered departure undesirable?
The lateness of the hour, rendering procrastinatory: the obscurity of
the night, rendering invisible: the uncertainty of thoroughfares, rendering
perilous: the necessity for repose, obviating movement: the proximity of an
occupied bed, obviating research: the anticipation of warmth (human)
tempered with coolness (linen), obviating desire and rendering desirable:
the statue of Narcissus, sound without echo, desired desire.
What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an
unoccupied bed?
The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human
(mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of
matutinal contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case
of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring
mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section).
What past consecutive causes, before rising preapprehended, of
accumulated fatigue did Bloom, before rising, silently recapitulate?
The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion
and premeditative defecation (holy of holies): the bath (rite of John): the
funeral (rite of Samuel): the advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and
Thummin): the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchizedek): the visit to museum
and national library (holy place): the bookhunt along Bedford row,
Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay (Simchath Torah): the music in the Ormond
Hotel (Shira Shirim): the altercation with a truculent troglodyte in Bernard
Kiernan's premises (holocaust): a blank period of time including a cardrive,
a visit to a house of mourning, a leavetaking (wilderness): the eroticism
produced by feminine exhibitionism (rite of Onan): the prolonged delivery of
Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering): the visit to the disorderly house of Mrs
Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street, lower, and subsequent brawl and chance medley
in Beaver street (Armageddon): nocturnal perambulation to and from the
cabman's shelter, Butt Bridge (atonement).
What selfimposed enigma did Bloom about to rise in order to go so as to
conclude lest he should not conclude involuntarily apprehend?
The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by
the insentient material of a strainveined timber table.
What selfinvolved enigma did Bloom risen, going, gathering
multicoloured multiform multitudinous garments, voluntarily apprehending,
not comprehend?
Who was M'Intosh?
What selfevident enigma pondered with desultory constancy during 30
years did Bloom now, having effected natural obscurity by the extinction of
artificial light, silently suddenly comprehend?
Where was Moses when the candle went out?
What imperfections in a perfect day did Bloom, walking, silently,
successively, enumerate?
A provisional failure to obtain renewal of an advertisement, to obtain
a certain quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan (agent for Pulbrook, Robertson
and Co, 5 Dame street, Dublin, and 2 Mincing lane, London, E. C.), to
certify the presence or absence of posterior rectal orifice in the case of
Hellenic female divinities, to obtain admission (gratuitous or paid) to the
performance of Leah by Mrs Bandman Palmer at the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48,
49, South King street.
What impression of an absent face did Bloom, arrested, silently recall?
The face of her father, the late Major Brian Cooper Tweedy, Royal
Dublin Fusiliers, of Gibraltar and Rehoboth, Dolphin's Barn.
What recurrent impressions of the same were possible by the hypothesis?
Retreating, at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, Amiens
street, with constant uniform acceleration, along parallel lines meeting at
infinity, if produced: along parallel lines, reproduced from infinity, with
constant uniform retardation, at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway,
Amiens street, returning.
What miscellaneous effects of female personal wearing apparel were
perceived by him?
A pair of new inodorous halfsilk black ladies' hose, a pair of new
violet garters, a pair of outsize ladies' drawers of India mull, cut on
generous lines, redolent of opoponax, jessamine and Muratti's Turkish
cigarettes and containing a long bright steel safety pin, folded
curvilinear, a camisole of baptiste with thin lace border, an accordion
underskirt of blue silk moirette, all these objects being disposed
irregularly on the top of a rectangular trunk, quadruple battened, having
capped corners, with multicoloured labels, initialled on its fore side in
white lettering B. C. T. (Brian Cooper Tweedy).
What impersonal objects were perceived?
A commode, one leg fractured, totally covered by square cretonne
cutting, apple design, on which rested a lady's black straw hat. Orangekeyed
ware, bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware and ironmongery
manufacturer, 21, 22, 23 Moore street, disposed irregularly on the washstand
and floor, and consisting of basin, soapdish and brushtray (on the
washstand, together), pitcher and night article (on the floor, separate).
Bloom's acts?
He deposited the articles of clothing on a chair, removed his remaining
articles of clothing, took from beneath the bolster at the head of the bed a
folded long white nightshirt, inserted his head and arms into the proper
apertures of the nightshirt, removed a pillow from the head to the foot of
the bed, prepared the bedlinen accordingly and entered the bed.
How?
