Urbane, to comfort them, the quaker librarian purred:

— And we have, have we not, those priceless pages of Wilhelm Meister⁽⁴.?⁴⁾ A great poet on a great brother poet. A hesitating soul taking arms against a sea of troubles, torn by conflicting doubts⁽³,³⁾ as one sees in real life.

He ⁽³made came³⁾ a step a sinkapace forward on ⁽³creaking neatsleather neatsleather creaking³⁾ and a step backward ⁽³creaking³⁾ a sinkapace on the solemn floor.

A noiseless attendant⁽³,³⁾ setting open the door but slightly⁽³,³⁾ made him a noiseless beck.

— Directly, ⁽³he said said he³⁾, creaking to go, albeit lingering. The beautiful ineffectual dreamer who comes to grief against hard facts. One always feels that Goethe's judgments are so true. True in the larger analysis.

Twicreakingly analysis he corantoed off. Bald, ⁽³most³⁾ zealous⁽³,³⁾ by the door he gave his large ear all to the attendant's words⁽³. Heard: heard³⁾ them: and was gone.

Two left.

— Monsieur de la Paliceº, Stephen sneered, was alive fifteen minutes before his death.

— Have you found those six brave medicals, John Eglinton asked with elder's gall, to write Paradise Lostº at your dictation⁽³.?^{3) |5|~}The Sorrows of Satan The Sorrows of Satanº^~| he calls it.^5|

Smile. Smile Cranly's smile.
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First he tickled her⁽³,³⁾
Then he patted her
Then he passed the female catheter
For he was a medical
Jolly old medi⁽³ …³⁾
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— I feel you would need one more for Hamlet. Seven is dear ⁽³is³⁾ to the mystic mind. The shining seven ⁽³WB W. B.³⁾ calls them.

Glittereyed⁽³,³⁾ his rufous skull close to his greencapped desklamp sought the face⁽³,³⁾ bearded amid darkgreener shadow, an ollav, holyeyed. He laughed low: a sizar's laugh of Trinity: unanswered.

Orchestral Satan, weeping many a rood
Tears such as angels weep⁽³.³⁾
Ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta⁽³.³⁾

He holds my follies hostage.

Cranly's eleven true Wicklowmen to free their sireland. Gaptoothed Kathleen⁽³,³⁾ her four beautiful green fields, the stranger in her house. And one ⁽³more³⁾ to hail him: ⁽³ave, rabbi: ave, rabbi.^{3) (3}the The³⁾ Tinahely twelve. In the shadow of the glen he cooees for them. My ⁽³Soul's soul's³⁾ youth I gave him, night by night. ⁽³God speed Godspeed³⁾. Good hunting.

⁽³Folly. Persist. Mulligan has my telegram.³⁾

⁽³Mulligan has my telegram. Folly. Persist.³⁾

— Our young Irish bards, John Eglinton censured, have yet to create a figure which the world will set beside Saxon Shakespeare's Hamlet though I admire him, as old Ben did, on this side idolatry.

— All these questions are purely academic, Russell ⁽³said oracled³⁾ out of his shadow. I mean, ⁽³if whether³⁾ Hamlet is Shakespeare or James I or Essex. ⁽³Clergymen's ^|11Clergyman's Clergymen's^11|3) discussions of the historicity of Jesus. Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. The painting of Gustave Moreau is the painting of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our ⁽³minds mindº³⁾ into contact with the eternal wisdom, Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.
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⁽³A. E. has been telling some ^|6yankee^6| interviewer.^{3) (3}Well Wall³⁾, tarnation strike me^|4.!^{4| (3}A.E has been telling an interviewer.³⁾

— The schoolmen were schoolboys ⁽³once first³⁾, Stephen said superpolitely. Aristotle was once Plato's ⁽³prize³⁾ schoolboy.

— And has remained so, one should hope, John Eglinton sedately said. One can see him⁽³. A prize, a model³⁾ schoolboy with his diploma under his arm.
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He laughed again at the now smiling bearded face.

Formless spiritual. Father, ^|6Son Word^6| and Holy Breath. ^|5Allfather, the heavenly man. Hiesos Kristos, magician of the beautiful^|6, the Logos who suffers ^|ain us^a| at every moment^6|.^5| This verily is that. I am the fire upon the altar. I am the sacrificial butter.

Dunlop, Judge, the noblest Roman of them all, A. E.⁽³,³⁾ Arval^|5, the Name Ineffable,^5| in heaven hight⁽³:,³⁾ K. H^|11.^11|, their master^|6, whose identity is no secret to adepts^6|. ^|6Adepts Brothers^6| of the great white lodge always watching to see if they can help. The Christ with the bridesister, moisture of light, born of ^|6a anº ensouled^6| virgin, repentant sophia, departed to the plane of buddhi. ^|5The life esoteric is not for ordinary person. O. P. must work off bad karma first.^5| Mrs Cooper Oakley once glimpsed our very illustrious sister H. P. B's elemental.

O, fie! Out on't! ^|4Pfuiteufel! Pfuiteufel!^4| You naughtn't to look, missus, so you naughtn't when a lady's ashowing of her elemental.

Mr Best entered, tall, young, mild, light. He bore in his hand with grace a notebook, new, large, clean, bright.

— That model schoolboy, Stephen said, would find ⁽³Hamlet Hamlet's³⁾ musings about ⁽³the afterlife of³⁾ his princely soul, the improbable, insignificant and undramatic monologue, as shallow as Plato's.

John Eglinton, frowning, said, waxing wroth:

— Upon my word it makes my blood boil to hear anyone compare Aristotle with Plato.

— Which of the two, Stephen asked, would have banished ⁽³Shakespeare me³⁾ from his commonwealth⁽³.?³⁾

Unsheathe your dagger definitions. ^|6Horseness is the whatness of allhorse.^6| Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise
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in the street: very peripatetic. Space: what you damn well have to see. Through spaces smaller than red globules of man's blood they creepycrawl after Blake's buttocks into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow. Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

Mr Best came forward, amiable, towards his colleague.

— Haines is gone, he said.

— Is he?

— I was showing him Jubainville's book. He's quite enthusiastic, don't you know, about Hyde's Lovesongs of Connacht. I couldn't bring him in to hear the discussion. He's gone to Gill's to buy it.
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⁽³Bound thee, forth, my booklet quick Bound thee forth, my booklet, quick^3)
(3To greet the callous public, To greet the callous public.^3)
(3Writ, I ween, 'twas not my wish Writ, I ween, 'twas not my wish^3)
(3In lean unlovely English. In lean unlovely English.³⁾

— The peatsmoke is going to his head, John Eglinton opined.

We feel in England. Penitent thief. Gone. I smoked his baccy. Green twinkling stone. An emerald set in the ring of the sea.

— People do not know how dangerous lovesongs can be, the auric egg of Russell ⁽³said warned³⁾ occultly. The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother. The rarefied air of the academy and the arena produce the sixshilling novel, the musichall song.º France produces the finest flower of corruption in Mallarmé but the desirable life is revealed only to the poor of heart, the life of Homer's ⁽⁴Phaeecians Phaeaciansº⁴⁾.

From these words Mr Best turned an unoffending face to Stephen.

— Mallarmé, don't you know, he said, has written those wonderful prose poems Stephen MacKenna used to read to me in Paris. The one about Hamlet. He says: ⁽³il se promène, lisant au livre de lui-même il se promène, lisant au livre de lui-même³⁾, don't you ⁽³know know³⁾, ⁽³reading the book of himself reading the book of himself³⁾. He describes Hamlet given in a French town, don't you know, a provincial town. They advertised it.

His free hand graciously wrote tiny signs in air.
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Hamlet

ou

Le Distrait

⁽³pièce de Shakespeare ^|5pièce Pièce^5| de Shakespeare³⁾

He repeated to John Eglinton's newgathered frown:

— Pièce de Shakespeare, don't you know. It's so French⁽³. The, the³⁾ French point of view. Hamlet ou …

— The absentminded beggar, Stephen ended.

John Eglinton laughed.

— Yes, I suppose it would be, he said. Excellent people, no doubt, but distressingly shortsighted in some matters.

Sumptuous and stagnant exaggeration of murder.
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— A deathsman of the soul Robert Greene called him, Stephen said. Not for nothing was he a butcher's son,º wielding the sledded poleaxe and spitting in his ⁽³palms palmº³⁾. Nine lives are taken off for his father's one.º Our Father who art in purgatoryº. Khaki Hamlets don't hesitate to shoot. The ^|9bloodboltered^9| shambles in act five is a forecast of the concentration camp sung by ⁽³Algy Mr³⁾ Swinburne.

⁽³Cranly, I his mute orderly, follows followingº battles from afar.³⁾

Whelps and dams of murderous foes whom none
But we had spared …

^|8Between the Saxon smile and yankee yawp. The devil and the deep sea.^8|

— He will have it that ^|5Hamlet Hamlet^5| is a ghoststory, John Eglinton said for Mr Best's behoof. Like the fat boy in Pickwick he wants to make our flesh creep.

⁽³List! List! O list! List! List! O list!³⁾

My flesh hears him: creeping, hears.

If thou didst ever …

— What is a ghost? Stephen said with tingling energy. One who
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has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners. Elizabethan London lay as far from Stratford as corrupt Paris lies from virgin Dublin. Who is the ghost ^|9from limbo patrum^9|, returning to the world that has forgotten him? Who is ⁽³King king³⁾ Hamlet?

John Eglinton shifted his spare body, leaning back to judge.

Lifted.

— It is this hour of a ^|6June day day in mid June^6|, Stephen said, begging with a swift glance their hearing. The flag is up on the playhouse by the bankside. The bear Sackerson growls in the ⁽³bearpit pit³⁾ near it, Paris garden. Canvasclimbersº who sailed with Drake chew their sausages among the groundlings.

Local colour. Work in all you know. Make them accomplices.

— Shakespeare has left the huguenot's house in Silver street and walks by the swanmews along the riverbank. But he does not stay to feed the pen chivying her ⁽³brood game of cygnets³⁾ towards the rushes. The swan of Avon has other thoughts.

Composition of place. Ignatius Loyola, make haste to help me!
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— The play begins. A player comes on under the shadow, ^|9clad made up^9| in the castoff mail of a court buck, a wellset man with a bass voice. It is the ghost, ^|6the^{6| (3}King king^{3) |6}Hamlet^6|(3:,^{3) |8}aº king and no king,^8| and the player is Shakespeare ^|6who has studied Hamlet all the years of his life which were not vanity in order to play the part of the spectre^6|. He speaks the words ⁽³of his part³⁾ to Burbage, the young player who stands before him ^|9beyond the rack, of cerecloth^9|, calling him by a name⁽³,:³⁾

Hamlet, I am thy father's spirit⁽³,³⁾

bidding him list. To a son he speaks, the son of his soul, the prince, young Hamlet and to the son of his body, ^|6Hamlet Hamnet^6| Shakespeare^|6,^6| who has died in Stratford that his namesake may live for ever.

