 section 44 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 Ulysses by James Joyce episode 15 Cersei part 6 the figure of Bella Cohen stands before him Bella you know me the next time Bloom composed regards her Posse mutton dressed as lamb long in the tooth and superfluous hair a raw onion the last thing at night would benefit your complexion and take some double chin drill your eyes are as vapid as the glass eyes of your stuffed fox they have the dimensions of your other features that's all I'm not a triple screw propeller Bella contemptuously you're not game in fact her sour cunt barks bloom contemptuously clean your nailless middle finger first your bully's cold spunk is dripping from your cox comb take a handful of hay and wipe yourself I know you canvasser dead cod I saw him kipkeeper pox and glee vendor Bella turns to the piano which of you was playing the dead March from Saul Zoe me mind your cornflowers she darts to the piano and bangs cords on it with crossed arms the cats ramble through the slag she glances back hey who's making love to my sweeties she darts back to the table what's yours is mine and what's mine is my own kitty disconcerted coats her teeth with the silver paper bloom approaches Zoe gently give me back that potato will you Zoe for Fitz a fine thing and a super fine thing bloom with feeling it is nothing but still a relic of poor mama give a thing and take it back God will ask you where is that you'll say you don't know God will send you down below there is a memory attached to it I should like to have it Stephen to have or not to have that is the question Zoe here she holds up a reef of her slip revealing her bare thigh and unrolls the potato from the top of her stocking those that hides knows where to find Bella frowns here this isn't a musical peep show and don't you smash that piano who's paying here she goes to the pianola Stephen fumbles in his pocket and taking out a bank note by its corner hands it to her Stephen with exaggerated politeness this silken purse I made out of the sows ear of the public madam excuse me if you allow me he indicates vaguely lynch and bloom we're all in the same sweepstake kinch and lynch don't support tell tenon no Twitter lynch calls from the half day delus give you a blessing for me Stephen hands Bella a coin gold she has it Bella looks at the money then at Stephen then at Zoe Flory and Kitty do you want three girls it's ten shillings here Stephen delightedly hundred thousand apologies he fumbles again and takes out and hands her two crowns darling braveyman who my side is somewhat troubled Bella goes to the table to count the money while Stephen talks to himself in monosyllables Zoe bends over the table Kitty leans over Zoe's neck lynch gets up writes his cap and clasping Kitty's waist adds his head to the group Flory strives heavily to rise I'll my foot's asleep she limps over to the table bloom approaches Bella Zoe Kitty lynch bloom chattering and squabbling the gentlemen can shelling pay for the three allow me a moment this gentleman pay separate was touching it oh mind who you're pinching are you staying the night or a short time did you're a lawyer excuse me the gentleman paid down like a gentleman drink it's long after 11 Stephen that's the pianola making a gesture of abhorrence no bottles what 11 a riddle Zoe lifting up her petty gown and folding a half sovereign into the top of her stocking hard earned on the flat of my back lynch lifting kitty from the table come kitty wait she clutches the two crowns Flory and me lynch hoopla he lifts her carries her and bumps her down on the sofa Stephen the Fox crew the Cox flew the bells in heaven we're striking 11 this time for her poor soul to get out of heaven bloom quietly lays a half sovereign on the table between Bella and Flory so allow me he takes up the pound note three times ten we're square Bella admiringly you're such a sly boots old cocky I could kiss you Zoe points him deep as a draw well lynch bends kitty back over the sofa and kisses her bloom goes with the pound note to Stephen this is yours Stephen how's that lady stray or absent minded beggar he fumbles again in his pocket and draws out a handful of coins an object falls but fell bloom stooping picks up and hands a box of matches this Lucifer thanks bloom quietly you had better hand over that cash to me to take care of why pay more Stephen hands him all his coins be just before you're generous I will but is it wise he counts one seven eleven and five six eleven I don't answer for what you may have lost why striking eleven prepare oxygen mobile before the next lesson says thirsty Fox burying his grandmother probably killed her that is one pound six and eleven one pound seven say one doesn't matter a rambling damn no but Stephen comes to the table cigarette please lynch tosses a cigarette from the sofa to the table and so Georgina Johnson is dead and married a cigarette appears on the table Stephen looks at it wonder parlor magic married he strikes a match and proceeds to light the cigarette with enigmatic melancholy lynch watching him you would have a better chance of loiting it if you held the match nearer Stephen brings the match near his eye links I must get glasses broke them yesterday 16 years ago it distance the eye sees all flat he draws the match away it goes out brain thinks near far in a loctable modality of the visible he frowns mysteriously hmm Sphinx the beast that has two backs at midnight married Zoe it was a commercial traveller married her and took her away with him flurry nonce mr. lamb from London lamb of London who take us to weigh the sins of our world lynch embracing kitty on the sofa chance deeply don't know be the cigarette slips from Stephen's fingers bloom picks it up and throws it in the great don't smoke you ought to eat curse a dog I met to Zoe you have nothing is he hungry Stephen extends his hand to her smiling and chance to the air of the blood oath in the dusk of the gods hang in the hunger frag in the frown mcdonald kaput Zoe tragically Hamlet I am thy father's gimlet she takes his hand blue eyes beauty I'll read your hand she points to his forehead no wit no wrinkles she counts two three Mars that's courage Stephen shakes his head no kid lynch she'd like to encourage the youth who could not shiver and shake to Zoe who taught you palmistry Zoe turns ask my ballock that I haven't got to Stephen I see it in your face the eye like that she frowns with lowered head lynch laughing slaps kitty behind twice like that pandy bat twice loudly a pandy bat cracks the coffin of the piano flies open the bald little round jack-in-the-box head of father Dolan springs up any boy want flogging broke his glasses lazy idle little schemer see it in your eye mild benign rectorial reproving the head of Don John con me rises from the piano look off in no father Dolan now I'm sure that Stephen is a very good little boy Zoe examining Stephen's palm woman's hand Stephen murmurs continue lie hold me caress I never could read his hand writing except his criminal thumbprint on the haddock what day were you born Thursday today Thursday's child has far to go she traces lines on his hand line of fate influential friends flurry pointing imagination mount of the moon you'll meet with her she peers at his hands abruptly I won't tell you what's not good for you or do you want to know bloom detaches her fingers and offers his palm more harm than good here read mine Bella show she turns up blooms hand I thought so knobby knuckles for the women Zoe peering at blooms palm grid I am travels beyond the sea and marry money wrong oh I see short little finger hen pecked husband that wrong black Liz a huge rooster hatching in a chalked circle rises stretches her wings and clucks she sidles from her new laid egg and waddles off bloom points to his hand that wheel there is an accident fell and cut it 22 years ago I was 16 I see says the blind man tell us news Stephen see moves to one great goal I'm 22 16 years ago he was 22 too 16 years ago I 22 tumbled 22 years ago he 16 fell off his hobby horse he winces hmm my hand somewhere must see a dentist money Zoe whispers to flurry they giggle bloom releases his hand and writes idly on the table in backhand penciling slow curves flurry what a hacking car number 324 with a gallant buttocked mare driven by James Barton Harmony Avenue Donnybrook trot's past blazes Boylan and Lenny and sprawl swaying on the side seats the Ormond boots crouches behind on the axle sadly over the cross-blind Lydia Deuce and Mina Kennedy gaze the boots jogging mocks them with thumb and wriggling worm fingers aha have you the horn bronze by gold they whisper Zoe to flurry whisper they whisper again over the well of the car blazes Boylan leans his boater straw set sideways a red flower in his mouth Lenny and in yachtsman's cap and white shoes efficiently detaches a long hair from blazes Boylan's coat shoulder Lenny and oh what do I hear behold value brushing the cobwebs of a few quims Boylan seated smiles a good night's work Boylan holding up four thick blunt ungulated fingers winks he holds out a forefinger smell that Lenny and smells gleefully ha lobster and mayonnaise ha Zoe and flurry Boylan jumps surely from the car and calls loudly for all to hear hello bloom mrs. Bloom raised yet bloom in flunkies prune plush coat and knee britches buff stockings and powdered wig i'm afraid not sir the last articles Boylan tosses him sixpence here to buy yourself a gin and splash he hangs his hat smartly on a peg of bloom's antlered head show me in i have a little private business with your wife you understand thank you sir yes sir