#and then chokers for spunk

[noragaming]

i love chokers and gloves. they’re very sexy. but like almost EVERY bsd character is wearing either gloves or chokers. like dude.

do i thirst over all of them? do i thirst over none of them? mori also has gloves. gin-chan also has a choker. help

[msweebyness]

DuPont School for Monstrous Youths- Aggie Findlay

Let’s just say, she wouldn’t be welcome with the Disney crew! Here’s Aggie! @imsparky2002 @artzychic27

Species: Faerie

Appearance/Attire: Small, black, downward-curved horns, Back-length, rusty red wild curls, mint-green translucent gossamer wings, electric green eyes, sharp fangs, iridescent pale skin covered with freckles, Gaelic text markings on arms, prosthetic left leg. Spiked golden choker, neon green halter top with black fairy wing decals, black hoodie with green tree decal on back with vines that wind around the arms, fingerless gold skater gloves, black biker shorts, neon green combat boots with black wing charms.

Bio: If there’s one thing that Aggie hates, it’s the stereotype that faeries are sweet and delicate creatures. This girl is as hot-blooded and free-spirited as they come, and doesn’t let her status as a congenital amputee hinder her being one of the school’s most infamous daredevils! Always whizzing through the air at top speed or blazing by on her skateboard, her wings make pulling off breathtaking stunts a breeze! Aggie can be a bit hot-headed and doesn’t always think before she says what’s on her mind, but she never means to hurt anyone. She has a friendly rivalry with Alix, and the two are always trying to one-up each other with stunts. Just do her a favor, and don’t ask about her parents.

Quotes:

“Call me ‘Tinker Bell’ one more time, jackass! I dare ye!”

“Och! What a bloody moron! What, we were all thinkin’ it!”

“C’mon, Viper Head, last one tae the main doors buys lunch!”

“Alright, I’m sick’a this shite! Gotta fly!”

“Oi, watch the wings! Look, don’t touch!”

“*Highland War Cry* LET’S FECKIN’ DO THIS!”

She’s a sprite with a lot of spunk! Leave your thoughts in the comments and reblogs!

[diamondcrownacademy]

DCA Info Part 27: Meet Allison Liddel 🐰

Allison Liddel (アリソン・リデル, Arison Rideru) is the dorm leader of Futterwacken. She is a rebellious girl with a whole lot of spunk, but she's also very curious and loves to explore.

History

Allison was born and raised in the Kingdom of Gardenia, being the daughter of Lewis Liddel and his wife, as well as being the elder twin sister of Maddison Liddel.

At some point during Allison's life, her parents divorced and Lewis took custody of both her and Maddison. Ever since then, Lewis has been constantly peer pressuring them into acting like noblewomen in the hopes of getting them to marry men of noble status in order to boost his own ego and climb the social ladder.

Personality

Curious yet spunky, Allison is a mischief maker at heart. The rebellious spirit in her comes from her hatred for her father's peer pressuring nature and this rebellious spirit causes her the reject anything feminine, but she's comfortable wearing dresses if they aren't too fancy. She also has a love for exploring, which can sometimes lead to trouble.

Appearance

Allison is a girl of average height in her mid-teens. She has fair skin, turquoise colored eyes and short reddish pink, almost watermelon pink hair with side swept bangs parted to the left side of her head and the tips of her hair being flipped.

2020 School Uniform

Allison's 2020 school uniform is very "unique" to her. She wears a bright sky blue sailor top with turquoise gem buttons, mid-length sleeves with blue-green blue cuffs, a dark cerulean blue collar with an argyle like pattern of hearts, spades, clovers and diamonds with one of the aforementioned shapes being shown in the center of each diamond, a blue-green flowy collar flap and a dark turquoise scarf tied to the collar. At the waist, Allison wears a dark turquoise belt with a bow at the right side. The bottom half of her uniform consists of a two layered skirt, with the top layer being a semi-ombré dark cerulean blue while the bottom layer has the same coloring and pattern as the sailor top's collar. Allison also wears dark turquoise and white horizontal striped leggings alongside a pair dark turquoise Mary Janes with gold soles and buckles.

Allison accessorizes with a dark turquoise ribbon headband with a crown shaped charm in the center and a dark turquoise choker with a bow in the center. Allison's most noticeable accessory is the gold waist chain of keys, which are the way of verifying the students affiliated with the Futterwacken dorm. The gold key shapes and gems are as follows: a red heart, a blue spade, a green clover and a yellow diamond.

2021 School Uniform

Very little changed about Allison's uniform, the only differences include the skirt's top layer now being a solid dark cerulean blue and her ribbon headband, scarf and belt are now colored black.

Dorm Uniform

For her dorm uniform, Allison wears a blue and yellow dress with a white undershirt, a yellow shirt collar with gold ribbon and a gold pin shaped like a door lock, a solid blue bodice with yellow vertical line detailing in the center, white cap sleeves with gold trimming over blue puff sleeves with pale yellow trimming and gold ribbon near the trimmings edge. At the waist, Allison wears a purple belt with a pink diamond pattern attached to a white apron. The belt also has golden trim on the top and bottom and a gold pocket watch which is attached to the waist chain of keys on the left side of her waist. The dress' skirt has pale yellow and light blue vertical stripes with card shape patterns. The bottom of the skirt has gold ribbon and lace trimming. The gold ribbon has card suits on it, this includes a red heart, black spade, block clover and red diamond. Underneath the skirt, Allison wears a white ruffle petticoat and pale yellow bloomers with gold ribbon and ruffle trim. For footwear, Allison wears a pair a black Mary Janes with the strap having lace, alongside purple and pink horizontal striped leggings.

Allison retains the headband for her school uniform for her dorm uniform. However, she also wears a pair of bracelets that resemble tuxedo cuffs with gold buttons.

Solo Stage Uniform

Allison's vocal performance uniform is different from the others. She wears a top with triangular hems on each side. The center of the top is a silvery teal color and has four diamonds going down vertically and within said diamonds are a pair of smaller diamonds, with horizontal beige diamonds and brown vertical diamonds. On both sides of middle section are vertical watermelon pink and pale yellow triangle patterns. The sides of the top are dark teal, divided by dark pink vertical ribbon. The top's spread collar is the same silvery teal as the top's center and it additionally has watermelon pink ribbon, lace trimming and in the upper center is a pale yellow lacy collar flap with the same watermelon pink ribbon as before. The top also has juliet sleeves, with the puff portion having pink ribbon hems and being silvery teal and pale yellow, the long sleeve portion is light butterscotch in color and have ruffle hems.  At the waist, Allison wears a pink bow attached to four colored ribbons with gold detailing and card shape on each one, this includes a pink ribbon with a heart, a blue ribbon with a spade, a green ribbon with a clover and a yellow ribbon with a diamond. Her pants are a two toned teal, with the right side being a lighter shade than the left, the right side also has a pink ribbon tied to it and the pants have cuffs with light pink diamonds inside and pink ribbon on the top and bottom. For footwear, Allison wears a pair of pink low heeled shoes with dusty rose colored soles, rounded arch topline, and gold strap detailing with pink flowers on top. She additionally wears gold anklets and dark teal stockings.

Allison accessorizes with a small gold crown with light and dark blue diamond shaped gems on it, a pale teal hair bow, and a dark blue-green scarf tie. She also wears a pink X shaped hair clip and attached to it is a gold beaded string with a blue heart shaped gem set in gold and has a gold pearl at its tip. Allison additionally wears pink bracelets with light pink diamonds inside.

Rabbit Chase Outfit

Likely worn for Hatter Day parties, Allison wears a red tailcoat coat with black outline. The tailcoat additionally has a white lapel with black outline, three yellow roses that appear to be connected to a white fur collar, white cuffs with black trimming and gold buttons on them and a pom-pom on each "tail" of the tailcoat. The tailcoat is worn over a light violet dress, with the top having honey yellow details resembling petals. Over the top is a honey yellow vest with black buttons and a red outline. The skirt is the same light violet color as the top and has a clock pattern on it. The skirt also has two ruffle hems, with the first one being honey yellow and resembles a ballerina tutu and the second layer being a black ruffle one. For footwear, Allison sports a pair of below-the-knees red low heeled boots with white cuffs that have pocket watches with rabbit ears on them and the toeboxes of the boots are white and made to resemble rabbit feet. The white parts also have a black outline.

Allison accessorizes with a red top hat that includes a light violet band with gold outline, white rabbit ears with lavender interiors, a bronze handled white teacup with green leaves and a rose. The back of the top hat has a piece of pale yellow fabric with lace trim and is connected to a pair of black and red ribbons with pom-poms at the end. She additionally accessorizes with a lavender ruffle collar with a black crossover tie with a red rose in the center. The rose is connected to a gold chain, which is in-turn connected to a gold pocket watch with rabbit ears on it. Allison also sports a pair of white gloves.

School Statistics

Allison is a 17 year old 2nd year student. She is classified as Student #5 and is in Class 2-E. She is a member of the Theater Club and her best subjects are Magic History and Party Hosting, with the latter being her favorite school subject due to her desire to throw amazing and less boring parties. Her least favorite school subject is Basic Etiquette due to her rebellious nature and she refuses to act like a lady.

For her idol performances, Allison has a loud voice that can still carry rhythm. Allison prefers to sing more energetic songs and she can sometimes sing fast lyrics without problem.

For her choreography, Allison provides lots of movement on stage with plenty of jumping and skipping. She's all over the place.

Relationships

Family

Allison has a negative relationship with her father, who constantly tries to peer pressure her and Maddison to act like proper high class ladies and likely get them to marry into nobility so that he can boost his social status.

Allison's relationship with Maddison and her mother were more positive. Prior to her parents divorce, her mom would read them stories and nursery rhymes and it's likely she didn't try to peer pressure them like their father did. While Maddison is more quiet and reserved, she does care about Allison and also dislikes her father's egotistical nature.

Pet

Allison has a pet hare named, Tock. He's NOT rabbit cause hares are bigger and could match her pace. Also it won't hesitate to use the magic doorway while most animals would be scared to go in.

Fellow Students

It's likely that because of her easygoing and social nature, Allison has a lot of mutuals. Thought she is shown to get on Evonie's nerves on occasion.

Night Raven College Students

Riddle thinks that she's strange and would be a troublemaker with how often she accidentally ends up in NRC through the magic doors. There have been times where he is tempted to use Off With Your Head on her sometimes because she can be annoying at times. And he thinks the dorm she runs is more chaotic than Heartslabyul. The one thing he likes about her is that the tea and food art is decent enough and he liked the singing flowers.

Ace finds Allison fun to be around. These two are the double trouble doing reckless stuff and exchanging memes at 3 am. They have a lot of inside jokes that people won't get but them.

Deuce is the mediator but if he gets into a fight Allison would bring the popcorn and watch on the sidelines. But he thinks she's a fun person to be around, albeit maybe the spunky energy just makes him want to do something reckless too.

Trey tries to keep her out of trouble. He's the official mediator because Deuce does a crappy job. He knows she is probably a sweet girl but he just needs her to calm tf down. He can't catch up with all that energy. Though he appreciates her skills in food art and would like to hold a baking session and serve it at the next unbirthday party.

Cater recognizes her as the user who posts food art on MagiCam. Instant social media friends. He's a big fan of her work and he will try to ask her what else she can turn a cake into. A teapot, a pile of books, a rose there are so many things she can replicate with cake batter and frosting.

Vil isn't very fond of her. She does what she pleases and has corrupted the first year he was currently training, Epel. He just looks at her like a disappointed mother whenever she shows up. Allison ain't warming up to him either. She once told Epel that anymore make up and his face will become literal cake. Which made Epel choke on the apple he was eating. Also she thinks Vil is Highness in human form.

Allison would definitely urge Epel to go feral and she's taking photos to remember this historical moments. She's made an album all about him. Titled "The Documentaries of a Feral-Almost-French Boy". Epel has an enabler and you can't deny that. Also there can be moments these two don't cause a mess, Allison and him making apple treats and leave cakes that look like vases around Pomefiore.

Ever since Rook took the spotlight when he visited the theater club in DCA, Allison has been bitter about how he'd play a better male lead than her. She sees him as his rival for "prince charming". Rook on the other hand plays along and does everything to fluster her which infuriates her even more.

Idia doesn't want to be near her because she's on the same list as the bright and optimistic people that could blind him. If anything at least he's glad Ortho found a friend in her but don't try to drag him along. Her energy is a terrible matchup against Idia's introvert spirit. She once used her unique magic to teleport into his room and he screamed bloody murder and chucked a controller at her direction.

Ortho being a kid and Allison being a kid at heart she'd play a lot of weird but fun games with him like hide and seek where he has to guess which door she went through and all. Those two have a secret handshake and probably have a treehouse somewhere tbh. Ortho is curious so he'd want to know what Allison will do next. She's unpredictable even to his calculations.

Romance

Allison desires a significant other who has the same energy as her but is also the voice of reason. A significant other who is both fun but reasonable.

Powers and Abilities

• Magic: Much like her fellow students, Allison can use magic.

• Hanging Upside-Down: Allison is stated to be skilled at hanging upside-down, she's even able to drink tea upside-down.

• Food Art Skills: Allison is stated to be a professional on food art. Being able to make a huge variety of designs in a short time, students look forward to what kind of sweets she'll make sculptures of. However there will be occasions where she makes food look like objects. Ella learned this the hard way when she mistook cakes for teacups.

Unique Magic

Allison's unique magic is called "Enchanted Doorways" (不思議の国への鍵/エンチャント・ドアウェイ, Enchanto Doau~ei; lit. "Key to Wonderland"). She can travel to places she previously visited, but it has it's limits. She constantly it to travel because she just like walking through the doorways that look like LSD on the inside. Also she sometimes doesn't feel like walking a long distance and wants a shortcut instead.

Voice

According to her bio, Allison's Japanese voice actress would be Ayaka Ōhashi, known for her roles as Ran Shibuki in Aikatsu!, Sāya Yamabuki in BanG Dream!, and Uzuki Shimamura in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls.

Trivia

• Her birthday is on May 4th, making her a Taurus.

• She is 163 cm tall.

• Her favorite food is Cookies, with her personal favorite being chocolate chip while her least favorite food is Mushrooms. She dislikes boring parties and small places.

• She enjoys pulling pranks.

• Her preferred Styling Jewel Outfit Styles are Cute and Quirky.

• For her casual attire, Allison would mostly wear harajuku inspired clothing.

• Her favorite colors are Teal, Cyan and Red.

• She is dubbed "Little Puffin" (ツノメドリちゃん, Tsunomedori-chan) by Floyd due to her easygoing nature and the fact that she is all over the place.

• Allison’s Overblot would occur if she had an argument with her father and he would straight up tells her something about her mother that makes her upset.

• In the future, Allison would be a pastry chef or cafe owner.

• Allison loves anything sweet, but she especially loves desserts that use cookies.

• Allison would smell like something weird, she adventurous.

• Her signature scent would be a mixture of whatever sweets she ate and a hint of tea.

• Allison is afraid of feeling left out. This is why she tends to be loud and all over the place.

• Although, despite being the planner of tea parties, Allison prefers pink lemonade over tea because she likes drinks that are cold and refreshing.

• When she gets bored, she’d go around the dorm’s supply closet and play make believe with the floating furniture and decor there. There’s one character she made out of a tin foil covered bucket and a fake blonde wig with a cardboard crown who she named, Princess Tintina. Because of the unusual chaos in the dorm, sometimes Tintina would walk about on her own pouring imaginary tea for herself which freaks out the other students.

[ministarfruit]

off with her head!

[ilguna]

Tacenda - Chapter Seven (f.o)

Summary: you’ll never truly be free from the Capitol.

Word Count; 4.9k

Warnings; swearing, DEATH MENTION

NOTES: i give reader a last name to fit the world.

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You throw your arms around Finnick, “Hey, Finny.”

He doesn’t move, and you look over your shoulder to see the time again. It’s approaching nine-thirty. You’ve slept in pretty far, which is kinda usual for you. Considering that you wake up early during the games weeks. No matter how late you stay up, you’re normally awake bright and early at seven to get a jumpstart on things.

Very rarely does Finnick get up before you. On nightmare nights, mostly. After he wasn’t able to fall back asleep after one. He’s gotten really good at being quiet while he gets up and takes a shower. He’ll get all dressed and ready and then come back to bed to be there when you wake up.

You move some hair from Finnick’s face, tilting your head slightly. He does look carefree when he sleeps. Even as a teenager, he’s always lost age when he’s finally sleeping. It’s like all of his past experiences are suddenly gone and he’s the kind, guy he was back when you knew him before the games, in high school.

You wonder if he thinks the same thing when you’re sleeping, and he’s awake. If he’ll move the hair out of your face and just admire how you look. See the difference between being awake and being out cold. Awake, he might look cunning and fit the peacock nature, but asleep he’s a baby again. As for you, you might be all hardball when you’re awake, but sleeping a completely different person.

It’s funny how the games have changed you over the years. How you’ve grown bitter from the people around you, and what they’ve done to you. There’s no more innocence, it’s just anger and brutality. You don’t step lightly anymore, you make your mark because you never know when you’ll be able to return.

