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(The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown, before which stretches an uncobbled tramsiding set with skeleton tracks, red and green will-o'-the wisps and danger signals. Rows of grimy houses with gaping doors. Rare lamps with faint rainbow fans. Round a halted ice gondola stunted men and women squabble. They grab wafers between which are wedged lumps of coral and copper snow. Sucking, they scatter slowly, children. The swancomb of the gondola, highreared, forges on through the murk, white and blue under a lighthouse. Whistles call and answer.

The Calls

Wait, my love, and I'll be with you.

The Answer

Round behind the stable.

(An idiot with goggle eyes, his shapeless mouth dribbling, jerks past, shaken in Saint Vitus' dance. A chain of children's hands imprisons him)

The children

Kithogue! Salute!

The Idiot

(lifts a palsied left arm and gurgles) Ghahute!

The Children

Where's the great light?

The Idiot

(gobbling) Ghaghahest.

(They release him. He jerks on. A pigmy woman swings on a rope slung between two railings, counting. A form sprawled against a dustbin and muffled by its arm and hat snores. On a step a gnome totting among rubbish crouches to shoulder a sack of rags and bones. A crone standing by with a smoky oillamp rams her last bottle in the maw of his sack. He heaves his booty, tugs askew his peaked cap and hobbles off mutely. The crone makes back for her lair, swaying her lamp. A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up. A drunken navvy grips with both hands the railings
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of an area, lurching heavily. At a corner two night watch in shoulder capes, their hands upon their staff holsters, loom tall. A plate crashes: a woman screams: a child wails. Oaths of a man roar, mutter, cease. Figures wander, lurk, peer from warrens. In a room lit by a candle stuck in a bottleneck a slut combs out the tatts from the hair of a scrofulous child. Cissy Caffrey's voice, still young, sings shrill from a lane.

Cissy Caffrey

I gave it to Molly
Because she was jolly,
The leg of the duck,
The leg of the duck.

(Private Carr and Private Compton, swaggersticks tight in their oxters, as they march ^|4unsteadily^4| rightaboutface and burst together from their mouths a volleyed fart. Laughter of men from the lane. A hoarse virago retorts.)

The Virago

Signs on you, hairy arse. More power the Cavan girl.

Cissy Caffrey

More luck to me. Cavan, Cootehill and Belturbet. (she sings)
I gave it to Nelly
To stick in her belly,
The leg of the duck
The leg of the duck.

(Private Carr and Private Compton turn and counterretort, their tunics bloodbright in a lampglow, black sockets of caps on their blond cropped polls. Stephen Dedalus & Lynch pass through the crowd close to the redcoats

Private Compton

(jerks his finger) Way for the parson.

Private Carr

(turns and calls) What ho, parson!

Cissy Caffrey

(her voice soaring higher,)
She has it, she got it,
Wherever she put it,
The leg of the duck.

(Stephen flourishing the ashplant in his left hand, chants with joy the introit for paschal time.
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Lynch, his jockeycap low on his brow, attends him, a sneer of discontent wrinkling his face)

Stephen

Vidi aquam egredientem de templo a latere dextro. Alleluia.

(The famished snaggletusks of an elderly bawd protrude from a doorway)

The Bawd

(her voice whispering huskily) Sst! Come here till I tell you. Maidenhead inside. Sst!

Stephen

(altius aliquantulum) Et omnes ad quos pervenit aqua ista.

The Bawd

(spits in their trail her jet of venom) Trinity medicals. Fallopian tube. All prick and no pence.

(Edy Boardman, sniffling, crouched with Bertha Supple, draws her shawl across her nostrils)

Edy Boardman

(bickering) And says the one: I seen you up Faithful place with your squarepusher in the come-to-bed hat. Did you, says I. That's not for you to say, says I. You never seen me in the mantrap with a married highlander, says I. The likes of her! Stag that one is! Stubborn as a mule! And her walking with two fellows the one time, Kilbride, the enginedriver, and lancecorporal Oliphant.

Stephen

(triumphaliter) Salvi facti sunt.

(He flourishes his ashplant, shivering the lamp image, shattering light over the world.

(A retriever on the prowl slinks after him, growling. Lynch scares it with a kick)

Lynch

So that?

Stephen

(looks behind) So that gesture would be a universal language, the gift of tongues rendering visible not the lay sense but the first entelechy, the structural rhythm.

Lynch

Pornosophical philotheology. Metaphysics in Mecklenburg street!

Stephen

We have shrewridden Shakespeare and henpecked Socrates. Even the allwisest Stagyrite was bitted, bridled and mounted by a light of love.

Lynch

Bah!

Stephen

Anyway, who wants two gestures to illustrate a loaf and a jug? This movement illustrates the loaf and jug of bread or wine in Omar. Hold
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my stick.

Lynch

Damn your yellow stick. Where are we going?

Stephen

To find Georgina Johnson, light of love, ^|4ad deam qui laetificat juventutem meam^4|.

(Stephen thrusts the ashplant on him and slowly holds out his hands, his head going back till both hands are a span from his breast, down turned, in planes intersecting, the fingers about to part, the left being higher)

Lynch

Which is the jug of bread? It skills not. That or the customhouse. Illustrate thou. Here take your crutch and walk.

(They pass. Tommy Caffrey scrambles to a gaslamp and, clasping, climbs in spasms. From the top spur he slides down. Jacky Caffrey clasps to climb. The navvy lurches against the lamp. The twins scuttle off in the dark. The navvy, swaying, presses a forefinger against a wing of his nose and ejects from the farther nostril a long liquid jet of snot. Shouldering the lamp he staggers away through the crowd with his flaring cresset.

Snakes of river fog creep slowly. From drains, clefts, cesspools, middens arise on all sides stagnant fumes. A glow leaps in the south ^|4beyond the seaward reaches of the river^4|. The navvy, staggering forward, cleaves the crowd and lurches towards the uncobbled tramsiding. On the farther side under the railway bridge Bloom appears, flushed, panting, ^|4|v+crushing cramming^v+| bread & chocolate into ^|v+his sidepockets a sidepocket^v+|4|. From Gillen's hairdresser's window a composite portrait shows him ^|4gallant^4| Nelson's image. A concave mirror at the side presents to him lovelorn long lost lugubru Booloohoom. Grave Gladstone sees him level., Bloom for Bloom. He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.

At Antonio Rabaiotti's door Bloom halts, sweated under the bright arclamp. He disappears. In a moment he reappears ^|4and hurries on^4|.

Bloom

Fish and taters. N.g. Ah!

(He disappears into Olhausen's, the pork butcher's, under the downcoming roll shutter. A few moments later he emerges from under the shutter, puffing Poldy, blowing Bloohoom. In each hand he holds a parcel, one containing a lukewarm pig's crubeen, the other a cold sheep's trotter, sprinkled with wholepepper. He gasps, standing upright. Then bending to one side he presses a parcel against his ribs and groans)

Bloom

Stitch in my side. Why did I run?

(He takes breath with care and goes forward slowly towards the lampset siding. The glow leaps again)

Bloom

What is that? A flasher? Searchlight.

(He stands at Cormack's corner, watching)
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Bloom

Aurora borealis or a steel foundry?º Ah, the brigade, of course. South side anyhow. Big blaze. Might be his house. Beggar's bush. We're safe. (he hums cheerfully) London's burning, London's burning! On fire, on fire! (he catches sight of the navvy lurching through the crowd at the farther side of Talbot street) I'll miss him. Run. Quick. Better cross here.

(He darts to cross the road. Urchins shout)

The Urchins

Mind out, mister!

(Two cyclists, with lighted paper lanterns aswing, swim by him, grazing him, their bells rattling)

The Bells

Haltyaltyaltyall.

Bloom

(halts ^|4erect^4|, stung by a spasm) Ow!

(He looks round, darts forward suddenly. Through rising fog a dragon sandstrewer slews heavily down upon him, its huge red headlight winking, its trolley hissing on the wire. The motorman bangs his footgong.)

The Gong

Bang Bang Bla Bak Blud Bugg Bloo.

(The brake cracks violently. Bloom, raising a policeman's whitegloved hand, blunders stifflegged, out of the track. The motorman thrown forward, pugnosed, on the guidewheelº, yells as he slides past.)

The Motorman

Hey, shitbreeches, are you doing the hat trick?

(Bloom trickleaps to the curbstone and halts again. He brushes a mudflake from his cheek with a parcelled hand)

Bloom

Close shave that but cured the stitch. Must take up Sandow's exercises again. On the hands down. Insure against street accident too. The Providential (he feels his trouser pocket) Poor mamma's panacea. Heel easily catch in track or bootlace in a cog. Day the wheel of the black Maria peeled off my shoe at Leonard's corner. ^|4Third time is the charm.º^4| Shoe trick. Insolent driver. I ought to report him. Tension makes them nervous. Might be the fellow balked me this morning with that horsey woman. Same style of beauty. Quick of him all the same. The stiff walk. True word spoken in jest. That awful cramp in Lad lane. Something poisonous I ate. ^|4Emblem of luck. Why? Probably lost cattle. Mark of the beast.^4| (he closes his eyes an instant) Bit light in the head I feel. Monthly or effect of the other. Brainfogfag. ^|4That tired feeling.^4| Too much for me now. Ow!
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(A sinister figure leans on plaited legs against O'Beirne's wall, a visage unknown, injected with dark mercury. From under a wide leaved sombrero the figure regards him with evil eye)

Bloom

Bueñas noches, señorita. Que calle es esta?

The Figure

(impassive, raises a signal arm) Sraid Mabbot.

Bloom

Haha. Merci. Esperanto. Slan leath. (he mutters) Gaelic league spy, sent by that fire eater.

(He steps forward. A sackshouldered ragman bars his path. He steps left, ragsackman left)

Bloom

I beg.

(He leaps right, sackragman right)

Bloom

I beg.

(He swerves, sidles, ^|4stepaside,^4| slips past and on)

Bloom

Keep to the right, right, right. If there is a ^|4signpost fingerpost^4| planted by the Touring Club at Stepaside who procured that public boon? I who lost my way and contributed to the columns of the Irish Cyclist the letter headed In darkest Stepaside. Keep, keep, keep to the right. Rags and bones at midnight. A fence more likely. First place murderer makes for. Wash off his sins of the world

(Jacky Caffrey, hunted by Tommy Caffrey, runs full tilt against Bloom)

Bloom

O.

(Shocked, on weak hams, he halts. Tommy and Jacky vanish there, there. Bloom pats with parcelled hands watchfob, pocketbookpocket, pursepoke, sweets of sin, potatosoap.

Bloom

Beware of pickpockets. Old thieves' dodge. Collide. Then snatch your purse.

(The retriever approaches sniffing. A stooped bearded figure appears garbed in the long caftan of an elder in Zion. and a smokingcap with magenta tassels. Horned spectacles hang down at the wings of the nose. Yellow poison streaks are on the drawn face)

Rudolph

Second halfcrown waste money today. I told you not go with drunken goy ever.
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Bloom

(hides the crubeen and trotter behind his back and, crestfallen, feels warm and cold feetmeat) Ja, ich weiss, papachi.

Rudolph

What you making down this place? (With feeble vulture talons he feels the silent face of Bloom) Are you not my son Leopold, the grandson of Leopold? Are you not my dear son Leopold who left the house of his father and left the god of his fathers Abraham and Jacob?

Bloom

(with precaution) I suppose so, father. Mosenthal. All that's left of him.

Rudolph

(severely) One night they bring you home drunk as dog after spend your good money. What you call them running chaps?

Bloom

(in youth's smart blue Oxford suit with white vestslips, narrow shouldered, in brown Alpine hat, wearing gent's sterling silver Waterbury keyless watch and double curb Albert with seal attached, one side of him ^|4mudcoated coated with stiffening mud^4|) Harriers, father. Only that once.

Rudolph

Once. Mud head to foot. Cut your hand open. Lockjaw. They make you kaputt. You watch them chaps.

Bloom

(weakly) They challenged me to a sprint. It was muddy. I slipped.

Rudolph

(with contempt) Goim nachez! Nice spectacles for your poor mother!

(Ellen Bloom, in pantomime dame's stringed mobcap, crinoline and bustle, blouse with muttonleg sleeves buttoned behind, grey mittens and cameo brooch, ^|4her ^|xplaited hair hair plaited^x| in a crispine net,^4| appears ^|4on a over the^4| staircase banisters, a slanted candlestick in her hand. and cries out in shrill alarm) O blessed Redeemer, what have they done to him! My smelling salts! (she hauls up a reef of skirt and ransacks the pouch of her striped blaey petticoat. A phial, an Agnus Dei, a shrivelled potato and a celluloid doll fall out.
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Sacred Heart of Mary, where were you at all ^|4at all^4|?

(Bloom, mumbling, his eyes downcast, begins to bestow his parcels in his filled pockets but desists, muttering)

A Voice

^|4(sharply)^4| Poldy!

Bloom

Who? (he wards off a blow clumsily) At your service.

(He looks up. Beside her mirage of datepalms a handsome woman in Turkish costume stands before him. Opulent curves fill out her scarlet trousers and jacket. A white yashmak, violet in the night, covers her face, leaving free only her large dark eyes and raven hair)

Bloom

Molly!

Marion

Welly? Mrs Bl Marion from this out, my dear man, when you speak to me. (satirically) Has poor little hubby cold feet waiting so long?

Bloom

(shifts from foot to foot). No, no. Not the least little bit.

(He breathes in deep agitation, swallowing gulps of air, questions, hopes, crubeens for her supper, things to tell her, excuse, desire, spellbound. A coin gleams on her forehead. Her ankles are linked by a slender fetterchain. Beside her a camel, hooded with a turreting turban, waits. A silk ladder of innumerable rungs climbs to his bobbing howdah. He ambles near with disgruntled hindquartersº. Fiercely she slaps his haunch, scolding him in Moorish)

Marion

Nebrakada! Femininum!

(The camel droops his head and fumbles to kneel. Bloom stoops his back for leapfrog)

Bloom

I can give you … I mean as your business menagerer.. Mrs Marion …..if you ….

Marion

So you notice some change? (A slow friendly mockery in her eyes) O Poldy, Poldy, you are a poor old stick in the mud! Go and see life. See the
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the ^|4wide^4| world.

Bloom

I was just going back for that lotion whitewax, orangeflower water. Shop closes early on Thursday. But the first thing in the morning.

(He points to the south, then to the east. A cake of new clean lemon soap arises, diffusing light and perfume)

The Soap

We're a capital couple are Bloom and I.
He brightens the earth, I polish the sky.

(The face of Sweny, the druggist, appears in the disc of the soapsun)

Sweny

Three and a penny, please.

Bloom

Yes. For my wife ^|4Mrs Marion^4|. Special recipe.

Marion

(softly) Poldy!

Bloom

Yes?

Marion

Ti trema un poco il cuore?

(In disdain she saunters away ^|4humming the duet from Don Giovanni^4|, plump as a ^|4pampered^4| poulter pigeon.

^|4Bloom

Are you sure about that Voglio? I mean the pronunciati ….^4|

^|4(^4| He follows, followed by the sniffing terrier. The elderly ^|4procuress bawd^4| seizes his sleeve, the bristles of her chinmole glittering.)

The ^|4procuress Bawd^4|

Ten shillings a maidenhead. Fresh thing that was never touched. Fifteen.

(She points. In the gap of her dark den furtive, rain bedraggled, Bridie Kelly stands)

Bridie

Hatch street. Any good in your mind?

(With a squeak she flaps her bat shawl and runs. A burly rough pursues with booted strides. He stumbles on the steps, recovers, plunges into gloom. Weak squeaks of laughter are heard, weaker)

The ^|4procuress Bawd^4|

(her wolfeyes shining) He's getting
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his pleasure. You won't get a virgin in the flash houses. Ten shillings. Don't be all night before the polis in plain clothes sees us. Sixtyseven is a bitch.

(Leering, Gerty MacDowell limps forward. She draws from behind, ogling, and shows coyly her bloodied clout)

Gerty

With all my worldly goods I thee and thou (she murmurs) You did that. I hate you.

Bloom

I? When? I never saw you.

The Bawd

Leave the gentleman alone. Streetwalking and soliciting. Better for your mother take the strap to you at the bedpost, hussy like you.

Gerty

(to Bloom) When you saw all the secrets of my bottom drawer (she paws his sleeve, slobbering) Dirty married man! I love you for doing that to me.

(She glides away crookedly. Mrs Breen in man's frieze overcoat with loose bellows pockets, stands in the causeway, her roguish eyes wideopen, smiling in all her herbivorous buckteeth)

Mrs Breen

Mr …

Bloom

(coughs gravely) Madam, when we last had this pleasure on the sixteenth instant ….

Mrs Breen

Mr Bloom! You down here in the haunts of sin!

Bloom

(hurriedly) Not so loud my name. Don't give me away. Walls have ears. How do you do? It's ages since I. Seasonable weather we are having this time of year. Black refracts heat. Short cut home here. Interesting quarter. Rescue of fallen women. I am the secretary …..

Mrs Breen

^|4Now, don't tell a story!^4| O just wait till I see Molly! (slily) Account for yourself this very sminute or woe betide you!

Bloom

(looks behind) She often said she'd like to visit. The exotic, you see. Negro servants too if she had money. Othello. Black brute. Eugene Stratton. Even the bones and cornerman at the Livermore christies. Bohee brothers. Sweep for that matter.

(Tom and Sam Bohee, coloured coons in white duck suits, scarlet socks, upstarched Sambo chokers and large scarlet asters in their buttonholes
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leap out. Each has his banjo slung. Their paler smaller negroid hands jingle the twingtwang wires. Flashing white kaffir eyes and tusks they rattle through a breakdown in clumsy clogs, twinging, singing, back to back, toe heel, heel toe, with smackfatclackingº nigger lips.

Tom and Sam

There's someone in the house with Dina,
There's someone in the house, I know,
There's someone in the house with Dina
Playing on the old banjo.

(They whisk black masks from raw babby faces: then, chuckling, chortling, trumming, twanging they diddle diddle ^|4cakewalk^4| dance away)

Bloom

(with a sour tenderish smile) A little frivol, shall we?, if you are so inclined? Would you like me perhaps to embrace you just for a fraction of a second?

Mrs Breen

(screams gaily) O, you ruck! You ought to see yourself!

Bloom

For old sake' sake. I only meant a mixed marriage mingling of our different little conjugials. You know I had a soft corner for you. (gloomily) 'Twas I sent you that valentine of the dear gazelle.

Mrs Breen

Glory Alice, you do look a holy show! Killing simply. (she puts out her hand inquisitively) What are you hiding behind your back? Tell us, there's a dear.

Bloom

(seizes her wrist with his free hand) Josie Powell that was, prettiest deb in Dublin. How time flies by! Do you remember, harking back in a retrospective arrangement, old Old Christmas night, Georgina Simpson's housewarming while they were playing the Irving Bishop game, finding the pin blindfold and thoughtreading? Subject, what is in this snuffbox?

Mrs Breen

You were the lion of the night with your seriocomicº recitation and you looked the part.

Bloom

(in dinner jacket with watered silk facings, black bow and mother-of-pearl studs, a prismatic champagne glass tilted in his hand) Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ireland, home and beauty.

Mrs Breen

The dear dead days beyond recall. Love's old sweet song.

Bloom

(meaningfully dropping his voice) I confess I'm teapot ^|4with curiosity^4| to find out whether some person's something is a little teapot at present.

Mrs Breen

(gushingly) Tremendously teapot! London's teapot and I'm simply teapot all over me! (she rubs sides with him) After the parlour mystery games and the crackers from the tree we sat on the staircase ottoman. Under the mistletoe. Two is company.

Bloom

(wearing a purple Napoleon hat with an amber halfmoon, his fingers and thumb passing slowly down to her soft moist meaty palm which she surrenders gently) I took the splinter out of this hand, carefully, slowly.

Mrs Breen

(in a onepiece evening frock
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frock ^|4of executed in^4| moonlight blue, a tinsel sylph's ^|4crown diadem^4| on her brow with her dancecard fallen beside her moonblue satin slipper, curves her palm softly, breathing quickly) You're hot! You're scalding! The left hand nearest the heart.

Bloom

When you made your present choice they said it was beauty and the beast.

(Denis Breen, whitetallhatted, with Wisdom Hely's sandwichboards, shuffles past them in carpet slippers, his dull beard thrust out, muttering to right and left. Little Alf Bergan, cloaked in the pall of the ace of spades, dogs him to left and right, doubled in laughter)

Alf Bergan

(points jeering at the sandwich boards) U.p: up.

Mrs Breen

(to Bloom) High jinks below stairs (she gives him the glad eye) Why didn't you kiss the spot to make it well? You wanted to.

Bloom

(shocked) Molly's best friend! Could you?

Mrs Breen

(her pulpy tongue between her lips) Hnhn. The answer is a lemon. Have you a little present for me there?

Bloom

(offhandedly) Kosher. A snack for supper. The home without potted meat is incomplete. I was at Leah, Mrs Bandmannº Palmer. Trenchant exponent of Shakespeare. Unfortunately threw away the programme. Rattling good place round there for pigs' feet. Feel.

