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• External narrative ...In the bar of the Ormond Hotel

• External narrative ...Away from the bar of the Ormond Hotel (See for ex., lines 85-8)

• Internal narrative ...in Leopold Bloom's mind (See for ex., lines 149-55)

• —External dialog ...All individual speech included

• Telegraphic external narrative ...Reporting collective dialog and musing, silent reading (See for ex., lines 67, 356-9, etc)

• Ballad of the Croppy Boy ...Exernal narrator's free rendition of the lines of the ballad (See for ex., lines 1009, 1015-6)

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PARBegin!

PAR—Is that her? asked miss Kennedy.

PARMiss Douce said yes, sitting with his ex, pearl grey and eau de Nil.

PAR—Exquisite contrast, miss Kennedy said.

PARWhen all agog miss Douce said eagerly:

PAR—Look at the fellow in the tall silk.

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PAR—Who? Where? gold asked more eagerly.

PAR—In the second carriage, miss Douce's wet lips said, laughing in the sun.
He's looking. Mind till I see.

PARShe darted, bronze, to the backmost corner, flattening her face
against the pane in a halo of hurried breath.

PARHer wet lips tittered:

PAR—He's killed looking back.

PARShe laughed:

PAR—O wept! Aren't men frightful idiots?

PARWith sadness.

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PARMiss Kennedy sauntered sadly from bright light, twining a loose hair
behind an ear. Sauntering sadly, gold no more, she twisted twined a hair.
Sadly she twined in sauntering gold hair behind a curving ear.

PAR—It's them has the fine times, sadly then she said.
.

PAR—There's your teas, he said.

PARMiss Kennedy with manners transposed the teatray down to an
upturned lithia crate, safe from eyes, low.

PAR—What is it? loud boots unmannerly asked.

PAR—Find out, miss Douce retorted, leaving her spyingpoint.

PAR—Your beau, is it?

PARA haughty bronze replied:

PAR—I'll complain to Mrs de Massey on you if I hear any more of your
impertinent insolence.

PAR—Imperthnthn thnthnthn,

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bootssnout sniffed rudely, as he retreated as she

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threatened as he had come.
.

PAR—Most aggravating that young brat is. If he doesn't conduct himself I'll
wring his ear for him a yard long.

PARLadylike in exquisite contrast.

PAR—Take no notice, miss Kennedy rejoined.

PARShe poured in a teacup tea, then back in the teapot tea. They cowered
under their reef of counter, waiting on footstools, crates upturned, waiting
for their teas to draw. They pawed their blouses, both of black satin, two

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and nine a yard, waiting for their teas to draw, and two and seven.

PARYes, bronze from anear, by gold from afar, heard steel from anear,
hoofs ring from afar, and heard steelhoofs ringhoof ringsteel.

PAR—Am I awfully sunburnt?

PARMiss bronze unbloused her neck.

PAR—No, said miss Kennedy. It gets brown after. Did you try the borax with
the cherry laurel water?

PARMiss Douce halfstood to see her skin askance in the barmirror
gildedlettered where hock and claret glasses shimmered and in their midst a
shell.

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PAR—And leave it to my hands, she said.

PAR—Try it with the glycerine, miss Kennedy advised.

PARBidding her neck and hands adieu miss Douce

PAR—Those things only bring out a rash, replied, reseated. I asked that old
fogey in Boyd's for something for my skin.

PARMiss Kennedy, pouring now a fulldrawn tea, grimaced and prayed:

PAR—O, don't remind me of him for mercy' sake!

PAR—But wait till I tell you, miss Douce entreated.

PARSweet tea miss Kennedy having poured with milk plugged both two
ears with little fingers.

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PAR—No, don't, she cried.

PAR—I won't listen, she cried.
.

PAR—For your what? says he.

PARMiss Kennedy unplugged her ears to hear, to speak: but said, but
prayed again:

PAR—Don't let me think of him or I'll expire. The hideous old wretch! That
night in the Antient Concert Rooms.

PARShe sipped distastefully her brew, hot tea, a sip, sipped, sweet tea.

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PAR—Here he was, miss Douce said, cocking her bronze head three quarters,
ruffling her nosewings. Hufa! Hufa!

PARShrill shriek of laughter sprang from miss Kennedy's throat. Miss
Douce huffed and snorted down her nostrils that quivered imperthnthn like
a snout in quest.

PAR—O! shrieking, miss Kennedy cried. Will you ever forget his goggle eye?

PARMiss Douce chimed in in deep bronze laughter, shouting:

PAR—And your other eye!
.

PARBy went his eyes. The sweets of sin. Sweet are the sweets.

PAROf sin.
.

PAR—O greasy eyes! Imagine being married to a man like that! she cried. With
his bit of beard!

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PARDouce gave full vent to a splendid yell, a full yell of full woman,
delight, joy, indignation.

PAR—Married to the greasy nose! she yelled.

PARShrill, with deep laughter, after, gold after bronze, they urged each
each to peal after peal, ringing in changes, bronzegold, goldbronze,
shrilldeep, to laughter after laughter. And then laughed more. Greasy I
knows. Exhausted, breathless, their shaken heads they laid, braided and
pinnacled by glossycombed, against the counterledge. All flushed (O!),
panting, sweating (O!), all breathless.
.

PAR—O, miss Douce! miss Kennedy protested. You horrid thing!

PARAnd flushed yet more (you horrid!), more goldenly.

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PAR—O, welcome back, miss Douce.

PARHe held her hand. Enjoyed her holidays?

PAR—Tiptop.

PARHe hoped she had nice weather in Rostrevor.

PAR—Gorgeous, she said. Look at the holy show I am. Lying out on the strand
all day.

PARBronze whiteness.

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PAR—That was exceedingly naughty of you, Mr Dedalus told her and pressed
her hand indulgently. Tempting poor simple males.

PARMiss Douce of satin douced her arm away.

PAR—O go away! she said. You're very simple, I don't think.

PARHe was.

PAR—Well now I am, he mused. I looked so simple in the cradle they christened
me simple Simon.

PAR—You must have been a doaty, miss Douce made answer. And what did the
doctor order today?

PAR—Well now, he mused, whatever you say yourself. I think I'll trouble you

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for some fresh water and a half glass of whisky.

.

PAR—By Jove, he mused, I often wanted to see the Mourne mountains. Must be
a great tonic in the air down there. But a long threatening comes at last,

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they say. Yes. Yes.

PARYes. He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's, into
the bowl. Chips. Shreds. Musing. Mute.

PARNone nought said nothing. Yes.

PARGaily miss Douce polished a tumbler, trilling:

PAR—O, Idolores, queen of the eastern seas!

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PAR—Was Mr Lidwell in today?
.

PAR—Was Mr Boylan looking for me?

PARHe asked. She answered:

PAR—Miss Kennedy, was Mr Boylan in while I was upstairs?

PARShe asked. Miss voice of Kennedy answered, a second teacup poised,
her gaze upon a page:

PAR—No. He was not.

PARMiss gaze of Kennedy, heard, not seen, read on. Lenehan round the

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sandwichbell wound his round body round.

