 Section 55 of Ulysses. Were there schemes of wider scope? A scheme to be formulated and submitted for approval to the harbor 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 Pulafuka or Powers Court or catchment basins of main streams for the economic production of 500,000 WHP 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, boarding houses, reading rooms, establishments for mixed bathing. A scheme for the use of dog vans and goat vans for the delivery of early morning milk. A scheme for the development of Irish tourist traffic in and around Dublin by means of petrol-propelled river-boats, plying in the fluvial fairway between Island Bridge and Ringsend, Chara Banks narrow gauge local railways and pleasure steamers for coast-wise navigation, ten shillings per day per person, guide, trilingual included. A scheme for the repristination of passenger and goods traffic over Irish waterways when freed from weed beds. A scheme to connect by tram line 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 43-45 North Wall, in proximity to the terminal stations or Dublin branches of Great Central Railway Midland Railway of England, City of Dublin Steampacket Company, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Dublin and Glasgow Steampacket Company, Glasgow Dublin and London Dairy Steampacket Company, Laird Line, British and Irish Steampacket Company, Dublin and Morecam Steemers, London and Northwestern Railway Company, Dublin Port and Docks Board Landing Sheds and Transit Sheds of Palgrave, Murphy and Company, Steamship Owners, Agents for Steemers from Mediterranean, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and Holland, and for Liverpool Underwriters Association, the cost of acquired rolling stock for animal transport and of additional mileage operated by the Dublin United Tramways Company Limited to be covered by Grazier's fees. Considering what proteases would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis? Given a guarantee equal to the some sought, the support by deed of gift and transfer vouchers during the donor's lifetime or by bequest after donor's painless extinction of eminent financiers Bloem Pasha, Rothschild Guggenheim, Hirsch Montefiori, Morgan Rockefeller, possessing fortunes in six figures, amassed during a successful life and joining capital with opportunity the thing required was done. What eventuality would render him independent of such wealth? The independent discovery of a gold seam of inexhaustible ore. For what reason did he meditate on schemes so difficult of realization? It was one of his axioms that similar meditations or the automatic relation to himself of a narrative concerning himself or tranquil recollection of the past when practiced 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 seventy years of complete human life at least two sevenths, these twenty years are 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 had been realized. 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 soul unique advertisement to cause passers to stop and 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 congruence with the velocity of modern life. What did the first drawer unlocked contain? A veer fosters handwriting copy book, property of Millie Millicent Bloom, certain pages of which bore diagram drawings marked Peppley which showed a large globular head with five hairs erect, two eyes in profile, the trunk full front with three large buttons, one triangular foot, two fading photographs of Queen Alexandra of Egypt and of Maud Branscombe, actress and professional beauty, a yuletide card bearing on it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend Ms. Pa, 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 ceiling wax obtained from the store's department of Mrs. Healy's limited 8990 and 91 Dame Street, a box containing the remainder of a gross of gilt jay pen nibs obtained from the same department of same firm, an old sand glass 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 Ewert Gladstone's Home Rule Bill of 1886 never passed into law. A bizarre ticket, number 2004, of S. Kevin's Charity Fair, Price Sixpence, 100 Prizes, an infantile epistle dated Small M. Monday, reading Capital P. Popley, H. How are you, note of interrogation, Capital I, I am very well, full stop, new paragraph, signature with flourishes, Capital M. Millie, no stop. A cameo bruce, property of Ellen Bloom, born Higgins, deceased. A cameo scarf pin, property of Rudolph Bloom, born Virag, deceased. Three typewritten letters, Edrasi Henry Flower, care of P. O. Westland Rowe, Addressor Martha Clifford, care of P. O. Dolphin's Barn. The transliterated name and address of the address of the three letters in reversed alphabetic, bustrophodonic, punctated, quadrilinear cryptogram, vowel suppressed. N-I-G-S-slash-W-I-U-U-O-X-slash-W-O-K-S-M-H-slash-Y-I-M. 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, Post Office, Charing Cross, London, W. C. One pack of one dozen cream-laid envelopes and faint-ruled note paper, watermarked, now reduced by three. Some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins. Two coupons of the Royal and Privileged Hungarian lottery. A low-power magnifying glass. Two erotic photo cards showing A. Buckel-coition between nude sinurita, rear 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 one-pence adhesive stamp lavender of the reign of Queen Victoria. A chart of the measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled before, during, and after two months consecutive use of Sandal Whitey's pulley-exerciser, men's 15 shillings, athlete's 20 shillings, V's chest 28 inches and 29.5 inches, biceps 9 inches and 10 inches, forearm 8.5 inches and 9 inches, thigh 10 inches and 12 inches, calf 11 inches and 12 inches. One prospectus of the Wonder Worker, the world's greatest remedy for rectal complaints, direct from Wonder Worker Coventry House, south place London, E. C., addressed erroneously to Mrs. L. Bloom with brief accompanying note commencing erroneously, Dear Madam. Quote the textual terms in which the prospectus claimed advantages for this thumbaturgic remedy. It heals and soothes while you sleep. In case of trouble in breaking wind, assists nature in the most formidable way, ensuring instant relief in discharge of gases, keeping parts clean and free natural action, and initial outlay of seven shilling sixpence making a new man of you and life worth living. Ladies find Wonder Worker especially useful, a pleasant surprise when they note delightful result like a cool drink of fresh spring water on a sultry summer's day. Recommended to your lady and gentlemen friends lasts a lifetime. Insert long round end, Wonder Worker. Were there testimonials? Numerous, from clergymen, British naval officer, well-known author, city man, hospital nurse, lady, mother of five, absent-minded beggar. How did absent-minded beggars concluding testimonial conclude? What a pity the government did not supply our men with Wonder Workers during the South African Campaign. What a relief it would have been. What object did Bloom add to this collection of objects? A fourth typewritten letter received by Henry Flower, let H. F. B. 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 favorably received during the course of the preceding day by a wife, Mrs. Josephine Breen, born Josie Powell, a nurse, Ms. Callan, Christian name unknown, a maid, Gertrude, Gertie, family name unknown. What possibility suggested itself? The possibility of exercising virile power of fascination in the not immediate future after an expansive 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 second drawer contain? Documents The birth certificate of Leopold Paula Bloom, an endowment assurance policy of five hundred pounds in the Scottish Widows Assurance Society. Intestated Millicent Millie Bloom, coming into force at twenty-five years as with profit policy of four hundred thirty pounds, four hundred sixty-two pounds, ten shillings, and five hundred pounds at sixty years or death, sixty-five years or death, and death, respectively, or with profit policy, paid up, of two hundred ninety-nine pounds, ten shillings, together with cash payment of one hundred and thirty-three pounds, ten shillings, at option. A bank passbook, issued by the Ulster Bank, College Green Branch, showing statement of AC for half-year, ending thirty-one December, nineteen-oh-three, balance in depositors' favor, eighteen-fourteen-six, eighteen pounds, fourteen shillings in six pence, sterling, net personality. End of possession of nine hundred pounds, Canadian four-percent inscribed government stock, free of stamp duty. Docots of the Catholic Cemetery's Glasnevan Committee, relative to a grave-plot purchased. A local press-cutting concerning change of name by deed poll. Quote the textual terms of this notice. I, Rudolph Virag, now resident at number fifty-two Clan Brassel Street, Dublin, formerly of Zombathley 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 second drawer. An indistinct daguerreotype of Rudolph Virag and his father, Leopold Virag, executed in the year eighteen-fifty-two in the portrait atelier of their, respectively, first and second cousin, Stephen Virag of Svesvar, Hungary. An ancient Haggadah book in which a pair of horn-rimmed convex spectacles inserted marked the passage of thanksgiving in the ritual prayers for Pesach, Passover. A photo card of the Queen's Hotel, Annas, 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 Herz, Gott, Dain. What reminiscences of a human subject suffering from progressive melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom? An old man, widower, unkempt of 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 flesh, meat, and milk at one meal. The hebdomidary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfividly concrete mercantile co-exreligionist excompatriots. The circumcision of male infants. The supernatural character of Judaic scripture. The ineffability of the tetragrammaton. 