With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode (his own or
not his own): with solicitude, the snakespiral springs of the mattress being
old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous under
stress and strain: prudently, as entering a lair or ambush of lust or adder:
lightly, the less to disturb: reverently, the bed of conception and of
birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of marriage, of sleep and
of death.
What did his limbs, when gradually extended, encounter?
New clean bedlinen, additional odours, the presence of a human form,
female, hers, the imprint of a human form, male, not his, some crumbs, some
flakes of potted meat, recooked, which he removed.
If he had smiled why would he have smiled?
To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to
enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the
first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last,
only and alone, whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a
series originating In and repeated to infinity.
What preceding series?
Assuming Mulvey to be the first term of his series, Penrose, Bartell
d'Arcy, professor Goodwin, Julius Mastiansky, John Henry Menton, Father
Bernard Corrigan, a farmer at the Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show, Maggot
O'Reilly, Matthew Dillon, Valentine Blake Dillon (Lord Mayor of Dublin),
Christopher Callinan, Lenehan, an Italian organgrinder, an unknown gentleman
in the Gaiety Theatre, Benjamin Dollard, Simon Dedalus, Andrew (Pisser)
Burke, Joseph Cuffe, Wisdom Hely, Alderman John Hooper, Dr Francis Brady,
Father Sebastian of Mount Argus, a bootblack at the General Post Office,
Hugh E. (Blazes) Boylan and so each and so on to nolast term.
What were his reflections concerning the last member of this series and
late occupant of the bed?
Reflections on his vigour (a bounder), corporal proportion (a
billsticker), commercial ability (a bester), impressionability (a boaster).
Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigour, corporal
proportion and commercial ability?
Because he had observed with augmenting frequency in the preceding
members of the same series the same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted
first with alarm, then with understanding, then with desire, finally with
fatigue, with alternating symptoms of epicene comprehension and
apprehension.
With what antagonistic sentiments were his subsequent reflections
affected?
Envy, jealousy, abnegation, equanimity.
Envy?
Of a bodily and mental male organism specially adapted for the
superincumbent posture of energetic human copulation and energetic piston
and cylinder movement necessary for the complete satisfaction of a constant
but not acute concupiscence resident in a bodily and mental female organism,
passive but not obtuse.
Jealousy?
Because a nature full and volatile in its free state, was alternately
the agent and reagent of attraction. Because action between agents and
reagents at all instants varied, with inverse proportion of increase and
decrease, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance. Because
the controlled contemplation of the fluctuation of attraction produced, if
desired, a fluctuation of pleasure.
Abnegation?
In virtue of a) acquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the
establishment of George Mesias, merchant tailor and outfitter, 5 Eden Quay,
b) hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and
reappropriated in person, c) comparative youth subject to impulses of
ambition and magnanimity, colleagual altruism and amorous egoism, d)
extraracial attraction, intraracial inhibition, supraracial prerogative, e)
an imminent provincial musical tour, common current expenses, net proceeds
divided.
Equanimity?
As natural as any and every natural act of a nature expressed or
understood executed in natured nature by natural creatures in accordance
with his, her and their natured natures, of dissimilar similarity. As not as
calamitous as a cataclysmic annihilation of the planet in consequence of
collision with a dark sun. As less reprehensible than theft, highway
robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false
pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money, betrayal
of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel,
blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high
seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice,
desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury,
intelligence with the king's enemies, impersonation, criminal assault,
manslaughter, wilful and premeditated murder. As not more abnormal than all
other altered processes of adaptation to altered conditions of existence,
resulting in a reciprocal equilibrium between the bodily organism and its
attendant circumstances, foods, beverages, acquired habits, indulged
inclinations, significant disease. As more than inevitable, irreparable.
Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimity?
>From outrage (matrimony) to outrage (adultery) there arose nought but
outrage (copulation) yet the matrimonial violator of the matrimonially
violated had not been outraged by the adulterous violator of the
adulterously violated.
What retribution, if any?
Assassination, never, as two wrongs did not make one right. Duel by
combat, no. Divorce, not now. Exposure by mechanical artifice (automatic
bed) or individual testimony (concealed ocular witness), not yet. Suit for
damages by legal influence or simulation of assault with evidence of
injuries sustained (selfinflicted), not impossibly. If any, positively,
connivance, introduction of emulation (material, a prosperous rival agency
of publicity: moral, a successful rival agent of intimacy), depreciation,
alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the one separated from the
other, protecting separator from both.
By what reflections did he, a conscious reactor against the void
incertitude, justify to himself his sentiments?