madam tweedy is in her bath sir marion he ought to feel himself highly honored she plops splashing out of the water rule darling come and dry me i'm on my pelt only my new hat and a carriage sponge Boylan a merry twinkle in his eye topping bella what what is it zoe whispers to her marion let him look the fish hook pimp and scorch himself i'll write to a powerful prostitute or Bartolomona the bearded woman to raise wheels out on him an inch thick and make him bring me back a signed and stamped receipt Boylan clasps himself here i can't hold this little art masonga he strides off on stiff cavalry legs bella boylan to bloom over his shoulder you can apply your eye to the key hold play with yourself i just go through her a few times thank you sir i will sir may i bring two men chums to witness the deed and take a snapshot he holds out an ointment jar vaseline sir orange flower lukewarm water kitty from the sofa tell us flory tell us what flory whispers to her whispering love words murmur lip lapping loudly popizmic plop slop mean a kennedy her eyes upturned oh it must be like the scent of geraniums and lovely peaches oh he simply idolizes every bit of her stuck together covered with kisses lydia deuce her mouth opening yum yum oh he's carrying around the room doing it ride a cork horse you could hear them in paris and new york like mouthfuls of strawberry and cream kitty boylan's voice sweetly hoarsely in the pit of his stomach marion's voice hoarsely sweetly rising to her throat bloom his eyes wildly dilated clasps himself show hide show plower more shoot bella zoe flory kitty linch points the mirror up to nature steven and bloom gaze in the mirror the face of william shakespeare beardless appears there rigid in facial paralysis crowned by the reflection of the reindeer antlered hat rack in the hall shakespeare in dignified ventriloquy tis the loud laugh bespeaks the vacant mind to bloom thou thoughtest as how the westest invisible gaze he crows with a black capon's laugh yeah go go how my old fellow choked it his thursday morning yeah go go go bloom smiles yellowly at the three whores when will i hear the joke zoe before you're twice married and once a widower lapses are condoned even the great napoleon when measurements were taken next to skin after his death mrs. dignum widow woman her snub nose and cheeks flushed with death talk tears and tunnies tawny sherry hurries by in her weeds her bonnets awry rouging and powdering her cheeks lips and nose a pen chiving her brood of signets beneath her skirt appear her late husband's everyday trousers and turned up boots large eights she holds a scottish widow's insurance policy and a large marquis umbrella under which her brood run with her patsy hopping on one-shod foot his collar loose a hank of pork steaks dangling freddy whimpering susie with the crying cod's mouth alice struggling with the baby she cuffs them on her streamers flaunting aloft freddy ah ma you're dragging me along susie mama the beef tears fizzing all over shakespeare with paralytic rage wait a second who killed the first the face of martin cunningham bearded re-features shakespeare's beardless face the marquis umbrella sways drunkenly the children run aside under the umbrella appears mrs. cunningham in mary widow hat and kimono gown she glides sidling and bowing twirling japan easily mrs. cunningham sings and they call me the jewel of asia martin cunningham gazes on her impassive immense most bloody awful demirate steven at exota buntur cornua usedi queens lay with prized bulls remember pacifi for whose last my grand old gross father made the first confession box forget not madam gristle stevens nor the suein scions of the house of lambard and noa was drunk with wine and his ark was open bella none of that here come to the wrong shop lynch let him alone he's back from paris zoe runs to steven and links him oh go on give us some parley vu steven claps hat on head and leaps over to the fireplace where he stands with shrugged shoulders finny hands outspread a painted smile on his face lynch oomeling on the sofa steven gables with marionette jerks thousand places of entertainment to expense your evenings with lovely ladies sailing gloves and other things perhaps her's heart beer chops perfect fashionable house very eccentric where lots cacots beautiful dressed much about princesses like our dancing can can and walking their peresian clownries extra foolish for bachelors forens the same if talking a poor english how much smart they are on things love and sensations voluptuous mr's very selects for his pleasure must to visit heaven and hell show with mortuary candles and they tears silver which occur every night perfectly shocking terrific of religions things mockery seen in universal world all chic womans which arrived full of modesty then disrobe and squeal out to see vampire man debauched none very fresh young with desu troublant he clacks his tongue loudly oh la la subive killer lynch vive la vampire the whores bravo parley vu steven grimacing with head back laughs loudly clapping himself great success of laughing angels much prostitutes like and holy apostles big damn ruffians debi mong ben nicely handsome sparkly of diamonds very amiable costumed or do you are fond better what belongs they modern's pleasure turpitude of old man's he points about him with grotesque gestures which lynch and the whores reply to cow chook statue woman reversible or life-sized tom peep tom of virgins nudity is very lesbic the kiss five ten times enter gentlemen to see in mirror every position stripezes all that machine there besides also if desire act awfully bestial butchers boy pollutes in warm veal liver or omelette on the belly piasta Shakespeare Bella clapping her belly sinks back on the sofa with a shout of laughter and I'm laid on the oh Stephen mincingly I love you sir darling speak you Englishman tongue for double on tongue oh yes Monlou how much cost what a loo what a closet he ceases suddenly and holds up a forefinger Bella laughing the whores laughing on core on core Stephen mark me I dreamt of a watermelon Zoe go abroad and love a foreign lady lynch across the world for a wife flurry dreams goes by contraries Stephen extends his arms it was here streets of harlots in serpentine avenue bells above showed her me a fobsy widow where's the red carpet spread bloom approaching Stephen look no I flew my foes beneath me and ever shall be world without end he cries potter free I say look break my spirit will he oh man hello he cries his vulture talons sharpened hola hilly ho Simon deadless his voice hellos in answer somewhat sleepy but ready that's all right he swoops uncertainly through the air wheeling uttering cries of heartening on strong ponderous buzzard wings oh boy are you going to win hoop chopped stable with those half casts wouldn't let them within the ball and ass head up keep whole flag flying an eagle gules volant in a field arjun displayed ulster king at arms hey hoop he makes the beagles call giving tongue boom boom oh boy the fronds and spaces of the wallpaper file rapidly across country a stout fox drawn from covet brush pointed having buried his grandmother runs swift for the open bright eyed seeking badger earth under the leaves the pack of staghounds follows nose to the ground sniffing their quarry beagle baying burble bling to be blooded ward union huntsmen and huntswomen live with them hot for a kill from six-mile point flat house nine-mile stone follow the foot people with knotty sticks hay forks salmon gaffes lassoes flock masters with stock whips bear baiters with tom-toms toriados with bullswords gray negroes waving torches the crowd balls of dices crown and anchor players symbol rigors broadsmen crows and touts horse bookies in high wizard hats clamor deafeningly card of the races racing card 10 to 1 the field tommy on the clay here tommy on the clay 10 to 1 bar 1 10 to 1 bar 1 try your luck on spinning jenny 10 to 1 bar 1 sell the monkeys boys sell the monkey i'll give 10 to 1 10 to 1 bar 1 a dark horse riderless bolts like a phantom past the winning post his main moon foaming his eyeballs stars the field follows a bunch of bucking mounts skeleton scepter maximum the second zinfandel the duke of west mints has shot over repulse the duke of Beaufort's salon pre-deparee dwarfs ride them rusty armored leaping leaping in there in their saddles last in a drizzle of rain on a broken-winded isabel nag cock of the north the favorite harry cap green jacket orange sleeves garret deasy up gripping the reins a hockey stick at the ready his nag on spavined white gated feet jogs along the rocky road the orange lodges jeering get down in push mister last lap you'll be home the night garret deasy bolt upright his nail scraped face plastered with postage stamps brandishes his hockey stick his blue eyes flashing in the prism of the chandelier as his mount lopes by at school in gullop a yoke of buckets leopards all over him and his rearing nag a torrent of mutton broth with dancing coins of carrots barley onions turnips potatoes the green lodges soft day sir john soft day your honor private car private Compton and sissy kaffrey pass beneath the windows singing in discord steven hark our friend noise in the street zoe holds up her hand stop private car private Compton and sissy kaffrey yeah i'm assorted to work your relish for zoe that's me she claps her hands dance dance she runs to the pianola who has two pens bloom who linch handing her coins here steven cracking his fingers impatiently quick quick where's my augers rod he runs to the piano and takes his ash plant beating his foot in tripodium zoe turns