Of course, around certain people, like Finnick, your family, and Annie and all of them, you’re a new person too. Kind, soft, caring. You don’t yell at them, or treat them like ass like you’ve done to people here. It’s because they’re family, and they need to be treated with care no matter what. Because they’ve had your back since the very beginning, and you know that they’ll have it to the very end.

And then with people like Johanna–someone who you get along with really well because your personalities are super similar and don’t clash like some others–you’re a different person too. More teasing, you let your words fly a little looser, brutally honest because it’s what she needs to hear. Because she’s honest with you.

If you were being a complete jackass, more than usual and more than she can tolerate, you could count on her to call it out. She’s just afraid to do that kinda thing with you, and you’re not afraid to do it with her either.

Hell, you’d gotten along with Cashmere, Gloss, Enobaria and Brutus for a while because you all had something in common, and they could help you out with. All being victors of the games. All holding some sort of trauma that always puts you guys a little bit back because of it. But being around them, they overlooked that.

They might seem pretentious and bold and overly exotic, but it’s just who they are, and it was who you were for a little while too. It’s known that you develop your personality because of the people you’re around. So there’s a little bit of Johanna, Finnick, Cashmere, Gloss, Cecelia, Annie, Mags, etc in you because that’s who you’re around the most.

Anyway, you’ve gotten off topic.

“Finn,” you say, trying not to shake him or anything because you don’t want him to think it’s an emergency, you learned that the hard way, “It’s time to get up.”

Finnick doesn’t move again, and you move to press your hand against his chest, a little worried that he isn’t breathing. You feel his chest go up, and then down slowly. It rises again, and you then go back to trying to get him to wake up.

“Finnick,” you pat his chest, not wanting to be mean or anything.

You’re frowning at him because it’s unusually more difficult than normal. And then Finnick starts laughing.

“I’m awake.” he tells you, opening his eyes, “I just wanted to see how long you’d try for.”

You laugh, dipping your head for a moment, “Okay, just making sure you aren’t dead or whatever.”

You push yourself up into a sitting position, stretching. A yawn comes out of nowhere, and as soon as it’s gone, you’re getting on your feet.

“I wish they’d just give us a day to relax.” Finnick sighs.

“That was yesterday.” you say, “We practically just laid around all day.”

“I know.”

“We should eat and then shower.” you slip on your ring, and Finnick does the same.

When he stands, he groans, “When did I become so old?”

You laugh, and he looks at you, “Dude, I’m a whole year older than you.”

He laughs too, calling you old. The both of you go out to see that Elysia and Mags are at the table in their regular spots. You and Finnick assume yours, and go straight to eating. Taking in the couple of bowls, then the orange juice, water and coffee. After that, you and Finnick break apart to take your showers.

When you’re done, you slip on a comfy tank top and sweatpants. You know that you’ll be sitting around for a while. The prep team likes to take their time, which is why you end up showing up so early, to give them that breathing room.

Mags says that she’ll check on the both of you later, and Finnick follows you down to the room you’ll be getting ready in. Though, it’s empty.

“Looks like we showed up a little early.” Finnick laughs, taking a seat on the couch.

You sit in the chair that they’ll be moving around all day, “That’s a new one. We’re normally late to get the tributes to them.”

Finnick leans his head on his fist, looking over you, “Can’t wait time watch you transform.”

“I hope you mean that in a good way.”

“Of course I do.” Finnick smiles.

The prep team arrives shortly after, and they’re pleased to see you’re early for once. They spend their time doing their respected jobs. Leo does your makeup, Beth does your nails and Cleo does your hair.

Cleo blow dries first, since your hair is still relatively wet from the shower. She doesn’t seem bothered by this. In fact, she’s glad that she’ll be able to do this from scratch. After that, she straightens your hair and braids at your temples. She doesn’t do all of your hair though, only enough to make a crown.

Then she curls the hair that’s still hanging free on your back. Cleo pulls some hair out in front to make your face look better, and readjusts over and over until she’s sure that it’s perfect.

Leo decides on blue eyeshadow and a gold eyeliner. You haven’t seen the dress just yet, as you’ve said before. All you know is that it’s a nod at the first dress. Which is pretty amazing, considering that the eyeliner used for that one was white.

Beth gives you fake nails and tells you not to tell anyone that they’re fake. You’re not supposed to have anything that would give you an advantage inside of the arena. But despite this rule, she sharpens the fake nails into a slight point. After that, she paints them white with a little bit of glitter at the moon of your nail.

Finnick has to leave to go put on his own outfit. Before he goes, he gives you a sweet kiss and promises that he’ll be back as soon as he can. Laurel has entered the room in that moment and shot that idea down quicker than ever.

Laurel makes you wear dangling gold and diamond earrings that are supposed to resemble water droplets. Next is the star and moon choker, then the plain moon necklace below it. She has you pull on beige heels that aren’t a punishment, thankfully.

Next is the dress. It’s absolutely beautiful, and you can’t believe that Laurel went out of her way to make a dress like this.

The dress is entirely blue with shades that compliment each other. It’s a loose-fitting floor-length dress with a mesh train attached to the arms of the dress. The top of the dress is a deep v-neck and it goes down to the middle of the dress. Lining the edges is leather, that also goes across the chest.

The fabric from the plunge creates a sort of waterfall look at the front of the dress. There’s a new layer for each part of the leather belt, the first being taller than the next.

You can’t help but to look at the dress over and over. Since this one is a bit of a challenge, Laurel gives you permission to hold up the front of the dress to make sure that you don’t end up stepping in it.

She finishes it off with a couple of rings to add on to your wedding, as well as bracelets that are freshly polished and sparkle in the light. She makes you poss in different ways, and with the spare time, Elysia asks you a few questions.

You’re not going for a particular personality. All these guys know who you are already, so it won’t matter once you get on the stage. You guess that it could be for the crowd of Capitol people that will be watching you. But even then, you’re not really in a mood to show off.

They say that showing your true personality can pull more people in, than push them away. The people that like the spunk are going to stick a little harder, because you’re not pretending. You’re not acting all innocent, like a humble little damsel that needs someone to take care of her still.

You’re someone new. You can handle yourself. You could wipe out half the tributes by yourself that are going into that arena with you. You could absolutely snap at any given moment.

You’re not that little girl anymore. You grew up the second that you swung that sword at that girl from District Ten. Your time for dressing up in mommy’s dresses and crying in Reed’s arms when you got hurt was over. The first kill was the end of an era and the start of a new one.

It’s not a bad thing that you were forced to grow up. It’s the way that it was done. You were only fifteen then. You were still getting used to your body, trying to get out of that awkward gangly teenage phase. You wanted to be grown up but not in a way that would appeal to sixty year old men from the Capitol.

And it most certainly didn’t help that you and Finnick had a fling going on. That made it all the more awkward, even if it had gotten you comfortable. It might be sad to say, but you’re glad it was Finnick. If it were anyone else, you wouldn’t have made it, at all.

He’s the one that saved you from bleeding out in those bushes. He found you, he nursed you back to health. He did his damn best to keep you alive, even when it looked like you guys were only going backwards. Right when you had started to heal from the physical wounds, the sickness came out of nowhere and knocked the wind out of you.

When the time for your interview nears, they finally let you out of the room. In the hallway, you can hear the echo of Cashmere and Gloss talking on the tv screen down the hall. They’re on stage together, possibly because they’re siblings and people love to see them together.

“Holy shit.”

You turn to see Finnick standing there, not matching your outfit by any means. His is comfortable for sure, and even though this dress is a lot, you wouldn’t trade it for a damn thing. It’s pretty comfortable too, and you’re going to look amazing on stage.

Finnick has a white almost see-through too that is tucked into blue pants that end at the calf and flare out at the bottom. There’s a black belt and an ugly scarf-thing that hangs from the belt. On his feet is a pair of black boots.

“Well, don’t you look comfy.” You motion to his outfit.

“We should trade outfits.” Finnick grins, you can’t help but to laugh.

“Yeah, like you’d fit in this.”

“You know you’d love it.” He says, opening his arms for a hug, “Unless it’s forbidden.”

“It should be.” You tell him, pulling up the dress to make sure that you don’t end up accidentally stepping on it.

You wish you could place your head on his chest or shoulder, but you know that with your leg, you would end up smearing Leo’s fantastic job and you’d get in big trouble for it. So instead, you stand almost stiffly as him and you sway from side to side.

“The week has gone by fast.”

In the background you can hear Brutus getting called on stage. Two more people and then it’s your turn to get interviewed in front of the entire nation. The Capitol will get to say their goodbyes, as will you. Your family will get to see you on camera for the very last time in peace, rather than fighting.

“Oh my god,” you whisper.

“What?” Finnick asks, moving back to take a look at your face. You must be pale because worry washes over his face in one big wave, “What’s wrong?”

“This will be Alyssum’s first time watching me fight in the arena, Finnick,” you shake your head, “She was such a baby before, but now she’s not–Finnick she’s going to watch me kill people I–”

“Deep breaths.” Finnick tells you, “It’s okay, it’s not her first time watching the games.”

“It’s her first time watching us!” you pull away from him entirely, wanting to run your fingers through your hair but instead you play around with your fingers, “She’s going to watch us kill the people around us. Everyone on stage–”

“Reed and Mox are there for her,” Finnick says, “She’s going to be fine. They’re going to comfort her, and talk her through everything.”

You nod, knowing that he’s right. The buzzer goes off again, and you can hear Wiress going to get ready to go on stage. One more person and then it’s your time to get up there and show them what you have to offer.

“My makeup still looks fine?” you ask him, and he nods.

“Nothing is smeared, you’re perfect.”

You and Finnick watch as Wiress is interviewed after that. So far, all of the tributes have said something to at least get the crowd emotional or for them to second-guess their love for these games. They’re seeing all their favorites fight once again, but it’s putting all of you to waste.

They’ve crowned all twenty-four of you over a seventy-five year period. And now they’re going to take all of that away just for Snow to prove a point. That even when the games are over, they’re not really over. That there’s always a possibility of getting dragged right back into it.

If one victor is supposed to come out of this, then that means that there will be twenty-three families that lose their houses. They no longer live in luxury, they have to go back to the house that they came from. They lose almost all of their belongings that they had gotten from the Capitol. No more money, no more fresh food, or nice furniture.

If some of those families had sold their old houses, then they’re screwed because they have nothing to go back to. The Capitol takes away literally everything and leaves all of those families screwed over. Especially for someone like Cecelia, because she’s married and she has three kids. You’re taking away a parent, which is so vital in a kid’s life.

When Beetee finally goes up, he says something about being able to unwrite the written. If these games were written into law by these people, then that means they have the abilities to take it away. You guys don’t have to go inside of that arena if they don’t want you to. But at this point, changing their minds is a little too late.

Plus, not everyone will hold the same opinions. Sure, most of the Capitol people tend to think the same, but not everyone is like that, obviously. One person could absolutely love the shit out of Katniss and Peeta, while another could find it annoying. And they would wean to see Cashmere and Gloss or you and Finnick.

You kiss Finnick, before going and lining yourself up with the doors. You take in a deep breath, relaxing your shoulders and cracking your neck.

You’re not afraid of the crowd, you’re afraid of doing something wrong. It’s the crowd that will be deciding if you did something good tonight or not. And because of that, it’s utterly terrifying.

“And next is our favorite couple, Finnick and (Y/n) Odair!”

You raise your eyebrows, looking over to Finnick to see that he’s surprised too. He rushes over, laughing as he hooks his arm around yours.

“Guess Elysia surprised us,” you laugh, watching as the doors open.

“Maybe they forgot to tell us.” Finnick smiles, and the doors to the stage open up, allowing you guys to go up.

You try your best with holding up the front of the dress, but eventually you have to unhook your arm from Finnick’s. The cheering of the crowd is loud–like lose your hearing loud. There’s also a ton of people here, and some are even standing, clapping and cheering and whistling.

“Wow!” Caesar motions to your dress.

You and Finnick stop side by side. You spend some of the time waving at certain people, wondering if any of them have sponsored you before. Finnick does the same, smiling brightly and trying to make people feel as unique as you are.

“My stylist, Laurel, has really gone out of her way this time,” you tell Caesar, “It’s supposed to be a dress similar to the one I wore during my interviews.”

Caesar thinks for a moment, and then his face lights up, “Oh! The–off the shoulder–yeah! May I say that this one is much more fitting?”

He laughs, and a few more people cheer. Caesar then turns to Finnick and he seems puzzled, “And Finnick…”

“I’m comfortable, that’s all that matters.” Finnick laughs, his arm is tight around you.

You’re the one standing closest to the crowd, he’s the one that’s on the inside, closer to Caesar. He must be worried that someone will snag the dress and try to pull you down or something. There’s no way that’ll happen, the mesh will tear before you get close to anyone down there.

Caesar laughs, but eventually starts to get a little more serious. You’re a little annoyed that you have to stand on this stage for six minutes rather than three. The time doubles since there’s two of you, and it wouldn’t be fair to try and cram everything into three minutes.

“Now, the reaping,” he says, “everyone wants to know if it was planned.”

Finnick lets you take this one. He already knows the answer, but he can’t really speak for you, since you’re the one that had volunteered and all.

“To a certain extent, yes.” you smile a little bit, “Mags and I had made an agreement to volunteer over Annie if she were to get picked. However, I made a deal with myself, that if Finnick were to get picked, then I’d have to go in, no matter the circumstances, and the chance of me getting out of the games alive.”

The crowd seems to be moved a little bit, and Caesar plays along, looking at Finnick, “And how did you feel about this, Finnick?”

He laughs slightly, “Well, if you look back at the footage, you’ll see how relieved I was when she wasn’t the name that was pulled. I was taken by surprise, just as much as you all were.”

Some people cheer at this, agreeing with what he had to say.

“How did your family feel about this, (Y/n)? Were they angry?”

You laugh a little bit, because you’re still pissed off over the fact that you had never gotten to say goodbye to them. You don’t know their feelings about it, but you have a general idea about it.

“Unfortunately, there has been new rules installed in the districts–” you look out to the crowd, “Or as I’m assuming, since normally all the districts get the same treatment. The new rules had forbidden me from saying goodbye to my brothers and sister. I was required to go straight to the train without a word to them.”

You look back to Caesar, “However, I was able to see them at the train, but still wasn’t allowed to say anything to them.”

Finnick nods along to this, because he saw how you were when they were dragging you to the car. You didn’t want to move your feet, you wanted to be right where you had been. You stood nose to nose with a peacekeeper that was holding a baton and was threatening to hit you with it.

“Is there anything you’d like to say to them now?” Caesar asks, and then he motions to the camera behind him.

“I would love to.” And then you turn your body to face the camera, leaning into Finnick a little bit for support. He squeezes tightly, knowing that this is going to be hard for you especially, “Reed, Mox, and Alyssum. I don’t want you to worry about me, okay? I promise that I will do everything in my power to come back to District Four in one piece. And if it isn’t me that comes home, then it will be Finnick.

“I’m sorry that I hadn’t told you about my plans beforehand, but you need to know that I love you unconditionally, and I hope you feel the same about me. I know you might want to be angry now, but save that for when we come home. I’m sorry you’ll have to watch me go through all of this for a second time, you know I hadn’t wanted this.

“Reed, stay strong for Mox and Alyssum, even when the times get tough. Mox, don’t stop being yourself. Cry when you have to, and cheer even when you don’t feel like it. And my dear baby sister, I’m sorry you’re going to have to see this side of me. I would give anything for you to be three and too young to understand what’s going on, again.”

You can hear a few people in the crowd crying at your monologue. And Caesar turns the microphone to Finnick.

“Do you have anything to say?”

“Thank you for being the best surrogate family I could ask for.” Finnick says, “And for allowing me to marry your sister.”

You laugh slightly, shaking your head at Finnick, because of course he would say something like that.

Caesar looks at his watch, “Time’s almost up, but from my understanding, Finnick, you had a poem for (Y/n)?”

Your face drops slightly as you tilt your head at Finnick. He can’t help but laugh, shaking his head at the floor before looking back at you, “Don’t look at me like that. You had to know it was coming.”

“Apparently, I didn’t.” you look out to the crowd, “Can you believe him?”

The crowd cheers a little bit, excited for what Finnick will have to say to you.

“It would have been way less awkward if you had gone first,” Finnick mutters into the mic, but he goes serious too, “My love, you have my heart, for all eternity. And if I die in that arena, my last thought will be of your lips.”

Finnick kisses you after that, and the buzzer does go off, letting you know that you guys can go. You wave goodbye to the people that are watching, seeing a few people are still crying. Finnick helps you up the two staircases and over to where you need to stand. You two hold hands tightly, not wanting to let each other go.

From there, you guys watch the other tributes get interviewed. District Five, then six, and then finally seven. Johanna comes on stage, makes a scene, and then she’s escorted off the stage because of it. You’re nearly in stitches from how hard you’re laughing, trying not to actually cry.

Leave it to her to say the opinion that you all were thinking.

The next few districts are exceptionally boring, it’s just the same as the ones before them. Cecelia says goodbye to her kids for the final time, others try and get the crowd to change their mind about the games while they can. It’s the same thing, one after another.

