In 1884 with Owen Goldberg and Cecil Turnbull at night on public

thoroughfares between Longwood avenue and Leonard’s corner and

Leonard’s corner and Synge street and Synge street and Bloomfield

avenue. In 1885 with Percy Apjohn in the evenings, reclined against the

wall between Gibraltar villa and Bloomfield house in Crumlin, barony of

Uppercross. In 1886 occasionally with casual acquaintances and

prospective purchasers on doorsteps, in front parlours, in third class

railway carriages of suburban lines. In 1888 frequently with major

Brian Tweedy and his daughter Miss Marion Tweedy, together and

separately on the lounge in Matthew Dillon’s house in Roundtown. Once

in 1892 and once in 1893 with Julius (Juda) Mastiansky, on both

occasions in the parlour of his (Bloom’s) house in Lombard street,

west.

What reflection concerning the irregular sequence of dates 1884, 1885,

1886, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1904 did Bloom make before their arrival at

their destination?

He reflected that the progressive extension of the field of individual

development and experience was regressively accompanied by a

restriction of the converse domain of interindividual relations.

As in what ways?

From inexistence to existence he came to many and was as one received:

existence with existence he was with any as any with any: from

existence to nonexistence gone he would be by all as none perceived.

What act did Bloom make on their arrival at their destination?

At the housesteps of the 4th of the equidifferent uneven numbers,

number 7 Eccles street, he inserted his hand mechanically into the back

pocket of his trousers to obtain his latchkey.

Was it there?

It was in the corresponding pocket of the trousers which he had worn on

the day but one preceding.

Why was he doubly irritated?

Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded

himself twice not to forget.

What were then the alternatives before the, premeditatedly

(respectively) and inadvertently, keyless couple?

To enter or not to enter. To knock or not to knock.

Bloom’s decision?

A stratagem. Resting his feet on the dwarf wall, he climbed over the

area railings, compressed his hat on his head, grasped two points at

the lower union of rails and stiles, lowered his body gradually by its

length of five feet nine inches and a half to within two feet ten

inches of the area pavement and allowed his body to move freely in

space by separating himself from the railings and crouching in

preparation for the impact of the fall.

Did he fall?

By his body’s known weight of eleven stone and four pounds in

avoirdupois measure, as certified by the graduated machine for

periodical selfweighing in the premises of Francis Froedman,

pharmaceutical chemist of 19 Frederick street, north, on the last feast

of the Ascension, to wit, the twelfth day of May of the bissextile year

one thousand nine hundred and four of the christian era (jewish era

five thousand six hundred and sixtyfour, mohammadan era one thousand

three hundred and twentytwo), golden number 5, epact 13, solar cycle 9,

dominical letters C B, Roman indiction 2, Julian period 6617, MCMIV.

Did he rise uninjured by concussion?

Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by

the impact, raised the latch of the area door by the exertion of force

at its freely moving flange and by leverage of the first kind applied

at its fulcrum, gained retarded access to the kitchen through the

subadjacent scullery, ignited a lucifer match by friction, set free

inflammable coal gas by turning on the ventcock, lit a high flame

which, by regulating, he reduced to quiescent candescence and lit

finally a portable candle.

What discrete succession of images did Stephen meanwhile perceive?

Reclined against the area railings he perceived through the transparent

kitchen panes a man regulating a gasflame of 14 CP, a man lighting a

candle of 1 CP, a man removing in turn each of his two boots, a man

leaving the kitchen holding a candle.

Did the man reappear elsewhere?

After a lapse of four minutes the glimmer of his candle was discernible

through the semitransparent semicircular glass fanlight over the

halldoor. The halldoor turned gradually on its hinges. In the open

space of the doorway the man reappeared without his hat, with his

candle.

Did Stephen obey his sign?

Yes, entering softly, he helped to close and chain the door and

followed softly along the hallway the man’s back and listed feet and

lighted candle past a lighted crevice of doorway on the left and

carefully down a turning staircase of more than five steps into the

kitchen of Bloom’s house.

What did Bloom do?

He extinguished the candle by a sharp expiration of breath upon its

flame, drew two spoonseat deal chairs to the hearthstone, one for

Stephen with its back to the area window, the other for himself when

necessary, knelt on one knee, composed in the grate a pyre of crosslaid

resintipped sticks and various coloured papers and irregular polygons

of best Abram coal at twentyone shillings a ton from the yard of Messrs

Flower and M’Donald of 14 D’Olier street, kindled it at three

projecting points of paper with one ignited lucifer match, thereby

releasing the potential energy contained in the fuel by allowing its

carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union with the oxygen

of the air.

Of what similar apparitions did Stephen think?

Of others elsewhere in other times who, kneeling on one knee or on two,

had kindled fires for him, of Brother Michael in the infirmary of the

college of the Society of Jesus at Clongowes Wood, Sallins, in the

county of Kildare: of his father, Simon Dedalus, in an unfurnished room

of his first residence in Dublin, number thirteen Fitzgibbon street: of

his godmother Miss Kate Morkan in the house of her dying sister Miss

Julia Morkan at 15 Usher’s Island: of his aunt Sara, wife of Richie

(Richard) Goulding, in the kitchen of their lodgings at 62 Clanbrassil

street: of his mother Mary, wife of Simon Dedalus, in the kitchen of

number twelve North Richmond street on the morning of the feast of

Saint Francis Xavier 1898: of the dean of studies, Father Butt, in the

physics’ theatre of university College, 16 Stephen’s Green, north: of

his sister Dilly (Delia) in his father’s house in Cabra.

What did Stephen see on raising his gaze to the height of a yard from

the fire towards the opposite wall?

Under a row of five coiled spring housebells a curvilinear rope,

stretched between two holdfasts athwart across the recess beside the

chimney pier, from which hung four smallsized square handkerchiefs

folded unattached consecutively in adjacent rectangles and one pair of

ladies’ grey hose with Lisle suspender tops and feet in their habitual

position clamped by three erect wooden pegs two at their outer

extremities and the third at their point of junction.

What did Bloom see on the range?

On the right (smaller) hob a blue enamelled saucepan: on the left

(larger) hob a black iron kettle.

What did Bloom do at the range?

He removed the saucepan to the left hob, rose and carried the iron

kettle to the sink in order to tap the current by turning the faucet to

let it flow.

Did it flow?

Yes. From Roundwood reservoir in county Wicklow of a cubic capacity of

2400 million gallons, percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of

filter mains of single and double pipeage constructed at an initial

plant cost of £ 5 per linear yard by way of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen

of the Downs and Callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a

distance of 22 statute miles, and thence, through a system of relieving

tanks, by a gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at Eustace

bridge, upper Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and

daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had fallen below the

sill of the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and

waterworks engineer, Mr Spencer Harty, C. E., on the instructions of

the waterworks committee had prohibited the use of municipal water for

purposes other than those of consumption (envisaging the possibility of

recourse being had to the impotable water of the Grand and Royal canals

as in 1893) particularly as the South Dublin Guardians, notwithstanding

their ration of 15 gallons per day per pauper supplied through a 6 inch

meter, had been convicted of a wastage of 20,000 gallons per night by a

reading of their meter on the affirmation of the law agent of the

corporation, Mr Ignatius Rice, solicitor, thereby acting to the

detriment of another section of the public, selfsupporting taxpayers,

solvent, sound.

What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier,

returning to the range, admire?

Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature

in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator’s

projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the

Pacific exceeding 8000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and

surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the

independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its

hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and

spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the

circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial

significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the

globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all

the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the

multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its

capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances

including millions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow

erosions of peninsulas and islands, its persistent formation of

homothetic islands, peninsulas and downwardtending promontories: its

alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its

imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of

colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular

ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent

oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents,

gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in

seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies,

freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers,

cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts:

its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs

and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric

instruments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at

Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of

its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent

part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the

Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies,

inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its properties for cleansing,

quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as

paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain,

sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms

in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls

and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries

and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its

docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric

power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in

canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its

potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling

from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic,

photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the

globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90

% of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine

% marshes,

pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning

moon.