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 Rudolf Bloom deceased? Rudolf Bloom deceased, narrated to his son Leopold Bloom, aged six, a retrospective arrangement of migrations and settlements in and between Dublin, London, Florence, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Zombothly, with statements of satisfaction, his grandfather having seen Maria Terezia and Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary, with commercial advice, having taken care of pence the pounds having taken care of themselves, Leopold Bloom, aged six, 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 products 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, erectation consequent upon repletion. What object offered partial consolation for these reminiscences? The endowment policy, the bank passbook, the certificate of the possession of script. 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 jewelry, the done 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 one shilling forpence in the pound, sandwich-man, distributor of throwaways, nocturnal vagrant, insinuating sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling, superannuated bailiff's van, mar-feast, lick-plate, spoil-sport, pick-thank, eccentric public laughing-stock seated on bench of public park under discarded perforated umbrella, destitution, the inmate of old man's house, royal hospital, Kilmainham, the inmate of simpsons hospital for reduced but respectable men permanently disabled by gout or want of sight, nadir of misery, the aged impotent disenfranchised rate-supported 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 letration of illegitimate unlicensed vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable missiles worth little or nothing, 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 departure 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 departure not irrational? The parties concerned, uniting, had increased and multiplied, which being done, offspring produced and educed to maturity, the parties, if not 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 departure desirable? The attractive character of certain localities in Ireland and abroad has represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and hashours. In Ireland, the cliffs of Moher, the windy wilds of Connemara, Loughney with submerged petrified city, the giant's causeway, Fort Camden and Fort Carlisle, the golden valiff-tipperary, the islands of Iran, the pastures of Royal Meath, Bridget's Elm in Kildare, the Queen's Island shipyard in Belfast, the Salmon Leap, the lakes of Kilarney. Abroad, Ceylon with spice gardens supplying tea to Thomas Kermin, agent for Pullbrook, Robinson and Company, two mincing-lane London EC, five 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 Mary and Tweedy, the Parthenon containing statues of nude Grecian divinities, the Wall Street money market which controlled international finance, the Plaza del Toros at La Lenia, Spain, where O'Hara of the Camerons had slayed the bull, Niagara over which no human being had passed with impunity, the land of the Eskimos, eaters of soap, the forbidden country of Tibet 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, Septentrionale, by night the pole-star 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 right-angled triangle formed by the line alpha-omega soap-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 Carnot's negligent, perambulating female, a pillar of the cloud by day. What public advertisement would divulge the occultation of the departed? Five pounds reward, lost, stolen, or strayed from his residence, Seven Eccles Street, missing gent about forty, answering to the name of Bloom, Leopold, Poldy, height five feet nine and a half inches, full build, olive complexion, may have since grown a beard when last seen was wearing a black suit, above some will be paid for information leading to his discovery. What universal binomial denominations would be his as entity and non-entity? Assumed by any or known to none, every man or no man. What tributes his? Honor and gifts of strangers, the friends of every man. A nymph immortal, beauty, the bride of no man. Would the departed never know where know how reappear? Ever he would wander self-compelled 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, when compelled, 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 reaker of justice on malifactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources, by supposition, surpassing those of Rothschild or 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, hot water jar, calyfaction, the stimulation of metutinal 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 pre-apprehended 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, right of John, the funeral, right of Samuel, the advertisement of Alexander Keyes, Urim and Thamim, the unsubstantial lunch, right of Malchesedek, the visit to museum and national library, holy place, the book hunt along Bedford Row, Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay, Shimchak Tora, 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 car drive, a visit to a house of mourning, a leave taking, wilderness, the eroticism produced by feminine exhibitionism, right of Onan, the prolonged delivery of Mrs. Mina Purfoy, 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, but bridge, atonement. What self-imposed 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 strained veined timber-table. What self-involved enigma did Bloom risen going gathering multicolored, multi-form, multitudinous garments, voluntarily apprehending, not comprehend? Who is Macintosh? What self-evident enigma pondered with desultory constancy during thirty years did Bloom now, having affected 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, charged with collected articles of recently disvested male-wearing apparel, 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, Robinson & Company, Five Dame Street, Dublin, and two 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 Gayety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49, South King Street? What impression of an absent-faceded 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 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, half-silk black ladies' hose, a pair of new, violet garters, a pair of outsized ladies' drawers of India Mall, relevant on generous lines, redolent of alpaponics, jessamine and Murati's Turkish cigarettes, and containing a long bright steel safety pin, folded curvilinear, a camisole of batiste with thin lace border, and 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 multicolored labels, initialed on its foreside in white-lettering BCT, Brian Cooper Tweedy. What impersonal objects were perceived? A commode, one leg fractured, totally covered by square, Cretan cutting, apple design, on which rested a ladies' black straw hat. Orange keyed wear, bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware, and iron mongery manufacturer, 21, 22, 23 Moore Street, disposed irregularly on the wash stand and floor, and consisting of basin, soap dish, and brush tray, on the wash stand, together, pitcher and night article, on the floor, separate. Bloom's axe. 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 night-shirt, inserted his head and arms into the proper apertures of the night-shirt, removed a pillow from the head to the foot of the bed, prepared the bed linen accordingly, and entered the bed. How? With circumspection as invariably when entering in a bode, his own or not his own, with solicitude the snake-spiral springs of the mattress being old, the brass coits and pendant viper radii loose and tremulous under stress and strain, prudently as entering a lair or ambush of lust or adders, lightly the lust 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 bed linen, additional odors, 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 moved. 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? leading Mulvey to be the first term of his series, Penrose, Bartell Darcy, Professor Goodwin, Julius Mastianski, 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 Kalanen, Lenahan, an Italian organ grinder, an unknown gentleman at the Gayety Theatre, Benjamin Dollard, Simon Dedalus, Andrew Pisser Burke, Joseph Cuff, William Healy, Alderman John Hooper, Dr. Francis Brady, Father Sebastian of Mount Argus, a boot-black at the General Post Office, Hugh E. Blaise's Boiland, and so each and so on to know last term. What were his reflections concerning the last member of this series and late occupant of the bed? Reflections on his vigor, a bounder, corporal proportion, a bill-sticker, commercial ability, a bester, impressionability, a boaster. Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigor, corporal proportion, and commercial ability? Because he had observed with augmenting frequency in the preceding members of the same series the same concupiscence, inflamably transmitted, first with alarm, then with understanding, then with desire, finally with fatigue, with alternating symptoms of episcine 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 super-incumbent 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 attraction between agent and reagents at all instance varied with inverse proportion of increase and decrease with incessant circular extension and radial re-entrance because of the controlled contemplation of the fluctuation of attraction produced, if desired, a fluctuation of pleasure. Abnegation? In virtue of A. Aquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the establishment of George Messius, Merchant Taylor and Outfielder, 5 Eden Quay, B. Hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and re-appropriated in person, C. Comparative youth subject to impulses of ambition and magnanimity, collegual altruism and amorous egoism, D. Extraracial attraction, intraracial inhibition, supraracial prerogative, E. In imminent provincial musical tour common current expenses net proceeds divided. Equanimity? As 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 so calamitous as a cataclysmic annihilation of the planet in consequence of a collision with a dark sun, as less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false pretenses, 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, jail-breaking, practice of unnatural vices, desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the king's enemies, criminal assault, manslaughter, willful and premeditated murder. As not more abnormal than all other parallel 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 outraged matrimony to outraged adultery, there arose not 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? Demolition 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 witnesses? Not yet. Suit for damages by legal influence or simulation of assault with evidence of injuries sustained, self-inflicted, not impossibly. Hush money by moral influence, possibly. 