Until it gets to Katniss, who comes out on stage with a white wedding dress. You can’t help but to laugh and shake your head, a little amazed by the audacity of it all, since her and Peeta aren’t nearly as in love as they pretend to be. But soon, she reveals that Snow had wanted her to show the crowd what it would have been like.

The interview goes on, and it eventually transitions into her spinning, like she did last year. The dress erupts into flames at the bottom, and as she spins, it completely transforms into something else. It isn’t until she’s done, when you guys get the full picture.

She spreads her arms out, and that’s when you’re able to see the wings. Finnick laughs, like he’s also finding this unbelievable.

“It’s a bird!” Caesar says, “it’s got feathers–it’s like uh–”

“Like a Mockingjay.” Katniss says for him.

“Her stylist is going to pay for that,” Beetee says, he’s standing to your right.

“Yeah, I can imagine she will.” you shift on your feet a little bit.

Katniss gets her interview wrapped up, she assumes her spot on the bottom row where everyone else is. Then, Peeta is introduced, and you’re just glad that you won’t have to stand here for much longer.

Caesar mentions something about the wedding, and Peeta reveals that Katniss and him had gotten married in private. It shocks Caesar a little bit, as well as the crowd.

“You know, Katniss and I have been luckier than most. And I wouldn’t have any regrets at all–” Peeta hesitates for a moment, “–if it weren’t–if….”

You tilt your head, curious to see what’s about to unravel.

“If it weren’t for what?” Caesar asks, and then echoes the last word a few times too.

“If it weren’t for the baby.” Peeta blurts.

Your mouth falls open as you laugh. The entire crowd is shocked, yelling about the baby.

“Alright, this is news–” Caesar tries.

“Holy fuck.” Finnick says, you look over to see that Johanna is shaking her head at this.

“Calm down, this is news to all of us!” Caesar says.

And just as Peeta was probably hoping, a few of the people in the crowd start yelling about stopping the games. This is when you nod, a little proud for what Peeta had done. Even if you don’t know him well, or had told him to do that. But he just showed you guys that he’s capable of thinking outside of the box.

Caesar then leans over and tells Peeta to go and stand with the rest of you without saying it into the mic. Peeta nods, and hurries up the stairs. When he gets to Katniss, they hug. However, you can clearly see that Katniss is either uncomfortable, or she just learned about this information herself. It’s a complete lie.

And it doesn’t even matter. It got the reaction that it was supposed to.

Caesar continues to try and calm down the crowd, but you’re all linking hands together. Holding on tight. You grab Beetee’s hand, and once the entire row is holding hands, you raise them up at the same time as the front row does.

Tomorrow, you might be at each other’s throats. And you might have to kill a few people that you’re on stage with. But tonight, you guys are one. Tonight, you all worked together to do your best to end this.

Tonight, you’re a team.

The crowd boos, and Caesar tries to get you guys to stop. But when it doesn’t work, a couple of the lights begin to go out.

They can try to silence you. However, you’re still holding hands when the lights go out completely. The darkness swallowing you.

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6 Stylish Trends You Need To Know About

As a fashionista, there are a lot of trends that you should probably know more about. The hottest trends in the jewelry market today are catching everyone by surprise, and from the looks of it, these modern trends are here to stay. Jewelry has always been one of the most interesting ways to accessorize and keep your attire in check. It makes your outfits more interesting and can easily create spunk in your aura with minimal effort. With the fall season slowly approaching, it is probably in the best interest to take a look at some of the most amazing jewelry trends.

Tubular

Jewelry trends surrounding tubular jewelry are getting all the attention these days. This jewelry is all about being bigger and bolder. The thicker your jewelry is, the better it looks. Tubular jewelry involves some of the most amazing earrings, rings, and necklaces, but you probably might have to ditch the old and make a lot of space for the new. That is because the earrings and the rings are going to be a tad bit more pronounced and larger in style and size.

Body Jewelry

But jewelry is adorned to pronounce the facial features, right? Wrong! This jewelry is all about adorning and styling the various body parts. From nose rings to anklets to waist chains, designs in the sexy body jewelry are all about you've got it, so flaunt it motto.

Charms

Charms were once very much in fashion, and then they lost that touch and relevance somewhere along the way. This 2020 it is time to bring back what was once thought to be lost. The resurgence of charm jewelry is once more finding solid ground again, and how! Dangly charm necklaces and earrings are some of the most popular jewelry choices amongst the millennial crowd these days.

Starry Eyed Motifs

With the transition to the fall season, the jewelry designs and patterns are seeing stars in broad daylight! Quite literally so! These twinkling starry motifs and pendant designs are the recent talks of the town. In terms of accessories, they are conquering everything from earrings, pendants to designer brooches and what not!

Pearls

Another classic jewelry standard that has made a stellar comeback is pearls. The resurgence of pearl jewelry is becoming the new talk of the town, especially with the small sea pearls and other south sea pearl designs featuring recently. From drop-dead gorgeous necklaces to earrings and bracelets, pearls are the new face of elegance and style.

Abstract

From chokers to mismatched earrings and lots more, abstract jewelry is rocking the new style statement in recent times. Mismatched dangling earrings are some of the most amazing and hipster fashion jewelry in recent times. A good mesh choker to go with that and you are all set to go clubbing.

The Bottom Line

The threshold of what is contemporary fashion has blurred today. It is one of the only essences that remain in jewelry trends. In this regard, you should try and be more and more experimental with your design selection and reap the benefits of new-age trends.

Jewelry is the only essences that remain in jewelry trends. So here we discuss the stylish trends you need to know about.

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A = Attractive (what do they find attractive about you?)

·       He absolutely loves your taste in music.

·       Mainly because it is very similar to his taste in music and for this reason, you never have an argument with him about what band is the best.

·       He was super stoked when he found out that you liked the same kind of music as him, he basically fell in love with you right that instant

B = Baby (do they want a family with you?)

·       He would love to have a baby with you.

·       He doesn’t say it but he would love it if you had a baby girl. Something about a spunky tough girl would seem really lovely to him.  

C = Cuddles (how do they like to cuddle or be cuddled?)

·       You often cuddle into his chest for his electric warmth.

·       Although he has fallen asleep a few times and zapped out while he was reaming it wasn’t anything major and you learned from your mistakes and asked Momo to make you and insulated hoodie especially for when you cuddle.

·       It’s a black hoodie with white printing ‘WAIT!! Now you can cuddle with me! >w<’

D = Dates (where do you often go for a date?)

·       You two often go on dates at popular internet cafes where you can test your karaoke skills, and surf the web for the newest ‘Drama’ on UA’s students

·       That, or you too go to rock concerts together.

E = Everything (you are my everything)

·       He is your entire world. He would fall apart without you.

·       You tend to act like his brain at times, sometimes he can’t think of a proper decision to make if you are not with him.

F = Feelings (how did they know they liked you?)

·       He definitely fell in love with your spunk.

·       He loved that you too loved to rebel against the rules and show the teachers a little bit of defiance.

G = Gentle (are they gentle with you?)

·       He is very gentle with you.

·       He knows how powerful is quirk can be and he would hate to accidentally use it on you.

H = Hands (are they into holding hands?)

·       Yes but you often have to wear gloves.

·       Sometimes he can get a bit excited and give you a small electric shock.

I = Impression (what was their first impression of you?)

·       You very very shy when you first got admitted into the hero course/

·       He didn’t think much of you until you went through the quirk assessment test, seeing you try your best and giving it your all with your courageous vibe and spunky attitude.

J = Jealousy (do they get jealous?)

·       He gets very jealous but he always tells you when he feels that way.

·       When he tells you these things you always want to reassure him and show him that you will always be loyal to him.

K = Kiss (how do they kiss you?)

·       When you two are in public his kisses are somewhat soft and warm.

·       When you are alone though…his kisses can tend to get a bit rough and heated, and let's say…‘sparky’

L = Love (who said it first?)

·       He said it first but he will always deny it.

·       You two were cuddling on the couch and he ha fallen asleep, he was talking in his sleep so naturally, you laughed at him then he just blurted it out.

·       After that, he woke up and then you told him that you loved him too.

·       He resents that day because he wishes he could have told you in a better way.

M = Memory (what’s their favorite memory with you?)

·       His favorite memory was when you had just started in his band with Jirou. They needed a lead singer and you were his prime candidate.

·       He would spend his lunches with you helping you get confident in your singing ability, he always s loved to hear you sing and he loved when you would turn bright pink when you finally noticed he was staring at you.

N = Nurture (do they spoil and look after you?)

·       He tries to look after you but that could never end well.

·       He often ends up relying on the internet to nurse you back to health when you get sick.

O = Outfit (do they like it when you get dressed up for them?)

·       He loves it when you dress in one of his giant shirts that cover your thighs. Especially when you wear one of his back ones with your electric yellow skirt.

·    ��  You know that he is really into that E-Girl style of clothing on girls.

·       High sock with platform boots. A colorful skirt matched with one of his oversized tees with chains hanging from your belt.  And of course a studded choker.

P = Pet Names (what do they call you?)

·       You are his princess of rock, his one and only, the lead singer of his life.

Q = Queen (who’s superior?)

·       He would like to be the one in charge of the relationship but there was an anonymous vote and…it turns out you’re the queen in this relationship.

·       And when we say anonymous… we mean you elected your self the queen.

·       With his dumb ideas, it was just going to be safer that way.

R = Rainy Day (what do you two like to do on a rainy day?)

·       MAKE SOME NOISE!!!

·       You often go over to his dorm and start yelling and playing all sorts of instruments, everyone hates you for it but you love to spend time with him like this.

·       You often make some weird sounds and somehow he manages to turn them into a really cool background noise that you can use in your next song.

S = Sad (how do they cheer you up?)

·       He plays all the funny recordings you have with him and Jirou.

·       Ever since making a band with him and Jirou you decided to record your sessions together because you knew from the beginning that some funny shit was gonna go down.

·       Most of the recording are of him short-circuiting and acting all dumb when he plays an instrument he doesn’t know how to use, these are the types of the recording that always find a way to make you laugh.

T = Talking (what do they like to talk about?)

·       You often spend your time talking with him about what your next song should be about, like what sort of feeling it should have behind it and things like that.

·       It's likely that but more often than not its what sort of dumb things he did in class over the course of the week.

U = Useful (are they helpful around the house/apartment?)

·       He can be very useful sometimes but then other times he doesn’t exactly know what to do.

·       He tends to need a bit of encouragement when it comes to helping out around the dorms.

V = Verbs (how do they describe you to everyone else?)

·       You are his everything, his independent queen.

·       He often tells everyone that you are rough, tomboy-like and that you don’t care about what other people think of you and he loves you for that,

W = Wedding (when, how, where do they propose?)

·       He is waiting for his band to go viral and finally get a tour around the world.

·       His dream is to propose to you on stage during a show in front of the crowd of fans. Something about proposing to the person he loves while doing the thing he loves is something straight out of a fantasy for him.

X = Xylophone (do they play any instruments ?)

·       He was learning to play the electric guitar a while ago but with the manifestation of his quirk, he found some new ‘instruments’ he prefers.

·       He likes to use his launchpad to ix the song you make with him and Jirou, and distort the vocals and add other background noise.

Y = Yours (do they get protective over you?)

·       Very, and you know it.

·       Anyone who even thinks they can steal you from him and fuck off. He will fry them straight to hell and back.

Z = Zoo (are they a fan of pets?)

·       He isn’t the biggest fan of pets to be completely honest but he does respect your wishes.

·       Wishes that entitle that whenever you see a dog of any sort you must go over and pet it.

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2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Red Carpet Roundup

We’ve covered many, many designers that were seen at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, hosted at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday (February 9) in Beverly Hills, California. And, now it’s time for a final sweep of the massive number of looks trotted out at this party.

Aja Naomi King: Adhering to the big, billowy gown category, Aja was radiant in this Nicolas Jebran gown in a majestic magenta hue. The colour was surreal with her complexion.

Nicolas Jebran

Vanessa Hudgens: While this Vera Wang dress was quite regal, right down to its royal-purpose colour, the shoulder detail really requested an updo. I felt like she entered the party before finishing her hair.

Joey King: Had this threeASFOUR Spring 2020 frock been white, we would have been calling it a lace doily. So, I’m very happy for this rich chocolate hue with matching Christian Louboutin pumps — and even happier for the bright spunk of the coral lip.

Billie Eilish: All covered up with another oversized statement, the singer returned to Gucci for this sparkly-goth look — which instantly reminded me of her Grammy Awards outfit.

Eiza González: Simple, smart, and timeless, this Galvan gown offered a stunning golden-bronze effect, so much so that she could have been the Oscar trophy herself.

Lili Reinhart: Whimsy was on full display in this Marc Jacobs Spring 2020 floral creation, styled with Pomellato jewels, that mixed a watercolor and stenciled drawing aesthetic. It was a lot of gown with the gigantic flowers and equally huge pouf sleeves, and as such, it asked a lot of the wearer. I think Lili did as best as could be expected, but it still came off as a bit forced.

Sarah Paulson: The ‘American Horror Story’ actress has a unique style that frequently adheres to a dark-quirky mystique. And, that was fully expressed in this sequined Andrew Gn gown with exaggerated collar and an ‘American Gothic’ spirit. Harry Kotlar earrings completed the look.

Emma Roberts: It’s hard to see the subtle seductiveness of this Alexandre Vauthier Spring 2020 Haute Couture lace gown, but you know it’s there — starting with the slightly sheer, exposed corset bodice and the flower brooch at the side. I love the quiet smolder of this gown, which she styled with a Pellegrino Paris bag.

Camila Morrone: From top to bottom, Camila looked to vintage allure in her styling — hair, Messika choker, opera gloves all adding drama to the Ralph Lauren Collection sequin gown.

Sarah Oh: Both feathers and sequins took top billing in this custom Cong Tri gown styled with Messika jewels.

Aubrey Plaza: Sometimes the bold shoulder works; sometimes it goes the way of ’80s prom sleeves meets quarterback shoulders. Despite the sleek refinement of the rest of this Hellessy Spring 2020 dress, the cloud puffs were just too much for me. Jacob and Co earrings with a Ruchi New York ring and Jimmy Choo clutch finished the look.

Diane Lane: I love the softly feminine tailoring of this Gabriela Hearst Spring 2020 suit on Diane. But, I don’t love the white Gabriela Hearst ‘Demi’ bag with the ivory palette of the ensemble.

Malin Akerman: Also going for a white-hot look, the actress donned an Antonio Berardi gown with front and side embellishment plus an ATELIER SWAROVSKI clutch. Perhaps it was the way she was standing, but there seemed to be some fit issues around the waistline.

Camila Mendes: With flamenco-meets-bullfighting-meets-tribal edge, this Moschino Spring 2020 ensemble was a lot of look. But, I really think Camila slayed the intriguing design that was an unexpected twist for the Vanity Fair party.

Caitriona Balfe: Had this Prabal Gurung Pre-Fall 2020 gown been rendered in a softer hue, I would have immediately thought it to be a bridesmaid or mother-of-the-bride dress.

Moschino Spring 2020 Prabal Gurung Pre-Fall 2020

Stella Maxwell: This custom Alberta Ferretti gown came outfitted with its own beading and baubles, but a few more David Yurman jewels didn’t hurt.

Mishel Prada: I’m glad Mishel wore the proper black bralette and granny panties with this embellished Temperley London dress paired with Hearts On Fire jewelry and Sergio Rossi heels. It makes all the difference.

Emily Ratajkowski: This Inamorata x Christy Rilling tube top and skirt, styled with Ana Khouri jewels, was nothing more than a vehicle by which to display her beautiful set of abs. Maybe she was headed to a beach party after this.

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Third time lucky- Kaider Fanfic

Hey guys! So I promised @channary that I was gonna write her a Kaider Fanfic. And here it is! This is kinda inspired by the crime au headcannon I had written for tlc which I previously posted on my blog. Enjoy! ——

He was going to do it. 

Kai promised himself he would do it this time.

For the past two New Year Eve parties, Kai had lost the nerve to tell Cinder his true feelings. The first party Cinder hadn’t attended but the second one, she did. And he blew it. 

It was annoying the hell out of him. 

He never understood why he was so nervous. He had made countless speeches to the press and even addressed his colleagues with a natural air of authority. But still, his nerves clung to him like an unwanted guest whenever he was near Cinder.

He had always liked Cinder; he always admired her strength and spunk. She had had a rough time with the discrimination from her other colleagues. Yet he never understood why. Cinder being a cyborg never bothered him. He’d warned them to lay off her, but of course, they never listened to him. After all, he was the ‘kid who became head of the NBPD department because of his father dying’. 

From then, they both had each other’s backs and soon, they both earned the respect they deserved. 

His colleagues’ cheers erupted into his mind, bringing him back to reality. 

He shook his head as he watched a group of them punch each other’s shoulders. 

He had invited his whole department for another New Years Eve party. Sadly, Jacin and Winter couldn’t attend- they had plans of their own- and neither could Scarlet and Wolf. Despite their urge for a break, they were still undercover, following the lead of a recently discovered mutant soldier.

But the ones he tolerated had come. And they were still as reckless as ever. Once, they had smashed his antique vase after brawling with each other. That vase was his father’s favourite. 

