UlyssesChapter17 Ithaca

WHAT PARALLEL COURSES DID BLOOM AND STEPHEN FOLLOW REturning?

Starting united both at normal walking pace from Beresford place they followed in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner streets and Mountjoy square, west: then, at reduced pace, each bearing left, Gardiner's place by an inadvertance as far as the farther corner of Temple street, north: then at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing right, Temple street, north, as far as Hardwicke place. Approaching, disparate, at relaxed walking pace they crossed both the circus before George's church diametrically, the chord in any circle being less than the arc which it subtends.

Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary?

Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and glow-lamps on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees, exposed corporation emergency dustbuckets, the Roman catholic church, ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers, the study of medicine, the past day, the male-cent influence of the presabbath, Stephen's collapse.

Did Bloom discover common factors of similarity between their respective like and unlike reactions to experience?

Both were sensitive to artistic impressions musical in preference to plastic or pictorial. Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of life, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence. Both indurated by early domestic training and an inherited tenacity of heterodox resistance professed their disbelief in many orthodox religious, national, social and ethical doctrines. Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual magnetism.

Were their views on some points divergent?

Stephen dissented openly from Bloom's view on the importance of dietary and civic self help while Bloom dissented tacitly from Stephen's views on the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man in literature. Bloom assented covertly to Stephen's rectification of the anachronism involved in assigning the date of the conversion of the Irish nation to christianity from druidism by Patrick son of Calpornus, son of Potitus, son of Odyssus, sent by pope Celestine I in the year 432 in the reign of Leary to the year 260 or thereabouts in the reign of Cormac MacArt (266 A.D.) suffocated by imperfect deglutition of aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnaree. The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying degrees of adulteration and alcoholic strength, accelerated by mental exertion and the velocity of rapid circular motion in a relaxing atmosphere, Stephen attributed to the reapparition of a matutinal cloud (perceived by both from two different points of observation, Sandycove and Dublin) at first no bigger than a woman's hand.

Was there one point on which their views were equal and negative?

The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees.

Had Bloom discussed similar subjects during nocturnal perambulations in the past?

In 1884 with Ower Goldberg and Cecil Turnbull at night on public thoroughfares between Longwood avenue and Leonard's corner and Leonard's corner and Synge street and Synge street and Bloomfield avenue. In 1885 with Percy Apjohn in the evenings, reclined against the wall between Gibraltar villa and Bloomfield house in Crumlin, barony of Uppercross. In 1886 occasionally with casual acquaintances and prospective purchasers on doorsteps, in front parlours, in third class railway carriages of suburban lines. In 1888 frequently with major Brian Tweedy and his daughter Miss Marion Tweedy, together and separately on the lounge in Matthew Dillon's house in Roundtown. Once in 1892 and once in 1893 with Julius Mastiansky, on both occasions in the parlour of his (Bloom's) house in Lombard street, west.

What reflection concerning the irregular sequence of dates 1884, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1904 did Bloom make before their arrival at their destination?

He reflected that the progressive extension of the field of individual development and experience was regressively accompanied by a restriction of the converse domain of interindividual relations.

As in what ways?

From inexistence to existence he came to many and was as one received: existence with existence he was with any as any with any: from existence to nonexistence gone he would be by all as none perceived.

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

At the housesteps of the 4th of the equidifferent uneven numbers, number 7 Eccles street, he inserted his hand mechanically into the back pocket of his trousers to obtain his latchkey.

Was it there?

It was in the corresponding pocket of the trousers which he had worn on the day but one preceding.

Why was he doubly irritated?

Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget.

What were then the alternatives before the, premeditatedly (respectively) and inadvertently, keyless couple?

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

Bloom's decision?

A stratagem. Resting his feet on the dwarf wall, he climbed over the area railings, compressed his hat on his head, grasped two points at the lower union of rails and stiles, lowered his body gradually by its length of five feet nine inches and a half to within two feet ten inches of the area pavement, and allowed his body to move freely in space by separating himself from the railings and crouching in preparation for the impact of the fall.

Did he fall?

By his body's known weight of eleven stone and four pounds in avoirdupois measure, as certified by the graduated machine for periodical selfweighing in the premises of Francis Fraedman, pharmaceutical chemist of 19 Frederick street, north, on the last feast of the Ascension, to wit, the twelfth day of May of the bissextile year one thousand nine hundred and four of the Christian era (jewish era five thousand six hundred and sixtyfour, mohammedan era one thousand three hundred and twentytwo), golden number $, epact 13, solar cycle 9, dominical letters C B, Roman indication 2, Julian period 6617, MXMIV.

Did he rise uninjured by concussion?

Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by the impact, raised the latch of the area door by the exertion of force at its freely moving flange and by leverage of the first kind applied at its fulcrum gained retarded access to the kitchen through the subadjacent scullery, ignited a Lucifer match by friction, set free inflammable coal gas by turning on the ventcock, lit a high flame which, by regulating, he reduced to quiescent candescence and lit finally a portable candle.

What discrete succession of images did Stephen meanwhile perceive?

Reclined against the area railings he perceived through the transparent kitchen panes a man regulating a gasflame of 14 C P, a man lighting a candle, a man removing in turn each of his two boots, a man leaving the kitchen holding a candle of ICP.

Did the man reappear elsewhere?

Alter a lapse of four minutes the glimmer of his candle was discernible through the semitransparent semicircular glass fanlight over the halldoor. The halldoor turned gradually on its hinges. In the open space of the doorway the man reappeared without his hat, with his candle.

Did Stephen obey his sign?

Yes, entering softly, he helped to close and chain the door and followed softly along the hallway the man's back and listed feet and lighted candle past a lighted crevice of doorway on the left and carefully down a turning staircase of more than five steps into the kitchen of Bloom's house.

What did Bloom do?

He extinguished the candle by a sharp expiration of breath upon its flame, drew two spoonseat deal chairs to the hearthstone, one for Stephen with its back to the area window, the other for himself when necessary, knelt on one knee, composed in the grate a pyre of crosslaid resintipped sticks and various coloured papers and irregular polygons of best Abram coal at twentyone shillings a ton from the yard of Messrs Flower and M'Donald of 14 D'Olier street, kindled it at three projecting points of paper with one ignited lucifer match, thereby releasing the potential energy contained in the fuel by allowing its carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union with the oxygen of the air.

Of what similar apparitions did Stephen think?

Of others elsewhere in other times who, kneeling on one knee or on two, had kindled fires for him, of Brother Michael in the infirmary of the college of the Society of Jesus at Clongowes Wood, Sallins, in the county of Kildare: of his father, Simon Dedalus, in an unfurnished room of his first residence in Dublin, number thirteen Fitzgibbon street: of his godmother Miss Kate Morkan in the house of her dying sister Miss Julia Morkan at 15 Usher's Island: of his mother Mary, wife of Simon Dedalus, in the kitchen of number twelve North Richmond street on the morning of the feast of Saint Francis-Xavier 1898: of the dean of studies, Father Butt, in the physics' theatre of university College, 16 Stephen's green, north: of his sister Dilly (Delia) in his father's house in Cabra.

What did Stephen see on raising his gaze to the height of a yard from the fire towards the opposite wall?

Under a row of five coiled spring housebells a curvilinear rope, stretched between two holdfasts athwart across the recess beside the chimney pier, from which hung four smallsized square handkerchiefs folded unattached consecutively in adjacent rectangles and one pair of ladies' grey hose with lisle suspendertops and feet in their habitual position clamped by three erect wooden pegs two at their outer extremities and the third at their point of junction.

What did Bloom see on the range?

On the right (smaller) hob a blue enamelled saucepan: on the left (larger) hob a black iron kettle.

What did Bloom do at the range?

He removed the saucepan to the left hob, rose and carried the iron kettle to the sink in order to tap the current by turning the faucet to let it flow.

Did it flow?

Yes. From Roundwood reservoir in county Wicklow of a cubic capacity of 2,400 million gallons, percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of filter mains of single and double pipeage constructed at an initial plant cost of #5 per linear yard by way of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the Downs and Callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a distance of 22 statute miles, and thence, through a system of relieving tanks, by a gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and waterworks engineer, Mr Spencer Harty, C.E., on the instructions of the waterworks committee, had prohibited the use of municipal water for purposes other than those of consumption (envisaging the possibility of recourse being had to the importable water of the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893) particularly as the South Dublin Guardians, notwithstanding their ration of 15 gallons per day per pauper supplied through a 6 inch meter, had been convicted of a wastage of 20,000 gallons per night by a reading of their meter on the affirmation of the law agent of the corporation, Mr Ignatius Rice, solicitor, thereby acting to the detriment of another section of the public, selfsupporting taxpayers, solvent, sound.

What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier returning to the range, admire?

Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's projection: its umplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8,000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: Its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including billions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents: gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs, and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe) numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90% of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.

Having set the halffilled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he return to the stillflowing tap?

To wash his soiled hands with a partially consumed tablet of Barrington's lemonflavoured soap, to which paper still adhered (bought thirteen hours previously for fourpence and still unpaid for), in fresh cold neverchanging everchanging water and dry them, face and hands, in a long redbordered holland cloth passed over a wooden revolving roller.

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

That he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by submersion in cold water (his last bath having taken place in the month of October of the preceding year), disliking the aqueous substances of glass and crystal, distrusting aquacities of thought and language.

What impeded Bloom from giving Stephen counsels of hygiene and prophylactic to which should be added suggestions concerning a preliminary wetting of the head and contraction of the muscles with rapid splashing of the face and neck and thoracic and epigastric region in case of sea or river bathing, the parts of the human anatomy most sensitive to cold being the nape, stomach, and thenar or sole of foot?

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

What additional didactic counsels did he similarly repress?

Dietary: concerning the respective percentage of protein and caloric energy in bacon, salt ling and butter, the absence of the former in the lastnamed and the abundance of the latter in the firstnamed.

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

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

What concomitant phenomenon took place in the vessel of liquid by the agency of fire?

The phenomenon of ebullition. Fanned by a constant updraught of ventilation between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the foliated fossilised decidua of primeval forests which had in turn derived their vegetative existence from the sun, primal source of heat (radiant), transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous ether. Heat (convected), a mode of motion developed by such combustion, was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the source of calorification to the liquid contained in the vessel, being radiated through the uneven unpolished dark surface of the metal iron, in part reflected, in part absorbed, in part transmitted, gradually raising the temperature of the water from normal to boiling point, a rise in temperature expressible as the result of an expenditure of 72 thermal units needed to raise I pound of water from 50 to 212 Fahrenheit.

What announced the accomplishment of this rise in temperature?

A double falciform ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at both sides simultaneously.

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

To shave himself.

What advantages attended shaving by night?

A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the course of the day: a cleaner sensation when awaking after a fresher sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and perturbations, a clattered milkcan, a postman's double knock, a paper read, reread while lathering, relathering the same spot, a shock, a shoot, with thought of aught he sought though fraught with nought might cause a faster rate of shaving and a nick on which incision plaster with precision cut and humected and applied adhered which was to be done.

Why did absence of light disturb him less than presence of noises

Because of the surety of the sense of touch in his firm full masculine feminine passive active hand.

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

The operative surgical quality but that he was reluctant to shed human blood even when the end justified the means, preferring in their natural order, heliotherapy, psychophysicotherapeutics, osteopathic surgery.

What lay under exposure on the lower middle and upper shelves of the kitchen dresser opened by Bloom?

On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal breakfast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown Derby, four white goldrimmed eggcups, and open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly copper, and a phial of aromatic violet comfits. On the middle shelf a chipped eggcup containing pepper, a drum of table salt, four conglomerated black olives in oleaginous paper, an empty pot of Plumtree's potted meat, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and containing one Jersey pear, a halfempty bottle of William Gilbey and Co's white invalid port, half disrobed of its swathe of coralpink tissue paper, a packet of Epps's soluble cocoa, five ounces of Anne Lynch's choice tea at 2/- per lb. in a crinkled leadpaper bag, a cylindrical canister containing the best crystallised lump sugar, two onions, one the larger, Spanish, entire, the other, smaller, Irish, bisected with augmented surface and more redolent, a jar of Irish Model Dairy's cream, a jug of brown crockery containing a noggin and a quarter of soured adulterated milk, converted by heat into water, acidulous serum and semisolidified curds, which added to the quantity subtracted for Mr Bloom's and Mrs Fleming's breakfasts made one imperial pint, the total quantity originally delivered, two cloves, a halfpenny and a small dish containing a slice of fresh ribsteak. On the upper shelf a battery of jamjars of various sizes and proveniences.

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

Four polygonal fragments of two lacerated scarlet betting tickets, numbered 887, 886.

What reminiscences temporarily corrugated his brow?

Reminiscences of coincidences, truth stranger than fiction, preindicative of the result of the Gold Cup flat handicap, the official and definitive result of which he had read in the Evening Telegraph, late pink edition, in the cabman's shelter, at Butt bridge.

Where had previous intimations of the result, effected or projected, been received by him?

In Bernard Kiernan's licensed premises 8, 9 and 10 Little Britain street: in David Byrne's licensed premises, 14 Duke street: in O'Connell street lower, outside Graham Lemon's when a dark man had placed in his hand a throwaway (subsequently thrown away), advertising Elijah, restorer of the church in Zion: in Lincoln place outside the premises of F. W. Sweny and Co (Limited) dispensing chemists, when, when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths, 11 Leinster street, with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in his arms the secret of the race, graven in the language of prediction.

What qualifying considerations allayed his perturbations?

The difficulties of interpretation since the significance of any event followed its occurrence as variably as the acoustic report followed the electrical discharge and of counterestimating against an actual loss by failure to interpret the total sum of possible losses proceeding originally from a successful interpretation.

His mood?

He hid not risked, he did not expect, he had not been disappointed, he was satisfied.

What satisfied him?

To have sustained no positive loss. To have brought a positive gain to others. Light to the gentiles.

How did Bloom prepare a collation for a gentile?

He poured into two teacups two level spoonfuls, four in all, of Epps's soluble cocoa and proceeded according to the directions for use printed on the label, to each adding after sufficient time for infusion the prescribed ingredients for diffusion in the manner and in the quantity prescribed.

What supererogatory marks of special hospitality did the host show his guest?

Relinquishing his symposiarchal right to the moustache cup of imitation Crown Derby presented to him by his only daughter, Millicent (Milly), he substituted a cup identical with that of his guest and served extraordinarily to his guest and, in reduced measure, to himself the viscous cream ordinarily reserved for the breakfast of his wife Marion (Molly).

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

His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely and he accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps's massproduct, the creature cocoa.

Were there marks of hospitality which he contemplated but suppressed, reserving them for another and for himself on future occasions to complete the act begun?

The reparation of a fissure of the length of 1 1/2 inches in the right side of his guest's jacket. A gift to his guest of one of the four lady's handkerchiefs, if and when ascertained to be in a presentable condition.

Who drank more quickly?

Bloom, having the advantage of ten seconds at the initiation ad taking, from the concave surface of a spoon along the handle of which a steady flow of heat was conducted, three sips to his opponent's one, six to two, nine to three.

What cerebration accompanied his frequentative act?

Concluding by inspection but erroneously that his silent companion was engaged in mental composition he reflected on the pleasures derived from literature of instruction rather than of amusement as he himself had applied to the works of William Shakespeare more than once for the solution of difficult problems in imaginary or real life.

Had he found their solution?

In spite of careful and repeated reading of certain classical passages, aided by a glossary, he had derived imperfect conviction from the text, the answers not bearing on all points.

What lines concluded his first piece of original verse written by him, potential poet, at the age of 11 in 1877 on the occasion of the offering of three prizes at 10/-, 5/- and 2/6 respectively by the Shamrock, a weekly newspaper?

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

Name, age, race, creed.

What anagrams had he made on his name in youth?

Leopold Bloom

Ellpodbomool

Molldopeloob.

Bollo edoom

Old Ollebo, M. P.

What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic poet) sent to Miss Marion Tweedy on the 14 February 1888?

What had prevented him from completing a topical song (music by R. G. Johnston) on the events of the past, or fixtures for the actual years, entitled If Brian Boru could but come back and see old Dublin now, commissioned by Michael Gunn, lessee of the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street, and to be introduced into the sixth scene, the valley of diamonds, of the second edition (30 January 1893) of the grand annual Christmas pantomime Sinbad the Sailor (written by Greenleaf Whittier, scenery by George A. Jackson and Cecil Hicks, costumes by Mrs and Miss Whelan, produced by R. Shelton 26 December 1892 under the personal supervision of Mrs Michael Gunn, ballets by Jessie Noir, harlequinade by Thomas Otto) and sung by Nelly Bouverist principal girl?

Firstly, oscillation between events of imperial and of local interest, the anticipated diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria (born 1820, acceded 1837) and the posticipated opening of the new municipal fish market: secondly, apprehension of opposition from extreme circles on the questions of the respective visits of Their Royal Highnesses, the duke and duchess of York (real), and of His Majesty King Brian Boru (imaginary); thirdly, a conflict between professional etiquette and professional emulation concerning the recent erections of the Grand Lyric Hall on Burgh Quay and the Theatre Royal in Hawkins street: fourthly, distraction resultant from compassion for Nelly Bouverist's non-intellectual, non-political, nontopical expression of countenance and concupiscence caused by Nelly Bouverist's revelations of white articles of nonintellectual, non-political, non-topical underclothing while she (Nelly Bouverist) was in the articles: fifthly, the difficulties of the selection of appropriate music and humorous allusions from Everybody's Book of Jokes (1,000 pages and a laugh in every one); sixthly, the rhymes homophonous and cacophonous, associated with the names of the new lord mayor, Daniel Tallon, the new high sheriff, Thomas Pile and the new solicitorgeneral, Dunbar Plunket Barton.

What relation existed between their ages?

16 years before in 1888 when Bloom was of Stephen's present age Stephen was 6.16 years after in 1920 when Stephen would be of Bloom's present age Bloom would be 54. In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages initially in the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17 1/2 to 13 1/2, the proportion increasing and the disparity diminishing according as arbitrary future years were added, for if the proportion existing in 1883 had continued immutable, conceiving that to be possible, till then 1904 when Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in 1920 when Stephen would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom would be 646 while in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 Bloom, being 1190 years alive having been born in the year 714, would have surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age, that of Methusalah, 969 years, while, if Stephen would continue to live until he would attain that age in the year 3072 A.D., Bloom would have been obliged to have been alive 83,300 years, having been obliged to have been born in the year 81,396 B.C.

What events might nullify these calculations?

The cessation of existence of both or either, the inauguration of a new era or calendar, the annihilation of the world and consequent extermination of the human species, inevitable but impredictable.

How many previous encounters proved their preexisting acquaintance?

Two. The first in the lilacgarden of Matthew Dillon's house, Medina Villa, Kimmage road, Roundtown, in 1887, in the company of Stephen's mother, Stephen being then of the age of 5 and reluctant to give his hand in salutation. The second in the coffeeroom of Breslin's hotel on a rainy Sunday in the January of 1892, in the company of Stephen's father and Stephen's granduncle, Stephen being then 5 years older.

Did Bloom accept the invitation to dinner given then by the son and afterwards seconded by the father?

Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

Did their conversation on the subject of these reminiscences reveal a third connecting link between them?

Mrs Riordan, a widow of independent means, had resided in the house of Stephen's parents from 1 September 1888 to 29 December 1891 and had also resided during the years 1892, 1893 and 1894 in the City Arms Hotel owned by Elizabeth O'Dowd of 54 Prussia street where during parts of the years 1893 and 1894 she had been a constant informant of Bloom who resided also in the same hotel, being at that time a clerk in the employment of Joseph Cuffe of 5 Smithfield for the superintendence of sales in the adjacent Dublin Cattle market on the North Circular road.

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

He had sometimes propelled her on warm summer evenings, an infirm widow of independent, if limited means, in her convalescent bathchair with slow revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the North Circular road opposite Mr Gavin Low's place of business where she had remained for a certain time scanning through his onelensed binocular fieldglasses unrecognisable citizens on tramcars, roadster bicycles, equipped with inflated pneumatic tyres, hackney carriages, tandems, private and hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and brakes passing from the city to the Phoenix Park and vice versa.

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

Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of bossed glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round and round the rim of a round precipitous globe.

What distinct different memories had each of her now eight years deceased?

The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her suppositions wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers.

Were there no means still remaining to him to achieve the rejuvenation which these reminiscences divulged to a younger companion rendered the more desirable?

The indoor exercises, formerly intermittently practised, subsequently abandoned, prescribed in Eugen Sandow's Physical Strength and How To Obtain It which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility.