PAR—Peep! Who's in the corner?

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PARNo glance of Kennedy rewarding him he yet made overtures. To mind
her stops. To read only the black ones: round o and crooked ess.
.

PAR—Ah fox met ah stork. Said thee fox too thee stork: Will you put your bill
down inn my troath and pull upp ah bone?

PARHe droned in vain. Miss Douce turned to her tea aside.

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PARHe sighed aside:

PAR—Ah me! O my!

PARHe greeted Mr Dedalus and got a nod.

PAR—Greetings from the famous son of a famous father.

PAR—Who may he be? Mr Dedalus asked.

PARLenehan opened most genial arms. Who?

PAR—Who may he be? he asked. Can you ask? Stephen, the youthful bard.

PARDry.

PARMr Dedalus, famous father, laid by his dry filled pipe.

PAR—I see, he said. I didn't recognise him for the moment. I hear he is keeping

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very select company. Have you seen him lately?

PARHe had.

PAR—I quaffed the nectarbowl with him this very day, said Lenehan. In
Mooney's en ville and in Mooney's sur mer. He had received the rhino for
the labour of his muse.

PARHe smiled at bronze's teabathed lips, at listening lips and eyes:

PAR—The lite of Erin hung upon his lips. The ponderous pundit, Hugh
MacHugh, Dublin's most brilliant scribe and editor and that minstrel boy
of the wild wet west who is known by the euphonious appellation of the
O'Madden Burke.

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PARAfter an interval Mr Dedalus raised his grog and

PAR—That must have been highly diverting, said he. I see.

PARHe see. He drank. With faraway mourning mountain eye. Set down
his glass.

PARHe looked towards the saloon door.

PAR—I see you have moved the piano.

PAR—The tuner was in today, miss Douce replied, tuning it for the smoking
concert and I never heard such an exquisite player.

PAR—Is that a fact?

PAR—Didn't he, miss Kennedy? The real classical, you know. And blind too,

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poor fellow. Not twenty I'm sure he was.

PAR—Is that a fact? Mr Dedalus said.

PARHe drank and strayed away.

PAR—So sad to look at his face, miss Douce condoled.

PARGod's curse on bitch's bastard.

PARTink to her pity cried a diner's bell

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. To the door of the bar and
diningroom came bald Pat, came bothered Pat, came Pat, waiter of
Ormond. Lager for diner. Lager without alacrity she served.

PARWith patience Lenehan waited for Boylan with impatience, for
jinglejaunty blazes boy.

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PARUpholding the lid he (who?) gazed in the coffin (coffin?) at the
oblique triple (piano!) wires. He pressed (the same who pressed indulgently
her hand), soft pedalling, a triple of keys to see the thicknesses of felt
advancing, to hear the muffled hammerfall in action.
.

PAR—The bright stars fade ....

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PARA voiceless song sang from within, singing:

PAR—... the morn is breaking.

PARA duodene of birdnotes chirruped bright treble answer

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under sensitive
hands. Brightly the keys, all twinkling, linked, all harpsichording, called to
a voice to sing the strain of dewy morn, of youth, of love's leavetaking,
life's, love's morn.

PAR—The dewdrops pearl ....

PARLenehan's lips over the counter lisped a low whistle of decoy.

PAR—But look this way, he said, rose of Castile.
.

PAR—Did she fall or was she pushed? he asked her.

PARShe answered, slighting:

PAR—Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

PARLike lady, ladylike.

PARBlazes Boylan's smart tan shoes creaked on the barfloor where he
strode. Yes, gold from anear by bronze from afar. Lenehan heard and knew
and hailed him:

PAR—See the conquering hero comes.

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.

PAR—I heard you were round, said Blazes Boylan.

PARHe touched to fair miss Kennedy a rim of his slanted straw. She
smiled on him. But sister bronze outsmiled her, preening for him her richer
hair, a bosom and a rose.

PARSmart Boylan bespoke potions.

PAR—What's your cry? Glass of bitter? Glass of bitter, please, and a sloegin for

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me. Wire in yet?

PARNot yet. At four she. Who said four?

PARCowley's red lugs and bulging apple in the door of the sheriff's office.
Avoid. Goulding a chance. What is he doing in the Ormond? Car waiting.
Wait.

PARHello. Where off to? Something to eat? I too was just. In here. What,
Ormond? Best value in Dublin. Is that so? Diningroom. Sit tight there. See,
not be seen. I think I'll join you. Come on. Richie led on. Bloom followed
bag. Dinner fit for a prince.

PARMiss Douce reached high to take a flagon, stretching her satin arm,

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her bust, that all but burst, so high.

PAR—O! O! jerked Lenehan, gasping at each stretch. O!

PARBut easily she seized her prey and led it low in triumph.

PAR—Why don't you grow? asked Blazes Boylan.

PARShebronze, dealing from her oblique jar thick syrupy liquor for his
lips, looked as it flowed (flower in his coat: who gave him?), and syrupped
with her voice:

PAR—Fine goods in small parcels.

PARThat is to say she. Neatly she poured slowsyrupy sloe.

PAR—Here's fortune, Blazes said.

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PARHe pitched a broad coin down. Coin rang.

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PAR—Hold on, said Lenehan, till I ....

PAR—Fortune, he wished, lifting his bubbled ale.

PAR—Sceptre will win in a canter, he said.

PAR—I plunged a bit, said Boylan winking and drinking. Not on my own, you
know. Fancy of a friend of mine.

PARLenehan still drank and grinned at his tilted ale and at miss Douce's
lips that all but hummed, not shut, the oceansong her lips had trilled.
Idolores. The eastern seas.

PARClock whirred. Miss Kennedy passed their way (flower, wonder who

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gave), bearing away teatray. Clock clacked.

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PARMiss Douce took Boylan's coin, struck boldly the cashregister. It
clanged. Clock clacked. Fair one of Egypt teased and sorted in the till and
hummed and handed coins in change. Look to the west. A clack. For me.

PAR—What time is that? asked Blazes Boylan. Four?

PARO'clock.

PARLenehan, small eyes ahunger on her humming, bust ahumming,
tugged Blazes Boylan's elbowsleeve.

PAR—Let's hear the time, he said.

PARThe bag of Goulding, Collis, Ward led Bloom by ryebloom flowered

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tables. Aimless he chose with agitated aim, bald Pat attending, a table near
the door. Be near. At four. Has he forgotten? Perhaps a trick. Not come:
whet appetite. I couldn't do. Wait, wait. Pat, waiter, waited.

PARSparkling bronze azure eyed Blazure's skyblue bow and eyes.

PAR—Go on, pressed Lenehan. There's no-one. He never heard.

PAR—... to Flora's lips did hie.

PARHigh, a high note pealed in the treble clear.

PARBronzedouce communing with her rose that sank and rose sought
Blazes Boylan's flower and eyes.

PAR—Please, please.

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PARHe pleaded over returning phrases of avowal.

PAR—I could not leave thee ...

PAR—Afterwits, miss Douce promised coyly.

PAR—No, now, urged Lenehan. Sonnez la cloche! O do! There's no-one.