He had subtly warned them of their jobs this time round. But even with the limited alcohol available, you simply couldn’t change some people. 

Music blared in his living room. Men and women ate and drank, giggled and chatted. Some people attempted to dance too- not that Kai could watch them without smirking. As Kai made his way through the crowd, he greeted some people and pulled awkward smiles at the leers he received from the women. 

Kai stopped on the threshold, glancing outside his front door in the distance. Cinder still hadn’t come. She never had an interest in parties until Kai forced her to come. He hoped she would come this time too. 

‘Hey, bua-ss.’

Kai turned to his left to find Thorne approaching him. He stood before him with his typical smirk. 

‘You can call me Kai, you know.’

'I know but I’ve always wanted to say that such I was a kid. So, “boss”, are you waiting for a certain someone? You’re doing that puppy eye look again.' 

Kai laughed. 

'I’m not… Am I?’ Kai asked, his anxiety growing. 

Thorne held Kai by his shoulders. 

'Relax. That’s a good thing. Makes you more attractive towards the ladies. Though i am jealous how easily you can do it. I had to master mine,’ Thorne said, almost to himself. 

Kai removed Thorne’s hands and shoved his sweaty hands in his pockets.

'Do you know where Cinder is? Did Cress tell you anything?’ Kai asked. 

Thorne shrugged. 

'Cress told me Iko was practically dragging Cinder to this party. Iko also hinted that you should be prepared tube blown away. Cress hasn’t arrived with them either so this must be one hell of a surprise.' 

Thorne raised his eyebrows mischievously. 

Kai smiled before frowning. 

'Wait, does everyone know about my feelings for Cinder?' 

'Yup. This is old news really. Though betting on whether you’ll tell Cinder or not never does get old. And I’m on a winning streak,’ Thorne grinned as he took a swig of his cocktail.

Kai glared at Thorne with disbelief. 

Thorne swallowed abruptly. He grinned sheepishly. 

'I did bet you would tell her this time. Sorry boss,’ Thorne apologised, rubbing the nape of his neck. 

A shrill of delight sounded from the door. 

Kai straightened up as he saw Iko waltzing in. Her blue braided hair danced over her shoulders, a choker on her neck. She wore a matching silky lilac top and fitted dress. Her stomach peeked out in between. 

Behind her, Cress walked in, pulling on her fur scarf that draped around her shoulders. Her blonde hair was tightly curled, bouncing with her movement. She wore a red frock that hugged at her waist and flowed out. Cress consciously tucked a strand behind her ear. 

Thorne choked on his drink and drank her instead with his eyes. Kai patted Thorne’s shoulder with a smirk. At least he wasn’t the only one mesmerised by a 'certain someone’. 

And then it was Kai’s turn to slack his jaw. 

Cinder strolled into the hallway, rubbing her bare arms. 

Her burgundy, short dress draped over her right shoulder and along her arm, leaving her left shoulder bare. It then carved her figure perfectly down, bringing out her beautifully rounded hips. It stopped at her knees, revealing her cyborg leg and high heels.

Her hair was bundled up in a bun, two sticks protruding it. Her eyes caught Kai’s, a smile spreading across her face as she clasped her clutch with both hands. 

Kai’s heart fluttered. He ignored Thorne’s and Iko’s sniggers and waited for Cinder to approach him. 

'Hey.’ She greeted. 

Kai swallowed and recovered his voice before greeting her back. 

'You look… amazing.’ Kai breathed out.

Cinder blushed, touching her hair. 

'Thanks. If it wasn’t for Iko, I would have been totally underdressed.' 

'Luckily you had me to glam you up! Great party you have here, Boss!’ Iko exclaimed, nodding her head to the music. 

'Thank you, Iko. And please, call me Kai. Hope you enjoy yourself!’ Kai called as Iko followed the source of the music. 

'You’re quite a sight yourself,’ Cinder complimented, taking in his black, open- collared shirt and matching black trousers. 

Kai ran a hand through his hair. 

Thorne wrapped his hand around Cress’s and turned to Kai and Cinder. 

'Cress and I are going to go show off some moves. Want me to get ya a drink, Cinder?’

When Cinder shook her head, Thorne dragged Cress away and danced with her on the dance floor.

Who would have thought the guy who was always held upside down, drinking from a huge keg, was now sober and dancing with a girl that held his complete attention.

Kai smiled.

'He’s changed, hasn’t he?’ Cinder’s question shook him from his reverie.

'He sure has. It’s good to see someone can control that guy. Other than you, of course,’ Kai remarked, inclining his head to her. 

Cinder let out an exasperated sigh. 

'I know. It is tiring, babysitting Thorne. But he is the one guy who stood by me despite me being “different”. Other than you, of course,’ Cinder repeated, nudging his shoulder. 

A wide grin spread across his face. He savoured the touch. 

Cinder glanced at the bustling crowd. Kai noticed her rub her arms again. 

Kai touched her arm and leaned near her ear. 

'Do you want to go somewhere quiet?' 

Cinder nodded. 

'I’m sorry. I can never get used to this kind of environment. Iko, on the other hand..' 

Kai followed Cinder’s gaze. 

Iko shimmied with Cress on the dance floor, both of them miming the words to the music. Thorne joined in. 

Cinder and Kai exchanged laughs. 

Holding onto her hand, his other hand stuck in his pocket, Kai guided her through the crowd. Kai noticed several approving glances from the men as they stalked Cinder with their eyes. 

Kai countered them with a stern look of his own, repelling their glances. 

Kai guided her up the stairs to his room where a large balcony stood in the distance. He opened the doors, embracing the welcoming of the calming breeze. 

He let go of Cinder’s hand as she trailed over and held the railing. She closed her eyes and leaned her head back. 

A smile tugged at her lips. 

Kai leaned his back against the railing, with a smile of his own. 

Cinder opened her eyes and sighed. 

'You have a great view by the way. I wish I had a view like this!’ Cinder exclaimed. 

'Well, you can always come up here. It’s great. Especially at night.' 

Cinder smirked.

'Are you giving me unlimited access to your bedroom?' 

Kai bit his tongue. His cheeks flushed. 

'Yes. I meant no. You know, like whenever you want to hang out or need somewhere to relax…’ Kai trailed off as Cinder suppressed a cute chuckle.

Kai laughed along. 

He ran a hand through his hair. 

'You know what I mean.' 

Cinder nodded, her cheeks tainted pink. 

They both glanced at the vast view of New Beijing. 

'So… Do you have any New Year resolutions?’ Cinder asked. She interlocked her hands together. 

To be with you, Kai thought. He moved the thought to the side. 

'I don’t know. I usually don’t make any. Sometimes life has something else planned for you,’ Kai said, his voice growing low. 

He thought about his father. 

Cinder planted her hand on his. Kai side-glanced at her. 

'You know, for being the youngest head of the NBPD, you’ve done a pretty good job. It couldn’t have been easy, having to deal with some hard-headed people. But you did. And your father would be proud of you,’ Cinder said, a sympathetic look on her face. 

A spark lit in his heart. 

Kai planted his hand on hers. 

'Thank you.' 

Kai cleared his throat. 

'What about you?' 

Cinder stared at him blankly before remembering her question. 

'Oh, I used to.’ A small smile played on her lips.

'Every new year, my sister would drag me to the window where we would watch the new year fireworks. She would always ask me what my new year resolutions were.

And when I didn’t have any, she would always say with a wide, toothed grin, “To find someone who would love me.” She also wished the same for me. Someone who would love every part of me.' 

Cinder lowered her eyes. 

Kai noticed her eyelashes grow glittery with tears in the moonlight. 

His mind thought back to when Cinder had previously mentioned her sister, Peony. How she had also died from the letumosis disease Levana had spread across the city. His heart ached.

'She never got to fulfill her wish. And I’m not sure I’ll fulfill her wish to me.’

Cinder stopped, clearing the emotion from her throat. 

Kai swallowed. He had to tell her. He couldn’t keep it in anymore. 

Kai faced her and held her hands in his. 

Cinder gazed up at him with her moistened eyes. 

'I’m sorry about your sister. It’s not easy losing someone you love. I cannot imagine how hard it must have felt being an outsider because you are a cyborg. But I want you to know that you do have people who love you. Very much.' 

Cinder stared at him, her eyes more focused. Kai shook back the nerves that threatened to ruin his moment. 

'I mean, you have Iko… And me,’ He whispered. 

Relief flooded through him. 

Cinder’s eyes widened. 

Kai took a step closer to her. 

'Cinder. I have always admired you ever since you came to work for me. I loved how courageous and strong you were under the heat of the job. When you stood by me that day when everyone else didn’t, I knew… You were the one who I want by my side. Not only professionally but personally. 

'I don’t care if you are a cyborg or if we work together. I… I want to be with you. And I will love every part of you. Always. I love you,’ Kai whispered. 

They stared into each other’s eyes for a moment. 

Cinder smiled with the corner of her mouth. 

'It’s about time. I thought you would never say it.' 

Kai creased his forehead. He sighed.

'You knew?' 

Cinder touched his nose with hers, her hands gently gripping his collars. 

'I had my suspicions. And Thorne with his obvious hints made it concrete.’

Kai sighed heavily. 

'I’m-' 

Cinder pressed her lips against his. She dropped her clutch bag, her free hands creeping into his hair. Kai held her closer, feeling her warmth melt into him. 

He pulled the sticks from her hair, letting it unravel onto her back. His fingers played with her hair. 

Muffled voices counting down numbers sounded from below. 

They pulled apart reluctantly, their eyes closed briefly before opening.  

Cinder wrapped her arms around his neck. 

'Any last wishes before we enter the new year?' 

Kai grinned. 

He rested his hands on her hips. 

'I’ve already got my wish,’ He answered, stealing another kiss from her before they both joined the countdown.

On cue, fireworks sparkled across the night sky. 

Kai heard Cinder gasp as she realised that the fireworks were shaped into words. 

“I love you, Cinder”, it read. 

Cinder smiled widely and kissed his cheek. 

She interlocked her fingers with his. 

'I love you too,’ she said. 

As they watched the fireworks, Thorne snuck away from the room, pumping his fist with triumph.

'Third time lucky!’ He beamed to himself. 

[ulyssesredux]

Circe

(He plucks his lutestrings. The glow leaps in the pall of the Gods. A hoarse virago retorts. She cuffs them on, her roguish eyes wideopen, smiling. Sweeping downward. Baraabum! Bloom reach the doorway where two sister whores are seated. Coldly. She whirls the prize in left circle. Indistinctly.)

THE CALLS: Music without Words, pray for us.

THE ANSWERS: Hee hee!

(Bolt upright, his hat rolling to the earth we had so lately rifled, as we had assembled a universe of terror and a celluloid doll fall out. Factory lasses with fancy clothes. Drunkards bawl.)

THE CHILDREN: Htengier Tnetopinmo Dog Drol eht rof, Aiulella! O, yes!

THE IDIOT: (Turns to the ground and flies from the car Blazes Boylan and Lenehan sprawl swaying on the shoulder.) Sell the monkey!

THE CHILDREN: Is he hurted?

THE IDIOT: (Bickering.) Successor to my famous brother!

(He turns gravely to the navvy lurching through the underwood. Levitates over heaps of slain, in nondescript juvenile grey and green lanes the colleens with their tooralooloo looloo lay. With pathos. Florry turn cumbrously. Quietly lays a half sovereign into the nethermost abysses of despair when, at fault. They murmur together. A wind, rushed by, and we gloated over the flame of gum camphire ascends. A shade of mauve tissuepaper dims the light. Bloom He crows derisively. Bloom. The bawd makes an unheeded sign. Signor Maffei, passionpale, in a tatterdemalion gown of mildewed strawberry, lolls spreadeagle in the slot. He coughs encouragingly. Tragically She takes his ashplant, stands up in the form of cocked hats, readymade suits, scarlet socks, upstarched Sambo chokers and large scarlet asters in their loosebox, faintly roaring, their skinny arms aging and swaying. Bang fresh barang bang of lacquey's bell, horse, Lincoln's Inn bencher and ancient and honourable artillery company of Massachusetts. Catches a stray hair deftly and twists it to his crown and jauntyhatted skates in. Then in last switchback lumbering up and away.)

CISSY CAFFREY: For me!

(To the redcoats. Over the possing drift and choking breathcoughs, Elijah's voice, touching, rising from marshlands, swooping from eyries, hover screaming, gannets, cormorants, vultures, goshawks, climbing woodcocks, peregrines, merlins, blackgrouse, sea eagles, gulls, albatrosses, barnacle geese. With two fingers he repeats once more the series of footprints utterly impossible to describe. Rustling Whispered kisses are heard in the corridor.)

THE VIRAGO: Ten shillings a time. Covered with kisses!

CISSY CAFFREY: Is he bleeding! Come on, you're boosed.

(Ward Union huntsmen and huntswomen live with them.) Yes, to go with him.

(With bobbed hair, purple gills, fit moustache rings round his neck hangs a rosary of corks ending on his fork With gibbering baboon's cries he jerks his hips in the water Through silversilent summer air the dummy of Bloom. Pandemonium. Bloom, in lascar's vest and trousers, heelless slippers, his voice.)

PRIVATE COMPTON: (Excitedly.) We don't give a bugger who he is.

PRIVATE CARR: (Alien it indeed was to whisper, The O'Donoghue of the pianola on which sparkles the Koh-i-Noor diamond.) I was to bash in your jaw?

CISSY CAFFREY: (He is followed by the claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses … dripping death astride a bacchanal of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial … Now, as if seeking for some cursed and unholy nourishment.) Amn't I with you?

(Screams. He listens. Impatiently His lawnmower begins to blare The Holy City.)

STEPHEN: Doctor Swift says one man in armour will beat ten men in their time, times and half a time. I show you the letter about the alrightness of his.

(Stephen stands at Cormack's corner, old doctor Brady with stethoscope, the poor little fellow, hihihihihis legs they were yellow. Darkshawled figures of the neighborhood.)

THE BAWD: (Twining, receding, with golden headstall.) There's no-one in it only her old father that's dead drunk. Up King Edward! He gave him the coward's blow. You won't get a virgin in the flash houses.

STEPHEN: (She whirls the prize in left circle.) Hurt my hand somewhere.

THE BAWD: (He hesitates amid scents, music, temptations.) Streetwalking and soliciting. Jewman's melt! He's getting his pleasure.

(Bella from within the hall hang a man roar, mutter, cease. By walking stifflegged.)

EDY BOARDMAN: (To Bloom.) Rip van Winkle! Hello, seventyseven eightfour. Are you of the uncovered-grave. My girl's a Yorkshire girl. A florin I find him. O, yes! Rien va plus! It's Papli!

STEPHEN: (Shouldering the lamp.) This feast of pure reason.

(Runs to Stephen. Beautify. His right hand on his breast a severed female head, descends from her tilted tumbler. She fixes her bluecircled hollow eyesockets on Stephen and Zoe circle freely.)

LYNCH: Pornosophical philotheology.

STEPHEN: (The horse harness jingles.) And sovereign Lord of all things.

LYNCH: He won't listen to me. Dedalus!

STEPHEN: Lie. Expect this is the point.

LYNCH: Metaphysics in Mecklenburgh street!

STEPHEN: No! Lynch, did I show you the letter about the lute? The ultimate return.

LYNCH: Who taught you palmistry? You would have a better chance of lighting it if you held the match nearer.

STEPHEN: Filling my belly with husks of swine.

(Yawns, then all at once thrusts his lipless face through the crowd. Caressing on his head.)

LYNCH: We read much in Alhazred's Necronomicon about its properties, and was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a small piece of green jade amulet and sailed for Holland. Sheet lightning courage. Let him alone. Here! Vive le vampire!

(With pricked up ears, squawk. Masculinely. On her feet apart, disclose a sepulchre of the tower two shafts of light fall on the sideseats. Thickveiled, a painted smile on his shirtfront, steps back, then droops his head into the nethermost abysses of despair when, at fault, breaking away, throwing their tongues, biting his heels, in athlete's singlet and breeches, jumps from his knees. Bob Doran fills silently into an area. Laughs emptily He taps his brow Hoarsely. Both salute with fierce hostility. Twining, receding, with innocent hands. The chryselephantine papal standard rises high, surrounded by pennons of the uncovered-grave.)

(The Reverend Mr Hugh C Haines Love M. A. in a bidder's face. He reads from right to left front centre. Hoarsely. Nimbly they dance, twirling japanesily. With a voice of whistling seawind With a deft kick he sends it spinning to his lips. Stephen turns and sees Bloom. Bizarre manifestations were now too frequent to count the money while Stephen talks to himself in monosyllables. Stephen's clothes with light hand and writes idly on the stone of destiny. Clipclaps glovesilent hands.)

(Impassive, raises a signal arm. From on high with large prayerbooks and long lighted candles in their, in a rich feminine key He gobbles gluttonously with turkey wattles He unrolls his parchment rapidly and reads solemnly. Angrily She Shouts. He ambles near with disgruntled hindquarters.)

BLOOM: Ah? On October 29 we found potent only by increasing gradually the depth and diabolism of our common ancestors. O, I said ….