The preordained frangibility of the hymen, the presupposed
intangibility of the thing in itself: the incongruity and disproportion
between the selfprolonging tension of the thing proposed to be done and the
self abbreviating relaxation of the thing done: the fallaciously inferred
debility of the female, the muscularity of the male: the variations of
ethical codes: the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving no
alteration of sense of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as masculine
subject, monosyllabic onomatop
object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite
proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and
quasimonosyllabic onomatop
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 this interrogation?
Negative: he omitted to mention the clandestine correspondence between
Martha Clifford and Henry Flower, the public altercation at, in and in the
vicinity of the licensed premises of Bernard Kiernan and Co, Limited, 8, 9
and 10 Little Britain street, the erotic provocation and response thereto
caused by the exhibitionism of Gertrude (Gerty), surname unknown. Positive:
he included mention of a performance by Mrs Bandman Palmer of Leah at the
Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street, an invitation to supper at
Wynn's (Murphy's) Hotel, 35, 36, and 37 Lower Abbey street, a volume of
peccaminous pornographical tendency entitled Sweets of Sin, anonymous,
author a gentleman of fashion, a temporary concussion caused by a falsely
calculated movement in the course of postcenal gymnastic display, the victim
(since completely recovered) being Stephen Dedalus, professor and author,
eldest surviving son of Simon Dedalus, of no fixed occupation, an
aeronautical feat executed by him (narrator) in the presence of a witness,
the professor and author aforesaid, with promptitude of decision and
gymnastic flexibility.
Was the narration otherwise unaltered by modifications?
Absolutely.
Which event or person emerged as the salient point of his narration?
Stephen Dedalus, professor and author.
What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were
perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the course
of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?
By the listener a limitation of fertility inasmuch as marriage had been
celebrated 1 calendar month after the 18th anniversary of her birth (8
September 1870), viz. 8 October, and consummated on the same date with
female issue born 15 June 1889, having been anticipatorily consummated on
the 10 September of the same year and complete carnal intercourse, with
ejaculation of semen within the natural female organ, having last taken
place 5 weeks previous, viz. 27 November 1893, to the birth on 29 December
1893 of second (and only male) issue, deceased 9 January 1894, aged 11 days,
there remained a period of 10 years, 5 months and 18 days during which
carnal intercourse had been incomplete, without ejaculation of semen within
the natural female organ. By the narrator a limitation of activity, mental
and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental intercourse between himself and
the listener had not taken place since the consummation of puberty,
indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, of the female issue of narrator and
listener, 15 September 1903, there remained a period of 9 months and 1 day
during which in consequence of a preestablished natural comprehension in
incomprehension between the consummated females (listener and issue),
complete corporal liberty of action had been circumscribed.
How?
By various reiterated feminine interrogation concerning the masculine
destination whither, the place where, the time at which, the duration for
which, the object with which in the case of temporary absences, projected or
effected.
What moved visibly above the listener's and the narrator's invisible
thoughts?
The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of
concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.
In what directions did listener and narrator lie?
Listener, S. E. by E.; Narrator, N. W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of
latitude, N. and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45ь to the
terrestrial equator.
In what state of rest or motion?
At rest relatively to themselves and to each other. In motion being
each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the
proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of
neverchanging space.
In what posture?
Listener: reclined semilaterally, left, left hand under head, right leg
extended in a straight line and resting on left leg, flexed, in the attitude
of Gea-Tellus, fulfilled, recumbent, big with seed. Narrator: reclined
laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the indexfinger and thumb
of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in the attitude
depicted on a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the childman weary,
the manchild in the womb.
Womb? Weary?
He rests. He has travelled.
With?
Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and
Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad
the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer
and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and
Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.
When?
Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's
auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad
the Brightdayler.
Where?