Isº it possible that that player Shakespeare, a ghost by absence, and in the vesture of ⁽³the elder Hamlet buried Denmark³⁾, a ghost by death, speaking his own words to his own son's name (had ^|6Hamlet Hamnet^6| Shakespeare lived he would have been prince Hamlet's twin) is it possible ⁽³or probable³⁾, I want to know,
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⁽³or probable³⁾ that he did not draw or foresee the logical conclusion of those premises⁽³?: you are the dispossessedº son^|5.:^5|3) I am the murdered father: ⁽³you are the dispossessed son:³⁾ your mother is the guilty queen, Ann Shakespeare, born Hathaway?

— But this prying into the family life of a great man, Russell began impatiently.

Art thou there, truepenny?

— Interesting only to the parish clerk. I mean, we have the plays. I mean when we read the poetry of King Lear what is it to us how the poet lived? As for living^|5,^5| our servants can do that for us, Villiers de l'Isle ^|11has^11| said. Peeping and prying into ⁽³the³⁾ greenroom gossip of the day, the poet's drinking, the ⁽³poets' poet's³⁾ debts. We have King Lear⁽³. And: and³⁾ it is immortal.

Mr Best's face,º appealed to, agreed.

Flow over them with your waves and with your waters, Mananaan,
Mananaan MacLir ….º

^|6By the way How now^6|(3,^{3) |9}sirrah,^9| that pound he lent you when you were hungry?

^|6Marry,^6| I wanted it.

Take thou this noble.

^|6Go to!^6| You spent most of it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter. ^|9Agenbite of inwit.^9|
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Do you intend to pay it back?

O, yes.

When? Now?

Well … ⁽³No no³⁾.

When, then?

I paid my way. I paid my way.

Steady on. He's from ^|6north of beyant^6| Boyne water. ^|6The northeast corner.^6| You owe it.

Wait. Five months. Molecules all change. I am other I now. Other I got pound.

Buzz. Buzz.

But I, entelechy, form of forms, am I by memory ^|6because^6| under ⁽³everchanging ^|7ever changing everchanging^7|3) forms.
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I that sinned and prayed and fasted.

A child Conmee saved from pandies.

I, I and I. ⁽³I.³⁾

A. E. I. O. U.

— Do you mean to fly in the face of the tradition of three centuries⁽³,?³⁾ John Eglinton's carping voice asked. Her ghost at least has been laid for ever. She died, for literature at least, before she was born.

— She died, Stephen retorted, sixtyseven years after she was born. She saw him into and out of the world. She took his first embraces. She bore ⁽³and bred³⁾ his children and she ⁽³put laid³⁾ pennies on his eyes to keep his eyelids closed when he lay on his deathbed.

Mother's deathbed. Candle. The sheeted mirror. Who brought me into this world lies there, bronzelidded, under few cheap flowers. Liliata rutilantium.

I wept alone.

John Eglinton looked in the tangled glowworm of his lamp.

— The world believes that Shakespeare made a mistake, he said, and got out of it as quickly and as best he could.

— Bosh! Stephen said rudely. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

^|6Portal Portals^6| of discovery opened to let in the quaker librarian, softcreakfooted, ⁽³bald, eared and³⁾ assiduous⁽³, bald and eared³⁾.

— A shrew, John Eglinton said shrewdly, is not a useful portal of discovery, one should imagine. What useful discovery did Socrates learn from ⁽³his wife³⁾ Xanthippe?
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— Dialectic, Stephen answered: and from his mother how to bring ^|5thought thoughts^5| into the world. ^|6What he learnt from his other wife Myrto (absit nomen!),º Socratididion's Epipsychidion, no man, not a woman, will ever know.^6| But neither the midwife's lore nor the caudlelectures saved him from the archons of Sinn Fein and their ⁽³cup naggin³⁾ of hemlock.

— But Ann Hathaway? Mr Best's quiet voice said forgetfully. Yes, we seem to ⁽³have forgotten be forgetting³⁾ her as Shakespeare himself forgot her.

His ⁽³face look³⁾ went from brooder's beard to carper's skull, to remind, to
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chide them ⁽³kindly not unkindly³⁾, then to the ⁽³pinkbald quaker pumpkin baldpink lollard costard³⁾, guiltlessº though maligned.

— He had a good groatsworth of wit, Stephen said, and no truant memory. He carried a memory in his wallet as he trudged to Romeville whistling The ⁽³Girl girl³⁾ I left behind me. If the earthquake did not time ⁽³Venus and Adonis it³⁾ we should know where to place poor Wat, sitting in his form⁽³;,^{3) |6}the cry of hounds,^6| the studded bridle and her blue windows. That memory⁽³, Venus and Adonis,³⁾ lay in the bedchamberº of every light-of-love in London. Is Katharine the shrew illfavoured? Hortensio calls her young and beautiful. Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?º Good: he left her and gained the world of men⁽³:.³⁾ But his boywomen are the women of a boy. Their life, thought, speech are lent them by males. He chose badly? He was chosen, it seems to me. If others have their will Ann hath a way. By cock, she was to blame. She put the comether on him, sweet and twentysix. The ^|6greyeyed^6| goddess who bends over the boy Adonis^|6,^{6| |5}stooping to conquer^|6,^{6| |9}as prologue to the swelling act,^9|5| is a boldfaced Stratford wench who tumbles in a cornfield a lover younger than herself.

And my turn? When?

Come!

— Ryefield, Mr Best said brightly, gladly, raising his new book, gladly, brightly.

He murmured then with blond delight for all:

— Betweenº the acres of the rye
These pretty countryfolk would lie⁽³.³⁾

Paris: the wellpleased pleaser.
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A tall figure in bearded homespun rose from ⁽⁴its⁴⁾ shadow and ⁽³unchained unveiled³⁾ its cooperative watch.

— I am afraid I am due at the Homestead.

Whither away? Exploitable ground.

— Are you going⁽³?,³⁾ John Eglinton's ^|6active^6| eyebrows asked. Shall we see you at Moore's tonight⁽³.?³⁾ Piper is coming.
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— Piper! Mr Best ⁽³said piped³⁾. Is Piper back?

Peter Piper pecked a peck of pick of peck of pickled pepper.

— I don't know if I can. Thursday. We have our meeting. If I can get away in time.

Yogibogeybox in ⁽³Dawsons Chambers Dawson chambers³⁾. Isis Unveiled. Their Pali book we tried to pawn. Crosslegged under an umbrel umbershoot he ⁽³broods thrones³⁾ an Aztec logos, functioning on astral levels, ^|5their oversoul,^5| mahamahatma. The faithful hermetists await the light, ^|6ripe for chelaship,^6| ringroundabout him. Louis⁽³,³⁾ H. Victory. T. Caulfield Irwin. Lotus ladies ⁽³watch tend them i'the eyes,^{3) (3}the their³⁾ pineal glands aglow. Filled with his god⁽³,³⁾ he thrones, Buddh under plantain. Gulfer of souls, engulfer. Hesouls, shesouls, shoals of souls. Engulfed with wailing creecries, whirled, whirling, they bewail.

⁽³In quintessential triviality In quintessential triviality^3)
(3For years in this fleshcase a shesoul dwelt For years in this fleshcase a shesoul dwelt.³⁾

— They say we are to have a literary surprise, the quaker librarian said, friendly and earnest⁽³.³⁾ Mr Russell, rumour has it, ⁽³has gathered is gathering³⁾ together a sheaf of our younger poets' verses. We are all looking forward anxiously.

Anxiously he glanced in the cone of lamplight where three ⁽³lighted faces faces, lighted,³⁾ shone.

See this. Remember.

Stephen looked down on a wide headless caubeen, hung on his ⁽⁴ashplant handle ashplanthandle⁴⁾ over his knee. My casque and sword. ^|9Touch lightly with two index fingers. Aristotle's experiment. One or two? Necessity is that in virtue of which it is impossible that one can be otherwise. Argal, one hat is one hat.^9|

Listen.

Young Colum and Starkey. George Roberts is doing the commercial part. Longworth will give it a good puff in the Express. O, will he? I liked Colum's ⁽³Drover ^|6drover Drover^6|3). Yes, I think he has that queer thing⁽³,³⁾ genius. Do you think he has genius really? Yeats admired his ⁽³phrase as line: As³⁾ in wild earth a Grecian vase. Did he?
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I hope you'll be able to come tonight. Malachi
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Mulligan is coming too. Moore asked him to bring Haines. Did you hear Miss Mitchell's joke about Moore and Martyn⁽³.?³⁾ That Moore is Martyn's wild oats? Awfully clever, isn't it? They remind one of ⁽³Don don³⁾ Quixote and Sancho Panza. Our national epic has yet to ⁽³come be written^|6, Dr Sigerson says^6|3). Moore is the man for it. A knight of the rueful countenance here in Dublin. With a saffron kilt? O'Neill Russell? O, yes, he must speak the grand old tongue. And his Dulcinea? James Stephens is doing some clever sketches. We are becoming important, it seems.

Cordelia. ⁽³Cordoglio Cordoglio³⁾. Lir's loneliest daughter.

^|9Nookshotten.^9| Now your best French polish.

— Thank you very much, Mr Russell, Stephen said, rising. If you will be so kind as to give the letter to Mr Norman …

— O, yes. If he considers it important ⁽³of course³⁾ it will go in. We have so much correspondence.

— I understand, Stephen said. ^|9Thank you Thanks^9|.

^|9God ild you.^9| The pigs' paper. Bullockbefriending.

Syngeº has promised me an article for Dana too. Are we going to be read? I feel we are. The Gaelic ⁽³League league³⁾ wants something in Irish. I hope you will come round tonight. Bring Starkey.

Stephen sat down.

The quaker librarian came from the leavetakers. Blushing⁽³,³⁾º his mask said:

— Mr Dedalus, your views are most illuminating.

He creaked to and fro, ^(errtiptoing tiptoeingº^err) up ⁽³nearer heaven by³⁾ the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said ⁽³low³⁾:

— Is it your view, then, that she was not faithful to the poet?

Alarmed face asks me. Why did he come? Courtesy or an ⁽⁴inner inward⁴⁾ light?