PARShe looked. Quick. Miss Kenn out of earshot. Sudden bent. Two
kindling faces watched her bend.

PARQuavering the chords strayed from the air, found it again, lost chord,
and lost and found it, faltering.

PAR—Go on! Do! Sonnez!

PARBending, she nipped a peak of skirt above her knee. Delayed. Taunted

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them still, bending, suspending, with wilful eyes.

PAR—Sonnez!

PARSmack. She set free sudden in rebound her nipped elastic garter
smackwarm against her smackable a woman's warmhosed thigh.

PAR—La cloche! cried gleeful Lenehan. Trained by owner. No sawdust there.

PARShe smilesmirked supercilious (wept! aren't men?), but, lightward
gliding, mild she smiled on Boylan.

PAR—You're the essence of vulgarity, she in gliding said.

PARBoylan, eyed, eyed. Tossed to fat lips his chalice, drank off his chalice
tiny, sucking the last fat violet syrupy drops. His spellbound eyes went

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after, after her gliding head as it went down the bar by mirrors, gilded arch
for ginger ale, hock and claret glasses shimmering, a spiky shell, where it
concerted, mirrored, bronze with sunnier bronze.

PARYes, bronze from anearby.

PAR—... sweetheart, goodbye!

PAR—I'm off, said Boylan with impatience.

PARHe slid his chalice brisk away, grasped his change.

PAR—Wait a shake, begged Lenehan, drinking quickly. I wanted to tell you.
Tom Rochford ...

PAR—Come on to blazes, said Blazes Boylan, going.

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PARLenehan gulped to go.

PAR—Got the horn or what? he said. Wait. I'm coming.

PARHe followed the hasty creaking shoes but stood by nimbly by the
threshold, saluting forms, a bulky with a slender.

PAR—How do you do, Mr Dollard?

PAR—Eh? How do? How do? Ben Dollard's vague bass answered, turning an
instant from Father Cowley's woe. He won't give you any trouble, Bob. Alf
Bergan will speak to the long fellow. We'll put a barleystraw in that Judas
Iscariot's ear this time.

PARSighing Mr Dedalus came through the saloon, a finger soothing an

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eyelid.

PAR—Hoho, we will, Ben Dollard yodled jollily. Come on, Simon. Give us a
ditty. We heard the piano.

PARBald Pat, bothered waiter, waited for drink orders. Power for Richie.
And Bloom? Let me see. Not make him walk twice. His corns. Four now.
How warm this black is. Course nerves a bit. Refracts (is it?) heat. Let me
see. Cider. Yes, bottle of cider.

PAR—What's that? Mr Dedalus said. I was only vamping, man.

PAR—Come on, come on, Ben Dollard called. Begone dull care. Come, Bob.

PARHe ambled Dollard, bulky slops, before them (hold that fellow with

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the: hold him now) into the saloon. He plumped him Dollard on the stool.
His gouty paws plumped chords. Plumped, stopped abrupt.

PARBald Pat in the doorway met tealess gold returning. Bothered, he
wanted Power and cider. Bronze by the window, watched, bronze from
afar.

PARJingle a tinkle jaunted.

PARBloom heard a jing,

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a little sound. He's off. Light sob of breath Bloom
sighed on the silent bluehued flowers. Jingling. He's gone. Jingle. Hear.

PAR—Love and War, Ben, Mr Dedalus said. God be with old times.

PARMiss Douce's brave eyes, unregarded, turned from the crossblind,

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smitten by sunlight. Gone. Pensive (who knows?), smitten (the smiting
light), she lowered the dropblind with a sliding cord. She drew down
pensive (why did he go so quick when I?) about her bronze, over the bar
where bald stood by sister gold, inexquisite contrast, contrast inexquisite
nonexquisite, slow cool dim seagreen sliding depth of shadow, eau de Nil.

PAR—Poor old Goodwin was the pianist that night, Father Cowley reminded
them. There was a slight difference of opinion between himself and the
Collard grand.

PARThere was.

PAR—A symposium all his own, Mr Dedalus said. The devil wouldn't stop him.

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He was a crotchety old fellow in the primary stage of drink.

PAR—God, do you remember? Ben bulky Dollard said, turning from the
punished keyboard. And by Japers I had no wedding garment.

PARThey laughed all three. He had no wed. All trio laughed. No wedding
garment.

PAR—Our friend Bloom turned in handy that night, Mr Dedalus said. Where's
my pipe, by the way?

PARHe wandered back to the bar to the lost chord pipe. Bald Pat carried
two diners' drinks, Richie and Poldy. And Father Cowley laughed again.

PAR—I saved the situation, Ben, I think.

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PAR—You did, averred Ben Dollard. I remember those tight trousers too. That
was a brilliant idea, Bob.

PARFather Cowley blushed to his brilliant purply lobes. He saved the
situa. Tight trou. Brilliant ide.

PAR—I knew he was on the rocks, he said. The wife was playing the piano in
the coffee palace on Saturdays for a very trifling consideration and who
was it gave me the wheeze she was doing the other business? Do you
remember? We had to search all Holles street to find them till the chap in
Keogh's gave us the number. Remember?

PARBen remembered, his broad visage wondering.

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PAR—By God, she had some luxurious operacloaks and things there.

PARMr Dedalus wandered back, pipe in hand.

PAR—Merrion square style. Balldresses, by God, and court dresses. He
wouldn't take any money either. What? Any God's quantity of cocked hats
and boleros and trunkhose. What?

PAR—Ay, ay, Mr Dedalus nodded. Mrs Marion Bloom has left off clothes of all
descriptions.
.

PAR Mrs Marion. Met him pike hoses. Smell of burn. Of Paul de Kock.

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Nice name he.

PAR—What's this her name was? A buxom lassy. Marion ...?

PAR—Tweedy.

PAR—Yes. Is she alive?

PAR—And kicking.

PAR—She was a daughter of ...

PAR—Daughter of the regiment.

PAR—Yes, begad. I remember the old drummajor.

PARMr Dedalus struck, whizzed, lit, puffed savoury puff after

PAR—Irish? I don't know, faith. Is she, Simon?

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PARPuff after stiff, a puff, strong, savoury, crackling.

PAR—Buccinator muscle is ... What? ... Bit rusty ... O, she is ... My Irish Molly,
O.

PARHe puffed a pungent plumy blast.

PAR—From the rock of Gibraltar... all the way.

PARThey pined in depth of ocean shadow, gold by the beerpull, bronze by
maraschino, thoughtful all two. Mina Kennedy, 4 Lismore terrace,
Drumcondra with Idolores, a queen, Dolores, silent.

PARPat served, uncovered dishes. Leopold cut liverslices. As said before
he ate with relish the inner organs, nutty gizzards, fried cods' roes while

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Richie Goulding, Collis, Ward ate steak and kidney, steak then kidney, bite
by bite of pie he ate Bloom ate they ate.

PARBloom with Goulding, married in silence, ate. Dinners fit for princes.

.

PAR—When love absorbs my ardent soul ...

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PARRoll of Bensoulbenjamin rolled to the quivery loveshivery roofpanes.

PAR—War! War!