YES BECAUSE HE NEVER DID A THING LIKE THAT BEFORE AS ASK To get his
breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City arms hotel when he
used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to
make himself interesting to that old faggot Mrs Riordan that he thought he
had a great leg of and she never left us a farthing all for masses for
herself and her soul greatest miser ever was actually afraid to lay out 4d
for her methylated spirit telling me all her ailments she had too much old
chat in her about politics and earthquakes and the end of the world let us
have a bit of fun first God help the world if all the women were her sort
down on bathing-suits and lownecks of course nobody wanted her to wear I
suppose she was pious because no man would look at her twice I hope I'll
never be like her a wonder she didnt want us to cover our faces but she was
a welleducated woman certainly and her gabby talk about Mr Riordan here and
Mr Riordan there I suppose he was glad to get shut of her and her dog
smelling my fur and always edging to get up under my petticoats especially
then still I like that in him polite to old women like that and waiters and
beggars too hes not proud out of nothing but not always if ever he got
anything really serious the matter with him its much better for them go into
a hospital where everything is clean but I suppose Id have to dring it into
him for a month yes and then wed have a hospital nurse next thing on the
carpet have him staying there till they throw him out or a nun maybe like
the smutty photo he has shes as much a nun as Im not yes because theyre so
weak and puling when theyre sick they want a woman to get well if his nose
bleeds youd think it was O tragic and that dyinglooking one off the south
circular when he sprained his foot at the choir party at the sugarloaf
Mountain the day I wore that dress Miss Stack bringing him flowers the worst
old ones she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at all to get
into a mans bedroom with her old maids voice trying to imagine he was dying
on account of her to never see thy face again though he looked more like a
man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate
bandaging and dosing when he cut his toe with the razor paring his corns
afraid hed get blood poisoning but if it was a thing I was sick then wed see
what attention only of course the woman hides it not to give all the trouble
they do yes he came somewhere Im sure by his appetite anyway love its not or
hed be off his feed thinking of her so either it was one of those night
women if it was down there he was really and the hotel story he made up a
pack of lies to hide it planning it Hynes kept me who did I meet ah yes I
met do you remember Menton and who else who let me see that big babbyface I
saw him and he not long married flirting with a young girl at Pooles
Myriorama and turned my back on him when he slinked out looking quite
conscious what harm but he had the impudence to make up to me one time well
done to him mouth almighty and his boiled eyes of all the big stupoes I ever
met and thats called a solicitor only for I hate having a long wrangle in
bed or else if its not that its some little bitch or other he got in with
somewhere or picked up on the sly if they only knew him as well as I do yes
because the day before yesterday he was scribbling something a letter when I
came into the front room for the matches to show him Dignams death in the
paper as if something told me and he covered it up with the blottingpaper
pretending to be thinking about business so very probably that was it to
somebody who thinks she has a softy in him because all men get a bit like
that at his age especially getting on to forty he is now so as to wheedle
any money she can out of him no fool like an old fool and then the usual
kissing my bottom was to hide it not that I care two straws who he does it
with or knew before that way though Id like to find out so long as I dont
have the two of them under my nose all the time like that slut that Mary we
had in Ontario terrace padding out her false bottom to excite him bad enough
to get the smell of those painted women off him once or twice I had a
suspicion by getting him to come near me when I found the long hair on his
coat without that one when I went into the kitchen pretending he was
drinking water I woman is not enough for them it was all his fault of course
ruining servants then proposing that she could eat at our table on Christmas
if you please O no thank you not in my house stealing my potatoes and the
oysters 2/6 per doz going out to see her aunt if you please common robbery
so it was but I was sure he had something on with that one it takes me to
find out a thing like that he said you have no proof it was her proof O yes
her aunt was very fond of oysters but I told her what I thought of her
suggesting me to go out to be alone with her I wouldnt lower myself to spy
on them the garters I found in her room the Friday she was out that was
enough for me a little bit too much I saw too that her face swelled up on
her with temper when I gave her her weeks notice better do without them
altogether do out the rooms myself quicker only for the damn cooking and
throwing out the dirt I gave it to him anyhow either she or me leaves the
house I couldnt even touch him if I thought he was with a dirty barefaced
liar and sloven like that one denying it up to my face and singing about the
place in the W C too because she knew she was too well off yes because he
couldnt possibly do without it that long so he must do it somewhere and the
last time he came on my bottom when was it the night Boylan gave my hand a
great squeeze going along by the Tolka in my hand there steals another I
just pressed the back of his like that with my thumb to squeeze back singing
the young May Moon shes beaming love because he has an idea about him and me
hes not such a fool he said Im dining out and going to the Gaiety though Im