— Where there is a reconciliation, Stephen said, there must have been first a sundering.

— Yes.

Christfox in leather trews, hiding, a runaway in blighted treeforks from hue and cry. Knowing no vixen, walking lonely in the chase.
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Women he won to him, tender people, a whore of Babylon, ⁽³justices' ladies ladies of justices³⁾, ⁽³wives of tapsters bully tapsters' wives³⁾. Fox and geese. And in New ⁽³Place ^(errplace Placeº¹³⁾³⁾ a slack dishonoured body that once was comely, once as sweet, as fresh as cinnamon, now her leaves falling, all, bare, frighted of the narrow grave and unforgiven.

— Yes. So you think …

The door closed behind the outgoer.
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Rest^|11,^11| suddenly⁽³,³⁾ possessed the discreet vaulted cell, ⁽³the³⁾ rest of warm and brooding air.

A vestal's lamp.

Here he ponders things that were not: what Caesarº would have ⁽³done lived to do³⁾ had he believed the soothsayer: what might have been: possibilities of the possible as possible: ⁽³on³⁾ things not known: what name Achilles bore when he lived among women.

Coffined thoughts around me, in ⁽³mummy cases mummycases³⁾, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. And I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest. ⁽³In “painted chambers loaded with tilebooks” In painted chambers loaded with tilebooks³⁾.

They are still. Once quick in the ⁽³live³⁾ brains of men. Still: but ⁽³the an³⁾ itch of death is in them, to tell me in my ear a maudlin tale, urge me to wreak their will.

— Certainly, John Eglinton mused, of all great men he is the most enigmatic. We know nothing but that he lived and suffered. ⁽³Not even so much. Others abide our question.³⁾ A shadow hangs over all the rest.

— But Hamletº is so personal, isn't it⁽³,?³⁾ Mr Best pleaded. I mean, a kind of ⁽³personal³⁾ private paper, don't you know, of his private life. I mean⁽³,³⁾ I don't care a button, don't you know, who is killed or who is guilty …

He rested an innocent book⁽³, smiling his defiance,³⁾ on the edge of the desk⁽³, smiling his defiance³⁾. His private papers ^|6in the original^6|. Ta an bad ar an tir. Taim ⁽³in mo imo^{3) (3}sagart shagart³⁾. ⁽³In my priest.^{3) (3}Littlejohn, put Put³⁾ beurlaº on it⁽³, littlejohn³⁾.

⁽³Littlejohn Eglinton said Quoth littlejohn Eglinton³⁾:

— I was prepared for paradoxes from what Malachi Mulligan told ⁽³me us³⁾ but I may as well warn you that if you want to shake my belief that Shakespeare is Hamlet you have a stern task before you.
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Bear with me.

Stephen withstood the bane of miscreant eyes⁽³,³⁾ glinting ⁽³from under³⁾ stern ⁽³under³⁾ wrinkled brows. ⁽³Basilisk eyes A basilisk³⁾. E quando vede l'uomo l'attosca. Messer Brunetto, I thank thee for the word.

— As we, or ⁽³mother³⁾ Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image. And as the mole on my right ⁽³shoulder breast³⁾ is where it was when I was born, though all my body has been woven of new stuff time after time, so through the ghost of the unquiet father the image of the unliving son looks forth. In the intense instant of imagination, ⁽³wherein when³⁾ the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal,º that which I was is that which I am and that which in possibility I ⁽³shall may³⁾ come to be. So⁽³,³⁾ in the future, ⁽³the³⁾ sister of the past, I ⁽³see that I shall may³⁾ see
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myself as I sit here now ⁽³today³⁾ but by reflection from that which then I shall be.

Drummond of Hawthornden helped you at that stile.

— Yes, Mr Bestº said youngly.º I feel Hamlet quite young. The bitterness might be from the father but the passages with Ophelia are surely from the son.

Has the wrong sow by the ⁽³ear lug³⁾. ^|7He is in ^|ahis my^a| father. I am in ^|amy his^a| son.^7|

— That mole is the last to go, Stephen said, laughing.

⁽³John Eglinton made a nothing pleasing mow.³⁾

— If that were the birthmark of genius, ⁽³John Eglinton he³⁾ said ⁽³with a sour mow³⁾, genius would be a drug in the market. The plays of Shakespeare's later years which Renan admired so much breathe another spirit.

— The spirit of reconciliation, the quaker librarian ⁽³said appeasingly breathed³⁾.

— There can be no reconciliation, Stephen said, if there has not been a sundering.

Said that.

— If you want to know what are the events which cast their shadow over the ⁽³period ⁽⁴hell of⁴⁾ time³⁾ of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet,º Troilus and ^|5Cressida Cressida,º^5| look to see when and how the shadow lifts. What softens the heart of a man, shipwrecked in ^|6life's storms, tried storms dire, Tried^6|, like another Ulysses, Pericles, prince of Tyre?

Head, redconecapped, buffeted, brineblinded.
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— A child, a girl⁽³,³⁾ placed in his arms, Marina.

— The leaning of sophists towards the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity, John Eglinton detected. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town.

Good Bacon: ⁽³smoked gone³⁾ musty. ⁽³Shakespeare Bacon's wild oats.º³⁾ Cypherjugglers going the highroads. ^|5Seekers on the great quest.^5| What town, good masters? Mummed in names: ^(errA. E, A. E.,º^err) eon: Magee, John Eglinton. East of the sun, west of the moon: ⁽³Tir nan Og Tir ^|11nan Og na n-og^11|3). Booted the twain and staved.

How many miles to Dublin?
Three score and ten, sir.
Will we be there by candlelight?

— Mr Brandes accepts it, Stephen said, as the first play of the closing period.

— Does he? What does Mr Sidney Lee, or Mr Simon Lazarus⁽³,³⁾ as some aver his name is, say of it?

— Marina, Stephen said, a child of storm, Miranda, a wonder, Perdita, that which was lost. What was lost is given back to him: his daughter's child.
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My dearest wife, Pericles says, was like this maid. Will any man love the daughter if he has not loved the mother?

— The art of being a grandfather, Mr Best ⁽³murmured gan murmur³⁾. ⁽³L'art d'être grandp …º³⁾

—⁽³⇑^{3) (3}Will he not see reborn in her, with the memory of his own youth added, another image?³⁾

⁽³⇑^{3) (3}Do you know what you are talking about? Love, yes. Word known to all men. Amor vero aliquid alicui bonum vult unde et ea quae concupiscimus  …³⁾

— His own image to a man with that queer thing genius is the standard of all experience, material and moral. Such an appeal will touch him. The images of other males of his ⁽³brood blood³⁾ will repel him. He will see in them grotesque attempts of nature to foretell or ⁽³to³⁾ repeat himself.

The benign forehead of the quaker librarian enkindled rosily with hope.

— I hope Mr Dedalus will work out his theory for the enlightenment of the public. And we ought to mention another Irish commentator⁽³,^{3) |11}Mr George Bernard Shaw. Nor should we forget^11| Mr Frank Harris. His articles on Shakespeare in the Saturday Review were surely brilliant. Oddly enough he too draws for us an unhappy relation with the dark
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lady of the sonnets. The favoured rival is William Herbert, earl of Pembroke. I own that if the poet ⁽³is to must³⁾ be rejectedº such a rejection would seem more in harmony with — what shall I say? — our notions of what ought not to have been.

Felicitously he ceased and held a meek head among them, auk's egg, prize of their fray.

He thous ⁽³and theesº³⁾ her with grave husbandwords. Dost love, Miriam? Dost love thy man?

— That may be too, Stephen said. There is a saying of Goethe's which Mr Magee likes to quote. Beware of what you wish for in youth because you will get it in middle life. Why does he send to one who is a ⁽³buonaroba buonaroba³⁾, a bay where all men ride, a maid of honour with a scandalous girlhood, a lordling to woo for him⁽³.?³⁾ He was himself a lord of language and had made himself a coistrel gentleman and ⁽³he³⁾ had written Romeo and Juliet. Why? Belief in himself has been untimely killed. He was overborne in a cornfield first⁽³,³⁾ (aº ryefield, I should say) and he will never be a victor in his own eyes after⁽³.^{3) (3}Nor nor³⁾ play victoriously the game of laugh and lie down. Assumed dongiovannism will not save him. No later undoing will undo the first undoing. ^|5The tusk of the boar has wounded him there where love lies ableeding.^5| If the shrew is worsted ^|11yet^11| there remains to her woman's invisible weapon. There is, I feel in the words, some goad of the flesh driving him into a new passion, a darker shadow of the first, darkening ⁽³also even³⁾ his own understanding of himself. A like fate awaits him and the ⁽³double two³⁾ rages commingle in a whirlpool.

They ⁽³listen list³⁾. And in the porches of their ears I pour.

— ⁽³The soul has been before stricken mortally, a poison poured in the
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porch of a sleeping ear.^{3) (3}Those But those³⁾ who are done to death in sleep cannot know the manner of their quell unless ⁽³the creator endows their Creator endow³⁾ their souls with that knowledge in the life to come. ⁽³The soul has been before stricken mortally, a poison poured in the porch of a sleeping ear.³⁾ The poisoning and the ⁽³lust beast with two backs³⁾ that urged it ⁽³the ghost of King Hamlet king Hamlet's ghost³⁾ could not know of were ⁽³it he³⁾ not endowed with knowledge by ⁽³its his³⁾ creator. That is why the speech ^|6(^|aa his^a| lean unlovely English)^6| is always turned elsewhere, backward. Ravisher and ravished^|9, what he would but would not,^9| go with him from ⁽³Lucrece to Imogen Lucrece's bluecircled ivory globes to Imogen's breast,
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bare, with its mole cinquespotted³⁾. He goes back, weary of the creation he has piled up to hide ⁽³himself him³⁾ from himself, ⁽³to lick his an old dog licking an old³⁾ sore. But, because loss is his gain, he passes on towards eternity in undiminished personality, untaught by the wisdom he has ⁽³uttered written³⁾ or by the laws he has revealed. His beaver is up. He is a ghost⁽³,³⁾ a shadow now ⁽³or,³⁾ the wind ⁽³around by³⁾ Elsinore's rocks or ⁽³what you will,³⁾ the sea's voice, a voice heard only in the heart of him who is the substance of his shadow, the son consubstantial with the father.

— Amen! ⁽³was³⁾ responded from the doorway.

Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?

^|9Entr'acte.^9|

A ribald face, sullen ⁽³an instant as a dean's³⁾, Buck Mulligan came forward, ⁽³then³⁾ blithe in ⁽³his³⁾ motley⁽³,³⁾ towards the greeting of their smiles. My telegram.