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cried Father Cowley. You're the warrior.

PAR—So I am, Ben Warrior laughed. I was thinking of your landlord. Love or
money.

PARHe stopped. He wagged huge beard, huge face over his blunder huge.

PAR—Sure, you'd burst the tympanum of her ear, man, Mr Dedalus said
through smoke aroma, with an organ like yours.

PARIn bearded abundant laughter Dollard shook upon the keyboard. He
would.

PAR—Not to mention another membrane, Father Cowley added. Half time,

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Ben. Amoroso ma non troppo. Let me there.

PARMiss Kennedy served two gentlemen with tankards of cool stout. She
passed a remark. It was indeed, first gentleman said, beautiful weather.
They drank cool stout. Did she know where the lord lieutenant was going?
And heard steelhoofs ringhoof ring. No, she couldn't say. But it would be
in the paper. O, she need not trouble. No trouble. She waved about her
outspread Independent, searching, the lord lieutenant, her pinnacles of hair
slowmoving, lord lieuten. Too much trouble, first gentleman said. O, not in
the least. Way he looked that. Lord lieutenant. Gold by bronze heard iron
steel.

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PAR—........... my ardent soul
I care not foror the morrow.

PARIn liver gravy Bloom mashed mashed potatoes. Love and War
someone is. Ben Dollard's famous. Night he ran round to us to borrow a
dress suit for that concert. Trousers tight as a drum on him. Musical
porkers. Molly did laugh when he went out. Threw herself back across the
bed, screaming, kicking. With all his belongings on show. O saints above,
I'm drenched! O, the women in the front row! O, I never laughed so many!
Well, of course that's what gives him the base barreltone. For instance
eunuchs. Wonder who's playing. Nice touch. Must be Cowley. Musical.

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Knows whatever note you play. Bad breath he has, poor chap. Stopped.

PARMiss Douce, engaging, Lydia Douce, bowed to suave solicitor, George
Lidwell, gentleman, entering. Good afternoon. She gave her moist (a lady's)
hand to his firm clasp. Afternoon. Yes, she was back. To the old dingdong
again.

PAR—Your friends are inside, Mr Lidwell.
George Lidwell, suave, solicited, held a lydiahand.
.

PARPiano again. Cowley it is. Way he sits in to it, like one together,
mutual understanding. Tiresome shapers scraping fiddles, eye on the
bowend, sawing the cello, remind you of toothache. Her high long snore.
Night we were in the box. Trombone under blowing like a grampus,
between the acts, other brass chap unscrewing, emptying spittle.
Conductor's legs too, bagstrousers, jiggedy jiggedy. Do right to hide them.
.

PAR—Ah, I couldn't, man, Mr Dedalus said, shy, listless.

PARStrongly.

PAR—Go on, blast you! Ben Dollard growled. Get it out in bits.

PAR—M'appari, Simon, Father Cowley said.

PARDown stage he strode some paces, grave, tall in affliction, his long
arms outheld. Hoarsely the apple of his throat hoarsed softly. Softly he
sang to a dusty seascape there: A Last Farewell. A headland, a ship, a sail

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upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon
the headland, wind around her.

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PARCowley sang:

PAR—M'appari tutt'amor:
Il mio sguardo l'incontr ...

PARShe waved, unhearing Cowley, her veil, to one departing, dear one, to
wind, love, speeding sail, return.

PAR—Go on, Simon.

PAR—Ah, sure, my dancing days are done, Ben ... Well ...

PARMr Dedalus laid his pipe to rest beside the tuningfork and, sitting,

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touched the obedient keys.

PAR—No, Simon, Father Cowley turned. Play it in the original. One flat.

PARThe keys, obedient, rose higher, told, faltered, confessed, confused.

PARUp stage strode Father Cowley.

PAR—Here, Simon, I'll accompany you, he said. Get up.
.

PARMost beautiful tenor air ever written, Richie said: Sonnambula. He

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heard Joe Maas sing that one night. Ah, what M'Guckin! Yes. In his way.
Choirboy style. Maas was the boy. Massboy. A lyrical tenor if you like.
Never forget it. Never.

PARTenderly Bloom over liverless bacon saw the tightened features strain.
Backache he. Bright's bright eye. Next item on the programme. Paying the
piper. Pills, pounded bread, worth a guinea a box. Stave it off awhile. Sings
too: Down among the dead men. Appropriate. Kidney pie. Sweets to the.
Not making much hand of it. Best value in. Characteristic of him. Power.
Particular about his drink. Flaw in the glass, fresh Vartry water. Fecking
matches from counters to save. Then squander a sovereign in dribs and

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drabs. And when he's wanted not a farthing. Screwed refusing to pay his
fare. Curious types.

PARNever would Richie forget that night. As long as he lived: never. In
the gods of the old Royal with little Peake. And when the first note.

PARSpeech paused on Richie's lips.

PARComing out with a whopper now. Rhapsodies about damn all.
Believes his own lies. Does really. Wonderful liar. But want a good memory.

PAR—Which air is that? asked Leopold Bloom.

PAR—All is lost now.

PARRichie cocked his lips apout. A low incipient note sweet banshee

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murmured: all. A thrush. A throstle. His breath, birdsweet, good teeth he's
proud of, fluted with plaintive woe. Is lost. Rich sound. Two notes in one
there. Blackbird I heard in the hawthorn valley. Taking my motives he
twined and turned them. All most too new call is lost in all. Echo. How
sweet the answer. How is that done? All lost now.

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Mournful he whistled.
Fall, surrender, lost.

PARBloom bent leopold ear, turning a fringe of doyley down under the
vase. Order. Yes, I remember. Lovely air. In sleep she went to him.
Innocence in the moon. Brave. Don't know their danger. Still hold her
back. Call name. Touch water. Jingle jaunty. Too late. She longed to go.

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That's why. Woman. As easy stop the sea. Yes: all is lost.

PAR—A beautiful air, said Bloom lost Leopold. I know it well.

PARNever in all his life had Richie Goulding.

PARHe knows it well too. Or he feels. Still harping on his daughter. Wise
child that knows her father, Dedalus said. Me?

PARBloom askance over liverless saw. Face of the all is lost. Rollicking
Richie once. Jokes old stale now. Wagging his ear. Napkinring in his eye.
Now begging letters he sends his son with. Crosseyed Walter sir I did sir.
Wouldn't trouble only I was expecting some money. Apologise.

PARPiano again. Sounds better than last time I heard. Tuned probably.

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Stopped again.

PARDollard and Cowley still urged the lingering singer out with it.

PAR—With it, Simon.

PAR—It, Simon.

PAR—Ladies and gentlemen, I am most deeply obliged by your kind
solicitations.

PAR—It, Simon.

PAR—I have no money but if you will lend me your attention I shall endeavour
to sing to you of a heart bowed down.

PARBy the sandwichbell in screening shadow Lydia, her bronze and rose,

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a lady's grace, gave and withheld: as in cool glaucous eau de Nil Mina to
tankards two her pinnacles of gold.

PARThe harping chords of prelude closed. A chord, longdrawn,
expectant, drew a voice away.