not going to give him the satisfaction in any case God knows hes change in a
way not to be always and ever wearing the same old hat unless] paid some
nicelooking boy to do it since I cant do it myself a young boy would like me
Id confuse him a little alone with him if we were Id let him see my garters
the new ones and make him turn red looking at him seduce him I know what
boys feel with that down on their cheek doing that frigging drawing out the
thing by the hour question and answer would you do this that and the other
with the coalman yes with a bishop yes I would because I told him about some
Dean or Bishop was sitting beside me in the jews Temples gardens when I was
knitting that woollen thing a stranger to Dublin what place was it and so on
about the monuments and he tired me out with statues encouraging him making
him worse than he is who is in your mind now tell me who are you thinking of
who is it tell me his name who tell me who the German Emperor is it yes
imagine Im him think of him can you feel him trying to make a whore of me
what he never will he ought to give it up now at this age of his life simply
ruination for any woman and no satisfaction in it pretending to like it till
( he comes and then finish it off myself anyway and it makes your lips pale
anyhow its done now once and for all with all the talk of the world about it
people make its only the first time after that its just the ordinary do it
and think no more about it why cant you kiss a man without going and
marrying him first you sometimes love to wildly when you feel that way so
nice all over you you cant help yourself I wish some man or other would take
me sometime when hes there and kiss me in his arms theres nothing like a
kiss long and hot down to your soul almost paralyses you then I hate that
confession when I used to go to Father Corrigan he touched me father and
what harm if he did where and I said on the canal bank like a fool but
whereabouts on your person my child on the leg behind high up was it yes
rather high up was it where you sit down yes O Lord couldnt he say bottom
right out and have done with it what has that got to do with it and did you
whatever way he put it I forget no father and I always think of the real
father what did he want to know for when I already confessed it to God he
had a nice fat hand the palm moist always I wouldnt mind feeling it neither
would he Id say by the bullneck in his horsecollar I wonder did he know me
in the box I could see his face he couldnt see mine of course hed never turn
or let on still his eyes were red when his father died theyre lost for a
woman of course must be terrible when a man cries let alone them Id like to
be embraced by one in his vestments and the smell of incense off him like
the pope besides theres no danger with a priest if youre married hes too
careful about himself then give something to H H the pope for a penance I
wonder was he satisfied with me one thing I didnt like his slapping me
behind going away so familiarly in the hall though I laughed Im not a horse
or an ass am I I suppose he was thinking of his father I wonder is he awake
thinking of me or dreaming am I in it who gave him that flower he said he
bought he smelt of some kind of drink not whisky or stout or perhaps the
sweety kind of paste they stick their bills up with some liquor Id like to
sip those richlooking green and yellow expensive drinks those stagedoor
johnnies drink with the opera hats I tasted one with my finger dipped out of
that American that had the squirrel talking stamps with father he had all he
could do to keep himself from falling asleep after the last time we took the
port and potted meat it had a fine salty taste yes because I felt lovely and
tired myself and fell asleep as sound as a top the moment I popped straight
into bed till that thunder woke me up as if the world was coming to an end
God be merciful to us I thought the heavens were coming down about us to
punish when I blessed myself and said a Hail Mary like those awful
thunderbolts in Gibraltar and they come and tell you theres no God what
could you do if it was running and rushing about nothing only make an act of
contrition the candle I lit that evening in Whitefriars street chapel for
the month of May see it brought its luck though hed scoff if he heard
because he never goes to church mass or meeting he says your soul you have
no soul inside only grey matter because he doesnt know what it is to have
one yes when I lit the lamp yes because he must have come 3 or 4 times with
that tremendous big red brute of a thing he has I thought the vein or
whatever the dickens they call it was going to burst though his nose is not
so big after I took off all my things with the blinds down after my hours
dressing and perfuming and combing it like iron or some kind of a thick
crowbar standing all the time he must have eaten oysters I think a few dozen
he was in great singing voice no I never in all my life felt anyone had one
the size of that to make you feel full up he must have eaten a whole sheep
after whats the idea making us like that with a big hole in the middle of us
like a Stallion driving it up into you because thats all they want out of
you with that determined vicious look in his eye I had to halfshut my eyes
still he hasnt such a tremendous amount of spunk in him when I made him pull
it out and do it on me considering how big it is so much the better in case
any of it wasnt washed out properly the last time I let him finish it in me
nice invention they made for women for him to get all the pleasure but if
someone gave them a touch of it themselves theyd know what I went through
with Milly nobody would believe cutting her teeth too and Mina Purefoys
husband give us a swing out of your whiskers filling her up with a child or
twins once a year as regular as the clock always with a smell of children
off her the one they called budgers or something like a nigger with a shock
of hair on it Jesusjack the child is a black the last time I was there a