— You were speaking of the gaseous vertebrate⁽³,³⁾ if I mistake not? he asked of Stephen.

Primrosevested he greeted gaily with his doffed Panama as with a bauble.

They make him welcome. ^|6Was Du verlachst wirst Du noch dienen.^6|

Brood of mockers: Photius, pseudo Malachiº, Johann Most.

He Who Himself begot⁽³,^{3) (3}middles middler³⁾ the Holy Ghost⁽³,³⁾ and Himself sent Himself, ^|6agenbuyer Agenbuyer^6|, between Himself and others, Who, put upon by His fiends, stripped and whipped, was nailed like ^|11a^11| bat ⁽³on to^{3) |11}a^11| barndoor, starved on crosstree, Who let Him bury, stood up, harrowed hell, fared into heaven and there these nineteen hundred years sitteth on the right hand of His Own Self but yet shall come in the latter day to doom the quick and dead when all the quick shall be dead already.

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⁽³Glo-ria in ex-cel-sis De-o ⁽⁷Glo-ria Glo—o—ri—a⁷⁾ in ex—cel—sis De—o³⁾.
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He lifts his hands. Veils fall. O, flowers! Bells with bells with bells aquiring.

— Yes, indeed, the quaker librarian said. A most ⁽³interesting instructive³⁾ discussion. Mr Mulligan, I'll be bound, has his theory too of the play and of Shakespeare. All sides of life should be represented.

He smiled on all sides equally.

Buck Mulligan⁽³,³⁾ thought, puzzled:

— Shakespeare? he said. I seem to know the name.

A flying sunny smile rayed in his loose features.

— To be sure, he said, remembering brightly. The chap that writes like Synge.

Mr Best turned to him⁽³.:³⁾

— Haines missed you, he said. Did you meet him? He'll ⁽³meet see³⁾ you after at the D. B. C. He's gone to Gill's to buy Hyde's Lovesongs of Connacht.

— I came through the museum, Buck Mulligan said. Was he here?

— The bard's fellowcountrymen, John Eglinton answered, are rather tired perhaps of our brilliancies of theorising. I hear that an actress ^|6is playing played^{6| (3}Hamlet Hamlet^{3) |6}for the fourhundredandeighth time last night^6| in Dublin. ⁽³Vining held that the prince was a woman.³⁾ Has no-one made him out to be an Irishman? ^|6Judge Barton, I believe, is searching for some clues.^6| He swears ^|7(His Highness not His Lordship)^7| by saint Patrick.

— The most brilliant of all is that story of Wilde's, Mr Best said, lifting his brilliant notebook. That Portrait of Mr W.H. where he proves that the sonnets were written by a Willie Hughes, a man all hues.

— For Willie Hughes, is it not? the quaker librarian asked.

Or ⁽³Hughy Hughie³⁾ Wills⁽³?.^{3) |6}Mr William Himself. W. H: who am I?^6|

— I mean, for Willie Hughes, Mr Best said, amending his gloss easily. Of course it's all paradox, don't you know, Hughes and hews and hues⁽³,³⁾ the colour, but it's so typical the way he works it out. It's the very essence of Wilde, don't you know. The light touch.

His glance touched their faces lightly as he smiled, a blond ephebe. Tame essence of Wilde.
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You're ⁽³damn darned³⁾ witty. Three drams of usquebaugh you drank with Dan Deasy's ducats.

How much did I spend⁽³.?³⁾ O, ⁽⁴a⁴⁾ few shillings.

For a plump of pressmen. Humour wet and dry.

⁽³Witty Wit³⁾. You would give your five wits for ⁽³his³⁾ youth's proud livery⁽³, he pranks in.^{3) (3}the lineaments Lineaments³⁾ of gratified desire.
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⁽³There be many mo.³⁾ Take her for me. In pairing time. ⁽³Jove, a cool ruttime send them.³⁾ Yea, turtledove her.

Eve. ⁽³O naked Naked³⁾ wheatbellied sin. A snakeº coils her⁽³. Fang, fang³⁾ in's kiss.

— Do you think it is only a paradox⁽³?,³⁾ the quaker librarian was asking. The mocker is never taken seriously when he is ⁽³most³⁾ serious.

They talked seriously of mocker's seriousness.

Buck Mulligan's again heavy face eyed Stephen awhile. Then, ⁽³shaking³⁾ his head ⁽³wagging³⁾, he came near, drew a folded telegram from his pocket. His mobile lips read, smiling with new delight.

— Telegram! heº said. Wonderful inspiration! Telegram! A papal bull!

He sat on a corner of the unlit desk, reading aloud joyfully:

— The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done. Signed: Dedalus. Where did you launch it from⁽³.?³⁾ The kips? No. College Green. Have you drunk the four quid? ^|6The aunt is going to call on your unsubstantial father.^6| Telegram! Malachi Mulligan, Theº Ship, ⁽³Middle lower³⁾ Abbey ⁽³Street street³⁾. O, you peerless mummer! O, you priestified ⁽³Kinchite kinchite³⁾!

Joyfully he thrust message and envelope into ⁽³his a³⁾ pocket but ⁽³crooned keened³⁾ in ⁽³a³⁾ querulous brogue:

— It's what I'm telling you, mister honey, it's queer and sick we were, Haines and myself, the time himself brought it in. ^|6'Twas murmur we did for a gallus potion would rouse a friar, I'm thinking, ^|7blank and he limp with leching.^7|6| And we one hour and two hours and three hours in Connery's sitting civil waiting for pints apiece.

⁽³⇒³⁾ He wailed ⁽³softly³⁾:

⁽³—³⁾ And we to be there⁽³, mavrone,³⁾ and you to be unbeknownst sending ^|6us^6| your conglomerations the way we to have our tongues out a yard long like the drouthy clerics do be fainting for a pussful.
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Stephen laughed.

Quickly ⁽³and,³⁾ warningfully Buck Mulligan bent down⁽³.:³⁾

— The tramper Synge is looking for you, he said, to murder you. He heard you pissed on his halldoor in Glasthule. He's out ⁽³in pampooties³⁾ to murder you ⁽³in pampooties³⁾.

— Me! Stephen exclaimed. That was your contribution to literature.

Buck Mulligan gleefully bent back, laughing ⁽³up at to³⁾ the dark eavesdropping ceiling.

— Murder you! he laughed.

Harsh gargoyle face that warred against ⁽³me³⁾ over our mess of hash of
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lights in ⁽³rue Saint André des Arts ^|5rue saint André des Arts ^|6rue saint André-des-Arts rue Saint-André-des-Arts^6|5|3). In words of words for words, palabras. Oisin with Patrick. Faunman he met in Clamart woods, brandishing a winebottle. ⁽³C'est vendredi saint! C'est vendredi saint!^{3) |6}Murthering Irish.^6| His image, wandering, he met. I mine. I met a fool i'the forest.

— Mr Lyster, an attendant said ⁽³with fromº³⁾ the door ajar.

— … in which everyone can find his own. So Mr Justice Madden in his Diary of Master Williamº Silence has found the hunting terms … Yes? What is it?

— There's a gentleman here, sir, the attendant said, coming forward and offering a card. From the Freeman. He wants to see the files of the Kilkenny People for last year.

— Certainly, certainly, certainly. Is the gentleman …?º

He took the eager card, glanced, not saw, laid down⁽³,³⁾ unglanced⁽³,³⁾ looked, asked, creaked, asked:

— Is he …?º O, there!

Brisk ⁽³as in³⁾ a galliard he was off⁽³, and³⁾ out. In the daylit corridor he talked with ⁽³all the voluble³⁾ pains of zeal⁽³,³⁾ in duty bound, most fair, most kind, most honest broadbrim.

— This gentleman? Freeman's Journal? Kilkenny People?º To be sure. Good day, sir. Kilkenny … We have certainly …

A patient silhouette waited, listening.

— Allº the leading provincial⁽³. …³⁾ Northern ^|5Whig. Whig,º^5| Cork ^|5Examiner. Examiner,º^5| Enniscorthy Guardian.º ⁽³Last year.³⁾ 1903 … Will you ⁽³please … please …?º³⁾ Evans, conduct this gentleman … If you just follow the atten … Or⁽³,³⁾ please allow me … This way … Please, sir …
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Voluble, dutiful, he led the way ⁽⁴toº⁴⁾ all the ⁽³principal provincial³⁾ papers, a bowing ⁽³dark³⁾ figure following his hasty heels.

The door closed.

— The sheeny! Buck Mulligan cried.º

He jumped up and snatched the card.

— What's his name? Ikey Moses? Bloom.

He rattled on:º

— Jehovah, collector of prepuces, is no more. I found him over in the museum whereº I went to hail the foamborn Aphrodite. The Greek mouth that has never been twisted in prayer. Every day we must do homage to her. Life of life, thy lips enkindle⁽³ ….³⁾

Suddenly he turned to Stephen⁽³.:³⁾

— He knows you⁽³, he said³⁾. He knows your old fellow. O, I fear me, he is Greeker than the Greeks. His pale Galilean eyes were upon her ⁽³fatty parts mesial groove³⁾. Venus
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⁽³Callipyge, the world's desire ^|11Kalipyge Kallipyge^11|3). O, the thunder of those loins! The god pursuing,º the maiden hid.

— We want to hear more, John Eglinton decided with Mr Best's approval. We begin to be interested in Mrs S. Till now we had thought of her, if at all, as a patient Griselda, a Penelope ⁽³stay-at-home stayathomeº³⁾.

— Antisthenes, pupil of Gorgias, Stephen said, ^|6whose works are probably^6| took the palm of beauty from Kyrios Menelaus' ^|7broodmare brooddam^7|, Argive Helen, ^|6the wooden mare of Troy in whom a score of heroes slept,^6| and handed it to poor Penelope. Twenty years he lived in London and, during part of that time, he drew a salary equal to that of the lord chancellor of Ireland. His life was rich. His art, more than the art of feudalism⁽³,º³⁾ as Walt Whitman called it, is the art of surfeit. Hot herringpies, green mugs of sack, honeysauces, ^|9sugar of roses, marchpane,^9| gooseberried pigeons, ringocandies. Sir Walter Raleigh, when they arrested him, had half a million francs on his back ^|5including a pair of fancy stays^5|. The gombeenwoman Eliza Tudor had underlinen enough to vie with her of Sheba. Twenty years he dallied there ^|7between conjugial love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures^7|. You know ⁽⁴Bannington's Manningham's⁴⁾ story of the burgher's wife who bade Dick Burbage to her bed after she had seen him in ⁽³Richard III Richard III³⁾ and how Shakespeare⁽³,
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overhearing,^{3) |6}without more ado about nothing,^6| took the cow by the horns and, when Burbage ⁽³knocked came knocking ^|7at the gate^7|3), answered from the ^|6capon's^6| blankets⁽³:^{3) (3}“William the conqueror came first” William the conqueror came before Richard III³⁾. And ^|9the gay lakin,^9| mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, and his dainty birdsnies, lady Penelope Rich, ^|9a ^|aclean^a| quality woman is suited for a player,^9| and the punks of the bankside⁽³,³⁾ a penny a time.