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 the separator from both. By what reflections did he, a conscious reactor against the voids of insertitude, 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 self-prolonging 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, onomatopoeic, transitive verb with direct feminine object. From the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition, parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb, and quasi-monosyllabic, onomatopoeic past participle with complementary masculine agent in the passive voice. The continued product of seminators by generation. The continued production of semen by distillation. The futility of triumph or protest or vindication. The inanity of extolled virtue. The lethargy of nescent 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 grease, the land of promise, of adipose anterior and 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 contrarities of expression, expressive of mute, immutable, mature animality. The visible signs of anti-satisfaction, 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 melons-smellonous osculation. The visible signs of post-satisfaction, a silent contemplation, a tentative revelation, a gradual abasement, a solicitous aversion, a proximate erection. What followed this silent action? Somnolent invocation, less somnolent recognition, insipient 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 Company, Ltd., 8, 9, and 10 Little Britain Street, the erotic provocation and response thereto caused by the exhibitionism of Gertrude Gertie, surname unknown. Positive. He included mention of a performance by Mrs. Bandman Palmer of Lea at the Gayety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49, South King Street, an invitation to supper at Wins, Murphy's Hotel, 35, 36, and 37 Lower Abbey Street, a volume of Peckham Menace's pornographical tenancy entitled Sweets of Sin, Anonymous Author, A Gentleman of Fashion, a temporary concussion caused by a falsely calculated movement in the course of a post-senial 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 of foresaid, 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 in as much as marriage had been celebrated one calendar month after the eighteenth anniversary of her birth, 8 September 1870, V's, 8 October, and consummated on the same date with female issue born 15 June 1889, having been anticipatorily consummated on the tenth of September of the same year, and complete carnal intercourse with ejaculation of semen within the natural female organ, having last taken place five weeks previous, V's, 27 November 1893, to the birth on 29 December 1893 of second and only male issue deceased 9 January 1894, aged eleven days, there remained a period of ten years, five months and eighteen 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, in as much as complete mental intercourse between himself and the listener, had not taken place since the consummation of puberty, indicated by cataminic hemorrhage of the female issue of narrator and listener, 15 September 1903, there remained a period of nine months and one day during which, in consequence of a pre-established natural comprehension and 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 wither, 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 listeners and the narrators 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? Runner south-east by east, narrator north-west by west, on the fifty-third parallel of latitude, north, and the sixth meridian of longitude, west, at an angle of forty-five degrees 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 rearward, respectively, by the proper perpetual motion of the earth through ever-changing tracks of never-changing 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 geotellus, fulfilled, recumbent, big with seed. Narrator reclined laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the index finger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in the attitude depicted in a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the child-man weary, the man-child in the womb. Womb? Weary? He rests. He has travelled. With? Sinbad the sailor, and tinbad the tailor, and ginbad the jailer, and winbad the whaler, and ninbad the nailer, and finbad the failure, and binbad the bailer, and pinbad the paler, and minbad the mailer, and hinbad the hailer, and rinbad the railer, and dinbad the caler, and vinbad the quailer, and linbad the jailer, and zinbad the thaler. When, going to dark bed, there was a square round, sinbad the sailor's, rocks, ox, egg, in the night of the bed of all the ox of the rocks of dark and bad, the bright dayler. Where? End of Section 55, recorded by Richard Wallace, Liberty, Missouri, 16 February 2011. Section 56 of Ulysses. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by John Thomas Kooz, Smarski, Ulysses by James Joyce, Part 3, The Nostos, Episode 18, Penelope, Part 1. Yes, because he never did a thing like that before, as asked to get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs, since the City Arms Hotel, when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice, doing his highness to make himself interesting, for that old faggot Mrs. Reorden that he thought he had a great leg of, and she never left as a farthing all for masses for herself, and her sole greatest miser ever was actually afraid to lay out 4D for her methylated spirit, telling me all her ailments she had too much old chat in her about politics and earthquakes, and the end of the world. Let us have a bit of fun first. God help the world if all the women were her sort, down on bathing suits and low necks. Of course, nobody wanted her to wear them, I suppose. She was pious because no man would look at her twice, I hope. I'll never be like her, I wonder she didn't want us to cover our faces, but she was a well educated woman, certainly, and her gabby talk about Mr. Reorden here and Mr. Reorden there, I suppose he was glad to get shut of her and her dog smelling my fur, and always edging to get up under my petticoats, especially then. Still I like that in him, polite to old women like that, and waiters and beggars too. He's not proud out of nothing, but not always, if ever he got anything really serious the matter with him, it's much better for them to go into a hospital where everything is clean, but I suppose I'd have to bring it into him for a month, yes, and then wed have a hospital nurse next thing on the carpet, have him staying there till they throw him out or a nun maybe, like this muddy photo he has, she's as much a nun as I'm not, yes, because they're so weak and peeling, when they're sick they want a woman to get well. If his nose bleeds you'd think it was, oh, tragic, and that dying looking one off the south circular, when he sprained his foot at the choir party at the Sugarloaf Mountain, the day I wore that dress, Ms. Stack, bringing him flowers, the worst old one she could find at the bottom of the basket, anything at all, to get into a man's bedroom with her old maid's voice trying to imagine he was dying on account of her to never see thy face, again, though he looked more like a man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father, was the same, besides, I hate bandaging and dosing, when he cut his toe with the razor, pairing his corns, afraid he'd get blood poisoning, but if it was a thing I was sick, then we'd see what attention only, of course, the woman hides, it not to give all the troubles they do, yes, he came somewhere, I'm sure, by his appetite anyway, love it's not or he'd be off his feed thinking of her, so either it was one of those nightwomen, if it was down there, he was really, and the whole tale story, he made up a pack of lies to hide it, planning it, Heinz kept me, who did I meet, ah yes, I do, you remember, Menton, and who else who let me see that big baby face, I saw him, and he not long married, flirting with a young girl at Poole's Mirorama, and turned my back on him, when he slinked out, looking quite conscious, what harm, but he had the impudence to make up to me one time, well done to him, mouth almighty, and his boiled eyes of all the big stupos I ever met, and that's called a solicitor, only for I hate having a long wrangle in bed, or else if it's not that it's some little bitch or other, he got in with somewhere or picked up on the sly, if they only knew him as well as I do, yes, because the day before yesterday, he was scribbling something, a letter, when I came into the front room to show him Dignam's death in the paper, as if something told me, and he covered it up with the blotting paper, pretending to be thinking about business, so very probably that was it to somebody who thinks she has a softy in him, because all men get a bit like that at his age, especially getting on to 40, he is now so as to weadle any money she can out of him, no fool, like an old fool, and then the usual kissing my bottom was to hide it, not that I care too straws, now who he does it with, or knew before that way, though I'd like to find out so long as I don't have the two of them under my nose all the time, like that slut that Mary we had in Ontario Terrace patting out her false bottom to excite him bad enough to get the smell of those painted women off him once or twice, I had a suspicion by getting him to come near me when I found the long hair on his coat, without that one when I went into the kitchen pretending he was drinking water, one woman is not enough for them, it was all his fault, of course, ruining servants, then proposing that she could eat at our table on Christmas day, if you please, oh, no, thank you, not in my house stealing my potatoes and the oysters, two six per dozen, going out to see her aunt, if you