the drum handle there she drops two pennies in the slot gold pink and violet lights start forth the drum turns purring in low hesitation walls professor goodwin in a bow knotted periwig in court dress wearing a stained in vines cape bent in two from incredible age totters across the room his hands fluttering he sits tidily on the piano stool and lifts and beats handless sticks of arms on the keyboard nodding with damsel's grace his bow not bobbing zoe twirls round herself heel tapping dance anybody here for their pool dance clear the table the pianola with changing lights plays in waltz time the prelude of my girl's a yorkshire girl steven throws his ash plant on the table and seizes zoe round the waist flurry and bella pushed the table towards the fireplace steven arming zoe with exaggerated grace begins to waltz around the room bloom stands aside a sleeve falling from gracing arms reveals a white flesh flower of vaccination between the curtains professor magini inserts a leg on the toe point of which spins a silk hat with a deft kick he sends it spinning to his crown and jaunty-hatted skates in he wears a slate frock coat with claret silk lapels a gorget of cream tool a green low-cut waistcoat stock collar with white kerchief tight lavender trousers patent pumps and canary gloves in his buttonhole is an immense delia he twirls in reversed directions a clouded cane then wedges it tight in his oxta he places a hand lightly on his breastbone bows and fondles his flower and buttons magini the poetry of motion art of calisthenics no connection with madame legged burns or leavenston's fancy dress balls arranged deportment the caddy liner step so watch me my trip's a quarry in abilities he minuets forward three paces on tripping bee's feet the prelude ceases professor goodman beating vague arms shrivels sinks his live cape falling about the stool the air in thermal waltz time sounds steven and zoe circle freely the lights change glow fine gold rosy violet the pianola two young fellows were talking about their girls girls girls sweethearts they'd laugh behind from a corner the morning hours run out gold haired slim sandaled in girlish blue wasp wasted with innocent hands nimbly they dance twirling their skipping ropes the hours of noon follow in amber gold laughing linked high haircombs flashing they catch the sun in mocking mirrors lifting their arms magini clip claps glove silent hands carry avant deux breathe evenly balance the morning and noon hours waltz in their places turning advancing to each other shaping their curves bowing vis-a-vis cavaliers behind them arch and suspend their arms with hands descending to touching rising from their shoulders hours you may touch my cavaliers may i touch your oh but lightly oh so likely the pianola my little shy little lass has a waist zoe and steven turn boldly with looser swing the twilight hours advance from long land shadows dispersed lagging languid eyed their cheeks delicate with sypria and false faint bloom they are in gray gauze with dark bat sleeves that flutter in the land breeze night hours one by one steel to the last place morning noon and twilight hours retreat before them they are masked with dagged hair and bracelets of dull bells weary a kerchie kerchie under veils the bracelets hey ho hey ho zoe twirling her hand to her brow arabesking wearily they weave a pattern on the floor weaving unweaving curtsying twirling simply swirling i'm giddy she frees herself troops on a chair steven sees his flurry and turns with her majini blue ranger les rangs les points chevaux de bois escargot twining receding with interchanging hands the night hours link each with arching arms in a mosaic of movements steven and flurry turn cumbrously majini don't say the quodam changing the dam don't know the petit beaucoup of water down remercier the piano la best best of all fire the bone kitty jumps up oh they played that on the hobby horses at the nearest bizarre she runs to steven he leaves flurry brusquely and sees his kitty a screaming bittern's harsh high whistle shrieks groan grass gurgling toft's cumbersome whirligig turns slowly the room right about the room the piano la my girl's a yaksha girl zoe yaksha through and through come on on she sees his flurry and waltzes her steven puzzle he wheels kitty into lynch's arms snatches up his ash plant from the table and takes the floor all wheel whirl waltz twirl bloom bella kitty lynch flurry zoe jujubu women steven with hat ash plant frog splits in middle high kicks with sky kicking mouth shut hand clasp part under thigh with clang tinkle boom hammer tally ho hornblower blue green yellow flashes toft's cumbersome turns with hobby horse riders from gilded snakes dangled bowels fandango leaping spurn soil foot and fall again the piano la no she is a factory lesson where's no fancy clothes close clutched swift swifter with glare flare scutting they scoot loot shoot lumbering by bara boom tooty simon think of your mother's people steven dance of death bang fresh barang bang of lackeys bell horse nag steer piglings con me on christ ass lame crutch and leg sailor in cock boat arm folded rope pulling hitching stamp hornpipe through and through bara boom on nags hogs bell horses gathering swine corny in coffin steel shark stone one handled nelson two trickies franz in a plum stain from pram filling balling gum he's a champion fuse blue pier from barrel rev even song love on hackney jaunt blazes blind cod doubled bicyclists dilly with snow cake no fancy clothes then in last switch back lumbering up and down bump mash tub sort of visoroi and rain relish for tub lumber bump sheer rose bara boom the couples fall aside steven whirls giddily room whirls back eyes closed he totters red rails fly space woods stars all around sun's turn roundabout bright midges dance on walls he stops dead steven's mother emaciated rises stark through the floor in leper gray with a wreath of faded orange blossoms and a torn bridal veil her face worn and noseless green with grave mold her hair is scant and lank she fixes her blue circled hollow eye sockets on steven and opens her toothless mouth uttering a silent word a choir of virgins and confessors sing voicelessly lily at the root of lantium take confessor you the lantium tapered from the top of a tower buck mulligan in party-coloured jester's dress of puse and yellow and clown's cap with curling bell stands gaping at her a smoking buttered split scone in his hand she's basically dead the pity of it mulligan meets the afflicted mother he up turns his eyes mercurial malachi the mother with the subtle smile of death's madness i was once the beautiful maygolding i am dead steven horror struck lemur who are you no what bogeyman's trick is this buck mulligan shakes his curling capbell the mockery of it kinsh dog's buddy killed her bitch buddy she kicked the bucket tears of molten butter fall from his eyes onto the scone oh great sweet mother happy you're in upon dawn the mother comes nearer freezing upon him softly her breath of wetted ashes almost go through it steven more women than men in the world you too time will come steven choking with fright remorse and horror they say i killed you mother he offended your memory cancer did it lot i destiny the mother a green rill of bile trickling from a side of her mouth you sang that song to me love's bitter mystery tell me mother if you know now the word don't do all men who saved you the night you jumped on the train at dorky with paddy lay who had pity for you when you were sad amongst strangers prayer is all powerful prayer for the suffering souls of the elecine manual and 40 days indulgence repent steven the ghoul hyena i pray for you in my other world get dilly to make you that boiled rice every night after your brainwork years and years i loved you oh my son my first born when you lay in my womb zoe fanning herself with the great fan i'm melting florie points to steven look he's what bloom goes to the window to open it more giddy the mother with smoldering eyes repents oh the fire of hell his non-corrosive supplement the corpse tour raw head and bloody bones the mother her face drawing near and nearer sending out an ashen breath beware she raises her blackened withered right arm slowly towards steven's breast with outstretched finger beware god's hand a green crab with malignant red eyes sticks deep its grinning claws in steven's heart steven strangled with rage shite his features grow drawn gray and old bloom at the window what norm park example the intellectual imagination with me all or not at all non-serviam florie give him some cold water wait she rushes out the mother rings her hands slowly moaning desperately oh sacred heart of jesus have mercy on him save him from hell oh divine sacred hearts no no no break my spirit all of you if you can i'll bring you all to heal the mother in the agony of her death rattle have mercy on steven lord for my sake inexpressible was my anguish when expired with love and grief and agony on munt cavalry nothing he lifts his ash plant high with both hands and smashes the chandelier times livid final flame leaps and in the following darkness ruin of all space shattered glass and toppling masonry the gas jet bloom stop lynch rushes forward and sees his steven's hand here hold on don't run amok bella police steven abandoning his ash plant his head and arms thrown back stark beats the ground and flies from the room past the whores at the door bella screams after him end of section 44 section 45 of ulysses this is a libravox recording all libravox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit libravox.org ulysses by james