⁽³Cours la Reine ^|5Cours la Reine ^|6Cours-la-Reine Cours-la-Reine^6|5|.³⁾

⁽³⇑^{3) (3}Encore vingt sous. Nous ferons des petites cochonneries. Minette? Tu veux? Encore vingt sous. Nous ferons ^|5des de^5| petites cochonneries. Minette? Tu veux?³⁾

— The height of fine society. And sir William Davenant of Oxford's mother with her cup of canary for ⁽³any cock canary every cockcanary³⁾.

Buck Mulligan⁽³, his pious eyes upturned,³⁾ prayed ⁽³with pious eyes³⁾:

— Blessed Margaret Mary Anycock!

— And Harry of six wives' daughter⁽³. And and³⁾ other lady friends from neighbour seats⁽³,³⁾ as Lawn Tennyson, gentleman poet, ⁽³has it sings³⁾. But all those twenty years what do you suppose poor Penelope in Stratford was doing behind the diamond panes?

Do and do. Thing done. ⁽³Thing done.³⁾ In ⁽³A a³⁾ rosery of Fetter laneº of Gerard, herbalist, he walks, greyedauburn. An azured harebell like her veins. ⁽³Violets, the lids Lids³⁾ of Juno's eyes⁽³, violets³⁾. He walks. One life is all. One body. Do. But do. Afar, in a reek of lust⁽³, in and³⁾ squalor, hands are laid on whiteness.
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Buck Mulligan rapped John Eglinton's desk sharply.

— Whom do you suspect? he ⁽³said challenged³⁾.

— Say that he is the spurned lover in the sonnets. Once spurned twice spurned. But the court wanton spurned him for a lord, ⁽³dear my love his dearmylove³⁾.

Love that dare not speak its name.

— As an Englishman, you mean, John sturdy Eglinton put in, he loved a lord.

Old wall where sudden lizards flash. At Charenton I watched them.

— It seems so, Stephen said, when he wants to do for him, and for all other and singular uneared wombs, the ^|6holy^6| office an ostler does for the stallion. Maybe, like Socrates, he had a midwife to mother as he had a shrew to wife. But she, the ^|9giglot^9| wanton, did not break a bedvow. Two deeds are rank in that ghost's mind⁽³:³⁾ a broken vow and
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the dullbrained yokel on whom her favour has declined^|6,^{6| |5}deceased husband's brother^5|. Sweet ⁽³Anne Ann³⁾,º I take it, was hot in the blood. Once a wooer⁽³,³⁾ twice a wooer.

Stephen turned boldly in his chair.

— The burden of proof is with you not with me, he said⁽³,³⁾ frowning. If you deny that in the ⁽³blank fifth³⁾ scene ⁽³in of³⁾ Hamlet he has branded her with infamy^|11,^11| tell me why there is no mention of her during the thirtyfour years between the day ⁽³he she³⁾ married ⁽³her him³⁾ and the day she buried him. ⁽³All those women saw their men down and under: Mary, her goodman John, Ann, her ^|6William poor dear Willun^6|, when he ^|11went and^11| died on her, ^|5raging that he ^|6is was^6| the first to go,^5| Joan, her four brothers, Judith, her husband and all her sons, Susan, her husband too⁽⁴,º⁴⁾ while Susan's daughter, Elizabeth, to use granddaddy's words, wed her second, having killed her first.³⁾

⁽³⇒³⁾ O,º yes, ⁽³mention³⁾ there is. In the years when he was living richly in royal London to pay a debt she had to borrow ⁽³five bob forty shillings³⁾ from her father's shepherd. Explain you then. Explain the swansong too wherein he has commended her to posterity.

He faced their silence.

To whom thus Eglinton:

⁽³⇒³⁾ Youº mean the will.
⁽³But that That³⁾ has been explained, I believe, by jurists.
She was entitled to her widow's dower
At common law. His legal knowledge was great
Our judges tell us.
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Him Satan fleers,

Mocker:
And therefore he left out her name
From the first draft but he did not leave out
The presents for his granddaughter, for his daughters,
For his sister, for his old cronies in Stratford
And in London. And therefore when he was urged,
As I believe, to name her
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He left her his
Secondbest
Bed.

⁽³Punkt Punkt³⁾.º

Leftherhis
Secondbest
Leftherhis
Bestabed
Secabest
Leftabed⁽³.³⁾

Woa!

— Pretty countryfolk had few ⁽⁴chattles chattels⁴⁾ then, John Eglinton observed, as they have still if our peasant plays are true to type.

— He was a rich ⁽³country gentleman countrygentleman³⁾, Stephen said, with a coat of arms and landed estate ⁽³at Stratford and a house in Ireland yard, a capitalist shareholder, a bill promoter, a tithefarmer³⁾. Why did he not leave her his best bed if he wished her to snore away the rest of her nights in peace?

— It is clear that there were two beds, ⁽³a best and a secondbest,³⁾ Mr ⁽³Secondbest³⁾ Best said finely.

— Separatio a mensa et a thalamo, ^|11said bettered^11| Buck Mulligan and was smiled on.

— Antiquity mentions famous beds, ^|11John Second^11| Eglinton puckered, bedsmiling.º Let me think.

^|6— ^|aAntiquity mentions^{a| |7}That that^7| Stagyrite ^|7school urchin schoolurchin and ^|abald^a| heathen sage^7|, Stephen said, who when dying in exile frees and endows his slaves, pays tribute to his elders, wills to be laid in earth near the bones of his ^|adead^a| wife and bids his friends be kind to an old mistress (don't forget Nell Gwynn Herpyllis) and let her live in his villa.^6|
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— Do you mean he died so? Mr Best asked with ^|6slight^6| concern. I mean …
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— He died dead drunk, Buck Mulligan ^|11stated capped^11|. A quart of ale is a dish for a king.º O, I must tell you what Dowden said!

— What? asked Besteglinton.

William Shakespeare and company, limited. The people's William. For terms apply: ⁽³Edward E.³⁾ Dowden, Highfield house …

— Lovely! Buck Mulligan suspired amorously. I asked him what he thought of the charge of pederasty brought against the bard. He lifted his hands and said: All we can say is that life ran very high in those days. Lovely!

Catamite.

— The sense of beauty leads us astray, ^|5Mr Best with some sadness said said beautifulinsadness Best to ugling Eglinton^5|.

^|6Steadfast John replied severe:

— The doctor can tell us what those words mean. You cannot eat your cake and have it.^6|

^|9Sayest thou so?^9| Will they wrest from us, from me,º the palm of beauty?

— And the sense of property, Stephen said. He drew Shylock out of his own long pocket. The son of a maltjobber and moneylender he was himself a cornjobber and moneylender⁽³,³⁾ with ten tods of corn hoarded in ^|6the^6| famine ^|6years riots^6|. His borrowers are no doubt ⁽³the unread those³⁾ divers of worship mentioned by Chettle Falstaff who reported his uprightness of dealing. He sued a fellowplayer for the price of a few bags of malt and exacted his pound of flesh in interest for every money lent. How ⁽³can else³⁾ could Aubrey's ostler and callboy get rich quick? All events brought grist to his mill. Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive: Hamlet and Macbeth with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting. The lost armada is his jeer in Love's Labour Lost. His pageants, the histories, sail fullbellied on a tide of Mafeking enthusiasm. ⁽³Warwickshire jesuits are tried and we have a porter's theory of equivocation. The Sea Venture comes home from Bermudas and the play Renan admired is written with Patsy Caliban,
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our American cousin.^{3) (3}His The³⁾ sugared sonnets follow Sidney'sº. As for ⁽³fay Elizabeth, ^|6otherwise carrotty Bess,^6|3) the gross virgin who inspired ⁽³the ⁽⁴the The⁴⁾³⁾ Merry Wives of Windsor^(err,º^{err) (3}let her be.^{3) (3}A Meinherr from Almany will be her champion let some meinherr from Almany grope his life long for deephid meanings in the depths of the buckbasket³⁾.

I think you're getting on very nicely. Just mix up a mixture of ⁽³mixed theolololigical philolol theolologicophilolological³⁾. ⁽³Mingo, minxi, mictum, mingere Mingo, minxi, mictum, mingere³⁾.
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— Prove that he was a jew, John Eglinton dared, expectantly. Your dean of studies holds he was a holy Roman.

⁽³Sufflamindanus Sufflaminandus³⁾ sum.

— He was made in Germany, Stephen replied, as the champion French polisher of Italian scandals.

— A myriadminded man, Mr Best reminded. Coleridge called him myriadminded.

Amplius. In societate humana hoc est maxime necessarium ut sit amicitia inter multos.

— Saint Thomas, Stephen began …

— Ora pro nobis, ⁽³Buck Monk³⁾ Mulligan groaned, sinking to a chair.

⁽³He keened to There he keened³⁾ a ⁽³wailing³⁾ rune.

— ^|6Pogue mahone! Acushla machree!^6| It's destroyed we are from this day⁽³,!^{3) (3}It's ^|11It is It's^11|3) destroyed we are surely⁽³.!³⁾

All smiled ⁽³their smiles.³⁾

— Saint Thomas, Stephen⁽³,³⁾ smiling⁽³,³⁾ said, ^|6whose ^|9gorbellied^9| works I enjoy reading in the original,^6| writing of incest from a ⁽³standpoint ^|7stand point standpoint^7|3) different from that of the ^|6new^6| Viennese school Mr Magee spoke of, likens it in his wise and curious way to an avarice of the emotions. He means that the love so given to one near in blood is covetously withheld from ⁽³a some³⁾ stranger who, it may be, hungers for it. Jews, whom christians tax with avarice, are of all races the most given to intermarriage. ⁽³But accusations Accusations³⁾ are made in anger. The christian laws which built up the hoards of the jews (for ⁽³whom³⁾, ⁽³like as for³⁾ the lollards, storm was ⁽³their³⁾ shelter) bound their affections too with hoops of steel. Whether these be sins or virtues old Nobodaddy will tell us at ⁽³the³⁾ doomsday leet. But a man who holds so tightly to what he calls his rights over what he calls his debts will hold tightly also to what he calls his rights over
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her whom he calls his wife. No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his maidservant or his jackass.