Having set the halffilled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he

return to the stillflowing tap?

To wash his soiled hands with a partially consumed tablet of

Barrington’s lemonflavoured soap, to which paper still adhered, (bought

thirteen hours previously for fourpence and still unpaid for), in fresh

cold neverchanging everchanging water and dry them, face and hands, in

a long redbordered holland cloth passed over a wooden revolving roller.

What reason did Stephen give for declining Bloom’s offer?

That he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by

submersion in cold water, (his last bath having taken place in the

month of October of the preceding year), disliking the aqueous

substances of glass and crystal, distrusting aquacities of thought and

language.

What impeded Bloom from giving Stephen counsels of hygiene and

prophylactic to which should be added suggestions concerning a

preliminary wetting of the head and contraction of the muscles with

rapid splashing of the face and neck and thoracic and epigastric region

in case of sea or river bathing, the parts of the human anatomy most

sensitive to cold being the nape, stomach and thenar or sole of foot?

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

What additional didactic counsels did he similarly repress?

Dietary: concerning the respective percentage of protein and caloric

energy in bacon, salt ling and butter, the absence of the former in the

lastnamed and the abundance of the latter in the firstnamed.

Which seemed to the host to be the predominant qualities of his guest?

Confidence in himself, an equal and opposite power of abandonment and

recuperation.

What concomitant phenomenon took place in the vessel of liquid by the

agency of fire?

The phenomenon of ebullition. Fanned by a constant updraught of

ventilation between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was

communicated from the faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral

masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the

foliated fossilised decidua of primeval forests which had in turn

derived their vegetative existence from the sun, primal source of heat

(radiant), transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous

ether. Heat (convected), a mode of motion developed by such combustion,

was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the source of

calorification to the liquid contained in the vessel, being radiated

through the uneven unpolished dark surface of the metal iron, in part

reflected, in part absorbed, in part transmitted, gradually raising the

temperature of the water from normal to boiling point, a rise in

temperature expressible as the result of an expenditure of 72 thermal

units needed to raise 1 pound of water from 50° to 212° Fahrenheit.

What announced the accomplishment of this rise in temperature?

A double falciform ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at

both sides simultaneously.

For what personal purpose could Bloom have applied the water so boiled?

To shave himself.

What advantages attended shaving by night?

A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from

shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if

unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at

incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the course of the day: a

cleaner sensation when awaking after a fresher sleep since matutinal

noises, premonitions and perturbations, a clattered milkcan, a

postman’s double knock, a paper read, reread while lathering,

relathering the same spot, a shock, a shoot, with thought of aught he

sought though fraught with nought might cause a faster rate of shaving

and a nick on which incision plaster with precision cut and humected

and applied adhered: which was to be done.

Why did absence of light disturb him less than presence of noise?

Because of the surety of the sense of touch in his firm full masculine

feminine passive active hand.

What quality did it (his hand) possess but with what counteracting

influence?

The operative surgical quality but that he was reluctant to shed human

blood even when the end justified the means, preferring, in their

natural order, heliotherapy, psychophysicotherapeutics, osteopathic

surgery.

What lay under exposure on the lower, middle and upper shelves of the

kitchen dresser, opened by Bloom?

On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal

breakfast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a

moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown Derby, four white

goldrimmed eggcups, an open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly

copper, and a phial of aromatic (violet) comfits. On the middle shelf a

chipped eggcup containing pepper, a drum of table salt, four

conglomerated black olives in oleaginous paper, an empty pot of

Plumtree’s potted meat, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and

containing one Jersey pear, a halfempty bottle of William Gilbey and

Co’s white invalid port, half disrobed of its swathe of coralpink

tissue paper, a packet of Epps’s soluble cocoa, five ounces of Anne

Lynch’s choice tea at 2/- per lb in a crinkled leadpaper bag, a

cylindrical canister containing the best crystallised lump sugar, two

onions, one, the larger, Spanish, entire, the other, smaller, Irish,

bisected with augmented surface and more redolent, a jar of Irish Model

Dairy’s cream, a jug of brown crockery containing a naggin and a

quarter of soured adulterated milk, converted by heat into water,

acidulous serum and semisolidified curds, which added to the quantity

subtracted for Mr Bloom’s and Mrs Fleming’s breakfasts, made one

imperial pint, the total quantity originally delivered, two cloves, a

halfpenny and a small dish containing a slice of fresh ribsteak. On the

upper shelf a battery of jamjars (empty) of various sizes and

proveniences.

What attracted his attention lying on the apron of the dresser?

Four polygonal fragments of two lacerated scarlet betting tickets,

numbered 8 87, 88 6.

What reminiscences temporarily corrugated his brow?

Reminiscences of coincidences, truth stranger than fiction,

preindicative of the result of the Gold Cup flat handicap, the official

and definitive result of which he had read in the _Evening Telegraph_,

late pink edition, in the cabman’s shelter, at Butt bridge.

Where had previous intimations of the result, effected or projected,

been received by him?

In Bernard Kiernan’s licensed premises 8, 9 and 10 little Britain

street: in David Byrne’s licensed premises, 14 Duke street: in

O’Connell street lower, outside Graham Lemon’s when a dark man had

placed in his hand a throwaway (subsequently thrown away), advertising

Elijah, restorer of the church in Zion: in Lincoln place outside the

premises of F. W. Sweny and Co (Limited), dispensing chemists, when,

when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively

requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the

_Freeman’s Journal_ and _National Press_ which he had been about to

throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the

oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths, 11 Leinster street,

with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in

his arms the secret of the race, graven in the language of prediction.

What qualifying considerations allayed his perturbations?

The difficulties of interpretation since the significance of any event

followed its occurrence as variably as the acoustic report followed the

electrical discharge and of counterestimating against an actual loss by

failure to interpret the total sum of possible losses proceeding

originally from a successful interpretation.

His mood?

He had not risked, he did not expect, he had not been disappointed, he

was satisfied.

What satisfied him?

To have sustained no positive loss. To have brought a positive gain to

others. Light to the gentiles.

How did Bloom prepare a collation for a gentile?

He poured into two teacups two level spoonfuls, four in all, of Epps’s

soluble cocoa and proceeded according to the directions for use printed

on the label, to each adding after sufficient time for infusion the

prescribed ingredients for diffusion in the manner and in the quantity

prescribed.

What supererogatory marks of special hospitality did the host show his

guest?

Relinquishing his symposiarchal right to the moustache cup of imitation

Crown Derby presented to him by his only daughter, Millicent (Milly),

he substituted a cup identical with that of his guest and served

extraordinarily to his guest and, in reduced measure, to himself the

viscous cream ordinarily reserved for the breakfast of his wife Marion

(Molly).

Was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge these marks of

hospitality?

His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely, and he

accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps’s

massproduct, the creature cocoa.

Were there marks of hospitality which he contemplated but suppressed,

reserving them for another and for himself on future occasions to

complete the act begun?

The reparation of a fissure of the length of 1 1/2 inches in the right

side of his guest’s jacket. A gift to his guest of one of the four

lady’s handkerchiefs, if and when ascertained to be in a presentable

condition.

Who drank more quickly?

Bloom, having the advantage of ten seconds at the initiation and

taking, from the concave surface of a spoon along the handle of which a

steady flow of heat was conducted, three sips to his opponent’s one,

six to two, nine to three.

What cerebration accompanied his frequentative act?

Concluding by inspection but erroneously that his silent companion was

engaged in mental composition he reflected on the pleasures derived

from literature of instruction rather than of amusement as he himself

had applied to the works of William Shakespeare more than once for the

solution of difficult problems in imaginary or real life.

