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
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, abnega