joce episode 15 sursey part seven the two whores rushed to the hall door lynch and kitty and zoey stampede from the room they talk excitedly bloom follows returns the whores jammed in the doorway pointing down there zoe pointing there there's something up bella who pays for the lamp she sees his bloom's coat tail here you were with him the lamp's broken bloom rushes to the hall rushes back what lamp woman a whore he tore his coat bella her eye is hard with anger and cupidity points who's to pay for that 10 shillings your witness bloom snatches up steven's ash plant me 10 shillings haven't you lifted enough off him didn't he here none of your tall talk this isn't a brothel a 10 shilling house bloom his head under the lamp pulls the chain pooling the gas jet lights up a crushed mauve purple shade he raises the ash plant only the chimney's broken here is all he bella shrinks back and screams jesus don't bloom warding off a blow to show you how he hit the paper there's not six pence worth of damage done 10 shillings flurry with a glass of water enters where is he bella do you want me to call the police oh i know bulldog on the premises but he's a trinity student patrons of your establishment gentlemen that pay the rent he makes a masonic sign know what i mean nephew of the vice chancellor you don't want to scandal trinity angrily coming down here ragging after the boat races and paying nothing are you my commander here or where is he i'll charge him disgrace am i will zoe zoe and if it were your own son in oxford warningly i know bella almost speechless zoe in the doorway there's a row on what where he throws a shilling on the table and starts that's for the chimney where i need mountain air he hurries out through the hall the whores point flurry follows spilling water from her tilted tumbler on the doorstep all the whores clustered talk volubly pointing to the right where the fog has cleared off from the left arrives a jingling hackney car it slows to in front of the house bloom at the hall door perceives corny kelleher who is about to dismount from the car with two silent lectures he averts his face bella from within the hall urges on her whores they blow icky licky sticky yum yum kisses corny kelleher replies with a ghastly lewd smile the silent lectures turn to pay the javi zoe and kitty still point right bloom parting them swiftly draws his caliph's hood and poncho and hurries down the steps with sideways face incog haroon al-rashid he flits behind the silent lectures and hastens on by the railings with fleet step of a pard screwing the drag behind him torn envelopes drenched in aniseed the ash plant marks his stride a pack of bloodhounds led by hornblower of trinity brandishing a dog whip in tally ho cap and an old pair of gray trousers follow from far picking up the scent nearer baying panting at fault breaking away throwing their tongues biting his heels leaping at his tail he walks runs zigzags gallops lugs laid back he is pelted with gravel cabbage stumps biscuit boxes eggs potatoes dead codfish women's slipper slappers after him fresh found the hue and cry zigzag gallops in hot pursuit of follow my leader 65c 66c night watch john henry menton wisdom healy vb dylan counsellor nanetti alexander keys larry o rourke joe cuff mrs. o'dowd pisser burk the nameless one mrs. reordan the citizen gary o'in who do you call him strangeface fellow that's so like saw him before chap with a win chris callinan sir james cameron benjamin dollard lenient bartel darcy joe hines red Murray editor braden tm healy mr. justice Fitzgibbon john howard panel the reverence tinned salmon professor joley mrs. brine denis brine theodore purify meaner purify the westland row postmistress cp mccoy friend of lions hoppy holler hun man in the street other men in the street football boots pugnosed driver rich protestant lady davie burn mrs. ellen mcginnis mrs. joe gallagher george lidwell jimmy henry on corns superintendent larrycy father cowley crufton out of the collector generals dan dorsen dental surgeon bloom with tweezers mrs. bob doran mrs. kenefic mrs. wise knolan john wise knolan handsome married woman rubbed against wide behind in clon skietrum the bookseller of sweets of sin mrs. do bidat and she did bidad madame gerald and stanislas moran of roebuck the managing clerk of drimmies weather up colonel haze mastianski kittron penn rose aron figatna moses herzog michael e gerrity inspector trey mrs. galbraith the constable off eckles street corner old dr. brady with stethoscope the mystery man on the beach a retriever mrs. miriam dandrade and all her lovers the hue and cry helter skelter belter welter he's bloom stop bloom stop a bloom stop a robber hi hi stop him on the corner at the corner of beaver street beneath the scaffolding bloom panting stops on the fringe of the noisy quarrelling knot a lot not knowing a jot what high high row and wrangle round the who what brawl all together steven with elaborate gestures breathing deeply and slowly you are my guests uninvited by virtue of the fifth of george and seventh of edward history to blame fabled by mothers of memory private car to sissy kafri was he insulting you steven addressed her in vocative feminine probably neuter ungenitive voices i've seen him he was in mrs cohen's what's up soldier and civilian sissy kafri i was in company with the soldiers and they left me to do you know and the young man run up behind me but i'm faithful to the man that's treating me though i'm only a chilling whore steven catch his side of lynches and kitty's heads hails sisyphus he points to himself and the others poetic her poetic voices she's faithful the man sissy kafri yes to go with them and me with a salty friend private compton he doesn't have on a thick ear the blighter biffam one harry private car to sissy was he insulting you while me and him was having a piss lord tenison gentleman poet in union jack blazer and cricket flannels bareheaded flowing bearded there's not a reason why private compton biffam harry steven to private compton i don't know your name but you're quite right dr swift says one man in armor will be ten men in their shirts shirt is selective part of the whole sissy kafri to the crowd no i was with the privates steven amiably why not the bold soldier boy in my opinion every lady for example private car his cap a rye advances to steven say how would it be governor if i was to bash in your jaw very unpleasant looks up to the sky noble art of self-pretence personally i detest action he waves his hand hand hurts me slightly some trouble is on here what is it precisely dolly gray from her balcony waves her handkerchief giving the sign of the heroine of jericho ray hab cook son goodbye safe home to dolly dream of the girl you left behind and she will dream of you the soldiers turn their swimming eyes bloom elbowing through the crowd plucks steven's sleeve vigorously come now professor that car man is waiting steven turns hey he disengages himself why should i not speak to him or any human being who walks upright upon this all-blade orange he points his finger i'm not afraid of what i can talk to if i see his eye retaining the perpendicular he staggers a pace back bloom propping him retain your own my center of gravity is displaced i have forgotten the trick let us sit down somewhere and discuss struggle for life is the law of existence but but human philorentists notably the czar and the king of england have invented arbitration he taps his brow but in here it is i must kill the priest and the king biddy the clap did you hear what the professor said he's a professor out of college can't he kate i did i heard that he expresses himself as such a marker of fine winter phrase ology indeed yes and at the same time with such apposite trenchancy private car pulls himself free and comes forward what's that you're saying about my king edward the seventh appears in an archway he wears a white jersey on which an image of the sacred heart is stitched with the insignia of garter and thistle golden fleece elephant of denmark skinner's and frobin's horse lingon's in bencher and ancient and honorable artillery company of massachusetts he sucks a red jujube he is robed as a grand elect perfect and sublime mason with trowel and apron marked made in germany in his left hand he holds a plasterer's bucket on which is printed defense duriné a roar of welcome greets him edward the seventh slowly solemnly but indistinctly piece perfect piece for identification bucket in my hand cheerio boys he turns to his subjects we have come here to witness a clean straight fight and we heartily wish both men the best of good luck mahak makar abak he shakes hands with private car private compton steven bloom and lynch general applause edward the seventh lifts his bucket graciously in acknowledgement private car to steven say again steven nervous friendly pulls himself up i understand your point of view though i have no king myself for the moment this is the age of patent medicines discussion is difficult down there but this is the point you die for your country suppose he places his arm on private cars sleeve not that i wish it for you but i say let my country die for me up to the present it is done so i don't want it to die damn death long live life edward the seventh levitates over heaps of slain in the garb and with the halo of joking jesus a white chujube in his phosphorescent face my methods are new under causing surprise to make the blind see i throw dust in their eyes steven kings and unicorns he falls back apace come somewhere and well what was that girl saying private compton hey harry give him a kick