Had he found their solution?

In spite of careful and repeated reading of certain classical passages,

aided by a glossary, he had derived imperfect conviction from the text,

the answers not bearing in all points.

What lines concluded his first piece of original verse written by him,

potential poet, at the age of 11 in 1877 on the occasion of the

offering of three prizes of 10/-, 5/- and 2/6 respectively for

competition by the _Shamrock_, a weekly newspaper?

An ambition to squint

At my verses in print

Makes me hope that for these you’ll find room.

If you so condescend

Then please place at the end

The name of yours truly, L. Bloom.

Did he find four separating forces between his temporary guest and him?

Name, age, race, creed.

What anagrams had he made on his name in youth?

Leopold Bloom

Ellpodbomool

Molldopeloob

Bollopedoom

Old Ollebo, M. P.

What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic

poet) sent to Miss Marion (Molly) Tweedy on the 14 February 1888?

Poets oft have sung in rhyme

Of music sweet their praise divine.

Let them hymn it nine times nine.

Dearer far than song or wine.

You are mine. The world is mine.

What had prevented him from completing a topical song (music by R. G.

Johnston) on the events of the past, or fixtures for the actual, years,

entitled _If Brian Boru could but come back and see old Dublin now_,

commissioned by Michael Gunn, lessee of the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48,

49 South King street, and to be introduced into the sixth scene, the

valley of diamonds, of the second edition (30 January 1893) of the

grand annual Christmas pantomime _Sinbad the Sailor_ (produced by R.

Shelton 26 December 1892, written by Greenleaf Whittier, scenery by

George A. Jackson and Cecil Hicks, costumes by Mrs and Miss Whelan

under the personal supervision of Mrs Michael Gunn, ballets by Jessie

Noir, harlequinade by Thomas Otto) and sung by Nelly Bouverist,

principal girl?

Firstly, oscillation between events of imperial and of local interest,

the anticipated diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria (born 1820, acceded

1837) and the posticipated opening of the new municipal fish market:

secondly, apprehension of opposition from extreme circles on the

questions of the respective visits of Their Royal Highnesses the duke

and duchess of York (real) and of His Majesty King Brian Boru

(imaginary): thirdly, a conflict between professional etiquette and

professional emulation concerning the recent erections of the Grand

Lyric Hall on Burgh Quay and the Theatre Royal in Hawkins street:

fourthly, distraction resultant from compassion for Nelly Bouverist’s

non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical expression of countenance

and concupiscence caused by Nelly Bouverist’s revelations of white

articles of non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical underclothing

while she (Nelly Bouverist) was in the articles: fifthly, the

difficulties of the selection of appropriate music and humorous

allusions from _Everybody’s Book of Jokes_ (1000 pages and a laugh in

every one): sixthly, the rhymes, homophonous and cacophonous,

associated with the names of the new lord mayor, Daniel Tallon, the new

high sheriff, Thomas Pile and the new solicitorgeneral, Dunbar Plunket

Barton.

What relation existed between their ages?

16 years before in 1888 when Bloom was of Stephen’s present age Stephen

was 6. 16 years after in 1920 when Stephen would be of Bloom’s present

age Bloom would be 54. In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54

their ages initially in the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17 1/2 to 13

1/2, the proportion increasing and the disparity diminishing according

as arbitrary future years were added, for if the proportion existing in

1883 had continued immutable, conceiving that to be possible, till then

1904 when Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in 1920 when Stephen

would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom would be 646 while in 1952 when

Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 Bloom,

being 1190 years alive having been born in the year 714, would have

surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age, that of

Methusalah, 969 years, while, if Stephen would continue to live until

he would attain that age in the year 3072 A.D., Bloom would have been

obliged to have been alive 83,300 years, having been obliged to have

been born in the year 81,396 B.C.

What events might nullify these calculations?

The cessation of existence of both or either, the inauguration of a new

era or calendar, the annihilation of the world and consequent

extermination of the human species, inevitable but impredictable.

How many previous encounters proved their preexisting acquaintance?

Two. The first in the lilacgarden of Matthew Dillon’s house, Medina

Villa, Kimmage road, Roundtown, in 1887, in the company of Stephen’s

mother, Stephen being then of the age of 5 and reluctant to give his

hand in salutation. The second in the coffeeroom of Breslin’s hotel on

a rainy Sunday in the January of 1892, in the company of Stephen’s

father and Stephen’s granduncle, Stephen being then 5 years older.

Did Bloom accept the invitation to dinner given then by the son and

afterwards seconded by the father?

Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative

gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

Did their conversation on the subject of these reminiscences reveal a

third connecting link between them?

Mrs Riordan (Dante), a widow of independent means, had resided in the

house of Stephen’s parents from 1 September 1888 to 29 December 1891

and had also resided during the years 1892, 1893 and 1894 in the City

Arms Hotel owned by Elizabeth O’Dowd of 54 Prussia street where, during

parts of the years 1893 and 1894, she had been a constant informant of

Bloom who resided also in the same hotel, being at that time a clerk in

the employment of Joseph Cuffe of 5 Smithfield for the superintendence

of sales in the adjacent Dublin Cattle market on the North Circular

road.

Had he performed any special corporal work of mercy for her?

He had sometimes propelled her on warm summer evenings, an infirm widow

of independent, if limited, means, in her convalescent bathchair with

slow revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the North

Circular road opposite Mr Gavin Low’s place of business where she had

remained for a certain time scanning through his onelensed binocular

fieldglasses unrecognisable citizens on tramcars, roadster bicycles

equipped with inflated pneumatic tyres, hackney carriages, tandems,

private and hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and brakes passing from

the city to the Phoenix Park and _vice versa_.

Why could he then support that his vigil with the greater equanimity?

Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of

bossed glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with

continual changes of the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds,

velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round

and round the rim of a round and round precipitous globe.

What distinct different memories had each of her now eight years

deceased?

The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her

suppositious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient

catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the

statue of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for

Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers.

Were there no means still remaining to him to achieve the rejuvenation

which these reminiscences divulged to a younger companion rendered the

more desirable?

The indoor exercises, formerly intermittently practised, subsequently

abandoned, prescribed in Eugen Sandow’s _Physical Strength and How to

Obtain It_ which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in

sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in

front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of

muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant

relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility.

Had any special agility been his in earlier youth?

Though ringweight lifting had been beyond his strength and the full

circle gyration beyond his courage yet as a High school scholar he had

excelled in his stable and protracted execution of the half lever

movement on the parallel bars in consequence of his abnormally

developed abdominal muscles.

Did either openly allude to their racial difference?

Neither.

What, reduced to their simplest reciprocal form, were Bloom’s thoughts

about Stephen’s thoughts about Bloom and about Stephen’s thoughts about

Bloom’s thoughts about Stephen?

He thought that he thought that he was a jew whereas he knew that he

knew that he knew that he was not.

What, the enclosures of reticence removed, were their respective

parentages?

Bloom, only born male transubstantial heir of Rudolf Virag

(subsequently Rudolph Bloom) of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan,

London and Dublin and of Ellen Higgins, second daughter of Julius

Higgins (born Karoly) and Fanny Higgins (born Hegarty). Stephen, eldest

surviving male consubstantial heir of Simon Dedalus of Cork and Dublin

and of Mary, daughter of Richard and Christina Goulding (born Grier).

Had Bloom and Stephen been baptised, and where and by whom, cleric or

layman?

Bloom (three times), by the reverend Mr Gilmer Johnston M. A., alone,

in the protestant church of Saint Nicholas Without, Coombe, by James

O’Connor, Philip Gilligan and James Fitzpatrick, together, under a pump

in the village of Swords, and by the reverend Charles Malone C. C., in

the church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. Stephen (once) by the

reverend Charles Malone C. C., alone, in the church of the Three

Patrons, Rathgar.

Did they find their educational careers similar?