(Richie Goulding, three ladies' hats pinned on his head, appears weighted to one side by the black legal bag of Colles and Ward on which a skull and crossbones are painted in white limewash. He opens it and shows it full of polonies, kippered herring, Findon haddies and tightpacked pills)

Richie

Best value in Dub.

(Bald Pat, bothered beetle, stands on the curbstone, folding his napkin, waiting to wait.

Pat

Steak and kidney. Bottle of lager. Hee hee hee. Wait till I wait.

Richie

Goodgod Inev erate inall ….

(With hanging head he marches doggedly forward.
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(The navvy, lurching by, gores him with his flaming pronghorn)

Richie

(with a cry of pain, his hand to his back) Ah! Bright's! Lights!

Bloom

(points to the navvy) A spy. Don't attract attention. I hate stupid crowds. I am not on pleasure bent ^|4down here^4|. I am in a grave predicament.

Mrs Breen

^|4You're^4| humbugging ^|4|aand deluthering^a| as per usual^4|.

Bloom

I want to tell you a little secret about how I came to be here. But you must never tell. Not even Molly. I have a most particular reason.

Mrs Breen

(all agog) O, not for worlds.

Bloom

Let's walk on.

Mrs Breen

Let's.

(The ^|4procuress blank^4| makes an unheeded sign. Bloom walks on with Mrs Breen. The terrier follows, whining piteously, wagging his tail)

The ^|4Procuress blank^4|

Jewman's melt!

Bloom

(in an oatmeal sporting suit, a sprig of woodbine in the lapel, ^|4tony^4| buff shirt, shepherd's plaid ^|4tie, Saint Andrew's cross scarftie^4|, white spats, fawn dustcoat on his arm, tawny red brogues, fieldglasses in bandolier and a grey billycock hat) Do you remember a long long time ^|4years & years^4| ago just after Milly ^|4marionette Marionette we called her,^4| was weaned when we all went together to Fairyhouse races, was it?

Mrs Breen

^|4(in smart Saxe tailormade, white velours hat & spider veil)^4| Leopardstown

Bloom

I mean, Leopardstown. And Molly won seven shillings on a ^|4horse three year old^4| named Nevertell and coming home along by Foxrock in that old ^|4fiveseater^4| shanderadan
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of a wagonette. You were in your heyday then and you had on that new hat of white velours with a surround of molefur that Mrs Galbraith advised you to buy because it was marked down to nineteen and eleven, a bit of wire and an old rag of velveteen, and I'll lay what you like unread she did it on purpose ….

Mrs Breen

She did, of course, the cat! Nice adviser!

Bloom

Because it didn't suit you one quarter as well as the other ducky little tammy toque with the bird of paradise wing in it that I admired on you and you honestly looked just too fetching in it though it was a pity to kill it, you cruel naughty creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

Mrs Breen

(squeezes his arm, simpers) Naughty cruel I was!

Bloom

(low, secretly, ever more rapidly) And Molly was eating a sandwich of spiced beef out of Mrs Joe Gallaher's lunch basket. Frankly, though she had her advisers or admirers, I never cared much for her style. She was ….

Mrs Breen

Too ….

Bloom

Yes. And Molly was laughing because Rogers and Maggot O'Reilly were mimicking a cock as we passed a farmhouse and Marcus Tertius Moses, the tea merchant, drove past us in a gig with his daughter, Dancer Moses was her name, and the poodle in her lap bridled up and you asked me if I ever heard or read or knew or came across ….

Mrs Breen

(eagerly) Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

(She fades from his side. Followed by the whining dog he walks on towards hellsgates. In an archway a standing woman, her feet apart, pisses cowily. Outside a shuttered pub a bunch of loiterers listen to a tale which their broken snouted gaffer rasps out with raucous humour. An armless pair of them flop wrestling, growling, in maimed ^|4sudden sodden^4| playfight

The Gaffer

(crouches, his voices twisted in his snout) And when Cairns came down from the scaffolding in Beaver street what was
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he after doing it into only into the bucket of porter that was there waiting on the shavings for Derwan's plasterers.

The Loiterers

(guffaw) O jays!

(Their paintspeckled hats wag. Spattered with size and lime of their lodges they frisk limblessly about him

Bloom

Coincidence too. They think it funny ^|4anything but that^4|. Broad daylight. Trying to walk. Lucky no woman.

The Loiterers

Jays, that's a good one. Glauber salts. O jays into the men's porter.

(Bloom passes. Cheap whores, singly, coupled, shawled, dishevelled, call from lanes, doors, corners)

The Whores

Are you going far, queer fellow?
How's your middle leg?
Got a match on you?
Eh? Come here till I stiffen it for you.

(He plodges through their sump towards the lighted street beyond. From a bulge of window curtains a gramophone rears a battered brazen trunk. In the shadow a shebeenkeeper haggles with the navvy and the two redcoats)

The Navvy

(belching) Where's the bloody house?

The Shebeenkeeper

Purdon street. Shilling a bottle of stout. Respectable woman.

The Navvy

(gripping the two redcoats, staggers forward with them) Come on, you British army!

Private Carr

(behind his back) He aint half balmy.

Private Compton

(laughs) What ho!

Private Carr

^|4(to the navvy)^4| Portobello barracks canteen. You ask for Carr. Just Carr.

The Navvy

(shouts) We are the boys. Of Wexford.

Private Compton

Say! What price the sergeantmajor?

Private Carr

Bennett? He's my pal. I love old Bennett.

The Navvy

(shouts) The ^|4Galling galling^4| chain. And free our native land.

(He staggers forward, dragging them with him. Bloom stops. The dog approaches)

Bloom

Wildgoose chase this. Disorderly houses. Lord knows where they are gone. Drunks cover distance double quick. Nice mixup. Scene at Westland row. Then jump in first class with third ticket. Then too far. Might have taken me to Malahide or a siding for the night or collision. Second
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drink does it. Once is a dose. What am I following him for? Still, he's the best of that lot. If I hadn't heard about Mrs Beaufoy Purefoy I wouldn't have gone and wouldn't have met. Kismet. He'll lose that cash. Relieving office here. Good biz for cheapjacks, organs. What do ye lack? Soon got, soon gone. Might have lost my life too with that mangongwheeltracktrolley glarejuggernaut only for presence of mind. Can't always save you, though. If I had passed Truelock's window that day two minutes late would have been shot. Absence of body. Still if bullet only went through my coat get damages for shock, five hundred pounds. What was he? Kildare street club toff. God help his gamekeeper.

(He gazes ahead, reading on the wall a scrawled chalk legend Wet Dream and a phallic design.) Odd! Molly drawing on the frosted carriagepane at Kingstown. What's that like? (Gaudy dollwomen loll in the lighted doorways, in window embrasures, smoking birdseye cigarettes. The odour of the sicksweet weed floats towards him in slow round ovalling wreaths)

The Wreaths

Sweet are the sweets. Sweets of sin.

Bloom

My spine's a bit limp. Go or turn? And this food? Eat it and get all pigsticky. Absurd I am. Waste of money. One and eightpence too much. (The retriever drives a cold snivelling muzzle against his hand, wagging his tail) Strange how they like take to me. Even that brute today. Better speak to him first. Like women they like rencontres. Stinks like a polecat. Chacun son goût. He might be mad. Dogdays. Uncertain in his movements. Good fellow! ^|4Fido!^4| Good fellow! (The retriever sprawls on his back, wriggling obscenely with begging paws, his long black tongue lolling out) Influence of his surroundings. Give and have done with it. Provided nobody. (Calling encouraging words he shambles back with a furtive poacher's tread, dogged by the retriever into a dark stalestunk corner. He unrolls one parcel and goes to dump the crubeen softly but holds back and feels the trotter) Sizeable for threepence. But then I have it in my left hand. Calls for more effort. Why? Smaller from want of use. O, let it slide. Two and six.

(With regret he lets the unrolled crubeen and trotter slide. The retriever mauls the bundle clumsily and gluts missing with growling greed, crunching the bones. Two raincaped watch approach, silent, vigilant. They murmur together)
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The Watch

Bloom. Of Bloom. For Bloom. Bloom.

(Each lays hand on Bloom's shoulder)

First Watch

Caught in the act. Commit no nuisance.

Bloom

(stammers) I am doing good to others.

(A covey of gulls, storm petrels, rise hungrily from Liffey slime with Banbury cakes in their beaks.)

The Gulls

Caw!

Bloom

The friend of man. Trained by kindness.

(He points. Bob Doran, toppling from a high barstool, sways over the munching terrier retriever)

Bob Doran

Towser. Give us the paw. Give the paw.

(The dog growls, his scruff standing, a gobbet of pig's knuckle between his molars. Bob Doran falls silently into an area)

Second Watch

Prevention of cruelty to animals.

Bloom

(enthusiastically) A noble work! I scolded that tramdriver on Harold's cross bridge for illusing the poor horse with his harness scab. Bad language I got for my pains. Of course it was frosty and the last tram. All tales of circus life are highly demoralising.

(Signor Maffei, passionpale, in liontamer'sº costume with diamond studs in his shirtfront steps forward, holding a curling carriagewhip and a revolver with which he covers the gorging dog.)

Signor Maffei

(with a sinister smile) Ladies and gentlemen, my educated greyhound. It was I broke in the bucking broncho Ajax with my patent spiked saddle. Lash under the belly with a knotted thong. Block tackle and a strangling pulley will bring your lion to heel, no matter how fractious, even Leo ferox there, the Libyan maneater. A redhot crowbar and some liniment rubbing on the burning part produced Fritz of Amsterdam, the thinking hyena (he glares) I possess the Indian sign. The glint of my eye does it with
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these breastsparklers (with a bewitching smile) I now introduce Mademoiselle Ruby, the pride of the ring.

First Watch

Come. Name and address.

Bloom

(takes off his high grade hat, saluting) Dr Bloom, Leopold, dental surgeon. You have heard of Blum Pasha. Umpteen millions. Owns half Austria. Egypt. Cousin.

First Watch

Proof.

(A card falls from inside the leather headband of Bloom's hat)

Bloom

(in red fez, cadi's dress coat with broad green sash, picks up the card hastily and offers it) Allow me.

First Watch

(reads) Henry Flower. No fixed abode. Unlawfully watching and besetting.

Second Watch

An alibi. You are cautioned.

Bloom

(produces from his heartpocket a crumpled yellow flower) This is the flower in question. (plausibly) You know that old joke, rose of Castile. Bloom. The change of name. Virag. (he murmurs privately and confidentially) We are engaged you see. Lady in the case. ^|4Love entanglement.^4| (he shoulders the second watch gently) Dash it all. It's a way we have in the navy. Uniform that does it (he turns gravely to the first watch) Still, of course, you do get your Waterloo sometimes.

(A dark mercurialised face appears, leading a veiled figure)

Martha

(thickveiled, a crimson halter round her neck, a copy of the Irish Times in her hand, in tone of reproach, pointing) Henry! Leopold! Lionel, thou lost one! Clear my name.

First Watch

(sternly) Come to the station.

Bloom

(scared, makes Masonic signs) No, ^|4no: no, light of love;^4| mistaken identity. The Lyons mail. Lesurques and Dubosc. You remember the Childs fratricide case. We medical men. By striking him dead with a hatchet. I am wrongfully accused. Better one guilty escape than ninetynine wrongfully condemned.

Martha

(sobbing behind her veil) Breach of promise. He wrote to me that he was miserable. I'll tell my
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brother, the footballer, on you, heartless flirt.

Second Watch

(tears in his eyes ), to Bloom) You ought to be thoroughly well ashamed of yourself.

Bloom

Gentlemen of the jury, let me explain. A pure mare's nest. I am am a man misunderstood. I am being made a scapegoat of. I am a respectable married man, without a stain on my character. I live in Eccles street. My wife, the daughter of a most distinguished commander, Major general Brian Tweedy, one of Britain's fighting men who helped to win our battles.

First Watch

Regiment.

Bloom

(turns to the gallery) The royal Dublins, boys, known the world over. With our own Metropolitan police, guardians of our homes, the pluckiest lads and the finest body of men, as physique, in the service.

A Voice

Turncoat! Up the Boers! Who booed Joe Chamberlain?

Bloom

(his hand on the shoulder of the first watch) My old dad too was a J.P. I'm as staunch a Britisher as you are, sir. I fought for king and country in the absentminded war at Spion Kop and Bloemfontein was mentioned in dispatches. I did all a white man could (with quiet feeling) Jim Bludso. Hold her nozzle again the bank.

First Watch

Profession or trade.

Bloom

Well, I follow a literary occupation, author-journalist. In fact we are just bringing out a collection of prize stories of which I am the inventor, something that is an entirely new departure. I am connected with the British and Irish press. If you ring up ….

(Myles Crawford strides out jerkily, a quill between his teeth. His scarlet beak blazes within the aureole of his straw hat. He dangles a hank of Spanish onions in one hand and holds with the other hand a telephone receiver ^|4nozzle^4| to his ear)

Myles Crawford

Hello, seventyseven eightfour. Hello. Freeman's Urinal and Weekly Arsewipe ^|4here^4|. Paralyse Europe. You which? Bluebags? Who writes? Is it Bloom?
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(Mr Philip Beaufoy, palefaced, stands in the witnessbox, in accurate morning dress, outbreast pocket with peak of handkerchief showing, creased lavender trousers and patent boots. He carries a large portfolio labelled Matcham's Masterstrokes)

Beaufoy

(drawls) No, you aren't. Not if I know it. I don't see it, that's all. No born gentleman, no-one with the most rudimentary promptings of a gentleman would stoop to such perfectly loathsome conduct. One of those, my lord. A plagiarist. A soapy sneak masquerading as a littérateur. It's perfectly obvious that he has cribbed some of my bestselling copy, really gorgeous stuff, a perfect gem. The Beaufoy books with which your lordship is doubtless familiar are a household word throughout the kingdom.

Bloom

(murmurs ^|4with hangdog meekness unread^4|) That bit about the laughing witch hand in hand I take exception to, if I may …

Beaufoy

(his lip upcurled smiles superciliously on the court) You funny ass, you! I don't think you need over excessively disincommodate yourself in that regard. My literary agent Mr J.B. Pinker is in attendance. I presume, my lord, we shall receive the usual witnesses' fees, shan't we? We are considerably out of pocket over this bally pressman johnny.

Bloom

(indistinctly) Bad art.

Beaufoy

(shouts) It's a damnably foul lie! (he extends his portfolio) We have here the corpus delicti, my lord, a specimen of my maturer work disfigured by the hallmark of the beast

A Voice from the Gallery

Moses, Moses, king of the jews
Wiped his arse in the Daily News.

Bloom

(bravely) Overdrawn

Beaufoy

You low cad! You ought to be ducked in the horsepond! (to the court) Why look at the man's private life! Leading a double existence! ^|4Street angel and house devil.^4| The archconspirator of the age!

Bloom

(to the court) And he, a bachelor, how …

First Watch

Call the woman Driscoll.

The Crier

Mary Driscoll, scullerymaid!

(Mary Driscoll, a slipshod servant girl approaches. She has a bucket on the crook of her arm and a scouringbrush in her hand)
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Second Watch

Another! Are you of the unfortunate class?

Mary Driscoll

(indignantly) I'm not a bad one. I bear a respectable character. I was in a situation, six pounds a year and my chances with Fridays out and I had to leave owing to his carryings on.

First Watch

What do you tax him with?

Mary Driscoll

He made a certain suggestion but I thought more of myself as poor as I am.

Bloom

(in housejacket of ripplecloth, flannel trousers, heellessº slippers, ^|4unshaven^4| his hair rumpled): softly) I gave you mementos, smart emerald garters far above your station. Incautiously I took your part when you were accused of pilfering. There's a medium in all things. Play cricket.

Mary Driscoll

(excitedly) As ^|4Gawd God^4| is looking down on me this night if ever I laid a hand to them oylsters!

First Watch

The offence complained of?

Mary Driscoll

He surprised me in the rere of the premises, Your honour, when the missus was out shopping one morning with a request for a safety pin. He held me and I was discoloured in four places as a result. And he interfered with my clothing.

Bloom

She counterassaulted.

Mary Driscoll

(scornfully) I had more respect for the scouring brush,º so I had. I remonstrated with him, Your lord, and he remarked: keep it quiet.

(General laughter)

George Fottrell

(clerk of the crown and peace, resonantly) Order in court! The accused will now make a statement.

(Bloom, pleading not guilty and holding a fullblown waterlily, begins a long unintelligibleº speech. They would hear what counsel had to say in his stirring address. He was down and out but, though branded as a black sheep, if he might say so, he meant to reform, to retrieve the past and return to nature as a purely domestic animal. A sevenmonths' child, he had been carefully brought up and nurtured by an aged parent. There might have been lapses but he wanted to lead a homely life, permeated by affectionate surroundings. He had seen that evening through the windows of loveful households in Dublin city, and urban district scenes of happiness of the better land with Dockrell's wallpaper at one and ninepence a dozen, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon metalbound with four acting stops a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever ….

(Renewed laughter. Reporters complain that they cannot hear)

Professor MacHugh

(from the presstable, coughs and calls)
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Cough it up, man. Get it out in bits.

(The crossexamination proceeds re Bloom and the bucket. A large bucket. Bloom himself. Bowel trouble. In Beaver street. Quite bad. A plasterer's bucket. By walking stifflegged. Deadly agony. About noon. Love or burgundy. Yes, some spinach. Crucial moment. He did not look in the bucket. Nobody. Rather a mess. Not completely. A Titbits back number.)

(Uproar and catcalls)

J.J. O'Molloy

(in barrister's grey wig and stuffgown, speaking with a voice of pained protest) This is no place for indecent levity. We are not in a beargarden nor is this a travesty of justice. My client is a poor foreign immigrant trying to turn an honest penny. The misdemeanourº was due to a momentary aberration of heredity, brought on by hallucination, such familiarities being quite permitted in my client's native place the land of the Pharaoh. Intimacy did not occur and the offence complained of was not repeated. There have been cases of shipwreck and sonambulism in my client's family missing is a physical wreck from cobbler's weak chest. His submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions. Not all there, in fact.

Bloom

(barefoot, pigeonbreasted, in lascar's vest and trousers, apologetic toes turned in, opens his tiny mole's eyes and looks about him dazedly, passing a slow hand across his forehead. Then he hitches his belt sailor fashion and with a shrug of oriental obeisance salutes the court, pointing one thumb heavenward) Him makee velly muchee fine night. (He begins to lilt simply)
Li li poo lil chile
Blingee pigfoot evly night
Payee two shilly ….

(He is howled down)

J.J. O'Molloy

(hotly ^|4to the populace^4|) This is a lonehand fight. I will not have any client of mine gagged and badgered in this fashion ^|4by a pack of curs^4|. The Mosaic code has superseded the law of the jungle. I say it and I say it emphatically he was not accessory before the act and the girl has not been tampered with. I shall call rebutting evidence to prove up to the hilt that the hidden hand is again at its old game. When in doubt persecute Bloom. My client would be the last man in the world to cast a stone at
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girl who took the wrong turning when some dastard had worked his own sweet will on her. He wants to go straight. He is down on his luck at present owing to the mortgaging of his extensive property at Agendath Netaim, Asia Minor, slides of which will now be shown. ^|4He offers a penny in the pound.^4|

(The image of the lake of Kinnereth with blurred cattle cropping in silver haze is projected on the wall. Moses Dlugacz, ferreteyed, in blue dungarees, stands up in the gallery, holding in each hand an orange citron and a pork kidney)

Dlugacz

(hoarsely) Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W, 13.

(J.J. O'Molloy steps on to a low plinth and holds the lapel of his coat with solemnity. His face lengthens, grows pale and bearded, with sunken eyes, the blotches of phthisis and hectic cheekbones of John F. Taylor. He applies his handkerchiefº to his mouth and scrutinises the galloping tide of rosepink blood)

J.J. O'Molloy

(almost voicelessly) Excuse me, I am suffering from a severe chill. A few wellchosen words (He assumes the avine head, foxy moustache and nasal ^|4utterance eloquence^4| of Seymour Bushe) When the angel's book comes to be opened if aught that the pensive bosom has inaugurated of soul-transfigured and of soul-transfiguring deserves to live I say accord the prisoner at the bar the sacred benefit of the doubt.

Bloom

Can give best references. Messrs Callan, Coleman. Mr Wisdom Hely J.P. Mr V.B. Dillon, ex lord mayor of Dublin. I have moved in the highest circles. (carelessly) I was just chatting this afternoon ^|4at the viceregal lodge^4| to sir Robert and lady Ball, astronomer royal ….

Mrs ^|4blank Yelverton Barry^4|

(in lowcorsaged opal balldress and elbowlength ivory gloves, wearing a sabletrimmed brick ^|4quilted^4| dolman, a comb of brilliants in her hair) Arrest him, constable. He wrote me an anonymous letter in prentice backhand when my husband was on the Leinster circuit, signed James Lovebirch. He said that he had seen from
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the gods my peerless globes as I sat in a box of the Theatre Royal at a ^|4command^4| performance of La Cigale. I deeply inflamed him, he said. He made improper overtures to me to misconduct myself at half past four p.m. on the following Thursday, Dunsink time. He offered to send me through the post a work of fiction by Monsieur Paul de Kock, entitled The Girl with the Three Pairs of Stays.