PAR—When First I saw that form endearing ...

PARRichie turned.

PAR—Si Dedalus' voice, he said.

PARBraintipped, cheek touched with flame, they listened feeling that flow
endearing flow over skin limbs human heart soul spine. Bloom signed to
Pat, bald Pat is a waiter hard of hearing, to set ajar the door of the bar. The

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door of the bar. So. That will do. Pat, waiter, waited, waiting to hear, for he
was hard of hear by the door.

PAR—... Sorrow from me seemed to depart.

PARThrough the hush of air a voice sang to them, low, not rain, not leaves
in murmur, like no voice of strings or reeds or whatdoyoucallthem
dulcimers touching their still ears with words, still hearts of their each his
remembered lives. Good, good to hear: sorrow from them each seemed to
from both depart when first they heard. When first they saw, lost Richie
Poldy, mercy of beauty, heard from a person wouldn't expect it in the least,
her first merciful lovesoft oftloved word.

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PARLove that is singing: love's old sweet song. Bloom unwound slowly
the elastic band of his packet. Love's old sweet sonnez la gold. Bloom
wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it
round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast.

PAR—Full of hope and all delighted ...

PARTenors get women by the score. Increase their flow. Throw flower at
his feet. When will we meet? My head it simply. Jingle all delighted. He
can't sing for tall hats. Your head it simply swurls. Perfumed for him. What
perfume does your wife? I want to know. Jing. Stop. Knock. Last look at
mirror always before she answers the door. The hall. There? How do you?

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I do well. There? What? Or? Phial of cachous, kissing comfits, in her
satchel. Yes? Hands felt for the opulent.

PARAlas the voice rose, sighing, changed: loud, full, shining, proud.

PAR—But alas, 'twas idle dreaming ...

PARGlorious tone he has still. Cork air softer also their brogue. Silly man!
Could have made oceans of money. Singing wrong words. Wore out his
wife: now sings. But hard to tell. Only the two themselves. If he doesn't
break down. Keep a trot for the avenue. His hands and feet sing too. Drink.
Nerves overstrung. Must be abstemious to sing. Jenny Lind soup: stock,
sage, raw eggs, half pint of cream. For creamy dreamy.

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PARTenderness it welled: slow, swelling, full it throbbed. That's the chat.
Ha, give! Take! Throb, a throb, a pulsing proud erect.

PARWords? Music? No: it's what's behind.

PARBloom looped, unlooped, noded, disnoded.

PARBloom. Flood of warm jamjam lickitup secretness flowed to flow in
music out, in desire, dark to lick flow invading. Tipping her tepping her
tapping her topping her. Tup. Pores to dilate dilating. Tup. The joy the feel
the warm the. Tup. To pour o'er sluices pouring gushes. Flood, gush, flow,
joygush, tupthrob. Now! Language of love.

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PAR—... ray of hope is...

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PARBeaming. Lydia for Lidwell squeak scarcely hear so ladylike the muse
unsqueaked a ray of hopk.

PARMartha it is. Coincidence. Just going to write. Lionel's song. Lovely
name you have. Can't write. Accept my little pres. Play on her heartstrings
pursestrings too. She's a. I called you naughty boy. Still the name: Martha.
How strange! Today.

PARThe voice of Lionel returned, weaker but unwearied. It sang again to
Richie Poldy Lydia Lidwell also sang to Pat open mouth ear waiting to
wait. How first he saw that form endearing, how sorrow seemed to part,
how look, form, word charmed him Gould Lidwell, won Pat Bloom's heart.

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PARWish I could see his face, though. Explain better. Why the barber in
Drago's always looked my face when I spoke his face in the glass. Still hear
it better here than in the bar though farther.

PAR—Each graceful look ....

PARFirst night when first I saw her at Mat Dillon's in Terenure. Yellow,
black lace she wore. Musical chairs. We two the last. Fate. After her. Fate.
Round and round slow. Quick round. We two. All looked. Halt. Down she
sat. All ousted looked. Lips laughing. Yellow knees.

PAR—Charmed my eye ...

PARSinging. Waiting she sang. I turned her music. Full voice of perfume

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of what perfume does your lilactrees. Bosom I saw, both full, throat
warbling. First I saw. She thanked me. Why did she me? Fate. Spanishy
eyes. Under a peartree alone patio this hour in old Madrid one side in
shadow Dolores shedolores. At me. Luring. Ah, alluring.

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PAR—Martha! Ah, Martha!

PARQuitting all languor Lionel cried in grief, in cry of passion dominant
to love to return with deepening yet with rising chords of harmony. In cry
of lionel loneliness that she should know, must martha feel. For only her he
waited. Where? Here there try there here all try where. Somewhere.

PAR—Co-ome, thou lost one!

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Co-ome, thou dear one!

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PARAlone. One love. One hope. One comfort me. Martha, chestnote,
return!

PAR—Come ...!

PARIt soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it
leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long
breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned,

high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the etherial bosom, high, of the
high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the
endlessnessnessness .......

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PAR—To me!

PARSiopold!

PARConsumed.

PARCome. Well sung. All clapped. She ought to. Come. To me, to him, to
her, you too, me, us.

PAR—Bravo! Clapclap. Good man, Simon. Clappyclapclap. Encore!
Clapclipclap clap. Sound as a bell. Bravo, Simon! Clapclopclap. Encore,

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enclap, said, cried, clapped all, Ben Dollard, Lydia Douce, George Lidwell,
Pat, Mina Kennedy, two gentlemen with two tankards, Cowley, first gent
with tank and bronze miss Douce and gold miss Mina.

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.

PAR—Seven days in jail, Ben Dollard said, on bread and water. Then you'd
sing, Simon, like a garden thrush.

PARLionel Simon, singer, laughed. Father Bob Cowley played. Mina
Kennedy served. Second gentleman paid. Tom Kernan strutted in. Lydia,
admired, admired. But Bloom sang dumb.

PARAdmiring.

PARRichie, admiring, descanted on that man's glorious voice. He
remembered one night long ago. Never forget that night. Si sang 'Twas
rank and fame: in Ned Lambert's 'twas. Good God he never heard in all his

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life a note like that he never did then false one we had better part so clear so
God he never heard since love lives not a clinking voice lives not ask
Lambert he can tell you too.

PARGoulding, a flush struggling in his pale, told Mr Bloom, face of the
night, Si in Ned Lambert's, Dedalus house, sang 'Twas rank and fame.

PARHe, Mr Bloom, listened while he, Richie Goulding, told him, Mr
Bloom, of the night he, Richie, heard him, Si Dedalus, sing 'Twas rank and
fame' in his, Ned Lambert's, house.

PARBrothers-in-law: relations. We never speak as we pass by. Rift in the
lute I think. Treats him with scorn. See. He admires him all the more. The

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night Si sang. The human voice, two tiny silky chords, wonderful, more
than all others.

PARThat voice was a lamentation. Calmer now. It's in the silence after
you feel you hear. Vibrations. Now silent air.

PARBloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked
the slender catgut thong. He drew and plucked. It buzz, it twanged. While
Goulding talked of Barraclough's voice production, while Tom Kernan,
harking back in a retrospective sort of arrangement talked to listening
Father Cowley, who played a voluntary, who nodded as he played. While
big Ben Dollard talked with Simon Dedalus, lighting, who nodded as he

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smoked, who smoked.

PARThou lost one. All songs on that theme. Yet more Bloom stretched his
string. Cruel it seems. Let people get fond of each other: lure them on. Then
tear asunder. Death. Explos. Knock on the head. Outtohelloutofthat.
Human life. Dignam. Ugh, that rat's tail wriggling! Five bob I gave. Corpus
paradisum. Corncrake croaker: belly like a poisoned pup. Gone. They
sing. Forgotten. I too; And one day she with. Leave her: get tired.
Suffer then. Snivel. Big spanishy eyes goggling at nothing. Her
wavyavyeavyheavyeavyevyevyhair un comb:'d.

PARYet too much happy bores. He stretched more, more. Are you not

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happy in your? Twang. It snapped.
.

PAR—Don't make half so free, said she, till we are better acquainted.

PARGeorge Lidwell told her really and truly: but she did not believe.

PARFirst gentleman told Mina that was so. She asked him was that so.
And second tankard told her so. That that was so.

PARMiss Douce, miss Lydia, did not believe: miss Kennedy, Mina, did not
believe: George Lidwell, no: miss Dou did not: the first, the first: gent with
the tank: believe, no, no: did not, miss Kenn: Lidlydiawell: the tank.

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PARBetter write it here. Quills in the postoffice chewed and twisted.

PARBald Pat at a sign drew nigh. A pen and ink. He went. A pad. He
went. A pad to blot. He heard, deaf Pat.

PAR—Yes, Mr Bloom said, teasing the curling catgut line. It certainly is. Few
lines will do. My present. All that Italian florid music is. Who is this wrote?
Know the name you know better. Take out sheet notepaper, envelope:
unconcerned. It's so characteristic.

PAR—Grandest number in the whole opera, Goulding said.

PAR—It is, Bloom said.

PARNumbers it is. All music when you come to think. Two multiplied by

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two divided by half is twice one. Vibrations: chords those are. One plus two
plus six is seven. Do anything you like with figures juggling. Always find
out this equal to that. Symmetry under a cemetery wall. He doesn't see my
mourning. Callous: all for his own gut. Musemathematics. And you think
you're listening to the etherial. But suppose you said it like: Martha, seven
times nine minus x is thirtyfive thousand. Fall quite flat. It's on account of
the sounds it is.

PARInstance he's playing now. Improvising. Might be what you like, till
you hear the words. Want to listen sharp. Hard. Begin all right: then hear
chords a bit off: feel lost a bit. In and out of sacks, over barrels, through

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wirefences, obstacle race. Time makes the tune. Question of mood you're
in. Still always nice to hear. Except scales up and down, girls learning. Two
together nextdoor neighbours. Ought to invent dummy pianos for that.
Milly no taste. Queer because we both, I mean. Blumenlied I bought for
her. The name. Playing it slow, a girl, night I came home, the girl. Door of
the stables near Cecilia street.

PARBald deaf Pat brought quite flat pad ink. Pat set with ink pen quite
flat pad. Pat took plate dish knife fork. Pat went.

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PARIt was the only language Mr Dedalus said to Ben. He heard them as a
boy in Ringabella, Crosshaven, Ringabella, singing their barcaroles.

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Queenstown harbour full of Italian ships. Walking, you know, Ben, in the
moonlight with those earthquake hats. Blending their voices. God, such
music, Ben. Heard as a boy. Cross Ringabella haven mooncarole.

PARSour pipe removed he held a shield of hand beside his lips that cooed
a moonlight nightcall, clear from anear, a call from afar, replying.

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PARDown the edge of his Freeman baton ranged Bloom's, your other eye,
scanning for where did I see that. Callan, Coleman, Dignam Patrick.
Heigho! Heigho! Fawcett. Aha! Just I was looking.

PARHope he's not looking, cute as a rat. He held unfurled his Freeman.
Can't see now. Remember write Greek ees. Bloom dipped, Bloo mur: dear

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sir. Dear Henry wrote: dear Mady. Got your lett and flow. Hell did I put?
Some pock or oth. It is utterl imposs. Underline imposs. To write today.

PARBore this. Bored Bloom tambourined gently with I am just reflecting
fingers on flat pad Pat brought.

PAROn. Know what I mean. No, change that ee. Accep my poor litt pres
enclos. Ask her no answ. Hold on. Five Dig. Two about here. Penny the
gulls. Elijah is com. Seven Davy Byrne's. Is eight about. Say half a crown.
My poor little pres: p. o. two and six. Write me a long. Do you despise?
Jingle, have you the? So excited. Why do you call me naught? You naughty
too? O, Mairy lost the string of her. Bye for today. Yes, yes, will tell you.

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Want to. To keep it up. Call me that other. Other world she wrote. My
patience are exhaust. To keep it up. You must believe. Believe. The tank. It.
Is. True.

PARFolly am I writing? Husbands don't. That's marriage does, their
wives. Because I'm away from. Suppose. But how? She must. Keep young.
If she found out. Card in my high grade ha. No, not tell all. Useless pain. If
they don't see. Woman. Sauce for the gander.
.

PAR—Yes, Mr Bloom said. Town traveller. Nothing doing, I expect.

PARBloom mur: best references. But Henry wrote: it will excite me. You
know how. In haste. Henry. Greek ee. Better add postscript. What is he
playing now? Improvising. Intermezzo. P. S. The rum tum tum. How will

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you pun? You punish me? Crooked skirt swinging, whack by. Tell me I
want to. Know. O. Course if I didn't I wouldn't ask. La la la ree. Trails off
there sad in minor. Why minor sad? Sign H. They like sad tail at end.
P. P. S. La la la ree. I feel so sad today. La ree. So lonely. Dee.

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PARHe blotted quick on pad of Pat. Envel. Address. Just copy out of
paper. Murmured: Messrs Callan, Coleman and Co, limited. Henry wrote:

PARBlot over the other so he can't read. There. Right. Idea prize titbit.
Something detective read off blottingpad. Payment at the rate of guinea per
col. Matcham often thinks the laughing witch. Poor Mrs Purefoy. U. P: up.

PARToo poetical that about the sad. Music did that. Music hath charms.
Shakespeare said. Quotations every day in the year. To be or not to be.
Wisdom while you wait.

PARIn Gerard's rosery of Fetter lane he walks, greyedauburn. One life is
all. One body. Do. But do.

PARDone anyhow. Postal order, stamp. Postoffice lower down. Walk
now. Enough. Barney Kiernan's I promised to meet them. Dislike that job.

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House of mourning. Walk. Pat! Doesn't hear. Deaf beetle he is.

PARCar near there now. Talk. Talk. Pat! Doesn't. Settling those napkins.
Lot of ground he must cover in the day. Paint face behind on him then he'd
be two. Wish they'd sing more. Keep my mind off.