please, common robbery, so it was, but I was sure he had something on with that one, it takes me to find out a thing like that, he said, you have no proof, it was her proof, oh yes, her aunt was very fond of oysters, but I told her what I thought of her suggesting me to go out to be alone with her, I wouldn't lower myself to spy on them, the garters, I found in her room, the Friday she was out, that was enough for me, a little bit too much, her face swelled up on her with temper, when I gave her her week's notice, I saw to that better do without them altogether, do out the rooms myself quicker, only for the damn cooking and throwing out the dirt, I gave it to him anyhow, either she or me leaves the house, I couldn't even touch him if I thought he was with a dirty bare face liar and sloven like that one denying it up to my face and singing about the place in the WC too, because she knew she was too well off, yes, because he couldn't possibly do without it that long, so he must do it somewhere, and the last time he came on my bottom when was it the night, Boylan gave my hand a great squeeze going along by the Tolka in my hand, there steals another, I just press the back of his like that with my thumb to squeeze back singing the young May, moon, she's beaming love because he has an idea about him and me, he's not such a fool, he said I'm dining out and going to the gayety, though I'm not going to give him the satisfaction in any case, God knows he's a change in a way not to be always and ever wearing the same old hat, unless I paid some nice looking boy to do it since I can't do it myself, a young boy would like me, I'd confuse him a little alone with him, if we were, I'd let him see my garters, the new ones and make him turn red looking at him seduce him, I know what boys feel with that down their cheek doing that frigging drawing out the thing by the hour question and answer, would you do this that and the other with the coal man, yes with a bishop, yes I would because I told him about some Dean or Bishop was sitting beside me in the Jews temple's gardens when I was knitting that woollen thing, a stranger to Dublin, what place was it and so on about the monuments and he tired me out with statues encouraging him, making him worse than he is, who is in your mind, now tell me who are you thinking of, who is it, tell me his name, who, tell me who the German emperor is, it, yes imagine I'm him, think of him, can you feel him trying to make a whore of me what he never will, he ought to give it up now at this age of his life, simply ruination for any woman and no satisfaction in it pretending to like it till he comes and then finish it off myself anyway and it makes your lips pale anyhow, it's done now once and for all with all the talk of the world about it, people make it's only the first time after that, it's just the ordinary, do it and think no more about it, why can't you kiss a man without going and marrying him first, you sometimes love too wildly when you feel that way so nice all over you, you can't help yourself, I wish some man or other would take me some time when he's there and kiss me in his arms, there's nothing like a kiss long and hot down to your soul, almost paralyzes you, then I hate that confession, when I used to go to father Corian, he touched me father and what harm if he did where and I said on the canal bank like a fool, but whereabouts on your person my child, on the leg behind high up, was it yes rather high up, was it where you sit down, yes, oh Lord, couldn't he say bottom right out and I always think of the real father, what did he want to know for when I already confessed it to God, he had a nice fat hand, the palm moist always I wouldn't mind feeling it neither, would he I'd say by the bull neck in his horse collar, I wonder did he know me in the box, I could see his face, he couldn't see mine, of course, he'd never turn or let on, still his eyes were red when his father died, they're lost for a woman, of course, must be terrible when a man cries, let alone them I'd like to be embraced by one in his vestments and the smell of incense off him, like the Pope besides, there's no danger with a priest, if you're married, he's too careful about himself, then give something to H.H. the Pope for a penance, I wonder was he satisfied with me, one thing I didn't like, his slapping me behind, going away so familiarly in the hall, though I laughed, I'm not a horse or an ass, am I, I suppose he was thinking of his father's, I wonder is he awake thinking of me or dreaming am I in it, who gave him that flower he said he bought, he smelt of some kind of drink, not whiskey or stout, but perhaps the sweetie kind of paste they stick their bills up with, some liqueur, I like to sip those rich looking green and yellow expensive drinks, those stage door Johnny's, drink with the opera hats I tasted once with my finger dipped out of that American that had the squirrel talking stamps with father, he had all he could do to keep himself from falling asleep after the last time after we took the port and potted meat, it had a fine salty taste, yes, because I felt lovely and tired myself and fell asleep as sound as a top the moment I pop straight into bed till that thunder woke me up, God be merciful to us, I thought the heavens were coming down about us to punish us when I blessed myself and said a Hail Mary like those awful thunderbolts in Gibraltar, as if the world was coming to an end, and then they come and tell you there's no God, what could you do if it was running and rushing about nothing, only make an act of contrition, the candlelight lit that evening in White Friars street chapel for the month of May, see it brought its luck though he'd scoff if he heard because he never goes to church mass or meeting, he says your soul, you have no soul inside only gray matter because he doesn't know what it is to have one, yes, when I lit the lamp, because he must have come three or four times with that tremendous big red brute of a thing he has, I thought the vein or whatever the Dickens they call it was going to burst through his nose is not so big after I took off all my things with the blinds down after my hours dressing and perfuming and combing it like iron or some kind of thick crowbar standing all the time, he must have eaten oysters, I think a few dozen, he was in great singing voice. No, I never in all my life felt anyone had won the size of that to make you feel full up, he must have eaten a whole sheep after what's the idea making us like that with a big hole in the middle of us, or like a stallion driving it up into you because that's all they want out of you with that determined vicious look in his eye I had to half shut my eyes. Still, he hasn't such a tremendous amount of spunk in him. When I made him pull out and do it on me considering how big it is so much the better in case any of it wasn't washed properly the last time I let him finish it in me nice invention they made for women for him to get all the pleasure but if someone gave them a touch of it themselves they'd know what I went through with Millie. Nobody would believe cutting her teeth to and Mina Purfoy's husband gives us a swing out of your whiskers filling her up with a child or twins once a year as regular as the clock always with a smell of children off her the one they called a budgers or something like a nigger with a shock of hair on it Jesus Jack the child is a black the last time I was there a squad of them falling over one another and balding you can't hear your ears supposed to be healthy not satisfied till they have a swollen out like elephants or I don't know what supposing I risked having another not off him though still if he was married I'm sure he'd have a fine strong child but I don't know poldy has more spunk in him yes that'd be awfully jolly I suppose it was meeting Josie Powell and the funeral and thinking about me and Boiland set him off well he can think what he likes now if that'll do him good I know they were spooning a bit when I came on the scene he was dancing and sitting out with her the night of Georgina Simpson's housewarming and then he wanted to ram it down my neck it was on account of not liking to see her a wall flower that was why we had the stand up row over politics he began it not me when he said about our Lord being a carpenter at last he made me cry of course a woman is so sensitive about everything I was fuming with myself after forgiving in only four I knew he was gone on me and the first socialist he said he was he annoyed me so much I couldn't but put into a temper still he knows a lot of mixed up things especially about the body and the inside I often wanted to study up that myself what we have inside us in that family physician I could always hear his voice talking when the room was crowded and watch him after that I pretended I had a coolness on with her over him because he used to be a bit on the jealous side whenever he asked who are you going to and I said over to flowy and he made me the present of Byron's poems and the three pairs of gloves so that finished that I could quite easily get him to make it up any time I know how I'd even supposing he got it in with her again and was going out to see her somewhere I'd know if he refused to eat the onions I know plenty of ways ask him to talk down the collar of my blouse or touch him with my veil and gloves on going out I kiss then would send them all spinning however all right well see then let him go to her she of course would only be too delighted to pretend she is mad in love with him that I wouldn't so much mind I just go to her and ask her and you love him and look her square in the eyes she couldn't fool me but he might imagine he was and make a declaration to her with his plabbery kind of manner like he did to me though I had the devil's own job to get it out of him though I liked him for that it showed he could hold in and wasn't to be got for the asking he was on the pop of asking me to the night in the kitchen I was rolling the potato cake there's something I want to say to you only for I put him off letting on I was in a temper with my hands and arms full of pasty flower in any case I let out too much the night before talking of dreams so I didn't want to