squad of them falling over one another and bawling you couldnt hear your ear
supposed to be healthy not satisfied till they have us swollen out like
elephants or I dont know what supposing I risked having another not off him
though still if he was married I m sure hed have a fine strong child but I
dont know Poldy has more spunk in him yes thatd be awfully jolly I suppose
it was meeting Josie Powell and the funeral and thinking about me and Boylan
set him off well he can think what he likes now if thatll do him any good I
know they were spooning a bit when I came on the scene he was dancing and
sitting out with her the night of Georgina Simpsons housewarming and then he
wanted to ram it down my neck on account of not liking to see her a
wallflower that was why we had the standup row over politics he began it not
me when he said about Our Lord being a carpenter at last he made me cry of
course a woman is so sensitive about everything I was fuming with myself
after for giving in only for I knew he was gone on me and the first
socialist he said He was he annoyed me so much I couldnt put him into a
temper still he knows a lot of mixed up things especially about the body and
the insides I often wanted to study up that myself what we have inside us in
that family physician I could always hear his voice talking when the room
was crowded and watch him after that I pretended I had on a coolness with
her over him because he used to be a bit on the jealous side whenever he
asked who are you going to and I aid over to Floey and he made me the
present of lord Byrons poems and the three pairs of gloves so that finished
that I could quite easily get him to make it up any time I know how Id even
supposing he got in with her again and was going out to see her somewhere Id
know if he refused to eat the onions I know plenty of ways ask him to tuck
down the collar of my blouse or touch him with my veil and gloves on going
out 1 kiss then would send them all spinning however alright well seen then
let him go to her she of course would only be too delighted to pretend shes
mad in love with him that I wouldnt so much mind Id just go to her and ask
her do you love him and look her square in the eyes she couldnt fool me but
he might imagine he was and make a declaration with his plabbery kind of a
manner to her like he did to me though I had the devils own job to get it
out of him though I liked him for that it showed he could hold in and wasnt
to be got for the asking he was on the pop of asking me too the night in the
kitchen I was rolling the potato cake theres something I want to say to you
only for I put him off letting on I was in a temper with my hands and arms
full of pasty flour in any case I let out too much the night before talking
of dreams so I didnt want to let him know more than was good for him she
used to be always embracing me Josie whenever he was there meaning him of
course glauming me over and when I said I washed up and down as far as
possible asking me did you wash possible the women are always egging on to
that putting it on thick when hes there they know by his sly eye blinking a
bit putting on the indifferent when they come out with something the kind he
is what spoils him I dont wonder in the least because he was very handsome
at that time trying to look like lord Byron I said I liked though he was too
beautiful for a man and he was a little before we got engaged afterwards
though she didnt like it so much the day I was in fits of laughing with the
giggles I couldnt stop about all my hairpins falling one after another with
the mass of hair I had youre always in great humour she said yes because it
grigged her because she knew what it meant because I used to tell her a good
bit of what went on between us not all but just enough to make her mouth
water but that wasnt my fault she didnt darken the door much after we were
married I wonder what shes got like now after living with that dotty husband
of hers she had her face beginning to look drawn and run down the last time
I saw her she must have been just after a row with him because I saw on the
moment she was edging to draw down a conversation about husbands and talk
about him to run him down what was it she told me O yes that sometimes he
used to go to bed with his muddy boots on when the maggot takes him just
imagine having to get into bed with a thing like that that might murder you
any moment what a man well its not the one way everyone goes mad Poldy
anyway whatever he does always wipes his feet on the mat when he comes in
wet or shine and always blacks his own boots too and he always takes off his
hat when he comes up in the street like that and now hes going about in his
slippers to look for #10000 for a postcard up up O Sweetheart May wouldnt a
thing like that simply bore you stiff to extinction actually too stupid even
to take his boots off now what could you make of a man like that Id rather
die 20 times over than marry another of their sex of course hed never find
another woman like me to put up with him the way I do know me come sleep
with me yes and he knows that too at the bottom of his heart take that Mrs
Maybrick that poisoned her husband for what I wonder in love with some other
man yet it was found out on her wasnt she the downright villain to go and do
a thing like that of course some men can be dreadfully aggravating drive you
mad and always the worst word in the world what do they ask us to marry them
for if were so bad as all that comes to yes because they cant get on without
us white Arsenic she put in his tea off flypaper wasnt it I wonder why they
call it that if I asked him hed say its from the Greek leave us as wise as
we were before she must have been madly in love with the other fellow to run
the chance of being hanged O she didnt care if that was her nature what
could she do besides theyre not brutes enough to go and hang a woman surely
are they
theyre all so different Boylan talking about the shape of my foot he