— Or ⁽³his³⁾ jennyass, Buck Mulligan antiphoned.

— Gentle Willº is being roughly handled, ⁽³gently gentle³⁾ Mr Best said gently.

— Which will?º ^|9asked gagged^{9| (3}sweetlyº³⁾ Buck Mulligan. We are getting mixed.

— The will to live, John Eglinton philosophised⁽³. Poor, for poor³⁾ Ann, Will's widow, is the will to die.

— ⁽³Requiescat, Requiescat!³⁾ Stephen ⁽³said prayed³⁾.
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⁽³⇒ What of all the will to do?
It has vanished long ago …³⁾

⁽³—³⁾ She lies laid out in stark stiffness in that secondbest bed^|9, the mobled queen,^9| even though you prove that a bed in those days was as rare as a motorcar is now and that its carvings were the wonder of seven parishes. In old age she takes up with gospellers (one stayed ⁽³with her³⁾ at New Place and drank a quart of sack the town ⁽³council³⁾ paid for but in which bed he slept it skills not ⁽³to ask³⁾) and heard she had a soul. ^|6She read or had read to her his chapbooks preferring them to the Merry Wives and^|9, loosing her nightly waters on the jordan, she^9| thought over Hooks and Eyes for Believers' Breeches and The Most Spiritual Snuffbox to ^|7make Make^7| the Most Devout Souls Sneeze^|7.^7|6| Venus has twisted her lips in prayer. Agenbite of inwit⁽³,:³⁾ remorse of conscience. It is an age of exhausted whoredom groping for its god.

— ⁽³That appears History shows that³⁾ to be true, ⁽³John Eglinton said, chronolologos inquit ^|6Eglinton Eglintonus^6| Chronolologos³⁾. The ages succeed one another. But ⁽³it has been said we have it on high authority³⁾ that a man's worst enemies shall be those of his own house and family. I feel that ⁽³A. E. Russell³⁾ is right. What do we care for his wife ⁽³or and³⁾ father?º I should say that only family poets have family lives. Falstaff was not a family man. I feel that the fat knight is his supreme creation.

Lean, he lay back. Shy, deny thy kindred, the unco guid. Shy,º supping with ⁽³blasphemers the godless³⁾, he sneaks the cup. A sire in Ultonian Antrim bade it him. Visits him here ⁽³at on³⁾ quarter ⁽³tense daysº³⁾. Mr Magee, sir, there's
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a gentleman to see you. Me? Says he's your father, sir. Give me ⁽³a my³⁾ Wordsworth. Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged^|6,^6| rough^|6,^6| rugheaded kern, ^|11in strossers with a buttoned codpiece,^11| his nether ⁽³socks signed stocks bemired³⁾ with clauber of ten forests, a ^|7wand of^7| wilding in his hand.

Your own? He knows your old fellow. ^|9The widower.^9|

Hurrying to her squalid deathlair from gay Paris on the quayside I touched his hand. The voice, new warmth, speaking. Dr Bob Kenny is attending her. The eyes that wish me well. But do not know me.

— A father, Stephen said, battling ⁽³with³⁾ against hopelessness, is a necessary evil. He wrote the play in the months that followed his father's death. If you hold that he, a greying man with two marriageable daughters⁽³,³⁾ with ⁽³thirty five thirtyfive³⁾ years of life, ⁽³nel mezzo del cammin nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita³⁾, ⁽³and with³⁾ fifty of experience^(err,º^err) is the beardless undergraduate from Wittenbergº then you must hold that his seventyyear old mother is the lustful queen. No. The corpse of John Shakespeare does not walk the night. From hour to hour ⁽³he it³⁾ rots and rots. He rests,
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disarmed of fatherhood, having devised that mystical estate upon his son. Boccaccio's Calandrino was the first and last man who felt himself with child. Fatherhood, in the sense of conscious begetting, is unknown to man. It is a mystical estate, an apostolic succession, from only begetter to only begotten. On ⁽³this that³⁾ mystery and not on the madonna ⁽³whom which³⁾ the cunning Italian intellect flung to the mob of Europe the church is founded and founded irremovably because founded, like the world, macro and microcosm, upon the void. Upon incertitude, upon unlikelihood.º Amor matris, subjective and objective genitive, may be the only true thing in life. Paternity may be a legal fiction. Who is the father of any son that any son should love him or he any son?

What the hell are you driving at?

I know. Shut up. Blast you⁽³.!³⁾ I have reasons.

⁽³Amplius. Adhuc. Rursus. Postea. Amplius. Adhuc. Iterum. Postea.³⁾

Are you condemned to do this?

— They are sundered by ^|6a^6| bodily shame so steadfast that the criminal annals of the world, stained with all other incests and bestialities⁽³,º^{3) |6}do not hardly^6| record its breach⁽³. Sons^|6: sons. Sons^6|3) with mothers, sires with
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daughters, ⁽³lesbic sisters, loves that dare not speak their name,³⁾ nephews with grandmothers, ^|9lunatics ga jailbirds with keyholes,^9| queens with prize bulls. The ⁽³unborn son son unborn³⁾ mars beauty⁽³,:³⁾ born, he brings pain, divides affection, increases care. He is a ⁽³new³⁾ male: his growth is his father's decline, his youth his father's envy, his friend his father's enemy.

⁽³In ^|5rue Monsieur le Prince rue Monsieur-le-Prince^5| I thought it.³⁾

⁽³—³⁾ What links them in nature? An instant of blind rut.

Am I a father? If I were?

Shrunken uncertain hand.

— Sabellius, the African, subtlest ⁽³of heresiarchs heresiarch of all the beasts of the field,³⁾ held that the Father was Himself His Own Son. The bulldog of Aquin, with whom no word shall be impossible, refutes him. Well⁽³,:³⁾ if the father who has not a son be not a father can the son who has not a father be a son? When ⁽³Rutland-Bacon-Southampton-Shakespeare Rutlandbaconsouthamptonshakespeare ^|5or another poet of the same name ^|6in the comedy of errors^6|5|3) wrote Hamlet he was not the father of his own son merely but⁽³,³⁾ being no more a son, he was and felt himself the father of all his race, the father of his own grandfather, the father of his unborn grandson who, by the same token, never was born for nature, as Mr Magee understands her, abhors perfection.

Eglintoneyes, quick with pleasure, looked up shybrightly. ^|5Gladly glancing, a merry puritan, through the twisted eglantine.^5|
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Flatter. Rarely. But flatter.

— Himself his own father, ⁽³Buck Mulligan Sonmulligan³⁾ told himself. Wait. I am big with child. I have an unborn child in ⁽³Minerv³⁾ my brain. Pallas Athena! A play! The play's the thing! Let me parturiate!

He clasped his paunchbrow with both birthaiding hands.

— As for his family, Stephen said, his mother's name lives in the forest of Arden. Her death brought from him the scene with Volumnia in Coriolanus. His boyson's death ⁽³is³⁾ the deathscene of ^|s5prince young^s5| Arthur in King John. Hamlet⁽³,^{3) (3}The the³⁾ black prince⁽³,³⁾ is ^|6Hamlet Hamnet^6| Shakespeare. Who the girls ⁽³are³⁾ in The Tempest, in Pericles, in Winter's Tale ⁽³are³⁾ we know. ⁽³who Venus and who Cressid Who ⁽⁴Cleopatra, fleshpot of Egypt, and⁴⁾ Cressid and Venus are³⁾ we may guess. But there is another member of his family who is recorded.
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— The plot thickens, John Eglinton said.

The quaker librarian ⁽³here,³⁾ quaking⁽³,³⁾ tiptoed in, quake, his mask, quake, with haste, quake, quack.

⁽³Closed door Door closed³⁾. Cell. Day.

They list. Three. They.

I you he they.

^|9Come, mess.^9|

^|s5Stephen Stephen^s5|

He had three brothers, Gilbert, Edmund, Richard. Gilbert in his old age told some cavaliers he ^|9got a ^|afree pass pass for ^|11nought nowt from Maister Gatherer^11|a| one time mass he did and he ^|10saw^10|9| seen his brud ^|9Maister Wull the playwriter up in Lunnon^{9| (3|9}one time^9| in a ^|9wrastling^9| play³⁾ wud a man ^|9on his on's^9| back ⁽³in a play one time³⁾. The playhouse sausage filled Gilbert's soul. ⁽³He is nowhere: but^{3) (3}An an³⁾ Edmund and a Richard are recorded in the ⁽³plays works³⁾ of ⁽⁴sweet⁴⁾ William.

^|s5Johneglinton ^|11Johneglinton Mageeglinjohn^11|s5|

Names! What's in a name?

^|s5Best Best^s5|

That is my name, Richard⁽³, don't you know³⁾. I hope you are going to say ⁽³something favourably about a good word for³⁾ Richard, ⁽³for my sake,³⁾ don't you know⁽³, for my sake³⁾.

(⁽³laughter ^|s5laughter Laughter^s5|.³⁾)

^|s5Buckmulligan Buckmulliganº^s5|

(⁽³piano, piano diminuendo ^|s5piano. Piano,^s5| diminuendo.³⁾)

⁽³There once was a medical Dick
Who possessed a phenomenal — stick
Though burly and blunt … Then outspoke medical Dick
To his comrade medical Davy …³⁾

^|s5Stephen Stephen^s5|

In his trinity of ⁽³stagevillains black Wills, the villain shakebags, Iago,³⁾ Richard Crookback, ⁽³Iago,³⁾ Edmund in ⁽³King Lear King Lear³⁾, two bear ^|6his brothers' the wicked uncles'^6| names.
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Nay, that ⁽³last³⁾ play was written or being written while his brother Edmund ⁽³was lay³⁾ dying in Southwark.