Mrs Bellingham

(in cap and seal mantle, wrapped up to the nose, steps out of her brougham and scans through tortoiseshell quizzing-glasses which she takes from inside her huge opossum muff) ^|4Also to me.^4| Yes, I believe it is the same objectionable person. Because he closed my carriage door outside sir Thornley Stoker's one sleety day during the cold snap of ^|4February^4| ninetyfive when even the grid of the wastepipe and the ballstop in my bath cistern were frozen. Subsequently he enclosed a bloom of edelweiss culled on the heights, as he said, in my honour. I had it examined by a botanical expert and elicited the information that it was a blossom of the homegrown potato plant purloined from a forcingcase of the model farm.

Mrs ^|4blank Yelverton Barry^4|

Shame on him!

(A crowd of sluts and ragamuffins surges forward)

The Sluts and Ragamuffins

(screaming) Stop thief! Hurrah there, Bluebeard! Three cheers for Ikey Mo!

Second Watch

(produces handcuffs) Here are the darbies.

Mrs Bellingham

He addressed me in several handwritingsº with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity to my person. He lauded almost extravagantly my nether extremities, my swelling calves in silk hose drawn up to the limit and eulogised glowingly my other hidden treasures in priceless lace which, he said, he could conjure up. He urged me ^|4(stating that he felt it his mission in life to urge me)^4| to defile the marriage bed, to commit adultery at the earliest possible opportunity.
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The Honourable Mrs Paget Butler

(in amazon costume, hard hat, jackboots cockspurred, vermillion waistcoat, fawn musketeer gloves gauntlets with braided drums, long train held up and hunting crop with which she strikes her welt constantly) Also me. Because he saw me on the polo ground of the Phoenix park at the match All Ireland versus the Rest of Ireland. My eyes, I know, shone divinely as I watched Captain Slogger Dennehy of the Inniskillings win the final chukka. This plebeian ^|4Don Juan^4| observed me from behind a hackney car and sent me in double envelopes an obscene photograph, insulting to any lady. I have it still. It represents a partially nude señorita, frail and lovely (his wife, as he solemnly assured me) practising illicit intercourse with a muscular torero, evidently a blackguard. He urged me to do likewise, to misbehave, to sin with officers of the garrison. He implored me to chastise him as he richly deserves, to bestride and ride him, to give him a most vicious horsewhipping.

Mrs Bellingham

Me too.

Mrs ^|4blank Yelverton Barry^4|

Me too.

The Honourable Mrs Paget Butler

(stamps her jingling spurs in sudden fury) I will, by the God above me. I'll scourge the pigeonlivered cur. I'll flay him alive.

Bloom

(his eyes closing, quails expectantly) Here? (he squirms) Again!

The Honourable Mrs Paget Butler

Very much so! I'll make it hot for you. I'll make you dance Jack Latten for that.

Mrs ^|4blank Yelverton Barry^4|

Disgraceful!

Bloom

All these people. I meant only the spanking idea. A warm tingling glow without effusion.

The Honourable Mrs Paget Butler

(laughs derisively) O, did you, my fine fellow? Well, you'll get the surprise of your life now, believe me, the most unmerciful hiding a man ever bargained for. You have lashed the dormant tigress in my nature into fury.

Mrs Bellingham

(shakes her muff and quizzing-glasses vindictively) Make him smart. Thrash the mongrel within an inch of his life. Geld him. Vivisect him.

Bloom

(shuddering, shrinking, joins his hands): with hangdog mien) It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once (he offers the other cheek)

The Honourable Mrs Paget Butler

I'll do no such thing. Pigdog, to dare address me! I'll flog him black and blue in the public streets. I'll dig
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my spurs in him up to the rowel. He is a wellknown cuckold (she swishes her huntingcrop savagely in the air) Take down his trousers without loss of time. Quick!

(The very reverend Canon O'Hanlon in cloth of gold cope elevates and exposes a marble timepiece. Before him Father Conroy and the reverend John Hughes S.J. bend low.

The Timepiece

(unportalling)

Cuckoo.
Cuckoo.
Cuckoo.

(The brass quoits of a bed are heard to jingle)

The Quoits

Jigjag. Jigajiga. Jigjag.

(a panel of fog rolls back rapidly, revealing rapidly in the jury box the faces of Martin Cunningham, foreman, silkhatted, Jack Power, Simon Dedalus, Tom Kernan, Ned Lambert, John Henry Menton, Myles Crawford, Lenehan, Paddy Leonard, Nosey Flynn, M^cCoy and the featureless face of a Nameless One.)

The Nameless One

Bareback riding. Weight for age. Gob, he organised her.

The Jurors

(all their heads turned to his voice) Really?

The Nameless One

(snarls) Arse over tip. Hundred shillings to five.

The Jurors

(all their heads bowed in assent) Most of us thought as much.

First Watch

He is a marked man. Another girl's plait cut. Wanted: Jack the Ripper. A thousand pounds reward.

Second Watch

(awed, whispers) And in black. A mormon. Anarchist.

The Crier

(loudly) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable ….

(His Honour, sir Frederick Falkiner, recorder of Dublin in judicial garb of grey stone rises from the bench, stonebearded. He bears in his arms an umbrella sceptre. From his forehead arise starkly the Mosaic ramshorns)

The Recorder

I will put an end to this white slave traffic. Scandalous! Let him be taken from the dock where he now stands and detained in custody in Mountjoy prison during His Majesty's pleasure and there be hanged by the neck until he is dead and therein fail not at your peril.

(A black skullcap descends upon his head. H. Rumbold, master barber, in a bloodcoloured jerkin and tanner's apron, a rope coiled
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over his shoulder mounts the block. A life preserver and a nailstudded bludgeon are stuck in his belt. He rubs grimly his grappling hands, knobbed with knuckledusters)

Rumbold

(to the recorder with sinister familiarity) Hanging Harry, your Majesty, the Mersey terror. Five guineas a jugular.

(The bells of George's church toll slowly, loud dark iron)

The Bells

Heigho! Heigho!

Bloom

(desperately) Wait. Stop. Gulls. Good heart. I saw. Innocence. Girl in the monkeyhouse. Zoo. Lewd chimpanzee. (breathlessly) Pelvic basin. Her artless blush. Unmanned me. (overcome with emotion) I left the precinctsº.

Second Watch

(points to the corner) The bomb is here.

First Watch

Infernal machine with a time fuse.

Bloom

No, no. Pig's feet. I was at a funeral.

First Watch

(draws his truncheon) Liar!

(The dog lifts his snout, showing the grey scorbutic face of Paddy Dignam. He has gnawed all. He grows to human size and shape. His retriever coat becomes a brown mortuary habit. His green eye flashes bloodshot. Half of one ear, all the nose and both thumbs are ghouleaten)

Paddy Dignam

(in a hollow voice) It is true. It was my funeral. Doctor Finucane pronounced life extinct when I succumbed to the disease from natural causes.

(He lifts his mutilated ashen face moonwards and bays lugubriously)

Bloom

(in triumph) You hear?

Paddy Dignam

Bloom, I am Paddy Dignam's spirit List, list, O list!

Bloom

The voice is the voice of Esau.

Fir Second Watch

(blesses himself) How is that possible

First Watch

It is not in the penny catechism
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Paddy Dignam

By metempsychosis. Spooks.

A Voice

O rocks.

Paddy Dignam

(earnestly) Once I was in the employ of Mr J.H. Menton, solicitor, commissioner for oaths and affidavits, of 27 Bachelor's Walk. Now I am defunct, the wall of the heart hypertrophied. Hard lines. The poor wife was awfully cut up. How is she bearing it? Keep her off that bottle of sherry (sh he looks round him) A lamp. I must satisfy an animal need. That buttermilk didn't agree with me.)

(The portly figure of John O'Connell, caretakerº, stands forth, holding a bunch of keys tied with crape. Beside him stands Father Coffey, chaplain, toadbelliedº, wrynecked, in a surplice and bandanna nightcap, holding sleepily a staff of twisted poppies.)

Father Coffey

(yawns ): then chants. with a hoarse croak) Namine. Jacobs. Vobiscuits. Amen.

John O'Connell

(foghorns stormily through his
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megaphone) Dignam, Patrick T, deceased.

Paddy Dignam

(^|4|awith^a| pricked up ears,^4| winces) Overtones. ^|4(he ^|awriggles forward and^a| places an ear to the ground) My master's voice!^4|

John O'Connell

Burial docket letter number U.P. eightyfive thousand. Field seventeen. House of Keys. Plot, one hundred and one.

(Paddy Dignam listens with visible effort, thinking, his tail stiffpointed, his ears cocked)

Paddy Dignam

Pray for the repose of his soul.

(He worms down through a coalhole, his brown habit trailing its tether over rattling pebbles. After him toddles an obese grandfather rat on fungus turtle paws under a grey carapace). Dignam's voice, muffled, is heard baying under ground: Dignam's dead and gone below. Tom Rochford, robinredbreast, robinredbreasted, in cap and breeches, jumps from his twocolumned machine

Tom Rochford

(a hand to his breastbone, bows) Reuben J. A florin I find him (he fixes the manhole with a resolute stare) My turn now on. Follow me up to Carlow.

(He executes a daredevil salmon leap in the air and is engulfed in the coalhole. Two discs on the columns wobble eyes of nought. All recedes. Bloom ^|4goes plodges^4| forward again ^|4through the sump. ^|aKisses chirp amid the rifts of fog^a|4|. A piano sounds. He stands before a lighted house, listening. The kisses, winging from their bowers fly about him, twittering, warbling, cooing)

The Kisses

(warbling) Leo! (twittering) Icky licky micky sticky for Leo! (cooing) Coo coocoo! Yummyyum Womwom! (warbling) Big comebig! Pirouette! Leopopold! (twittering) Leeolee! (warbling) O Leo!

(They rustle, flutter upon his garments, alight, bight giddy flecks, silvery sequins)

Bloom

A man's touch. Sad music. Church
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music. Perhaps here.

(Zoe Higgins, a young whore in a sapphire slip, closed with three bronze buckles, ^|4a slim ^|avelvet^a| black ^|avelvet^a| fillet round her throat^4| nods, trips down the steps and accosts him.)

Zoe

Are you looking for someone? He's inside with his friend.

Bloom

Is this Mrs Mack's?

Zoe

No, eightyone. Mrs Cohen's. You might go farther and fare worse. Mother Slipperslapper. (familiarly) She's on the job herself tonight with ^|4her the^4| vet ^|4|aher tipster^a| that gives her all the winners and pays for her son in Oxford^4| working overtime ^|4but her luck's turned today^4|. (suspiciously) You're not his father are you?

Bloom

Not I!

Zoe

You both in black. Any tickles tonight?

(His skin, alert, feels her fingertips approach. A hand slides over his left thigh)

Zoe

How's the nuts?

Bloom

^|4Other Off^4| side. Curiously they are on the right. ^|4|aOne heavier Heavier^a|, I suppose^4| One in a million my tailor, Messias, says.

Zoe

(in sudden alarm) You've a hard chancre.

Bloom

Not likely.

Zoe

I feel it.

(Her hand slides into his left trouser pocket and brings out a hard black shrivelled potato. She regards it and Bloom with dumb moist lips)

Bloom

A talisman. Heirloom.

Zoe

May I? For keeps?

(She puts the potato greedily intoº
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a pocket, then links his arm, cuddling him supply. He smiles uneasily. Slowly, note by note, oriental music is played. He gazes in the tawny crystal of her eyes, ringed with kohol. His smile softens)

Zoe

You'll know me the next time.

Bloom

(forlornly) I never loved a dear gazelle but it was sure to ….

(Gazelles are leaping, feeding on the mountains. Near are lakes. Round their shores file shadows black of cedargroves. Aroma rises, a strong hairgrowth of resin. It burns, the orient, a sky of sapphire, cleft by the bronze flight of eagles. Under it lies the womancity, nude, white, still, cool, in luxury. A fountain murmurs among damask roses. Mammoth roses murmur of scarlet winegrapes. A wine of shame, lust, blood exudes, strangely murmuring)

Zoe

(murmuring ^|4singsong with the music^4|, her lips lusciously smeared with salve of swinefat and rosewater) Schorach ani wenowach, benoith Hierushaloim.

Bloom

(fascinated) I thought you were of good ^|4family stock ^|aby your accent^a|4|.

Zoe

And you know what thought did?

(She bites his ear gently with little goldstopped teeth, sending ^|4out on him^4| a cloying breath ^|4of stale o garlic^4|. The roses draw apart, disclose a sepulchre of the gold of kings and their mouldering bones)

Bloom

(^|4draws back,^4| unread mechanically caressing her right bub with a flat ^|4awkward^4| hand) Are you a Dublin girl?

Zoe

(catches a stray hair deftly and twists it to her coil) No bloody fear. I'm English. Have you a swaggerroot?
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Bloom

(as before) Rarely smoke, dear. Cigar now and then. Childish device. (lewdly) The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

Zoe

Go on. Make a stump speech out of it.

Bloom

(in workman's corduroy overalls, black gansy with red floating tie and apache cap) Mankind is incorrigible. Sir Walter Ralegh brought from the new world that potato and that weed, the one a killer of pestilence by absorption, the other a poisoner of the ear, eye, heart, memory, will, understanding, all. That is to say missing the poison a hundred years before another person whose name I forget brought the food. Suicide. Lies. All our habits. Why, look at our public life?

(Midnight chimes from distant steeples)

The Chimes

Turn again, Leopold! Lord mayor of Dublin!

Bloom

(in alderman's gown and chain) Electors of Arran Quay, Inns Quay, Rotunda, Mountjoy and North dock Dock better run a tramline, I say, from the cattle markets to the river. That's the music of the future. That's my programme. Cui bono? But our bucaneering Vanderdeckens in their phantom ship of finance …..

An Elector

^|4Three cheers missing^4| for our future chief magistrate!

(The aurora borealis of the torchlight procession leaps)

The Torchbearers

Hooray!

(Several wellknown burgesses, city magnates and freemen of the city shake hands with Bloom and congratulate himº)

Bloom

(impassionedly) These flying Dutchmen or lying Dutchmen as they recline in their upholstered poop, casting dice, what reck they? Machines is their cry, their panacea. Laboursaving apparatuses, supplanters, manufactured monsters for mutual murder, hideous hobgoblins produced by a horde of capitalistic lusts upon our prostituted labour.

Zoe

Talk away till you're black in the face.

Bloom

^|4(in caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an emigrant's red handkerchief bundle in his hand)^4| All is vanity^|4, patriotism. Patriotism,^4| sorrow for the dead, music, future of the race. To be or not to be. End it peacefullyº. They can live on (he gazes far away mournfully) A few pastilles of veronal. The blinds drawn. A letter. Then lie back to rest (he breathes softly) No more. ^|4I have lived.^4| Fare. Farewell.

Zoe

(stiffly ^|4her finger in her neckfillet^4|) Honest? Till the next time. (she sneers) Suppose you got up the wrong side of the bed or came too quick with your best girl. O, I can read your thoughts!

Bloom

(bitterly) Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle. I'm sick of it. Let everythingº
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rip.

Zoe

(in sudden sulks) I hate a rotter that's insincere. Give a bleeding whore a chance.

Bloom

(repentantly) I am very disagreeable. You are a necessary evil. Where are you from? London?

Zoe

(glibly) Hog's Norton where the pigs plays the organs. I'm Yorkshire born (she holds his hand which is feeling for her nipple) I say, Tommy Tittlemouse. Stop that and begin worse. Have you cash for a short time? Ten shillings?

Bloom

(smiles, nods slowly) More, houri, more.

Zoe

And more's mother? (she pats him offhandedly with velvet paws) Are you coming into the musicroom to new our new pianola? Come and I'll peel off.

Bloom

(feeling his occiput dubiously with the unparalleled embarrassment of a harassed pedlar gauging the symmetry of her peeled pears) Somebody would be dreadfully jealous if she knew. The greeneyed monster (earnestly) You know how difficult it is. I needn't tell you.

Zoe

(flattered) What the eye can't see the heart can't grieve for. (she pats him) Come.

Bloom

Laughing witch! The hand that rocks the cradle.

Zoe

Babby!

Bloom

(in babylinen and pelisse, bigheaded, with a caul of dark hair fixes big eyes on her fluid slip and counts its bronze buckles with a chubby finger, his moist tongue lolling and lisping) One two tlee: tlee tlwo tlone.

The Buckles

Love me. Love me not. Love me.

Zoe

Silent means consent.

(With little parted talons she captures his hand, luring him to doom. He hesitates amid scents, music, temptations. She leads him towards the steps, drawing him by the odour of her armpits, the vice of her painted eyes, the rustle of her slip in whose sinuous folds lurks the lion reek of all the male brutes that have possessed her)
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The Male Brutes

(exhaling sulphur of rut and dung and ramping in their loosebox, faintly roaring, their drugged heads swaying to and fro) Good!

(Zoe and Bloom reach the doorway where two sister whores are seated. They examine him curiously from under their pencilled brows and smile to his hasty bow. He trips awkwardly)

Zoe

(her lucky hand instantly saving him) Hoopsa! Don't fall upstairs.

Bloom

The just man falls seven times (he stands aside at the threshold) After you is good manners.

Zoe

Ladies first, gentlemen after.

(She crosses the threshold. He hesitates. She turns and, holding out her hands, draws him over. On the antlered rack of the hall hang a man's hat and waterproof. Bloom uncovers himself but, seeing them, frowns then smiles, preoccupied. A door on the return landing is flung open. A man in purple shirt and grey trousers, brownsocked, passes with an ape's gait, his bald head and goatee beard upheld, ^|4clasping, clasping hugging^4| a full waterjugjar, his twotailed black braces dangling at heels. Averting his face quickly Bloom bends to examine on the halltable the spaniel eyes of a running fox: then missing follows Zoe into the musicroom. A shade of mauve tissuepaper dims the light of the chandelier. Round and round a moth flies, colliding, escaping. The floor is stamped with an oilcloth mosaic of jade and azure and cinnabar rhomboids. Footmarks are stamped over it in all senses, heel to heel, heel to hollow, toe to toe, feet locked, a morris of shuffling foot without body phantoms, all in a scrimmage higgledypiggledy. The walls are tapestried with a paper of yewfronds and clear spaces glades. In the grate is spread a screen of peacock feathers. Lynch squats crosslegged on the hearthrug of matted hair, his cap back to the front. With a wand he beats time slowly. Kitty Ricketts, a bony pallid whore, in navy costume, doeskin gloves rolled back from a coral wristlet, a chain purse in her hand, sits ^|4perched^4| on the edge of the table swinging her leg and glancing at herself in the gilt mirror over the mantelpiece. A tag of her corsetlace hangs slightly below her jacket. Lynch indicates mockingly the couple at the piano)
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Kitty

(coughs behind her hand) She's a bit imbecillic (she signs with a waggling forefinger) Blemblem. (Lynch lifts up her skirt and white petticoatº with his wand. She settles them down quickly) Respect yourself. (She hiccups, then bends quickly her sailor hat under which her hair glows, red with henna) O, excuse!

Zoe

More limelight, Charley (she goes to the chandelier and turns the gas full cock)

Kitty

(peers at the gasjet) What ails it tonight?

^|4Lynch

(deeply) Enter a ghost^|a. and^a| Hobgoblins.^4|

Zoe

Clap on the back for Zoe.

(The wand in Lynch's hand flashes: a brass poker. Stephen stands at the pianola on which sprawl his hat and ashplant. With two fingers he repeats once more the series of empty fifths. Florrie Talbot, a blond feeble goosefat whore in a tatterdemalion gown of mildewed strawberry lolls spreadeagle in the sofacorner, her limp forearm pendent over the bolster, listening. A heavy stye droops over her
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sleepy eyelid.

Kitty

(hiccups again ^|4with a kick of her horsed foot^4|) O, excuse!

Zoe

(promptly) Your boy's thinking of you. Tie a knot on your shift.

(Kitty Ricketts bends her head. Her boa uncoils, slides, glides over her shoulder, back, arm, chair to the ground. Lynch lifts the curled catterpillar on his wand. She snakes her neck, nestling. Stephen glances behind at the squatted figure with its cap back to the front)

Stephen

As a matter of fact it is of no importanceº whether Benedetto Marcello found it or made it. The rite is the poet's rest. It may be an old hymn to Demeter or also illustrate Coeli enarrant gloriam Domini. It is susceptible of nodes or^|4, what am I saying,^4| modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as priests haihooping round David's that is Circe's or what am I saying Ceres' altar and David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about the almightness alrightness of his almightinessº. Mais nom d'un nom, that is another pair of trousers. Jetez la gourme. Faut que jeunesse se passe (He stops, points at Lynch's cap, smiles, laughs) Which side is your knowledge bump?

The Cap

^|4(with saturnine spleen)^4| Bah! It is because it is. Woman's reason. Jewgreek is greekjew. Extremes meet. Death is the highest form of life. Bah!

Stephen

You remember fairly accurately all my errors, boasts, mistakes. How long shall I continue to close my eyes to disloyalty? Whetstone!

The Cap

Bah!