in the neckers stick one into jerry bloom to the privates softly he doesn't know what he's saying take it a little more than is good for him absinthe green eyed monster i know he's a gentleman a poet it's all right steven nods smiling and laughing gentlemen patriots scholar and judge of imposters private car or don't give a bugger who he is private compton we don't give a bugger who he is steven seem to annoy them green rag to a bowl kevin egan of paris in black spanish tassel's shirt and peeper day boys hat signs to steven hello bonjour le vieille au graisse with don jenet patrice egan peeps from behind his rapid face nibbling a quince leaf socialist don emile patricio france rupert pope hennessy in medieval horberg two wild geese felon on his helm with noble indignation points a mailed hand against the privates there are those aches to food baudon big grand porcos of joiny yellows toros covered of gravy bloom to steven come home you'll get into trouble steven swaying i don't avoid it he provokes my intelligence biddy the clap one immediately observes he is a patrician of linage the varago green above the red says he wolf tone the board the red says good as the green and better up the soldiers up king adward a rough laughs hi hands up to the wet the citizen with a huge emerald muffler and chileli calls made the god bob send don adove with teeth the sharpest razors to slit the trots of the english dugs that hung our arish leaders the croppy boy the rope noose round his neck gropes in his issuing bowels with both hands i bear no hate to a living thing but i love my country beyond the king rumbold demon barba accompanied by two black masked assistants advances with gladstone bag which he opens ladies and gents cleaver purchased by mrs piercy to slay mog knife with which was said dismembered the wife of a compatriot and hid the remains in a sheet in the cellar the unfortunate females throat being cut from ear to ear file containing arsenic retrieved from body of miss baron which sent seden to the gallows he jerks the rope the assistants leap at the victim's legs and drag him downward grunting the croppy boy's tongue protrudes violently he gives up the ghost a violent erection of the hanged sends gouts of sperm spouting through his death clothes onto the cobblestones mrs bellingham mrs yelverton barry and the honorable mrs murvin toolboys rush forward with their handkerchiefs to stop it up rumbold i'm near it myself he undoes the noose rope which hanged the awful rebel ten shelling's a time as applied to her royal highness he plunges his head into the gaping belly of the hanged and draws out his head again clotted with coiled and smoking entrails my painful duty has now been done god save the king edward the seventh dances slowly solemnly rattling his bucket and sings with soft contentment on coronation day on coronation day oh won't we have a merry time drinking whiskey beer and wine private car here what are you saying about monarchy steven throws up his hands oh this is too monotonous nothing he wants my money in my life the want must be his master for some brutish empire of his money i haven't he searches his pockets vaguely gave it to someone who wants your bleeding money steven tries to move off well someone tell me where i am least likely to meet these necessary evils says of wow see a party not that i'd but by st patrick the women's heads coalesce old gummy granny in sugar loaf hat appears seated on a toadstool the death flower of the potato blight on her breast aha i know you gammer hamlet revenge the old sow that eats her ferro old gummy granny rocking two and fro island sweetheart the king of spain's daughter alana strangers in my house bad manners to them she keens with banshee woe oh journey oh journey silk of the guine she wails ah you met with poor old island and how does she stand how do i stand you the hat trick where's the third person of a blessed trinity so garther rune the reverend carrion crow sissy shrill stop them from fighting a rough our men retreated private car tugging at his belt or ring the neck of any fucker says a word against my fucking king bloom terrified he said nothing not a word a pure misunderstanding the citizen erin gubra major tweedy and the citizen exhibit to each other medals decorations trophies of war wounds both salute with fierce hostility private compton go ahead harry do him one in the eye he's a prober steven did i when bloom to the redcoats we fought for you in south africa irish missile troops isn't that history royal doublin fusiliers honored by our monarch the navvy staggering past oh yes oh god yes oh make the goire a grower oh oh casked halberdeers in armor thrust forward a pentess of gutted spear points major tweedy moustached like turko the terrible in bare skin cap with hackle plume and accoutrement with epaulettes guilt chevrons and sabre tash his breast bright with medals toes the line he gives the pilgrim warrior's sign of the night's templates major tweedy growls gruffly rorks drift up guards and adam mahar solol hushbuzz private car all do he mean private compton waves the crowd back fair play here make a bleeding butcher shop of the bugger mast bands blair gary oin and god save the king sissy calfry they're going to fight for me cunty kate the brave and the fair biddy the clap me thinks yon stable night will joust it with the best cunty kate blushing deeply name adam the ghouls doublet and mary st george for me steven the harlots cry from street to street shall weave old ireland's winding sheet private car loosening his belt shouts or ring the neck of any fucking bastard says a word against more bleeding fucking king bloom shakes sissy calfry's shoulders speak you are you struck dumb you are the link between nations and generations speak woman sacred life giver sissy calfry alarmed seizes private cars sleeve empty with you empty your girl sissy your girl she cries please steven ecstatically to sissy calfry white thy fambles red thy ghan and thy quorons dainty is voices police distant voices on fire on fire brimstone fires spring up dense clouds roll past heavy gatling guns boom pandemonium troops deploy gallop of hoofs artillery horse commands bells clang backers shout drunkards brawl whores screech foghorns hoot cries of valor shrieks of dying pikes clash on curasses thieves rob the slain birds of prey winging from the sea rising from marshlands swooping from eerie's hover screaming gannets cormorants vultures goss hawks climbing woodcocks peregrines merlins black grouse sea eagles gulls albatrosses barnacle geese the midnight sun is darkened the earth trembles the dead of dublin from prospect and mount gerome in white sheepskin overcoats and black goat fell cloaks arise and appear to many a chasm opens with a noiseless yawn tom rochford winner in athletes singlet and britches arrives at the head of the national hurdle handicap and leaps into the void he is followed by a race of runners and leapers in wild attitudes they spring from the brink their bodies plunge factory lasses with fancy clothes toss red hot yorkshire borough bombs society ladies lift their skirts above their heads to protect themselves laughing witches in red cutty sarks ride through the air on broomsticks quaker lyster plasters blisters it rains dragon's teeth armed heroes spring up from furrows they exchange in amity the paths of knights of the red cross and fight duels with cavalry sabers wolf tone against henry gratin smith o' brian against daniel o' connell michael davitt against isaac butt just in mccarthy against parnel arthur griffin against john redmond john o' leary against lyro johnny lord edward fits gerald against lord gerald fits edward the odona hue of the glens against the glens of the odona hue on an eminence the center of the earth rises the felled altar of saint barbara black candles rise from its gospel and epistle horns from the high barbicans of the tower two shafts of light fall on the smoke pooled altar stone on the altar stone mrs. mena purafoi goddess of unreason lies naked fettered a chalice resting on her swollen belly father malachio flinn in a lace petticoat and reversed chasable his two left feet back to the front celebrates camp mass the river and mr. hugh c. hain's love m.a. in a plain cassock and mortarboard his head and collar back to the front holds over the celebrant's head an open umbrella father malachio flinn intro ibo ad altare diaboli the reverend mr. hain's love to the devil which hath made glad my young days father malachio flinn takes from the chalice and elevates a blood dripping host quartus mayum the reverend mr. hain's love raises high between the celebrant's petticoat revealing his gray bare hairy buttocks between which a carrot is stuck my body the voice of all the damned from on high the voice of adonai calls the voice of all the blessed from on high the voice of adonai calls in strident discord peasants and townsmen of orange and green factions sing kick the pope and daily daily sing to mary private car with ferocious articulation or do him in so help me fucking christ or ring the bastard fuckers bleeding blasted fucking windpipe old gummy granny thrusts a dagger towards steven's hand remove him at 8 35 a.m. you will be in heaven and ireland will be free she prays oh good god take him the retriever nosing on the fringe of the crowd barks noisily bloom runs to lynch can't you get him away lynch he likes dialectic the universal language kitty to bloom get him away you he won't listen to me he drags kitty away steven points exit judas at black whales are suspended bloom runs to steven come along with me now before worse happens