Had any special agility been his in earlier youth?

Though ringweight lifting had been beyond his strength and the full circle gyration beyond his courage yet as a High School scholar he had excelled in his table and protracted execution of the half lever movement on the parallel bars in consequence of his abnormally developed abdominal muscles.

Did either openly allude to their racial difference?

Neither.

What, reduced to their simplest reciprocal form, were Bloom's thoughts about Stephen's thoughts about Bloom and Bloom's thoughts about Stephen's thoughts about Bloom's thoughts about Stephen?

He thought that he thought that he was a jew whereas he knew that he knew that he knew that he was not.

What, the enclosures of reticence removed, were their respective parentages?

Bloom, only born male transubstantial heir of Rudolf Virag (subsequently Rudolf Bloom) of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London and Dublin and of Ellen Higgins, second daughter of Julius Higgins (born Karoly) and Fanny Higgins (born Hegarty); Stephen, eldest surviving male consubstantial heir of Simon Dedalus of Cork and Dublin and of Mary, daughter of Richard and Christina Goulding (born Grier).

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

Bloom (three times) by the reverend Mr Gilmer Johnston M. A. alone in the protestant church of Saint Nicolas Without, Coombe; by James O'Connor, Philip Gilligan and James Fitzpatrick, together, under a pump in the village of Swords; and by the reverend Charles Malone C. C., in the church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. Stephen (once) by the reverend Charles Malone, C. C., alone, in the church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar.

Did they find their educational careers similar?

Substituting Stephen for Bloom Stoom would have passed successively through a dame's school and the high school. Substituting Bloom for Stephen Blephen would have passed successively through the preparatory, junior, middle and senior grades of the intermediate and through the matriculation, first arts, second arts and arts degree course of the royal university.

Why did Bloom refrain from stating that he had frequented the university of life?

Because of his fluctuating incertitude as to whether this observation had or had not been already made by him to Stephen or by Stephen to him.

What two temperaments did they individually represent?

The scientific. The artistic.

What proofs did Bloom adduce to prove that his tendency was towards applied, rather than towards pure, science?

Certain possible inventions of which he had cogitated when reclining in a state of supine repletion to aid digestion, stimulated by his appreciation of the importance of inventions now common but once revolutionary for example, the aeronautic parachute, the reflecting telescope, the spiral corkscrew, the safety pin, the mineral water siphon, the canal lock with winch and sluice, the suction pump.

Were these inventions principally intended for an improved scheme of kindergarten?

Yes, rendering obsolete popguns, elastic airbladders, games of hazard, catapults. They comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the twelve constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playingballs, historically costumed dolls.

What also stimulated him in his cogitations?

The financial success achieved by Ephraim Marks and Charles A. James, the former by his 1d. bazaar at 42 George's street, South, the latter at his 6 1/2d. shop and world's fancy fair and waxwork exhibition at 30 Henry street, admission 2d., children 1d.; and the infinite possibilities hitherto unexploited of the modern art of advertisement if condensed in triliteral monoideal symbols, vertically of maximum visibility (divined), horizontally of maximum legibility (deciphered) and of magnetising efficacy to arrest involuntary attention, to interest, to convince, to decide.

Such as?

K.II.Kino's 11/- Trousers. House of Keys. Alexander J. Keyes.

Such as not?

Look at this long candle. Calculate when it burns out and you receive gratis I pair of our special non-compo boots, guaranteed I candle power. Address: Barclay and Cook, 18 Talbot Street.

Bacilikil (Insect Powder).

Veribest (Boot Blacking).

Uwantit (Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and pipecleaner).

Such as never?

What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat?

Incomplete.

With it an abode of bliss.

Manufactured by George Plumtree, 23 Merchants' quay, Dublin, put up in 4 oz. pots, and inserted by Councillor Joseph P. Nannetti, M. P., Rotunda Ward, 19 Hardwicke street, under the obituary notices and anniversaries of deceases. The name on the label is Plumtree. A plumtree is a meatpot, registered trade mark. Beware of imitations. Peatmot. Trumplee. Montpat. Plamtroo.

Which example did he adduce to induce Stephen to deduce that originality, though producing its own reward, does not invariably conduce to success?

His own ideated and rejected project of an illuminated showcart, drawn by a beast of burden, in which two smartly dressed girls were to be seated engaged in writing.

What suggested scene was then constructed by Stephen?

Solitary hotel in mountain pass. Autumn. Twilight. Fire lit. In dark corner young man seated. Young woman enters. Restless. Solitary. She sits. She goes to window. She stands. She sits. Twilight. She thinks. On solitary hotel paper she writes. She thinks. She writes. She sighs. Wheels and hoofs. She hurries out. He comes from his dark corner. He seizes solitary paper. He holds it towards fire. Twilight. He reads. Solitary

What?

In sloping, upright and backhands: Queen's hotel, Queen's hotel, Queen's Ho...

What suggested scene was then reconstructed by Bloom?

The Queen's Hotel, Ennis, County, Glare, where Rudolph Bloom (Rudolf Virag) died on the evening of the 27 June 1886, at some hour unstated, in consequence of an overdose of monkshood (aconite) selfadministered in the form of a neuralgic liniment, composed of 2 parts of aconite liniment to 1 of chloroform liniment (purchased by him at 10.20 a.m. on the morning of 27 June 1886 at the medical hall of Francis Dennehy, 17 Church street, Ennis) after having, though not in consequence of having, purchased at 3.15 p.m. on the afternoon of 27 June 1886 a new boater straw hat, extra smart (after having, though not in consequence of having, purchased at the hour and in the place aforesaid, the toxin aforesaid), at the general drapery store of James Cullen, 4 Main street, Ennis.

Did he attribute this homonymity to information or coincidence or intuition?

Coincidence.

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

He preferred himself to see another's face and listen to another's words by which potential narration was realised and kinetic temperament relieved.

Did he see only a second coincidence in the second scene narrated to him, described by the narrator as A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The Parable of the Plums?

It, with the preceding scene and with others unnarrated but existent by implication, to which add essays on various subjects or moral apothegms (e.g. My Favourite Hero or Procrastination is the Thief of Time) composed during schoolyears, seemed to him to contain in itself and in conjunction with the personal equation certain possibilities of financial, social, personal and sexual success, whether specially collected and selected as model pedagogic themes (of cent per cent merit) for the use of preparatory and junior grade students or contributed in printed form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy or Doctor Dick or Heblon's Studies in Blue, to a publication of certified circulation and solvency or employed verbally as intellectual stimulation for sympathetic auditors, tacitly appreciative of successful narrative and confidently augurative of successful achievement, during the increasingly longer nights gradually following the summer solstice on the day but three following, videlict, Tuesday, 21 June (S. Aloysius Gonzaga), sunrise 3.33 a.m., sunset 8.29 p.m.

Which domestic problem as much as, if not more than, any other frequently engaged his mind?

What to do with our wives.

What had been his hypothetical singular solutions?

Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spillikins, cup and ball, nap, spoil five, bezique, twentyfive, beggar my neighbour, draughts, chess or backgammon): embroidery, darning or knitting for the policeaided clothing society: musical duets, mandoline and guitar, piano and flute, guitar and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope addressing: biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress in a cool dairy shop or warm cigar divan: the clandestine satisfaction of erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state inspected and medically controlled: social visits, at regular infrequent prevented intervals and with regular frequent preventive superintendence, to and from female acquaintances of recognised respectability in the vicinity: courses of evening instruction specially designed to render liberal instruction agreeable.

What instances of deficient mental development in his wife inclined him in favour of the lastmentioned (ninth) solution?

In disoccupied moments she had more than once covered a sheet of paper with signs and hieroglyphics which she stated were Greek and Irish and Hebrew characters. She had interrogated constantly at varying intervals as to the correct method of writing the capital initial of the name of a city in Canada, Quebec. She understood little of political complications, internal, or balance of power, external. In calculating the addenda of bills she frequently had recourse to digital aid. After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall. Unusual polysyllables of foreign origin she interpreted phonetically or by false analogy or by both: metempsychosis (met him pike hoses), alias (a mendacious person mentioned in sacred Scripture).

What compensated in the false balance of her intelligence for these and such deficiencies of judgment regarding persons, places and things?

The false apparent parallelism of all perpendicular arms of all balances, proved true by construction. The counterbalance of her proficiency of judgment regarding one person, proved true by experiment.

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

Variously. By leaving in a conspicuous place a certain book open at a certain page: by assuming in her, when alluding explanatorily, latent knowledge: by open ridicule in her presence of some absent other's ignorant lapse.

With what success had he attempted direct instruction?

She followed not all, a part of the whole, gave attention with interest, comprehended with surprise, with care repeated, with greater difficulty remembered, forgot with ease, with misgiving reremembered, rerepeated with error.

What system had proved more effective?

Indirect suggestion implicating self-interest.

Example?

She disliked umbrella with rain, he liked woman with umbrella, she disliked new hat with rain, he liked woman with new hat, he bought new hat with rain, she carried umbrella with new hat.

Accepting the analogy implied in his guest's parable which examples of postexilic eminence did he adduce?

Three seekers of the pure truth, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, author of More Neubkim (Guide of the Perplexed) and Moses Mendelssohn of such eminence that from Moses (of Egypt) to Moses (Mendelssohn) there arose none like Moses (Maimonides).

What statement was made, under correction, by Bloom concerning a fourth seeker of pure truth, by name Aristotle, mentioned, with permission, by Stephen?

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

Were other anapocryphal illustrious sons of the law and children of a selected or rejected race mentioned?

Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (composer), Baruch Spinoza (philosopher), Mendoza (pugilist), Ferdinand Lassalle (reformer, duellist).

What fragments of verse from the ancient Hebrew and ancient Irish languages were cited with modulations of voice and translation of texts by guest to host and by host to guest?

By Stephen: suil, suil, suil arun, suil go siocair agus, suil go cuin (walk, walk, walk your way, walk in safety, walk with care).

By Bloom: Kifeloch, harimon rakatejch m'baad l'zamatejch (thy temple amid thy hair is as a slice of pomegranate).

How was a glyphic comparison of the phonic symbols of both languages made in substantiation of the oral comparison?

On the penultimate blank page of a book of inferior literary style, entitled Sweets of Sin (produced by Bloom and so manipulated that its front cover came in contact with the surface of the table) with a pencil (supplied by Stephen) Stephen wrote the Irish characters for gee, eh, dee, em, simple and modified, and Bloom in turn wrote the Hebrew characters ghimel, aleph, daleth and (in the absence of mem) a substituted goph, explaining their arithmetical values as ordinal and cardinal numbers, videlicet 3, 1,4 and 100.

Was the knowledge possessed by both of each of these languages, the extinct and the revived, theoretical or practical?

Theoretical, being confined to certain grammatical rules of accidence and syntax and practically excluding vocabulary.

What points of contact existed between these languages and between the peoples who spoke them?

The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters in both languages: their antiquity, both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, progenitor of Israel, and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their archeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical, homilectic, toponomastic, historical and religious literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara) Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow, Book of Ballymote, Garland of Howth, Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto (S. Mary's Abbey) and masshouse (Adam and Eve's tavern): the proscription of their national costumes in penal laws and Jewish dress acts: the restoration in Chanan David of Zion and the possibility of Irish political autonomy or devolution.

What anthem did Bloom chant partially in anticipation of that multiple, ethnically irreductible consummation?

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

In consequence of defective mnemotechnic.

How did the chanter compensate for this deficiency?

By a periphrastic version of the general text.

In what common study did their mutual reflections merge?

The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).

Did the guest comply with his host's request?

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

What was Stephen's auditive sensation?

He heard in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation of the past.

What was Bloom's visual sensation?

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

What were Stephen's and Bloom's quasisimultaneous volitional quasisensations of concealed identities?

Visually, Stephen's: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted by Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic, sesquipedalian with winedark hair.

Auditively, Bloom's: The traditional accent of the ecstasy of catastrophe.

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

In the church, Roman, Anglican, or Nonconformist: exemplars, the very reverend John Conmee S.J., the reverend T. Salmon, D.D., provost of Trinity college, Dr Alexander J. Dowie. At the bar, English or Irish: exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K.C., Rufus Isaacs, K.C. On the stage, modern or Shakespearean exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high comedian, Osmond Tearle (1901), exponent of Shakespeare.

Did the host encourage his guest to chant in a modulated voice a strange legend on an allied theme?

Reassuringly, their place where none could hear them talk being secluded, reassured, the decocted beverages, allowing for subsolid residual sediment of a mechanical mixture, water plus sugar plus cream plus cocoa, having been consumed.

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

How did the son of Rudolph receive this first part?

With unmixed feeling. Smiling, a jew, he heard with pleasure and saw the unbroken kitchen window.

Recite the second part (minor) of the legend.

How did the father of Millicent receive this second part?

With mixed feelings. Unsmiling, he heard and saw with wonder a jew's daughter, all dressed in green.

Condense Stephen's commentary.

One of all, the least of all, is the victim predestined. Once by inadvertence, twice by design he challenges his destiny. It comes when he is abandoned and challenges him reluctant and, as an apparition of hope and youth holds him unresisting. It leads him to a strange habitation, to a secret infidel apartment, and there, implacable, immolates him, consenting.

Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?

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

Why was the host (reluctant, unresisting) still?

In accordance with the law of the conservation of energy.

Why was the host (secret infidel) silent?

He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the incitation of the hierarchy, the superstition of the populace, the propagation of rumour in continued fraction of veridicity, the envy of opulence, the influence of retaliation, the sporadic reappearance of atavistic delinquency, the mitigating circumstances of fanaticism, hypnotic suggestion and somnambulism.

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

From hypnotic suggestion: once, waking, he had not recognised his sleeping apartment: more than once, waking, he had been for an indefinite time incapable of moving or uttering sounds. From somnambulism: once, sleeping, his body had risen, crouched and crawled in the direction of a heatless fire and, having attained its destination, there, curled, unheated in night attire had lain, sleeping.

Had this latter or any cognate phenomenon declared itself in any member of his family?

Twice, in Holles street and in Ontario terrace, his daughter Millicent (Milly) at the ages of 6 and 8 years had uttered in sleep an exclamation of terror and had replied to the interrogations of two figures in night attire with a vacant mute expression.

What other infantile memories had he of her?

15 June 1889. A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause and lessen congestion. A child renamed Padney Socks she shook with shocks her moneybox: counted his three free moneypenny buttons one, tloo, tlee: a doll, a boy, a sailor she cast away: blond, born of two dark, she had blond ancestry, remote, a violation, Herr Hauptmann Hainau, Austrian army, proximate, a hallucination, lieutenant Mulvey, British navy.

What endemic characteristics were present?

Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a direct line of lineage which, though interrupted, would continue at distant intervals to its most distant intervals.

What memories had he of her adolescence?

She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a recess. On the duke's lawn entreated by an English visitor, she declined to permit him to make and take away her photographic image (objection not stated). On the South Circular road in the company of Elsa Potter, followed by an individual of sinister aspect, she went half way down Stamer street and turned abruptly back (reason of change not stated). On the vigil of the 15th anniversary of her birth she wrote a letter from Mullingar, county Westmeath, making a brief allusion to a local student (faculty and year not stated).

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

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

What second departure was contemporaneously perceived by him similarly if differently?

A temporary departure of his cat.

Why similarly, why differently?

Similarly, because actuated by a secret purpose the quest of a new male (Mullingar student) or of a healing herb (valerian). Differently, because of different possible returns to the inhabitants or to the habitation.

In other respects were their differences similar?

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

As?

Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him to ribbon it for her (cf. neckarching cat). Moreover, on the free surface of the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy of its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf. mousewatching cat). Again, in order to remember the date, combatants, issue and consequences of a famous military engagement she pulled a plait of her hair (cf. earwashing cat). Furthermore, silly Milly, she dreamed of having had an unspoken unremembered conversation with a horse whose name had been Joseph to whom (which) she had offered a tumblerful of lemonade which it (he) had appeared to have accepted (cf. hearthdreaming cat). Hence in passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness, their differences were similar.

In what way had he utilised gifts 1) an owl, 2) a clock, given as matrimonial auguries, to interest and to instruct her?

As object lessons to explain: 1) the nature and habits of oviparous animals, the possibility of aerial flight, certain abnormalities of vision, the secular process of imbalsamation: 2) the principle of the pendulum, exemplified in bob, wheelgear and regulator, the translation in terms of human or social regulation of the various positions clockwise of movable indicators on an unmoving dial, the exactitude of the recurrence per hour of an instant in each hour, when the longer and the shorter indicator were at the same angle of inclination, videlicet, 5 5/11 minutes past each hour per hour in arithmetical progression.

In what manners did she reciprocate?

She remembered: on the 27th anniversary of his birth she presented to him a breakfast moustachecup of imitation crown Derby porcelain ware. She provided: at quarter day or thereabouts if or when purchases had been made by him not for her she showed herself attentive to his necessities, anticipating his desires. She admired: a natural phenomenon having been explained by him not for her she expressed the immediate desire to possess without gradual acquisition a fraction of his science, the moiety, the quarter, a thousandth part.

What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist?

To pass in repose the hours intervening between Thursday (proper) and Friday (normal) on an extemporised cubicle in the apartment immediately above the kitchen and immediately adjacent to the sleeping apartment of his host and hostess.

What various advantages would or might have resulted from a prolongation of such extemporisation?

For the guest: security of domicile and seclusion of study. For the host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction. For the hostess: disintegration of obsession, acquisition of correct Italian pronunciation.

Why might these several provisional contingencies between a guest and a hostess not necessarily preclude or be precluded by a permanent eventuality of reconciliatory union between a schoolfellow and a jew's daughter?

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

To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of his host did the guest return a monosyllabic negative answer?

If he had known the late Mrs Emily Sinico, accidentally killed at Sydney Parade railway station, 14 October 1903.

What inchoate corollary statement was consequently suppressed by the host?

A statement explanatory of his absence on the occasion of the interment of Mrs Mary Dedalus, born Goulding, 26 June 1903, vigil of the anniversary of the decease of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag).

Was the proposal of asylum accepted?

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

What exchange of money took place between host and guest?

The former returned to the latter, without interest, a sum of money (?1.7s.0.), one pound seven shillings, advanced by the latter to the former.

What counterproposals were alternately advanced, accepted, modified, declined, restated in other terms, reaccepted, ratified, reconfirmed?

To inaugurate a prearranged course of Italian instruction, place the residence of the instructed. To inaugurate a course of vocal instruction, place the residence of the instructress. To inaugurate a series of static, semistatic and peripatetic intellectual dialogues, places the residence of both speakers (if both speakers were resident in the same place), the Ship hotel and tavern, 6 Lower Abbey street (W. and E. Connery, proprietors), the National Library of Ireland, 10 Kildare street, the National Maternity Hospital, 29, 30 and 31 Holles street, a public garden, the vicinity of a place of worship, a conjunction of two or more public thoroughfares, the point of bisection of a right line drawn between their residences (if both speakers were resident in different places).

What rendered problematic for Bloom the realisation of these mutually selfexcluding propositions?

The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert Hengler's circus in the Rotunda, Rutland square, Dublin, an intuitive particoloured clown in quest of paternity had penetrated from the ring to a place in the auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was seated and had publicly declared to an exhilarated audience that he (Bloom) was his (the clown's) papa. The imprevidibility of the future: once in the summer of 1898 he (Bloom) had marked a florin (2s.) with three notches on the milled edge and tendered it in payment of an account due to and received by J. and T. Davy, family grocers, 1 Charlemont Mall, Grand Canal, for circulation on the waters of civic finance, for possible, circuitous or direct, return.

Was the clown Bloom's son?

No.

Had Bloom's coin returned?

Never.

Why would a recurrent frustration the more depress him?

Because at the critical turningpoint of human existence he desired to amend many social conditions, the product of inequality and avarice and international animosity.

He believed then that human life was infinitely perfectible, eliminating these conditions?

There remained the generic conditions imposed by natural, as distinct from human law, as integral parts of the human whole: the necessity of destruction to procure alimentary sustenance: the painful character of the ultimate functions of separate existence, the agonies of birth and death: the monotonous menstruation of simian and (particularly) human females extending from the age of puberty to the menopause: inevitable accidents at sea, in mines and factories: certain very painful maladies and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make terror the basis of human mentality: seismic upheavals the epicentres of which are located in densely populated regions: the fact of vital growth, through convulsions of metamorphosis from infancy through maturity to decay.

Why did he desist from speculation?