Stephen

Here's another for you missing (he frowns) The reason is because the fundamentalº and the dominant
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are separated by the greatest possible interval which ….

The Cap

Which? Finish. You can't.

Stephen

(with an effort) Interval which. Is the greatest possible elipse. Consistent with. The ultimate return. The octave. Which.

The Cap

Which?

^|4(Outside the gramophone begins to blare The Holy City)^4|

Stephen

(abruptly) What went forth ^|4to the ends of the world^4| to traverse not itself, God, the sun, Shakespeare, a commercial traveller, having itself traversed in reality ^|4itself^4| becomes that self. Wait a moment. Wait a second. ^|4Damn that fellow's noise in the street.^4| Self which it itself was ineluctably preconditioned to become. Ecco!

Lynch

(with a mocking whinny of laughter grins at Bloom and Zoe Higgins) What a learned speech, eh?

Zoe

(briskly) God help your head, he knows more than you have forgotten.

(With obese stupidity Florrie Talbot regards Stephen)

Florrie

They say the ^|4end of the world last day^4| is coming this summer.

Kitty

No!

Zoe

(explodes in laughter) Great unjust God.

Florrie

(offended) Well, it was in the papers about Antichrist. ^|4O, my foot's tickling.^4|

(Ragged barefoot newsboys ^|4jogging a wagtail kite,^4| patter past, yelling)

The Newsboys

Stop press edition. Result of the rocking horse races. Sea serpent in the royal canal. Safe arrival of Antichrist.

(Stephen turns and sees Bloom.)

Stephen

A time, times and half a time

(Reuben J Antichrist, wandering jew, a clutching hand open on his spine, stumps forward. Across his loins is slung a ^|4pilgrim's^4| wallet from which protrude promissory notes and dishonoured bills. Aloft over his shoulder he bears a long boatpole from the hook
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of which the sodden huddled mass of his only son, saved from Liffey waters hangs from the slack of its breeches. A hobgoblin in the image of Punch Costello, hipshot, crook backed, hydrocephalic, prognatic with receding forehead and Ally Sloper nose tumbles in somersaults through the gathering darkness)

All

What?

The Hobgoblin

(his jaws chattering, capers to and fro, goggling his eyes, squeaking, kangaroohopping with outstretched clutching arms then all at once thrusts his lipless face through the fork of his thighs) Il vient! C'est moi! L'homme qui rit! L'homme primigène! (he whirls round and round with dervish howls) Sieurs et dames, faites vos jeux! (he crouches juggling. Tiny roulette planets fly from his hands) Les jeux sont faits! (The planets rush together, uttering crepitant cracks) Rien va plus (The planets, buoyant balloons, sail swollen up and away. He springs off in to vacuum)

Florrie

(sinking into torpor ^|4crossing herself secretly^4|) The last end of the world!

(A female tepid effluvium leaks out from her. Nebulous obscurity occupies space. Through the drifting fog without the gramophone blares over coughs and feetshuffling.)

The Gramophone

Jerusalem!
Open your gates and sing
Hosanna ….

(A rocket rushes up the sky and bursts. A white star falls from it, proclaiming the consummation of all things and second coming of Elijah. Along an infinite invisible tightrope taut from zenith to nadir the ^|4end End^4| of the World, a twoheaded octopus in gillie's kilts, busby and tartan filibegs whirls through the murk, head over heels, in the form of the Three Legs of ^|4man Man^4|)

The End Of The World

(with a Scotch accent) Wha'll dance the unread keel row, the keel row, the keel row?

(over the possing drift and choking breathcoughs, Elijah's voice, harsh as a corncrake's, jars on high. Perspiring in a loose lawn surplice with funnel sleeves he is seen, vergerfaced, above a rostrum about which the banner of old glory is draped. He thumps the parapet)

Elijah

No yapping, if you please,
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in this booth. Jake Crane, Creole Sue, Dove Campbell, Abe Kirschner, do your coughing with your mouths shut. Say, I am operating all this trunk line. Boys, do it now. Tell mother you'll be there. Rush your order and you play a slick ace. Join on right here. Book through to eternity junction the nonstop run. Just one word more. Are you a god or a clod? If the second advent came to Coney Island are we ready? Florrie Christ, Stephen Christ, Zoe Christ, Bloom Christ, Kitty Christ, Lynch Christ, it's up to you to sense that cosmic force. Be on the side of the angels. Be a prism. You have that something within, the higher self. You can rub shoulders with a Jesus, a Gautama, an Ingersoll. Are you all in this vibration? I say you are. I say you are. You once nobble that, congregation, and a buck joyride to heaven becomes a back number. It's a lifebrightener, sure. It's the whole pie with jam in. It's just the cutest snappiest line out. It is immense, supersumptuous. It restores. It vibrates. I know and I am some vibrator. Joking apart and, getting down to bedrock, A.J. Christ Dowie and the harmonial philosophy have you got that? O.K. Seventyseven west sixtyninth street. That's it. You call me up by sunphone any old time. (he shouts) Now then our glory song. All join heartily in the singing. Encore! (he sings) Jeru ….

The Gramophone

(drowning his voice) Whorusalaminyourhighhohhhh … (the disc rasps gratingly against the needle)

The Three Whores

(covering their ears, squawk) Ahhkkk!

Elijah

(in rolledup shirtsleeves, black in the face, shouts at the top of his voice, his arms uplifted) Big Brother up there, ^|4Mister Mr^4| President, you hear what I just been saying to you. Certainly, I sort of believe strong in you, Mr President. I certainly am thinking now Miss Higgins and Miss Ricketts got religion way inside them. Certainly seems to me I don't never see no wusser scared female than the way you been, Miss Florrie, just now as I seen you. Mr President, you come long and help me save our sisters dear. (he winks at his audience). Our Mr President, he twig the whole lot and he aint saying nothing.

Kitty-Kate

In a weak moment I did what I did on Constitution hill. I was confirmed by the bishop. My mother's sister married a Montmorency. It was a working plumber was my ruination.

Zoe-Fanny

I let him do it to me for the fun of it.

Florrie-Teresa

It was in consequence of a portwine beverage on top of Hennessy's three star.
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Stephen

In the beginning was the word, in the end the world without end. Blessed be the eight beatitudes.

(The beatitudes, Dixon, Madden, Crotthers, Costello, Lenehan, Bannon, Mulligan and Lynch in white surgical students' gowns, four abreast, goosestepping, tramp fast past in noisy marching.)

The Beatitudes

(incoherently) Beer Beef beef battledog buybull businum barnum buggerum bishop.

Lyster

(in quakergrey kneebreeches and broadbrimmed hat, says discreetly) He is our friend. I need not mention names. Seek thou the light.

(Best enters in hairdresser's attire, shinily laundered, his locks in curlpapers. He leads John Eglinton who wears a mandarin's kimono of Nankeen yellow, lizardlettered, and a high pagoda hat)

Best

(smiling, lifts the hat and displays
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a shaven poll from the crown of which bristles a ^|4pigtail^4| toupee tied with an orange topknot) I was just beautifying him, don't you know. A thing of beauty, don't you know, Yeats says, or I mean, Keats says.

John Eglinton

(produces a greencapped dark lantern and flashes it towards a corner: with carping accent) Esthetics and cosmetics are for the boudoir. I am out for truth. Plain truth for a plain man. Tanderagee wants the facts and means to get them.

(In the cone of the searchlight behind the coalscuttle ^|4rises ollave, holyeyed,^4| the bearded figure of Mananaun MacLir ^|4broods, chin on knees. He rises slowly^4|. A cold seawind blows from his druid mantle. a About his head writhe eels and elvers. He is encrusted with weeds and shells His right hand holds a bicycle pump. His left hand grasps a huge crayfish by its two talons)

Mananaun MacLir

(with a voice of waves) Aum! Hek! Wal! Ak! Lub! Mor! Ma! White yoghin of the gods. Occult pimander of Hermes Trismegistos. (with a voice of whistling seawind) Punarjanam patsypunjaub! I won't have my leg pulled. It has been said by one: beware the left, the cult of Shakti. (with a cry of stormbirds) Shakti Shiva^|4., ^|agreen dark^a| hidden Father!^4| (he smites with his bicycle pump the crayfish in his left hand. On its cooperative dial glow the ^|412^4| signs of the zodiac. He wails with the vehemence of the ocean) Aum! Baum! Pyjaum! I am the light of the homestead! I am the ^|4dreamery^4| creamery butter.

(^|4A skeleton ^|a|xJudas hand judashand^x|a| strangles the light.^4| The green light wanes to mauve. The gasjet wails whistling)

The Gasjet

^|4Pooeeh! Pooah^4|! Pfuiiiiiii!

(Zoe runs to the chandelier and, crooking her leg, adjusts the mantle)

Zoe

Who has a fag as I'm here?

Lynch

(tossing a cigarette on to the table) Here.

Zoe

(her head perched aside in mock
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pride) Is that the way to hand the pot to a lady? (She stretches up to light the cigarette over the flame, twirling it slowly, showing the brown tufts of her armpits. Lynch with his poker lifts boldly a side of her slip. Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a nixie's green. She puffs calmly at her cigarette.) Can you see the beauty spot of my behind?

Lynch

I'm not looking.

Zoe

(makes sheep's eyes) No? You wouldn't do a less thing. Would you suck a lemon?

(Squinting in mock shame she glances with sidelong meaning at Bloom, then twists round towards him, pulling her ^|4gown slip^4| free of the poker. Blue fluid again flows over her flesh. Bloom stands, smiling desirously, twirling his thumbs. Kitty Ricketts licks her middle finger with her spittle and, gazing in the mirror, smooths both eyebrows. Lipoti Virag, basilicogrammate, chutes rapidly down through the chimneyflue and struts two steps to the left on gawky pink stilts. He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment. In his left eye flashes the monocle of Cashel Boyle O'Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell. On his head is perched an Egyptian pshent. Two quills project over his ears)

Virag

(heels together, bows) My name is Virag, Lipoti, of Szombathely. (he coughs thoughtfully, drily) Promiscuous nakedness in is much in evidence hereabouts, eh? Inadvertently her backview revealed the fact that she is not wearing those rather intimate garments of which you are a particular devotee. The injection mark on the thigh I hope you perceived? Good.

Bloom

Granpapachi. But …..

Virag

Number two on the other hand, she of the cherry rouge and coiffeuse white, whose hair owes not a little to our tribal elixir of gopherwoodº, is in walking costume and tightly staysed by her sit, I should say. ^|4Backbone in front, so to say.^4| Correct me but I always understood that the act so performed with glimpses of lingerie appealed to you in virtue of its exhibitionististicicity. In a word. Hippogriff. Am I right?

Bloom

She is rather lean

Virag

(not unpleasantly) Well observed and those pannier pockets of the
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skirt and slightly pegtop effect are devised to suggest bunchiness of hip. A new purchase at some monster sale for which a gull has been mulcted. Meretricious finery to deceive the eye. Observe the attention to details of dustspecks. Never put on tomorrow what you can wear today. Parallax (with a nervous twitch of his head) Did you hear my brain go snap? Pollysyllabaxº!

Bloom

(an elbow resting in a hand, a forefinger against his cheek) She seems sad.

Virag

(cynically, his weasel teeth bared yellow, barks hoarsely) Hoax! Beware of the flapper and bogus mournful. Lily of the alley. Chameleon. (more genially) Well then, permit me to draw your attention to item number three. There is plenty of her. Observe the mass of oxygenated ^|4vegetable^4| matter on her skull. What ho, she bumps! The ugly duckling of the party …..

Bloom

(regretfully) When you come out without your gun.

Virag

We can do you all brands mild, medium and strong. How happy could you be with either …

Bloom

With …?

Virag

Look. Her beam is broad. She is coated with quite a considerable layer of fat. Obviously mammal you remark that she has in front well to the fore two protuberances of very respectable dimensions while on her rere lower down are two additional protuberances which leave nothing to be desired save compactness. Such fleshy parts are the product of careful nurture. When coopfattenedº their livers reach an elephantineº size. Pellets of new bread with fennygreek and gumbenjamin swamped down by potions of green tea endow them during their brief existence with natural pincushions of quite colossal blubber. That suits your book, eh? Wallow in it. Lycopodium. (his throat twitches) There he goes again.

Bloom

The stye I dislike.

Virag

(arches his eyebrows) Contact with a goldring, they say. For the rest Eve's sovereign remedy. Not for sale. Hire only. Huguenot. (he twitches) It is a funny sound. (he coughs encouragingly) But possibly it is only a wart. I presume you remember what I will teach you on that head? Wheatenmeal with honey and nutmeg.

Bloom

(reflecting) This searching ( ordeal. It has been an unusually fatiguing day, a chapter of accidents. Wait. I mean, wartsblood spreads warts,
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you said …

Virag

(severely, ^|4his nose hardhumped^4| his side eye winking) Stop twirling your thumbs and have a good old thunk. Exercise your mnemotechnic. La causa è santa. Tara. Tara. He will surely remember.

Bloom

Rosemary also did I understand you to say or willpower over parasitic tissues. Then nay no I have an inkling. Mnemo?

Virag

(excitedly) I say so. I say so. E'en so. Technic. (he taps his parchment roll energetically) This book tells you how to act with all descriptive particulars. I am going to talk about amputation. Our old friend caustic. They must be starved. Snip off with horsehair under the denned neck. But to change the venue ^|4to the Bulgar and the Basque^4| have you made up your mind whether you like or dislike women in male habiliments (with a dry snigger) You intended to devote an entire year to the study of the religious problem and the summer months of 1882 to square the circle and win that million. Pomegranate! From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. Pyjamas, let us say? Or those complicated combinations, camiknickers? (he crows derisively) Keekeereekee!

(Bloom surveys uncertainly the three whores, then gazes at the veiled mauve light, hearing the everflying moth)

Bloom

I wanted then to have now concluded. Hence this. But tomorrow is a new day will be. Past was is today. What now is will then morrow as now was be past yester.

Virag

(prompts ^|4into his ear^4| in a pig's whisper) Insects of the day spend their brief existence in reiterated coition, lured by the smell of the female. Pretty Poll! (his yellow parrotbeak gabbles nasally) They had a proverb in the Carpathians in or about the year five thousand six hundred of our era. One tablespoonfulº of honey will attract friend Bruin more than half a dozen barrels of first choice malt vinegar. But of this apart. At another time we may resume. We were very pleased ^|4we others^4|. (he coughs ^|4and bending his brow rubs his nose thoughtfully with a scooping hand^4|) You shall find that these night insects follow the light. An illusion for remember their complex unadjustable eye. Some there are again whose movements are automatic. Perceive. That is his appropriate sun. Nightbird nightsun nighttown. Chase me, Charley! ^|4(he blows into Bloom's ear)^4| Buzz!

Bloom

Bee or bluebottle too other day butting shadow on wall dazed self then me wandered dazed down shirt good job I ….
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Virag

(his face impassive, laughs in a rich feminine key) Splendid! Spanish fly in his fly or mustard plaster put some life in it. (He gobbles gluttonously with turkey wattles) Bubbly jock! Bubbly jock! Where are we? Open Sesame! Cometh forth! (he unrolls his parchment rapidly and reads his glowworm's nose running backwards over the letters ^|4which he claws^4|) Stay, good friend. Redbank oysters will shortly be upon us. Those succulent bivalves may help us unread and the truffles of Perigord, tubers dislodged by the omnivorous porker, were unsurpassed in cases of nervous debility. Though they stink yet they sting. (he wags his head with cackling raillery) Jocular. With my eyeglass in my ocular. (he sneezes) Amen!

Bloom

(absently) Woman's case is worse. Always open. Why they fear vermin, creeping things. Yet Eve and the serpent contradicts. Not a historical fact. Obvious analogy. Serpents too are gluttons for woman's milk. Wind their way through miles of forest to suck her breast dry. ^|4Like those Roman matrons one reads of in Elephantulus.^4|

Virag

(^|4cranes his neck forward his mouth projected in hard wrinkles, eyes stonily forlornly closed,^4| ) ^|4his finger pointed, his nostrils dilated, reading psalms in outlandish monotone^4|) ^|4That the^4| Cows with ^|4the those^4| distended udders ^|4that they^4| have been ^|4the the^4| known ….

Bloom

I am going to scream. I beg your pardon. Ah? So (he repeats) Spontaneously to seek out the saurian's lair in order to entrust their teats to his avid suction. Ant milks aphis. (profoundly) Instinct rules the world. In life. In death.

Virag

(^|4head askew, arches his back and hunched wingshoulders peers at the moth out of blear bulged eyes^4| points a claw ^|4at the moth^4| and cries) Who's moth moth? Who's dear Gerald? Dear Ger, that you? O dear, he is Gerald. O, I fear he shall be badly burned (he sighs ^|4draws back and stares sideways down with dropping underjaw.^4|) Well, well. He doth rest anon. ^|4(he snaps his jaws suddenly on the air)^4|

The Moth

I'm a tiny tiny thing
Ever flying in the spring
Round and round a ringaring.
Long ago I was a king
Now I do this kind of thing
On the wing, on the wing!
Bing!
(He rushes against the mauve shade, flapping noisily)
Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty petticoats.

(From left upper entrance with two gliding steps Henry Flower comes forward to left front centre. He wears a dark mantle and drooping plumed sombrero. He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer and a longstemmed bamboo Jacob's pipe, its clay bowl fashioned as a female head. He wears dark velvet hose and silverbuckled sho pumps. He has the romantic Saviour's face with flowing locks, thin
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beard and moustache. His spindlelegs and sparrow feet are those of the tenor Mario, prince of Candia. He settles down his ruffs and moistens his lips with a passage of his amorous tongue.

Henry

(in a low dulcet voice, touching the strings of his guitar) There is a flower that bloometh.

(Virag ^|4silent truculent^{4| |4}his jowl set^4| stares at the lamp. ^|4Grave^4| Bloom regards Zoe's neck. Henry ^|4gallant^4| turns ^|4with pendant dewlap^4| to the piano)

Stephen

(to himself) Play with your eyes shut. Imitate pa. Filling my belly with husks of swine. Too much of this. I will arise and go to my. Expect this is the. Steve, thou art in a parlous way. Must visit old Deasy or write. Our interview of this morning has left on me a deep impression. Though our ages. I'm partially drunk, by the way (he touches the keys again) Minor chord comes now. Yes. Not much however.

(Almidano Artifoni holds out a batonroll of music with vigorous moustacework)

Artifoni

Ci rifletta. Lei rovina tutto.

Florrie

Sing us something. Love's old sweet song.

Stephen

No voice. I am a most finished artist. Lynch, did I show you the letter about the lute?

Florrie

(smirking) The bird that can sing and won't sing.

(The Siamese twins, Philip Drunk and Philip Sober, two Oxford dons with lawnmowers, appear in the window embrasure. Both are masked with Matthew Arnold's face)

Philip Sober

Take a fool's advice. All is not well. Work it out with the buttend of a pencil, like a good young idiot. Three-pounds twelve you got, two notes, one sovereign, two crowns, if youth but knew. Mooney's en ville, Mooney's sur mer, the Moira, Larchet's, Holles street hospital, Burke's. Eh? I am watching you.

Philip Drunk

(impatiently) Ah, bosh, man. Go to hell. I paid my way. If I could only find out about octaves. Reduplication of personality. Who was it told me his name? (his lawnmower begins to purr) Aha, yes. Zoe mou sas agapo. Have a notion I was here before. When was it not Atkinson his card I have somewhere. Mac somebody. Unmock I have it. He told me about, hold on, Swinburne, was it, no?

Florrie

And the song?

Stephen

Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
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Florrie

Are you out of Maynooth? You're like someone I knew once.

Stephen

Out of it now (to himself) Clever.

Philip Drunk and Philip Sober

(their lawnmowers purring with a rigadoon of grasshalms) Clever ever. Out of it out of it. By the bye have you the book, the thing, the ashplant? Yes, there it, yes. Cleverever outofitnow. Keep in condition. Do like us.

Zoe

There was a priest down here on Monday to do his bit of business with his coat buttoned up. You needn't try to hide, I says to him. I know you've a Roman collar.

Virag

^|4Perfectly logical from his standpoint.^4| (harshly, his pupils waxing) To hell with the pope. Nothing new under the sun. I am the Virag who disclosed the Sex Secrets of Monks and Maidens. Why I left the church of Rome. Read the Priest, the Woman and the Confessional. Penrose. Flipperty Jippert.

Lynch

I hope you gave the good father a penance. Nine glorias for shooting a bishop.

Zoe

(spouts walrus smoke through her nostrils) He couldn't get connection. Only, you know, sensation. A dry rush.

Bloom

Poor man!

Zoe

(lightly) Only for what happened him.

^|4Virag Bloom^4|

How?

Virag

(a diabolic rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage ^|4cranes his scraggy neck forward. He lifts a mooncalf nozzle and howls^4|) Verfluchte Goim! He had a father, forty fathers. He never existed. ^|4He had two left feet.^4| He was Judas Iacchia, the Libyan eunuch, the pope's bastard. ^|4(He leans out on tortured forepaws, elbows bent rigid, his eye agonising in his flat skull neck and yelps ^|atowards over^a| the mute world)^4| A son of a whore. Apocalypse.