^|6⇑^{6| |s5}Johneglinton ^|6Johneglinton^6|s5|

^|6⇑^{6| (3}I thank ^|6I give thanks to^{6|3) |6}providence there was no brother^{6| (3}John. ^|6of my name.^6|3)

^|6⇑^{6| (3}(laughter) ^|s5(laughter.) ^|6(Laughter.)^6|s5|3)

^|s5Best Best^s5|

I hope Edmund is going to catch it. I don't want Richard, my name …

^|6(Laughter.)^6|

^|s5Quakerlyster Quakerlyster^s5|

⁽³(^|s5a A^s5| tempo.)³⁾ But he that filches from me my good name …

^|s5Stephen Stephen^s5|

⁽³(^|s5stringendo Stringendo^s5|.)³⁾ He has hidden his own name⁽³, a fair name, William,³⁾ in the plays, a super here, a clown there, as a painter ⁽³in of³⁾ old Italy ⁽³put set³⁾ his face in a dark corner of his canvas. He has revealed it in the sonnets where there is ⁽³will Will³⁾ in overplus. Like John o' Gauntº his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat ⁽³and crest of arms³⁾ he toadied for, ⁽³on a bend sable a spear or steeled argent, honorificabilitudinitatibus,³⁾ dearer than his glory of ⁽³the³⁾ greatest shakescene in the country. What's in ⁽³his a³⁾ name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. A star, ⁽³a star shining by day a daystarº³⁾, a firedrake⁽³,³⁾ rose at his birth. It shone by day in the heavens alone⁽⁴,^{4) (3}brighter than Venus in the night,³⁾ and by night it shone over delta in Cassiopeia, the recumbent constellation which is the signature of his initial among the stars. ⁽³Pillar of cloud and pillar of fire, eh?³⁾ His eyes watched it, lowlying on the horizon, eastward of the bear, as he walked by the slumberous summer fields at midnight⁽³,³⁾ returning from Shottery and from her arms.

Both satisfied. I too.

⁽³Don't tell them he was nine years old when it was quenched.³⁾
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⁽³And from her arms.³⁾

Wait to be wooed and won. Ay, ^|9imbecile meacock^9|. Who ⁽³would will³⁾ woo you?

Read the skies. ⁽³Autontimorumenos. Bous Stephanoumenos. Autontimorumenosº. Bous Stephanoumenos.³⁾ Where's your configuration? ^|6Stephen, Stephen, cut the bread even.^6| S. D: ⁽³sua donna sua donnaº³⁾. ⁽³Già: di lui. Gelindo risolve di non amare S. D. Già: di lui. Gelindo risolve di non amareº S. D.³⁾
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— What is that, Mr Dedalus? the quaker librarian asked. Was it a celestial phenomenon?

— A star by night, Stephen said⁽³. A, a³⁾ pillar of the cloud by day.

What more's to ⁽³say speak³⁾?

Stephen looked on his hat, his stick, his boots.

⁽³My Stephanos, my³⁾ crown. My sword. His boots are spoiling the shape of my feet. Buy a pair. Holes in my socks. ⁽³Handkerchief too.³⁾

— You make good use of the name, John Eglinton allowed. Your own ⁽³name³⁾ is strange enough. I suppose it explains your fantastical humour.

Me, Magee and Mulligan.

Fabulous artificer⁽³. The, the³⁾ hawklike man. You flew. Whereto? Newhaven-Dieppe, steerage passenger. Paris and back. Lapwing. Icarus. ⁽³Pater, ait Pater, ait³⁾. Seabedabbled, fallen⁽³,^3)|6,^6| weltering. Lapwing you are. Lapwing be.

Mr Best eagerquietly lifted his book to say:

— That's very interesting because that brother motive, don't you know, we find also in the old Irish myths. Just what you say. The three brothers Shakespeare. In Grimm too, don't you know, the ⁽³fairytale fairytales³⁾. The third brother that ⁽³alwaysº³⁾ marries the sleeping beauty and ⁽³gets wins³⁾ the best prize ⁽³always³⁾.

Best of Best brothers. Good, better, best.

The quaker librarian ⁽³came anear springhalted near³⁾.

— I should like to know, he said, which brother you … I understand you to suggest there was misconduct with one of the brothers … But perhaps I am anticipating?

He caught himself in the act: looked at all: refrained.

An attendant from the doorway called:

— Mr Lyster! Father Dineenº wants …

— O⁽³,!³⁾ Father Dineen! Directly.

Swiftly rectly creaking rectly rectly ⁽³rectly³⁾ he was rectly gone.

John Eglinton touched the foil.

— Come, he said. Let us hear what you have to say of Richard and Edmund. You kept them for the last, didn't you?
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— In asking you to remember ⁽⁴those two noble kinsmen⁴⁾ nuncle Richie
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and nuncle Edmund, Stephen answered, I feel I am asking too much perhaps. A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella.

Lapwing.

Where is your brother? Apothecaries' ⁽³Hall hall³⁾. My whetstone. Him, then Cranly, Mulligan: now these. Speech, speech. But act. Act speech. They mock to try you. Act. ⁽³Be acted on.³⁾

Lapwing.

I am tired of my voice^|7|a. The, the^a| voice of Esau^7|. ^|6My kingdom for a drink.^6|

On.

— You will say those names were already in the chronicles from which he took the stuff of his plays. Why did he take them rather than others? Richard, a ^|6whoreson^6| crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a widowed Ann ⁽³(what's in a name?)³⁾, woos and wins her^|5, a ^|6whoreson^6| merry widow^5|. Richard the conqueror⁽⁴, third brother,⁴⁾ came after William the conquered. The other four acts of ⁽³the that³⁾ play hang limply from that first. Of all his kings Richard is the only king unshielded by Shakespeare's reverence, the angel of the world. Why is the underplot of ⁽³King Lear King Lear³⁾ in which Edmund figures lifted out of Sidney's ⁽³Arcadia Arcadia³⁾ and spatchcocked on to a Celtic legend older than history⁽³.?³⁾

— That was Will's way, John Eglinton defended. We should not now combine a Norse saga with an excerpt from a novel by George Meredith. ⁽³Que voulez-vous? Que voulez-vous?^{3) (3}George³⁾ Moore would say. He puts Bohemia on the seacoast and makes Ulysses quote Aristotle.

— Why? Stephen answered himself. Because the theme of the false or the usurping or the adulterous brother or all three in one is to Shakespeare⁽³,^3)|7,^7| what the poor ⁽³are is³⁾ not, always with him. The note of banishment,⁽³banished banishment³⁾ from the heart, ⁽³banished banishment³⁾ from ⁽³the³⁾ home, sounds uninterruptedly from The Two Gentlemenº of Verona onward till Prospero ⁽³lays down his wand and burns his books breaks his staff, buries it certain fathoms in the earth and drowns his book³⁾. It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself^|9, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe^9|. ⁽³It repeats itself again when he is near the grave, when his married daughter Susan, chip of the old block, is accused of adultery.³⁾ But it
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was ⁽³an the³⁾ original sin that darkened his understanding, weakened his will and left in him a strong inclination to evil. The words are those of ⁽³the my³⁾ lords bishops of Maynooth⁽³. An — anº³⁾ original sin and, like original sin, committed by another in ⁽³whom whose sin³⁾ he ⁽³too has³⁾ sinned. It is between the lines of his last written words, it is petrified on his tombstone under which her four bones are not to be laid. Age has not withered it. Beauty and peace have not done it away. It is in
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infinite variety everywhere in the world he has created, in Much Ado about Nothing, twice in As You Likeº It, in The Tempest, in Hamlet, in Measure for Measure — andº in ^|9all^9| the other plays which I have not read.

He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage.

Judge Eglinton summed up.

— The truth is midway, he affirmed. He is the ghost and the prince ⁽³too³⁾. He is all in all.

— ⁽³Yes He is³⁾, Stephen said. The boy of act one ⁽³becomes a is the³⁾ mature man ⁽³in of³⁾ act five. All in all. In Cymbeline⁽³,³⁾ in Othello he is ⁽³pimp bawd³⁾ and cuckold. He acts and is acted on. ^|6Lover of an ideal or a perversion^|7,^7| like José he kills the real Carmen.^6| His unremitting intellect is the ^|9hornmad^9| Iago ceaselessly willing that the moor in him shall suffer.

— Cuckoo! ⁽³cuckoo Cuckoo³⁾! ^|6Buck ^|11Bird Cuck^11|6| Mulligan ⁽³cooed softly clucked lewdly³⁾. O word of fear!

⁽³Dark dome received, reverbed.³⁾

— And what a character is Iago! undaunted John Eglinton exclaimed. When all is said Dumas ^(4|errfils filsº^13|4) (or is it ⁽⁴Victor Hugo Dumas ^|errpère pèreº^13|4)?) is right. After God Shakespeare has created most.

— Man delights him not nor woman neither, Stephen said. He returns after a life of absence to that spot of earth where he was born, where he has ⁽³always³⁾ been^|6, man and boy,^{6| (3}always³⁾ a silent witness⁽³.³⁾ and there, his journey of life ended, he plants his ⁽³mulberry tree mulberrytree in the earth³⁾. Then dies. ^|9The motion is ended.^9| Gravediggers bury Hamlet ⁽³père and Hamlet fils^{3) (3}and they buried Hamlet's father³⁾. ^|6A king and a prince at last in death^|9, with incidental music^9|. And, what though murdered and betrayed, bewept by every all frail tender hearts for, Dane or Dubliner, sorrow for the dead is the only husband from whom they refuse to be divorced.^6| If you like the ^|9last scene epilogue^9|
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look long on it: prosperous ⁽³Propero Prospero³⁾, the good man ⁽³rewarded³⁾, Lizzie, grandpa's lump of love, and nuncle Richie, the bad man taken off by ⁽³providence poetic justice³⁾ to the place where the bad niggers go. ^|9Strong curtain.^9| He found in ⁽³his the³⁾ world without as actual ⁽³that which what³⁾ was in his world within as possible. Maeterlinck says: ^|6If Socrates leave his house today he will find the sage seated on If Socrates leave his house today he will find the sage seated on^{6| (3}the doorstep. ^|6his doorstep, his doorstep^|err,.º^{13|6|3) |6}If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will go Ifº Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend^6|. Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves⁽³,³⁾ meeting robbers, ⁽³giants, ghosts ghosts, giants³⁾, old men, young men, wives^|6, widows, brothers-in-love^6|,º butº always meeting ourselves. The ⁽³dramatist playwright³⁾ who wrote ^|6the folio of^6| this world and wrote it badly (He gave us light first and the sun two days later), the lord of things as they are whom the most Roman of catholics call dio boia, hangman god, is ⁽³also doubtless³⁾ all in all in all of us, ostler and butcher⁽³,³⁾ and would be ⁽³coupler bawd³⁾ and
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cuckold ⁽³also too³⁾ but that in the economy of heaven⁽³, foretold by Hamlet,³⁾ there are no more marriages, ⁽³the³⁾ glorified man^|9, an androgynous angel,^9| being a wife unto himself.