Because it was a task for a superior intelligence to substitute other more acceptable phenomena in place of the less acceptable phenomena to be removed.

Did Stephen participate in his dejection?

He affirmed his significance as a conscious rational animal proceeding syllogistically from the known to the unknown and a conscious rational reagent between a micro- and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the incertitude of the void.

Was this affirmation apprehended by Bloom?

Not verbally. Substantially.

What comforted his misapprehension?

That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void.

I n what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation effected?

Lighted Candle in Stick borne by

BLOOM.

Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by

STEPHEN.

With what intonation secreto of what commemorative psalm?

The 113th, modus peregrinus: In exitu Isra?l de Egypto: domus Jacob de populo barbaro.

What did each do at the door of egress?

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

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

For a cat.

What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

With what meditations did Bloom accompany his demonstration to his companion of various constellations?

Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipent lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha in Canis Major) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

Were there obverse meditations of involution increasingly less vast?

Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of the earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves universes of void space constellated with other bodies, each, in continuity, its universe of divisible component bodies of which each was again divisible in divisions of redivisible component bodies, dividends and divisors ever diminishing without actual division till, if the progress were carried far enough, nought nowhere was never reached.

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

Because some years previously in 1886 when occupied with the problem of the quadrature of the circle he had learned of the existence of a number computed to a relative degree of accuracy to be of such magnitude and of so many places, e.g., the 9th power of the 9th power of 9, that, the result having been obtained, 33 closely printed volumes of 1000 pages each of innumerable quires and reams of India paper would have to be requisitioned in order to contain the complete tale of its printed integers of units, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, the nucleus of the nebula of every digit of every series containing succinctly the potentiality of being raised to the utmost kinetic elaboration of any power of any of its powers.

Did he find the problem of the inhabitability of the planets and their satellites by a race, given in species, and of the possible social and moral redemption of said race by a redeemer, easier of solution?

Of a different order of difficulty. Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated, from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and all that is vanity.

And the problem of possible redemption?

The minor was proved by the major.

Which various features of the constellations were in turn considered?

The various colours significant of various degrees of vitality (white, yellow, crimson, vermilion, cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy: their magnitudes revealed up to and including the 7th: their positions: the waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David: the annular cinctures of Saturn: the condensation of spiral nebulae into suns: the interdependent gyrations of double suns: the independent synchronous discoveries of Galileo, Simon Marius, Piazzi, Le Verrier, Herschel, Galle: the systematisations attempted by Bode and Kepler of cubes of distances and squares of times of revolution: the almost infinite compressibility of hirsute comets and their vast elliptical egressive and reentrant orbits from perihelion to aphelion: the sidereal origin of meteoric stones: the Libyan floods on Mars about the period of the birth of the younger astroscopist: the annual recurrence of meteoric showers about the period of the feast of S. Lawrence (martyr, 10 August): the monthly recurrence known as the new moon with the old moon in her arms: the posited influence of celestial on human bodies: the appearance of a star (1st magnitude) of exceeding brilliancy dominating by night and day (a new luminous sun generated by the collision and amalgamation in incandescence of two nonluminous exsuns) about the period of the birth of William Shakespeare over delta in the recumbent neversetting constellation of Cassiopeia and of a star (2nd magnitude) of similar origin but lesser brilliancy which had appeared in and disappeared from the constellation of the Corona Septentrionalis about the period of the birth of Leopold Bloom and of other stars of (presumably) similar origin which had (effectively or presumably) appeared in and disappeared from the constellation of Andromeda about the period of the birth of Stephen Dedalus, and in and from the constellation of Auriga some years after the birth and death of Rudolph Bloom, junior, and in and from other constellations some years before or after the birth or death of other persons: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow, taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular animals, persistence of infernal light, obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of human beings.

His (Bloom's) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and allowing for possible error?

That it was not a heaventree, not a heavengrot, not a heavenbeast, not a heavenman. That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an infinity, renderable equally finite by the suppositions probable apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its future spectators had entered actual present existence.

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

Indubitably in consequence of the reiterated examples of poets in the delirium of the frenzy of attachment or in the abasement of rejection invoking ardent sympathetic constellations or the frigidity of the satellite of their planet.

Did he then accept as an article of belief the theory of astrological influences upon sublunary disasters?

It seemed to him as possible of proof as of confutation and the nomenclature employed in its selenographical charts as attributable to verifiable intuition as to fallacious analogy: the lake of dreams, the sea of rains, the gulf of dews, the ocean of fecundity.

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

Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising, and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.

What visible luminous sign attracted Bloom's, who attracted Stephen's gaze?

In the second storey (rere) of his (Bloom's) house the light of a paraffin oil lamp with oblique shade projected on a screen of roller blind supplied by Frank O'Hara, window blind, curtain pole and revolving shutter manufacturer, 16 Aungier street.

How did he elucidate the mystery of an invisible person, his wife Marion (Molly) Bloom, denoted by a visible splendid sign, a lamp?

With indirect and direct verbal allusions or affirmations: with subdued affection and admiration: with description: with impediment: with suggestion.

Both then were silent?

Silent, each contemplating the other in both mirrors of the reciprocal flesh of theirhisnothis fellowfaces.

Were they indefinitely inactive?

At Stephen's suggestion, at Bloom's instigation both, first Stephen, then Bloom, in penumbra urinated, their sides contiguous, their organs of micturition reciprocally rendered invisible by manual circumposition, their gazes, first Bloom's, then Stephen's, elevated to the projected luminous and semiluminous shadow.

Similarly?

The trajectories of their, first sequent, then simultaneous, urinations were dissimilar: Bloom's longer, less irruent, in the incomplete form of the bifurcated penultimate alphabetical letter who in his ultimate year at High School (1880) had been capable of attaining the point of greatest altitude against the whole concurrent strength of the institution, 210 scholars: Stephen's higher, more sibilant, who in the ultimate hours of the previous day had augmented by diuretic consumption an insistent vesical pressure.

What different problems presented themselves to each concerning the invisible audible collateral organ of the other?

To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence, rigidity, reactivity, dimension, sanitariness, pelosity. To Stephen: the problem of the sacerdotal integrity of Jesus circumcised (1st January, holiday of obligation to hear mass and abstain from unnecessary servile work) and the problem as to whether the divine prepuce, the carnal bridal ring of the holy Roman catholic apostolic church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine excrescences as hair and toenails.

What celestial sign was by both simultaneously observed?

A star precipitated with great apparent velocity across the firmament from Vega in the Lyre above the zenith beyond the stargroup of the Tress of Berenice towards the zodiacal sign of Leo.

How did the centripetal remainer afford egress to the centrifugal departer?

By inserting the barrel of an arruginated male key in the hole of an unstable female lock, obtaining a purchase on the bow of the key and turning its wards from right to left, withdrawing a bolt from its staple, pulling inward spasmodically an obsolescent unhinged door and revealing an aperture for free egress and free ingress.

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

Standing perpendicular at the same door and on different sides of its base, the lines of their valedictory arms, meeting at any point and forming any angle less than the sum of two right angles.

What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of their (respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?

The sound of the peal of the hour of the night by the chime of the bells in the church of Saint George.

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

By Stephen:

Liliata rutilantium. Turma circumdet.

Iubilantium te virginum. Chorus excipiat.

By Bloom:

Heigho, heigho,

Heigho, heigho.

Where were the several members of the company which with Bloom that day at the bidding of that peal had travelled from Sandymount in the south to Glasnevin in the north?

Martin Cunningham (in bed), Jack Power (in bed), Simon Dedalus (in bed), Tom Kernan (in bed), Ned Lambert (in bed), Joe Hynes (in bed), John Henry Menton (in bed), Bernard Corrigan (in bed), Patsy Dignam (in bed), Paddy Dignam (in the grave).

Alone, what did Bloom hear?

The double reverberation of retreating feet on the heavenborn earth, the double vibration of a jew's harp in the resonant lane.

Alone, what did Bloom feel?

The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

Of what did bellchime and handtouch and footstep and lonechill remind him?

Of companions now in various manners in different places defunct: Percy Apjohn (killed in action, Modder River), Philip Gilligan (phthisis, Jervis Street hospital), Matthew F. Kane (accidental drowning, Dublin Bay), Philip Moisel (pyemia, Heytesbury street), Michael Hart (phthisis, Mater Misericordi&Aelig; hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy, Sandymount).

What prospect of what phenomena inclined him to remain?

The disparition of three final stars, the diffusion of day-break, the apparition of a new solar disk.

Had he ever been a spectator of those phenomena?

Once, in 1887 after a protracted performance of charades in the house of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited with patience the apparition of the diurnal phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the direction of Mizrach, the east.

He remembered the initial paraphenomena?

More active air, a matutinal distant cock, ecclesiastical clocks at various points, avine music, the isolated tread of an early wayfarer, the visible diffusion of the light of an invisible luminous body, the first golden limb of the resurgent sun perceptible low on the horizon.

Did he remain?

With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, reentering the passage, reclosing the door. With brief suspiration he reassumed the candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room, hallfloor, and reentered.

What suddenly arrested his ingress?

The right temporal lobe of the hollow sphere of his cranium came into contact with a solid timber angle where, an infinitesimal but sensible fraction of a second later, a painful sensation was located in consequence of antecedent sensations transmitted and registered.

Describe the alterations effected in the disposition of the articles of furnitures?

A sofa upholstered in prune plush had been translocated from opposite the door to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack (an alteration which he had frequently intended to execute): the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table had been placed opposite the door in the place vacated by the prune plush sofa: the walnut sideboard (a projecting angle of which had momentarily arrested his ingress) had been moved from its position beside the door to a more advantageous but more perilous position in front of the door: two chairs had been moved from right and left of the ingleside to the position originally occupied by the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table.

Describe them.

One: a squat stuffed easychair with stout arms extended and back slanted to the rere, which, repelled in recoil, had then upturned an irregular fringe of a rectangular rug and now displayed on its amply upholstered seat a centralised diffusing and diminishing discolouration. The other: a slender splayfoot chair of glossy cane curves, placed directly opposite the former, its frame from top to seat and from seat to base being varnished dark brown, its seat being a bright circle of white plaited rush.

What significances attached to these two chairs?

Significances of similitude, of posture, of symbolism, of circumstantial evidence, of testimonial supermanence.

What occupied the position originally occupied by the sideboard?

A vertical piano (Cadby) with exposed keyboard, its closed coffin supporting a pair of long yellow ladies' gloves and an emerald ashtray containing four consumed matches, a partly consumed cigarette and two discoloured ends of cigarettes, its musicrest supporting the music in the key of G natural for voice and piano of Love's Old Sweet Song (words by G. Clifton Bingham, composed by J. L. Molloy, sung by Madam Antoinette Sterling) open at the last page with the final indications ad libitum, forte, pedal, animato, sustained, pedal, ritirando, close.

With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?

With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right temple a contused tumescence: with attention, focusing his gaze on a large dull passive and slender bright active: with solicitation, bending and downturning the upturned rugfringe: with amusement, remembering Dr Malachi Mulligan's scheme of colour containing the gradation of green: with pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and perceiving through various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration.

His next proceeding?

From an open box on the majolicatopped table he extracted a black diminutive cone, one inch in height, placed it on its circular base on a small tin plate, placed his candlestick on the right corner of the mantelpiece, produced from his waistcoat a folded page of prospectus (illustrated) entitled Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same, examined it superficially, rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter reached the stage of rutilance, placed the cylinder in the basin of the candlestick disposing its unconsumed part in such a manner as to facilitate total combustion.

What followed this operation?

That truncated conical crater summit of the diminutive volcano emitted a vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense.

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

A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of 4.46 a.m. on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper.

What interchanges of looks took place between these three objects and Bloom?

In the mirror of the giltbordered pierglass the undecorated back of the dwarf tree regarded the upright back of the embalmed owl. Before the mirror the matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper with a clear melancholy wise bright motionless compassionate gaze regarded Bloom while Bloom with obscure tranquil profound motionless compassionated gaze regarded the matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle.

What composite asymmetrical image in the mirror then attracted his attention?

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

Why solitary (ipsorelative)?

Brothers and sisters had he none,

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

Why mutable (aliorelative)?

From infancy to maturity he had resembled his maternal procreatrix. From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal creator.

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

The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged and not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles on the two bookshelves opposite.

Catalogue these books.

Thorn's Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886.

Denis Florence M'Carthy's Poetical Works (copper beechleaf bookmark at p. 5).

Shakespeare's Works (dark crimson morocco, goldtooled).

The Useful Ready Reckoner (brown cloth).

The Secret History of the Court of Charles II (red cloth, tooled binding).

The Child's Guide (blue cloth).

When We Were Boys by William O'Brien M.P. (green cloth, slightly faded, envelope bookmark at p. 217).

Thoughts from Spinoza (maroon leather).

The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth).

Ellis's Three Trips to Madagascar (brown cloth, title obliterated).

The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel Street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve) 1904, due 4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing white letternumber ticket).

Voyages in China by `Viator' (recovered with brown paper, red ink title).

Philosophy of the Talmud (sewn pamphlet).

Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal an notations, minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).

Soll und Haben by Gustav Freytag (black boards, Gothic characters, cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24).

Hozier's History of the Russo-Turkish War (brown cloth, 2 volumes, with gummed label, Garrison Library, Governor's Parade, Gibraltar, on verso of cover).

Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William Allingham (second edition, green cloth, gilt trefoil design, previous owner's name on recto of flyleaf erased).

A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates, antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions small pica).

The Hidden Life of Christ (black boards).

In the Track of the Sun (yellow cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent title intestation).

Physical Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugene Sandow (red cloth).

Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry written in French by F. Ignat. Pardies and rendered into Englifh by John Harris D. D. London, printed for R. Knaplock at the Bifhop's Head MDCCXI, with dedicatory epiftle to his worthy friend Charles Cox, efquire, Member of Parliament for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf certifying that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requefting the perfon who should find it, if the book should be loft or go aftray, to reftore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Ennifcorthy, county Wicklow, the fineft place in the world.

What reflections occupied his mind during the process of reversion of the inverted volumes?

The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its place: the deficient appreciation of literature possessed by females: the incongruity of an apple incuneated in a tumbler and of an umbrella inclined in a closestool: the insecurity of hiding any secret document behind, beneath or between the pages of a book.

Which volume was the largest in bulk?

Hozier's History of the Russo - Turkish War.

What among other data did the second volume of the work In question contain?

The name of a decisive battle (forgotten), frequently remembered by a decisive officer, major Brian Cooper Tweedy (remembered).

Why, firstly and secondly, did he not consult the work in question?

Firstly, in order to exercise mnemotechnic: secondly, because after an interval of amnesia, when seated at the central table, about to consult the work in question, he remembered by mnemotechnic the name of the military engagement, Plevna.

What caused him consolation in his sitting posture?

The candour, nudity, pose, tranquillity, youth, grace, sex, counsel of a statue erect in the centre of the table, an image of Narcissus purchased by auction from P. A. Wren, 9 Bachelor's Walk.

What caused him irritation in his sitting posture?

Inhibitory pressure of collar (size 17) and waistcoat (5 buttons), two articles of clothing superfluous in the costume of mature males and inelastic to alterations of mass by expansion.

How was the irritation allayed?

He removed his collar, with contained black necktie and collapsible stud, from his neck to a position on the left of the table. He unbuttoned successively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the medial line of irregular incrispated black hair extending in triangular convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of nodes to the intersection of the sixth pectoral vertebr&Aelig;, thence produced both ways at right angles and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points, right and left, on the summits of the mammary prominences. He unbraced successively each of six minus one braced trouser buttons, arranged in pairs, of which one incomplete.

What involuntary actions followed?

He compressed between 2 fingers the flesh circumjacent to a cicatrice in the left infracostal region below the diaphragm resulting from a sting inflicted 2 weeks and 3 days previously (23 May 1904) by a bee. He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. He inserted his left hand into the left lower pocket of his waistcoat and extracted and replaced a silver coin (1 shilling), placed there (presumably) on the occasion (17 October 1903) of the interment of Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney Parade.

Compile the budget for 16 June 1904.

DEBIT

1 Pork Kidney

1 Copy FREEMAN'S JOURNAL

1 Bath And Gratification

Tramfare

1 In Memoriam Patrick Dignam

2 Banbury cakes

1 Lunch

1 Renewal fee for book

1 Packet Notepaper and Envelopes

1 Dinner and Gratification

1 Postal Order and Stamp

Tramfare

1 Pig's Foot

1 Sheep's Trotter

1 Cake Fry's Plain Chocolate

1 Square Soda Bread

1 Coffee and Bun

Loan (Stephen Dedalus) refunded

BALANCE

L. s. d.

0--0--3

0--0--1

0--1--6

0--0--1

0--5--0

0--0--1

0--0--7

0--1--0

0--0--2

0--2--0

0--2--8

0--0--1

0--0--4

0--0--3

0--0--1

0--0--4

0--0--4

1--7--0

0-17--5

2-19--3

CREDIT

Cash in hand

Commission recd. _Freeman's Journal_

Loan (Stephen Dedalus)

L. s. d.

0--4--9

1--7--6

1--7--0

2-19--3

Did the process of divestiture continue?

Sensible of a benignant persistent ache in his footsoles he extended his foot to one side and observed the creases, protuberances and salient points caused by foot pressure in the course of walking repeatedly in several different directions, then, inclined, he disnoded the laceknots, unhooked and loosened the laces, took off each of his two boots for the second time, detached the partially moistened right sock through the fore part of which the nail of his great toe had again effracted, raised his right foot and, having unhooked a purple elastic sock suspender, took off his right sock, placed his unclothed right foot on the margin of the seat of his chair, picked at and gently lacerated the protruding part of the great toenail, raised the part lacerated to his nostrils and inhaled the odour of the quick, then with satisfaction threw away the lacerated unguinal fragment.

Why with satisfaction?

Because the odour inhaled corresponded to other odours inhaled of other unguinal fragments, picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, pupil of Mrs Ellis's juvenile school, patiently each night in the act of brief genuflection and nocturnal prayer and ambitious meditation.

In what ultimate ambition had all concurrent and consecutive ambitions now coalesced?

Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English, or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation #42), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si Sana, but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the earth, with porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia creeper), halldoor, olive green, with smart carriage finish and neat doorbrasses, stucco front with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising, if possible, upon a gentle eminence with agreeable prospect from balcony with stone pillar parapet over unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures and standing in 5 or 6 acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public thoroughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 5 minutes from tram or train line (e.g., Dundrum, south, or Sutton, north, both localities equally reported by trial to resemble the terrestrial poles in being favourable climates for phthisical subjects), the premises to be held under feefarmgrant, lease 999 years, the message to consist of 1 drawingroom with baywindow (2 lancets), thermometer affixed, 1 sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, 2 servants rooms, tiled kitchen with close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted with linen wallpresses, fumed oak sectional bookcase containing the Encyclopaedia Britannica and New century Dictionary, transverse obsolete medieval and oriental weapons, dinner gong, alabaster lamp, bowl pendant, vulcanite automatic telephone receiver with adjacent directory, handtufted Axminster carpet with cream ground and trellis border, loo table with pillar and claw legs, hearth with massive firebrasses and ormolu mantel chronometer clock, guaranteed timekeeper with cathedral chime, barometer with hygrographic chart, comfortable lounge settees and corner fitments, upholstered in ruby plush with good springing and sunk centre, three banner Japanese screen and cuspidors (club style, rich wine-coloured leather, gloss renewable with a minimum of labour by use of linseed oil and vinegar) and pyramidically prismatic central chandelier lustre, bentwood perch with a fingertame parrot (expurgated language), embossed mural paper at 10/-per dozen with transverse swags of carmine floral design and top crown frieze, staircase, three continuous flights at successive right angles, of varnished cleargrained oak, treads and risers, newel, balusters and handrail, with stepped-up panel dado, dressed with camphorated wax, bathroom, hot and cold supply, reclining and shower: water closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod brace, armrests, footstool and artistic oleograph on inner face of door: ditto, plain: servant's apartments with separate sanitary and hygienic necessaries for cook, general and betweenmaid (salary, rising by biennial unearned increments of #2, with comprehensive fidelity insurance annual bonus (#1), and retiring allowance (based on the 65 system) after 30 years service), pantry, buttery, larder, refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin (still and sparkling vintages) for distinguished guests, if entertained to dinner (evening dress), carbon monoxide gas supply throughout.

What additional attractions might the grounds contain?