let him know more than was good for him she used to be always embracing me Josie whenever he was there meaning him of course glomming me over and when I said it I washed up and down as far as possible asking me and did you wash possible the women are always egging on to that putting it on thick when he's there they know by his sly eye blinking a bit putting on the indifferent when they came out with something the kind he is what spoils him I don't wonder in the least because he was very handsome at that time trying to look like Lord Byron I said I liked though he was too beautiful for a man and he was a little before we got engaged afterwards though she didn't like it so much the day I was in fits of laughing with the giggles I couldn't stop about all my hair pins falling out one after another with the mass of hair I had you're always in great humor she said yes because it grigged her because she knew what it meant because I used to tell her a good bit of what went on between us not all but just enough to make her mouth water but that wasn't my fault she didn't darken the door much after we were married I wonder what she's got like now after living with that dotty husband of hers she had her face beginning to look drawn and run down the last time I saw her she must have been just after a row with him because I saw on the moment she was edging to draw down a conversation about husbands and talk about him to run him down what was it she told me oh yes that sometimes he used to go to bed with his muddy boots on when the maggots take him just imagine having to get into bed with a thing like that that might murder you any moment what a man well it's not the one way everyone goes mad poldy anyhow whatever he does always wipes his feet on the mat when he comes in wet or shine and always blocks his own boots too and he always takes off his hat when he comes up in the street like then and now he's going about in his slippers to look for 10 000 pounds for a postcard up up oh sweetheart may wouldn't a thing like that simply bore you stiff to extinction actually too stupid even to take his boots off now what could you make of a man like that i'd rather die 20 times over than marry another of their sex of course he'd never find another woman like me to put up with him the way i do no me come asleep with me yes and he knows that too at the bottom of his heart take that mrs maybrick that poisoned her husband for what i wonder and love with some other man yes it was found out on her wasn't she the downright villain to go and do a thing like that of course some men can be dreadfully aggravating drive you mad and always the worst word in the world what do they ask us to marry them for if we're so bad as all that comes to yes because she can't get on without us white arsenic she put in his tea off flypaper wasn't it i wonder why they call it that if i asked him he'd say it's from the greek leave as us wise as we were before she must have been madly in love with the other fellow to run the chance of being hanged oh she didn't care if that was her nature and wouldn't she do besides they're not brutes enough to go and hang a woman surely are they end of section 56 recording by john thomas coups kismarsky www.validateyourlife.com section 57 of ulysses this is a libra vox recording all libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit libravox.org recording by john hogarth ulysses by james joce part three the nostos episode 18 panellope part two they're also different boyland talking about the shape of my foot he noticed at once even before he was introduced when i was in the dbc with poldi laughing and trying to listen i was waggling my foot we both ordered two teas and plain bread and butter i saw him looking with his two old maids of sisters when i stood up and asked the girl where it was what do i care with the dropping out of me and that black clothes breaches he made me buy takes you half an hour to let them down wedding all myself always with some brand new fad every other week such a long one i did i forgot my suede gloves in the seat behind that i never got after a robber of a woman and he wanted me to put it in the irish times lost in the lady's lavatory dbc dane street finder returned to mrs mary in bloom and i saw his eyes on my feet going out through the turning door he was looking when i looked back and i went there for tea two days after in the hope but he wasn't now how did that excite him because i was crossing them when we were in the other room first he met the shoes that are too tight to walk in my hand is nice like that if i only had a ring with the stone for the month a nice aquamarine i'll stick him for one and a gold bracelet i don't like my foot so much still i made him spend once with my foot the night after goodwin's botch up of a concert so cold and windy it was well we had that rum in the house to mull and the fire was in blackout when he asked to take off my stockings lying in the heartthrug in lombard street west and another time it was my muddy boots he'd like me to walk in all the horses done i could find but of course he's not natural like the rest of the world that i what did he say i could give him nine points and ten to caddy laner and beat her what does that mean i asked him i forget what he said because the stoppers edition just passed and the man with the curly hair in the luke and dairy that's so polite i think i saw his face before somewhere i noticed him when i was tasting the butter so i took my time bartell darcy too that he used to make fun of when he commenced kissing me on the choir stairs after i sang good knows ava maria what are we waiting for oh my heart kiss me straight on the brow and part which is my brown part he was pretty hot for all his tinny voice too my low notes he was always raving about if you can believe him i like the way he uses mouth singing then he said wasn't it terrible to do that there in a place like that i don't see anything so terrible about it i'll tell him about that someday not now and surprise him i i'll take him there and show him the very place we did it so now there you can like it or lump it he thinks nothing can happen without him knowing he had an idea about my mother till we were engaged otherwise he never have got me so cheap as he did he was low times worse himself anyhow begging me to give him a tiny bit cut off my drawers that he was the evening coming along kenneth worth square he kissed me in the eye of the glove and i had to take it off asking me questions is it permitted to inquire the shape of my bedroom so i let him keep it as if i forgot it to think of me when i saw him slip it into his pocket of course he's mad on the subject of drawers that's plain to be seen always sneezing at those brazen face things on the bicycles with their skirts blowing up to their navels even when millie and i were out with him at the opener fate that one in the cream muslin standing right against the sun so he could see every atom she had on when he saw me from behind following in the rain i saw him before he saw me however standing at the corner of the heralds crossroad with a new rain coat on him with the muffler and then zingari colors to show off his complexion and the brown hat looking sly boots as usual what was he doing there where he'd no business they can go and get whatever they like from anything at all with a skirt on it and were not to ask any questions but they want to know where were you where are you going i could feel him coming along skulking after me his eyes on my neck and he had been keeping away from the house he felt it was getting too warm for him so i have turned and stopped then he pestered me to say yes till i took off my gloves slowly watching him he said my open work sleeves were too cold for the rain anything for an excuse to put his hand in near me draws draws the whole blessed time till i promised to give him a pair off my doll to carry about in his waist coast pocket oh maria santosima he did look a big fool dripping in the rain splendid set of teeth he had made me hungry to look at them and besieged of me to lift the orange petticoat i had along with the sunray pleats and there was nobody he said he'd kneel down in the wet if i didn't so persevering he would too and ruin his new raincoat you never know what freak they'd take alone with you they're so savage for it if anything if anyone was passing so i lifted them a bit and touched his trousers outside the way i used to garner after with my ring hand to keep him from doing worse where it was too public i was dying to find out was he circumcised he was shaking like a jelly all over they want to do everything too quick take all the pleasure out of it and father waiting all the time for his dinner he told me to say i left my purse in the butchers and had to go back for it what a deceiver then he wrote me that letter with all those words in it how could he have the face to let any woman after his company matters making it so awkward after when we met asking me have i offended you with my eyelids down of course he saw i wasn't he had a few brains not like that other fool henny doil he was always breaking or tearing something in the charades i hate an unlucky man and if i knew what it meant of course i had to say no for form's sake don't understand you i said and wasn't it natural so it is of course it used to be written up with a picture of a woman's on that wall in Gibraltar with that word i couldn't find anywhere only for children seeing it too young then writing every morning a letter sometimes twice a day i like the way he made love then he knew the way to take a woman when he sent me the eight big poppies because mine was the eighth then i wrote the night he kissed my heart at dolphin's barn i couldn't describe it simply it makes you feel like nothing on earth but he never knew how to embrace well like gardener i hope hell come on monday as he said at the same time for i hate people who come at all hours answer the door you think it's the vegetables then it's somebody and you all in dressed or the door of the filthy sloppy kitchen blows open the day old frosty face goodwin called about the concert in lombard street and i just after dinner all flushed and tossed with boiling old stew don't