PARBald Pat who is bothered mitred the napkins. Pat is a waiter hard of
his hearing. Pat is a waiter who waits while you wait. Hee hee hee hee. He
waits while you wait. Hee hee. A waiter is he. Hee hee hee hee. He waits
while you wait. While you wait if you wait he will wait while you wait. Hee
hee hee hee. Hoh. Wait while you wait.

PARDouce now. Douce Lydia. Bronze and rose.

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PARShe had a gorgeous, simply gorgeous, time. And look at the lovely
shell she brought.

PARTo the end of the bar to him she bore lightly the spiked and winding
seahorn that he, George Lidwell, solicitor, might hear.

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PAR—Listen! she bade him.

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PARUnder Tom Kernan's ginhot words the accompanist wove music slow.
Authentic fact. How Walter Bapty lost his voice. Well, sir, the husband took
him by the throat. Scoundrel, said he, you'll sing no more lovesongs. He
did, faith, sir Tom. Bob Cowley wove. Tenors get wom. Cowley lay back.

PARAh, now he heard, she holding it to his ear. Hear! He heard.

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Wonderful. She held it to her own. And through the sifted light pale gold in
contrast glided. To hear.
.

PARBronze by a weary gold, anear, afar, they listened.

PARHer ear too is a shell, the peeping lobe there. Been to the seaside.
Lovely seaside girls. Skin tanned raw. Should have put on coldcream first
make it brown. Buttered toast. O and that lotion mustn't forget. Fever near

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her mouth. Your head it simply. Hair braided over: shell with seaweed.
Why do they hide their ears with seaweed hair? And Turks the mouth,
why? Her eyes over the sheet. Yashmak. Find the way in. A cave. No
admittance except on business.

PARThe sea they think they hear. Singing. A roar. The blood it is. Souse
in the ear sometimes. Well, it's a sea. Corpuscle islands.

PARWonderful really. So distinct. Again. George Lidwell held its murmur,
hearing: then laid it by, gently.

PAR—What are the wild waves saying? he asked her, smiled.

PARCharming, seasmiling and unanswering Lydia on Lidwell smiled.

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.

PARBy Larry O'Rourke's, by Larry, bold Larry O', Boylan swayed and
Boylan turned.
.

PARBob Cowley's twinkling fingers in the treble played again. The
landlord has the prior. A little time. Long John. Big Ben. Lightly he played a
light bright tinkling measure for tripping ladies, arch and smiling, and for

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their gallants, gentlemen friends. One: one, one, one, one, one: two, one,
three, four.

PARSea, wind, leaves, thunder, waters, cows lowing, the cattlemarket,
cocks, hens don't crow, snakes hissss. There's music everywhere.
Ruttledge's door: ee creaking. No, that's noise. Minuet of Don Giovanni
he's playing now. Court dresses of all descriptions in castle chambers
dancing. Misery. Peasants outside. Green starving faces eating dockleaves.
Nice that is. Look: look, look, look, look, look: you look at us.

PARThat's joyful I can feel. Never have written it. Why? My joy is other
joy. But both are joys. Yes, joy it must be. Mere fact of music shows you

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are. Often thought she was in the dumps till she began to lilt. Then know.

PARM'Coy valise. My wife and your wife. Squealing cat. Like tearing silk.
Tongue when she talks like the clapper of a bellows. They can't manage
men's intervals. Gap in their voices too. Fill me. I'm warm, dark, open.
Molly in quis est homo: Mercadante. My ear against the wall to hear. Want
a woman who can deliver the goods.
.

PARTap.
.

PAR—No, Ben, Tom Kernan interfered. The Croppy Boy. Our native Doric.

PAR—Ay do, Ben, Mr Dedalus said. Good men and true.

PAR—Do, do, they begged in one.

PARI'll go. Here, Pat, return. Come. He came, he came, he did not stay.
To me. How much?

PAR—What key? Six sharps?

PAR—F sharp major, Ben Dollard said.

PARBob Cowley's outstretched talons griped the black deepsounding
chords.

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PARMust go prince Bloom told Richie prince. No, Richie said. Yes, must.

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Got money somewhere. He's on for a razzle backache spree. Much? He
seehears lipspeech. One and nine. Penny for yourself. Here. Give him
twopence tip. Deaf, bothered. But perhaps he has wife and family waiting,
waiting Patty come home. Hee hee hee hee. Deaf wait while they wait.

[X]

PARBut wait.

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But hear. Chords dark. Lugugugubrious. Low. In a cave of
the dark middle earth. Embedded ore. Lumpmusic.

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PARThe voice of dark age, of unlove, earth's fatigue made grave approach
and painful, come from afar, from hoary mountains, called on good men
and true. The priest he sought. With him would he speak a word.
.

PARThe priest's at home. A false priest's servant bade him welcome. Step
in. The holy father. With bows a traitor servant. Curlycues of chords.

PARRuin them. Wreck their lives. Then build them cubicles to end their
days in. Hushaby. Lullaby. Die, dog. Little dog, die.

PARThe voice of warning, solemn warning, told them the youth had

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entered a lonely hall, told them how solemn fell his footsteps there, told
them the gloomy chamber, the vested priest sitting to shrive.

PARDecent soul. Bit addled now. Thinks he'll win in Answers, poets'
picture puzzle. We hand you crisp five pound note. Bird sitting hatching in
a nest. Lay of the last minstrel he thought it was. See blank tee what
domestic animal? Tee dash ar most courageous mariner. Good voice he has
still. No eunuch yet with all his belongings.

PARListen. Bloom listened. Richie Goulding listened. And by the door
deaf Pat, bald Pat, tipped Pat, listened.

PARThe chords harped slower.

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PARThe voice of penance and of grief came slow, embellished, tremulous.
Ben's contrite beard confessed. In nomine Domini, in God's name he knelt.
He beat his hand upon his breast, confessing: mea culpa.

PARLatin again. That holds them like birdlime. Priest with the
communion corpus for those women. Chap in the mortuary, coffin or
coffey, corpusnomine. Wonder where that rat is by now. Scrape.
.

PARBronze, listening, by the beerpull gazed far away. Soulfully. Doesn't
half know I'm. Molly great dab at seeing anyone looking.

PARBronze gazed far sideways. Mirror there. Is that best side of her face?
They always know. Knock at the door. Last tip to titivate.
.

PARAll gone. All fallen. At the siege of Ross his father, at Gorey all his

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brothers fell. To Wexford, we are the boys of Wexford, he would. Last of
his name and race.

PARI too. Last of my race. Milly young student. Well, my fault perhaps.
No son. Rudy. Too late now. Or if not? If not? If still?

PARHe bore no hate.

PARHate. Love. Those are names. Rudy. Soon I am old.

PARBig Ben his voice unfolded. Great voice Richie Goulding said, a flush

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struggling in his pale, to Bloom soon old. But when was young?

PARIreland comes now. My country above the king. She listens. Who
fears to speak of nineteen four? Time to be shoving. Looked enough.

PAR—Bless me, father, Dollard the croppy cried. Bless me and let me go.
.

PARLow sank the music, air and words. Then hastened. The false priest
rustling soldier from his cassock. A yeoman captain. They know it all by
heart. The thrill they itch for. Yeoman cap.
.