As addenda, a tennis and fives court, a shrubbery, a glass summerhouse with tropical palms, equipped in the best botanical manner a rockery with waterspray, a beehive arranged on humane principles, oval flowerbeds in rectangular grassplots set with eccentric ellipses of scarlet and chrome tulips, blue scillas, crocuses, polyanthus, sweet William, sweat pea, lily of the valley (bulbs obtainable from sir James W. Mackey (Limited) (wholesale and retail) seed and bulb merchant and nurseryman, agent for chemical manures, 23 Sackville street, upper), an orchard, kitchen garden and vinery, protected against illegal trespassers by glasstopped mural enclosures, a lumbershed with padlock for various inventoried implements.

As?

Eeltraps, lobsterpots, fishingrods, hatchet, steelyard, grindstone, clodcrusher, swatheturner, carriagesack, telescope ladder, 10 tooth rake, washing clogs, haytedder, tumbling rake, billhook, paintpot, brush, hoe and so on.

What improvements might be subsequently introduced?

A rabbitry and fowlrun, a dovecote, a botanical conservatory, 2 hammocks (lady's and gentleman's), a sundial shaded and sheltered by laburnum or lilac trees, an exotically harmonically accorded Japanese tinkle gatebell affixed to left lateral gatepost, a capacious waterbutt, a lawnmower with side delivery and grassbox, a lawnsprinkler with hydraulic hose.

What facilities of transit were desirable?

When citybound frequent connection by train or tram from their respective intermediate station or terminal. When countrybound velocipedes, a chainless freewheel roadster cycle with side basketcar attached, or draught conveyance, a donkey with wicker trap or smart phaeton with good working solidungular cob (roan gelding, 14h).

What might be the name of this erigible or erected residence?

Bloom Cottage. Saint Leopold's. Flowerville.

Could Bloom of 7 Eccles street foresee Bloom of Flowerville?

In loose allwool garments with Harris tweed cap, price 8/6, and useful garden boots with elastic gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned young firtrees, syringing, pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a weedladen wheelbarrow without excessive fatigue at sunset amid the scent of newmown hay, ameliorating the soil, multiplying wisdom, achieving longevity.

What syllabus of intellectual pursuits was simultaneously possible?

Snapshot photography, comparative study of religions, folklore relative to various amatory and superstitious practices, contemplation of the celestial constellations.

What lighter recreations?

Outdoor: garden and fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised causeways, ascents of moderately high hills, natation in secluded fresh water and unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle with kedge anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids (period of estivation), vespertinal perambulation or equestrian circumprocession with inspection of sterile landscape and contrastingly agreeable cottagers' fires of smoking peat turves (period of hibernation). Indoor discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl, nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.

Might he become a gentleman farmer of field produce and live stock?

Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and requisite farming implements, e.g., an end-to-end churn, a turnip pulper etc.

What would be his civic functions and social status among the county families and landed gentry?

Arranged successively in ascending powers of hierarchical order, that of gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and at the zenith of his career, resident magistrate or justice of the peace with a family crest and coat of arms and appropriate classical motto (Semper paratus), duly recorded in the court directory (Bloom, Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K. P., L. L. D. honoris cause, Bloomville, Dundrum) and mentioned in court and fashionable intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have left Kingstown for England).

What course of action did he outline for himself in such capacity?

A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes, incessantly rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to the crown. Loyal to the highest constituted power in the land, actuated by an innate love of rectitude his aims would be the strict maintenance of public order, the repression of many abuses though not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform or retrenchment being a preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in the final solution), the upholding of the letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant) against all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of bylaws and regulations, all resuscitators (by trespass and petty larceny of kindlings) of venville rights, obsolete by desuetude, all orotund instigators of international persecution, all perpetuators of international animosities, all menial molestors of domestic conviviality, all recalcitrant violators of domestic connubiality.

Prove that he had loved rectitude from his earliest youth.

To master Percy Apjohn at High School in 1880 he had divulged his disbelief in the tenets of the Irish (protestant) church (to which his father Rudolf Virag, later Rudolph Bloom, had been converted from the Israelitic faith and communion in 1865 by the Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews) subsequently abjured by him in favour of Roman catholicism at the epoch of and with a view to his matrimony in 1888. To Daniel Magrane and Francis Wade in 1882 during a juvenile friendship (terminated by the premature emigration of the former) he had advocated during nocturnal perambulations the political theory of colonial (e.g. Canadian) expansion and the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin, expounded in The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species. In 1885 he had publicly expressed his adherence to the collective and national economic programme advocated by James Fintan Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel, J. F. X. O'Brien and others, the agrarian policy of Michael Davitt, the constitutional agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell (M. P. for Cork City), the programme of peace, retrenchment and reform of William Ewart Gladstone (M. P. for Midlothian, N. B.) and, in support of his political convictions, had climbed up into a secure position amid the ramifications of a tree on Northumberland road to see the entrance (2 February 1888) into the capital of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000, divided into 120 trade corporations, bearing 2,000 torches in escort of the marquess of Ripon and John Morley.

How much and how did he propose to pay for this country residence?

As per prospectus of the Industrious Foreign Acclimatised Nationalised Friendly Stateaided Building Society (incorporated 1874), a maximum of #60 per annum, being 116th of an assured income, derived from giltedged securities, representing at 5% simple interest on capital of #1,200 (estimate of price at 20 years purchase) of which 1/3rd to be paid on acquisition and the balance in the form of annual rent, viz. #800 plus 2 1/2% interest on the same, repayable quarterly in equal annual instalments until extinction by amortisation of loan advanced for purchase within a period of 20 years, amounting to an annual rental of #64, headrent included, the titledeeds to remain in possession of the lender or lenders with a saving clause envisaging forced sale, foreclosure and mutual compensation in the event of protracted failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the messuage to become the absolute property of the tenant occupier upon expiry of the period of years stipulated.

What rapid but insecure means to opulence might facilitate immediate purchase?

A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system the result of a national equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of 1 or more miles and furlongs won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at 3 hr. 8 m. p.m. at Ascot (Greenwich time) the message being received and available for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59 p.m. (Dunsink time). The unexpected discovery of an object of great monetary value: precious stone, valuable adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7-shilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper perforate, Great Britain, 1866: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxembourg, 1878): antique dynastical ring, unique relic in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl). A Spanish prisoner's donation of a distant treasure of valuables or specie or bullion lodged with a solvent banking corporation 100 years previously at 5% compound interest of the collective worth of #5,000,000 stg (five million pounds sterling). A contract with an inconsiderate contractee for the delivery of 32 consignments of some given commodity in consideration of cash payment on delivery at the initial rate of 1/4d. to be increased constantly in the geometrical progression of 2 (1/4d., 1/2d., 1d., 2d., 4d., 8d., 1s. 4d., 2s. 8d. to 32 terms). A prepared scheme based on a study of the laws of probability to break the bank at Monte Carlo. A solution of the secular problem of the quadrature of the circle, government premium #1,000,000 sterling.

Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?

The reclamation of dunams of waste arenary soil, proposed in the prospectus of Agendath Netaim, Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W.15 by the cultivation of orange plantations and melonfields and reafforestation. The utilisation of waste paper, fells of sewer rodents, human excrement possessing chemical properties, in view of the vast production of the first, vast number of the second and immense quantity of the third, every normal human being of average vitality and appetite producing annually, cancelling byproducts of water, a sum total of 80 lbs. (mixed animal and vegetable diet), to be multiplied by 4,386,035 the total population of Ireland according to the census returns of 1901.

Were there schemes of wider scope?

A scheme to be formulated and submitted for approval to the harbour commissioners for the exploitation of white coal (hydraulic power), obtained by hydroelectric plant at peak of tide at Dublin bar or at head of water at Poulaphouca or Powerscourt or catchment basins of main streams for the economic production of 500,000 W. H. P. of electricity. A scheme to enclose the peninsular delta of the North Bull at Dollymount and erect on the space of the foreland, used for golf links and rifle ranges, an asphalted esplanade with casinos, booths, shooting galleries, hotels, boardinghouses, readingrooms, establishments for mixed bathing. A scheme for the use of dogvans and goatvans for the delivery of early morning milk. A scheme for the development of Irish tourist traffic in and around Dublin by means of petrolpropelled riverboats, plying in the fluvial fairway between island bridge and Ringsend, charabancs, narrow gauge local railways, and pleasure steamers for coastwise navigation (10/- per person per day, guide (trilingual) included). A scheme for the repristination of passenger and goods traffics over Irish waterways, when freed from weedbeds. A scheme to connect by tramline the Cattle Market (North Circular road and Prussia street) with the quays (Sheriff street, lower, and East Wall), parallel with the Link line railway laid (in conjunction with the Great Southern and Western railway line) between the cattle park, Liffey junction, and terminus of Midland Great Western railway 43 to 45 North Wall, in proximity to the terminal stations or Dublin branches of Great Central Railway, Midland Railway of England, City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, Lancashire Yorkshire Railway Company, Dublin and Glasgow Steam Packet Company, Glasgow Dublin and Londonderry Steam Packet Company (Laird line), British and Irish Steam Packet Company, Dublin and Morecambe Steamers, London and North Western Railway Company, Dublin Port and Docks Board Landing Sheds and transit sheds of Palgrave, Murphy and Company, steamship owners, agents for steamers from Mediterranean, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and Holland and for animal transport and of additional mileage operated by the Dublin United Tramways Company, limited, to be covered by graziers' fees.

Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis?

Given a guarantee equal to the sum sought, the support, by deed of gift and transfer vouchers during donor's lifetime or by bequest after donor's painless extinction, of eminent financiery (Blum Pasha, Rothschild, Guggenheim, Hirsch, Montefiore, Morgan, Rockefeller) possessing fortunes in 6 figures, amassed during a successful life, and joining capital with opportunity the thing required was done.

What eventually would render him independent of such wealth?

The independent discovery of a goldseam of inexhaustible ore.

For what reason did he meditate on schemes so difficult of realisation?

It was one or his axioms that similar meditations or the automatic relation to himself of a narrative concerning himself or tranquil recollection of the past when practised habitually before retiring for the night alleviated fatigue and produced as a result sound repose and renovated vitality.

His justifications?

As a physicist he had learned that of the 70 years of complete human life at least 2/7ths, viz., 20 years passed in sleep. As a philosopher he knew that at the termination of any allotted life only an infinitesimal part of any person's desires has been realised. As a physiologist he believed in the artificial placation of malignant agencies chiefly operative during somnolence.

What did he fear?

The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an aberration of the light of reason, the incommensurable categorical intelligence situated in the cerebral convolutions.

What were habitually his final meditations?

Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause passers to stop in wonder, a poster novelty, with all extraneous accretions excluded, reduced to its simplest and most efficient terms not exceeding the span of casual vision and congruous with the velocity of modern life.

What did the first drawer unlocked contain?

A Vere Foster's handwriting copybook, property of Milly (Millicent) Bloom, certain pages of which bore diagram drawings marked Papli, which showed a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile, the trunk full front with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot: 2 fading photographs of queen Alexandra of England and of Maud Branscombe, actress and professional beauty: a Yuletide card, bearing on it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend Mizpah, the date Xmas 1892, the name of the senders, from Mr and Mrs M. Comerford, the versicle: May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome glee: a butt of red partly liquefied sealing wax, obtained from the stores department of Messrs Hely's, Ltd., 89, 90 and 91 Dame street: a box containing the remainder of a gross of gilt `J' pennibs, obtained from same department of same firm: an old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule bill of 1886 (never passed into law): a bazaar ticket No 2004, of S. Kevin's Charity Fair, price 6d. 100 prizes: an infantile epistle, dated, small em monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph signature with flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a cameo brooch, property of Ellen Bloom (born Higgins), deceased: 3 typewritten letters, addressee, Henry Flower, c/o P. O. Westland Row, addresser, Martha Clifford, c/o P. O. Dolphin's Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reserved alphabetic boustrophedontic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS./WI.UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM: a press cutting from an English weekly periodical Modern Society, subject corporal chastisement in girls' schools: a pink ribbon which had festooned an Easter egg in the year 1899: two partly uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve pockets, purchased by post from Box 32, P. O., Charing Cross, London, W.C.: 1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and faintruled notepaper, watermarked, now reduced by 3: some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins: 2 coupons of the Royal and Privileged Hungarian Lottery: a lowpower magnifying glass: 2 erotic photocards showing: a) buccal coition between nude senorita (rere presentation, superior position) and nude torero (fore presentation, inferior position): b) anal violation by male religious (fully clothed, eyes abject) of female religious (partly clothed, eyes direct), purchased by post from Box 32, P. O., Charing Cross, London, W.C.: a press cutting of recipe for renovation of old tan boots: a 1d. adhesive stamp, lavender, of the reign of Queen Victoria: a chart of measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled before, during and after 2 months of consecutive use of Sandow-Whiteley's pulley exerciser (men's 15/-, athlete's 20/-) viz., chest 28 in. and 29 1/2 in., biceps 9 in. and 10 in., forearm 8 1/2 and 9 in., thigh 10 in. and 12 in., calf 11 in. and 12 in.: 1 prospectus of the Wonderworker, the world's greatest remedy for rectal complaints direct from Wonderworker, Coventry House, South Place, London E. C., addressed to Mrs L. Bloom with brief accompanying note commencing: Dear Madam.

Quote the textual terms in which the prospectus claimed advantages for this thaumaturgic remedy.

It heals and soothes while you sleep, in case of trouble in breaking wind, assists nature in the most formidable way, insuring instant relief in discharge of gases, keeping parts clean and free natural action, an initial outlay of 7/6 making anew man of you and life worth living. Ladies find Wonderworker especially useful, a pleasant surprise when they note delightful result like a cool drink of fresh spring water on a sultry summer's day. Recommend it to your lady and gentlemen friends, lasts a lifetime. Insert long round end. Wonderworker.

Were there testimonials?

Numerous. From clergyman, British naval officer, wellknown author, city man, hospital nurse, lady, mother of five, absentminded beggar.

How did absentminded beggar's concluding testimonial conclude?

What a pity the government did not supply our men with wonderworkers during the South African campaign! What a relief it would have been!

What object did Bloom add to this collection of objects?

A 4th typewritten letter received by Henry Flower (let H. F. be L. B.) from Martha Clifford (find M. C.).

What pleasant reflection accompanied this action?

The reflection that, apart from the letter in question, his magnetic face, form and address had been favourably received during the course of the preceding day by a wife (Mrs Josephine Breen, born Josie Powell); a nurse, Miss Calian (Christian name unknown), a maid, Gertrude (Gerty, family name unknown).

What possibility suggested itself?

The possibility of exercising virile power of fascination in the most immediate future after an expensive repast in a private apartment in the company of an elegant courtesan, of corporal beauty, moderately mercenary, variously instructed, a lady by origin.

What did the and drawer contain?

Documents: the birth certificate of Leopold Paula Bloom: an endowment assurance policy of #500 in the Scottish Widows' Assurance Society intestated Millicent (Milly) Bloom, coming into force at 25 years as with profit policy of #430, #462--10--0 and #500 at 60 years or death, 65 years or death and death, respectively, or with profit policy (paidup) of #299--10--0 together with cash payment of #133--10--0, at option: a bank passbook issued by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch showing statement of a/c for half year ending 31 December 1903, balance in depositor's favour: #18--14--6 (eighteen pounds, fourteen shillings and six pence, sterling), net personalty: certificate of possession of #900 Canadian 4% (inscribed) government stock (free of stamp duty): dockets of the Catholic Cemeteries' (Glasnevin) Committee, relative to a graveplot purchased: a local press cutting concerning change of name by deedpoll.

Quote the textual terms of this notice.

I, Rudolph Virag, now resident at no 52 Clanbrassil street, Dublin, formerly of Szombathely in the kingdom of Hungary, hereby give notice that I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times to be known by the name of Rudolph Bloom.

What other objects relative to Rudolph Bloom (born Virag) were in the 2nd drawer?

An indistinct daguerreotype of Rudolph Virag and his father Leopold Virag executed in the year 1852 in the portrait atelier of their (respectively) 1st and 2nd cousin, Stefan Virag of Szesfehervar, Hungary. An ancient hagadah book in which a pair of hornrimmed convex spectacles inserted marked the passage of thanksgiving in the ritual prayers for Pessach (Passover): a photocard of the Queen's Hotel, Ennis, proprietor, Rudolph Bloom: an envelope addressed To my Dear Son Leopold.

What fractions of phrases did the lecture of those five whole words evoke?

Tomorrow will be a week that I received... it is no use Leopold to be... with your dear mother... that is not more to stand... to her... all for me is out... be kind to Athos, Leopold... my dear son... always... of me... das Herr... Gott... dein...

What reminiscences of a human subject suffering from progressive melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom?

An old man widower, unkempt hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing: an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a septuagenarian suicide by poison.

Why did Bloom experience a sentiment of remorse?

Because in immature impatience he had treated with disrespect certain beliefs and practices.

As?

The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal, the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaron: the sanctity of the sabbath.

How did these beliefs and practices now appear to him?

Not more rational than they had then appeared, not less rational than other beliefs and practices now appeared.

What first reminiscence had he of Rudolph Bloom (deceased)?

Rudolph Bloom (deceased) narrated to his son Leopold Bloom (aged 6) a retrospective arrangement of migrations and settlements in and between Dublin, London, Florence, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Szombathely, with statements of satisfaction (his grandfather having seen Maria Theresa, empress of Austria, queen of Hungary), with commercial advice (having taken care of pence, the pounds having taken care of themselves). Leopold Bloom (aged 6) had accompanied these narrations by constant consultation of a geographical map of Europe (political) and by suggestions for the establishment of affiliated business premises in the various centres mentioned.

Had time equally but differently obliterated the memory of these migrations in narrator and listener?

In narrator by the access of years and in consequence of the use of narcotic toxin: in listener by the access of years and in consequence of the action of distraction upon vicarious experiences.

What idiosyncrasies of the narrator were concomitant product$ of amnesia?

Occasionally he ate without having previously removed his hat. Occasionally he drank voraciously the juice of gooseberry fool from an inclined plate. Occasionally he removed from his lips the traces of food by means of a lacerated envelope or other accessible fragment of paper.

What two phenomena of senescence were more frequent?

The myopic digital calculation of coins, eructation consequent upon repletion.

What object offered partial consolation for these reminiscences?

The endowment policy, the bank passbook, the certificate of the possession of scrip.

Reduce Bloom by cross multiplication of reverses of fortune, from which these supports protected him, and by elimination of all positive values to a negligible negative irrational unreal quantity.

Successively, in descending helotic order: Poverty: that of the outdoor hawker of imitation jewellery, the dun for the recovery of bad and doubtful debts, the poor rate and deputy cess collector. Mendicancy: that of the fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1s. 4d. in the #, sandwichman, distributor of throwaways, nocturnal vagrant, insinuating sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling, superannuated bailiff's man, marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric public laughingstock seated on bench of public park under discarded perforated umbrella. Destitution: the inmate of Old Man's House (Royal Hospital), Kilmainham, the inmate of Simpson's Hospital for reduced but respectable men permanently disabled by gout or want of sight. Nadir of misery: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.

With which attendant indignities?

The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the contempt of muscular males, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the simulated ignorance of casual acquaintances, the latration of illegitimate unlicensed vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable missiles, worth little or nothing or less than nothing.

By what could such a situation be precluded?

By decease (change of state), by departure (change of place).

Which preferably?

The latter, by the line of least resistance.

What considerations rendered it not entirely undesirable?

Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects. The habit of independent purchase increasingly cultivated. The necessity to counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest.

What considerations rendered it not irrational?

The parties concerned, uniting, had increased and multiplied, which being done, offspring produced and educed to maturity, the parties, if now disunited were obliged to reunite for increase and multiplication, which was absurd, to form by reunion the original couple of uniting parties, which was impossible.

What considerations rendered it desirable?

The attractive character of certain localities in Ireland and abroad, as represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and hachures.

In Ireland?

The cliffs of Moher, the windy wilds of Connemara, lough Neagh with submerged petrified city, the Giant's Causeway, Fort Camden and Fort Carlisle, the Golden Vale of Tipperary, the islands of Aran, the pastures of royal Meath, Brigid's elm in Kildare, the Queen's Island shipyard in Belfast, the Salmon Leap, the lakes of Killarney.

Abroad?