— ⁽³Eureka! Eureka!º³⁾ Buck Mulligan cried. ⁽³Eureka! Eureka!³⁾

⁽³At once Suddenly³⁾ happied⁽³,³⁾ he jumped up and reached in a stride John Eglinton's desk.

— May I? he said. ⁽³The Lord has spoken to Malachi.³⁾

He began to scribble on a slip of paper.

⁽³Take some slips from the counter going out.³⁾

— Those who are married, Mr Best^|11,^{11| (3}douceº herald,³⁾ said ⁽³quoted³⁾, all save one, shall live. The rest shall keep as they are.

He laughed, unmarried, at ⁽³John³⁾ Eglinton ⁽³Johannes³⁾, of arts a bachelor.

⁽³Uncaught Unwed³⁾, unfancied, ⁽³they ware³⁾ of wiles, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew.

— You are a delusion, said roundly John Eglinton to Stephen. You have brought us all this way to show us a French triangle. Do you believe your own theory?

— No, Stephen said promptly.

— Are you going to write it?º Mr ⁽³Bests Best³⁾ asked. You ought to make it a dialogue, don't you know, like the ⁽³Platonian Platonic³⁾ dialogues Wilde wrote.

John ^|6Eglinton Eclecticonº^{6| |6}smiled doubly doubly smiled^6|.
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— Well, in that case, he said, I don't see why you should expect payment for it since you don't believe it yourself. Dowden believes there is ⁽³a some³⁾ mystery in Hamlet but will say no more. ⁽³Piper met that man in Berlin,^{3) (3}the Mr Herr³⁾ Bleibtreu ⁽³I mentioned. He, the man Piper met in Berlin^|6,^6| who is working up that Rutland theory,³⁾ believes ⁽³that³⁾ the secret is hidden in the Stratford monument. ⁽³The Rutland theory.³⁾ He is going to visit the present duke⁽³, Piper says, and prove to him that his ancestor wrote the plays. It will come as a surprise to his grace³⁾. But he believes his theory.

I believe, O Lord, help my unbelief. That is, help me to believe or help me to unbelieve? Who helps to believe? ⁽³I myself Egomen³⁾. Who to unbelieve? Other chap.

— You are the only contributor to Dana who asks for pieces of silver. Then I don't know about the next number. Fred Ryan wants space for an article on economics.

⁽³Fred Ryan Fraidrine³⁾. Two pieces of silver he lent me. ⁽³To tide Tide³⁾ you over. Economics.

— For a guinea, Stephen said, you can publish this interview.

Buck Mulligan stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and then gravely said, honeying malice:
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— I called upon the bard Kinch at his summer residence in ⁽³upper³⁾ Mecklenburgh street and found him deep in the study of the Summa contra Gentiles in the company of two gonorrheal ladies, Fresh Nelly and Rosalie, the coalquay whore.

He broke away.

— Come, Kinch. Come, wandering Aengusº of the birds.

Come, Kinch⁽³. You, you³⁾ have eaten all we left. Ay. I will serve you your orts and offals.

Stephen rose.

Life is many days. This will end.

— We shall see you tonight, John Eglinton said. Notre ami Moore says Malachi Mulligan must be there.

Buck Mulligan ⁽³waved flaunted³⁾ his slip and panama.

— ⁽³Monsieur Moore, he said,^{3) (3}Lecturer lecturer³⁾ on French letters to ⁽³young Ireland, he said the youth of Ireland³⁾. I'll be there. Come, Kinch, the bards must drink. Can you walk straight?
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Laughing⁽³,³⁾ he …

Swill till ⁽³midnight eleven³⁾. Irish nights entertainment.

Lubber …

Stephen followed a lubber …

One day in the national library we had a ⁽³I a³⁾ discussion. Shakes. After⁽³.^{3) (3}His his³⁾ lub back⁽³:³⁾ I followed. ^|9I gall his kibe.^9|

⁽³Stephen, greeting, then all amort, followed^{3) (3}A a³⁾ lubber jester⁽³, a wellkempt head, newbarbered,³⁾ out of the vaulted cell ⁽³out of³⁾ into ⁽³a³⁾ shattering daylight of no ⁽³thought thoughts³⁾.

What ⁽³did I learn have I learned³⁾? Of them? Of me?

Walk like Haines now.

The constant readers' room. In the readers' book Cashel Boyle O'Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell parafes his polysyllables. Item⁽³,:³⁾ was Hamlet mad? The quaker's pate godlily with a priesteen in booktalk.

^|6— O please do, sir … I shall be most pleased …^6|

^|6Amused Buck Mulligan mused in pleasant murmur with himself, selfnodding:

— A pleased bottom.^6|

The turnstile.

Is that …?º Blueribboned hat …⁽³?³⁾ Idly writing …⁽³?³⁾ What⁽³ …³⁾? Looked …?º

The curving balustrade⁽³,:º³⁾ smoothsliding Mincius.
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Puck Mulligan, panamahelmeted, went step by step, iambing, trolling:

—º ⁽³John Eglinton, my jo, John John Eglinton, my jo, John,º^3)
(3Why won't you wed a wife? Why won't you wed a wife?³⁾

He spluttered to the air:

— O, the chinless Chinaman! ^|6Chin Chon Eg Lin Ton.^6| We went over to their playbox, ⁽³Haines and I,³⁾ the plumbers' hall. ^|6Our players are creating a new art ^|afor Europe^a| like the Greeks or ^|aM.^a| Maeterlinck.^6| Abbey ⁽³Theatre theatre³⁾! I smell the pubicº sweat of monks.

He spat blank.

Forgot: any more than he forgot the whipping lousy Lucy gave him. And left ⁽³her, femme de trente ans the femme de trente ans³⁾. And why no other children born? ^|5And his first child a girl?^5|
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Afterwit. Go back.

The dour recluse still there ^|6(he has his cake)^6| and the douce youngling, minion of pleasure, Phedo's toyable fair hair.

Eh … I just eh … wanted … I forgot … eh …º

— Longworth and M'Curdy Atkinson were there …

⁽³Buck Puck³⁾ Mulligan footed featly, trilling:

—º ⁽³I hardly hear a purlieu cry I hardly hear ^|9a the^9| purlieu cry^3)
(3Or a Tommy talk as I pass one by Or a Tommy talk as I pass one by^3)
(3Before my thoughts begin to run Before my thoughts begin to run^3)
(3On F. McCurdy Atkinson On F. M'Curdy Atkinson,^3)
(3The same that had the wooden leg The same that had the wooden leg^3)
(3And that filibustering filibeg And that filibustering filibegº^3)
(3That never dared to slake his drouth That never dared to slake his ^|7drought, drouth,^7|3)
(3Magee that had the chinless mouth. Magee that had the chinless mouth^|9 ….^9|3)
|9Being afraid to marry on earth
They masturbated for all they were worth.^9|

Jest on. Know thyself.

Halted⁽³,³⁾ below me, a quizzer looks at me. I halt.

— Mournful mummer, Buck Mulligan moaned. Synge has left off wearing black to be like nature. Only crows, priests and English coal are black.

A laugh tripped over his lips.
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— Longworth is awfully sick, he said, after what you wrote about that old hake Gregory. O you inquisitional drunken jewjesuitº! She gets you a job on the paper and then you go and slate her ^|6book drivel^6| to Jaysus. Couldn't you do the Yeatsº touch?

He went on and down, ^|9mopping,^9| chanting with waving graceful arms:

— The most beautiful book that has come out of ^|~5Ireland^{~|5| |6}our country^6| in my time. ^|6One thinks of Homer.^6|

He stopped at the stairfoot.

— I have conceived a play for the mummers, he said solemnly.

The pillared Moorish hall, shadows entwined. Gone the nine men's morrice with caps of indices.
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⁽³With In³⁾ sweetly varying voices Buck Mulligan read his tablet:

⁽³—⇒^{3) (3}Everyman His Own Wife Everyman His Own Wife³⁾

⁽³or or³⁾

⁽³A Honeymoon in the Hand A Honeymoon in the Hand³⁾

(⁽³a national immorality in three orgasms a national immorality in three orgasms³⁾)

⁽³by by³⁾

⁽³Ballocky Mulligan Ballocky Mulligan³⁾

He turned a happy patch's smirk to Stephen, saying:

— The disguise, I fear, is thin. But listen.

He read, ⁽³marking marcato³⁾:

⁽³—³⁾ Characters:

Toby ⁽³Tostof Tostoff³⁾ (a ruined Pole)º
Crab (a bushranger)º
Medical Dick
and
Medical Davy (two birds with one stone)º
Mother Grogan (a watercarrier)º
Fresh Nelly
⁽³and and³⁾
Rosalie⁽³,^{3) (3}(³⁾the coalquay whore⁽³)³⁾.

He laughed, lolling a to and fro head, walking on, followed by Stephen: and mirthfully he told the shadows, souls of ⁽³moors men³⁾:

— O, the night in the Camden hall ⁽³when³⁾ the daughters of Erin had to lift
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their skirts to step over you as you lay in your mulberrycoloured⁽³,³⁾ multicoloured, multitudinous vomit!

— The most innocent son of Erin, Stephen said, for whom they ever lifted them.

About to pass through the doorway, feeling one behind, he stood aside⁽³:.³⁾

Part. The moment is now. Where then? If Socrates leave his house today, if Judas go forth tonight. Why? That lies in space which I in time must come to, ineluctably.
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My will⁽³,:³⁾ his will that fronts me. Seas between.

A man passed out between them, bowing, greeting^|~5:.^~|5|

— Good day again, Buck Mulligan said.

The portico.

Here I watched the birds for augury. Aengusº of the birds. They go, they come. Last night I flew. Easily flew. Men wondered. Street of harlots after. ⁽³The A³⁾ creamfruit melon he held to me. In. You will see.

— The wandering jew, Buck Mulligan whispered with clown's awe. Did you see his eye? He looked upon you to lust after you. I fear thee, ancient mariner. O, Kinch, thou art in peril. Get thee a breechpad.

Manner of Oxenford.

Day. Wheelbarrow sun over arch of bridge.

A dark back went before them, stepº of a pard, down, out by the gateway, under portcullis barbs.

They followed.

Offend me still. Speak on.

Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street. No birds. Frail from the housetops two plumes of smoke ascended, pluming, and in a flaw of softness^|6,^6| softly were blown.

Cease to strive. Peace of the ⁽³druid ^|6druids druid^6|3) priests of Cymbeline⁽³:^3)|6,^6| hierophantic: from wide earth an altar.

⁽³Laud we the gods Laud we the gods^3)
(3And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils^3)
(3From our bless'd altars. From our bless'd altars.³⁾