here's your stick stick no reason this feast of pure reason sissy kaffrey pulling private car come on your boost he insulted me but i forgive him shouting in his ear i forgive him for insulting me bloom over steven's shoulder yes go you see he's incapable private car breaks loose all he's so him he rushes towards steven fist outstretched and strikes him in the face steven totters collapses falls stunned he lies prone his face to the sky his hat's rolling to the wall bloom follows and picks it up major tweedy loudly carving in bucket ceasefire salute the retriever barking furiously the crowd let him up don't strike him when he's down air oh the soldier he's a professor is he hurted don't man handle him he's fainted a hag what call had the red coat to strike the gentleman and he under the influence let them go and fight the boors the board listen to who's talking hasn't the soldier a right to go with his girl he gave him the cowards blow they grapple at each other's hair claw at each other and spit the retriever barking bloom shuffs them back loudly get back stand back private compton tugging his comrade here bugger off harry here's the cops two rain capped watch tall stand in the group first watch what's wrong here private compton we were with this lady and he insulted us and insulted my chum the retriever barks who owns the bleeding take sissy calfery with expectation is he bleeding a man rising from his knees no enough he'll come to all right bloom glasses sharply at the man leave him to me i can easily second watch who are you do you know him private car lurches towards the watch he and so is my lady friend bloom angrily you hit him without provocation i'm a witness constable take his regimental number second watch i don't want your instructions in the discharge of my duty private compton pulling his comrade here bugger off harry or benetal shove you in the lockup private car staggering as he is pulled away godfuck ol benet he's a white ass bugger i don't give a shit for him first watch takes out his notebook what's his name bloom peering over the crowd i just see a car there if you give me a hand a second sergeant first watch name and address corny keller weepers around his hat a death wreath in his hand appears among the bystanders bloom quickly oh the very man he whispers simon deadless son a bit sprung get those policemen to move those loafers back second watch night mr. keller corny keller her to the watch with drawing eye that's all right i know him when a bit under races gold cop throw away he laughs 20 to 1 do you follow me first watch turns to the crowd yeah what are you all gaping at move on out of that the crowd disperses slowly muttering down the lane corny keller her leave it to me sergeant that'll be all right he laughs shaking his head we were often as bad ourselves i or worse what hey what first watch laughs i suppose so corny keller her natches the second watch come and wipe your name off the slate he lilts wagging his head with my tour a loom tour a loom tour a loom tour a loom what hey do you follow me second watch genially sure we were too corny keller her winking boys will be boys i have a car around there second watch all right mr. keller good night i'll see to that bloom shakes hands with both of the watch in turn thank you very much gentlemen thank you he mumbles confidentially we don't want any scandal you understand father's well-known highly respected citizen just a little wild oats you understand first watch oh i understand sir second watch it's all right sir first watch it was only in case of corporal injuries i'd have to report it at the station naturally nods rapidly quite right only your bounded duty second watch it's our duty corny keller her good night men the watch saluting together night gentlemen they move off with slow heavy tread bloom blows providential you came on the scene you have a car corny keller her laughs pointing his thumb over his right shoulder to the car brought up against the scaffolding two commercials that were standing fizz and jam it like princess fate one of them lost two quid on the race drowning his grief and were on for a go at the jolly girls so i landed them up on beahen's car and down to night town i was just going home by gardener street when i happened to corny keller her laughs sure they wanted me to join in with the mat know by god says i not for old staggers like myself and yourself he laughs again and liars with lackluster eye thanks beta god we have it in the house what do you follow me bloom tries to laugh yes matter of fact i was just visiting an old friend of mine there veerog you don't know him poor fellow he's laid up for the past week and we had a liquor together and i was just making my way home the horse nays sure it was be in our jarvee there that told me after we left the two commercials in mrs cohen's and i told him to pull up and got off to see he laughs sober hearst drivers of specialty will i give him a lift home where does he hang out somewhere in cabra what no in sandy cove i believe from what he let drop steven prone breathes to the stars corny keller a squint drools at the horse bloom in gloom looms down corny keller her scratches his nape sandy cove he bends down and calls to steven hey he calls again hey he's covered with shavings anyhow take care to didn't lift anything off him no no no i have his money in his hat here and stick ah well he'll get over it no bones broken well i'll shove along he laughs i've run the voo in the morning burying the dead safe home the horse nays oh good night i'll just wait and take him along in a few corny keller her returns to the outside car and mounts it the horse harness jingles from the car standing night the javi chucks the reins and raises his whip encouragingly the car and horse back slowly awkwardly and turn corny keller her on the side seat sways his head to and fro in sign of mirth at bloom's plight the javi joins in the mute pantomimic merriment nodding from the father seat bloom shakes his head in mute mirthful reply with thumb and palm corny keller her reassures that the two bobbies will allow the sleep to continue for what else is to be done with a slow nod bloom conveys his gratitude as that is exactly what steven needs the car jingles tour a loom round the corner of the tour a loom lane corny keller her again reassure a looms with his hand bloom with his hand assure a looms corny keller her that he is reassure a loom tay the tinkling hoofs and jingling harness grow fainter with their tour a lool a lool a lool a loom holding in his hand steven's hat festooned with shavings and ash plant stands irresolute then he bends to him and shakes him by the shoulder hey oh there is no answer he bends again mr. deadless there is no answer the name if you call some noblest he bends again and hesitating brings his mouth near the face of the prostrate form steven there is no answer he calls again steven steven groans ah who black panther vampire he sighs and stretches himself then murmurs thickly with prolonged vowels who drive fergus now and pierce woods woven shade he turns on his left side sig doubling himself together bloom poetry well educated pity he bends again and undoes the buttons of steven's waistcoat to breathe he brushes the wood shavings from steven's clothes with light hand and fingers one pound seven not hurt anyhow he listens what steven murmurs shadows the woods white breast dim sea he stretches out his arms sighs again and curls his body bloom holding the hat and ash plant stands erect a dog barks in the distance bloom tightens and loosens his grip on the ash plant he looks down on steven's face and form bloom communes with the night face reminds me of his poor mother in the shady wood the deep white breast fergus and i think i caught a girl some girl best thing could happen him he murmurs swear that i will always hail ever conceal never reveal any part or parts art or arts he murmurs in the rough sands of the sea a cable toes length from the shore where the tide ebbs and flows silent thoughtful alert he stands on guard his fingers at his lips in the attitude of secret master against the dark wall a figure appears slowly a fairy boy of eleven a changeling kidnapped dressed in an eaten suit with glass shoes and a little bronze helmet holding a book in his hand he reads from right to left inaudibly smiling kissing the page bloom wonder struck calls inaudibly rudy rudy gazes unseeing into bloom's eyes and goes on reading kissing smiling he has a delicate mauve face on his suit he has diamond and ruby buttons in his free left hand he holds a slim ivory cane with a violet bow knot a white lambkin peeps out of his waistcoat pocket end of section 45 section 46 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 libra vox.org recorded by karen ulysses by james joce part three the nostos episode 16 yumaeus part one preparatory to anything else mr bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed steven the hat and ash plant and bucked him up generally in orthodox maritan fashion which he very badly needed his steven's mind was not exactly what you would call wandering but a bit unsteady and on his express desire for some beverage to drink mr bloom in view of the hour it was and there being no pump of archery water available for their ablutions let alone drinking purposes he did upon an expedient by suggesting off the real the propriety of the cabin's shelter as it was called hardly a stone's throw away near butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or mineral but how to get there was the rub for the knots he was rather non-plussed but in as much as a duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which steven repeatedly yawned so far as he could see he was rather pale in the face so that it occurred to him as highly advisable to get a conveyance of some description which would answer in their then condition both of them being edied particularly steven always assuming that there was such a thing to be found accordingly after a few such preliminaries as brushing in spite of his having forgotten to take up his rather soaps at a handkerchief after he had done yeoman service in the shaving line they both walked together along beaver street or more properly lane as far as the ferriers and the distinctly feted atmosphere the livery stables at the corner of montgomery street where they made tracks to the left from thence debouching into amion street round by the corner of dan bergens but as he confidently anticipated there was not a sign of a jay who plying for hire anywhere to be seen except a four-wheeler probably engaged by some fellows inside on the spree outside the north star hotel and there was no symptom of its budging a quarter of an inch when mr. bloom was anything but a professional whistler endeavored to hail it by emitting a kind of a whistle holding his arms arched over his head twice this was a quandary but bringing common sense to bear on it evidently there was nothing for it but put a good face on the matter and foot it which they accordingly did so beveling around by mullets and the signal house which they shortly reached they proceeded perforce in the direction of amon street railway terminus mr. bloom being handicapped by the circumstance that one of the back buttons of his trousers had to vary the time-honored andage gone the way of all buttons though entering thoroughly into the spirit of things he heroically made light of the miss chance so as neither of them were particularly pressed for time as it happened and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of jupiter pluvius they dandered along passed by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvy as it so happened a doublin united tramways company's sand store happened to be returning and the elder man recounted to his companion a proposal of the incident his own truly miraculous escape of some little while back they passed the main entrance of the great northern railway station the starting point for belfast where of course all traffic was suspended at that late hour and passing the back door of the morgue a not very enticing locality not to say gruesome to a degree more special at night ultimately game the dock tavern and in due course turned into store street famous for its c division police station between this point and the high at present unlit warehouses of bearsford place steven thought to think of ipson associated with beards the stone cutters in his mind somehow in talbot place first turning on the right while the other who was acting as his fetus acates inhaled with internal satisfaction the smell of james roark city bakery situated quite close to where they were the very palatable odor indeed of our daily bread of all commodities of the public the primary and most indispensable bread the staff of life earn your bread oh tell me where is fancy bread at roark's the bakers it is said unwrote to his taciturn and not to put too fine a point on it not yet perfectly sober companion mr. bloom who at all events was in complete possession of his faculties never more so in fact disgustingly sober spoke a word of caution ray the dangers of night town women of ill fame and swell mobsmen which barely permissible once in a while though not as a habitual practice was of the nature of a regular death trap for young fellows of his age particularly if they had acquired drinking habits under the influence of liquor unless you knew little jiu-jitsu for every contingency as even a fellow on the broad of his back could administer a nasty kick if you didn't look out highly providential was the appearance on the scene of corny keller her when steven was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finney might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward or failing that the bridewell and an appearance in the court next day before mr. tobias or he being the solicitor rather old wall he meant to say or mohoney which simply spelt ruin for a chap when it got brooded about the reason he mentioned the fact was that a lot of these policemen whom he cordially disliked were admittedly unscrupulous in the service of the crown and this mr. bloom put it recalling a case or two in the a division in clan brassel street prepared to swear a hole through a 10 gallon pot never on the spot when wanted but in quiet parts of the city pembroke road for example the guardians of the law were well in evidence the obvious reason being they were paid to protect the upper classes another thing he commented on was equipping soldiers with firearms or sidearms of any description liable to go off at any time which was tantamount to inciting them against civilians should by any chance they fall out over anything you frittered away your time he very sensibly maintained and health and also character resides which the squander mania of the thing fast women of the demi-monde ran away with a lot of lsd into the bargain and the greatest danger of all was who you got drunk with though touching the more vexed question of stimulants he relished a glass of choice old wine and season as both nourishing and blood making and possessing a period virtues notably a good burgundy which he was a staunch believer in still never beyond a certain point where he invariably drew the line as it simply led to trouble all around to say nothing of your being at the tender mercy of others practically most of all he commented adversely on the desertion of steven by all his pub hunting confrairs but one a most glaring piece of ratting on the part of his brother medicos under all the cirks and that one was judas steven said who up to then had said nothing whatsoever of any kind discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back of the custom house and pass under the loop line bridge where a brazier of coke burning in front of a sentry box or something like one attracted their rather lagging footsteps steven of his own accord stopped for no special reason to look at the heap of barren cobblestones and by the light emanating from the brazier he could just make out the darker figure of the corporation watchmen inside the gloom of the sentry box he began to remember that this had happened or had been mentioned as having happened before but it cost him no small effort before he remembered that he recognized in the sentry a quantum friend of his father's gumly to avoid a meeting he drew nearer to the pillars of the railway bridge someone saluted you mr bloom said a figure of middle height on the prowl evidently under the arches saluted again calling night steven of course started rather dizzily and stopped to return the compliment mr bloom actuated by motives of inherent delicacy in as much as he always believed in minding his own business moved off but nevertheless remained on the quiveva with just a shade of anxiety though not funkish in the least the unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorizing peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about their simply marauders ready to camp with whatever brutal they could in when fell swoop at a moment's notice your money or your life leaving you there to point a moral gagged and garreted steven that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters though he was not in an over sober state himself recognize Corley's breath redolent of rotten corn juice lord john Corley some called him and his genealogy came about in this wise he was the eldest son of inspector Corley of the g division lately deceased who had married a certain Catherine brophy the daughter of a louth farmer his grandfather patrick michael corley of new ross had married the widow of a public in there whose maiden name had been Catherine also Talbot rumor had it though not proved that she descended from the house of the lord's Talbot de malahide in whose mansion really an unquestionably fine residence of its kind and well worth seeing her mother or aunt or some relative a woman as a tail went of extreme beauty had enjoyed the distinction of being in service in the wash kitchen this therefore was the reason why the still comparatively young though disillet man who now addressed steven was spoken of by some with facetious proclivities as lord john Corley taking steven on one side he had the customary doleful ditty to tell not as much as a farthing to purchase a night's lodgings his friends and all deserted him furthermore he had a row with lenehan and called him to steven a mean bloody swab with a sprinkling of a number of other uncalled for expressions he was out of a job and implored of steven to tell him where on god's earth he could get something anything at all to do no it was a daughter of the mother in the wash kitchen that was foster sister to the air of the house or else they were connected through the mother in some way both occurrences happening at the same time if the whole thing was in a complete fabrication from start to finish anyhow he was all in i wouldn't ask you only pursued he on my solemn oath in god knows i'm on the rocks there'll be a job tomorrow next day steven told him in a boy's school at dalkey for a gentleman usher mr garret dc try it you may mention my name oh god corley replied sure i couldn't teach in a school man i was never one of your bright