look at me professor i had to say i'm afraid yes but he was a real old gent in his way it was impossible to be more respectful nobody to say you're out you have to peep out through the blind like the messenger boy today i thought it was a put-off first him sending the port and the peaches first and i was just beginning to yawn with nerves thinking he was trying to make a fool of me when i knew his tetaratat at the door he must have been a bit late because it was a quarter after three when i saw the two diddlest girls coming from school i never know the time even that watch he gave me never seems to go properly i'd want to get it looked after when i threw that penny to that lame sailor for england home and beauty when i was whistling there is a charming girl i love and i hadn't even put on my clean shift or powdered myself or a thing then this day week were to go to belfast just as well he has to go to ennis his his father's anniversary the 27th it wouldn't be pleasant if he did suppose our rooms at the hotel were beside each other and any fooling went on in the new bed i couldn't tell him to stop and not bother me with him in the next room or perhaps some protestant clergyman with a cough knocking on the wall then he'd never believe the next day we didn't do something it's all very well a husband but you can't fool a lover after me telling him we never did anything of course he didn't believe me no it's no better he's going where he is besides something always happens with him the time going to the mallow concert at mary borough ordering boiling soup for the two of us then the bell rang out he walks down the platform with his soup splashing about taking spoonfuls of it head into the nerve and the waiter after him making a holy show of a screeching and confusion for the engine to start but he wouldn't pay till he finished the two gentlemen in the third class carriage said he was quite right so he was too he's so pigheaded sometimes when he gets a thing into his head a good job he was able to open the carriage door with his knife are they to have taken us on to cork i suppose that was done out of revenge on him oh i love jaunting in a train or a car with lovely soft cushions i wonder will he take a first class for me he might want to do it in the train by tipping the guard well oh i suppose i'll be the usual idiots of men gaping at us with their eyes as stupid as ever they can possibly be that was an exceptional man that common workman that left us alone in the carriage that day going to how would i like to find out something about him one or two tunnels perhaps then you have to look out for the window all the nicer then coming back suppose i never came back what would they say eloped with him that gets you on on the stage the last concert i sang at where it's over a year ago when was it sainteresas hall clarendon street little chits of missies they have now seen kathleen kirney and her like on account of father being in the army and my singing the absinthe banger and wearing a brooch of lor roberts when i had the map of it all and poldy not irish enough was it him managed at this time i wouldn't put it past him like he got me on to sing in the stab at matta by going around saying he was putting lead kindly light to music i put him up to that till the jesuit's found out he was a freemason thumping the piano lead thou me uncopied from some old opera yes and he was going about with some of them sinner fame lately or whatever they call themselves talking his usual trash and nonsense he says that little man he showed me without the neck is very intelligent the coming man griffits is he well he doesn't look it that's all i can say still it must have been him he knew there was a boycott i hate the mention of their politics after the war that pretoria and ladiesmith and blown fontaine were a gardener lieutenant stanley g eighth battalion second east lancashire regiment of enteric fever he was a lovely fellow in khaki and just the right height over me i'm sure he was brave too he said i was lovely the evening we kissed goodbye at the canal lock my irish beauty he was pale with excitement about going away or wed be seen from the road he couldn't stand properly and i saw hot as i never felt they could have made their peace in the beginning or old doom paul and the rest of the other cruggers go and fight it out between them instead of dragging on for years killing any fine-looking men there were with their fever if he was even decently shot it wouldn't have been so bad i love to see a regiment pass in review the first time i saw the spanish calvary at laroc it was lovely after looking across the bay from eldrassiras all the lights of the rock like fireflies are those sham battles in the 15 acres of the black watch with their kilts in time at the march past the pent hussars the prince of wales own or the lancers oh the lancers they're grand or the doublins that won to gula his father made his money overselling the horses for the cavalry well he could buy me a nice present up in belfast after what i gave him they've lovely linen up there one of those nice kimono things i must buy a mothball like i had before to keep in the drawer with him it would be exciting going around with him shopping buying those things in a new city better leave this ring behind want to keep it turning and turning to get it over the knuckle there or they might beller around the town and their papers or tell the police on me but they think we're married i'll let them all go and smother themselves for the fat lot i carry as plenty of money and he's not a marrying man so somebody better get it out of him if i could find out whether he likes me i looked a bit washy of course when i looked close in the handglass powdering a mirror never gives you the impression besides scrooching down on me like that all the time with his big hip bones he's heavy too with his hairy chest for the seat always having to lie down for them better for him to put it into me from behind the way mrs. mastianski told me her husband made her like the dogs do it and stick out her tongue as far as ever she could and he's so quiet a mild with his ting a ting said there can you ever be up to men the way it takes them lovely stuff in that blue suit he had on and stylish tie and socks with the sky blue silk things on them he's certainly well off i know but the cut of his clothes have and his heavy watch but he was like a perfect devil for a few minutes after he came back with the stoppers tearing up the tickets and swearing blazes because he lost 20 quid he said he lost over the outsider that one and half he put on for me on a count of lenahan's tip cursing him to the lowest pits that sponger he was making free with me after the glen creed dinner coming back that long jolt over the featherbed mountain after the lord mayor looking at me with his dirty eyes van dillon that big heathen i first noticed him at dessert when i was cracking the nuts with my teeth i wish i could have picked every morsel of that chicken out of my fingers it was so tasty and brown and as tender as anything only for i didn't want to eat everything on my plate those forks and fish slices were hallmarked silver too i wish i had some i could easily have slipped a couple into my mouth when i was playing with them then i was hanging out of them for money in a restaurant or the bit you put down your throat we have to be thankful for for the mangy cup of tea itself as a great compliment to be noticed the way the world is divided in any case if it's going to go on i want at least two other good chemises for one thing but i don't know what kind of drawers he likes not at all i think didn't he say yes and have the girls in drabralter never wore them either naked as god made them at andalusian singing her manola she didn't make much of a secret what she hadn't yes and the second pair of silket stockings is laddered after one day's wear i could have brought them back to lures this morning and kicked up a row i made that one change them only not to upset myself and run the risk of walking into him and ruining the whole thing and one of those kid fitting corsets i don't advertise cheap in the gentle woman with elastic gores on the hips he's saved the one i have but that's no good what do they say they give a delightful figure line 11 6 obviating that's unsightly brought appearance across the lower back to reduce flesh my belly is a bit too big i'll have to knock off the stout at dinner or am i getting too fond of it the last they sent from our rorks was as flat as a pancake he makes his money easy larry they call them the old mangy parsley sent at christmas a cottage cake and a bottle of hogwash he tried to palm off as claret that he couldn't get anyone to drink god spare his bit for fear he'd die of the druth i must do a few breathing exercises i wonder is that anti-fat any good mind overdo it the thin ones are not so much the fashion now god is that much i have the violet pair i wore today that's all he bought me out of the check he got on the first oh no there was the face lotion i finished last of yesterday that made my skin like new i told him over and over again get that made up in the same place and don't forget it god only knows whether he did after all i said to him 111 know by the bottle anyway if not i suppose 100 111 only have to wash in my piss like beef tea or chicken soup with some of that opoponox and violet i thought it was beginning to look coarse or all the bit the skin underneath is much finer where it peeled off there on my finger after the burn it's a pity it isn't all like that and the four poultry handkerchiefs about six and all sure you can't get on in this world without style all going in food and rent when i get it i'll lash it around i tell you in fine style i always want to throw a handful of tea into the pot measuring and mincing if i buy a pair of old brogues itself do you like those new shoes yes how much were they i've no clothes at all the brown costume and the skirt and jacket and the one at the cleaners three what's that for any woman cutting up this old hat and patching up the other the men won't look at you and women try to walk on you because i know you've no man then with all the things getting dear every day