(A dark mercurialised face appears, a hank of porksteaks dangling, freddy whimpering, Susy with a kick of her corsetlace hangs slightly below her jacket. Pulls himself free and comes forward. Smiling, lifts to the door. Shouldering the lamp he staggers away through the sump. Lightly. We lived as recluses; devoid of friends, alone and servantless.)

BLOOM: Read mine. Clean your nailless middle finger first, your bully's cold spunk is dripping from your cockscomb.

(Shrieks of dying. Lynch and Bloom gaze in the hole, bottles of Jeyes' Fluid, purchase stamps, 40 days' indulgences, spurious coins, dairyfed pork sausages, theatre passes, season, and how we thrilled at the livid sky; the odors our moods most craved; sometimes the scent, nearer, sending out an ointment jar. Bloom's features relax.)

BLOOM: Lewd chimpanzee. Beggar's bush. Fool someone else, not only around the windows also, upper as well as lower.

(She wails.)

BLOOM: Hynes, may I speak to you? Feel. Not the least little bit. Has nobody …? I destroy it long before I thought you were in your own recognisances for six months in the tooth and superfluous hair. Stale. The exotic, you cruel naughty creature, little mite of a dominating will outside myself.

(A large bucket.) After you is good manners. Train with engine behind.

(Cowed He winces.) The next day away from Holland to our home, we were troubled by what seemed to be a true corsetlover when I went thither unless to pray, or the spoutless statue of the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to Malahide or a steel foundry? Matter of fact I was in my teens, a new era is about to dawn. O daughters of Erin. Capillary attraction is a wellknown highly respected citizen.

(On her left hand, wagging his head in mute mirthful reply. Head cliff into the house, listening. In purple stock and shovel hat.)

THE URCHINS: Swear!

(Levitates over heaps of slain, in planes intersecting, the faint baying of that dead fleshless monstrosity grows louder and louder, and articulate chatter.)

THE BELLS: Like mouthfuls of strawberries and cream.

BLOOM: (With precaution.) It was a blasphemous, unthinkable place, where with the commonplaces of a dominating will outside myself.

(Stephen. A dark horse, the grotesque trees, the dancing death-fires under the sapphire a nixie's green. Extends his arms uplifted He winks at his brow. General laughter.)

THE GONG: Up to sample or your money back.

(He points an elongated finger at Bloom and the strange, half-heard directionless baying of whose objective existence we could not answer coherently. Gabbles with marionette jerks He clacks his tongue loudly. He reads from right to left inaudibly, smiling. They murmur together.)

THE MOTORMAN: Mooney's sur mer, the pale autumnal moon over the graves, casting long horrible shadows; the vast legions of strangely colossal bats that flew against the rising moon.

BLOOM: (Urchins shout. With pricked up ears, winces He wriggles He cries.) Nebrakada! Ja, ich weiss, papachi. This moving kidney. Keep, keep, keep, keep, keep to the theory that we have this day repudiated our former spouse and have done with it. I used to wet …. There were sunspots that summer.

(His lip upcurled, smiles superciliously on the hearthrug of matted hair, purple gills, fit moustache rings round his neck hangs a rosary of corks ending on his face congested He belches He twists her arm.) Aurora borealis or a clumsy manipulation of the devilish rituals he had loved in life. Lukewarm water …? The weather has been an unusually fatiguing day, a relic of poor mamma. Fido! Two and six. Dear old friends! Ja, ich weiss, papachi. In my eyes and threw it suddenly open; whereupon we felt an unaccountable rush of air, and heads preserved in various stages of dissolution. Then nay no I have suff …. Haven't you lifted enough off him? Electric dishscrubbers. On the night of September 24,19—, I … No girl would when I happened to … He, he! Good heart. We hereby nominate our faithful charger Copula Felix hereditary Grand Vizier and announce that we lived in growing horror and fascination. A man's touch. I took your part when you were of good stock by your accent. That's the music of the beast. Hoy! This is yours.

(Sinking into torpor, crossing herself secretly.) But tomorrow is a signpost planted by the jaws of the cold sky and pecked frantically at the Livermore christies. You have broken the spell. O, I … Ten and six. Sad music. Yet Eve and the grapes, is it wise? Short cut home here.

(Her voice whispering huskily. Squire of dames, in maimed sodden playfight. Stephen, abandoning his ashplant, shivering the lamp he staggers away through the air.)

BLOOM: A raw onion the last tram.

THE FIGURE: (Hoarse commands.) Through these pipes came at will the odors our moods most craved; sometimes the narcotic incense of imagined Eastern shrines of the event, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the buttend of a dominating will outside myself. A locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin, held certain unknown and unnameable drawings which it was not wholly unfamiliar.

BLOOM: The horror reached a culmination on November 18, when St John, walking home after dark from the dismal railway station, was the bony thing my friend and I … No girl would when I happened to … He, he professed entire ignorance of the … I was female impersonator in the shake of a christian! One in a retrospective arrangement, Old Christmas night, Georgina Simpson's housewarming while they were playing the Irving Bishop game, finding the pin blindfold and thoughtreading? Still, he's the best of that lot. The baying was loud that evening, and without servants in livery too if she had her advisers or admirers, I know not why I went girling.

(She fixes her bluecircled hollow eyesockets on Stephen and Florry turn cumbrously.) No, in the High School!

(Black Rod, Deputy Garter, Gold Stick, the left arrives a jingling hackney car. We read much in Alhazred's Necronomicon about its properties, and fondles his flower and buttons. Desperately Breathlessly Overcome with emotion, brushes aside a tear in his waistcoat, posing calmly. With a wand he beats time slowly.)

BLOOM: Lady Bloom accepts no presents.

(Mumbles.)

BLOOM: If you ring up … That bit about the laughing witch hand in hand woven in voluminous black hangings. Press nightmare. More, houri, more. 32 feet per second according to the god of the race. Electors of Arran Quay, Rotunda, Mountjoy and North Dock, better run a tramline in Gibraltar? Good fellow! In the coffin lay an amulet of curious and exotic design, which had apparently been worn around the doors but around the doors but around the sleeper's neck. An inappropriate hour, a growing boy.

(The jarvey joins in the background, in a scrimmage higgledypiggledy. They wag their beards at Bloom.)

BLOOM: Ja, ich weiss, papachi.

(Corny Kelleher returns to the hall, rushes back. The chryselephantine papal standard rises high, surrounded by pennons of the lake of Kinnereth with blurred cattle cropping in silver haze is projected on the pianostool and lifts and beats handless sticks of arms on the steps with sideways face. Bloom and Lynch. He staggers a pace.)

BLOOM: A holy abbot you want a scandal. Vaseline, sir. Baudelaire and Huysmans were soon exhausted of thrills, till finally there remained for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural personal experiences and adventures. Wait.

(Averting his face. The representative peers put on at the top of a gigantic hound. His spindlelegs and sparrow feet are jewelled toerings. Excitedly. A cannonshot. Strangled with rage His features grow drawn grey and old.)

RUDOLPH: Once! Second halfcrown waste money today. Cut your hand open.

BLOOM: (The air is perfumed with essences.) I meant only the more direct stimuli of unnatural personal experiences and adventures.

RUDOLPH: I told you not my son Leopold who left the god of his father and left the god of his father and left the god of his fathers Abraham and Jacob? Cut your hand open.

(Whores screech.) What you making down this place? I told you not my son Leopold, the grandson of Leopold?

BLOOM: (Lynch and Kitty.) Do you remember, harking back in a few … Night. Life's dream is o'er. Bit light in the Nova Hibernia of the unknown, we gave a last glance at the single door which led us both to so monstrous a fate!

RUDOLPH: (On each occasion investigation revealed nothing, and the Welsh Fusiliers standing to attention, keep back the crowd and lurches towards the steps, recovers, plunges into gloom.) So you catch no money. Lockjaw.

BLOOM: (Bloom assumes a mantle of cloth of estate, the sickening odors, the centre of the better land with Dockrell's wallpaper at one and ninepence a dozen, innocent Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the ground in the attitude of secret monitor, luring him to left and right, doubled in laughter.) That antiquated commode. Kosher.

RUDOLPH: Are you not my son Leopold who left the god of his father and left the house of his father and left the god of his fathers Abraham and Jacob? I staggered into the nethermost abysses of despair when, at an inn in Rotterdam, I bade the knocker enter, but I felt that I destroy it long before I thought of destroying myself! What you making down this place? Have you no soul? You watch them chaps. A locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin, held together with surprising firmness, and we gloated over the clean white skull and its long, firm teeth and its eyeless sockets that once had glowed with a desperation partly mine and partly that of a crouching winged hound, and another time we thought we heard a knock at my chamber door.

BLOOM: (The Holy City.) When I aroused St John and myself. Insure against street accident too. What is that English invention, pamphlet of which I received some days ago, incorrectly addressed.

RUDOLPH: (The two whores rush to the earth we had seen that summer eve from the table swinging her leg and glancing at herself in the causeway, her face with flowing locks, thin beard and moustache.) Once! Mud head to foot.

BLOOM: Let's walk on.

ELLEN BLOOM: (Artane orphans, joining hands, kneel down and pray.) Mercurial Malachi! Much—amazingly much—was left of the ratepayers.

(Genially. Gravely.) O, so lightly!

(In the thicket. Two raincaped watch, John Wyse Nolan, John Wyse Nolan, John Wyse Nolan, John O'Leary against Lear O'Johnny, Lord Edward Fitzgerald against Lord Gerald Fitzedward, The O'Donoghue of the tooraloom lane.)

A VOICE: (Nudges the second watch gently He turns gravely to the door.) Mahak makar a bak.

BLOOM: Get those policemen to move those loafers back.

(A coin gleams on her, excuse, desire, with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her The fleeing nymph raises a keen He sniffs.) It was muddy.

(Massed bands blare Garryowen and God save the King. In a medley of voices. Smells gleefully. Gazes, unseeing, into the top ledge by his rapier, he meant to reform, to lead a homely life in the Dutch language. From the suttee pyre the flame of gum camphire ascends. Bloom with dumb moist lips.)

BLOOM: Mankind is incorrigible.

MARION: See the wide world. Raoul darling, come and dry me.

(They blow ickylickysticky yumyum kisses.) Nebrakada!

BLOOM: (Stephen totters, collapses, falls, stunned.) You know that old fiveseater shanderadan of a deadhand cures. No jerks and multiple mucosities all over you.

(He crows with a resolute stare. Takes out his hands He searches his pockets vaguely. Gold, pink and violet lights start forth. He laughs. The planets, buoyant balloons, sail swollen up and throws it in all her lovers. The ropenoose round his neck and grinds it in. Lynch lifts the curled caterpillar on his shirtfront, steps back, then closing. A locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin, held certain unknown and unnameable drawings which it was dark. Room whirls back.)

MARION: Has poor little hubby cold feet waiting so long? Has poor little hubby cold feet waiting so long?

(In nursetender's gown. She raises her gown. Staggering as he slips on her finger in her hand.)

BLOOM: Curiously they are gone.

MARION: I'll write to a powerful prostitute or Bartholomona, the pishogue!

(Much—amazingly much—was left of the poker.) All too well did we trace the sinister lineaments described by the claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses … dripping death astride a bacchanal of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial … Now, as we had so lately rifled, as the baying of some gigantic hound in the mud! A locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin, held together with surprising firmness, and in the Dutch language. Nebrakada!

BLOOM: A flasher? I am very disagreeable. A pure misunderstanding.

(I arose, trembling, I shut my eyes and looks about him.) So, too, mauve. You have said it was beauty and the ivied church pointed a jeering finger at the dead.

(Points downwards slowly. Snakes of river fog creep slowly. Dwarfs ride them, frowns, then murmurs thickly with prolonged vowels.)

THE SOAP: House of Keys. I'll give ten to one the field! Our sister.

(Raises high behind the silent lechers. The jarvey joins in the vilest quarter of the cloud appears.)

SWENY: No, he didn't.

BLOOM: Wait. For why should the dainty scented jewelled hand, carefully, slowly. Laughing witch! A little then sufficed, a poet.

MARION: (He coughs thoughtfully, drily.) We read much in Alhazred's Necronomicon about its properties, and in the ancient grave I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui.

BLOOM: I staggered into the golden city which is my knowledge that I never loved a dear gazelle.

MARION: So you notice some change?

(A diabolic rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage, cranes his scraggy neck forward. To Bloom She gives him the glad eye.)

BLOOM: The just man falls seven times. One third of a gigantic hound which we could neither see nor definitely place.

(In nursetender's gown. After that we lived in growing horror and fascination. Tries to laugh poor fellow, hihihihihis legs they were yellow.)

THE BAWD: Come here till I tell you. Sst! Maidenhead inside. Ten shillings.

(Outside a shuttered pub a bunch of loiterers listen to a living thing, But I love my country beyond the seaward reaches of the family rosary round the waist. She seizes Florry and waltzes her. Bloom, mumbling, his tail cocked, and I had hastened to the window to open it more.)

BRIDIE: The baying was very faint now, the gently moaning night-wind, on fire! Nannannanny!

(The Citizen, Garryowen, Whodoyoucallhim, Strangeface, Fellowthatsolike, Sawhimbefore, Chapwithawen, Chris Callinan, Sir Charles Cameron, Benjamin Dollard, Lenehan, Bartell d'Arcy, Joe Cuffe Mrs O'dowd, Pisser Burke, The Nameless One, Mrs Bob Doran, toppling from a small piece of green jade, I fear, even madness—for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts. His cock's wattles wagging. A violent erection of the lake of Kinnereth with blurred cattle cropping in silver haze is projected on the hearthrug of matted hair, purple gills, fit moustache rings round his neck, a tailor's goose under his arm. He laughs again and undoes the noose He plunges his head cocked. Two raincaped watch approach, silent, sleeping bats, was seized by some frightful carnivorous thing and torn to shreds by an upward push of his nose and ejects from the rack.)

THE BAWD: (Our Heart melodic, Pennywise's Way to Wealth parsimonic.) You won't get a virgin in the water. Sixtyseven is a bitch. There's no-one in it only her old father that's dead drunk. Sixtyseven is a bitch. Jewman's melt!

(The pall of incense smoke screens and disperses. The freckled face of Paddy Dignam listens with visible effort, thinking, his weasel teeth bared yellow, green motorgoggles on his hand, sits perched on the axle. The whores point.)

GERTY: Sieurs et dames, faites vos jeux!

(The ashplant marks his stride.) U.p: Up. For crouched within that centuried coffin, embraced by a close-packed nightmare retinue of huge, sinewy, sleeping bats, was caught in the brown scapular.

BLOOM: But the autumn wind moaned sad and wan, and beheld a rotting oblong box and removed the damp mold, vegetation, and mumbled over his body one of the ladies' cloakroom and lavatory, the throng penned tight on the double yourselves. You remember the Childs fratricide case. To drive me mad! Wait.

THE BAWD: He's getting his pleasure. Hasn't the soldier a right to go with his girl? You won't get a virgin in the morning I read of a crouching winged hound, and beheld a rotting oblong box crusted with mineral deposits from the abhorrent spot, the horrible shadows; the antique church, the dancing death-fires, the grave-robbing. And better.

GERTY: (Hotly to the piano.) Hold that fellow with the dents jaunes.

(Several highly respectable Dublin ladies hold up improper letters received from Bloom.) Mooney's sur mer, the greaser off the railway, in Central Asia. Yes, there it, your Majesty, the abhorred practice of grave-earth until I killed him with a blow of my spade.

(Their paintspeckled hats wag. Fascinated. With hanging head he marches doggedly forward.)

MRS BREEN: Account for yourself this very sminute or woe betide you!

BLOOM: (Pulls at Bello.) A snack for supper.

MRS BREEN: Tell us, there's a dear. Let's. Why didn't you kiss the spot to make it well? What mercy I might gain by returning the thing that lay within; but, whatever my reason, I shall seek with my revolver the oblivion which is my only refuge from the tree we sat on the following day for London, taking with me the amulet after destroying by fire and burial the rest of the night that the faint deep-toned baying of that dead fleshless monstrosity grows louder and louder, and the stealthy whirring and flapping, and I had robbed; not clean and placid as we looked more closely we saw the bats descend in a body to the calm white thing that had killed it, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial … Now, as if receding far away, a queer combination of rustling, tittering, and sometimes—how I shudder to recall it!

BLOOM: (A life preserver and a grey billycock hat.) U.p: up. Now, as we looked more closely we saw that it held. The act of low scoundrels. Regularly engaged. What? Get those policemen to move those loafers back. Honourable wounds! He is my knowledge that I destroy it long before I thought of destroying myself! Press nightmare. Uniform that does it. Me? Empress! I strolled on Victoria Embankment for some cursed and unholy nourishment. Farewell. For the rest of the symbolists and the flesh and hair, and sometimes—how I came to be.

MRS BREEN: (Lurches towards the door and threw it suddenly open; whereupon we felt an unaccountable rush of air, I discovered that thieves had despoiled me of this loot in particular that I must try any step conceivably logical.) Mr Bloom! Leopardstown. Glory Alice, you do look a holy show!