Ceylon (with spicegardens supplying tea to Thomas Kernan, agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 2 Mincing lane, London, E. C., 5 Dame street, Dublin), Jerusalem, the holy city (with mosque of Omar and gate of Damascus, goal of aspiration), the straits of Gibraltar (the unique birthplace of Marion Tweedy), the Parthenon (containing statues, nude Grecian divinities), the Wall street money market (which controlled international finance), the Plaza de Toros at La Linea, Spain (where O'Hara of the camerons had slain the bull), Niagara (over which no human being had passed with impunity), the land of the Eskimos (eaters of soap), the forbidden country of Thibet (from which no traveller returns), the bay of Naples (to see which was to die), the Dead Sea.

Under what guidance, following what signs?

At sea, septentrional, by night the polestar, located at the point of intersection of the right line from beta to alpha in Ursa Major produced and divided externally at omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle formed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha delta of Ursa Major. On land, meridional, a bispherical moon, revealed in imperfect varying phases of lunation through the posterior interstice of the imperfectly occluded skirt of a carnose negligent perambulating female, a pillar of the cloud by day.

What public advertisement would divulge the occultation of the departed?

#5 reward lost, stolen or strayed from his residence 7 Eccles street, missing gent about 40, answering to the name of Bloom, Leopold (Poldy), height 5 ft 9 1/2 inches, full build, olive complexion, may have since grown a beard, when last seen was wearing a black suit. Above sum will be paid for information leading to his discovery.

What universal binomial denominations would be his as entity and nonentity?

Assumed by any or known to none. Everyman or Noman.

What tributes his?

Honour and gifts of strangers, the friends of Everyman. A nymph immortal, beauty, the bride of Noman.

Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear?

Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space, passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events. Somewhere imperceptibly he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons of recall. Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of Rothschild or of the silver King.

What would render such return irrational?

An unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through reversible space and an exodus and return in space through irreversible time.

What play of forces, inducing inertia, rendered departure undesirable?

The lateness of the hour, rendering procrastinatory: the obscurity of the night, rendering invisible: the uncertainty of thoroughfares, rendering perilous: the necessity for repose, obviating movement: the proximity of an occupied bed, obviating research: the anticipation of warmth (human) tempered with coolness (linen), obviating desire and rendering desirable: the statue of Narcissus, sound without echo, desired desire.

What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccupied bed?

The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human (mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of matutinal contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section).

What past consecutive causes, before rising preapprehended, of accumulated fatigue did Bloom, before rising, silently recapitulate?

The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion and premeditative defecation (holy of holies): the bath (rite of John): the funeral (rite of Samuel): the advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and Thummin): the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchizedek): the visit to museum and national library (holy place): the bookhunt along Bedford row, Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay (Simchath Torah): the music in the Ormond Hotel (Shira Shirim): the altercation with a truculent troglodyte in Bernard Kiernan's premises (holocaust): a blank period of time including a cardrive, a visit to a house of mourning, a leavetaking (wilderness): the eroticism produced by feminine exhibitionism (rite of Onan): the prolonged delivery of Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering): the visit to the disorderly house of Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street, lower, and subsequent brawl and chance medley in Beaver street (Armageddon): nocturnal perambulation to and from the cabman's shelter, Butt Bridge (atonement).

What selfimposed enigma did Bloom about to rise in order to go so as to conclude lest he should not conclude involuntarily apprehend?

The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by the insentient material of a strainveined timber table.

What selfinvolved enigma did Bloom risen, going, gathering multicoloured multiform multitudinous garments, voluntarily apprehending, not comprehend?

Who was M'Intosh?

What selfevident enigma pondered with desultory constancy during 30 years did Bloom now, having effected natural obscurity by the extinction of artificial light, silently suddenly comprehend?

Where was Moses when the candle went out?

What imperfections in a perfect day did Bloom, walking, silently, successively, enumerate?

A provisional failure to obtain renewal of an advertisement, to obtain a certain quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan (agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 5 Dame street, Dublin, and 2 Mincing lane, London, E. C.), to certify the presence or absence of posterior rectal orifice in the case of Hellenic female divinities, to obtain admission (gratuitous or paid) to the performance of Leah by Mrs Bandman Palmer at the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49, South King street.

What impression of an absent face did Bloom, arrested, silently recall?

The face of her father, the late Major Brian Cooper Tweedy, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, of Gibraltar and Rehoboth, Dolphin's Barn.

What recurrent impressions of the same were possible by the hypothesis?

Retreating, at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, Amiens street, with constant uniform acceleration, along parallel lines meeting at infinity, if produced: along parallel lines, reproduced from infinity, with constant uniform retardation, at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, Amiens street, returning.

What miscellaneous effects of female personal wearing apparel were perceived by him?

A pair of new inodorous halfsilk black ladies' hose, a pair of new violet garters, a pair of outsize ladies' drawers of India mull, cut on generous lines, redolent of opoponax, jessamine and Muratti's Turkish cigarettes and containing a long bright steel safety pin, folded curvilinear, a camisole of baptiste with thin lace border, an accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette, all these objects being disposed irregularly on the top of a rectangular trunk, quadruple battened, having capped corners, with multicoloured labels, initialled on its fore side in white lettering B. C. T. (Brian Cooper Tweedy).

What impersonal objects were perceived?

A commode, one leg fractured, totally covered by square cretonne cutting, apple design, on which rested a lady's black straw hat. Orangekeyed ware, bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware and ironmongery manufacturer, 21, 22, 23 Moore street, disposed irregularly on the washstand and floor, and consisting of basin, soapdish and brushtray (on the washstand, together), pitcher and night article (on the floor, separate).

Bloom's acts?

He deposited the articles of clothing on a chair, removed his remaining articles of clothing, took from beneath the bolster at the head of the bed a folded long white nightshirt, inserted his head and arms into the proper apertures of the nightshirt, removed a pillow from the head to the foot of the bed, prepared the bedlinen accordingly and entered the bed.

How?

With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode (his own or not his own): with solicitude, the snakespiral springs of the mattress being old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous under stress and strain: prudently, as entering a lair or ambush of lust or adder: lightly, the less to disturb: reverently, the bed of conception and of birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of marriage, of sleep and of death.

What did his limbs, when gradually extended, encounter?

New clean bedlinen, additional odours, the presence of a human form, female, hers, the imprint of a human form, male, not his, some crumbs, some flakes of potted meat, recooked, which he removed.

If he had smiled why would he have smiled?

To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone, whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating In and repeated to infinity.

What preceding series?

Assuming Mulvey to be the first term of his series, Penrose, Bartell d'Arcy, professor Goodwin, Julius Mastiansky, John Henry Menton, Father Bernard Corrigan, a farmer at the Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show, Maggot O'Reilly, Matthew Dillon, Valentine Blake Dillon (Lord Mayor of Dublin), Christopher Callinan, Lenehan, an Italian organgrinder, an unknown gentleman in the Gaiety Theatre, Benjamin Dollard, Simon Dedalus, Andrew (Pisser) Burke, Joseph Cuffe, Wisdom Hely, Alderman John Hooper, Dr Francis Brady, Father Sebastian of Mount Argus, a bootblack at the General Post Office, Hugh E. (Blazes) Boylan and so each and so on to nolast term.

What were his reflections concerning the last member of this series and late occupant of the bed?

Reflections on his vigour (a bounder), corporal proportion (a billsticker), commercial ability (a bester), impressionability (a boaster).

Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigour, corporal proportion and commercial ability?

Because he had observed with augmenting frequency in the preceding members of the same series the same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted first with alarm, then with understanding, then with desire, finally with fatigue, with alternating symptoms of epicene comprehension and apprehension.

With what antagonistic sentiments were his subsequent reflections affected?

Envy, jealousy, abnegation, equanimity.

Envy?

Of a bodily and mental male organism specially adapted for the superincumbent posture of energetic human copulation and energetic piston and cylinder movement necessary for the complete satisfaction of a constant but not acute concupiscence resident in a bodily and mental female organism, passive but not obtuse.

Jealousy?

Because a nature full and volatile in its free state, was alternately the agent and reagent of attraction. Because action between agents and reagents at all instants varied, with inverse proportion of increase and decrease, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance. Because the controlled contemplation of the fluctuation of attraction produced, if desired, a fluctuation of pleasure.

Abnegation?

In virtue of a) acquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the establishment of George Mesias, merchant tailor and outfitter, 5 Eden Quay, b) hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and reappropriated in person, c) comparative youth subject to impulses of ambition and magnanimity, colleagual altruism and amorous egoism, d) extraracial attraction, intraracial inhibition, supraracial prerogative, e) an imminent provincial musical tour, common current expenses, net proceeds divided.

Equanimity?

As natural as any and every natural act of a nature expressed or understood executed in natured nature by natural creatures in accordance with his, her and their natured natures, of dissimilar similarity. As not as calamitous as a cataclysmic annihilation of the planet in consequence of collision with a dark sun. As less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money, betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice, desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the king's enemies, impersonation, criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and premeditated murder. As not more abnormal than all other altered processes of adaptation to altered conditions of existence, resulting in a reciprocal equilibrium between the bodily organism and its attendant circumstances, foods, beverages, acquired habits, indulged inclinations, significant disease. As more than inevitable, irreparable.

Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimity?

From outrage (matrimony) to outrage (adultery) there arose nought but outrage (copulation) yet the matrimonial violator of the matrimonially violated had not been outraged by the adulterous violator of the adulterously violated.

What retribution, if any?

Assassination, never, as two wrongs did not make one right. Duel by combat, no. Divorce, not now. Exposure by mechanical artifice (automatic bed) or individual testimony (concealed ocular witness), not yet. Suit for damages by legal influence or simulation of assault with evidence of injuries sustained (selfinflicted), not impossibly. If any, positively, connivance, introduction of emulation (material, a prosperous rival agency of publicity: moral, a successful rival agent of intimacy), depreciation, alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the one separated from the other, protecting separator from both.

By what reflections did he, a conscious reactor against the void incertitude, justify to himself his sentiments?

The preordained frangibility of the hymen, the presupposed intangibility of the thing in itself: the incongruity and disproportion between the selfprolonging tension of the thing proposed to be done and the self abbreviating relaxation of the thing done: the fallaciously inferred debility of the female, the muscularity of the male: the variations of ethical codes: the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving no alteration of sense of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopic transitive verb with direct feminine object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopic past participle with complementary masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of seminators by generation: the continual production of semen by distillation: the futility of triumph or protest or vindication: the inanity of extolled virtue: the lethargy of nescient matter: the apathy of the stars.

In what final satisfaction did these antagonistic sentiments and reflections, reduced to their simplest forms, converge?

Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored (the land of the midnight sun, the islands of the blessed, the isles of Greece, the land of promise) of adipose posterior female hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarieties of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality.

The visible signs of antesatisfaction?

An approximate erection: a solicitous adversion: a gradual elevation: a tentative revelation; a silent contemplation.

Then?

He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.

The visible signs of postsatisfaction?

A silent contemplation: a tentative velation: a gradual abasement: a solicitous aversion: a proximate erection.

What followed this silent action?

Somnolent invocation, less somnolent recognition, incipient excitation, catechetical interrogation.

With what modifications did the narrator reply to this interrogation?

Negative: he omitted to mention the clandestine correspondence between Martha Clifford and Henry Flower, the public altercation at, in and in the vicinity of the licensed premises of Bernard Kiernan and Co, Limited, 8, 9 and 10 Little Britain street, the erotic provocation and response thereto caused by the exhibitionism of Gertrude (Gerty), surname unknown. Positive: he included mention of a performance by Mrs Bandman Palmer of Leah at the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street, an invitation to supper at Wynn's (Murphy's) Hotel, 35, 36, and 37 Lower Abbey street, a volume of peccaminous pornographical tendency entitled Sweets of Sin, anonymous, author a gentleman of fashion, a temporary concussion caused by a falsely calculated movement in the course of postcenal gymnastic display, the victim (since completely recovered) being Stephen Dedalus, professor and author, eldest surviving son of Simon Dedalus, of no fixed occupation, an aeronautical feat executed by him (narrator) in the presence of a witness, the professor and author aforesaid, with promptitude of decision and gymnastic flexibility.

Was the narration otherwise unaltered by modifications?

Absolutely.

Which event or person emerged as the salient point of his narration?

Stephen Dedalus, professor and author.

What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the course of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?

By the listener a limitation of fertility inasmuch as marriage had been celebrated 1 calendar month after the 18th anniversary of her birth (8 September 1870), viz. 8 October, and consummated on the same date with female issue born 15 June 1889, having been anticipatorily consummated on the 10 September of the same year and complete carnal intercourse, with ejaculation of semen within the natural female organ, having last taken place 5 weeks previous, viz. 27 November 1893, to the birth on 29 December 1893 of second (and only male) issue, deceased 9 January 1894, aged 11 days, there remained a period of 10 years, 5 months and 18 days during which carnal intercourse had been incomplete, without ejaculation of semen within the natural female organ. By the narrator a limitation of activity, mental and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental intercourse between himself and the listener had not taken place since the consummation of puberty, indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, of the female issue of narrator and listener, 15 September 1903, there remained a period of 9 months and 1 day during which in consequence of a preestablished natural comprehension in incomprehension between the consummated females (listener and issue), complete corporal liberty of action had been circumscribed.

How?

By various reiterated feminine interrogation concerning the masculine destination whither, the place where, the time at which, the duration for which, the object with which in the case of temporary absences, projected or effected.

What moved visibly above the listener's and the narrator's invisible thoughts?

The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.

In what directions did listener and narrator lie?

Listener, S. E. by E.; Narrator, N. W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of latitude, N. and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45? to the terrestrial equator.

In what state of rest or motion?

At rest relatively to themselves and to each other. In motion being each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space.

In what posture?

Listener: reclined semilaterally, left, left hand under head, right leg extended in a straight line and resting on left leg, flexed, in the attitude of Gea-Tellus, fulfilled, recumbent, big with seed. Narrator: reclined laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the indexfinger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in the attitude depicted on a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the childman weary, the manchild in the womb.

Womb? Weary?

He rests. He has travelled.

With?

Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.

When?

Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

Where?

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[1]圣乔治教堂前有一圆形广场，南北向的但普尔街与布卢姆家所在地埃克尔斯街（见第四章注[l]）在这里与东西向的上、下多尔塞特街形成十字路口。哈德威克街位于下多尔塞特街以南，与之平行，东口直通坦普尔街。

[2]避日性指那种为了避免水分蒸发， 而在强烈的阳光照耀下卷起边儿来的树叶。因灯光的光波与太阳的光波相似，这种厌光性树叶在灯光照射下也卷边，从而不易脱落。下文中所说的不加盖的垃圾箱是布卢姆的设想（参看第十五章[274]及有关正文），在一九0四年，都柏林街头还没有公共垃圾箱。

[3]按犹太教教规，星期五傍晚至星期六傍晚为安息日。

[4]德鲁依特，见第一章注[47]。下文中的帕特里克，见第五章注[50]。科麦克，参看第八章注[196]。

[5]此语套用《列王纪上》第18章第44节“我看见一小朵云，还没有人的巴掌那么大”之句。头一天早晨斯蒂芬和布卢姆分别瞥见了那片云彩。 参看第一章注[41]及有关正文：“一片云彩开始徐徐地把太阳整个儿遮住。”第四章注[33]及有关正文：“一片云彩开始徐徐把太阳整个遮蔽起来。”

[6]欧文・戈德堡，见第八章注[111]。

[7]马修・狄龙，参看第六章注[134]。马修的呢称为马特。

[8]据海德一九八九年版（第545页倒12行），朱利叶斯后有“朱达”一名。莎士比亚书屋一九二二年版和奥德赛一九三三年版均没有。马斯添斯基，见第四章注[27]及有关正文。

[9]行动（action）系根据奥德赛一九三三年版（第665页倒6行）和兰登一九九0年版（第668页第4行）所译。莎士比亚一九二二年版（第621页第8行）无此词，海德一九八九年版（第546页第1行）作“act”。

[10]这两句话模仿哈姆莱特王子的独白首句的语气，参看《哈姆莱特》第3幕第1场。

[11]指庆祝耶稣复活四十天后升上天堂的耶稣升天节。复活节在每年三月二十二日至四月二十五日之间，过升天节的日子也相应地有所不同。

[12]金号码是标示相当于默冬章何年的数字，因便于计算复活节，遂由中世纪教会历所采用。曾用金字标记之，故名。默冬章是希腊历中采用的十九年置七闺的方法，于公元前四三二年由希腊天文学家默冬提出。

[13]闰余为阳历一年间超过阴历的日数，通常为十一日，故每隔四年必设闰月或闰日加以调整。

[14]太阳活动周期为几种重要太阳活动量重复发生的时间间隔。太阳活动表现在黑子、光斑、谱斑、耀斑等变化现象。有时剧烈，有时衰弱，平均以十一点零四年为周期。

[15]主日字母为教会历上表示一月第一个星期用的A、B、C、D、E、F、G七个字母，如某年一月一日是星期日，该年的主日字母即为A，一月二日为星期日，该年主日字母即为B；余类推。

[16]十五年历为古罗马的财政年度。由九月一日起算。八世纪晚期查理曼采用后，这一历法传入法国。十六世纪以后不再采用，但在某些历书中仍然出现。

[17]儒略周期是现在主要由天文学家使用的一种记日系统，自公元前四七一三年一月一日起连续计日。

[18]这是古代罗马体系基础上的命数法系统里使用的符号，代表一九0四。

[19]迈克尔修士在病房里扒拉炉火的情节，见《艺术家年轻时的写照》第1章第2节。

[20]西蒙・迪达勒斯在他们一家人刚搬进去的房屋的客厅里生火的情节，见《艺术家年轻时的写照》第2章第2节。

[21]莫坎家的两位小姐曾出现在《都柏林人・死者》中。

[22]《都柏林人・阿拉比》中谈到坐落在北里奇蒙街的这座房子，《艺术家年轻时的写照》第3章中写到圣方济各・沙勿略节的早晨和厨房的火炉。

[23]巴特神父跪在方砖上生炉子的情节，见《艺术家年轻时的写照》第5章第1节。

[24]卡布拉，见第十五章注[976]。

[25]莱尔棉线，指法国莱尔生产的结实的棉线。

[26]墨卡托投影法是佛兰德的地图学家杰拉杜斯・墨卡托（1512-1594）所发明的地图投影法。从地心向环绕地球并与赤道相切的一个圆筒上投影，距赤道越远，纬线间的距离就越大。

[27]巽他海沟位于苏门答腊岛附近的海面底下，其实际深度为3，158x。至一九六九年为止，己查明的世界上最深的海底洼地为太平洋的马里亚纳海沟（6，033x）。

[28]阿什汤太门的墙壁上的洞，参看第五章注[42]及有关正文。

[29]明奇，大西洋的海峡，水深湍急，西侧为外赫布里底群岛，东侧为苏格兰本岛。

[30]“馊了的花露水”，参看第四章注[49]及有关正文。

[31]本书中屡次谈及月亮的盈亏对人的影响，参看本章注[184]。

[32]这是坐落在大不列颠街（现已易名为巴涅尔街）的约翰・巴灵顿父子公司所制造的肥皂。

[33]能媒，音译为以太。这是十九世纪物理学理论中被认为在电磁波的传播过程中起媒介作用的物质。爱因斯但在一九0五年正式提出狭义相对论后，以太假说便被舍弃。

[34]“搪须杯”，参看第四章注[45]。搪须杯不是扣放着的，弦外之音是布卢姆的妻子摩莉曾用此杯招待博伊兰喝过饮料。

[35]“德比制造的有着王冠图案的垫盘”，参看第四章注[46]。

[36]“李树商标肉罐头”，见第五章注[18]。

[37]泽西是英国海峡群岛最大的岛屿，位于最南端。第十章中曾描述博伊兰买水果并把一只瓶子和一个小罐子也装进柳条筐，叫店里派入送贷上门的情节（见该章注［63］及有关正文），现在才知道原来是送给摩莉的。