for the four years more i have of life up to 35 no i'm what am i at all 111 be 33 in september will i what oh well look at that mrs galbraith she's much older than me i saw her when i was out last week her beauty's on the wane she was a lovely woman magnificent head of hair on her down to her waist tossing it back like kidio shea in grantham street first thing i did every morning to look across so you're combing it as if she loved it and was full of it pity i only got to know her the day before we left and that mrs langtree the jersey lily prince of wales was in love with i suppose he's the first man going the roads only the name of the king they're all made the one way only a black man's i'd like to try a beauty up to what was she 45 there was some funny story about the jealous old husband what was it all and an oyster knife he went no he made her wear a kind of a tin thing around her and the prince of wales yes he had the oyster knife can't be true a thing like that some of those books he brings me the works of master françois somebody supposed to be a priest about a child born out of her ear because her bumgut fell out a nice word for any priest to write her and i as if any fool wouldn't know what that meant i hate that pretending of all things with that old black scots face on him anybody can see it's not true and that ruby and fair tyrants he brought me that twice i remember when i came to page five oh the part about where she hangs him up out of a hook with a cord flagellate sure there's nothing for a woman in that all invention made up about he drinking the champagne out of her slipper after the ball was over like the infant jesus and the crib at inner shore and the blessed virgin's arms no woman could have a child that big taken out of her and i thought first it came out of her side because how could she go to the chamber when she wanted to and she a rich lady of course she felt honored hrh he was in Gibraltar the year i was born i bet he found lilies there too where he planted the tree he planted more than that in his time he might have planted me too if he'd come a bit sooner then i wouldn't be here as i am he had to chuck that freeman with the paltry few shillings he knocks out of it and go into an office or something where he'd get regular pay or a bank where they could put him up on a throne to count the money all day of course he prefers ploddering about the house so you can't stir with him any side what's your program today i wish he'd even smoke a pipe like father to get the smell of a man or pretending to be mooching about for advertisements when he could have been in mr kuff's still only for what he did then sending me to try and patch it up i could have gotten promoted there to be the manager he gave me a great marata once or twice first he was as stiff as the mischief really and truly mrs bloom only i felt rotten simply with the old rubbishly dress that i lost the leads out of the tails with no cut in it but they're coming into fashion again i bought it simply to please him i knew it was no good by the finish pity i changed my mind of going to todd and bum as i said and not leaves it was just like the shop itself rummage sale a lot of trash i hate those rich shops get on your nerves nothing kills me all together only he thinks he knows a great lot about a woman's dress and cooking mathering everything you can scour off the shelves into it if i went by his advice is every blessed hat i put on does that suit me yes take that that's all right the one like a wedding cake standing up miles off my head he said suited me or the dish cover weren't coming down on my back side on pins and needles about the shop girl in that place in grafting street i had the misfortune to bring him into and she has insolent as ever she could be with her smirk saying i'm afraid we're giving you too much trouble what she's there for but i stared it out of her yes he was awfully stiff and no wonder but he changed the second time he looked poldy pigheaded as usual like the soup but i could see him looking very hard at my chest when he stood up to open the door for me it was nice of him to show me out in any case i'm extremely sorry mrs bloom believe me without making a two marked the first time after him being insulted and me being supposed to be his wife i just half smiled i know my chest was out that way at the door when he said i'm extremely sorry and i'm sure you were end of section 57 recording by john hogarth Beijing china section 58 of ulysses this is a libervox recording all libervox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit libervox dot org recorded by michael evans urbana illinois ulysses by james joys part three the nostos episode 18 panellope part three yes i think he made them a bit firmer sucking them like that so long he made me thirsty titties he calls them i had to laugh yes this one anyhow stiff the nipple gets for the least thing i'll get him to keep that up and i'll take those eggs beaten up with marsala fatten them out for him what are all those veins and things curious the way it's made to the same in case of twins they're supposed to represent beauty placed up there like those statues in the museum one of them pretending to hide it with her hand are they so beautiful of course compared with what a man looks like with his two bags full and his other thing hanging down out of him or sticking up at you like a hat rack no wonder they hide it with a cabbage that disgusting camera and highlander behind the meat market or that other wretch with the redhead behind the tree with the statue of the fish used to be when i was passing pretending he was pissing standing out for me to see it with his baby clothes up to one side the queen zone they were a nice lot it's well the series relieve them they're always trying to show it to you every time nearly i passed outside the men's greenhouse near the harcourt street station just to try some fellow or other trying to catch my eye as if it was one of the seven wonders of the world oh and the stink of those rotten places the night coming home with poldy after the cumberford's party oranges and lemonade to make you feel nice and watery i went into one of them it was so biting cold i couldn't keep it when was that 93 the canal was frozen yes it was a few months after a pity a couple of the cameras weren't there to see me squatting in the men's place maya darrow i tried to draw a picture of it before i tore it up like a sausage or something i wonder they're not afraid going about getting a kick or a bang of something there the woman is beauty of course that's admitted when he said i could pose for a picture naked to some rich fellow in hall street when he lost the job in the helis and i was selling the clothes and strumming in the coffee palace would i be like that bath of the nymph with my hair down yes only she's younger or i'm a little like that dirty bitch in that spanish photo he has nymphs used to go about like that i asked him about her and that word met something with hoses in it and he came out with some jawbreakers about the incarnation he never can explain a thing simply the way a body can understand then he goes and burns the bottom out of the pan all for his kidney this one not so much there's the mark of his teeth still where he tried to bite the nipple i had to scream out aren't they fearful trying to hurt you i had a great breast of milk with milley enough for two what was the reason of that he said i could have got a pound a week as a wet nurse all swelled out the morning that delicate looking student that stopped in number 28 with the citrons penrose nearly caught me washing through the window only for i snapped up the towel in my face that was his student hurt me they used to weaning her till he got dr brady to give me the belladonna prescription i had to get him to suck them they were so hard he said it was sweeter and thicker than cows then he wanted to milk me into the tea well he was beyond everything i declare somebody ought to put him in the budget if only i could remember the one half of the things and write a book out of it the works of master poldi yes and it's so much smoother the skin much an hour he was at them i'm sure by the clock like some kind of a big infant i had at me they want everything in their mouth all the pleasure those men get out of a woman i can feel his mouth oh lord i must stretch myself i wished he was here somebody to let myself go with and come again like that i feel all fire inside me or if i could dream it when he made me spend the second time tickling me behind with his finger i was coming for about five minutes with my legs around him i had to hug him after oh lord i wanted to shout out all sorts of things fuck or shit or anything at all only not to look ugly or those lines from the strain who knows the way he take it you want to feel your way with a man they're not all like him thank god some of them want you to be so nice about it i noticed the contrast he does it and doesn't talk i gave my eyes that look with my hair a bit loose from the tumbling and my tongue between my lips up to him the savage brute thursday friday one saturday two sunday three oh lord i can't wait till monday end of section 58 recording by michael evans urbana illinois section 59 of ulysses this is a libra vox recording all libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit libravox.org ulysses by james joce part three the nostos episode 18 panellope part four train somewhere whistling the strength those engines have in them like big giants and the water rolling all over and out of the malsights like the end of love's old sweet song the poor men that have to be out all tonight from their wives and families in those roasting engines the stifling it was today i'm glad i burnt the half of those old freements and photo bits leaving things like that lying about he's getting very careless and through the rest of them open the wc i'll get him to cut them tomorrow for me instead of having them there for the next year get a few pins for them have a mask and wear his last january's paper and all those overcoats i bundled out now making the place hotter than it is that rain was lovely and refreshing just after my beauty sleep i thought it was going