ones he added with a half laugh i got stuck twice in the junior of the christian brothers i have no place to sleep myself steven informed him corley at this first go off was inclined to suspect it was something to do with steven being fired out of his digs for bringing in a bloody tart off the street there was a dust house in marlboro street mrs maloney's but it was only a tanner touch and full of undesirables but mechanically told him you get a decent enough do in the brazen head over in wine tavern street which was distinctly suggested to the person addressed a fryer bacon for a bob he was starving too though he hadn't said a word about it though this sort of thing went on every other night or very near it still steven's feelings got the better of him in a sense though he knew that corley's brand new rigamarole on a par with the others was hardly deserving of much credence however how dignaris malore ms eris su carerat disco etc as a latin poet remarks especially as luck would have it he got paid a screw after every middle of the month on the 16th which was the date of the month as a matter of fact though a good bit of the wherewithal was demolished but the cream of the joke was nothing would get it out of corley's head that he was living in affluence and hadn't a thing to do but hand out the needful whereas he put his hand in his pocket anyhow not with the idea of finding any food there but thinking he might lend him anything up to a bob or so in lieu so that he might endeavor at all events and get sufficient to eat but the result was in the negative four to his chagrin he found his cash missing a few broken biscuits were all the result of his investigation tried his hardest to recollect for the moment whether he had lost as well as he might have or left because in that contingency it was not a pleasant lookout very much the reverse in fact he was altogether too fagged out to institute a thorough search though he tried to recollect about biscuits he dimly remembered who now exactly gave them he wondered or where was or did he buy however in another pocket he came across what he surmised in the dark were pennies erroneously however as it turned out those are half crownsman corley corrected him and so in point of fact they turned out to be steven anyhow lent him one of them thanks corley answered you're a gentleman i'll pay you back one time who's that with you i saw him a few times in the bleeding horse in camden street with boiling the bill sticker you might put in a good word for us to get me taken on there i'd carry a sandwich board only the girl in the office told me they're full up for the next three weeks man god you've got a book ahead man you'd think it was for the car rosa i don't give a shite anyway so long as i get a job even as a crossing sweeper subsequently being not quite so down in the mouth after the two and six he got he informed steven about a fellow by the name of bags camiskey that he said steven knew well out of fulham's the shiphandlers bookkeeper there used to be often round in nagelsback with umara and a little chap with a stutter the name of taig anyhow he was lagged the night before last and fine ten bob for a drunken disorderly and refusing to go with the constable mr bloom in the meanwhile kept dodging about in the vicinity of the cobblestones near the brazier of coke in front of the corporation watchman's sentry box who evidently a glutton for work it struck him was having a quiet 40 winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while dublin slept he threw an odd eye at the same time now and then at steven's anything but immaculately a tired interlocutor as if he'd seen that nobleman somewhere other though where he was not in a position to truthfully state nor had he the remotest idea when being a level-headed individual who could give points to not a few in point of shrewd observation he also remarked on his very dilapidated hat and slouchy wearing apparel generally testified to a chronic impecuniosity palpably he was one of his hangers on but for the matter of that it was merely a question of one praying on his next door neighbor all round in every deep so to put it a deeper depth and for the matter of that if the man in the street chanced to be in the dock himself penal servitude with or without the option of a fine would be a very rara avis altogether in any case he had a consummate amount of cool assurance intercepting people at that hour of the night or morning pretty thick that was certainly the pair of hearted company and steven rejoined mr. bloom who with his practice eye was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the bland eloquence of the other parasite alluding to the encounter he said laughingly steven that is he's down on his luck he asked me to ask you to ask somebody named boilin a bill sticker to give him a job as a sandwich man at this intelligence in which he seemingly evinced little interest mr. bloom gay is abstractedly for the space of half a second or so in the direction of a bucket dredger rejoicing in the far-famed name of ablana moved alongside custom house kane quite possibly out of repair whereupon he observed evasively everybody gets their own ration of luck they say now you mentioned his face was familiar to me believing that for the moment how much did you part with he queried if i'm not too inquisitive half a crown steven responded i dare say he needs it to sleep somewhere needs mr. bloom ejaculated professing not the least surprise at the intelligence i can quite credit the assertion and i guarantee he invariably does everyone according to his needs or everyone according to his deeds but talking about things in general where added he with a smile will you sleep yourself walking to sandy cove is out of the question and even supposing you did you won't get in after what occurred at westland rose station simply fag out there for nothing i don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house to seek misfortune was steven's answer i met your respected father on a recent occasion mr. bloom diplomatically return today in fact or to be strictly accurate on yesterday where does he live at present i gathered in the course of conversation that he had moved i believe he's in dublin somewhere steven answered unconcernedly why a gifted man mr. bloom said of mr. deadless senior in more respects than one and a born raconteur if ever there was one he takes great pride quite legitimate out of you you could go back perhaps he hazarded still thinking of the very unpleasant scene at westland road terminus when it was perfectly evident that the other two mulligan that is and that english tourist friend of his who eventually eukard the third companion were patently trying as if the whole ballet station belonged to them to give steven the slip and the confusion which they did there was no response forthcoming to the suggestion however such as it was steven's mind's eye being too busy engaged in repicturing his family hearth the last time you saw it with his sister dilly sitting by the angle her hair hanging down waiting for some weak trinidad shell cocoa that was in the soot coated kettle to be done so that she and he could drink it with the oatmeal water for milk after the friday herrings they had eaten at to a penny with an egg apiece for maggie buddy and katie the cat meanwhile under the mangle devouring a mess of eggshells and charred fish heads and bones on a square of brown paper in accordance with the third precept of the church to fast and abstain on the days commanded it being quarter tense or if not ember days or something like that no mr. bloom repeated again i wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element dr. mulligan as a guide philosopher and friend if i were in your shoes he knows which side his bread is buttered on though in all probability he never realized what it is to be without regular meals of course you didn't notice as much as i did but it wouldn't occasion me the least surprised to learn that a pinch of tobacco or some narcotic was putting your drink for some ulterior object he understood however from all he heard that dr. mulligan was a versatile all-round man by no means confined to medicine only who was rapidly coming to the fore in his line and if the report was verified bade fared to enjoy a flourishing practice in the not too distant future as a tony medical practitioner drawing a handsome fee for his services in addition to which professional status his rescue of that man from a certain drowning by artificial respiration and what they call first aid at scaries or malahide was it was he was bound to admit an exceedingly plucky deed which he could not too highly praise so that frankly he was utterly at a loss to fathom what earthly reason could be at the back of it except he put it down to share cussedness or jealousy pure and simple except it simply amounts to one thing and he is what they call picking your brains he ventured to throw out the guarded glance of half solicitude half curiosity augmented by friendliness which he gave at stevens at present morose expression of features did not throw a flood of light none at all in fact on the problem as to whether he had let himself be badly bamboozled to judge by two or three low spirited remarks he let drop or the other way about saw through the affair and for some reason or other best known to himself allowed matters to more or less grinding poverty did have that effect any more than conjecture that high educational abilities though he possessed he experienced no little difficulty in making both ends meet end of section 46 recorded by Karen