[38]威廉・吉尔比公司位于都柏林上萨克维尔（现名奥康内尔）街，酿造并出售酒。

[39]安妮・林奇公司坐落在都柏林南乔治街。

[40]弗莱明大妈，参看第六章注[3]。

[41]“果酱罐”后面，海德一九八九年版（第552页第18行）有“空的”一词，莎士比亚屋一九二二年版和奥德赛一九三三年版均没有。

[42]檐板是安装在西欧碗柜抽屉下面的装饰性护板。

[43]第十二章中，利内翰曾谈到博伊兰“为他自己和一位女友下了两镑赌注”，即指买这两张赛马券，女友即摩莉。参看该章注[364]及有关正文。

[44]在基尔南酒店里议论赛马的情节，参看第十二章注[363]及有关正文。在戴维・伯恩酒店里议论赛马事，参看第八章注[225]、[226]及有关正文。

[45]英俚语“传单”与“丢掉”拼法相同（throwaway），而那匹获胜的马也刚好名叫“丢掉”。参看第八章开头部分和第五章注[96]及有关正文。

[46]参看本章注[45]及第五章末尾。“胜负的秘密”，指印有赛马消息的报纸。

[47]“外邦人的光”一语出自《使徒行传》第13章第47节，这里指布卢姆。“外邦人”（genti1e）指犹太人眼中的异教徒（尤其是基督教徒）。

[48]《三叶苜蓿》是爱尔兰国家印刷出版公司在都柏林所发行的一种带插图的周刊。

[49]以下四行分别都是把LeopoldB1oom这个姓名拆散后组成的，其中只有最后一行译得出来，其他三行纯属文字游戏。

[50]动态诗人指歌颂自己所渴求的情欲的诗人。在《艺术家年轻时的写照》第5章（见黄雨石中译本第241页）中，斯蒂芬对林奇说：“悲哀的情绪是静态的。……不正当的艺术所挑起的感情却是动态的，比如像欲望或者厌恶。”

[51]藏头诗是各行首字母能联成词句的诗。下文中，布卢姆写给摩莉的五行诗的首字母分别为Poldy（彼尔迪），参看第口章注[39]。

[52]布赖恩・勃鲁（勃罗马的昵称），见第六章注[82]。

[53]迈克尔・冈恩，参看第十一章注[257]。

[54]哑剧《水手辛伯达》的作者为格林利夫・威瑟斯，并不是这里所说的美国诗人约翰・格林利夫・惠蒂尔（1807-1892）。

[55]内莉・布弗里斯特是虚构的人名，系把真正扮演女主角的凯特・奈维里斯特和内莉・布弗里维里二人的姓名合并而成。

[56]维多利亚女王即位六十周年纪念庆祝活动的关键日期是一八九七年六月二十二日。

[57]都柏林市营鱼市是于一八九七年五月十一日开张的。

[58]约克公爵和公爵夫人曾于一八九七年八月十八日至二十九日访问都柏林。

[59]都柏林的大歌剧厅和皇家剧场（参看第十一章注[135]）先后于一八九七年十一月二十六日和十二月十三日开始演出。

[60]厄尔・塔仑于一八九八和一八九九年任都柏林市长。托马斯・派尔于一八九八年任行政司法长官，一九00年任都柏林市长。邓巴・普伦凯特・巴顿（参看第九章注[271]）自一八九八年至一九00年任副检察长。

[61]参看《诗篇》第90篇第9至10节：“我们的岁月在你的震怒下缩短了；……我们的一生年岁不过七十……”

[62]据堂吉福德、罗伯特・J．塞德曼合编的《

[63]玛土撒拉为挪亚的祖父（见《创世记》第5章第21至27节）。据《圣经》记载，人类原先能活到数百岁，因触怒了天主，挪亚大洪水后寿命缩短了（参看本章注[61]）。

[64]据《

[65]到这里作者才点出，布卢姆在第十四章中所回忆到的那个不时地朝花坛里的母亲瞥上一眼的四、五岁的幼童就是斯蒂芬，参看该章注[291]及有关正文。

[66]赖尔登，参看第六章注[69]、第十二章注[179]及有关正文。《艺术家年轻时的写照》第1章第3节中描述了丹特站在天主教神父的立场上对在失意中死去的巴涅尔表示唾弃，因而与斯蒂芬之父西蒙等人争吵起来一事。

[67]市徽饭店，参看第二章注[84]。

[68]卡夫和加丈・洛，参看第十四章注[121]及有关正文。

[69]比齐克牌戏，见第十二章注[181]。

[70]苏格兰斯凯岛所产的一种长毛狗，性温顺。在第十八章开头部分，布卢姆之妻玛莉恩曾想到这只宠犬的事。

[71]《艺术家年轻时的写照》第1章开头部分写到丹特用衣柜里的两把刷子来象征巴涅尔和达维特（见第十五章注[950]）。另外，每当斯蒂芬替丹特跑腿，多了一张包装用的薄绉纸，她就奖给他一块糖。

[72]尤金・桑道，参看第四章注[37]。

[73]这里，[]内的七个名字均系译者所加。

[74]松博特海伊，见第十五章注[347]。

[75]理查的昵称为里奇，见第三章注[32]。

[76]索兹是位于都柏林以北八英里的一座村子。

[77]拉思加尔路位于都柏林中心区以南三英里处。查理・马洛尼是三位主保圣人教堂的三个本堂神父之一。

[78]、[79]斯图姆（Stoom）和布利芬（Blephen）是分别把斯蒂芬（Stephen）与布卢姆（B1oom）名拆开来重新组成的名字。

[78]、[79]斯图姆（Stoom）和布利芬（Blephen）是分别把斯蒂芬（Stephen）与布卢姆（B1oom）名拆开来重新组成的名字。

[80]布卢姆一向坚持广告应言简意赅。作为一个犹太人，他用“三字母”来表达力求简明扼要这一主张。三字母指三（辅音）字母。古代犹太人所使用的希伯来语属于闪米特语，其特点是词根由三个辅音字母所组成。“单一观念”（monoideal）则是作者根据“孤独意想”（monoideism）所杜撰的复合词。

[81]，“吉・11”是当天上午布卢姆看到的吉诺的广告，参看第八章注[32]。下文中的“钥匙议院”是布卢姆所设计的广告，参看第七章注[28]及有关正文。

[82]一九0四年六月十七日的《电讯晚报》上，有一则鞋商巴克利与库克所登的广告，他们住在塔尔博特街一0四号，不是十八号。

[83]]原文作Bacilikil，与bacillus（杆菌）拼音相近。

[84]原文作Veribest，与very（非常）best（最好）拼音相近。

[85]原文作Uwantit，与Youwantit（你要它）拼音相近。

[86]这是当天上午布卢姆在报纸上读到的一则广告，参看第五章注[18]及有关正文。

[87]关于这则广告，白天布卢姆在戴维・伯恩的酒吧里转过一阵念头，参看第八章注[212]和有关正文。

[88]以上四种冒牌货的商标名与“李树”（普拉姆垂）或肉罐头（“米特波特”）发音相似。

[89]关于布卢姆给希利提此建议事，参看第八章注[42]及有关正文。

[90]《艺术家年轻时的写照》第2章第4节中写到斯蒂芬小时，父亲带着他在科克的维多利亚旅馆下榻。在这之前（1886），布卢姆之父死在王后饭店，布卢姆曾去奔丧。维多利亚是当时的英国女王，而英文中，女王和王后同字。所以说这家旅馆和那家饭店是同名异物。而两对父子均碰上这样名称的饭店或旅馆，所以下文中又说是“巧合”。

[91]指布卢姆回忆起父亲自杀事而感到的不安。

[92]斯蒂芬讲的这个故事，参看第七章注[264]、[265]和有关正文。

[93]据艾尔曼的《詹姆斯・乔伊斯》（第46页），乔伊斯十一岁上在贝尔维迪尔公学读三年级时，喜读查尔斯・兰姆改编的《奥德修的故事》。有一次在作文课上老师出了《我所热爱的英雄》一题。他选择了尤利西斯。

[94]菲利普・博福伊，见第四章注[79]。

[95]迪克博士是一个都柏林作家的笔名，他于二十世纪初叶曾为哑剧写主题歌。

[96]赫布仑是都柏林律师约瑟夫・K.奥康纳（生于1878）的笔名。在《蓝色研究》（都柏林，1903）一书中，他从违警罪法庭的角度来探讨都柏林贫民窟生活内幕。

[97]意思是说，六月二十一日为圣阿洛伊苏斯・贡萨加（见第十二章注［585］的节日。

[98]希腊跳棋是一八八0年发明的一种跳棋，方形棋盘上绘有二五六个方格，由二至四人玩。

[99]挑圆片是一种美国游戏，先把全部圆片（起初用兽骨或象牙，后用塑料制成）挑进置于桌中央杯状容器内者获胜。

[100]杯球是一种戏法，用三个倒扣在桌面上的杯子和一只球来表演。

[101]纳普是十九世纪八十年代传人英国的一种牌戏，共有五十二张纸牌。

[102]抢五墩牌是一种纸牌戏，一度盛行于爱尔兰全国。把五墩牌都赢到手者，除了收回赌注外，还从各家多收一份押金。比齐克也是一种纸牌戏，见第十二章注[181]。二十五墩是从抢五墩牌发展而成的。必须把二十五墩牌都抢到手，方为赢家。

[103]“抢光我的邻居”，见第十二章注[505]。

[104]十五子棋戏是一种两人玩的游戏：在棋盘上或案上走棋子，靠掷两枚骰子来决定走棋步数，先走到终点者胜。

[105]这是都柏林的一家儿童服装协会的简称。

[106]蜡画法是古代希腊人发明的，所用颜料以热融蜂蜡调制。现代蜡画改用树脂（在布画上则改用油）。硫酸亚铁、绿矾和五倍子均为制墨水的原料。

[107]摩莉把源于希腊文的外来语误作英语事，见第八章注[37]。

[108]这里是说，摩莉把源于拉丁文的外来语alias（别名）误为发音相近的Ananias（阿拿尼亚）。阿拿尼亚未按当时对信徒的规定将变卖个人田产的钱全部交公，却私自留下一部分，因而受彼得的诅咒而死，见《使徒行传》第5章第1至5节。从此，阿拿尼亚便成为说谎者的代名词。

[109]“囚虏”，原指犹太王国在公元前五八六年被征服后大批犹太人被掳往巴比伦国一事。在这里，“囚虏”一词既指上述摩西率领犹太人离开埃及之后，又指公元七十年罗马人造成的犹太人大批流徙。

[110]摩西・迈蒙尼德，参看第二章注[34]。摩西・门德尔松，见第十二章注[617]。

[111]这里把《旧约・申命记》中的句子略微做了改动，原话是：“以色列中从来没有像摩西那样的先知。”

[112]费利克斯・巴托尔迪・门德尔松和巴鲁克・斯宾诺莎，均见第十二章注[617]、[618]。

[113]丹尼尔・门多萨（1764-1836），英国拳击运动员，为第一个获得拳击冠军（1792-1795）的犹太人。费迪南德・拉萨尔（1825-1864），德国工人运动中机会主义派别的首领，父母系犹太人，因恋爱纠纷，与人决斗而死。

[114]古爱尔兰文，一首爱尔兰歌谣中的头两行合唱句。

[115]古希伯来文，引自《旧约・雅歌》第4章第3节。各种中译本对这句话的解释有出入。香港联合圣经公会一九八五年版作：“你在面纱后面的双颊泛红，像裂开两半的石榴。”香港圣经公会一九七七年版作：“你的两太阳，在帕子内如同一块石榴。”这里是根据《尤利西斯》原著中的英译文翻译的。堂吉福德等合编的《

[116]据海德一九八九年版（第563页倒6行），下段的第一句是“用并列的办法”。莎士比亚书屋一九二二年版和奥德赛一九三三年版均无此句。

[117]斯蒂芬写下的四个相当于英语字母g、e、d、m的爱尔兰语字母，分别包含gh、e、dh、mh的语音。在爱尔兰语字母表上，g是第七个、e是第五个、d 是第四个、m是第十一个字母。

[118]据中世纪犹太教喀巴拉派解经家所编订的代码 （是用来阐发经文的灵意的），希伯来文二十二个字母中的前十个依次代表数字一至十，其次八个依次代表二十至九十，最后四个分别代表一百、二百、三百和四百。

[119]西纳尔平原是《旧约》中出现的地名，位于迦勒底以北。历史上常把它和苏美尔（已知最早文明的发祥地）等同起来。

[120]埃贝尔与赫里蒙，见第十二章注[427]。爱尔兰历史学家杰弗里・基廷在《爱尔兰历史》一书中说，神话中的邦芭和她的两个妹妹是爱尔兰最早的居民（参看第十二章注：[154]）， 而费尼乌斯・法赛是把希伯来和爱尔兰这两种语言联系起来的关键性人物。

[121]神仆团，见第十二章注[100]。

[122]托拉是犹太教名词， 泛指上帝启示给以色列入乃至全人类的指示和教诲，包括全部犹太律法、习俗及礼。狭义指见诸于文字的《五经》（即《圣经》的开端五卷）。《塔木德》是注释、讲解犹大教律法的著作，它在犹太教传统中的地位仅次于《圣经》（指《旧约》）。从广义上说，《塔木德》包括《密西拿》与革马拉。《密西拿》收录了本来是口传的用以补充律法的论文。革马拉是《密西拿》所收文章的注释和阐述。

[123]马所拉本是犹太教《圣经》传统的希伯来文本，由塔木德学院的学者（来自巴比伦和巴勒斯但两地）历经数百年（6至10世纪）方辑录编纂完毕，附有标音符号以保证读音正确。《五经》，见本章注［122］。

[124]《牛皮书》是爱尔兰文学中现存最古老的手稿，因写在牛皮上，故名。编者为克朗麦克诺伊斯隐修院的修士麦尔姆利・麦凯莱赫（卒于1106），利用真实资料和传说（主要是8、9世纪的）编成。《巴利莫特书》，参看第十二章注[481]。

[125]《霍斯饰本》是在霍斯以北的岛屿（爱尔兰之眼）发现的饰本福音书拉丁文手稿，约于八至九世纪写成，其价值仅次于《凯尔斯书》。 《凯尔斯书》是一部华美的爱尔兰-萨克森风格饰本福音书，约于七世纪后期在爱尔兰艾欧纳隐修院开始绘制，八世纪早期在凯尔斯隐修院完成。

[126]爱尔兰民族和以色列民族的离散，参看第十二章注［370］。受迫害的情况，参看第十章注［452］至［457］及有关正文。

[127]犹太人区指城市中供犹太人居住的法定地区。西欧的犹太人区已于十九世纪废除。前文中，内德・兰伯特曾说，犹太人的圣殿原先也设在这儿（指圣玛丽亚修道院的遗迹），参看第十章注[91]及有关正文。

[128]弥撒馆指亚当与夏娃客栈附近的“地下”教堂，参看第七章注[250]。

[129]惩戒法指宗教改革运动后于十六、十六世纪所颁行的反对爱尔兰天主教徒的各项法律，甚至禁止爱尔兰人着国色（绿色）。犹太人服装令曾在好几个国家推行。不但禁止犹太人穿民族服装，还强迫他们穿屈辱性颜色的衣服，以表明他们是犹太人。

[130]指奥地利报人西奥多・赫茨尔（1860-1904）所创始的犹太复国主义运动。他在《犹太人国家》（维也纳，1890）这一小册子中指出，犹太人问题并社会或宗教问题，而是一个民族问题。他所组织的世界犹太复国主义运动代表大会，于一八九七年八月在巴塞尔召开。

[131]“犹……锵”，这是希伯来语诗人纳夫塔利・赫茨（1856-1909）所作的诗《希望》（1878）的头两句。十九世纪九十年代由塞缪尔・科恩配乐，一九三三年以来成为犹太复国运动的正式颂歌，一九四八年至今成为以色列的非正式国歌。

[132]闪米特语是通行于北非及近东的闪米特一含米特语系五个语族之一。希伯来语属于其西北语支。

[133]欧甘文字是一种字母文字，是约于公元四世纪刻在石碑上的爱尔兰语。形式最简单的欧甘文字由四组笔画或刻痕组成。每组五个字母，共二十个字母。另外还有五个符号，系附加字母。

[134]原文作hypotasis，也作“本质”、“基督人格”解，医学上含有“坠积性充血”意。这里指“神人合一的基督”。下文中的大马士革的约翰（约700-约754）是基督教东方教会修士，希腊教会和拉丁教会的教义师。约于七三0年著《论圣像》三篇，提倡崇拜圣像。他描述耶稣为“高个儿……白皮肤，稍带橄榄色”。罗马的伦图卢斯是虚构的人物，据说他在彼拉得之前曾任罗马总督，并在一封致罗马元老院的信中描述耶稣“身材高大，头发是葡萄酒色的”。伊皮凡尼乌斯（约315-403）原为基督教隐修士，后任主教。他对耶稣的描述，与后世的大马士革的约翰差不多。

[135]哈利・布拉米瑞斯在所著《尤利西斯指南》（伦敦，1966）一书第213-214页中，谈到这几段隐晦文字时说，这里描绘的是布卢姆与斯蒂芬怎样相互认识。“斯蒂芬从布卢姆的声音中，意识到过去的深厚积累。而布卢姆又从斯蒂芬的敏捷与青春中，意识到未来的希望。另有一种与这样的相互认识重叠的印象：因为斯蒂芬从布卢姆的外貌上感觉到了耶稣基督的形象，神被人格化了：白皮肤，黑头发，带点学究气……而布卢姆则从斯蒂芬的嗓音中听到了即将到来的浩劫那令人销魂的声调。”

[136]在英格兰和威尔士，“不从国教派”指所有不信奉圣公会（国教）的基督教各支派，包括公谊会（贵格会）、救世军等。在苏格兰，除长老会（国教）外，连圣公会都属于不从国教派。

[137]萨蒙博士，见第八章注[146]。道维博士，见第八章注[8]。

[138]西摩・布希，见第六章注[87]。鲁弗斯・丹尼尔・伊塞克斯是一个英籍犹太裔律师。

[139]查理・温德姆爵士（1837-1919），喜剧演员兼导演。 奥斯蒙・蒂尔利（1852-1901），英国导演，在伦敦、纽约和埃文河畔斯特拉特福组织了莎士比亚剧团。

[140]“哈里・休斯和学伴”至“因已躺到尸堆里”，这五节诗歌均套用海伦

[141]据艾尔曼的《詹姆斯・乔伊斯》第521页注释：乔伊斯于一九二O年九月二十一日致卡洛・利纳蒂的信中说，《尤利西斯》是“一部两个民族（以色列和爱尔兰）的史诗”。这里，布卢姆作为一个归化为爱尔兰人的匈牙利裔犹大人，被斯蒂芬所唱的有反犹色彩的歌谣伤害了感情。本段中头两个“他”指布卢姆，最后一个“他”指斯蒂芬。

[142]布卢姆一家人曾在霍利斯街（1895-1896）和翁塔利奥高台街（1897-1898）住过。

[143]帕德尼是帕特的别称（前文中曾用来指帕特・迪格纳穆，见第十四章注[390]）、出现在喜剧舞台上的爱尔兰人常用此名。软鞋，原文作“socks”， 主要词义为“短袜”，这里指喜剧演员穿的轻便软鞋。“sock”也作“钱袋”、 “银柜”、“存款”解，这样就与下文中的“攒钱罐”形成双关语。

[144]指奥地利将军朱利叶斯・雅各布・海瑙（1786-1853）。他于一八0一年加入奥地利陆军，曾任上尉。一八四八至一八四九年革命期间在意大利作战，残酷镇压布雷西亚起义，臭名远扬，以致在伦敦和布鲁塞尔曾遭群众袭击。

[145]“斯蒂芬草地”是位于都柏林东南的一座公园，沿着公园北侧有个人工湖。

[146]“也就是说”，原文为拉丁文。固定的针盘上的长短指针，每十二个小时彼此相合十一次。十二点整，长短针第十一次相合。六十分除十一等于五点十一分之五分（60/11=55/11）。

[147]在第四章（见该章注[45]及有关正文）中，说那是米莉四岁时送给他的生日礼物。

[148]用在英国和爱尔兰，四季结帐日为报喜节（3月25日）、施洗约翰日（6月24日）、米迦勒节（9月29日）、圣诞节（12月25日）。人们习惯于在代表一年的四分之一的一天发薪或结清债务。

[149]“当他为了她”是根据海德一九八九年版（第570页第4行）翻译的；莎士比亚书屋一九二二年版（第647页倒3行）、奥德赛一九三三年版（第695页第5行）和兰登书屋一九九0年版（第694页倒3行），均作“当他并非为了她”。