to get like Gibraltar my goodness the heat there before the leventer came on black as night and the glare of the rock standing up in it like a big giant compared with their three walk mountain they think is so great with the red centuries here and there the poplars they all white hot and smell the rain water in those tanks watching the sun all the time well tearing down on you fade at all that lovely frock father's friend mrs stanhope sent me from the b-marsh paris what a s*** in my dearest dagarina she wrote on it she was very nice what's this her other name was just a pc to tell you a sent little present have just had a jolly warm bath and feel a very clean dog now enjoyed it wagger she called him wagger would give anything to be back in chip and hear you sing waiting in old mitraid cunt cone is the name of those exercises he bought me one of those some new word i couldn't make out shawls i'm using things but tear for the least thing still they're lovely i think don't you i would always think it a lovely tease we had together scrumptious current scones and raspberry wafers i adore well now dearest dagarina be sure and write soon kind she left out regards to your father also captain grove with love yours awfully hester she didn't look a bit married just like a girl he was years older than her wagger he was awfully fond of me when he held down the wire with his foot for me to step over at the bullfight at la linia when that matador Gomez was given the bullsear these claws we have to wear whoever invented them expecting to walk up colliney hill then for example at that picnic all stazed up you can't do a blessed thing in them in the crowd rolling their jump out of the way that's why i was afraid when that other ferocious old bull began to charge the bandlerials with the sashes and two things in their hats the brutes of men shouting bravo tall row sure the women were as bad in their nice white mantelius ripping all the holy insides out to those poor horses i never heard such a thing in my life yes he used to break his heart at me taking off the dog barking in bell lane poor bruteen it's sick it became a thing ever i suppose they're dead long ago to two of them it's like all through a mist makes you feel so old i made the scones of course i had everything onto myself then like gerald hester we used to compare our hair mine was thicker than hers she showed me how to settle it at the back when i put it up and what's this else how to make a knot on a thread with the one hand we were like cousins what edge was i then the night of the storm i slept in her bed she had her arms around me then we were fighting in the morning with the pillow was fun he was watching me whenever he got an opportunity at the band and the i made a espionade when i was with father and captain grove i looked up at the church first and then at the windows then down then her eyes met that felt something goes through me like needles my eyes were dancing i remember after when i looked at myself in the glass hardly recognized myself to change he was attractive to a girl in spite of his being a little bald intelligent looking disappointed and gay at the same time he was like thomas in the shadow of ashley dat i had a splendid skin from the sun and the excitement like a rose i didn't get a week of sleep it wouldn't have been nice on account of her but i could have stopped it in time she gave me the moonstone to read that was the first i read of wilkie collins eastlin i read and the shadow of ashley dat mrs henry wood henry dunbar by that other woman i lent him afterwards with movie's photo in it so as he see i wasn't without and lord litten eugene aramalli bond she gave me by mrs hungerford unaccounted a name i don't like books with molly in them like that one he brought me about the one in flan there's a horror with shop lifting anything she could cloth and stuff in yards of it oh this blanket is too heavy for me that's better i haven't one decent nightdress this thing gets all rolled up under me besides him and his fooling that's better i used to be weltering then in the heat my shift drenched with the sweat stuck in the cheeks of my bottom on the chair when i stood up they were so fattish and firm i got on the sofa cushions to see when i close up and the bugs tons of them at night and the mosquito nets i couldn't read a line lord how long ago it seems centuries of course they never come back and she didn't put her address right on it either she may have noticed her wager people were always going away and we never i remember that day with the waves and the boats with the high heads rocking and the smell of ship those officers uniforms on shore leave made me sick he didn't say anything he was very serious i had the high-button boots on and my skirt was blowing she kissed me six or seven times didn't i cry yes i believe i did on ears my lips were tatering when i said goodbye she had a gorgeous wrap of some special kind of blue collar on her for the voyage made very peculiarly to one side like and it was extremely pretty it got as dull as the devil after they went i was almost planning to run away mad out of it somewhere more never easy where we are fathom marriage waiting always waiting to guide him to me waiting for speed his flying feet they're damn guns bursting and booming all over the shop especially the queen's birthday and throwing everything down in all directions if he didn't open the windows when general ulysses grant whoever he was or did supposed to be some great fellow landed off the ship and all sprake the console that was there for before the flood dressed up poor man and he in mourning for the sun then the same old bugles for revelry in the morning and drums rolling and the unfortunate poor devils of soldiers walking about with mestins smelling the place more than the old longbeard jews and their jellybees and levites assembly and sound clear and gunfire for the men to cross their lines and the warden marching with his keys to lock the gates and the backpipes and only captain groves and father talking about roars drift and plenva and sargarin at woesley and gordon at cartroom lighting their pipes for them every time they went out drunk an old devil with his grog on the windowsill catch him leaving any of it picking his nose trying to think of some other dirty story to tell up in the corner but he never forgot himself when i was there sending me out of the room in some blind excuse paying his compliments the bush mill's whiskey talking of course but he'd do the same to the next woman that come along i suppose he died of galloping drinkages the days like years not a letter from a living soul except the odd few opposed it to myself with bits of paper in them so bored sometimes i could fight with my nails listening to that old arrow with the one eye and his hyas of an instrument singing his hyah hyah hyah all my compliments to your hot potch on your hyas this bad is now with the heads hanging off me looking out the window if there was a nice fellow even in the opposite house that medical and holly street the nurse was after when i put my gloves and hat at the window the show was going out not an ocean what i meant aren't they thick never understand what you say even you'd want to print it up on a big poster for them not even if you shake hands twice with the left he didn't recognize me either when i have frowned at him outside westland row chapel where does their great intelligence come in i'd like to know gray matter there was all in their tale if you ask me those country gougers up in the city arms intelligence they had a damn sight less than the bulls and the cows they were selling the meat and the coalman's bell that noisy bugger trying to swindle me with the wrong bill he took out of his hat what a pair of paws and pots and pans and kettles to mend any broken bottles for a poor man today and no visitors or post ever accept his checks or some advertisement like that wonder worker they said to me him addressed dear madam only his letter and the card for millie this morning see she wrote a letter to him who'd like a glass letter from oh mrs dwin now what possessed her to write from canada after so many years to know the recipe i had for a pesto madrienne flowy dylan since she wrote to say she was married to a very rich architect if i'm to believe all i hear was a villa in eight rooms her father was an awfully nice man he was near 70 always good-humoured well now miss tweedy or miss galepsy there is the piano there was a solid silver coffee table he had to on the mahogany sideboard then dylan so far away i hate people that have always their poor story to tell everybody has their own troubles that poor nancy blake died a month ago of acute pneumonia well i didn't know her so well as all that she was flowy's friend more than mine poor nancy it's a bother having to answer he always tells me the wrong things and no stops to say that making a speech your sad bereavement sympathy i always make that mistake and nephew would too double use it i hope he'll write me a longer letter next time if it's a thing he really likes me oh thanks be to great god got somebody to give me what a badly wanted put some heart up in me give no chances at all in this place like he used long ago i wish somebody would write me a love letter his wasn't much and i told him he could write what he liked yours ever a hue boiling an ultimate dread stuff silly women believe love is sighing i am dying still if he wrote it i supposed it'd be some truth in it true or not fills up your whole day in life always something to think about every moment and see it all around you like a new world i could write the answer in bed to let him imagine me short just a few words not those long cross letters that he doing used to write to the fellow that was something in his four courts to tilt it her after i was a lady's letter writer when i told her to say a few simple words he could twist how he liked not acting with precipitate precipitancy with equal candor the greatest earthly happiness answer to a gentleman's proposal affirmatively my goodness there's nothing else it's all very fine for them but as for being a woman as soon as you're old they might as well you in the bottom of the ash pit end of section 59