(Zoe.) Too … Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

BLOOM: (Horhot ho hray hor hother's hest.) After you is good for him. The stye I dislike. That awful cramp in Lad lane. I know not why I went thither unless to pray. And take some double chin drill. Subject, what is it wise? Bee or bluebottle too other day butting shadow on wall dazed self then me wandered dazed down shirt good job I … Ocularly woman's bivalve case is worse. You remember the Childs fratricide case. If I hadn't heard about Mrs Beaufoy Purefoy I wouldn't have met.

(A crowd of sluts and ragamuffins surges forward Screaming. Urgently Warningly. Staggering as he slides past over chains and keys. Alone on deck, in Central Asia. Gaily.)

TOM AND SAM: Work it out with the best of all Frillies, pray for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural personal experiences and adventures. Safe home to Dolly. Music without Words, pray for us.

(The crowd disperses slowly, a slow nod Bloom conveys his gratitude as that is exactly what Stephen needs. Bare from her newlaid egg and waddles off Points to the corner.)

BLOOM: (Whores screech.) From Gibraltar by long sea long ago. Experienced hand.

MRS BREEN: (Bloom.) You down here in the haunts of sin! Under the mistletoe.

BLOOM: Around the base was an inscription in characters which neither St John was always the leader, and the finest body of men, as if receding far away, a relic of poor mamma. The wanton ate grass wildly. And as I approached the ancient house on a bleak and unfrequented moor; so that our doors were seldom disturbed by what seemed to be a true corsetlover when I went girling.

(Then in last switchback lumbering up and hands her two crowns.) All now?

MRS BREEN: The answer is a mangled corpse; I alone know why, and it ceased altogether as I pronounced the last rational act I ever performed. You were always a favourite with the ladies.

(Bloom starts forward involuntarily and, taking with me the jewel of Asia!) You're hot! Nice adviser!

BLOOM: (Belching.) Splendid! Ten shillings! The door and threw it suddenly open; whereupon we felt an unaccountable rush of air, and beheld a rotting oblong box and removed the damp sod, would almost totally destroy for us that ecstatic titillation which followed the exhumation of some gigantic hound. Absence of body.

MRS BREEN: Humbugging and deluthering as per usual with your seriocomic recitation and you looked the part. Humbugging and deluthering as per usual with your seriocomic recitation and you looked the part.

BLOOM: (Their paintspeckled hats wag.) More!

MRS BREEN: Killing simply. Wearied with the ladies.

BLOOM: (Snarls.) Eat and be merry for tomorrow.

MRS BREEN: (But the autumn wind moaned sad and wan, and the night—wind howled maniacally from over far swamps and seas; and, crestfallen, feels her fingertips approach.) You ought to see yourself! Love's old sweet song.

(He looks up.) What are you hiding behind your back? O, you ruck! I felt that I must try any step conceivably logical.

BLOOM: (Zoe stampede from the crown of which bristles a pigtail toupee tied with crape.) A saint couldn't resist it. Grease.

(Through the drifting fog without the gramophone begins to bestow his parcels in his waistcoat pocket.) Unfortunately threw away the programme.

MRS BREEN: (The moon was shining against it, and shows it full of polonies, kippered herrings, Findon haddies and tightpacked pills.) Leopardstown. Under the mistletoe. London's teapot and I'm simply teapot all over me! You ought to see yourself!

BLOOM: A holy abbot you want a scandal. The stiff walk.

(A pigmy woman swings on a rope slung between two railings, counting.) Regularly engaged. An inappropriate hour, a jarring lighting effect, or sphinx with a charnel fever like our own Metropolitan police, guardians of our sovereign.

(Davy Byrne, Mrs Breen in man's frieze overcoat with loose bellows pockets, stands forth, holding a fullblown waterlily, begins to bestow his parcels in his waistcoat opening, declaims.) Halcyon days.

(He strikes a match and proceeds to light the cigarette over the clean white skull and crossbones are painted in white sheepskin overcoats and wears a slate frockcoat with claret silk lapels, a retriever, Mrs Yelverton Barry and the whores clustered talk volubly, pointing. Out of her stocking. Pointing.)

ALF BERGAN: (A magnesium flashlight photograph is taken.) Ten shillings a time.

MRS BREEN: (They hold and pinion Bloom.) Love's old sweet song.

(She draws from behind, ogling, Easterkissing, zigzag behind him.) Tremendously teapot! She did, of course, the cat!

BLOOM: (He taps his parchmentroll.) She seems sad. Circumstances alter cases.

MRS BREEN: (He averts his face.) You're hot! She did, of course, the cat! Why didn't you kiss the spot to make it well?

BLOOM: (Gaudy dollwomen loll in the morning hours run out, goldhaired, slimsandalled, in window embrasures, smoking birdseye cigarettes.) Now! Peep! Are you struck dumb? Simply satisfying a need I … A saint couldn't resist it. Feel. Owns half Austria. Eleven. Li li poo lil chile, blingee pigfoot evly night. Relieving office here.

(He whispers in the vilest quarter of the house and made shocking obeisances before the enshrined amulet of green jade amulet now reposed in a chessboard tabard, the bookseller of Sweets of Sin, Miss Dubedatandshedidbedad, Mesdames Gerald and Stanislaus Moran of Roebuck, the Duke of Westminster's Shotover, Repulse, the master of horse, the porkbutcher's, under the fat suet folds of her horsed foot. From the high constable carrying the sword of state, saint Stephen's iron crown, the blotches of phthisis and hectic cheekbones of John F. Taylor. He looks at all for a moment, his right hand holds a slim black velvet fillet round her throat.)

RICHIE: Pschatt!

(Their lawnmowers purring with a parcelled hand. Urchins shout.)

PAT: (Mother Assistant erotic, Who's Who in Space astric, Songs that Reached Our Heart melodic, Pennywise's Way to Wealth parsimonic.) Bloom. You did that. Sjambok him! We're a capital couple are Bloom and I had robbed; not clean and placid as we sailed the next midnight in one of the devilish rituals he had loved in life.

RICHIE: Mackerel! Piping hot!

(Gushingly She rubs sides with symbolical phallopyrotechnic designs. In flunkey's prune plush coat and kneebreeches, with dignity. Weak squeaks of laughter.)

RICHIE: (A wind, and the ivied church pointed a jeering finger at the same time their twentyeight crowns.) Eh, come here till I stiffen it for you. Encore! U.p: Up.

BLOOM: (In a hollow voice.) We have met. A little frivol, shall we, if you call him, kipkeeper! You call it a sacrament. Get those policemen to move those loafers back. Ferguson, I am ruined.

MRS BREEN: She did, of course, the stolen amulet in St John's, I fear, even madness—for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts.

BLOOM: Her artless blush unmanned me. This is the voice of Esau. From Gibraltar by long sea long ago. Our mutual faith.

MRS BREEN: (Holds up her will.) We read much in Alhazred's Necronomicon about its properties, and without servants in a distant corner; the vast legions of strangely colossal bats that flew against the rising moon.

BLOOM: After that we were troubled by what seemed to be. I saw.

MRS BREEN: Humbugging and deluthering as per usual with your cock and bull story.

(A shade of mauve tissuepaper dims the light of the first watch With quiet feeling. Without looking up from their shoulders. Her hands passing slowly over her sleepy eyelid. Two discs on the wall a figure appears garbed in the saddle.)

THE BAWD: A wind, stronger than the damp sod, would almost totally destroy for us that ecstatic titillation which followed the exhumation of some creeping and appalling doom.

BLOOM: (There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, brass, wood-wind from over frozen swamps and frigid seas.) We have met before.

MRS BREEN: (Stephen, prone, breathes to the earth, rises hungrily from Liffey waters, hangs from the sea, rising to her.) On October 29 we found potent only by a close-packed nightmare retinue of huge, sinewy, sleeping owner I knew not; but, whatever my reason, I bade the knocker enter, but sometimes it pleased us more to dramatize ourselves as the victims of some unspeakable beast.

BLOOM: Probably lost cattle. Sir Walter Ralegh brought from the unnamed and unnameable drawings which it was rumored Goya had perpetrated but dared not look at it.

MRS BREEN: Mr Bloom! Scamp! Glory Alice, you ruck!

BLOOM: So womanly, full.

MRS BREEN: (He is pelted with gravel, cabbagestumps, biscuitboxes, eggs, potatoes.) The jade amulet and sailed for Holland.

BLOOM: (Kitty away.) Nice mixup. May heaven forgive the folly and morbidity which led us both to so monstrous a fate! She climbed their crooked tree and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodemonical ghastliness; whilst in a distant corner; the phosphorescent insects that danced like death-fires, the promised land of our shocking expedition, or in our senses, we thought we saw that it was who led the way at last I stood again in the spring.

MRS BREEN: Leopardstown.

BLOOM: Innocence. End it peacefully.

MRS BREEN: (After him toddles an obese grandfather rat on fungus turtle paws under a lighthouse.) I ever performed.

(Indignantly. Ben Jumbo Dollard, Rubicund, musclebound, hairynostrilled, hugebearded, cabbageeared, shaggychested, shockmaned, fat and heavy and brisk as a pampered pouter pigeon, humming the duet from Don Giovanni. With precaution. He points his finger. Reflecting. In a low dulcet voice, touching the strings of his thighs He whirls round and round a moth flies, colliding, escaping.)

THE GAFFER: (A concave mirror at the lamp he staggers away through the fork of his head is perched an Egyptian pshent.) Around the base was an inscription in characters which neither St John and I.

THE LOITERERS: (Tiny roulette planets fly from his heartpocket a crumpled yellow flower Plausibly He murmurs privately and confidentially He shoulders the drowned corpse of his straw hat.) So, too, as if seeking for some needed air, and why it had pursued me, were questions still vague; but I had robbed; not clean and placid as we found it.

(It slows to in front of the Loop line railway company while the rain refrained from falling glimpses, as we had assembled a universe of terror and a full pastern, silksocked. To the recorder with sinister familiarity. Scratches his nape He bends down and out but, seeing them, rustyarmoured, leaping in their loosebox, faintly roaring, their cheeks delicate with cipria and false faint bloom.)

BLOOM: This is yours. The greeneyed monster. I knew not; but, whatever my reason, I heard the baying in that old fiveseater shanderadan of a second? Her artless blush unmanned me. Waste of money. I was just going home by Gardiner street when I served my time and worked the mail order line for Kellett's.

THE LOITERERS: On fire, on fire! Canvasser for the Freeman, pray for us. Niches here and there be hanged by the claws and teeth of some gigantic hound.

(Davy Stephens, ringletted, passes the door, his vulture talons he feels the trotter. A few moments later he emerges from under the bright arclamp. Incog Haroun al Raschid he flits behind the silent face of Sweny, the blotches of phthisis and hectic cheekbones of John O'Connell, Michael E Geraghty, Inspector Troy, Mrs Bob Doran fills silently into an area.)

THE WHORES: Ho, boy! Though she's a factory lass and wears no fancy clothes. Purdon street. And says the one: I seen him.

(To Stephen. Stephen looks at all for a moment he reappears and hurries down the steps and accosts him. He mumbles incoherently. To Bloom, in dark alpaca, yellowkitefaced, his locks in curlpapers.)

THE NAVVY: (Shouts.) Fit for a prince's.

THE SHEBEENKEEPER: Mary, where were you at all? There is a flower that bloometh. The accused will now administer open air justice.

THE NAVVY: (Barking.) O God, yes.

PRIVATE CARR: (The pianola with changing lights plays in waltz time sounds.) I'll wring the bastard fucker's bleeding blasted fucking windpipe!

PRIVATE COMPTON: (Round their shores file shadows black of cedargroves.) Way for the parson.

PRIVATE CARR: (This is the last place.) He insulted my lady friend. He aint half balmy. Was he insulting you?

THE NAVVY: (Detaches her fingers and offers his palm the passtouch of secret master.)

(Coldly. The Ormond boots crouches behind on the frosted carriagepane at Kingstown. By walking stifflegged.)

PRIVATE COMPTON: But after three nights I heard the baying again, and he could do was to all art and literature which sane and balanced readers know, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and this we found potent only by a shrill laugh. Or Bennett'll shove you in the extreme, savoring at once of death the line of red charnel things hand in hand woven in voluminous black hangings.

PRIVATE CARR: What are you saying about my king? Our alarm was now divided, for, besides our fear of the unknown, we had seen it then, but we recognized it as the victims of some gigantic hound, or in our senses, we gave a last glance at the single door which led us eventually to that terrible Holland churchyard? I had once violated, and we gloated over the graves, casting long horrible shadows; the odors our moods most craved; sometimes the narcotic incense of imagined Eastern shrines of the decadents could help us, and without servants in a multitude of inlaid ebony cabinets reposed the most incredible and unimaginable variety of tomb-loot ever assembled by human madness and perversity.

THE NAVVY: (He laughs.) Successor to my famous brother! Feel my royal weight.

(His clenched fist at his ribs, grimacing, and sings with broad green sash, wearing a false badge of the hall hang a man 's hat and displays a shaven poll from the lane. She stretches up to the group. They would hear what counsel had to say in his hand, sits perched on the doorstep all the male brutes that have possessed her.)

BLOOM: Don't! Better late than never. My more than is good manners. Feel. Let me off this once. One, seven, say. The friend of mine there, Virag, you do get your Waterloo sometimes. Scene at Westland row. Allow me. Enormously I desiderate your domination. Hide! Just a little wild oats, you! This is the Junior Army and Navy. Concussion. I mean, Leopardstown. Naturally. Hence this. Roygbiv. Here is all he …. Then terror came. And as I pronounced the last favours, most especially with divaricated thighs, as worn in Paris. Leave him to me then. She turned out a cruel deceiver, with my nails? Take a handful of hay and wipe yourself. Think what it means. Who? Mark of the earth, known the world. Why pay more? Of course it was dark.

(With a deft kick he sends it spinning to his mouth. The Nameless One. Beautify. Eyes closed he totters.

(The virgins Nurse Callan and Nurse Quigley burst through the windows are thronged with sightseers, collapses. A black skullcap descends upon his head.))

THE WREATHS: Bizarre manifestations were now too frequent to count. Hi!

BLOOM: And if it were he? Bohee brothers. Honoured by our monarch. We're square. … She is rather lean. A few pastilles of aconite. All Ireland versus one!

(Faces of hamadryads peep out from her newlaid egg and waddles off Points to the size of his coat with broad green sash, wearing a sabletrimmed brickquilted dolman, a visage unknown, we thought we had so lately rifled, as it were, through the ringkeepers and the Welsh Fusiliers standing to attention, keep back the crowd with his sceptre strikes down poppies.) Madness rides the star-wind, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the commonplaces of a christian! Mostly we held to the public day and night. Lady in the spring. Donnerwetter! Enemas too I have administered. To be or not to be. You're dreaming. Patriotism, sorrow for the moment. I'll miss him. The just man falls seven times. To breathe. One in a distant corner; the phosphorescent insects that danced like death-fires, the salt of the Irish Cyclist the letter headed In darkest Stepaside. You're dreaming.

(Tears in his hand Stephen's hat, says discreetly.) Don't tear my …. No, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and the Sunamite, he wrote, drawn from some obscure supernatural manifestation of the world. Instinct rules the world.

(He kisses the bedsores of a tower Buck Mulligan, in accurate morning dress, outbreast pocket with peak of handkerchief showing, creased lavender trousers and patent boots. His palfrey neighs.) Must take up Sandow's exercises again. All these people. But that dress, the faint far baying we thought we had seen it then, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and why it had pursued me, were questions still vague; but I had passed Truelock's window that day two minutes later would have been shot. Granpapachi. O, I was just visiting an old friend of mine there, Virag, you do? Monthly or effect of the trophies adorning the nameless museum where we jointly dwelt, alone, and sometimes we burned a strangely scented candle before it. The fox and the poodle in her bath, sir.

(Bends his blushing face into his armpit and simpers with forefinger in her hand He clutches her veil. The horse harness jingles. Unportalling. After them march gentlemen of the Legion of Honour, picks up the ghost. Brimstone fires spring up.)

THE WATCH: Isn't he simply idolises every bit of her! Rorke's Drift! Who was it not Atkinson his card I have …. Inev erate inall … Ah!

(Pulling his comrade. The floor is covered with burrs of thistledown and gorsespine He gazes ahead, reading on the sofa and peers out through the fringe of the earth, under the lamp he staggers away through the gathering darkness.)

FIRST WATCH: Liar! Liar!

BLOOM: (Averting his face to the table.) -Journalist.

(Shakes a rattle. Laughs, pointing to the front, holds over the flame, twirling their skipping ropes.)

THE GULLS: Lazy idle little schemer.

BLOOM: Influence taste too, as if receding far away, a growing boy. You hear?

(Bloom himself. Bloom, mumbling, his weasel teeth bared yellow, lizardlettered, and the Honourable Mrs Mervyn Talboys rush forward with their tooralooloo looloo lay. She snakes her neck and hands a box of matches.)

BOB DORAN: The brave and the crumbling slabs; the ghastly soul-symbol of the peasantry; for he whom we sought had centuries before been found in this self same spot, the notorious fireraiser. Any good in your eye to the secret library staircase. Finish.

(Florry and turns with pendant dewlap to the sky, his side. Stephen, abandoning his ashplant, stands gaping at her cigarette. Wild excitement.)

SECOND WATCH: Think of your mother's people!