Substituting Stephen for Bloom Stoom would have passed successively

through a dame’s school and the high school. Substituting Bloom for

Stephen Blephen would have passed successively through the preparatory,

junior, middle and senior grades of the intermediate and through the

matriculation, first arts, second arts and arts degree courses of the

royal university.

Why did Bloom refrain from stating that he had frequented the

university of life?

Because of his fluctuating incertitude as to whether this observation

had or had not been already made by him to Stephen or by Stephen to

him.

What two temperaments did they individually represent?

The scientific. The artistic.

What proofs did Bloom adduce to prove that his tendency was towards

applied, rather than towards pure, science?

Certain possible inventions of which he had cogitated when reclining in

a state of supine repletion to aid digestion, stimulated by his

appreciation of the importance of inventions now common but once

revolutionary, for example, the aeronautic parachute, the reflecting

telescope, the spiral corkscrew, the safety pin, the mineral water

siphon, the canal lock with winch and sluice, the suction pump.

Were these inventions principally intended for an improved scheme of

kindergarten?

Yes, rendering obsolete popguns, elastic airbladders, games of hazard,

catapults. They comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the

twelve constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature

mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to

correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playing balls,

historically costumed dolls.

What also stimulated him in his cogitations?

The financial success achieved by Ephraim Marks and Charles A. James,

the former by his 1d bazaar at 42 George’s street, south, the latter at

his 6 1/2d shop and world’s fancy fair and waxwork exhibition at 30

Henry street, admission 2d, children 1d: and the infinite possibilities

hitherto unexploited of the modern art of advertisement if condensed in

triliteral monoideal symbols, vertically of maximum visibility

(divined), horizontally of maximum legibility (deciphered) and of

magnetising efficacy to arrest involuntary attention, to interest, to

convince, to decide.

Such as?

K. 11. Kino’s 11/— Trousers.

House of Keys. Alexander J. Keyes.

Such as not?

Look at this long candle. Calculate when it burns out and you receive

gratis 1 pair of our special non-compo boots, guaranteed 1 candle

power. Address: Barclay and Cook, 18 Talbot street.

Bacilikil (Insect Powder).

Veribest (Boot Blacking).

Uwantit (Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and

pipecleaner).

Such as never?

What is home without Plumtree’s Potted Meat?

Incomplete.

With it an abode of bliss.

Manufactured by George Plumtree, 23 Merchants’ quay, Dublin, put up in

4 oz pots, and inserted by Councillor Joseph P. Nannetti, M. P.,

Rotunda Ward, 19 Hardwicke street, under the obituary notices and

anniversaries of deceases. The name on the label is Plumtree. A

plumtree in a meatpot, registered trade mark. Beware of imitations.

Peatmot. Trumplee. Moutpat. Plamtroo.

Which example did he adduce to induce Stephen to deduce that

originality, though producing its own reward, does not invariably

conduce to success?

His own ideated and rejected project of an illuminated showcart, drawn

by a beast of burden, in which two smartly dressed girls were to be

seated engaged in writing.

What suggested scene was then constructed by Stephen?

Solitary hotel in mountain pass. Autumn. Twilight. Fire lit. In dark

corner young man seated. Young woman enters. Restless. Solitary. She

sits. She goes to window. She stands. She sits. Twilight. She thinks.

On solitary hotel paper she writes. She thinks. She writes. She sighs.

Wheels and hoofs. She hurries out. He comes from his dark corner. He

seizes solitary paper. He holds it towards fire. Twilight. He reads.

Solitary.

What?

In sloping, upright and backhands: Queen’s Hotel, Queen’s Hotel,

Queen’s Hotel. Queen’s Ho...

What suggested scene was then reconstructed by Bloom?

The Queen’s Hotel, Ennis, county Clare, where Rudolph Bloom (Rudolf

Virag) died on the evening of the 27 June 1886, at some hour unstated,

in consequence of an overdose of monkshood (aconite) selfadministered

in the form of a neuralgic liniment composed of 2 parts of aconite

liniment to 1 of chloroform liniment (purchased by him at 10.20 a.m. on

the morning of 27 June 1886 at the medical hall of Francis Dennehy, 17

Church street, Ennis) after having, though not in consequence of

having, purchased at 3.15 p.m. on the afternoon of 27 June 1886 a new

boater straw hat, extra smart (after having, though not in consequence

of having, purchased at the hour and in the place aforesaid, the toxin

aforesaid), at the general drapery store of James Cullen, 4 Main

street, Ennis.

Did he attribute this homonymity to information or coincidence or

intuition?

Coincidence.

Did he depict the scene verbally for his guest to see?

He preferred himself to see another’s face and listen to another’s

words by which potential narration was realised and kinetic temperament

relieved.

Did he see only a second coincidence in the second scene narrated to

him, described by the narrator as _A Pisgah Sight of Palestine_ or _The

Parable of the Plums_?

It, with the preceding scene and with others unnarrated but existent by

implication, to which add essays on various subjects or moral apothegms

(e.g. _My Favourite Hero_ or _Procrastination is the Thief of Time_)

composed during schoolyears, seemed to him to contain in itself and in

conjunction with the personal equation certain possibilities of

financial, social, personal and sexual success, whether specially

collected and selected as model pedagogic themes (of cent per cent

merit) for the use of preparatory and junior grade students or

contributed in printed form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy

or Doctor Dick or Heblon’s _Studies in Blue_, to a publication of

certified circulation and solvency or employed verbally as intellectual

stimulation for sympathetic auditors, tacitly appreciative of

successful narrative and confidently augurative of successful

achievement, during the increasingly longer nights gradually following

the summer solstice on the day but three following, videlicet, Tuesday,

21 June (S. Aloysius Gonzaga), sunrise 3.33 a.m., sunset 8.29 p.m.

Which domestic problem as much as, if not more than, any other

frequently engaged his mind?

What to do with our wives.

What had been his hypothetical singular solutions?

Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spilikins, cup and ball,

nap, spoil five, bezique, twentyfive, beggar my neighbour, draughts,

chess or backgammon): embroidery, darning or knitting for the

policeaided clothing society: musical duets, mandoline and guitar,

piano and flute, guitar and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope

addressing: biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial

activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress

proprietress in a cool dairy shop or warm cigar divan: the clandestine

satisfaction of erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state

inspected and medically controlled: social visits, at regular

infrequent prevented intervals and with regular frequent preventive

superintendence, to and from female acquaintances of recognised

respectability in the vicinity: courses of evening instruction

specially designed to render liberal instruction agreeable.

What instances of deficient mental development in his wife inclined him

in favour of the lastmentioned (ninth) solution?

In disoccupied moments she had more than once covered a sheet of paper

with signs and hieroglyphics which she stated were Greek and Irish and

Hebrew characters. She had interrogated constantly at varying intervals

as to the correct method of writing the capital initial of the name of

a city in Canada, Quebec. She understood little of political

complications, internal, or balance of power, external. In calculating

the addenda of bills she frequently had recourse to digital aid. After

completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the

implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the

corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall. Unusual

polysyllables of foreign origin she interpreted phonetically or by

false analogy or by both: metempsychosis (met him pike hoses), _alias_

(a mendacious person mentioned in sacred scripture).

What compensated in the false balance of her intelligence for these and

such deficiencies of judgment regarding persons, places and things?

The false apparent parallelism of all perpendicular arms of all

balances, proved true by construction. The counterbalance of her

proficiency of judgment regarding one person, proved true by

experiment.

How had he attempted to remedy this state of comparative ignorance?

Variously. By leaving in a conspicuous place a certain book open at a

certain page: by assuming in her, when alluding explanatorily, latent

knowledge: by open ridicule in her presence of some absent other’s

ignorant lapse.

With what success had he attempted direct instruction?

She followed not all, a part of the whole, gave attention with interest

comprehended with surprise, with care repeated, with greater difficulty

remembered, forgot with ease, with misgiving reremembered, rerepeated

with error.