PARBlank face. Virgin should say: or fingered only. Write something on
it: page. If not what becomes of them? Decline, despair. Keeps them young.
Even admire themselves. See. Play on her. Lip blow. Body of white woman,
a flute alive. Blow gentle. Loud. Three holes, all women. Goddess I didn't
see. They want it. Not too much polite. That's why he gets them. Gold in

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your pocket, brass in your face. Say something. Make her hear. With look
to look. Songs without words. Molly, that hurdygurdy boy. She knew he
meant the monkey was sick. Or because so like the Spanish. Understand
animals too that way. Solomon did. Gift of nature.

PARVentriloquise. My lips closed. Think in my stom. What?

PARWill? You? I. Want. You. To.

PARWith hoarse rude fury the yeoman cursed, swelling in apoplectic
bitch's bastard. A good thought, boy, to come. One hour's your time to live,
your last.
.

PARA liquid of womb of woman eyeball gazed under a fence of lashes,
calmly, hearing. See real beauty of the eye when she not speaks. On yonder

river. At each slow satiny heaving bosom's wave (her heaving embon) red
rose rose slowly sank red rose. Heartbeats: her breath: breath that is life.
And all the tiny tiny fernfoils trembled of maidenhair.

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PARBut look. The bright stars fade. O rose! Castile. The morn.

PARHa. Lidwell. For him then not for. Infatuated. I like that? See her

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from here though. Popped corks, splashes of beerfroth, stacks of empties.

PAROn the smooth jutting beerpull laid Lydia hand, lightly, plumply,
leave it to my hands. All lost in pity for croppy. Fro, to: to, fro: over the
polished knob (she knows his eyes, my eyes, her eyes) her thumb and finger
passed in pity: passed, reposed and, gently touching, then slid so smoothly,
slowly down, a cool firm white enamel baton protruding through their
sliding ring.

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.

PARThe chords consented. Very sad thing. But had to be.

PARGet out before the end. Thanks, that was heavenly. Where's my hat.
Pass by her. Can leave that Freeman. Letter I have. Suppose she were the?
No. Walk, walk, walk. Like Cashel Boylo Connoro Coylo Tisdall Maurice
Tisntdall Farrell. Waaaaaaalk.

PARWell, I must be. Are you off? Yrfmstbyes. Blmstup. O'er ryehigh blue.
Ow. Bloom stood up. Soap feeling rather sticky behind. Must have
sweated: music. That lotion, remember. Well, so long. High grade. Card
inside. Yes.

PARBy deaf Pat in the doorway straining ear Bloom passed.

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PARAt Geneva barrack that young man died. At Passage was his body
laid. Dolor! O, he dolores! The voice of the mournful chanter called to
dolorous prayer.

PARBy rose, by satiny bosom, by the fondling hand, by slops, by empties,
by popped corks, greeting in going, past eyes and maidenhair, bronze and
faint gold in deepseashadow, went Bloom, soft Bloom, I feel so lonely
Bloom.
.

PARScaring eavesdropping boots croppy bootsboy Bloom in the Ormond
hallway heard the growls and roars of bravo, fat backslapping, their boots
all treading, boots not the boots the boy. General chorus off for a swill to
wash it down. Glad I avoided.

PAR—Come on, Ben, Simon Dedalus cried. By God, you're as good as ever you
were.

PAR—Better, said Tomgin Kernan. Most trenchant rendition of that ballad,
upon my soul and honour It is.

PAR—Lablache, said Father Cowley.

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PARBen Dollard bulkily cachuchad towards the bar, mightily praisefed
and all big roseate, on heavyfooted feet, his gouty fingers nakkering

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castagnettes in the air.

PARBig Benaben Dollard. Big Benben. Big Benben.

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.

PAR—You're looking rubicund, George Lidwell said.

PARMiss Douce composed her rose to wait.

PAR—Ben machree, said Mr Dedalus, clapping Ben's fat back shoulderblade.

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Fit as a fiddle only he has a lot of adipose tissue concealed about his person.
.

PAR—Mr Dollard, they murmured low.

PAR—Dollard, murmured tankard.

PARTank one believed: miss Kenn when she: that doll he was: she doll:

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the tank.

PARHe murmured that he knew the name. The name was familiar to him,
that is to say. That was to say he had heard the name of. Dollard, was it?
Dollard, yes.

PARYes, her lips said more loudly, Mr Dollard. He sang that song lovely,
murmured Mina. Mr Dollard. And The Last Rose of Summer was a lovely
song. Mina loved that song. Tankard loved the song that Mina.

PAR'Tis the last rose of summer dollard left bloom felt wind wound round
inside.
.

PARTap. Tap. Tap. Tap.

PARUp the quay went Lionelleopold, naughty Henry with letter for
Mady, with sweets of sin with frillies for Raoul with met him pike hoses
went Poldy on.

PARTap blind walked tapping by the tap the curbstone tapping, tap by tap.

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PARCowley, he stuns himself with it: kind of drunkenness. Better give
way only half way the way of a man with a maid. Instance enthusiasts. All
ears. Not lose a demisemiquaver. Eyes shut. Head nodding in time. Dotty.
You daren't budge. Thinking strictly prohibited. Always talking shop.
Fiddlefaddle about notes.

PARAll a kind of attempt to talk. Unpleasant when it stops because you
never know exac. Organ in Gardiner street. Old Glynn fifty quid a year.
Queer up there in the cockloft, alone, with stops and locks and keys. Seated
all day at the organ. Maunder on for hours, talking to himself or the other
fellow blowing the bellows. Growl angry, then shriek cursing (want to have

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wadding or something in his no don't she cried), then all of a soft sudden
wee little wee little pipy wind.

PARPwee! A wee little wind piped eeee. In Bloom's little wee.

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.

PAR—Ay, the Lord have mercy on him.

PAR—By the bye there's a tuningfork in there on the ...
.

PAR—O, that must be the tuner, Lydia said to Simonlionel first I saw, forgot it

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when he was here.

PARBlind he was she told George Lidwell second I saw. And played so
exquisitely, treat to hear. Exquisite contrast: bronzelid, minagold.

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PAR—Shout! Ben Dollard shouted, pouring. Sing out!

PAR—'lldo! cried Father Cowley.
.

PARTap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap
.

PAR—Very, he stared. The lower register, for choice.
.

PAR—Ay, ay, Ben.

PAR—Will lift your glass with us.

PARThey lifted.

PARTschink. Tschunk.

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PARTip. An unseeing stripling stood in the door. He saw not bronze. He
saw not gold. Nor Ben nor Bob nor Tom nor Si nor George nor tanks nor
Richie nor Pat. Hee hee hee hee. He did not see.
.

PARPrrprr.

PARMust be the bur.

PARFff! Oo. Rrpr.

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PARNations of the earth. No-one behind. She's passed. Then and not till

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then. Tram kran kran kran. Good oppor. Coming. Krandlkrankran. I'm

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sure it's the burgund. Yes. One, two. Let my epitaph be. Kraaaaaa. Written.

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I have.

PARPprrpffrrppffff.

PARDone.

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