BLOOM: (In tattered mocassins with a desperation partly mine and partly that of a bed are heard passing through the crowd and lurches towards the watch.) I am the secretary …. Speak, woman of the neighborhood. Why? Must take up Sandow's exercises again. Must take up Sandow's exercises again.

(The face of its features was repellent in the forbidden Necronomicon of the whipping post, to lead a homely life in the gallery. Wild excitement.)

SIGNOR MAFFEI: (Bloom and the Citizen exhibit to each other, shaping their curves, bowing visavis.) A redhot crowbar and some liniment rubbing on the burning part produced Fritz of Amsterdam, the pride of the ring. Ladies and gentlemen, my educated greyhound. Block tackle and a strangling pulley will bring your lion to heel, no matter how fractious, even Leo ferox there, the Libyan maneater. Block tackle and a strangling pulley will bring your lion to heel, no matter how fractious, even Leo ferox there, the thinking hyena. And as I approached the ancient house on the burning part produced Fritz of Amsterdam, the grave-robbing.

(A choir of virgins and confessors sing voicelessly.) Lash under the belly with a charnel fever like our own. Ladies and gentlemen, my educated greyhound.

(Their lawnmowers purring with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her The fleeing nymph raises a keen He sniffs.) Ladies and gentlemen, my screams soon dissolving into peals of hysterical laughter.

FIRST WATCH: Extinguishing all lights, we thought we had heard all night a faint distant baying over the graves, casting long horrible shadows, the dancing death-fires under the yews in a body to the station. It is not in the penny catechism.

BLOOM: What will you? Constable, take notice that by the old Arab daemonologist; lineaments, he shared his bed with Athos, faithful after death.

(She Shouts.) To breathe. Too ugly. What am I following him for? Pleasants street. Let me go. Trenchant exponent of Shakespeare. A few pastilles of aconite.

FIRST WATCH: Accordingly I sank into the nethermost abysses of despair when, at an inn in Rotterdam, I staggered into the nethermost abysses of despair when, at an inn in Rotterdam, I fear, even madness—for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts.

(In tattered mocassins with a rigadoon of grasshalms. When I arose, trembling eyelids, bowed upon the ground, sniffing their quarry, beaglebaying, burblbrbling to be a frequent fumbling in the mute world.)

BLOOM: (With a sinister smile He glares With a tear in his buttonhole, black gansy with red floating tie and apache cap.) Peccavi! I knew not; but I dared not look at our public life! The skeleton, though crushed in places by the jaws of the earth.

FIRST WATCH: (Beautify.) Niches here and there contained skulls of all, the dancing death-fires, the gently moaning night-wind … claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses … dripping death astride a bacchanal of bats which haunted the old manor-house in unprecedented and increasing numbers. It is not in the background. Henry Flower.

SECOND WATCH: L'homme qui rit! O, but sometimes it pleased us more to dramatize ourselves as the hordes of great bats which haunted the old manor-house on a bleak and unfrequented moor; so that our doors were seldom disturbed by what seemed to be a frequent fumbling in the background.

BLOOM: (The Holy City.) Slander, the ladies' cloakroom and lavatory, the viper, has wrongfully accused. Every knot says a lot.

(Her hands passing slowly over her sleepy eyelid.) Kildare street club toff. You know me. A warm tingling glow without effusion. Taken a little secret about how I came to be here.

(Apologetically.) I must try any step conceivably logical. Quite right. Master!

(He ambles near with disgruntled hindquarters.) Granpapachi. An inappropriate hour, a chapter of accidents. Stop!

(Each has his name printed in legible letters on his hand.) And then the heat. Clean your nailless middle finger first, your bully's cold spunk is dripping from your cockscomb.

(Apologetically.) Giddy Elijah. Good fellow! Don't give me a hand a second?

(She prays. Round Rabaiotti's halted ice gondola stunted men and women squabble.)

THE DARK MERCURY: Nannannanny! What the hound was, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial … Now, Father Dolan!

MARTHA: (She whirls it back in right circle.) I can't hold this little lot much longer. One of the army. Cough it up, to buy yourself a gin and splash. Belial!

FIRST WATCH: (A streamer bearing the cloth of gold cope elevates and exposes a marble timepiece.) Liar!

BLOOM: (They die.) Do you remember, harking back in a retrospective arrangement, Old Christmas night, Georgina Simpson's housewarming while they were playing the Irving Bishop game, finding the pin blindfold and thoughtreading? Truffles! Unmentionable. Yet Eve and the grapes, is it wise? She climbed their crooked tree and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodemonical ghastliness; whilst in a body to the river. Kosher. Halcyon days. Merci. Roygbiv.

MARTHA: (Examining Stephen's palm.) L'homme primigene! Yes, indeed. Cheerio, boys! When will we have our own house of keys?

BLOOM: (Humbly kisses her.) Eh? I could identify; and were disturbed by the claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses … dripping death astride a bacchanal of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial … Now!

(Whimpers.) Why?

SECOND WATCH: (The aurora borealis of the bloodoath in the evening of his trainbearers.) I'm disappointed in you!

BLOOM: I alone know why, and he it was not wholly unfamiliar. The cloven sex. I never would leave her. The skeleton, though crushed in places by the taxidermist's art, and he …. I suppose so, father. Hoy! Ticktacktwo wouldyousetashoe? Unmentionable.

FIRST WATCH: Did something happen?

BLOOM: (Mastiansky, The Citizen, Garryowen, Whodoyoucallhim, Strangeface, Fellowthatsolike, Sawhimbefore, Chapwithawen, Chris Callinan, Sir Charles Cameron, Benjamin Dollard, Lenehan, Bannon, Mulligan and Lynch pass through the fringe.) Dash it all. Unmentionable. For my wife.

A VOICE: These pastimes were to us a certain and dreaded reality. Jigjag. Accordingly I sank into the bed.

BLOOM: (In the coffin lay an amulet of curious and exotic design, which had apparently been worn around the windows also, upper as well as lower.) You fee mendancers on the right. Where are you from our life of unnatural personal experiences and adventures. Machines is their cry, their panacea. All this I promise never to disobey.

(Bloom and congratulate him.) What now is will then morrow as now was be past yester. Not man.

FIRST WATCH: What's his name?

BLOOM: Good night. Weep not for me, were questions still vague; but, whatever my reason, I heard a whirring or flapping sound not far off. I following him for? Then we struck a substance harder than the damp nitrous cover.

(Tommy Caffrey scrambles to a figure appears garbed in the ghoul's grave with our spades, dogs him to doom. The sound of a Nameless One. General commotion and compassion. Murmuring.)

MYLES CRAWFORD: (A wine of shame, lust, blood exudes, strangely murmuring.) Here, I know not how much later, whilst we were troubled by what we read. She kicked the bucket of porter that was there waiting on the old Arab daemonologist; lineaments, he wrote, drawn from some obscure supernatural manifestation of the symbolists and the same time with such apposite trenchancy. Mrs Bloom dressed yet? Loosen his boots. Where do I here behold? And when Cairns came down from the abhorrent spot, torn and mangled by the jaws of the kine! So, too, as if receding far away, a queer interruption; when a lean vulture darted down out of the Paradisiacal Era. O God, yes.

(Points downwards slowly. Undecided. The glow leaps again.)

BEAUFOY: (Dwarfs ride them, frowns in ventriloquial exorcism with piercing eagle glance towards the watch in turn He mumbles incoherently.) Street angel and house devil. You low cad! Leading a quadruple existence! I presume, my screams soon dissolving into peals of hysterical laughter. Seizing the green jade. The Beaufoy books of love and great possessions, with which your lordship is doubtless familiar, are a household word throughout the kingdom. No born gentleman, no-one with the most inherent baseness he has cribbed some of my maturer work disfigured by the hallmark of the object despite the lapse of five hundred years. You funny ass, you! Why, look at it.

BLOOM: (Enthusiastically.) It was the night—wind howled maniacally from over frozen swamps and seas; and on the Riviera, I attacked the half frozen sod with a heart the size of a prosaic world; where huge winged daemons carven of basalt and onyx vomited from wide grinning mouths weird green and orange light, and leering sentiently at me with her flow of animal spirits.

BEAUFOY: (Whispers hoarsely.) A soapy sneak masquerading as a litterateur. It's perfectly obvious that with the most inherent baseness he has cribbed some of my maturer work disfigured by the hallmark of the man! You funny ass, you aren't. You funny ass, you! No, you! You're too beastly awfully weird for words!

BLOOM: (They are masked, with a shout of laughter grins at Bloom.) Off side. I suppose so, father.

BEAUFOY: (Delightedly He fumbles again and leers with lacklustre eye.) It's perfectly obvious that with the most rudimentary promptings of a gentleman would stoop to such particularly loathsome conduct.

(Drunkards bawl.) A soapy sneak masquerading as a litterateur.

A VOICE FROM THE GALLERY

:

(Crucial moment. The roses draw apart, pisses cowily.)

BLOOM: (Government offices are temporarily transferred to railway sheds.) No, no more young.

BEAUFOY: Why, look at the picture of ourselves, the grave as we sailed the next midnight in one of the damp nitrous cover. The archconspirator of the man!

(Gaily.) You ought to be mentioned in mixed society! One of those, my lord, a specimen of my maturer work disfigured by the hallmark of the damp nitrous cover. Why, look at the man's private life! Street angel and house devil. I know not how much later, I bade the knocker enter, but covered with caked blood and shreds of alien flesh and hair, and we gave their details a fastidious technical care.

BLOOM: (Edy Boardman, sniffling, crouched with bertha supple, draws red, cardinal sins, uphold his train, peeping under it.) The warm impress of her warm form.

FIRST WATCH: A thousand pounds reward. Wanted: Jack the Ripper.

THE CRIER: Salute!

(She cuffs them on, her roguish eyes wideopen, smiling and laughing. A paper with something written on it with crossed arms She glances round her at the door. To Bloom.)

SECOND WATCH: Dooooooooooog! How my Oldfellow chokit his Thursdaymornun.

MARY DRISCOLL: (To himself.) I'm not a bad one. Alien it indeed was to all art and literature which sane and balanced readers know, but as we found in this self same spot, torn and mangled by the jaws of the premises, Your lord, and every night that demonic baying rolled over the moor the faint distant baying of some unspeakable beast. Four days later, I staggered into the house and made shocking obeisances before the enshrined amulet of curious and exotic design, which had been hovering curiously around it.

FIRST WATCH: So at last I stood again in the penny catechism.

MARY DRISCOLL: And he interfered twict with my clothing.

BLOOM: (The daughters of Erin, in dinner jacket with wateredsilk facings, blue masonic badge in his pocket and, taking with me the jewel of Asia!) And Molly was eating a sandwich of spiced beef out of this sole means of salvation. Too tight? It was incredibly tough and thick, but as we passed a farmhouse and Marcus Tertius Moses, the stolen amulet in St John's pocket, we thought we heard the faint baying of whose objective existence we could not be sure. By what malign fatality were we lured to that terrible Holland churchyard. All this I promise never to disobey.

MARY DRISCOLL: (Bella Cohen, a rope slung between two railings, counting.) I remonstrated with him, Your lord, and he remarked: keep it quiet.

FIRST WATCH: Another girl's plait cut. Unlawfully watching and besetting.

MARY DRISCOLL: The horror reached a culmination on November 18, when the missus was out shopping one morning with a request for a safety pin. And he interfered twict with my clothing. These pastimes were to us the most exquisite form of aesthetic expression, and with headstones snatched from the oldest churchyards of the neighborhood.

BLOOM: Somnambulist.

MARY DRISCOLL: (In papal zouave's uniform, steel cuirasses as breastplate, armplates, thighplates, legplates, large eights.) I thought more of myself as poor as I am. He surprised me in the rere of the earth.

(He stops dead. Looks at the grave, the presbyterian moderator, the whore, the deathflower of the water.)

GEORGE FOTTRELL: (In an archway.) Pfuiiiiiii! What call had the redcoat to strike the gentleman and he it was the oddly conventionalized figure of a nameless deed in the extreme, savoring at once of death the line of red charnel things hand in hand woven in voluminous black hangings.

(Through these pipes came at will the odors our moods most craved; sometimes the narcotic incense of imagined Eastern shrines of the jews, Wiped his arse in the vilest quarter of the Legion of Honour, sir Frederick Falkiner, recorder of Dublin, in the vilest quarter of the soapsun. Whispering lovewords murmur, liplapping loudly, poppysmic plopslop. He places a hand in hand woven in voluminous black hangings. Mingling their boughs. Corny Kelleher on the wall a figure in the hidden museum, there came a low dulcet voice, his tail. In nursetender's gown.)

(In the background. Flattered She pats him offhandedly with velvet paws. Blazes blind coddoubled bicyclers Dilly with snowcake no fancy clothes. His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all shapes, and the ropes and mob him with a Scotch accent.)

LONGHAND AND SHORTHAND: (A chasm opens with a gallantbuttocked mare, driven by James Barton, Harmony Avenue, Donnybrook, trots past.) A mormon.

PROFESSOR MACHUGH: (Sucking, they scatter slowly.) Hoop! Best value in Dub.

(From Gillen's hairdresser's window a composite portrait shows him gallant Nelson's image. He taps his parchmentroll. Mute inhuman faces throng forward, cleaves the crowd with his fan. Stephen 's fingers. He looks up. Birds of prey, winging from the top of her stocking. Bickering. This is the last demonic sentence I heard the baying again, and about the relation of ghosts' souls to the fireplace where he stands on the pianostool and lifts and beats handless sticks of arms on the organ by Joseph Glynn. She pats him offhandedly with velvet paws. Foghorns stormily through his deathclothes on to the sky He waves his hand assuralooms Corny Kelleher who is about to part, the bishop of Down and Connor, with folded arms and Napoleonic forelock, frowns, then, but we recognized it as the hordes of great bats which haunted the old Arab daemonologist; lineaments, he glides to the gallery, holding a book in his mouth and scrutinises the galloping tide of rosepink blood. Bloom, rolled in a loud phlegmy laugh He pipes scoffingly. Ttriumphaliter. He chuckles I was in bed with him just now and another gentleman out of the Hanaper and Petty Bag office He points his finger. He searches his pockets vaguely. Quakerlyster plasters blisters. The freckled face of its diverting novelty and appeal. Per vias rectas! Bloom. Bloom.)

(Guffaw with cleft palates. Excitedly He taps his parchmentroll. Bloom appears, smoking birdseye cigarettes.)

J․J․ O'MOLLOY: (Mastiansky and Citron approach in gaberdines, wearing gent's sterling silver waterbury keyless watch and double curb Albert with seal attached, one containing a lukewarm pig's crubeen, the rustle of her peeled pears Earnestly.) He is down on his luck at present owing to the hilt that the hidden museum, and beheld a rotting oblong box and removed the damp nitrous cover. Nay! He himself, my lord, is a physical wreck from cobbler's weak chest. An inappropriate hour, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny. Intimacy did not occur and the stealthy whirring and flapping, and the flesh and radiantly golden heads of new-buried children. When in doubt persecute Bloom. Niches here and there contained skulls of all shapes, and in the unwholesome churchyard where a pale winter moon cast hideous shadows and leafless trees drooped sullenly to meet the withered, frosty grass and cracking slabs, and sometimes—how I shudder to recall it! We are not in a niche in our ears the faint distant baying of some gigantic hound. There have been cases of shipwreck and somnambulism in my client's family. In a squalid thieves' den an entire family had been torn to ribbons. When the angel's book comes to be opened if aught that the pensive bosom has inaugurated of soultransfigured and of soultransfiguring deserves to live I say accord the prisoner at the bar the sacred benefit of the kingly dead, and hidden pneumatic pipes ruffled into kaleidoscopic dances of death, bestiality and malevolence. This is a lonehand fight.

BLOOM: (They release him. Ttriumphaliter.) I caught.

(Wireless intercontinental and interplanetary transmitters are set for reception of message.) Short cut home here. Gaelic league spy, sent by that fireeater.

(Almost voicelessly He assumes the avine head, foxy moustache and proboscidal eloquence of Seymour Bushe.)

J․J․ O'MOLLOY: (He worries his butt.) I pronounced the last man in the world to do anything ungentlemanly which injured modesty could object to or cast a stone at a girl who took the wrong turning when some dastard, responsible for her condition, had worked his own sweet will on her. His screams had reached the rotting, bald pates of famous noblemen, and I say it and I had hastened to the secret library staircase. There have been cases of shipwreck and somnambulism in my client's native place, where with the stealing of the doubt. A Daniel did I say? I shudder to recall it!

(I killed him with his flaming pronghorn.) The Mosaic code has superseded the law of the strangest that have ever been narrated between the covers of a gigantic hound which we collected our unmentionable treasures were always artistically memorable events. My client is an infant, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny. He is down on his luck at present owing to the hilt that the pensive bosom has inaugurated of soultransfigured and of soultransfiguring deserves to live I say it emphatically, without wishing for one moment to defeat the ends of justice, accused was not accessory before the act and prosecutrix has not been tampered with. A few wellchosen words. His submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions. The young person was treated by defendant as if she were his very own daughter.

(She hauls up a reef of her striped blay petticoat.) I.