What system had proved more effective?

Indirect suggestion implicating selfinterest.

Example?

She disliked umbrella with rain, he liked woman with umbrella, she

disliked new hat with rain, he liked woman with new hat, he bought new

hat with rain, she carried umbrella with new hat.

Accepting the analogy implied in his guest’s parable which examples of

postexilic eminence did he adduce?

Three seekers of the pure truth, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides,

author of _More Nebukim_ (Guide of the Perplexed) and Moses Mendelssohn

of such eminence that from Moses (of Egypt) to Moses (Mendelssohn)

there arose none like Moses (Maimonides).

What statement was made, under correction, by Bloom concerning a fourth

seeker of pure truth, by name Aristotle, mentioned, with permission, by

Stephen?

That the seeker mentioned had been a pupil of a rabbinical philosopher,

name uncertain.

Were other anapocryphal illustrious sons of the law and children of a

selected or rejected race mentioned?

Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (composer), Baruch Spinoza (philosopher),

Mendoza (pugilist), Ferdinand Lassalle (reformer, duellist).

What fragments of verse from the ancient Hebrew and ancient Irish

languages were cited with modulations of voice and translation of texts

by guest to host and by host to guest?

By Stephen: _suil, suil, suil arun, suil go siocair agus suil go cuin_

(walk, walk, walk your way, walk in safety, walk with care).

By Bloom: _Kifeloch, harimon rakatejch m’baad l’zamatejch_ (thy temple

amid thy hair is as a slice of pomegranate).

How was a glyphic comparison of the phonic symbols of both languages

made in substantiation of the oral comparison?

By juxtaposition. On the penultimate blank page of a book of inferior

literary style, entituled _Sweets of Sin_ (produced by Bloom and so

manipulated that its front cover came in contact with the surface of

the table) with a pencil (supplied by Stephen) Stephen wrote the Irish

characters for gee, eh, dee, em, simple and modified, and Bloom in turn

wrote the Hebrew characters ghimel, aleph, daleth and (in the absence

of mem) a substituted qoph, explaining their arithmetical values as

ordinal and cardinal numbers, videlicet 3, 1, 4, and 100.

Was the knowledge possessed by both of each of these languages, the

extinct and the revived, theoretical or practical?

Theoretical, being confined to certain grammatical rules of accidence

and syntax and practically excluding vocabulary.

What points of contact existed between these languages and between the

peoples who spoke them?

The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and

servile letters in both languages: their antiquity, both having been

taught on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the

seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, progenitor

of Israel, and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland:

their archaeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical,

homiletic, toponomastic, historical and religious literatures

comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and

Ghemara), Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow, Book of Ballymote,

Garland of Howth, Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival

and revival: the isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical

rites in ghetto (S. Mary’s Abbey) and masshouse (Adam and Eve’s

tavern): the proscription of their national costumes in penal laws and

jewish dress acts: the restoration in Chanah David of Zion and the

possibility of Irish political autonomy or devolution.

What anthem did Bloom chant partially in anticipation of that multiple,

ethnically irreducible consummation?

Kolod balejwaw pnimah

Nefesch, jehudi, homijah.

Why was the chant arrested at the conclusion of this first distich?

In consequence of defective mnemotechnic.

How did the chanter compensate for this deficiency?

By a periphrastic version of the general text.

In what common study did their mutual reflections merge?

The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic

hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of

modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions

(Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).

Did the guest comply with his host’s request?

Doubly, by appending his signature in Irish and Roman characters.

What was Stephen’s auditive sensation?

He heard in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation

of the past.

What was Bloom’s visual sensation?

He saw in a quick young male familiar form the predestination of a

future.

What were Stephen’s and Bloom’s quasisimultaneous volitional

quasisensations of concealed identities?

Visually, Stephen’s: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted by

Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as

leucodermic, sesquipedalian with winedark hair.

Auditively, Bloom’s: The traditional accent of the ecstasy of

catastrophe.

What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the past and with

what exemplars?

In the church, Roman, Anglican or Nonconformist: exemplars, the very

reverend John Conmee S. J., the reverend T. Salmon, D. D., provost of

Trinity college, Dr Alexander J. Dowie. At the bar, English or Irish:

exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K. C., Rufus Isaacs, K. C. On the stage,

modern or Shakespearean: exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high comedian,

Osmond Tearle († 1901), exponent of Shakespeare.

Did the host encourage his guest to chant in a modulated voice a

strange legend on an allied theme?

Reassuringly, their place, where none could hear them talk, being

secluded, reassured, the decocted beverages, allowing for subsolid

residual sediment of a mechanical mixture, water plus sugar plus cream

plus cocoa, having been consumed.

Recite the first (major) part of this chanted legend.

Little Harry Hughes and his schoolfellows all

Went out for to play ball.

And the very first ball little Harry Hughes played

He drove it o’er the jew’s garden wall.

And the very second ball little Harry Hughes played

He broke the jew’s windows all.

[Illustration]

How did the son of Rudolph receive this first part?

With unmixed feeling. Smiling, a jew, he heard with pleasure and saw

the unbroken kitchen window.

Recite the second part (minor) of the legend.

Then out there came the jew’s daughter

And she all dressed in green.

“Come back, come back, you pretty little boy,

And play your ball again.”

I can’t come back and I won’t come back

Without my schoolfellows all.

For if my master he did hear

He’d make it a sorry ball.”

She took him by the lilywhite hand

And led him along the hall

Until she led him to a room

Where none could hear him call.

She took a penknife out of her pocket

And cut off his little head.

And now he’ll play his ball no more

For he lies among the dead.

[Illustration]

How did the father of Millicent receive this second part?

With mixed feelings. Unsmiling, he heard and saw with wonder a jew’s

daughter, all dressed in green.

Condense Stephen’s commentary.

One of all, the least of all, is the victim predestined. Once by

inadvertence twice by design he challenges his destiny. It comes when

he is abandoned and challenges him reluctant and, as an apparition of

hope and youth, holds him unresisting. It leads him to a strange

habitation, to a secret infidel apartment, and there, implacable,

immolates him, consenting.

Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?

He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him

should by him not be told.

Why was the host (reluctant, unresisting) still?

In accordance with the law of the conservation of energy.

Why was the host (secret infidel) silent?

He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the

incitations of the hierarchy, the superstition of the populace, the

propagation of rumour in continued fraction of veridicity, the envy of

opulence, the influence of retaliation, the sporadic reappearance of

atavistic delinquency, the mitigating circumstances of fanaticism,

hypnotic suggestion and somnambulism.

From which (if any) of these mental or physical disorders was he not

totally immune?

From hypnotic suggestion: once, waking, he had not recognised his

sleeping apartment: more than once, waking, he had been for an

indefinite time incapable of moving or uttering sounds. From

somnambulism: once, sleeping, his body had risen, crouched and crawled

in the direction of a heatless fire and, having attained its

destination, there, curled, unheated, in night attire had lain,

sleeping.

Had this latter or any cognate phenomenon declared itself in any member

of his family?

Twice, in Holles street and in Ontario terrace, his daughter Millicent

(Milly) at the ages of 6 and 8 years had uttered in sleep an

exclamation of terror and had replied to the interrogations of two

figures in night attire with a vacant mute expression.

What other infantile memories had he of her?

15 June 1889. A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause and

lessen congestion. A child renamed Padney Socks she shook with shocks

her moneybox: counted his three free moneypenny buttons, one, tloo,

tlee: a doll, a boy, a sailor she cast away: blond, born of two dark,

she had blond ancestry, remote, a violation, Herr Hauptmann Hainau,

Austrian army, proximate, a hallucination, lieutenant Mulvey, British

navy.

What endemic characteristics were present?

Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a direct line

of lineage which, though interrupted, would continue at distant

intervals to more distant intervals to its most distant intervals.