Kitty

And Mary Shortall that was in the lock with the pox she got from Jimmy Pidgeon in the blue caps had a child off him that couldn't swallow and ^|4they had to smother it was smothered^4| in the mattress ^|4and we all subscribed for the funeral.^4|

(She unpins her hat and sets it down calmly, patting her henna hair. And a prettier, a daintier head of winsome curls was never seen on a whore's shoulders. ^|4Lynch puts on her hat. She whips it off.^4|)

Lynch

(laughs) And to such delights has
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Metchnikoff inoculated anthropoid apes.

Florrie

(nods) Locomotor ataxy.

Lyn Zoe

(gaily) O, my dictionary.

Lynch

Three wise virgins.

Virag

(profuse yellow spawn foaming over his bony epileptic lips) She sold lovephiltres, whitewax, orangeflower. Panther, the Roman centurion, polluted her. (he sticks out a flickering phosphorescent ^|4scorpion^4| tongue) He burst her tympanum.

(Ben Jumbo Dollard, rubicund, musclebound, hairynostrilled, hugebeared, cabbageeared, shaggychested, ^|4shockmaned,^4| fatpapped, stands forth, his loins and genitals tightened into a pair of black bathing bagslops)

Ben Dollard

(nakkering castagnette bones in his huge padded paws yodels jovially in base barreltone) When love absorbs my ardent soul.º

(The virgins Nurse Callan and Nurse Quigley burst through the ringkeepers and the ropes and mob him with open arms)

The Virgins

(gushingly) Big Ben! Ben my Chree!

A Voice

Hold that fellow with the bad breeches

Ben Dollard

(smites his thigh in abundant laughter) Hold him now.

Henry

(caressing on his breast a severed female head, murmurs) Thine heart, mine love.

Virag

(sloughing his skins, his multitudinous plumage moulting) Rats! (he yawns showing a coalblack throat ^|4and closes his jaws by an upward push of his parchmentroll^4|) After having said which I took my departure. Farewell. Fare thee well.

(Henry Flower combs his moustache and beard rapidly with a pocketcomb and give's a cow's lick to his hair. Steered by his rapier he glides to the door. Virag reaches the door in two ^|4ungainly^4| stilthops and deftly claps sideways on the wall a pusyellow ^|4handbill flybill^4|)

The Flybill

K.11. Post No Bills. Strictly Confidential. Dr Hy Franks.

Henry

All is lost now.

^|4(^|aHe Virag^a| unscrews his head in a a trice and holds it under his arm)^4|

Virag's Head

Quack!

(Exeunt severally)

Stephen

(over his shoulder to Zoe) You would have
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preferred the fighting parson who founded the protestant error. But beware ^|4Antisthenes, the dog sage, and^4| the last end of Arius Heresiarchus. The agony in the closet.
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^|4Zoe Lynch^4|

All one and the same God ^|4to her^4|.

Stephen

(devoutly) And sovereign Lord of all things.

Florrie

^|4(to Stephen)^4| I'm sure you're a spoiled priest.

Lynch

He is. A cardinal's son.

Stephen

Cardinal sin

(His Eminence Simon Stephen cardinal Dedalus ^|4primate of All Ireland^4| appears in the doorway, dressed in red soutane, sandals and socks. Seven dwarf ^|4simian^4| acolytes, ^|4also in red^4| cardinal sins, uphold his train, peeping under it. He wears a battered silk hat sideways on his head. His thumbs are stuck in his armpits and his palms outspread. Round his neck hangs a rosary of corks ending on his breast in a corkscrew cross. Releasing his thumbs he invokes grace from on high with large wave gestures and proclaims with bloated pomp:)

The Cardinal

Conservio lies captured
He lies in the lowest dungeons
With manacles and chains around his limbs
Weighing upwards of three tons.
(He looks at all for a moment his right eye closed tight, his left cheek puffed out. Then, unable to repress his merriment, he rocks to and fro, arms akimbo, and sings with broad rollicking humour:)
O, the poor little fellow
Hihihihihis legs they were yellow
He was plump, fat and heavy and brisk as a snake
But some bloody savage
To graize his white cabbage
He murdered Nell Flaherty's duckloving drake.
(^|4A multitude of midges swarms white over his robe^4| He scratches himself with crossed arms at his ribs, grimacing, and exclaims:) ^|4I'm suffering the agony of the damned with.^4| By the hoky fiddle ^|4|athanks be to Jesus^a|4| those funny little chaps ^|4|athanks be to Jesus^a|4| are not unanimous. If they were they'd walk me off the face of the bloody earth globe.
(His head aslant he blesses curtly with fore and middle fingers and doubleshuffles off comically, swaying his hat from side to side, shrinking quickly to the size of his trainbearers. The dwarf acolytes giggling, peeping, nudging, ogling, zigzag behind him.
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His voice is heard mellow from afar, merciful male, melodious)
Shall carry ^|4my^4| heart to thee,
And the breath of the balmy night
Shall carry my heart to thee!

(The doorlock turns)

The Doorlock

Theeee!

Zoe

The devil is in that door.

(A male form passes down the creaking staircase and is heard taking the waterproof and hat from the rack. Bloom starts forward involuntarily and, half closing the door as he passes, takes the chocolate from his pocket and offers it nervously to Zoe)

Zoe

(sniffs his hair briskly) Hmmm! Thank your mother for the rabbits. I'm very fond of what I like.

Bloom

(hearing a male voice in talk with the whores on the doorstep, pricks his ears) If it were he? After? Or because not? Or the double event?

Zoe

(tears open the silverfoil) Fingers was made before forks (she breaks off and nibbles a piece, gives a piece to Kitty Ricketts and then turns kittenishly to Lynch) No objection to French lozenges? (He nods. She taunts him) Have it now or wait till you get it? (He opens his mouth, his head cocked ^|4She whirls ^|athe prize^a| in ^|aright left^a| circle. His head follows. She whirls it back in right circle. He eyes her^4|) Catch!

(She tosses a piece. With an adroit snap he catches it and bites it through with a crack)

Kitty

(chewing) The engineer I was with at the bazaar does have lovely ones. Full of the best liqueurs. And the viceroy was there with his lady. The gas we had on the Toft's hobbyhorses. I'm giddy still.

Bloom

(with folded arms and Napoleonic forelock frowns with piercing eagle glance towards the door. Then rigid with left foot advanced he makes a swift pass with impelling fingers) Go, go, go, whoever you are!

(A male cough and tread are heard passing through the mist outside. Bloom's features relax. He places a hand in his waistcoat opening calmly. Zoe offers him chocolate)

Bloom

(solemnly) Thanks.

Zoe

Do as you're bid. Here!

(^|4a A^4| firm heelclacking tread is heard on the stairs)

Bloom

(takes the chocolate). Aphrodisiac? Tansy and pennyroyal. But I bought it. Vanilla calms. Mnemo. Confused light confuses memory. Red influences lupus. Colours affect women's characters, any they have. This black makes me sad. Eat and be merry for tomorrow (he eats) Influence taste too, mauve. But it is so long since I. Seems new. Aphro. That priest. Must come. Better late than never. Try truffles at Andrews.

(The door opens. Bella Cohen, a massive whoremistressº enters. She is dressed in a threequarter
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ivory gown, fringed round the hem with tasselled selvedge and ^|4flirts cools herself flirting^4| a black horn fan like Minnie Hauck in Carmen. Her eyes are deeply carboned. She has a sprouting moustache. Her ^|4olive^4| face is heavy, slightly sweated and fullnosed with orangetainted nostrils. She has large pendent beryl eardrops)

Bella

My word! I'm all of a mucksweat.

(She glances round her at the couples. Then her eyes rest on Bloom with hard insistence. Her large fan winnows wind towards her heated faceneck and embonpoint. Her falcon eyes glitter)

The Fan

(flirting quickly, then slowly) Married, I see.

Bloom

Yes. Partly, I have mislaid …..

The Fan

(half opening, then closing) And the missus is master. ^|4Petticoat government.^4|

Bloom

(looks down with a sheepish grin) That is so.

The Fan

(folding together, rests against her left eardrop) Have you forgotten me?

Bloom

Nes. Yo.

The Fan

(folded akimbo against her waist) Is me her was you dreamed before? Was then she him you us since knew? Am all them and the same now me?

(Bella approaches, gently tapping with the fan.)

Bloom

(wincing) Powerful being. In my eyes read that slumber which women love.

The Fan

(tapping) We have met. You are mine. It is fate.

Bloom

(cowed) Exuberant female. Enormouslyº I desiderate your domination. I am exhausted, abandoned, no more young. I stand, so to speak,
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with an unposted letter bearing the extra regulationº fee before the too late box of the general post office of human life. The door and window open at a right angle cause a draught of thirtytwo feet per second according to the law of falling bodies. I have felt this instant a twinge of sciatica in my left glutear muscle. It runs in our family. Poor dear papa, a widower, was a regular barometer from it. He believed in animal heat. A skin of tabby lined his winter waistcoat. Near the end, remembering king David and the Sunamite, he shared his bed with ^|4Athos^4| faithful ^|4Athos after death^4|. A dog's spittle as you probably …. (he winces) Ah!

Richie Goulding

(bagweighted), passes the door) Mocking is catch. Best value in Dub. Fit for a prince's. Liver and kidney.

The Fan

(tapping) All things end. Be mine. Now.

Bloom

(undecided) All now? I should not have parted with my talisman. Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life. Every phenomenon has a natural cause.

The Fan

(points downwards slowly) You may.

Bloom

(looks downwards and perceives her unfastened sh bootlace) We are observed.

The Fan

(points downwards quickly) You must.

Bloom

(with desire, with reluctance) I can make a true black knot. Learned when I worked the mail order line for Kellett's. Experiencedº hand. Every knot says a lot. Let me. In courtesy

(Bella raises her gown slightly and, steadying her pose, lifts to the edge of a chair a plump buskined hoof and a full pastern silksocked. Bloom, stifflegged, aging, bends over her hoof and with gentle fingers draws out and in her laces)

Bloom

(murmurs lovingly) To be a shoefitter in Manfield's was my love's young dream, the darling joys of sweet buttonhooking, to lace up ^|4high^4| crisscrossed ^|4to kneelength^4| the dressy ^|4kid^4| footwear ^|4satinlined, so incredibly impossibly small^4| of Clyde Road ladies. Even their wax model Raymonde I visited daily to admire her cobweb hose and stick of rhubarb toe, as worn in Paris

The Hoof

Smell my hot goathide. Feel my royal weight.

Bloom

(crosslacing) Too tight?

The Hoof

If you bungle, Handy Andy, I'll kick your football for you.
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Bloom

Not to lace the wrong eyelet as I did the night of the bazaar dance. Bad luck. Hook in wrong tache of her. ^|4person you mentioned^4| That night she met. Now!

(He knots the lace. Bella places her foot on the floor. Bloom raises his head. Her heavy face, her eyes strike him in midbrow. His eyes grow pouched, his nose thickens)

Bloom

(mumbles) Awaiting your further orders we remain, gentlemen, ….

Bella

(with a hard basilisk stare, in a baritone voice) Hound of dishonour!

Bloom

^|4(infatuated)^4| Empress!

Bella

(his heavy cheekchops sagging) Adorer of the adulterous rump!

Bloom

(plaintively) Hugeness!

Bella

Dungdevourer!

Bloom

Magmagnificence!

Bella

Down! (he taps her on the shoulder with his fan) Incline feet forward! Slide left foot one pace back! ^|4You will fall You are falling.^4| On the hands down!

Bloom

(her eyes upturned closing ^|4yaps^4|) Truffles!

(With a piercing epileptic cry she sinks on all fours, grunting, snuffling, rooting at his feet: then lies, shamming dead, with ^|4eyes shut tight^4| trembling eyelids)

Bello

(^|4with bobbed hair^4| in mountaineer's puttees, green silverbuttonedº coat and sport skirt and alpine hat, ^|4his hands stuck deep in his breeches pockets,)^4| places his heel on her neck and grinds it in) Footstool! Feel my entire weight. Bow^|4, bondslave,^4| before the throne of ^|4my your despot's^4| glorious heels so glistening in their proud erectness

Bloom

(enthralled) I promise never to disobey

Bello

(^|4laughs^4| loudly) ^|4|aCheek me if you dare Holy smoke^a|! I'm the Tartar to settle your little lot I'll bet cocktails all round I shame it out of you, old son. ^|aCheek me, I dare you.^a|4| If you do tremble in
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in anticipation of heel discipline to be inflicted in gym costume.

(Bloom creeps under the sofa and peers out through the fringe)

Zoe

(widening her slip to screen him) He's not here.

Florrie

(hiding him with her gown) He didn't mean it, Mrs Bello. He'll be good, ^|4ma'am sir ma'amsir^4|.

Bello

(coaxingly) Come, ducky dear. Just a little heart to heart talk, sweety (Bloom puts out ^|4his her^4| timid head) There's a good fellow now (Bello grabs her hair violently and drags her forward) I only want to correct you for your own good on a soft safe spot. O, ever so gently.

Bloom

Don't tear my …

Bello

(savagely) The nosering, the hanging hook, the knout like the Nubian slave of old (his forehead veins swollen, his face congested) I shall sit on your ottoman back every morning after my thumping good breakfast of Matterson's fat hamrashers and a bottle of Guinness's porter. (he belches). And suck my thumping good Stock Exchange cigar while I read the Licensed Victualler's Gazette. Very possibly I shall have you slaughtered in my stables and enjoy a slice of you baked with rice and lemon. It will hurt you. (He twists her arm. Bloom squeals, turning turtle)

Bloom

Don't be cruel, nurse! Don't!

Bello

Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! ^|4(He slaps her ) face)^4|

Bloom

(whimpers) You're after hitting me.

Bello

Hold him down, girls, till I squat on him.

Zoe

Yes. Walk on him. I will.

Florrie

I will. Don't be greedy.

Kitty

No, me. Lend him to me.

(The brothel cook, Mrs Keogh, wrinkled, greybearded in a greasy bib and brogues, floursmeared, a rolling pin stuck with raw pastry in her bare red arm and hand, appears at the door)

Mrs Keogh

(ferociously) Can I help?

(They hold and pinion Bloom)

Bello

(squats with a grunt on Bloom's upturned face, puffing cigarsmoke, nursing a fat leg) I see Keating Clay is elected vicechairman of the Richmond asylum and by the by Guinness's preference shares are at sixteen three quarters. Curse me for a fool that didn't buy that lot Craig and Gardner told me about. Just my infernal luck, curse it. And that God damned outsider Throwaway at twenty to one (he quenches his cigar angrily on Bloom's ear) Where's that God damned cursed ashtray

Bloom

(goaded, buttock smothered) O! O! Monsters! Cruel one!

Bello

Ask for that every ten minutes (he thrusts out a figged fist
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and foul cigar) Here, kiss that. Both. Kiss.

Florrie

(pulls at Bello) Let me on him now. You had enough

Bloom

(stifling) Can't.

Zoe

(pulling at Florrie) Me. Me. Are you not finished with him?
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Bello

Well, I'm not. Wait (he holds in his breath) Curse it. Here. (contorting his features he farts ^|4stoutly loudlyº^4|) Take that! Yes, by Jingo, sixteen three quarters.

Bloom

(a sweat breaking out over him) Not man. Woman.

Bello

^|4(stands up)^4| No more blow hot and cold. What you longed for has come. Henceforth you are unmanned and mine in earnest, a thing ^|4under the yoke^4|. Now for your punishment frock. You will shed your male garments, understand? and don the shot silk luxuriously rustling over head and shoulders.

Bloom

(shrinks) Silk! O crinkly scrapy! Must I tiptouch it with my nails?

Bello

(points to his whores) As they are now so will you be, wigged, perfumesprayed, ricepowdered. Tape measurements will be taken next your skin. You will be laced with cruel force in to vicelike corsets with whalebone busk to the pelvis, the absolute outside edge, while your figure, plumper than when at large, will be restrained in nettight frocks, pretty petticoats and things stamped, of course, with my houseflag, creations of lovely lingerie. You will feel the pullpull. The frilly flimsiness of lace round your bare knees will remind you …..

Bloom

(charming soubrette with dauby cheeks, mustard hair and large male hands) I tried her things on only twice, a small prank, in Holles street. When unread we were hard up I washed them to save the laundry bill. My own shirts I turned. It was ^|4pure^4| thrift.

Bello

(jeers) Little jobs that make mother pleased, eh? And showed off coquettishly at the mirror behind closedrawn blinds your unskirted thighs and hegoat's udders in various poses of surrender, eh? Ho! ho! I have to laugh! That secondhand black shift ^|4erased erased erased split in the stitches ^|aat her last rape^a|4| that Mrs Miriam Dandrade sold you from the Shelbourne hotel, eh?

Bloom

Miriam. Black. Demimondaine.
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Bello

(guffaws) Christ Almighty ^|4you it's too tickling, this! You^4| were a nicelooking Miriam when you lay swooning in the thing across the bed as Mrs Dandrade about to be violated by lieutant Smythe-Smythe, Mr Philip Augustus Blockwell M.P, signor Laci Daremo, the robust tenor, blueeyed Bert, the liftboy, Henri Fleury of Gordon Bennett fame, Sheridan, the quadroon Croesus, ^|4the varsity eight from old Trinity,^4| her splendid Newfoundland and ^|4the Bobs,^4| dowager duchess of Manorhamilton. (he guffaws again) Christ, wouldn't it make a cat laugh?

Bloom

It was Gerald converted me to be a true corsetlover when I was female impersonator in the High School play Vice Versa. It was dear Gerald. He got that kink, fascinated by sister's stays. Now Gerald gilds his eyelids. Cult of the beautiful.

Bello

^|4(with wicked glee)^4| Beautiful! Give us a breather! When you took your seat with womanish care, lifting your billowy flounces, on the smoothworn throne.

Bloom

Science. To compare the various joys we each enjoy (earnestly) And really it's better the position because often I used to wet ….

Bello

(sternly) ^|4The sawdust is there in the corner for you. If I catch a trace. Aha!^4| The sins of your past are rising against you. Many. Hundreds.

The Sins of the Past

(in a medley of voices) He went through a form of marriage with at least one woman bel in the shadow of the Black Church. Unspeakable messages he telephoned to Miss Parker of D'Olier street mentally while he presented himself indecently to the instrument. ^|4In five urinals he wrote pencilled messages offering his nuptual partner to all strong males.^4| And by the vitriol works did he not pass night after night by loving couples to see if he could see? Did he not lie in bed, the hog, gloating over a fragment of wellused toilet paper presented to him by a harlot?

Bello

Say, what was the most revolting piece of obscenity in your career of crime? Puke it out!

(Mute inhuman faces throng forward, leering, vanishing,
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gibbering, Booloohoom, Poldy cock Kock, Bootlaces a penny, Cassidy's hag, blind stripling, Larry rhinoceros, the girl, the woman, the whore, the other the, lane the)

Bloom

Don't ask me! ^|4Our mutual faith.^4| I only thought the half of the …

Bello

(peremptorily) Answer. Repugnant wretch!

Bloom

(^|4mumbles gurgles^4|) I repugnosed in repugnant …

Bello

(^|4shortly imperiously^4|) Hold your tongue!

Bloom

(bows) Master! Mistress! Mantamer!

(he lifts his arms. His bangle bracelets fall)

Bello

(satirically) By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes also when we are unwell and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up. You will make the beds, get my tub ready, empty the pisspots in the different rooms, including old Mrs Keogh's the cook's. Ay, and rinse the seven of them well, mind, or lap it up like champagne. ^|4Drink me ^|ahot^a|4|. Hop! You will dance attendance or I'll lecture you on your misdeeds. At night your wellcreamed braceletted hands will wear twentybutton gloves new powdered with talc and having delicately scented fingertips. For such favours knights of old laid down their lives (he chuckles) My boys will be ^|4no end^4| charmed to see you so ladylike ^|4|athe colonel, above all,º^a| when they come here the night before the wedding. First I'll have a go at you myself^4|. A man I know on the turf named Charles Albert Marsh is on the lookout for a maid of all work at a short knock. Swell the bust. Smile. Droop shoulders. What offers?

A Bidder

A florin.

A Voice

One and eightpence too much

Charles Albert Marsh

Must be a virgin. Good breath. Clean

Bello

Touch and examine shis points. Handle hrim. ^|4This downy skin, these soft muscles, this tender flesh. If I had only my gold piercer. And quite easy to milk. ^|aThree gallons a day.^a|4| What advance on two bob ^|4gentlemen^4|?

A ^|4darkvisaged Darkvisaged^4| Man

(in disguised accent) Hundred pounds
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Voices

(subdued) For the Caliph. Haroun Al Raschid.

Bello

(gaily) Right. Let them all come. The scanty skirt riding up at the knee to show a peep of white pantelette is a potent weapon and transparent stockings emeraldgartered with the long straight seam trailing up beyond the knee appeal to the better instincts of the blasé man about town. Learn the smooth tapstep walk on four inch Louis Quinze heels, the Grecian bend with provoking croup, the thighs fluescent, knees modestly kissing. Bring all your powers of fascination to bear on them.

Bloom

(bends his blushing face into his armpit and simpers) O, I know what you're hinting at now!