[150]这里指布卢姆把斯蒂芬当作夭折了的独生子鲁迪的替身。

[151]同学指亚历克・班农，斯蒂芬一度学医，与班农同过学。犹太人的女儿指米莉。

[152]埃米莉・辛尼柯太太，参看第六章注[190]。在《都柏林人・悲痛的往事》中，辛尼柯太太是十一月间死的。

[153]亨格勒马戏团，参看第四章注[57]。拉特兰（现名巴涅尔）广场上有座直径八十英尺的圆形建筑，供集会或演出用。

[154]头天下午两点钟，斯蒂芬就曾在图书馆里谈到过“大宇宙和小宇宙”等问题，见第九章注[418]及有关正文。

[155]“为奴之家”，见《出埃及记》第13章第3节。

[156]“默祷”，原文为拉丁文。

[157]根据天主教会所使用的《通俗拉丁文本圣经》，语出自《诗篇》第113篇第1节。根据《钦定本英文圣经》，则为第114篇第1节。

[158]指月亮的轨迹最接近地球时的近地点。

[159]银河清晰度不够，所以不论呆在多么深的垂直轴底儿上，白昼也是瞧不见的。

[160]天狼，夜空中最亮的恒星，距太阳约八点六光年。大角（牧夫座阿尔法），北天牧夫座中最亮的恒星，距地球约四十光年。

[161]岁差是地球自转轴的周期变化所引起的春分点沿黄道面（即地球轨道面）的运动。

[162]猎户座是赤道带星座之一。其中“参宿三”、“参宿二”和“参宿一”这三颗星列成一直线，形成“猎户”腰带。腰带南面的“伐二”是四合星，周围是有名的大星云M42。

[163]“新星”，一九0一年二月二十一日至二十二日之间，爱丁堡的T.D.安德森在仙女座附近发现了一颗新星，它很快地就成为北半球最亮的星星，随后消失。

[164]武仙座是北天星座之一，在一九0五年，天文学家们曾推算太阳系正以每秒十六英里的速度朝武仙座移动。

[165]德国天文学家弗里德里克・威廉・贝塞耳（1784-1846）曾根据五万个恒星方位的精确资料，试图测定恒星的距离。他挑选天球上具有高速相对运动的暗星――天鹅座六十一作为测量视差的对象，并测出其距离为十点三光年。

[166]层理是大多数沉积岩和地表形成的火成岩中出现的成层构造。在岩层受到变形的地方，层理中就保存着过去地球运动的记录。

[167]布卢姆为了赢得一百万英镑而绘制此图事，见第十五章注[487]及有关正文。

[168]布卢姆在这里联想到的是勃拉瓦茨基夫人等通神学家所推崇的用数字来解释人的性格或占卜祸福之命理学。其理论根据是古希腊哲学家毕达哥拉斯的思想，即万物最终都可以分解为数，所以均能够用数字来表明。

[169]据堂吉福德等合编的《》

[170]“远地点”，指月亮、人造卫星轨道上离地球最远的点。

[171]这里套用《旧约・传道书》第1章第2节，原话是：“空虚的空虚，空虚的空虚，一切都是空虚。”

[172]沃尔辛厄姆路是银河的别称。英国诺福克郡有个沃尔辛厄姆圣母殿，银河被认为是位于天上的通往圣母殿的参道，故名。

[173]大卫的战车，指小熊座。自古以来，犹太入有时把小熊座看成是大卫王年轻时杀死的熊（见《撒母耳记上》第17章第36节）， 或把先知以利亚送上天的战车，见第十二章注[647]及有关正文。

[174]意大利天文学家伽利略（1564-1642）和巴伐利亚天文学家西蒙・马里乌斯（1573-1624）都宣称在一六一0年前后发现了木星的四颗最大的卫星木卫一、木卫二、木卫三和木卫四。他们是分别独立地发现它们的。

[175]吉乌塞佩・皮亚齐（1746-1826），意大利天文学家，曾发现第一颗小行星、（1801），并把它取名谷神星，又编成一本载有七六四六颗恒星位置的大星表（1814）。

[176]厄本-琼-约瑟夫・勒威耶（1811-1877）是法国天文学家。他注意到夭王星轨道的不规则性，井把这种现象解释为有一颗未知行星存在。德国天文学家约翰・戈特弗里德・加勒（1812-1910）受他的委托 ，在距他计算出的位置不足一度处发现了海王星。威廉・赫歇耳爵士（1738-1822 ）是英国天文学家，于一七八一年发现了天王星。他还记录了八四八颗双星并测出它们的角距离和相对亮度。

[177]约翰・埃勒特・波得（1747-1826），德国天文学家。因发现太阳与行星平均距离的经验公式而闻名。约翰内斯・开普勒（1571-1630），德国天文学家。他在《宇宙和谐论》（1619）中指出，行星公转周期的平方等于轨道半长轴的立方，后世称之为开普勒第三定律。

[178]英语comet（彗星）一词源于希腊文kometes（有长毛的）， 所以这里说彗星“多毛”，指接近太阳时，彗核周围出现的云雾状彗发。下文中的近日距和远日距分别指彗星运行轨道最接近太阳或离太阳最远的点。

[179]年纪较轻的天体观测者指斯蒂芬。他出生的五年前（1877），意大利天文学家乔・斯基帕雷利绘制了第一张现代的火星图，他将分布于火星表面亮区上的暗线网称为“运河”。斯蒂芬十二岁时（1894），美国天文学家P・洛韦尔发现“暗波”现象。当春季来临极冠开始缩小时，极冠边沿地带就出现暗区，并不断延伸扩大，然后消失于另一半球中。

[180]由于月球、地球和太阳三者相对位置的改变，从地球上看来，月球便有盈亏的变化。月相更替的周期平均等于二十九天半，即一个朔望月。当月球恰好在地球和太阳之间的时候，月球以黑暗半球对着我们，这时的月相叫“新月”。西欧民间迷信，如果偶然看见了新月时期的黑暗半球，便是不样的预兆。歌谣《圣帕特里克・斯宾斯》有云：“我瞧见了新月，／把旧月抱在怀里，／亲爱的主人啊，／我怕咱们会倒楣。”

[181]指第谷新星，见第九章注[450]。

[182]七星花冠星座指北斗七星（即大熊座）。布卢姆出生的那一年（1866）五月，这个星座曾出现了一颗新星，命名为T・勃利亚里斯花冠，亮度为二等， 后来消失。

[183]斯蒂芬・迪达勒斯生于一八八二年。一八八五年一颗新星出现于仙女座，叫作S．仙女。布卢姆那个夭折的儿子叫鲁道尔夫，小名鲁迪。他生于一八九三年，而爱丁堡的T.0.安德森曾于一八九二年一月在御夫座中发现一颗新星。 三月底即由第四级退缩到第十二级星。

[184]当时民间相信月亮的盈亏对人有影响。头一天下午布卢姆遇见布林太太，她就曾说她丈夫“一到这时候（指升起新月）老毛病就犯啦”（ 见第八章注[70]及有关正文）。

[185]指英文字母Y。

[186]据《路加福音》第2章第21节，照一般犹太男婴的规矩，耶稣是生后八天行割礼的，刚好是一月一日。割礼意味着社会对个人的正式承认。斯蒂芬在这里是怀疑耶稣既然有神性（参看第一章注[114]，本章注[134]），那就没有必要行割礼。据堂吉福德等合编的《

[187]耶稣的包皮现存于罗马郊外卡尔卡塔的圣科尔内留斯与西普里安教堂。斯蒂芬联想到的这个问题的意思是：究竟该把这包皮当作“人”的遗物还是“神”的圣物？

[188]这里，作者假借星星来回忆他和妻子诺拉首次的幽会（1904年6月16日）的往事。贝勒奈西（约公元前269-前221）是昔兰尼（今利比亚）国王之女。当她的丈夫托勒密三世出征时，她献出秀发，以祈求神灵保佑他平安生还。据说这缕头发被送往天国，成为后发星座，又名“贝勒奈西之发”。

[189]在星占术中，狮子宫是黄道十二宫的第五官，代表那些富于创造性、心地善良的人们，他们又是殷勤的东道主。

[190]原文为拉丁文，参看第一章注[45]。

[191]头天早晨离开家前，布卢姆曾听见乔治教堂的钟声。见第四章末尾。

[192]伯纳德・科里根在全书中只出现三次：第一次只说是“一只花递给男孩子，另一只递给他舅舅”，未提名字（见第六章注[121]及有关正文），第二次说他是迪格纳穆的内弟（参看第十六章注[194]及有关正文）。

[193]堂吉福德等合编的《

[194]关于绝对零度的问题，堂吉福德等合编的《

[195]珀西・阿普约翰，见第八章注[111]，莫德尔河在南非。

[196]第八章中提到的菲尔（菲利普的昵称）・吉利根即此人，见该章注[50]及有关正文。

[197]据罗伯特・M・亚当斯所著《外表与象征》（纽约，1962，第62-63页），马修・F・凯恩是乔伊斯之父约翰的朋友，一九0四年七月十日游泳时不慎淹死。他是《尤利西斯》中之人物马丁・坎宁翰的原型，而书中关于迪格纳穆的丧事之描述，又与他的丧事相符。

[198]据路易斯・海曼所著《爱尔兰的犹太人》（香农，爱尔兰，1972，第190-191页），菲利普・莫依塞尔是尼桑・莫依塞尔（见第四章注[28]）之子。此人在都柏林中南区的海蒂斯勃利街一直住到十九世纪末，后移民到南非， 一九O三年死在那里。

[199]迈克尔・哈特是约翰・乔伊斯的朋友，《尤利西斯》中虚构的人物利内翰的原型。

[200]据记载，一九0四年六月十六日的日出时间为早晨三点三十三分。

[201]基玛吉是海豚仓的一条街，参看第四章注[54]及有关正文。

[202]“米兹拉赤”是希伯来语“东方”的译音。位于耶路撒冷西边的犹大人祷告时照例要面向东方。

[203]马略尔卡原是十六世纪产于意大利的装饰用陶器，涂有不透明的釉，图案色彩浓郁；后成为马略尔卡陶器的现代仿制品的泛称。

[204]这里，布卢姆从这两把椅子联想到了几个小时前他的妻子与博伊兰在此幽会的情景。

[205]凯德拜牌钢琴是英国制造的一种价格较低廉的钢琴。

[206]《古老甜蜜的情歌》，见第四章注[50]。安托瓦内特・斯特林（1850-1904）是生在美国的女低音歌手，后与苏格兰人结婚，她演唱的歌谣曾在英伦三岛红极一时。

[207]“随意地”、“响亮地”、“活泼地”、“渐慢”，原文均为意大利语。

[208]参看第十四章注[327]及有关正文：“那绿色就像是小便沤过的。色彩深浅有致.

[209]“阿根达斯・内泰穆”，见第四章注[23]。

[210]在《奥德修纪》卷22中，奥德修把向他妻子求婚的人统统杀死后，生上火，用硫磺彻底熏了殿堂、房屋和院子。这里，布卢姆也用松果代替硫磺，把妻子的情人博伊兰呆过的屋子熏干净。

[211]康尼马拉大理石，见第十二章注[382]。

[212]一八九六年的春分为三月二十日上午两点零二分。所以此钟是春分后过了一天多的时候停的。

[213]卢克和卡罗琳・多伊尔，参看第四章注[54]。

[214]市政委员约翰・胡珀，见第六章注[180]及有关正文。

[215]丹尼斯・弗洛伦斯・麦卡锡（1817-1882），爱尔兰诗人、学者和翻译家。

[216]此书的全称为：《查理二世王朝宫廷秘史》（伦敦，1792），作者为枢密院成员。

[217]据海德一九八九年版（第582页第9行），《儿童便览》和《我们的少年时代》之间还有一行：“《基拉尼的美人们》（有护封）。”莎士比亚书屋版（第661页）、奥德赛一九三三年版（第710页）和兰登书屋一九九0年版（第708页），均无此行。

[218]《我们的少年时代》（伦敦，1890）是威廉・奥布赖恩（见第十六章注[240]）在狱中所写的一部小说，以十九世纪六十年代在科克郡发动的起义为背景。

[219]《天空的故事》，见第八章注[36]。

[220]威廉・埃利斯（1794-1872）是个英国公理会传教士，曾于一八五三、五四、五五年三次赴马达加斯加岛。他所著《三游马达加斯加》（伦敦，1858）等作品，在十九世纪被视为关于该岛的权威性著作。

[221]这是英国侦探小说家阿瑟・柯南道尔（1859-1930）的一部书信体小说（纽约，1895）。作者假借一八八一至一八八四年间斯塔克・芒罗写给老同学赫伯特・斯旺巴勒的十六封信来表达自己对宗教、政治、贫穷、行医等问题的看法。

[222]在第六章中，布卢姆曾联想到《中国纪行》一书，见该章注[187]及有关正文。

[223]《塔木德》，见本章注[122]。下文中的约翰・吉布森・洛克哈特（1794-1854）是苏格兰小说家，他所著《拿破仑传》（1832）的扩大版题名《拿破仑的历史》（1885）。

[224]古斯塔夫・弗赖塔格（1816-1895），德国作家，所著小说《借方和贷方》（1855）颂扬了德国商人稳健的经营才干，但又强调了重商主义，具有反犹色彩，曾译成多种文字。

[225]哥特字体，也叫黑体，公元九、十世纪出现于瑞士圣加仑，因笔划粗，字母密集，意大利人文学者称之为哥特字体（意为粗鄙的字体）。

[226]亨利・蒙塔古・霍齐尔爵士（1842-1907）是英国军人、历史学家，所著《俄土战争史》分两卷出版（伦敦，1877，1879）。在一八九0年， 直布罗陀的要塞图书馆拥有四万册藏书，这里暗示布卢姆的岳父特威迪 （参看第四章注[21]把图书馆的书据为己有。

[227]八点活字相当于六号字。点为活字大小的单位，一点约合一英寸的七十二分之一。十二点活字相当于新四号字，每英寸能打十个十二点活字。

[228]头天上午布卢姆曾想：“在书上可以读到沿着太阳的轨道前进这套话”，见第四章注[6]及有关正文。

[229]尤金・桑道，参看第四章注[37]。

[230]恩尼斯科西是爱尔兰韦克斯福德郡商业城镇。它不在威克洛郡境内，而位于该郡以南二十四英里处。

[231]普列文，参看第四章注[2]。

[232]纳希索斯雕像，参看第十五章注[617]。下文中的雷恩，参看第六章注[80]。

[233]辛尼柯太太，见本章注[152]。

[234]这里的“一先令”是根据海德一九八九年版（第584页）翻译的。莎士比亚书屋一九二二年版（第664页）和奥德赛一九三三年版（第713页）均作“一便士”。

[235]布卢姆头天上午离家后，在公共澡塘洗过澡。所以这里说是再一次脱下靴子。

[236]指布卢姆当年上过的幼儿学校，见第五章注[35]及有关正文。

[237]英国某些地区的一种习俗，规定由末子（如无子嗣则由未弟）继承财产。

[238]一路得为四分之一英亩，一平方杆为三0・二五平方码。

[239]这里是对当时爱尔兰每英亩土地的年租金的估价，而不是售价。

[240]“都会中的田园”，原文为拉丁文。罗马著名铭辞作家马提雅尔（约38/41-约104）因友人的馈赠而有了自己的一座小庄园。他说他是个穷人，无钱拥有“都会中的田园”，只好不时地躲到城外那座小庄园去图个清静。

[241]原文为意大利文。黑岩是都柏林东南郊的行政区。这里有座房子当时挂了一块写着“健康庄”字样的牌子。

[242]海德一九八九年版（第585页倒11行）作“十五分钟”，莎士比亚书屋一九二二年版（第665页倒13行）和奥德赛一九三三年版（第714页倒5行，）均作“五分钟”。

[243]登德鲁姆（参看第一章注[57]）是都柏林市中心以南五英里处一山村，因空气清新，夏季常有人前往疗养。萨顿为都柏林中心以北八英里处滨海小村。

[244]在一九00年，英国通常的长期租借的期限为九十九年，而不是九百九十九年。

[245]阿克斯明斯特是苏格兰德文郡一城镇。当地有名的织毯业始于一七五五年。

[246]指底楼与二楼之间的楼梯平台（参看第四章注[68]）。据堂吉福德等合编的《

[247]詹姆斯・W.马凯伊爵士实有其人，曾于一八六六和一八七三年两次担任都柏林市市长。因工作有成绩，于一八七四年封为爵土。

[248]暖足套是坐马车时焐脚用的口袋。

[249]掌尺是马的高度的仗量单位，一掌尺为十厘米。

[250]圣利奥波得（1073-1125）是奥地利人，神圣罗马帝国皇帝亨利五世（1106-1125在位）的内弟。亨利五世死后，他曾有机会继承皇位，却谢绝了，并毕生从事慈善事业。

[251]原文作“curric1e”，意思是“双马二轮小马车”。估计为“coracle”（亦拼作“curragh”）之误，即一种用柳条扎成骨架并覆以防水布的柳条艇。

[252]指由都柏林堡的阿尔斯特纹章院（参看第十五章注[207]及有关正文）办事处登记入册。下文中的“保”，原文作“P”，后文中点明这是“保拉”（见本章注[307]及有关正文）的简称。全书中只对布卢姆使用了两次这个称呼。

[253]指获得爱尔兰的最高勋章圣帕特里克勋章（一如英国的嘉德勋章，参看第十五章注[878]）的爵士。下文中的“名誉”，原文为拉丁文。

[254]达特穆尔是苏格兰德文郡西部山区，撒克逊时代为王室林地。文维尔权是英国法律上对达特穆尔森林居民所规定的一种特殊的土地使用权。

[255]这是《人类的由来及性选择》（1871）的简称。一译《人类起源及性的选择》。

[256]詹姆斯・芬坦・拉勒（1807-1849），爱尔兰政论家， 积极鼓吹共和主义和土地国有化。约翰・费希尔・默里（1811-1865），爱尔兰政论家、讽刺文作者。约翰・米哈伊（1815-1875），爱尔兰律师，后改操记者业，思想激进。詹・弗・泽

[257]“宪法煽动”指一八七九年查理・斯图尔特・巴涅尔（见第二章注[81]）在爱尔兰议会里就“土地法”所掀起的骚动。巴涅尔是一八八0年在米斯郡、梅奥郡和科克市的选举中获胜，成为下议院议员的。这个席位他一直保留到政治生涯的结束。

[258]格莱斯顿，见第五章注[47]，米德洛锡安为苏格兰东南部一郡。

[259]乔治・弗里德利克・塞缨尔・鲁宾逊.里彭侯爵（1827-1909），英国政治家。于一八七四年改信天主教。他支持格莱斯顿的爱尔兰政策（ 包括爱尔兰自治方案）,因而在爱尔兰颇罕众望。

[260]约翰・莫利（1838-1923），英国政治家、作家，积极致力于促进爱尔兰自治法案实现。海德一九八九年版（第589页第14行）作“（耿直的）约翰・莫利”，莎士比亚书屋一九二二年版（第669页倒14行）和奥德赛一九三三年版（第719页第22行）均无此词。

[261]据堂吉福德等合编的《

[262]一英浪为八分之一英里。

[263]“邓辛克”，参看第八章注[35]。

[264]据堂吉福德等合编的《

[265]《标准邮票便览》中把英国发行的这种邮票列为第二十二号，未盖销者值二百美元，盖销者值一一四美元。

[266]《标准邮票便览》中把卢森堡发行的这种邮票列为第二十八号，票面价值增加到一法郎三十六分半；未盖销者值一三五美元，盖销者值六十五美元。

[267]第三十二件的累积数字为：2，236，962英镑2先令8便士。

[268]“使蒙……破产”，参看第十二章注[74]。

[269]“与圆等积的正方形”，参看第十五章注[487]及有关正文。

[270]“狄纳穆”，参看第四章注[25]。

[271]据官方统计，一九0一年的爱尔兰人口实际上是4，458，775人。

[272]“噗啦呋咔”，参看第十五章注[631]。直到一九三七年，爱尔兰才着手实现噗啦呋咔瀑布的水力发电计划。

[273]鲍尔斯考特是都柏林以南十二英里处的一座著名的庄园，里面有高达三百英尺的瀑布。

[274]北公牛是沿着都柏林湾北岸突出的一片辽阔的半岛状沙洲，南端已筑起一堵北公牛堤坝，以防止沙砾侵蚀都柏林港。布卢姆的“计划”是把沙州整个儿圈起。但是最后的一项“男女混浴”，在一九0四年的信天主教的爱尔兰是行不通的。

[275]头一天布卢姆在马车里，就谈过铺设这条电车道的想法，参看第六章注[74]及有关正文。

[276]兰开夏为英国西北部一郡。

[277]伦敦德里为北爱尔兰城市，又是伦敦德里郡特区。

[278]莫克姆是爱尔兰海小湾，凹人英格兰坎布里亚和兰开夏两郡海岸。“都……船”是亚历克斯・A・莱尔德所开办的一家轮船公司。

[279]“还有利物浦……栈”和“所需全部车辆”是根据莎士比亚书屋一九二二年版（第671页倒3至2行）和海德一九八九年版（第591页第14-15行）翻译的，奥德赛一九三三年版（第722页）缺此句。