What memories had he of her adolescence?

She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a recess. On the duke’s

lawn, entreated by an English visitor, she declined to permit him to

make and take away her photographic image (objection not stated). On

the South Circular road in the company of Elsa Potter, followed by an

individual of sinister aspect, she went half way down Stamer street and

turned abruptly back (reason of change not stated). On the vigil of the

15th anniversary of her birth she wrote a letter from Mullingar, county

Westmeath, making a brief allusion to a local student (faculty and year

not stated).

Did that first division, portending a second division, afflict him?

Less than he had imagined, more than he had hoped.

What second departure was contemporaneously perceived by him similarly,

if differently?

A temporary departure of his cat.

Why similarly, why differently?

Similarly, because actuated by a secret purpose the quest of a new male

(Mullingar student) or of a healing herb (valerian). Differently,

because of different possible returns to the inhabitants or to the

habitation.

In other respects were their differences similar?

In passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in

unexpectedness.

As?

Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him to ribbon it

for her (cf neckarching cat). Moreover, on the free surface of the lake

in Stephen’s green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented

spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the

constancy of its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf

mousewatching cat). Again, in order to remember the date, combatants,

issue and consequences of a famous military engagement she pulled a

plait of her hair (cf earwashing cat). Furthermore, silly Milly, she

dreamed of having had an unspoken unremembered conversation with a

horse whose name had been Joseph to whom (which) she had offered a

tumblerful of lemonade which it (he) had appeared to have accepted (cf

hearthdreaming cat). Hence, in passivity, in economy, in the instinct

of tradition, in unexpectedness, their differences were similar.

In what way had he utilised gifts (1) an owl, 2) a clock, given as

matrimonial auguries, to interest and to instruct her?

As object lessons to explain: 1) the nature and habits of oviparous

animals, the possibility of aerial flight, certain abnormalities of

vision, the secular process of imbalsamation: 2) the principle of the

pendulum, exemplified in bob, wheelgear and regulator, the translation

in terms of human or social regulation of the various positions of

clockwise moveable indicators on an unmoving dial, the exactitude of

the recurrence per hour of an instant in each hour when the longer and

the shorter indicator were at the same angle of inclination,

_videlicet_, 5 5/11 minutes past each hour per hour in arithmetical

progression.

In what manners did she reciprocate?

She remembered: on the 27th anniversary of his birth she presented to

him a breakfast moustachecup of imitation Crown Derby porcelain ware.

She provided: at quarter day or thereabouts if or when purchases had

been made by him not for her she showed herself attentive to his

necessities, anticipating his desires. She admired: a natural

phenomenon having been explained by him to her she expressed the

immediate desire to possess without gradual acquisition a fraction of

his science, the moiety, the quarter, a thousandth part.

What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist,

make to Stephen, noctambulist?

To pass in repose the hours intervening between Thursday (proper) and

Friday (normal) on an extemporised cubicle in the apartment immediately

above the kitchen and immediately adjacent to the sleeping apartment of

his host and hostess.

What various advantages would or might have resulted from a

prolongation of such an extemporisation?

For the guest: security of domicile and seclusion of study. For the

host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction. For the

hostess: disintegration of obsession, acquisition of correct Italian

pronunciation.

Why might these several provisional contingencies between a guest and a

hostess not necessarily preclude or be precluded by a permanent

eventuality of reconciliatory union between a schoolfellow and a jew’s

daughter?

Because the way to daughter led through mother, the way to mother

through daughter.

To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of his host did the guest

return a monosyllabic negative answer?

If he had known the late Mrs Emily Sinico, accidentally killed at

Sydney Parade railway station, 14 October 1903.

What inchoate corollary statement was consequently suppressed by the

host?

A statement explanatory of his absence on the occasion of the interment

of Mrs Mary Dedalus (born Goulding), 26 June 1903, vigil of the

anniversary of the decease of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag).

Was the proposal of asylum accepted?

Promptly, inexplicably, with amicability, gratefully it was declined.

What exchange of money took place between host and guest?

The former returned to the latter, without interest, a sum of money (£

1-7-0), one pound seven shillings sterling, advanced by the latter to

the former.

What counterproposals were alternately advanced, accepted, modified,

declined, restated in other terms, reaccepted, ratified, reconfirmed?

To inaugurate a prearranged course of Italian instruction, place the

residence of the instructed. To inaugurate a course of vocal

instruction, place the residence of the instructress. To inaugurate a

series of static, semistatic and peripatetic intellectual dialogues,

places the residence of both speakers (if both speakers were resident

in the same place), the _Ship_ hotel and tavern, 6 Lower Abbey street

(W. and E. Connery, proprietors), the National Library of Ireland, 10

Kildare street, the National Maternity Hospital, 29, 30 and 31 Holles

street, a public garden, the vicinity of a place of worship, a

conjunction of two or more public thoroughfares, the point of bisection

of a right line drawn between their residences (if both speakers were

resident in different places).

What rendered problematic for Bloom the realisation of these mutually

selfexcluding propositions?

The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert

Hengler’s circus in the Rotunda, Rutland square, Dublin, an intuitive

particoloured clown in quest of paternity had penetrated from the ring

to a place in the auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was seated and had

publicly declared to an exhilarated audience that he (Bloom) was his

(the clown’s) papa. The imprevidibility of the future: once in the

summer of 1898 he (Bloom) had marked a florin (2/-) with three notches

on the milled edge and tendered it in payment of an account due to and

received by J. and T. Davy, family grocers, 1 Charlemont Mall, Grand

Canal, for circulation on the waters of civic finance, for possible,

circuitous or direct, return.

Was the clown Bloom’s son?

No.

Had Bloom’s coin returned?

Never.

Why would a recurrent frustration the more depress him?

Because at the critical turningpoint of human existence he desired to

amend many social conditions, the product of inequality and avarice and

international animosity.

He believed then that human life was infinitely perfectible,

eliminating these conditions?

There remained the generic conditions imposed by natural, as distinct

from human law, as integral parts of the human whole: the necessity of

destruction to procure alimentary sustenance: the painful character of

the ultimate functions of separate existence, the agonies of birth and

death: the monotonous menstruation of simian and (particularly) human

females extending from the age of puberty to the menopause: inevitable

accidents at sea, in mines and factories: certain very painful maladies

and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital

criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make

terror the basis of human mentality: seismic upheavals the epicentres

of which are located in densely populated regions: the fact of vital

growth, through convulsions of metamorphosis, from infancy through

maturity to decay.

Why did he desist from speculation?

Because it was a task for a superior intelligence to substitute other

more acceptable phenomena in the place of the less acceptable phenomena

to be removed.

Did Stephen participate in his dejection?

He affirmed his significance as a conscious rational animal proceeding

syllogistically from the known to the unknown and a conscious rational

reagent between a micro and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon

the incertitude of the void.

Was this affirmation apprehended by Bloom?

Not verbally. Substantially.

What comforted his misapprehension?

That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from

the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void.

In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the

exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation

effected?

Lighted Candle in Stick borne by

BLOOM

Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by

STEPHEN

With what intonation _secreto_ of what commemorative psalm?

The 113th, _modus peregrinus: In exitu Israël de Egypto: domus Jacob de

populo barbaro_.

What did each do at the door of egress?

Bloom set the candlestick on the floor. Stephen put the hat on his

head.

For what creature was the door of egress a door of ingress?

For a cat.

What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the

guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from

the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

With what meditations did Bloom accompany his demonstration to his

companion of various constellations?

Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in

incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous

scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an

observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000

ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of

Sirius (alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles)

distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of

Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and

sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could

be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in

1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of

the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality

evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote

futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of

allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

Were there obverse meditations of involution increasingly less vast?

Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of

the earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences

concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives

and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the

incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible

molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single

pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white

bodies, themselves universes of void space constellated with other

bodies, each, in continuity, its universe of divisible component bodies

of which each was again divisible in divisions of redivisible component

bodies, dividends and divisors ever diminishing without actual division

till, if the progress were carried far enough, nought nowhere was never

reached.

Why did he not elaborate these calculations to a more precise result?

Because some years previously in 1886 when occupied with the problem of

the quadrature of the circle he had learned of the existence of a

number computed to a relative degree of accuracy to be of such

magnitude and of so many places, e.g., the 9th power of the 9th power

of 9, that, the result having been obtained, 33 closely printed volumes

of 1000 pages each of innumerable quires and reams of India paper would

have to be requisitioned in order to contain the complete tale of its

printed integers of units, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of

thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds

of millions, billions, the nucleus of the nebula of every digit of

every series containing succinctly the potentiality of being raised to

the utmost kinetic elaboration of any power of any of its powers.

Did he find the problems of the inhabitability of the planets and their

satellites by a race, given in species, and of the possible social and

moral redemption of said race by a redeemer, easier of solution?

Of a different order of difficulty. Conscious that the human organism,

normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when

elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere

suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the

line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was

approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo,

when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a

working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more

adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might

subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian,

Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an

apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite

differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would

probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to

vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.

And the problem of possible redemption?

The minor was proved by the major.

Which various features of the constellations were in turn considered?

The various colours significant of various degrees of vitality (white,

yellow, crimson, vermilion, cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy:

their magnitudes revealed up to and including the 7th: their positions:

the waggoner’s star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David: the annular

cinctures of Saturn: the condensation of spiral nebulae into suns: the

interdependent gyrations of double suns: the independent synchronous

discoveries of Galileo, Simon Marius, Piazzi, Le Verrier, Herschel,

Galle: the systematisations attempted by Bode and Kepler of cubes of

distances and squares of times of revolution: the almost infinite

compressibility of hirsute comets and their vast elliptical egressive

and reentrant orbits from perihelion to aphelion: the sidereal origin

of meteoric stones: the Libyan floods on Mars about the period of the

birth of the younger astroscopist: the annual recurrence of meteoric

showers about the period of the feast of S. Lawrence (martyr, 10

August): the monthly recurrence known as the new moon with the old moon

in her arms: the posited influence of celestial on human bodies: the

appearance of a star (1st magnitude) of exceeding brilliancy dominating

by night and day (a new luminous sun generated by the collision and

amalgamation in incandescence of two nonluminous exsuns) about the

period of the birth of William Shakespeare over delta in the recumbent

neversetting constellation of Cassiopeia and of a star (2nd magnitude)

of similar origin but of lesser brilliancy which had appeared in and

disappeared from the constellation of the Corona Septentrionalis about

the period of the birth of Leopold Bloom and of other stars of

(presumably) similar origin which had (effectively or presumably)

appeared in and disappeared from the constellation of Andromeda about

the period of the birth of Stephen Dedalus, and in and from the

constellation of Auriga some years after the birth and death of Rudolph

Bloom, junior, and in and from other constellations some years before

or after the birth or death of other persons: the attendant phenomena

of eclipses, solar and lunar, from immersion to emersion, abatement of

wind, transit of shadow, taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of

nocturnal or crepuscular animals, persistence of infernal light,

obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of human beings.

His (Bloom’s) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and

allowing for possible error?

That it was not a heaventree, not a heavengrot, not a heavenbeast, not

a heavenman. That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the

known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the

suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and

of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in

space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as

a present before its probable spectators had entered actual present

existence.

Was he more convinced of the esthetic value of the spectacle?

Indubitably in consequence of the reiterated examples of poets in the

delirium of the frenzy of attachment or in the abasement of rejection

invoking ardent sympathetic constellations or the frigidity of the

satellite of their planet.

Did he then accept as an article of belief the theory of astrological

influences upon sublunary disasters?

It seemed to him as possible of proof as of confutation and the

nomenclature employed in its selenographical charts as attributable to

verifiable intuition as to fallacious analogy: the lake of dreams, the

sea of rains, the gulf of dews, the ocean of fecundity.

What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and

woman?

Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian

generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her

luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and

setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced

invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to

inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent

waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to

render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil

inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant

implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm:

the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the

admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour,

when visible: her attraction, when invisible.

What visible luminous sign attracted Bloom’s, who attracted Stephen’s,

gaze?

In the second storey (rere) of his (Bloom’s) house the light of a

paraffin oil lamp with oblique shade projected on a screen of roller

blind supplied by Frank O’Hara, window blind, curtain pole and

revolving shutter manufacturer, 16 Aungier street.

How did he elucidate the mystery of an invisible attractive person, his

wife Marion (Molly) Bloom, denoted by a visible splendid sign, a lamp?

With indirect and direct verbal allusions or affirmations: with subdued

affection and admiration: with description: with impediment: with

suggestion.

Both then were silent?

Silent, each contemplating the other in both mirrors of the reciprocal

flesh of theirhisnothis fellowfaces.

Were they indefinitely inactive?

At Stephen’s suggestion, at Bloom’s instigation both, first Stephen,

then Bloom, in penumbra urinated, their sides contiguous, their organs

of micturition reciprocally rendered invisible by manual

circumposition, their gazes, first Bloom’s, then Stephen’s, elevated to

the projected luminous and semiluminous shadow.

Similarly?

The trajectories of their, first sequent, then simultaneous, urinations

were dissimilar: Bloom’s longer, less irruent, in the incomplete form

of the bifurcated penultimate alphabetical letter, who in his ultimate

year at High School (1880) had been capable of attaining the point of

greatest altitude against the whole concurrent strength of the

institution, 210 scholars: Stephen’s higher, more sibilant, who in the

ultimate hours of the previous day had augmented by diuretic

consumption an insistent vesical pressure.

What different problems presented themselves to each concerning the

invisible audible collateral organ of the other?

To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence, rigidity,

reactivity, dimension, sanitariness, pilosity.

To Stephen: the problem of the sacerdotal integrity of Jesus

circumcised (1 January, holiday of obligation to hear mass and abstain

from unnecessary servile work) and the problem as to whether the divine

prepuce, the carnal bridal ring of the holy Roman catholic apostolic

church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of

the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine

excrescences as hair and toenails.

What celestial sign was by both simultaneously observed?

A star precipitated with great apparent velocity across the firmament

from Vega in the Lyre above the zenith beyond the stargroup of the

Tress of Berenice towards the zodiacal sign of Leo.

How did the centripetal remainer afford egress to the centrifugal

departer?

By inserting the barrel of an arruginated male key in the hole of an

unstable female lock, obtaining a purchase on the bow of the key and

turning its wards from right to left, withdrawing a bolt from its

staple, pulling inward spasmodically an obsolescent unhinged door and

revealing an aperture for free egress and free ingress.

How did they take leave, one of the other, in separation?

Standing perpendicular at the same door and on different sides of its

base, the lines of their valedictory arms, meeting at any point and

forming any angle less than the sum of two right angles.

What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of

their (respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?

The sound of the peal of the hour of the night by the chime of the

bells in the church of Saint George.

What echoes of that sound were by both and each heard?

By Stephen:

Liliata rutilantium. Turma circumdet.

Iubilantium te virginum. Chorus excipiat.

By Bloom:

Heigho, heigho,

Heigho, heigho.

Where were the several members of the company which with Bloom that day

at the bidding of that peal had travelled from Sandymount in the south

to Glasnevin in the north?

Martin Cunningham (in bed), Jack Power (in bed), Simon Dedalus (in

bed), Ned Lambert (in bed), Tom Kernan (in bed), Joe Hynes (in bed),

John Henry Menton (in bed), Bernard Corrigan (in bed), Patsy Dignam (in

bed), Paddy Dignam (in the grave).

Alone, what did Bloom hear?

The double reverberation of retreating feet on the heavenborn earth,

the double vibration of a jew’s harp in the resonant lane.