Bello

What else are you good for, an impotent thing like you? (he stoops and, peering, pokes with his fan rudely under the fatfolds of Bloom's haunches) Up! Up! Manx cat! Where's your curly teapot gone to or who docked it on you? It's as limp a boy of six's doing his pooly behind a cart (loudly) Can you do a man's job?

Bloom

Eccles street ….

Bello

(sarcastically) I wouldn't hurt your feelings for the world but there's a man of brawn in possession there. He is something like a man. He shot his bolt. He's no eunuch. That makes you wild, don't it? Touches the spot? (He spits in contempt) Spittoon!

Bloom

I was indecently treated, I …..

Bello

Would if you could. A downpour we want not your drizzle.

Bloom

To drive me mad! Moll! I forgot! Forgive! Moll …. We …. Still …..

Bello

(ruthlessly) No, Leopold Bloom, all is changed by woman's will since you slept horizontal in Sleepy Hollow your night of twenty years. Return and see.

(Old ^|4sleepy Sleepy^4| Hollow calls over the wold)

Sleepy Hollow

Rip van Wink! Rip van Winkle!

Bloom

(in tattered mocassins with a rusty
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fowlingpiece, tiptoing, fingertipping, his haggard bony bearded face peering through the diamond panes, cries out) I see her.! It's she! The first night at Mat Dillon's. But her hair is dyed gold and he ….

Bello

(laughs mockingly) That's your daughter, you owl, with a Mullingar student.

(Milly Bloom, fairhaired, slimsandalled, her blue scarf in the seawind simply swirling breaks from the arms of her lover and calls, her young eyes wonderwide)

^|4Milly

My! It's^4| Papli! But, O, Papli, how old your you've grown!

Bello

Changed, eh? Our whatnot, our writingtable where we never wrote, aunt Hegarty's armchair, our classic reprints of old masters. A man and his menfriends are living there in clover. ^|4Why not?^4| How many women had you, eh? ^|4Turn about.^4| Sauce for the goose, my gander O.

Bloom

They ….

Bello

(cuttingly) Their heelmarks will stamp the Brusselette carpet you bought at Wren's auction. In their horseplay they will deface the little statue you carried home in the rain for art for art' sake. They will violate the secrets of your bottom drawer. Pages will be torn from your handbook of astronomy to make them pipespills. And they will spit in your tenshilling brass fender from Hampton Leedom's.

Bloom

Ten and six. The act of scoundrels. Let me go. I will return. I will prove …

(He clenches his fists and crawls forward, a bowieknife between his teeth

Bello

As a paying guest or a kept man? Too late. You have made a secondbest bed and others must lie in it. Your epitaph is written. You are down and out and don't you forget it, old bean.

Bloom

Justice! All Ireland versus one! Has nobody …? (he bites his thumb)

Bello

Die and be damned to you^|4! ^|a|bif you have any sense of decency. I can give you a rare old wine.^b| Sign a will^a| and leave us any coin you have! ^|aIf you have none see you get it, steal it, rob it.^a|4| We'll bury you in our shrubbery jakes where you'll be dead and dirty ^|4with old Cohen ^|a|bmy the^b| cousin I married, the bloody old ^|bgouty^b| procurator,^a| and my other husbands ^|asuffocated^a| in the one cesspool^4|. (he explodes in a loud phlegmy
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laugh) We'll manure you, Mr Flower (he pipes scoffingly) Byby, Poldy! Byby, Papli!

Bloom

^|4(clasps his head) My willpower! Memory!^4| I have sinned. I have suff …. (he weeps ^|4tearlessly^4|)

Bello

(sneers) Crybabby! Crocodile tears!

(Bloom, boken, broken, sobs, his face to the earth. Dark shawled figures of the circumcised, in sackcloth and ashes, stand by the wailing wall, M. Shulomowitz, Joseph Goldwater, Moses Herzog, Harris Rosenberg, M. Moisel, J. Citron, Minnie Watchman, P. Mastiansky, the reverend Leopold Abramovitz, chazen. With swaying arms they wail over ^|4the recreant^4| Bloom)

The Circumcised

(in dark guttural chant) Shema Israel Adonai Elohenu Adonai Echad.

^|4Voices

(sighing) So he's gone. Ah yes. Yes, indeed. Queer kind of chap. There's the widow. That so? Ah, yes.^4|

(Out of her oakframe a nymph with hair unbound, lightly clad in teabrown artcolours, descends from her grotto and passing under interlacing yews stands over Bloom)

The Yews

(their leaves whispering) Sister. Our sister. Ssh!

The Nymph

(softly) Mortal! (kindly) Nay, ^|4do dost^4| not weep!

Bloom

(crawls jellily forward under the boughs, streaked by sunlight: with dignity) This position. I felt it was expected of me. Force of habit

The Nymph

Mortal! You found me in evil company, highkickers, coster picnicmakers, pugilists, popular generals, immoral panto boys in fleshtights and the nifty shimmy dancers, La Amora and Karini, the hit of the century. I was on cheap pink paper that smelt of rock oil. I was surrounded by the stale smut of clubmen, stories to disturb callow youth, ads for transparencies,º truedup dice and bustpads, proprietary articles and trusses for rupture. Useful hints to the married.

Bloom

(lilts lifts a turtle head towards her lap) We have met before. On another star.

The Nymph

(sadly) Rubber goods. Neverrip brand as supplied to the aristocracy. Corsets for men. I cure fits or money refunded. Unsolicited testimonials for Professor Waldmann's wonderful chest exuber. My bust developed four inches in three weeks, reports Mrs Gus Rublin with photo.

Bloom

You mean Photo Bits?
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The Nymph

I do. You bore me away, framed me in oak and tinsel, set me above your marriage couch. ^|4Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places. And with loving pencil you shaded my eyes, my bosom and my shame.^4|

Bloom

(humbly ^|4kisses her long hair.^4|) ^|4Your ^|aclassic^a| curves,^4| Beautiful immortal, I was glad to look on you, to praise you, almost to pray.

The Nymph

During dark nights I heard your praise.

Bloom

(quickly) Yes, yes. Sleep reveals the worst side of everyone, children perhaps excepted. I know I fell out of bed or rather was pushed. Steel wine is said to cure snoring. For the rest there is that English invention, pamphlet of which I received some days ago. It claims to afford a noiseless, inoffensive vent. (he sighs) 'Twas ever thus. Frailty, thy name is marriage.

^|4The Nymph

You understood them?^4|

The Yews

Ssh!

The Nymph

(covers her face with her hands) What have I not seen in that chamber? What must my eyes look down on?

Bloom

(apologetically) I know. Soiled personal linen ^|4this wrong^4| side up with care. The quoits are loose. From Gibraltar by long sea long ago.

The Nymph

^|4(bends her head)^4| Worse, worse!

Bloom

(reflects ^|4|xprecautiously^x|4|) That antiquated commode. It wasn't her weight. She scaled just eleven stone nine. ^|4She put on nine pounds after weaning.^4| It was a crack and want of glue. Eh? And that absurd orangekeyed utensil which has only one handle.

(The sound of a waterfall is heard in bright cascade)

The Waterfall

Poulaphouca Poulaphouca Poulaphoua Poulaphoua.

The Yews

(mingling their boughs) Listen. Whisper. She is right, our sister. We grew by Poulaphouca waterfall. We gave shade on langourous summer days.

John Wyse Nolan

(in the background, in Irish National Forester's uniform, unread doffs his plumed hat) Prosper. Give shade on
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languorous days, trees of Ireland

The Yews

(murmuring) Who came to Poulaphouca with the High School excursion? Who left his nutquesting classmates to seek our shade?

Bloom

(scared) High School of Poula? Mnemo? Not in full possession of faculties. Concussion. Run over by tram.

The Echo

Sham!

Bloom

(pigeonbreasted, bottleshouldered, padded, in nondescriptº juvenile grey and black striped suit, too small for him, white tennis shoes, bordered stockings and a red schoolcap with badge) I was in my teens, a growing boy. A little then sufficed, a jolting car, the mingling odours of the ladies' cloakroom, the throng ^|4penned tight^4| on the old Royal stairs, (for they love crushes, instinct of the herd ^|4and the dark sexsmelling theatre unbridles vice^4|) even a pricelist of their hosiery. And then the heat. There were sunspots that summer. End of school. And tipsycake. Halcyon ^|4Days days^4|.

(Halcon Days, High School boys in blue and white football jerseys and shorts ^|4Master^4| Donald Turnbull, ^|4Master^4| Abraham Chatterton, ^|4Master^4| Owen Goldberg, ^|4Master^4| Jack Meredith, ^|4Master^4| Percy Apjohn, stand in a clearing of the trees and shout to ^|4Master Leopold^4| Bloom)

The Halcyon Days

Mackerel! Live us again. Hooray! (They cheer)

Bloom

(hobbledehoy, warmgloved, mammamufflered starred with spent snowballs ), struggles to rise) Again! I feel sixteen! ^|4What a lark!^4| Let's ring the bells in Montague street. (he cheers feebly) Hooray for the High School!

The Echo

Fool!

The Yews

(rustling) She is right, our sister. Whisper. (Whispered kisses are heard in all the wood. Faces of hamadryads peep out from the boles and among the leaves and break, blossoming into B bloom) Who profaned our silent shade?

The Nymph

(coyly ), through parting fingers) There? In the open air?

The Yews

(sweeping downward) Sister, yes. And on our virgin sward.

The Waterfall

Poulaphouca Poulaphouca Phoucaphouca Phoucaphouca.

The Nymph

(with wide fingers) O, infamy!

Bloom

I was precocious. Youth. ^|4The fauna.^4| The flowers that bloom in the spring. It was pairing time. Capillary attraction is a natural phenomenon. Lotty Clarke, flaxenhaired, I saw at her night toilette through illclosed curtains with poor papa's operaglasses:º ^|4The wanton ate grass wildly^4| She rolled downhill at Rialto bridge
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toº tempt me with her flow of animal spirits. She climbed their crooked tree and I unread. A saint couldn't resist. Besides who saw?

(Staggering Bob, a whitepolled calf, thrusts a ruminating head with humid nostrils through the foliage)

Staggering Bob

(large teardrops rolling from his prominent eyes, snivels) Me. Me see.

Bloom

Simply satisfying a need I … (with pathos) No girl would. Too ugly. They wouldn't play ….

(High on Ben Howth through rhododendrons a nannygoatº passes, plumpuddered, buttytailed, dropping currants)

The Nannygoat

(bloats bleats) Megeggaggegg! Nannannanny!

Bloom

(hatless, flushed, covered with burrs of thistledown and ^|4gorsepine gorsespine^4|) Regularly engaged. Circumstances alter cases (he gazes intently downwards on the water) Thirtytwo head over heels per second. Giddy Elijah. Clerk of government printer's office falls from cliff.

^|4(Through silversilent summer air the dummy of Bloom, rolled in a mummy, rolls roteatingly from the Lions Head cliff into the purple waiting waters)

Bbbbblllllblblblblobschb!^4|

(Far out in the bay, between Bailey and Kish lights, the Erin's King sails, sending a broadening plume of coalsmoke from her funnel towards the land)

Councillor Nannetti

(alone on deck, in dark alpaca, yellowkitefaced, his hand in his waistcoat opening, declaims) When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written. I have …

Bloom

Done. Prff!

The Nymph

(loftily) We immortals, as you saw today, have not such a place and no hair there either. We are stonecold and pure. We eat electric light (she arches her body) You spoke to me. I heard from behind. How then could you ever …

Bloom

(pawing the heather abjectly) O, I have been a perfect pig. Enemas too I have administered. One third of a pint of infusion of quassia to which add a tablespoonful of rocksalt. Up the fundament. With Hamilton Long's syringe, the ladies' friend.

The Nymph

In my presence. The powder puff (she blushes) And the rest!

Bloom

(dejected) Yes. Peccavi. I have paid homage on that living altar where the back changes name (with sudden fervour) For why should the dainty scented jewelled hand, the hand that rules …?

The Voice of Kitty

(in the thicket) Show us one of them cushions.

The Voice of Florrie

Here

(A grouse wings clumsily through the underwood)

The Voice of Lynch

(in the thicket) Whew! Piping P hot!

The Voice of Zoe

(in the thicket) Came from a hot place

The Voice of Virag

(a birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered, in
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war panoply, with his assegai, striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns) Hot! Hot! Ware Sitting Bull!

Bloom

It overpowers me. The warm impress of her warm form. Even to sit where a woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen coatpans. So womanly, full. It fills me full

The Waterfall

Phillaphulla. Poulaphouca. Poulaphouca. Poulaphouca.

The Yews

Ssh! Sister, speak!

The Nymph

(eyeless, in nun's white habit, coif and hugewingedº wimple, softly, with remote eyes) Tranquilla convent. Sister Agatha. Mount Carmel. The apparitions of Knock and Lourdes. No more desire. (she reclines her head, sighing) Only the ethereal. Where dreamy creamy gull waves o'er the waters unread dull

(Bloom half rises. His back trouserbutton snaps)

The unread Button

Bip!

(Two sluts of the Coombe dance rainily by, shawled, yelling flatly:)

The Sluts

O, Leopold lost the pin of his drawers
He didn't know what to do,
To keep it up,
To keep it up.

Bloom

(coldly) You have broken the spell. The last straw. If there were only ethereal where would you be?

The Yews

(their silverfoil of leaves precipitating, their skinny arms aging and swaying) Deciduously.

The Nymph

(her features hardening, gropes in the folds of her habit) Sacrilege! To attempt my virtue! (A large moist stain appears on her robe) Sully my innocence! You are not fit to touch the garment of a pure woman. (she clutches again in her robe) Wait. Satan, you'll sing no more lovesongs.

Bloom

(starts up, seizes her hand) ^|4Hoy! Cat o' nine lives!^4| Fair play, madam. No pruningknife. The fox and the grapes, is it? What do you lack with your barbed wire? Crucifix not thick enough? A holy abbot you want or Mullins, the lame gardener, or good mother Alphonsus, eh ^|4reynard Reynard^4|?

The Nymph

(with a cry flees from him, her plaster cast cracking, a cloud of stench escaping t from the cracks) Poli …!

Bloom

(calls after her) As if you didn't get it on the double yourselves. I tried it. Your strength our weakness. What's our studfee? What will you pay on the nail? You fee mendancers on the Riviera. I read (the fleeing nymph raises a keen) Eh? I have sixteen years of black slave labour behind me. And would a jury give me five shillings alimony tomorrow, eh? Fool someone else not me. (he sniffs) Rut. Onions. Stale. Sulphur. Grease.
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(The figure of Bella Cohen stands before him)

Bella

You'll know me the next time.

Bloom

(composed, regards her) Passée. Long in the tooth and superfluous hair. A raw onion the last thing at night would benefit your complexion. And take some double chin drill. Your eyes are as vapid as the glasseyes of your stuffed fox. They have the dimensions of your other features, that's all. I'm not a triple screw propeller.

Bella

(contemptuously) You're not game, in fact.

Bloom

(contemptuously) ^|4Clean your nailless middle finger ^|afirst^a|,^{4| |4}The spunk of your bully your bully's cold spunk^4| is dripping from you. ^|4Take a handful of hay and wipe yourself^4|

^|4Bella

I saw him., kipkeeper.,^4|

Bella

(turns to the piano) Which of you was playing the the dead march from Saul?º
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is an accident. Fell and cut it twentytwo years ago. I was sixteen.

Zoe

I see, says the blind man. Tell us news.

Stephen

See? Moves to one great goal. I am twenty two. Sixteen years ago he was twenty too two too. Sixteen years ago I twenty two tumbled. Twentytwo years ago he sixteen fell off his hobbyhorse (he winces) Hurt my hand somewhere. Must see a dentist. Money?

(Zoe whispers to Florrie. They giggle. Bloom releases his hand and writes idly on the table in backhand with final slow curves)

Florrie

What?

(aA hackneycar, number blank, with a gallantbuttockedº mare, driven by James Barton, Harmony avenue, Donnybrook, trots past. Blazes Boylan and Lenehan sprawl swaying on the sideseats. The Ormond boots crouches behind on the axle. Sadly over the crossblind Lydia Douce and Mina Kennedy gaze

The Boots

(jogging, mocks them with thumb and wriggling wormfingers) Haw haw have you the horn?

(Bronze by gold they whisper)

Zoe

(to Florrie) Whisper. (she whispers again)

(Over the well of the car Blazes Boylan leans, his strawhat set sideways, a red flower in his mouth. Lenehan in yachtsman's cap and white shoes officiously detaches a long hair from Blazes Boylan's ^|4coat^4| shoulder)

Lenehan

Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?

Boylan

(sated, smiles) Plucking a turkey.

Lenehan

A good night's work.

Boylan

(holding up four thick ungulated fingers, winks) Blazes Kate! Up to sample or your money back (he holds out a forefinger) Smell that.

Lenehan

(smells gleefully) Ah! Lobster and mayonnaise. Ah!

Zoe and Florrie

(laugh together) Ha ha ha ha

Boylan

(jumps surely from the car and calls loudly for all to hear) Hello, Bloom. Mrs Bloom dressed yet?

Bloom

(in prune plush coat and kneebreeches, buff stockings and powdered wig) I'm afraid not, sir. The last articles …..

Boylan

(tosses him sixpence) Here. Show me in. I have a little private business with your wife, you understand?

Bloom

Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Madame ^|4Tweedy^4| is in her bath.

Marion

He ought to feel himself highly honoured (she plops splashing out of the water) Raoul darling, come and dry me. I'm in my pelt. Only my new hat and a muff.
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Boylan

(a merry twinkle in his eye) Topping!

Bella

What? What is it?

(Zoe whispers to her)

Marion

Let him look, the pishogue! ^|4Pimp!^4|

Boylan

(clasps himself) Here, I can't hold this little lot much longer. (he strides off on stiff cavalry legs.

^|4Bella

(points) The mirror up to nature (he laughs) Hu hu hu hu hu!º^4|
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^|4Bella

(laughing) Ho ho ho ho.

Florrie

(in Kitty's ear) She says that …

Kitty

(laughing) Hee hee hee.

Lynch

(points to the mirror, laughing) Hu hu hu^{4| |4|a}The mirror up to nature^a|4|

(^|4Bloom gazes Stephen & Bloom gaze^4| in the mirror. The face of William Shakespeare^|4, beardless,^4| appears there, rigid in facial paralysis, crowned by the reflection of the reindeer antlered hatrack in the hall)

Shakespeare

(in dignified ventriloquy) 'Tis the loud laugh bespeaks the vacant mind (to Bloom) You thought you were invisible. Gaze.

Bloom

(smiles yellowly at the three whores) When will I hear the joke?

Zoe

Before you're twice married and once a widower.

Bloom

^|4Lapses are condoned.^4| Even the great Napoleon when measurements were taken next the skin after his death …

(The widow Dignam, her snubnose and cheeks flushed with deathtalk, tears and Tunny's tawny sherry, hurries by in her weeds, her bonnet awry. Beneath her skirt appear her late husband's every day trousers and turnedup boots, large eights. She holds a Scottish Widows' insurance policy and a large marquee umbrella under which her brood run with her, Patsy, hopping on one shod foot, his collar loose, ^|4a hank of porksteaks dangling,^4| Freddy, whimpering, Susy with a crying cod's mouth, Alice struggling with the baby. She cuffs them on, her streamers flaunting aloft)

Freddy

Ah, ma, you're dragging me along!

Mrs Cu Susy

Mamma, the beeftea is fizzing over!

Shakespeare

^|4None wed the second but who kill the first (with paralytic rage) Weda seca whokilla farst^4|.

(The face of Martin Cunningham, bearded, refeatures Shakespeare's beardless face. The marquee umbrella sways drunkenly, the children run aside. Under the umbrella appears Mrs Cunningham in merry widow hat and kimono gown. She glides sidling and bowing, twirling japanesily)

Mrs Cunningham

(sings) And they call me the Jewel of Asia!
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Martin Cunningham

(gazes on her, impassive) Immense. Most bloody awful demirep!º

Stephen

Et exaltabuntur cornua iusti. Queens lay with prize bulls

Bella

None of that here. Come to the wrong shop.

Lynch

Let him alone. He's back from Paris.

Zoe

(runs to Stephen and links him) O go on! Give us some parley voo.

(Stephen claps hat on head and leaps over to the fireplace where he stands with shrugged shoulders, finny hands outspread, a painted smile on his face)

Lynch

(pommelling on the sofa) Rmm Rmm Rmm Rrrrrrmmmm.

Stephen

(gabbles ^|4with marionette jerks^4|) Thousand places of entertainment to expense your evenings ^|4|awhere with^a|4| lovely ladies ^|4|aare^a|4| saling gloves and other things perhaps hers heart beerchops perfect fashionable house very eccentric where lots cocottes ^|4_unreadful beautiful^4| dressed much about princesses like are dancing cancan and walking there, parisian clowneries extra foolish for bachelors foreigns. The same if talking a poor english how much smart they are on things love and sensations voluptuous. Misters very selects for is pleasure must to visit heaven and hell show with mortuary candles and the they tears silver which occur every night. Perfectly shocking terrific of religion's things mockery seen in universal world. All chic womans ^|4squeel squeal^4| loud to see vampire man debauch nun very fresh young with dessous troublant. (he clacks his tongue loudly) Ho, là là. Ce pif qu'il a.