[280]在第十五章中，布卢姆曾提及这个富豪，见该章注[89]及有关正文。

[281]罗思柴尔德是欧洲最著名的银行世家。创始人为迈耶・阿姆谢尔・罗思柴尔德（1744-1812）及其五个儿子，参看第十五章注[323]。

[282]古根海姆和希尔施，分别参看第十五章[330]、[332]。蒙特斐奥雷，参看第四章注[17]。

[283]维尔・亨利・刘易斯・福斯特（1819-1900），英裔爱尔兰教育家，他为不同年级的学童们印行的习字帖在十九世纪颇为流行。

[284]亚历山德拉王后（1844-1925），丹表王后克里斯蒂安九世的长女，英王爱德华七世（参看第二章注[501]的王后。

[285]莫德・布兰斯科姆，参看第十二章注[98]。

[286]圣诞节贺片最早是由英国画家约翰・考尔科特・霍利斯（1817-1903）于一八四三年设计的。进入九十年代后，需求量大增。

[287]寄生植物指w寄生，其小枝常用作圣诞节的装饰。

[288]“米斯巴”是希伯来语“从这地方监视”的译音。《创世记》第31章第45-49节写到，雅各和他舅父拉班在路上分子时和解并立约。拉班指着雅各叫人堆起的石头说：“我们彼此分离以后，愿上主在你我中间监视。” 因此这地方又叫米斯巴。“米斯巴的传说”一语，联系到下面有关“欢乐、平安”的诗句， 表示圣诞节期间的祥瑞气氛。

[289]十九世纪九十年代，确实有一对M.科默福德夫妇住在多基（见第二章注[8]）。

[290]希利商店的门牌号码，前文（见第八章注[44]及有关正文）中作“八十五号”。据堂吉福德等合编的《

[291]这种钢笔尖上有着“J”字印记。

[292]也叫沙漏，一种计时仪器，根据沙子从一个容器漏到另一个容器的数量来计算时间

[293]威廉・尤尔特・格莱斯顿（见第五章注[47]）于一八八六年二（ 第三次组阁。因他所提出的爱尔兰自治法案以343票对313票的微弱多数遭到否决，于七月辞职。

[294]这个义卖会是由爱尔兰教会的圣凯文教堂资助的，离布卢姆夫妇过去所住的西伦巴德街不远。

[295]海德一九八九年版（第592页倒11至10行），下面有“贝制领带卡一枚，上有浮雕。本属于鲁道尔夫・布卢姆（原姓维拉格），已故”之句，莎士比亚书屋一九二二年版（第673页倒17行）和奥德赛一九三三年版（第724页第7行） 均无此句。

[296]这里的“字母交互逆缀式”，原文作boustrophedon，原是古代的一种右行左行交互书写法，这里则指为了让人看不懂，故意把“A”至“Z”的顺序倒过来，把各个字母换成按“Z”至“A”的顺序排列的相应的字母。例如MARTHA（玛莎）的第一个字母A在字母表上是正数第十三个，换成倒数第十三个字母N。“附有字号”是为了标明省略了元音字母。文中所加“／”标志着分行。这个密码破译出来就是“MRTH／DRFFLC／DLPHNS／BRN＼原应作“MARTHA CLIFFORD DOLPHINS BARN”。为了双重保险，CLIFFORD这个姓是倒过来拚的。

[297]《现代社会》是每逢星期三在伦敦出版的周刊。

[298]“匈……票”，参看第八章注[64]。

[299]“小姐”和下文中的“斗牛士”，原文均为西班牙语。

[300]一八八一年发行过两种印有维多利亚女王像、面值一便士的淡紫色邮票，斯科特的《标准邮票便览》把它们分别列为第八十八号（未盖销者值五美元，盖销者值一美元），第八十九号（未盖销者值十五美元，盖销者值三美元）。

[301]桑道（见第四章注[37]）确实为健身器械做过广告。

[302]“收信人的姓名”和下文中的“亲爱的夫人”后面，海德一九八九年版（第593页第16行、17行）有“错误地”字样，莎士比亚书屋一九二二年版（第 674页，第8行、9行）和奥德赛版（第724页倒1行、倒2行）均无此词。

[303]“心神恍惚的乞丐”，见第九章注[67]。

[304]指“南非战争”，也作“布尔战争”，见第八章注[121]。

[305]乔西是约瑟芬的呢称，参看第八章注[66]。

[306]卡伦，见第十三章注[124]，第十四章注[9]及有关正文。

[307]保拉是女子名，相当于男子名保尔。

[308]苏格兰遗孀基金人寿保险公司，见第十三章注[177]。

[309]第十四章中曾提到，布卢姆的熟人米娜的丈夫普里福伊是厄尔斯特银行学院草地分行的副会计师，见该章注[284]及有关正文。

[310]这里把人物的辈份搞乱了。如果斯蒂芬・维拉格与鲁道尔夫。 维拉格同辈（first cousin，第一代嫡堂兄弟），鲁道尔之子利奥波德・布卢姆和斯蒂芬，维拉格之子才是第二代隔房堂兄弟（secondcousin）。而利奥波德・维拉格是鲁道尔夫之父，所以是斯蒂芬・维拉格的堂叔（或堂伯）。

[311]“《哈加达》书”和下文中的“逾越节”分别见第七章注[35]、[34]。

[312]“恩尼斯镇皇后饭店”，参看第六章注[95]及有关正文。

[313]原文为“ToMyDearSonLeopold，”所以下文中说是五个单词。

[314]“阿索斯”见第六章注[16]。

[315]“心”、“天主”和“你的”，原文均为德语。

[316]周会指犹太教中每星期六的安息日，那天，会堂里要在上午的礼拜中诵读一段律法书，然后吟咏先知选段。

[317]犹太教所崇拜之神叫雅赫维（YAHWEH），去掉两个元音（A，E），便剩下四个希伯来辅音字母YHWH。这是神亲自启示给摩西的。神的名字日益神圣化，教徒不敢直呼，会堂礼文乃代之以“我主”。上文中的不许同时吃肉饮奶的戒律见《出埃及记》第23章第19节：“不可用母羊的奶来煮小羊。”

[318]为执行官跑腿儿的老朽，指那种守在执行官办公室门口，临时派到讨债等差使，挣点跑腿钱糊口的穷人。

[319]基尔曼哈姆当时在都柏林西郊，现已划入市区。这座皇家医院专门收容年老、有残疾以及患病的官员。

[320]“丧失……生活”，在一九0四年，都柏林那些靠《济贫法》接受救济者一概没有选举权。只有纳税者才有选举权。

[321]“增加并繁殖”，见《创世记》第1章第22节。

[322]“莫霍尔的断崖”在芒斯特省克莱尔郡首府恩尼斯西北方，沿着爱尔兰西岸延伸五英里。

[323]“康尼马拉”是爱尔兰戈尔韦郡一地区，大部分被泥炭沼泽覆盖，以自然景色闻名。

[324]“拉夫・尼格湖”，见第＋章注[490]。据中世纪传说，此湖原是一座小喷泉，泉水忽然泛滥，淹没了整个地区（包括村庄和教堂的塔）。

[325]“巨人堤道”，见第十二章注[642]。

[326]“卡姆登要塞和卡莱尔要塞”，见第十六章注[53]。

[327]“蒂珀雷里的黄金峡谷”，指加尔蒂山脉（在爱尔兰利默里克郡西南部和蒂珀雷里郡东南部之间）以北的一大片肥沃的谷地。

[328]阿伦群岛是爱尔兰西海岸戈尔韦海湾口的三个石灰岩岛屿。岛民操爱尔兰语。

[329]米斯郡是爱尔兰伦斯特省一郡，西北部有山地牧场，是爱尔兰古代五王国之一的遗址，故冠以“王家”。

[330]据说布里奇特（见第十二章注[587])曾在基尔代尔的一棵橡树下的一间庵里修道，井于四九0年创办了一座女修道院，后来被说成是“榆树”（见第十二章注[388]及有关正文。）

[331]“皇后岛造船厂”指哈兰德和沃尔大二大造船公司。最发达的时期曾雇有职工一万名。

[332]“鲑鱼飞跃”，见第十二章注[498]。

[333]“基拉尼的湖区”，在爱尔兰芒斯特省凯里郡，以风景秀丽著称。

[334]伊斯兰教徒在哈利发莪默（约582-644）统治时期于六三七年征服了耶路撒1137冷，六八八年，在所罗门神殿的遗址盖的莪默清真寺竣工。大马士革门是古耶路撒冷城墙上的大门，因而是犹太教徒们所向往的目的地。第七章中，曾用“明年在耶路撒冷”一语表达了这种心情（见该章注[36]及有关正文）。

[335]帕台农神庙是雅典卫城上供奉希腊雅典娜女神的主神庙，建于公元前五世纪中叶。

[336]拉利内阿是西班牙安达卢西亚地区加的斯省一城镇，临直布罗陀湾，与英属宜布罗陀交界。这里有一座斗牛场，十九世纪七十年代，驻守直布罗陀的皇家威尔士明火枪团（而不是这里所说的女王御用卡梅隆高地联队士兵）的成员约翰・奥哈拉，成为业余斗牛士，名声大振。

[337]一九0一年十月二十四日，安娜・艾德逊・泰勒曾坐在一只桶里，成功地横过尼亚加拉瀑布。

[338]“从来没有一个旅人回来过”，出自《哈姆莱特》第3幕第1场中王子著名的长篇独白。据堂吉福德等合编的《

[339]“看……命”一语出自意大利谚语：“舍命一睹那不勒斯。”

[340]联接北斗七星中的“贝塔”（中名天璇）和“阿尔法”（中名天枢）两星的线，延长约五倍处，可寻到北极星。原文中并未说明“奥墨伽”何所指。北斗七星中也并没有叫作“奥墨伽”的。鉴于“奥墨伽”是希腊字母表中最后一个字母，译文中把它解释为“贝塔――阿尔法”延长线的“终点”，即北极星所在地。

[341]“云柱”的出典见第七章注[218]。

[342]“普通人”是中世纪寓言剧《普通人》（约1485）的主人公。 他在众多虚伪的朋友陪同下走向坟墓。半路上，“知识”、“强壮”等一个个全离开了他，最后只剩下“善行”。“无人”是奥德修用来欺骗波吕菲漠的假名字。前来营救这个独目巨人的伙伴们，听他说“无人”用阴谋杀害他，便都舍他而去（见《奥德修纪》卷9）。

[343]《奥德修纪》卷8末尾有关于素昧平生的阿吉诺王送给奥德修大批贵重礼物一事的描述。

[344]《奥德修纪》卷5中，美貌的女神卡吕蒲索曾向奥德修求婚，要他留在她那里过“长生不老的生活＼

[345]关于仙后座及出现新星事，见第九章注[452]、[450]。该星座的“德尔塔”，中名为“阁道三”。

[346]《艺术家年轻时的写照》第2章第1节中描述少年斯蒂芬怎样爱读《基度山伯爵》，其中说主人丹特斯是个“怀着阴暗心情的复仇者”。

[347]“d醒了的沉睡者”，指瑞普・凡・温克尔，见第十三章注[146]。

[348]罗思柴尔德，参看本章注[281]。

[349]《白银国王》是英国戏剧家亨利・阿瑟・琼斯（1851-1929）所写维多利亚时期的“社会剧”。一八八二年在伦敦首演，使他一举成名。主人公丹佛被一个地主陷害，最后得到昭雪。这里只是借用剧名，以表示富有。

[350]希腊神话里的纳希素斯（见第十五章注[617]）拒绝接受任何女子的爱情，包括山林女神艾可（“回音”的音译）。她失恋而死，只剩下“回音”。

[351]本段中把布卢姆在过去十八个小时内的活动与犹太教的仪式、经文联系起来。这里把布卢姆油煎腰子比作古代犹太教仪式中的“燔祭”（火烧兽肉）。

[352]“至圣所”是古代耶路撒冷圣殿中最神圣的地方，在圣殿内西端。只有祭司长方可入内。

[353]犹太教的清晨礼拜包括沐浴。《马太福音》第3章中记载着施洗者约翰在约旦河里为群众施洗，其中也有耶稣。

[354]《撒母耳记》（上）第28章第3节有关于撒母耳葬礼的记载：“撒母耳已经死了，以色列人为他举哀，把他葬在他的故乡拉玛。”

[355]“火”与“真理”，原文为希伯来文，也可译为“光”与“完善”。这是犹太教大祭司所穿的法衣上的两个标志，象征着教义与信仰。

[356]关于麦基洗德，《创世记》第14章第18节有如下记载：“至高者上帝的祭司撒冷王麦基洗德带着饼和酒出来迎接亚伯兰……”

[357]“神圣的地方”，指犹太教圣殿内部“至圣所”所在地，这里安放着象征以色列人与上帝的特殊关系的约柜。

[358]“商贾拱廊”，见第十章注[64]及有关正文。

[359]“喜哉法典”，原文为希伯来文。这是为期七天的住棚节（见第四章注[30]）的最后一夭，把《旧约》首五卷的有关章节读毕，所吟诵之祝词。

[360]“歌中之歌”，原文为希伯来语，指《旧约》中的《雅歌》（一译《所罗门之歌》）。住棚节期间的安息日，在圣殿里诵《雅歌》中的若干章节。

[361]“穴居人”指“市民”（见第十二章注[9]）。布卢姆和“市民”吵嘴的情节，见第十二章注[634]及有关正文。

[362]“办丧事的家”，见第十一章注[221]。

[363]“告别”指以色列人离开埃及，“旷野”指以色列人在这之后世世代代所过的漂泊生活。

[364]俄南（Onan）是《旧约》中的人物。英语onanism（交媾中断， 手淫）一词，典出于他的故事。他是犹大的二儿子。他哥哥死后，犹太对他说：“你去跟你大嫂同床，对她尽你作小叔的义务，好替你哥哥传后。”但是俄南知道生下来的孩子不属于他，所以每次跟他大嫂同床，都故意把精遗在地上，避免替哥哥生孩子。”（见《创世记》第38章第8至9节）前文中的女人指格蒂，参看第十三章注[75]及有关正文。

[365]“奉献祭物”典出《民数记》第5章第9至10节：“每一个以色列人给上主的特别奉献都要归给替他们奉献的祭司。每一个祭司要把带到他面前的祭物留下。”现在用来指基督教徒自愿地或作为义务向教会捐钱捐物。

[366]“大决战”是意译，音译为“哈米吉多顿”，是希伯来文中对战事频仍的巴勒斯坦古镇美吉多的称呼。按照犹太教传统，这是将来为了弥赛亚 （救世主）的到来而进行最后一场大决战的地方。基督教认为这是世界末日善恶决一胜负的战场。见《启示录》第16章第16节。

[367]“赎罪”，指犹太教的赎罪日，参看第八章注[17]。

[368]堂吉福德等合编的《

[369]“穿胶布雨衣的人”，见第六章注[153]。

[370]布卢姆所破的谜底是：“呆在黑暗当中。”

[371]据海德一九八九年版（第600页第9至10行），“一边走着”后面有“抱着他刚刚脱下来的一簇男性衣物”之句。莎士比亚书屋一九二二年版（第681页倒 9行）和奥德赛一九三三年版（第733页第16行）均无此句。

[372]《丽亚》，见第五章注[24]。

[373]马尔维，见第十三章注[105]及有关正文。

[374]彭罗斯，见第八章注[62]、[272]及有关正文。巴特尔・达西，见第八章注[63]。

[375]古德温教授，见第四章注[48]。

[376]路易斯・海曼在《爱尔兰的犹太人》（第189页）中说，朱利叶斯・马斯添斯基是以在圣埃文步道十六号开食品杂货店的 J．马斯连斯基为原型而塑造的人物。参看第四章注[26]及有关正文。

[377]约翰・亨利・门顿，见第六章注[107]。

[378]第六章（见该章注[121]及有关正文）、第十六章（见该章注[194]）以及本章（见注[192]）中，曾先后三次提到狄格纳穆的内弟（或内兄）。他也名伯纳德・科里根，但并不是神父。

[379]摩莉在马匹展示会（见第七章注[321]上遇见农场主事，参看第十三章注[127]及有关正文。

[380]布卢姆曾向布林太太提起马戈特・奥里利（见第十五章注[66]及有关正文），但摩莉在第十八章中并未想到他。

[381]马修・狄龙，见第六章注[134]。马特为马修的呢称。

[382]瓦伦丁・布莱克・狄龙，见第八章注[53]。维尔为瓦伦丁的呢称。

[383]克里斯托夫・卡里南，见第七章注[156]。

[384]利内翰，见第七章注[56]。

[385]轮擦提琴手，见第十一章注[278]及有关正文。在第十八章中，摩莉并未想起他来。

[386]“欢乐剧场里……绅士”，在第十八章中，摩莉想起一位绅士曾用望远镜盯着她。

[387]本杰明・多拉德，见第六章注[19]。本为本杰明的呢称。

[388]安德鲁（精明鬼）・伯克，见第十五章注[262]。

[389]约瑟夫・卡夫，见第四章注[18]。

[390]威兹德姆・希利，参看第六章注[134]及有关正文。

[391]市政委贝约翰・胡珀，见第六章注[180]。

[392]弗朗西斯・布雷迪大夫，见第十五章注[855]。

[393]阿古斯山是个村庄，位于都柏林中心西南二又四分之一英里。该村有个苦难会神父创办的圣保罗学院。在第十八章中，摩莉并未想起塞巴斯蒂安神父。

[394]在第十八章中，摩莉并没有想起这个擦皮鞋的。

[395]堂吉福德等合编的《

[396]梅西雅斯，见第六章注[159]。

[397]这里影射希腊神话中的火神赫菲斯托斯的故事。他天生瘸腿， 其妻阿佛洛狄特（爱与美的女神）私通战神阿瑞斯。他便编织了一张隐形金网，把这对正打得火热的通奸者连床一道套进去，让他们成为众神的笑柄。

[398]据海德一九八九年版（第603页倒5-4行），下面有“接受封嘴钱，施加思想品德的影响，这是可能的”之句，莎士比亚书屋一九二二年版（第685页倒10行）、奥德赛一九三三年版（第737页倒4行）和兰登书屋一九九0年版（第733页倒4行），均无此句。

[399]堂吉福德等合编的《

[400]据《

[401]“午夜的太阳之国”，指北极圈和南极圈。在北极圈上，每年有一天多太阳不落（约为6月21日，或太阳不出（约为12月21日）。在南极圈上，情况刚好相反。

[402]幸福岛是古希腊后期神话中的岛，在西方的海里，系受众神保佑的人们死后的去处。相当于爱尔兰神话中的长生不老国，参看第九章注[219]。

[403]“希腊的各个岛屿”一语出自拜伦的长诗《唐璜》（1821）第3章。

[404]“被应许的土地”，指迦南，见第七章注[220]。下文中的“奶与蜜”，出典见第十四章注[82]。

[405]帕默扮演丽亚事，见第五章注[24]。

[406]“女性……精”一语出自天主教法规，见第十章注[40]。

[407]该亚是希腊神话中的土地女神（ 最初可能是希腊人崇拜宙斯以前就奉把的一位母亲女神，被描绘成幼儿的养育者）。忒耳斯是古罗马宗教所信奉的土地女神，也称地母。

[408]本段中的十五个姓，都是作者杜撰的，并均与辛伯达发音相近。辛伯这一名，原来拼作“Sindbad”，这里改为“Sinbad”，即用sin（罪恶）和 bad(坏）杜撰成的复合词。

[409]“Tinbad”（廷伯达）的“tin”含有“蹩脚”意。廷伯达和温伯达（见本章注[413]）均为哑剧《水手辛伯达》（参看本章注[54]）中的人物。

[410]“Binbad”（宾伯达）的“bin”含有“垃圾箱”意。

[411]“pinbad”（频伯达）的“pin”含有“饰针”意。

[412]“Dinbad”（丁伯达）的“din”含有“喧嚣”意。

[413]“Vinbad”（温伯达）的“vin”含有“葡萄酒（法语）”意。

[414]神鹰是出现在《一千零一夜・辛伯达航海旅行的故事》“第二次航海旅行”中的一只大怪鸟。它常常“攫取太象，喂养雏鸟”。

[415]海雀是北方海洋中的鸟（其中大海雀已于一八四四年灭绝），黑白色，像企鹅那样直着身子行走。