Alone, what did Bloom feel?

The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing

point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the

incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

Of what did bellchime and handtouch and footstep and lonechill remind

him?

Of companions now in various manners in different places defunct: Percy

Apjohn (killed in action, Modder River), Philip Gilligan (phthisis,

Jervis Street hospital), Matthew F. Kane (accidental drowning, Dublin

Bay), Philip Moisel (pyemia, Heytesbury street), Michael Hart

(phthisis, Mater Misericordiae hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy,

Sandymount).

What prospect of what phenomena inclined him to remain?

The disparition of three final stars, the diffusion of daybreak, the

apparition of a new solar disk.

Had he ever been a spectator of those phenomena?

Once, in 1887, after a protracted performance of charades in the house

of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited with patience the apparition of

the diurnal phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the

direction of Mizrach, the east.

He remembered the initial paraphenomena?

More active air, a matutinal distant cock, ecclesiastical clocks at

various points, avine music, the isolated tread of an early wayfarer,

the visible diffusion of the light of an invisible luminous body, the

first golden limb of the resurgent sun perceptible low on the horizon.

Did he remain?

With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, reentering

the passage, reclosing the door. With brief suspiration he reassumed

the candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front

room, hallfloor, and reentered.

What suddenly arrested his ingress?

The right temporal lobe of the hollow sphere of his cranium came into

contact with a solid timber angle where, an infinitesimal but sensible

fraction of a second later, a painful sensation was located in

consequence of antecedent sensations transmitted and registered.

Describe the alterations effected in the disposition of the articles of

furniture.

A sofa upholstered in prune plush had been translocated from opposite

the door to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack (an

alteration which he had frequently intended to execute): the blue and

white checker inlaid majolicatopped table had been placed opposite the

door in the place vacated by the prune plush sofa: the walnut sideboard

(a projecting angle of which had momentarily arrested his ingress) had

been moved from its position beside the door to a more advantageous but

more perilous position in front of the door: two chairs had been moved

from right and left of the ingleside to the position originally

occupied by the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table.

Describe them.

One: a squat stuffed easychair, with stout arms extended and back

slanted to the rere, which, repelled in recoil, had then upturned an

irregular fringe of a rectangular rug and now displayed on its amply

upholstered seat a centralised diffusing and diminishing

discolouration. The other: a slender splayfoot chair of glossy cane

curves, placed directly opposite the former, its frame from top to seat

and from seat to base being varnished dark brown, its seat being a

bright circle of white plaited rush.

What significances attached to these two chairs?

Significances of similitude, of posture, of symbolism, of

circumstantial evidence, of testimonial supermanence.

What occupied the position originally occupied by the sideboard?

A vertical piano (Cadby) with exposed keyboard, its closed coffin

supporting a pair of long yellow ladies’ gloves and an emerald ashtray

containing four consumed matches, a partly consumed cigarette and two

discoloured ends of cigarettes, its musicrest supporting the music in

the key of G natural for voice and piano of _Love’s Old Sweet Song_

(words by G. Clifton Bingham, composed by J. L. Molloy, sung by Madam

Antoinette Sterling) open at the last page with the final indications

_ad libitum, forte_, pedal, _animato_, sustained pedal, _ritirando_,

close.

With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?

With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right

temple a contused tumescence: with attention, focussing his gaze on a

large dull passive and a slender bright active: with solicitation,

bending and downturning the upturned rugfringe: with amusement,

remembering Dr Malachi Mulligan’s scheme of colour containing the

gradation of green: with pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent

act and perceiving through various channels of internal sensibility the

consequent and concomitant tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual

discolouration.

His next proceeding?

From an open box on the majolicatopped table he extracted a black

diminutive cone, one inch in height, placed it on its circular base on

a small tin plate, placed his candlestick on the right corner of the

mantelpiece, produced from his waistcoat a folded page of prospectus

(illustrated) entitled Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same, examined it

superficially, rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the

candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the

latter reached the stage of rutilance, placed the cylinder in the basin

of the candlestick disposing its unconsumed part in such a manner as to

facilitate total combustion.

What followed this operation?

The truncated conical crater summit of the diminutive volcano emitted a

vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense.

What homothetic objects, other than the candlestick, stood on the

mantelpiece?

A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of 4.46

a.m. on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf

tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial

gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of

Alderman John Hooper.

What interchanges of looks took place between these three objects and

Bloom?

In the mirror of the giltbordered pierglass the undecorated back of the

dwarf tree regarded the upright back of the embalmed owl. Before the

mirror the matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper with a clear

melancholy wise bright motionless compassionate gaze regarded Bloom

while Bloom with obscure tranquil profound motionless compassionated

gaze regarded the matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle.

What composite asymmetrical image in the mirror then attracted his

attention?

The image of a solitary (ipsorelative) mutable (aliorelative) man.

Why solitary (ipsorelative)?

Brothers and sisters had he none.

Yet that man’s father was his grandfather’s son.

Why mutable (aliorelative)?

From infancy to maturity he had resembled his maternal procreatrix.

From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal

procreator.

What final visual impression was communicated to him by the mirror?

The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged

and not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles

on the two bookshelves opposite.

Catalogue these books.

_Thom’s Dublin Post Office Directory_, 1886.

Denis Florence M’Carthy’s _Poetical Works_ (copper beechleaf bookmark

at p. 5).

Shakespeare’s _Works_ (dark crimson morocco, goldtooled).

_The Useful Ready Reckoner_ (brown cloth).

_The Secret History of the Court of Charles II_ (red cloth, tooled

binding).

_The Child’s Guide_ (blue cloth).

_The Beauties of Killarney_ (wrappers).

_When We Were Boys_ by William O’Brien M. P. (green cloth, slightly

faded, envelope bookmark at p. 217).

_Thoughts from Spinoza_ (maroon leather).

_The Story of the Heavens_ by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth).

Ellis’s _Three Trips to Madagascar_ (brown cloth, title obliterated).

_The Stark-Munro Letters_ by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of

Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve)

1904, due 4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing

white letternumber ticket).

_Voyages in China_ by “Viator” (recovered with brown paper, red ink

title).

_Philosophy of the Talmud_ (sewn pamphlet).

Lockhart’s _Life of Napoleon_ (cover wanting, marginal annotations,

minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).

_Soll und Haben_ by Gustav Freytag (black boards, Gothic characters,

cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24).

Hozier’s _History of the Russo-Turkish War_ (brown cloth, 2 volumes,

with gummed label, Garrison Library, Governor’s Parade, Gibraltar, on

verso of cover).

_Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland_ by William Allingham (second edition,

green cloth, gilt trefoil design, previous owner’s name on recto of

flyleaf erased).

_A Handbook of Astronomy_ (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates,

antique letterpress long primer, author’s footnotes nonpareil, marginal

clues brevier, captions small pica).

_The Hidden Life of Christ_ (black boards).

_In the Track of the Sun_ (yellow cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent

title intestation).

_Physical Strength and How to Obtain It_ by Eugen Sandow (red cloth).

_Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry_ written in French by F.

Ignat. Pardies and rendered into Engliſh by John Harris D. D. London,

printed for R. Knaplock at the Biſhop’s Head, MDCCXI, with dedicatory

epiſtle to his worthy friend Charles Cox, eſquire, Member of Parliament

for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the

flyleaf certifying that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher,

dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requeſting the perſon who should

find it, if the book should be loſt or go aſtray, to reſtore it to

Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Enniſcorthy, county Wicklow,

the fineſt place in the world.

What reflections occupied his mind during the process of reversion of

the inverted volumes?

The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its

place: the deficient appreciation of literature possessed by females:

the incongruity of an apple incuneated in a tumbler and of an umbrella

inclined in a closestool: the insecurity of hiding any secret document

behind, beneath or between the pages of a book.

Which volume was the largest in bulk?