Lynch

Vive le vampire!

The Whores

Bravo! Parleyvoo!

Stephen

(^|4grimacing^4| with head back, laughs loudly, clapping himself) Great success of laughing. Angels much prostitutes like and holy apostles big damn ruffians. Demimondaines nicely handsome sparkling of diamonds very amiable costumed. Or do you
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are fond better what belongs the they moderns pleasure? (he points about him with grotesque gestures which Lynch and the whores reply to) Caoutchouc statue woman reversible or lifesize tompeeptom of virgins nudities very lesbic ^|4they the^4| kiss five ten times. Enter, gentleman, to see in mirror every positions trapezes all that machine there besides also if desire act awfully bestial omlet on the belly pièce de Shakespeare.

Bella

(clapping her belly sinks back on the sofa, ^|4with a^4| shout of laughter) An omelette on the …. Ho! ho! ho! ho! … omelette on the ….

Stephen

(mincingly) I love you, sir darling. Speak you englishman tongue for double entente cordiale. O yes, mon loup How much cost? Waterloo. Watercloset. (he ceases suddenly and holds up a forefinger)º

Bella

(laughing) Omelette ….

The Whores

(laughing) Encore! Encore!

Stephen

Mark me. I dreamt of a watermelon.

Zoe

Go abroad and love a foreign lady.

Lynch

Across the world for a wife.

Florrie

Dreams goes by contraries.

Stephen

(extends his arms) ^|4No. I flew. It was here.^4| Street of harlots. In ^|4serpentine Serpentine^4| avenue Beelzebubº showed me her a fubsy widow. Where's the red carpet spread?º

Bloom

(approaching Stephen) Look ….

Stephen

No, I flew. My foes beneath me. And ever shall be. World without end (he cries) Pater! Free!

Bloom

I say, look …

Stephen

Break my spirit, will he? O merde alors! (he cries, his vulture talons sharpened) Holà! Hillyho!

(Simon Dedalus' voice hilloes in
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answer, somewhat sleepy but ready

Simon

That's all right (he ^|4circles swoops^4| uncertainly through the air ^|4wheeling^4| uttering cries of heartening on strong ponderous wings) Ho, boy! Are you going to win? Hoop! Pschatt! Stable with those halfcastes. ^|4Wouldn't let them within the bawl of an ass^4| Keep our flag flying! ^|4An eagle gules volant in a field argent displayed.^4| Haihoop! (He makes the beagle's call ^|4giving tongue^4|) ^|4Bulbul!^4| Burblblburblbl! Hai, boy!

(Theº fronds and spaces of the wallpaper file rapidly crosscountry. The fox, brush pointed, runs swift, brighteyed, under the leaves. The crowd bawls of dicers, crown and anchor players, thimbleriggers, broadsmenº. Crows and tout, hoarse bookies in high wizard hats clamour deafeningly)

The Crowd

Card of the races. Racing card!
Ten to one the field!
Tommy on the clay here! Tommy on the clay!
^|4Two Ten^4| to one bar one! ^|4Two Ten^4| to one bar one!
Try your luck on spinning Jenny!
Two to one bar one!
Sell the monkey, boys! Sell the monkey!
I'll give ten to one!
Ten to one ^|4the field bar one^4|!

(A dark horse un riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winningpost, his mane ^|4foaming moon-foaming^4|, his eyeballs stars. The field follows, a bunch of bucking mounts. Skeleton horses, Sceptre, Maximum the Second, Zinfandel, the duke of Westminster's Shotover, Repulse, the duke of Beaufort's Ceylon, prix de Paris. Dwarfs ride them rustyarmoured, leaping in their, in their saddles. Last in a drizzle of rain on a brokenwinded ^|4isabelle^4| nag, ^|4cock of the north,^4| honey cap, green jacket, orange sleeves, Garrett Deasy in the up, gripping the reins, a hockeystick at the ready. His nag on spavined whitegaitered feet tr jogs along the rocky road)

The Crowd

(jeering) Get down and push, mister. Last lap! You'll be home the night!

Garrett Deasy

(bolt upright ^|4his nailscraped face plastered with postagestamps,^4| brandishes his hockeystick, his blue eyes flashing in the prism of the chandelier ^|4as his mount lopes by at schooling gallop^4|) Per vias rectas!

(A yoke of buckets empties all over him and his rearing nag a torrent of mutton broth with dancing coins of carrots, barley, onions, turnips, potatoes)

The Crowd

Soft day, sir John! Soft day, your honour!º

(Private Carr, Private Compton and Cissy
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Caffrey pass beneath the windows, singing in discord)

Stephen

Hark! Our friend noise in the street.

Zoe

(holds up her hand) Stop

Private Carr, Private Compton and Cissy Caffrey

Yet I've a sort of a
Yorkshire relish for …

Zoe

That's me (she claps her hands) Dance! Dance! (she runs to the pianola) Who has twopence?

Bloom

Who'll …?

Lynch

(handing her coins) Here.

Stephen

(cracking his fingers impatiently) Quick! Quick! ^|4Where's my augur's rod?^4| (he runs to the piano and takes his ashplant ^|4beating his foot in tripudium^4|)

Zoe

(turns the drumhandle) There. (she drops two pennies in the slot. Gold, pink and violet lights start forth. The drum turns purring. Professor Goodwin, in a bowknotted periwig, in court dress wearing a stained Inverness cape, bent in two from incredible age, totters across the room, his hands fluttering. He sits tinily on the pianostool and lifts and beats handless sticks of arms on the keyboard, nodding with damsel's grace, his bowknot bobbing)

Zoe

^|4(twirls round herself^|a, heeltapping^a|)^4| Dance. Who'll dance? Clear the table

(The pianola with changing lights plays in waltz time the prelude of My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl. Stephen throws his ashplant on the table and seizes Zoe round the waist. Florrie and Bella push the table towards the fireplace. Stephen, arming Zoe with exaggerated grace, begins to waltz her round the room. ^|4Bloom stands unread aside. ^|aHer ^|bfalling^b| sleeve ^|bfalling^b| from gracing arms reveals a white fleshflower of vaccination.^a|4| Betweenº the curtains Professor Maghinni inserts a leg on the toepoint of which spins a silk hat. With a deft kick he sends it spinning to his crown and jauntyhatted entered enters. He wears a slate frock coat with claret silk lappels lapels, a gorget of cream tulle, a green lowcut waistcoat, stock collar with white kerchief, tight lavender trousers, patent pumps and canary gloves. In his buttonhole is ^|4a an immense^4| dahlia. He twirls in reversed directions a clouded cane then wedges it tight in his oxter. He places a hand lightly on his breastbone, bows, and fondles his flower and buttons)

Maghinni

The poetry of motion, art of calisthenics.
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with Madam Legget Byrne's or Levinstone's. Fancy dress balls arranged. Deportment. The Katty Lanner step. So. Watch me! My terpsichorean abilities (he minuets forward three places on tripping bee's feet) Tout le monde en avant! Reverence! Tout le monde en place!

(The prelude ceases. Professor Goodwin, beating vague arms, shrivels, sinks, his live ^|4cope cape^4| falling about the stool. The air in firmer waltz time sounds. Stephen and Zoe circle freely. The lights change, glow, fade ^|4gold rosy violet^4|)

The Pianola

Two young fellows were talking about their girls, girls, girls.,
Sweethearts they'd left behind …...

(From a corner the morning hours run out, goldhaired, slimsandalled, in girlish blue, waspwaisted, with innocent hands. Nimbly they dance twirling their skipping ropes. The hours of noon follow in amber gold. Laughing, linked, high haircombs flashing they catch the sun in mocking mirrors, lifting their arms)

Maghinni

(clipclaps glovesilent hands) Carré! Avant deux! Balancé! Breath evenly!

(The morning and noon hours waltz in their places, turning advancing to each other, shaping their curves, bowing visavis. Cavaliers behind them arch and suspend their arms, with hands on their shoulders)

Hours

You may touch my

Cavaliers

May I touch your?

Hours

O, but lightly!

Cavaliers

O, so lightly!

The Pianola

My little shy little lass has a waist.

(Zoe and Stephen turn boldly with looser swing. The twilight hours advance dispersed, lagging, languideyed, their cheeks delicate with cipria and false faint bloom. They are in grey gauze with dark bat sleeves that flutter in the landbreeze)

Maghinni

Avant huit! Traversé! Salut! Cours de mains! Croisé!

(The night hours, one by one, steal to the last place ^|4morning. Morning^4|, noon and twilight hours retreat before them. They are masked, with daggered hair and bracelets of dull bells.
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Weary they curchycurchy under veils)

The Bracelets

Heigho! Heigho!

Zoe

(twirling, her hand to her brow) O!

Maghinni

Les Tiroirs! Chaine de dames! La corbeille! Dos a Dos!

(Arabesquing wearily they weave a pattern on the floor, weaving, unweaving, curtseyingº, twirling, simply swirling)

Zoe

I'm giddy!

(She frees herself, droops on a chair. Stephen seizes Florrie and turns with her)

Maghinni

Boulangère! Les Ronds! Les Ponts! Chevaux de bois! Escargots!

(Twining, receding, with interchanging hands the night hours link each each with arching arms in a mosaic of movements). Stephen and Florrie turn cumbrously)

Maghinni

Dansez avec vos dames! Changez de dames! Donnez le petit bouquet à votre dame! Remerciez!º

The Pianola

Best, best of all,
Baraabum!

Kitty

(jumps up) O they played that on the hobbyhorses at the bazaar!

(She runs to Stephen. He leaves Florrie brusquely and seizes Kitty. A screaming bittern's harsh high whistle shrieks. Groangrousegurgling Toft's cumbersome whirligig turns slowly the room right roundabout the room)

The Pianola

My girl's a Yorkshire girl

Zoe

Yorkshire through and through. Come on all!

(She seizes Florrie and waltzes her)

Stephen

Pas seul!

(He wheels Kitty into Lynch's arms and snatches up his ashplant from the table. All wheel whirl waltz twirl Bloombella Kittylynch Florriezoe Stephen with hat ashplant frogsplits in middle highkicks with skykicking mouth shut ^|4hand clasp part under thigh^4|. With clang tinkle boomhammer tallyho hornblower blue green yellow flashes Toft's cumbersome turns with hobbyhorse riders from gilded snakes dangled)
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The Pianola

Though she's a factory lass
And wears no fancy clothes.

(Closeclutched swift swifter with glareblareflare scudding they scootlootshoot lumbering by. Baraabum!)

Tutti

Encore! Bis! Bravo! Encore!

^|4Lynch Simon^4|

Think of your mother's people!

Stephen

Dance of death.

(Bang fresh barang bang of lacquey's bell, horse, nag, steer, piglings, Conmee on Christass, lame crutch and leg sailor in cockboat armfolded ropepulling hitching stamp hornpipe through and through. Baraabum! On nags hogs bellhorses Gadarene swine Corny in coffin steel shark stone onehandled Nelson two trickies Frauenzimmer plumstained from pram falling bawling. Gum he's a champion. Fuseblue peer from barrel rev. evensong. Love on hackney jaunt Blazes blind coddoubled bicyclers Dilly with snowcake no fancy clothes. Then in last unread switchback lumbering up and down bump mashtub sort of viceroy and reine relish for tublumber bumpshire rose. Baraabum!

The couples fall aside. Stephen whirls giddily, stops. Room whirls back. Eyes closed he totters. Red rails fly spacewards. Stars all around suns turn roundabout. Bright midges dance on walls.º

Stephen's mother, emaciated, rises stark through the floor, in leper grey ^|4with a wreath of faded orangeblossoms and a torn bridal veil^4|, her face worn and green with gravemould. Her hair is scant and lank. She fixes her bluecircledº hollow eyesockets ^|4on Stephen ^|aand opens her toothless mouth uttering a silent word^a|4|. A choir of virgins and confessors sing voicelessly)

The Choir

Liliata rutilantium te confessorum ….
Jubilantium te virginum …..

(^|4From the top of a tower^4| Buck Mulligan in particoloured jester's dress of puce and yellow and clown's cap with curling bell, stands gaping at her, a smoking scone in his hand

Buck Mulligan

The pity of it. Mulligan meets the afflicted mother (he upturns his eyes) Mercurial Malachi!

The Mother

^|4(with the subtle smile of death's madness)^4| I was once the beautiful May Goulding. I am dead.

Stephen

(horrorstruck) Lemur^|4. who are you?^4| No. What bogeyman'sº trick is this?
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Buck Mulligan

(Shakes his curling capbell). The mockery of it. Kinch ^|4dogsbody.^4| killed her ^|4bitchbody^4|. She kicked the bucket (tears of molten butter fall from his eyes on to the scone) Our great sweet mother! Epi oinopa ponton.

The Mother

^|4(comes nearer, breathing upon him softly her breath of wetted ashes)^4| All must go through it, Stephen. More women than men in the world. You too. Time will come.

Stephen

(choking with fright, remorse and horror) They say I killed you, mother. He offended your memory. Cancer did it, not I. Destiny.

The Mother

(a green rill of bile trickling from a side of her mouth) You sang that song to me. Love's bitter mystery.

Stephen

(eagerly) Tell me ^|4the word^4|, mother, if you know now. The word known to all men.

The Mother

Who saved you the night you jumped into the train at Dalkey with Paddy Lee? Who had pity for you when you were sad among the strangers? Prayer is allpowerful. Prayer for the suffering souls ^|4in the Ursuline manual^4| and forty days indulgence. Repent, Stephen.

Stephen

The ghoul! Hyena!

The Mother

I pray for you in my other world. Get Dilly to make you that boiled rice every night after your brainwork. Years and years I loved you, ^|4O^4| my ^|4firstborn^4| son, when you lay in my womb.

Zoe

(fanning herself with the gratefan) I'm melting!

Florrie

(points to Stephen) Look! He's white.

Bloom

(goes to the window to open it) Giddy.

The Mother

^|4(with smouldering eyes)^4| Repent! O, the fire of hell!

Stephen

(panting) ^|4His noncorrosive sublimate!^4| The corpsechewer. Raw head and bloody bones.

The Mother

(her face drawing near and nearer, sendingº out an ashen breath) Beware! (she raises her blackened withered right arm slowly towards Stephen's breast with outstretched finger) Beware God's hand!
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(A green crab with malignant red eyes sticks deep its grinning claws in Stephen's heart)

Stephen

(strangled with rage ^|4his features drawn and grey and old,^4|) Shite!

Bloom

(at the window) What?

Stephen

Ah non, par exemple! The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. Non serviam!

Florrie

Give him some cold water. Wait (she rushes out)

The Mother

(wrings her hands slowly, moaning desperately) O Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on him! Save him^|4, from hell, O Divine^4| Sacred Heart!

Stephen

No! No! No! Break my spirit, all of you, if you can! I'll bring you all to heel!

The Mother

^|4(in the agony of her deathrattle)^4| Have mercy on Stephen, Lord, for my sake! Inexpressible was my anguish when expiring with love, grief and agony on Mount Calvary.º

Stephen

Nothung!

(He lifts his ashplant high with both hands and smashes the chandelier. Time's livid final flame leaps and in the following darkness ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry.

^|4The Gasjet

Pwfungg!^4|

Bloom

Stop!

Lynch

(rushes forward and seizes Stephen's hand) Here! Hold on! Don't run amok!

Bella

Police!

(Stephen, abandoning his ashplant, his head and arms thrown back stark, ^|4ru_unread ^|abeats the ground and^a| flies^4| from the room ), past the whores at the door)

Bella

(screams) After him!

(The two whores rush to the halldoor. Lynch and Kitty and Zoe stampede from the room. They talk excitedly. Bloom follows, returns)

The Whores

(^|4jammed in the doorway^4| pointing) Down there.

Zoe

(pointing) There. There's something up.

Bella

Who pays for the lamp? (she seizes Bloom's coattail) Here, you were
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with him. The lamp's broken.

Bloom

(rushes to the hall, rushes back) What lamp, woman?

A Whore

He tore his coat.

Bella

(points ^|4her eyes hard with anger and cupidity^4|) Who's to pay for that? Ten shillings. You're a witness.

Bloom

(snatches up Stephen's ashplant) Me? Ten shillings? Have you lifted enough off him? Didn't he ….?

Bella

(loudly) Here, none of your tall talk. This isn't a brothel. A ^|4tenshillinghouse tenshilling house^4|.

Bloom

(his head under the lamp, pulls the chain. Puling, the gasjet lights up a crushed mauve purple shade). He raises the ashplant) ^|4Only the chimney's broken.^4| Here is all he ….

Bella

(shrinks back and screams) Jesus! Don't!

Bloom

(warding off a blow) To show you how he hit the paper. There's not sixpenceworth of damage done. Ten shillings!

Florrie

(with a glass of water enters) Where is he?

Bella

Do you want me to call the police?

Bloom

O, I know. Bulldog on the premises. But he's a Trinity student. ^|4Patrons of your establishment^4| Gentlemen that pay the rent. (he makes a masonic sign) Know what I mean? Nephew of the vicechancellor. You don't want a scandal.

Bella

(angrily) Trinity. Coming down here ragging after the boatrace and paying nothing. ^|4Are you the commander here or?^4| Where is he? I'll charge him! Disgrace him, I will! ^|4(she shouts)^4| Zoe! Zoe!

Bloom

(urgently) And if it were your own son in Oxford? (warningly) I know.

Bella

(almost speechless) Who are. ^|4incog!^4|

Zoe

(in the doorway) There's a row on.

Bloom

What? Where? (He throws a shilling on the table and starts) That's for the chimney. Where? ^|4I need mountain air.^4|

(He hurries through the hall. The whores point. Florrie follows, spilling
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water from her tilted tumbler. On the doorstep all the whores clustered talk volubly, pointing right where the fog has cleared off. From the left arrives a jingling hackney car. It slows to in front of the house. Bloom at the halldoor perceives Corny Kelleher who is about to dismount from the car with two silent lechers. He averts his face. Bella from within the hall urges on her whores. They blow icklickysticky ickylickysticky yumyum kisses. Corny Kelleher replies with a ghastly lewd smile. The silent lechers turn to pay the jarvey. Zoe and Kitty still point right. Bloom, parting them swiftly, draws his caliph's hood and poncho and hurries down the steps with sideways face. Incog Haroun Al Raschid he flits behind the silent of lechers and hastens on by the railings with fleet step of a pard. The ashplant marks his stride. A pack of bloodhounds follow from far, nearer, baying, panting, throwing their tongues, biting his heels, leaping at his tail. He walks, runs, zigzags, gallops, lugs laid back. He is pelted with gravel, cabbagestumps, biscuitboxes, eggs, potatoes, dead codfish, woman's slipperslappers. After him freshfound the hue and cry zigzag gallops in hot pursuit: ^|465 C, 66 C, night watch,^4| John Henry Menton, Wisdom Hely, VB Dillon, Councillor Nannetti, Alexander Keyes, Larry O'Rourke, Joe Cuffe, Mrs O'Dowd, Pisser Burke, the Nameless One, Mrs Riordan, the Citizen, Garryowen, Whodoyoucallhim, Strangefaceº, Fellow that like, Fellowthatsolike, Sawhimbefore, Chapwithawen, Chris Callinan, sir Charles Cameron, Benjamin Dollard, Lenehan, Bartell d'Arcy, Joe Hynes, red Murray, editor Brayden, T.M. Healy, Mr Justice Fitzgibbon, John Howard Parnell, the reverend Tinned Salmon, Professor Joly, Mrs Breen, Denis Breen, Theodore Purefoy, Mina Purefoy, ^|4the^4| Westland Row postmistress, T. C.P. M^cCoy, friend of Lyons, Hoppy Holohan, maninthestreet, othermaninthestreetº, Footballboots, pugnosed driver, rich protestant lady, Davy Byrne, Mrs Ellen M'Guinness, Mrs Joe Gallaher, George Lidwell, Jimmy Henry on corns, superintendant Laracy, Father Cowley, Crofton out of the Collector-general's, Dan Dawson, dental surgeon Bloom with tweezers, Mrs Bob Doran, Mrs Kennefick, Mrs Wyse Nolan, John Wyse Nolan, handsomemarriedwomanrubbedagainstwidebehindinClonskeatramº, the bookseller of Sweets of Sin, Miss Dubedatandshedidbedad, Mesdames Gerald and Stanislaus Moran of Roebuck, the managing clerk of Drimmie's, Wetherup, colonel Hayes, Mastiansky, Citron, Penrose, Mrs Galbraith, the constable off Eccles' street corner, old doctor Brady with stethoscope, the mystery man on the beach, a retriever, ^|4Mrs^4| Miriam Dandrade and all her lovers)

The Hue and Cry

(helterskelterpelterwelter) He's Bloom! Stop Bloom! Stopabloom! Stopperrobber! Hi! Hi! Stophim on the corner!

(At the corner of Beaver street Bloom panting stops on the fringe of the noisy quarrelling knot, a lot not knowing a jot what hi! hi! row and wrangle round the whowhat brawlaltogether)

Stephenº

(with elaborate gestures, breathing deeply and slowly) You are my guests. Uninvited. By virtue of George the. Seventh
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of Edward. History to blame. Fabled by mother of memory.

Private Carr

(to Cissy Caffrey) Was he insulting you?

Stephen

Addressed her in vocative feminine. Probably neuter. Ungenitive.

Voices

No, he didn't. I ^|4saw seen^4| him. The girl there. He was in Mrs Cohen's. What's up? ^|4Soldier and civilian.^4|

Cissy Caffrey

I was in company with the soldiers and they left me to do, you know, and the young man ^|4ran run^4| up behind me. But I'm faithful to the man that's treating me though I'm only a shilling whore.

^|4Voices

Shesfaithfultheman^4|

Stephen

(catches sight of Lynch's and Kitty's head) Hail, Sisyphus. (he points to himself and the others) Poetic. Uropoetic.

^|4Voices

She's faithfultheman^4|

Cissy Caffrey

Yes, to go with him. And me with a soldier friend.

Private Compton

He doesn't half want a thick ear, the blighter. Biff him one, Harry.

Private Carr

(to Cissy) Was he insulting you while ^|4I me and him^4| was having a piss?

Lord Tennyson

(gentleman poet in Union Jack blazer and cricket flannels, bareheaded, flowingbearded) ^|4There's Their's^4| not to reason why.

Private Compton

Biff him, Harry.

Stephen

(to private Compton) I don't know your name but you are quite right. Doctor Swift says one man in armour will beat ten men in their shirts. Shirt is synechdoche. Part for a the whole.

Cissy Caffrey

(to the crowd) No I was with the privates.

Stephen

(amiably) Why not? The bold soldier boy. In my opinion every lady for example …..

Private Carr

(his cap awry, advances to Stephen) Say, how would it be, governor, if I was to bash in your jaw?

Stephen

(looks up to the sky) How? Very unpleasant. Noble art of selfpretence. Personally,
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I detest action. (he waves his hand) Hand hurts me slightly. Enfin, ce sont vos oignons. (to Cissy Caffrey) Some trouble is on here. What is it precisely?

Dolly Gray

(from her balcony waves her handkerchief) Cook's son, goodbye. Safe home to Dolly. Dream of the girl you left behind and she will dream of you.

(The soldiers turn their swimming eyes)

Bloom

(elbowing through the crowd, plucks Stephen's sleeve vigorously) Come now, professor, that carman is waiting.

Stephen

^|4(turns)^4| Eh? (he disengages himself) Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange? (he points his finger) I'm not afraid of what I can talk to ^|4if I see his eye^4|. Retaining the perpendicular (he staggers a pace back)

Bloom

(propping him) Retain your own.

Stephen

(laughs emptily) My centre of gravity is displaced. I have forgotten the trick. Let us sit down somewhere and discuss. Struggle for life is the law of existence but but human philerenists, notably the Czar and the King of England have invented arbitration. ^|4(he taps his brow) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king.^4|

Biddy the Clap

Did you hear what the professor said? He's a professor out of the college.

Cunty Kate

I did. I heard that.

Biddy the Clap

Hee He expresses himself with such marked refinement of phraseology.

Cunty Kate

Yes. And at the same time with such apposite trenchancy.

Private Carr

(pulls himself free and comes forward) What's that you're saying about my king?

(Edward the Seventh appears in an archway. He wears a white jersey on which an image of the Sacred Heart is stitched and sucks a red jujube. He is robed as a master mason with trowel and apron, marked made in Germany. In his left hand he holds a plasterer's bucket ^|4on which is printed Defense d'uriner^4|.

Edward the Seventh

(slowly, solemnly but indistinctly)
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Peace, perfect peace. For indentification, bucket in my hand. Cheerio, boys (he turns to his subjects) We have come here to witness a clean straight fight and we wish both men the best of good luck (he shakes hands with Private Carr, Private Compton, Stephen, Bloom and Lynch)

(General applause. Edward the Seventh lifts his bucket graciously in acknowledgment)

Private Carr

(to Stephen) Say it again.

Stephen

(nervous, friendly, pulls himself up) I understandº your point of view though I have no king myself. This is the age of patent medicines. A discussion is difficult down here. But this is the point. You die for your country. Suppose (he places his arm on private Carr's sleeve) Not that I wish it for you. But I say ^|4let: Let^4| my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I didn't want it to die. Damn death. Long live life!

Edward the Seventh

(^|4levitates over heaps of slain,^4| in the garb, and with the halo of joking Jesus, a white jujube in his phosphorescent face)

My methods are new and are causing surprise
To make the blind see I throw dust in their eyes.

Stephen

Kings and unicorns! (he falls back a pace) Come somewhere and we'll … What was that girl saying …?

Private Compton

Eh, Harry, give him a kick in the knackers. Stick one into Jerry.

Bloom

(to the privates, softly) He doesn't know what he's saying. Taken a little more than is good for him. ^|4Absinthe. Greeneyed monster.^4| I know him. He's a gentleman, a poet. It's all right.

^|4Stephen

(nods, smiling and laughing) Gentleman, patriot, scholar and judge of impostors.^4|

Private Carr

I don't give a bugger who he is.

Private Compton

We don't give a bugger who he is.

Stephen

I seem to annoy them. Green rag to a bull.

(Kevin Egan of Paris in black Spanish tasselled shirt and peep-o'-day boy's hat signs to Stephen)

Kevin Egan

Hlò! Bonjour! The vieille ogresse with the dents jaunes.

(Patrice Egan peeps from behind, his rabbitface nibbling a leaf)

Patrice

Socialiste!

Bloom

(to Stephen) Come home. You'll get
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into trouble

Stephen

(swaying) I don't avoid it. He provokes my intelligence.

Biddy the Clap

One immediately observes that he is of patrician lineage.

The Virago

Green above the red, says he. Wolfe Tone.

The Bawd

The red's as good as the green. And better. Up the soldiers! Up King ^|4George Edward^4|!

A Rough

(laughs) Ay. Hands up to de Wet.

The Citizen

(with a huge emerald muffler and shillelagh, calls)
May the God above
Send down a dove
With teeth as sharp as razors
To slit the throats
Of the English dogs
That hanged our Irish leaders.

The Croppy Boy

(The ropenoose round his neck, gripes in his issuing bowels with both hands)
I bear no hate to a living thing
But I love my country beyond the king.

Rumbold, demon barber,

(advances with gladstone bag which he opens.) Ladies and gents, cleaver purchased by Mrs Pearcy to slay Mogg. Knife with which Voisin dismembered the wife of a compatriot and hid remains in a cellar. Phial containing arsenic retrieved from body of Miss Barron which sent Seddon to the gallows. (he jerks the rope.) The croppy boy's tongue protrudes violently. A violent erection of the hanged sends gouts ^|4of sperm^4| spouting through his deathclothes on to the cobblestones. Mrs Bellinghamº, Mrs Yelverton Barry and the Honourable Mrs Paget Butler rush forward with their handkerchiefs to sop it up.) I'm near it myself. (He undoes the noose) Rope which hanged the awful rebel. Ten shillings a time. As suppliedº to unread His Royal Highness. ^|4(He plunges his head into the gaping belly of the hanged and draws out his head again clotted with coiled and smoking entrails) My painful duty has now been done. God save the King!^4|

Private Carr

Here. What are you saying about my king?

Stephen

(throws up his hands) O, this is too monotonous! Nothing. He wants my money and my life, though want must be his master, for some brutish empire of his. Money I haven't (he searches his pockets vaguely) Gave it to someone.

Private Carr

Who wants your bleeding money?

Stephen

(tries to move off) Will someone tell me where I am least likely to meet these necessary evils? Ça se voit aussi à Paris. Not that I … But, by Saint Patrick …..!

(The women's heads coalesce. Old Gammy Gummy in sugarloaf hat appears seated on a toadstool)

Stephen

Aha! I know you ^|4gammer^4|. Hamlet, revenge! The sow that eats her young!

Old Gummy Granny

(rocking to and fro) Ireland's sweetheart, the king of Spain's daughter., alanna. Strangers in my house (She wails with banshee woe
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woe) Ochone! Ochone! Silk of the kine!

Stephen

The hat trick! Where's the third person of the blessed trinity? Soggarth Aroon? The reverend Carrion Crow.

Cissy Caffrey

(shrill) Stop them from fighting!

A Rough

Our men retreated

Private Carr

(tugging at his belt) I'll wring the neck of any fucker says a word against my fucking king.
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Bloom

(terrified) He said nothing. Not a word. A pure misunderstanding.

Private Compton

Go it, Harry. Do him one in the eye. He's a proBoer.

Stephen

Did I? When?

Bloom

(to the redcoats) We fought for you in South Africa, Irish missile troops. Isn't that history? Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Honoured by our monarch.

The Navvy

(staggering past) O, yes! O God, yes! O, make the kwawr a krowawr! O! Bo!

(Casqued halberdiers in armour thrust forward a pentice of gutted spearpoints. Major Tweedy, Turkmoustached, in bearskin cap with hackle plume and accoutrements, with epaulettes, gilt chevrons and sabretaches, his breast bright with medals, toes the line)

Major Tweedy

(growls gruffly) Rorke's Drift! Up, guards, and at them!

Private Carr

I'll do him in.

Private Compton

(moves the crowd back) Fair play, here. Make a bleeding butcher's shop of the bugger.

(Massed bands blare Garryowen and God Save the King

Cissy Caffrey

They're going to fight. For me.

Cunty Kate

The brave and the fair.

Biddy the Clap

Methinks yon ^|4sable^4| knight will joust it with the best.

Cunty Kate

(blushing deeply) Nay, madam. The gules doublet and saint George for me!

Stephen

The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave Old Ireland's windingsheet.

Private Carr

(loosening his belt, shouts) I'll wring the neck of any fucking bastard says a word against my bleeding fucking king.

Bloom

(shakes Cissy Caffrey's shoulders) Speak, you! Are you struck dumb? You are the link between nations and generations. Speak, woman, sacred lifegiver!

Cissy Caffrey

(alarmed ), seizes private Carr's sleeve) Amn't I with you? Amn't I your girl? Cissy's your girl (she cries) Police!

Voices

Police!

(Brimstone fires spring up. Dense clouds roll past. Heavy ^|4Gatling^4| guns boom. Pandemonium. Troops deploy. Gallop of hoofs. Artillery. Hoarse commands, cries of valour. Shrieks of dying. Pikes clash on cuirasses. On an eminence rises a fieldaltar ^|4on which. Black candles rise from its gospel and epistle horns. On the altarstone^4| Mrs Mina Purefoy lies, naked, fettered, a chalice resting on her swollen belly. Father
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O'Flynn in a lace petticoat and reversed chasuble, his feet back to the front, celebrates camp mass. The Reverend Mr Hugh C Love M.A. in a plain cassock and mortarboard ^|4his head and collar back to the front,^4| holds over the celebrant's head an open umbrella)

Father O'Flynn

Introibo ad altare diaboli

The Reverend Mr Love

To the devil which hath made joyful my youth.

Father O'Flynn

(takes from the chalice and elevates a blooddrippingº host) Corpus meum.

The Reverend Mr Love

(raises high behind the celebrant's petticoat revealing his ^|4grey^4| bare ^|4hairy^4| buttocks ^|4from under between^4| which a carrot is stuck) My body.

(From on high the voice of Adonai calls)

Adonai

Goooooooood!

Private Carr

(with ferocious articulation) I'll do him in, so help me fucking Christ
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I'll wring the bastard fucker's bleeding blasted fucking windpipe!

^|4(The retriever nosing on the fringe of the crowd barks noisily)^4|

Bloom

(runs to Lynch) Can't you get him away?

Lynch

He likes dialectic^|4, the universal language^4|. Kitty! ^|4(to Bloom)^4| Get him away, you. He won't listen to me.

(He drags Kitty away)

Stephen

(points) Exit Judas. Et laqueo se suspendit.

Bloom

(runs to Stephen) Come along with me now before worse. Here's your stick.

Stephen

Stick, no. Reason. The pure reason.

^|4Old ^|aG. G. Gummy Granny^a|

(thrusts a dagger towards Stephen's hand) Remove him; acushla.^4|

Cissy Caffrey

(pulling Private Carr) Come on, you're boosed. He insulted me but I forgive him. (shouting in his ear) I forgive him for insulting me.

Bloom

(over Stephen's shoulder) Yes, go. You see he's incapable.

Private Carr

(breaks loose). I'll insult him.

(He rushes towards Stephen, fist outstretched, and strikes him in the face. Stephen totters, collapses, falls, ^|4stunned, ^|aHe lies prone his face to the sky.^a|4| his hat rolling to the wall. Bloom follows and picks it up)

Major Tweedy

(loudly) Carbine in bucket! Cease fire! Salute!

^|4The Retriever

(barking furiously) Ute ute ute ute ute ute ute ute.^4|

The Crowd

Let him up! Don't strike him when he's down! Air! Who? The soldier hit him. He's a professor. Is he hurted? Don't manhandle him! He's fainted!

A Hag

What call had the redcoat to strike the gentleman and he under the influence. Let them go and fight the Boers!

The Bawd

Listen to who's talking! ^|4|aHe gave him the coward's blow.^a|4| Hasn't the soldier a right to go with his girl? ^|4|aHe gave him the coward's blow.^a|4|

^|4(The retriever nosing on the fringe of the crowd barks noisily)

(barking) Wow wow wow.^4|

Bloom

(shoves them back, loudly) Get back, stand back!

Private Compton

(tugging his comrade) Here. Bugger off, Harry. Here's the cops!

(Two raincaped watch, tall, stand in the
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group)

First Watch

What's wrong here?

Private Compton

We were with this lady. And he insulted us. And assaulted my chum (the retriever barks) ^|4whose is Who owns^4| the bleeding tyke?

Cissy Caffrey

(with expectation) Is he bleeding!

A Man

(rising from his knees) No. Gone off. He'll come to all right.

Bloom

(glances sharply at the man) Leave him to me. I can easily …..

Second Watch

Who are you? Do you know him?

Private Carr

(lurches towards the watch) He insulted my lady friend.

Bloom

(angrily) You hit him without provocation. I'm a witness. Constable, take his regimental number.

Second Watch

I don't want your instructions in the discharge of my duty.

Private Compton

(pulling his comrade) Here, bugger off, Harry or Bennett'll shove you in the lockup.

Private Carr

(staggering as he is pulled away) God fuck old Bennett. He's a whitearsed bugger. I don't give a shite for him.

First Watch

(takes out his notebook) What's his name?

Bloom

(peering over the crowd) I just see a car there. If you give me a hand a second, sergeant ….

First Watch

Name and address.

(Corny Kelleher, weepers round his hat, appears among the bystanders)

Bloom

(quickly) O, the very man. (he whispers) Simon Dedalus' son. A bit sprung. Get those policemen to move those loafers back.

Second Watch

Night, Mr Kelleher.

Corny Kelleher
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(to the watch, with drawling eye) That's all right. I know him. Won a bit on the races. Gold cup. Throwaway (he laughs). t Twenty to one. Do you follow me?

First Watch

(turns to the crowd) Here, what are you all gaping at? Move on out of that.

(The crowd disperses slowly, muttering, down the lane)

Corny Kelleher

Leave it to me, sergeant. That'll be all right (he laughs, shaking his head) We were often as bad ourselves ^|4ay^4| or worse. What? Eh, what?

First Watch

(laughs) I suppose so.

Corny Kelleher

(nudges the second watch) Come and wipe your name off the slate. ^|4(he lilts ^|awagging his head^a|) With my tooraloom tooraloom tooraloom tooraloom.^4| What, eh, do you follow me?

Second Watch

(genially) Ah, sure we were too

Corny Kelleher

(winking) Boys will be boys. I've a car round there.

Second Watch

All right, Mr Kelleher. Good night.

Corny Kelleher

I'll see to that.

Bloom

(shakes hands with both of the watch in turns) Thank you very much. Thank you. (he mumbles confidentially) We don't want any scandal, you understand. Father is a wellknown highly respected citizen. Just a little wild oats, you understand.

First Watch

O. I understand, sir.

Second Watch

That's all right, sir.

First Watch

It was only in case of corporal injuries I'd have to report it at the station.

Bloom

(nods rapidly) Naturally. Quite right. Only your ^|4bounden^4| duty.

Second Watch

It's our duty.
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Corny Kelleher

Good night, men.

The Watch

(saluting together) Night, gentlemen.

(They move off ) with slow heavy tread)

Bloom

(blows) Providential you came on the scene. You have a car …?

Corny Kelleher

laughs, pointing his thumb over his right shoulder) Two commercials that were standing fizz in Jammets. Like princes, faith. One of them lost two quid on the race. Drowning his grief. And were on for a time with the girls. So I landed them up on Brophy's car and down to nighttown.

Bloom

I was just going home by Gardiner street when I happened to ….

Corny Kelleher

(laughs) Sure they wanted me to join in with the mots. No, by God, says I, my dancing days are done. Not for old stagers like myself and yourself (he laughs again and leers with lacklustre eye) Thanks be to God we have it in the house, what, eh, do you follow me? Hah, Hah hah, hah!

Bloom

(^|4laughs tries to laugh^4|) Ha, he, he! Yes. Matter of fact I was just visiting an old friend of mine there, Virag, you don't know him (poor fellow, he's laid up for the past week) and we had a liquour together and I was just making my way home …...

(The horse neighs)

The Horse

Hohohohohohoh! Hohohohome!

Corny Kelleher

Sure it was Brophy ^|4the our^4| jarvey there that told me after we left the two commercials in Mrs Cohen's and I ^|4told him to pull up and^4| got off to see. ^|4(he laughs) Sober hearsedrivers a speciality.^4| Will I give him a lift home. Where does he ^|4live hangs out^4|. Somewhere in Cabra, what?
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Bloom

No, in Sandycove, I believe, from what he let drop.

^|4(Stephen, prone, breathes to the stars. Corny Kelleher, asquint, drawls at the horse. Bloom, in gloom, looms down)^4|

Corny Kelleher

(scratches his nape) Sandycove! (he bends down and calls to Stephen) Eh! (he calls again) Eh! He's covered with shavings anyhow. Take care they didn't lift anything off him.

Bloom

No, no, no. I have his money and his hat here and stick.

Corny Kelleher

Ah, well, he'll get over it. No bones broken. Well, I'll get along. (he laughs) I've a rendezvous in the morning. Burying the dead. Safe home!

The Horse

(neighs) Hohohohohome.

Bloom

Good night. I'll just wait and take him along in a few …

(Corny Kelleher returns to the outside car and mounts it. The horseharness jingles.)

Corny Kelleher

(from the car) Night

Bloom

Night.

(The ^|4carman jarvey^4| chucks the reins and raises his whip encouragingly. Corny Kelleher on the sideseat sways his head to and fro in sign of mirth ^|4at his plight^4|. The jarvey joins in the mute merriment nodding from the farther seat. Bloom shakes his head in mute mirthful reply. With thumb and palm Corny Kelleher reassures that the two bobbies will allow the sleep to continue ^|4for what else is to be done^4|. With a slow nod Bloom conveys his gratitude as that is exactly what Stephen needs. The car jingles round the corner of the lane. Corny Kelleher again reassures with his hand. Bloom with his hand assures Corny Kelleher that he is reassured. The tinkling hoofs and jingling harness grow fainter. Bloom, holding in his hand Stephen's muddied hat and ashplant, stands irresolute. Then he bends
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to him and shakes him by the shoulder.

Bloom

Eh! Ho! (There is no answer. He bends again) Mr Dedalus! (There is no answer) The name if you call. Sonambulistº. (He bends again and, hesitating, brings his mouth near the face of the prostrate form) Stephen! (There is no answer. He calls again) Stephen!

Stephen

(frowns) Who? Black panther^|4,. Vampire.^4| (he sighs and stretches himself, then murmurs thickly with prolonged vowels)
Who drive Fergus now
And pierce wood's woven shade..?

(He turns on his left side, sighing, doubling himself together)

Bloom

Poetry. Well educated. Pity (He bends again and undoes the buttons of Stephen's waistcoat) To breathe. (he brushes the woodshavings from Stephen's clothes with light hand and fingers) One pound seven. Not hurt anyhow (he listens) What?

Stephen

(murmurs) Shadows the woods
White breast dim sea.

(He stretches out his arms, sighs again and curls his body. Bloom, holding the muddied hat and ashplant, stands erect. A dog barks in the distance. Bloom tightens and loosens his grip on the ashplant. He looks down on Stephen's face and form)

Bloom

Face reminds of his poor mother. In the shady wood. The deep white breast. Ferguson, I think I caught. A girl. Some girl. Best thing could happen him.

(Silent, thoughtful, alert he stands on guard. Against the dark wall a figure appears slowly., a boy of eleven in an Eton suit, holding a book in his hand. He reads inaudibly, smiling.)

Bloom

(wonderstruck, calls inaudibly)

Rudy

(gazes, unseeing, in to Bloom's eyes and goes on reading, smiling. He has diamond ^|4and ruby^4| buttons. A ^|4squirrel white lambkin^4| peeps out of his waistcoat pocket.)
^|4|x[End of Ulysses, Part II]^x|4|