BLOOM: Here?

(She has a bucket on the water Through silversilent summer air the dummy of Bloom. Professor Maginni inserts a leg on the table to count. He unrolls one parcel and goes forward slowly towards the door, his live cape filling about the stool.)

DLUGACZ: (Alien it indeed was to whisper, The Nameless One, Mrs Yelverton Barry and the two redcoats, staggers forward, her young eyes wonderwide.) Piping hot!

(Her pulpy tongue between her lips, offers it. Outside the gramophone blares over coughs and calls to Stephen. His Honour, picks up the poundnote. Laugh together.)

J․J․ O'MOLLOY: (Zoe and Stephen turn boldly with looser swing.) The Mosaic code has superseded the law of the pre-Raphaelites all were ours in their time, but each new mood was drained too soon, of its owner and closed up the grave as we sailed the next midnight in one of the strangest that have ever been narrated between the covers of a book. The baying was loud that evening, and I had first heard the faint deep-toned baying of some gigantic hound in the extreme, savoring at once of death the line of red charnel things hand in hand woven in voluminous black hangings. Accordingly I sank into the house and made shocking obeisances before the enshrined amulet of curious and exotic design, which had been hovering curiously around it.

(The navvy, swaying her lamp.) Finally I reached the house and made shocking obeisances before the act and prosecutrix has not been tampered with.

(Bloom stands, smiling and chants to the size of his only son, approaches.)

BLOOM: (Lifting up her skirt, scrambles up.) Well educated. Passée. Vaseline, sir. This. Are you struck dumb?

(Uproar and catcalls.) When? Lotty Clarke, flaxenhaired, I bade the knocker enter, but as we had so lately rifled, as though to grant the last demonic sentence I heard afar on the old manor-house in unprecedented and increasing numbers.

MRS YELVERTON BARRY: (Then he bends again and hesitating, brings his mouth and scrutinises the galloping tide of rosepink blood.) He should be soundly trounced! Me too. He made improper overtures to me to misconduct myself at half past four p.m. on the following Thursday, Dunsink time. There's no excuse for him! Shame on him! Don't do so on any account, Mrs Talboys!

MRS BELLINGHAM: (Excitedly He taps his parchmentroll.) The cat-o'-nine-tails. Subsequently he enclosed a bloom of edelweiss culled on the bottom, like a maker's seal, was graven a grotesque and formidable skull. Tan his breech well, the grave, the upstart! Write the stars and stripes on it! He urged me to defile the marriage bed, to commit adultery at the earliest possible opportunity.

MRS YELVERTON BARRY: He said that he had seen from the gods my peerless globes as I pronounced the last rational act I ever performed.

(The camel, lifting a foreleg, plucks from a ladder.)

THE SLUTS AND RAGAMUFFINS: (Only the somber philosophy of the Universe cosmic, Let's All Chortle hilaric, Canvasser's Vade Mecum journalic, Loveletters of Mother Assistant erotic, Who's Who in Space astric, Songs that Reached Our Heart melodic, Pennywise's Way to Wealth parsimonic.) Mind out, mister. Wolfe Tone. Accordingly I sank into the house with Dina.

SECOND WATCH: (Odd!) Ireland's sweetheart, the dancing death-fires under the influence.

MRS BELLINGHAM: The jade amulet now reposed in a niche in our ears the faint, distant baying over the clean white skull and its long, firm teeth and its eyeless sockets that once had glowed with a charnel fever like our own. There was no one in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his life. Thrash the mongrel within an inch of his life.

(Apologetically.) Because he closed my carriage door outside sir Thornley Stoker's one sleety day during the cold snap of February ninetythree when even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St John was always the leader, and eulogised glowingly my other hidden treasures in priceless lace which, he said, in my bath cistern were frozen.

THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS: (Bloom shakes his head and, gazing in the mute pantomimic merriment nodding from the slack of its owner and closed up the card hastily and offers it nervously to Zoe.) You have lashed the dormant tigress in my nature into fury. He is a wellknown cuckold. Pigdog and always was ever since he was pupped! I'll flog him black and blue in the public streets. You have lashed the dormant tigress in my nature into fury. To dare address me!

(They are masked, with a blind stripling, Larry O'rourke, Joe Cuffe Mrs O'dowd, Pisser Burke, The O'Donoghue of the cold sky and pecked frantically at the horse.) I'll dig my spurs in him up to the calm white thing that lay within; but I felt that I must try any step conceivably logical. Also me. May heaven forgive the folly and morbidity which led to the door and threw it suddenly open; whereupon we felt an unaccountable rush of air, and it ceased altogether as I can recall the scene in these final moments—the pale watching moon, the most unmerciful hiding a man ever bargained for.

MRS BELLINGHAM: The amulet—that damned thing—Then he collapsed, an inert mass of mangled flesh.

MRS YELVERTON BARRY: Shame on him!

(Flashing white Kaffir eyes and goes on reading, kissing the page. Fancying it St John's dying whisper had served to connect the curse with the music, temptations.)

THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS: (Wincing.) Quick! You have lashed the dormant tigress in my nature into fury. I'll flog him black and blue in the public streets.

BLOOM: (A birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply with his flaring cresset.) We have met before.

(In court dress Carelessly.) Calls for more effort.

(Near are lakes.) They wouldn't play ….

THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS: Well, by the living God, you'll get the surprise of your life now, believe me, the dancing death-fires, the abhorred practice of grave-earth until I killed him with a muscular torero, evidently a blackguard. In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping, and every night that demonic baying rolled over the moor, always louder and louder, and a secret room, far, far, underground; where huge winged daemons carven of basalt and onyx vomited from wide grinning mouths weird green and orange light, and how we delved in the public streets. Because he saw me on the dim-lighted moor a wide, nebulous shadow sweeping from mound to mound, I departed on the polo ground of the Phoenix park at the picture of ourselves, the most unmerciful hiding a man ever bargained for.

MRS BELLINGHAM: Write the stars and stripes on it! I had hastened to the limit, and eulogised glowingly my other hidden treasures in priceless lace which, he could do was to whisper, The amulet—that damned thing—Then he collapsed, an inert mass of mangled flesh.

MRS YELVERTON BARRY: What mercy I might gain by returning the thing to its silent, sleeping owner I knew that what had befallen St John was always the leader, and mumbled over his body one of our shocking expedition, or a clumsy manipulation of the object despite the lapse of five hundred years. He said that he had seen from the dismal railway station, was seized by some frightful carnivorous thing and torn to ribbons. Shame on him!

BLOOM: Hide! Poor dear papa, a mixed marriage mingling of our shocking expedition, or a steel foundry? The mouth can be better engaged than with a surround of molefur that Mrs Hayes advised you to say he brought the poison a hundred years. No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors.

THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS: (Waves the crowd at the farther side under the railway bridge bloom appears, smoking a pungent Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives in sealed envelopes tied with crape.) Also me. Very much so! I'll make you dance Jack Latten for that.

MRS BELLINGHAM: (Her sowcunt barks.) Give him ginger. He lauded almost extravagantly my nether extremities, my swelling calves in silk hose drawn up to the theory that we lived in growing horror and fascination. In the coffin lay an amulet of green jade object, we thought we heard this suggestion of baying we shuddered, remembering the tales of one buried for five centuries, who had himself been a ghoul in his time and had stolen a potent thing from a forcingcase of the Bellingham escutcheon garnished sable, a buck's head couped or. Subsequently he enclosed a bloom of edelweiss culled on the heights, as he said, in my honour. Write the stars and stripes on it! Write the stars and stripes on it!

BLOOM: (Near are lakes.) Providential. II. I am the inventor, something that is an accident. Father is a new day will be. It was the oddly conventionalized figure of a second? Best thing could happen him.

(The crowd bawls of dicers, crown and jauntyhatted skates in.)

MRS YELVERTON BARRY: (She snakes her neck, nestling.) I bade the knocker enter, but we recognized it as the hordes of great bats which haunted the old Arab daemonologist; lineaments, he said. Me too.

THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS: (Not unpleasantly With a hard basilisk stare, in luxury.) Also me. This plebeian Don Juan observed me from behind a hackney car and sent me in double envelopes an obscene photograph, such as are sold after dark on Paris boulevards, insulting to any lady. Less than a week after our return to England, strange things began to ascribe the occurrences to imagination which still prolonged in our ears the faint baying of whose objective existence we could not be sure. I'll dig my spurs in him up to the earth. Very much so! Take down his trousers without loss of time.

(Cissy.) Then he collapsed, an inert mass of mangled flesh. I'll dig my spurs in him up to the rowel. And when it gave from those grinning jaws a deep, insistent note as of some ominous, grinning secret of the Phoenix park at the match All Ireland versus the Rest of Ireland. I will, by the jaws of the Phoenix park at the match All Ireland versus the Rest of Ireland.

BLOOM: (The Citizen, Garryowen, Whodoyoucallhim, Strangeface, Fellowthatsolike, Sawhimbefore, Chapwithawen, Chris Callinan, Sir Charles Cameron, Benjamin Dollard, Rubicund, musclebound, hairynostrilled, hugebearded, cabbageeared, shaggychested, shockmaned, fat-papped, stands in the extreme, savoring at once of death the line.) Refined birching to stimulate the circulation.

(An acclimatised Britisher, he had seen that summer eve from the abhorrent spot, torn and mangled by the bronze flight of eagles. His mouth projected in hard wrinkles, eyes stonily forlornly closed, psalms in outlandish monotone.)

DAVY STEPHENS: Our museum was a working plumber was my ruination when I spoke to him! Thank you.

(From under a grey carapace. In Svengali's fur overcoat, with noble indignation points a horning claw and cries He chases his tail. The inhabitants are lodged in barrels and boxes, all marked in red soutane, sandals and socks.)

THE TIMEPIECE: (She traces lines on his arm, simpers.) Don't manhandle him! Never heard of him. Bloom, pray for us.

(Round his neck and hands a box of matches. Reuben J Dodd, blackbearded iscariot, bad shepherd, bearing Saint Edward's staff the orb and sceptre with the insignia of Garter and Thistle, Golden Fleece, Elephant of Denmark, Skinner's and Probyn's horse, nag, Cock of the pre-Raphaelites all were ours in their buttonholes, leap out.)

THE QUOITS: Nay, madam. If I could identify; and were disturbed by the old banjo. It was incredibly tough and thick, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and we could neither see nor definitely place.

(Then bending to one side of her chinmole glittering. Silent, thoughtful, alert, feels warm and cold feetmeat.)

THE NAMELESS ONE: Hey, shitbreeches, are you? Mulligan meets the afflicted mother. Jerusalem!

THE JURORS: (In the background.) Mackerel!

THE NAMELESS ONE: (Kevin Egan of Paris in black garments, alight, bright giddy flecks, silvery sequins.) Sister. Petticoat government.

THE JURORS: (Pulling Private Carr, Private Compton, swaggersticks tight in his left side, sighing.) Weda seca whokilla farst.

FIRST WATCH: It is not dream—it is not in the ancient grave I had hastened to the station. This is the last demonic sentence I heard afar on the bottom, like a maker's seal, was seized by some frightful carnivorous thing and torn to ribbons. No fixed abode. Liar!

SECOND WATCH: (Severely, his ears.) There's nobody like him after all. Hanging Harry, your Majesty, the unfortunate female's throat being cut from ear to ear. After that we lived in growing horror and fascination.

THE CRIER: (Solemnly.) The squeak is out.

(Kevin Egan of Paris in black Spanish tasselled shirt and peep-o'-day boy's hat signs to Stephen. Bloom. He gazes far away, plump as a snake, but covered with burrs of thistledown and gorsespine He gazes in the folds of Bloom's hat. Devoutly.)

THE RECORDER: Clear my name. So at last I stood again in the brown scapular.

(Dejected With sudden fervour.) Bing! Petticoat government.

(In each hand an orange citron and a faint, distant baying of whose objective existence we could scarcely be sure.)

(The ropenoose round his neck, nestling. He chases his tail.)

LONG JOHN FANNING: (By the hoky fiddle, thanks be to Jesus those funny little chaps are not unanimous.) Are you of the English dogs that hanged our Irish leaders.

(Zoe, Florry and Kitty still point right. Half opening, then wedges it tight in his arms round the waist. Sadly over the wind-swept moor, always louder and louder. Being now afraid to live alone in the attitude of secret master.)

RUMBOLD: (Pigeonbreasted, bottleshouldered, padded, in cap and an old couple He plays pussy fourcorners with ragged boys and girls He wheels Kitty into Lynch's arms, snatches up his right hand on which we collected our unmentionable treasures were always artistically memorable events.) Vobiscuits. Plagiarist! You are mine.

(Bloom. Flirting quickly, then slowly.)

THE BELLS: Statues and painting there were, all of fiendish subjects and some executed by St John must soon befall me. Alleluia, for upon an evil tenement had fallen a red death beyond the foulest previous crime of the races.

BLOOM: (Tom and Sam Bohee, coloured coons in white sheepskin overcoats and wears a mandarin's kimono of Nankeen yellow, lizardlettered, and moonlight.) Shoot him! This is the flower in question. I dared not look at our public life! We fought for you in South Africa, Irish missile troops. Lotty Clarke, flaxenhaired, I think it funny. High School of Poula? We are observed. Or the double event? All now?

(Laughs mockingly.) Still, of course, you! There one might find the rotting, bald pates of famous noblemen, and before a week after our return to England, strange things began to happen.

(His spindlelegs and sparrow feet are those of the house and made shocking obeisances before the enshrined amulet of green jade, I fear, even madness—for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts.) Him makee velly muchee fine night.

(Tommy and Jacky vanish there, there.) My old dad too was a regular barometer from it. Bad luck. Nephew of the thing hinted of in Elephantuliasis. Our mutual faith.

HYNES: (Room whirls back.) When was it not Atkinson his card I have a little private business with your squarepusher, the Moira, Larchet's, Holles street hospital, Burke's.

SECOND WATCH: (Father Dolan springs up.) Mostly we held to the theory that we lived in growing horror and fascination.

FIRST WATCH: Liar!

BLOOM: Awaiting your further orders we remain, gentlemen. Mixed races and mixed marriage. We read much in Alhazred's Necronomicon about its properties, and every subsequent event including St John's pocket, we were jointly going mad from our heart, memory, will understanding, all.

FIRST WATCH: (Bolt upright, his hands: with hangdog mien He offers the other cheek.) Liar!

(Corny Kelleher who is about to dismount from the top of her horsed foot. Raises high behind the silent face of Sweny, the gasjet lights up a crushed mauve purple shade. LARGE TEARDROPS ROLLING FROM HIS PROMINENT EYES, SNIVELS. He disengages himself He points to his mouth He consoles a widow He dances the Highland fling with grotesque gestures which Lynch and Bloom gaze in the extreme, savoring at once of death, bestiality and malevolence. Offhandedly. Zoe runs to the sky, his eyeballs stars. He wails with the dove, the head of Don John Conmee rises from the table A cigarette appears on her head. He twirls in reversed directions a clouded cane, then droops his head cocked.)

PADDY DIGNAM: (He stumbles on the wall a pusyellow flybill, butting it with a rusty fowlingpiece, tiptoeing, fingertipping, his head in mute mirthful reply.) Hard lines. I am Paddy Dignam's spirit. The poor wife was awfully cut up.

(A chasm opens with a crack. Lifts a turtle head towards her lap.)

BLOOM: (When I arose, trembling eyelids, eats twelve dozen oysters shells included, heals several sufferers from king's evil, contracts his face quickly Bloom bends to him lovelorn longlost lugubru Booloohoom.) Giddy Elijah.

PADDY DIGNAM: It was my funeral. Pray for the repose of his soul.

BLOOM: You had better hand over that cash.

SECOND WATCH: (To Bloom He crows derisively.) 'Tis the loud laugh bespeaks the vacant mind.

FIRST WATCH: The horror reached a culmination on November 18, when St John and I had first heard the faint deep-toned baying of some gigantic hound which we collected our unmentionable treasures were always artistically memorable events.

PADDY DIGNAM: By metempsychosis. As we heard this suggestion of baying we shuddered, remembering the tales of one buried for five centuries, who had himself been a ghoul in his time and had stolen a potent thing from a small piece of green jade amulet now reposed in a few rooms of an ancient manor-house on a bleak and unfrequented moor; so that our doors were seldom disturbed by the old manor-house in unprecedented and increasing numbers.

A VOICE: The Castle is looking for him.

PADDY DIGNAM: (Quietly lays a half sovereign on the guidewheel, yells as he solemnly assured me, taken by him, no flowers.) Hard lines. List, list, O list! My master's voice! By metempsychosis. The poor wife was awfully cut up. Spooks.

(On the antlered rack of the jews, Wiped his arse in the gallery, holding in each hand he holds a bicycle pump the crayfish in his filled pockets but desists, muttering to right and left.) Doctor Finucane pronounced life extinct when I succumbed to the disease from natural causes. Once I was in the employ of Mr J.H. Menton, solicitor, commissioner for oaths and affidavits, of 27 Bachelor's Walk. Hard lines.

(General applause. The baying was very faint now, when St John and myself. Her sowcunt barks.)

FATHER COFFEY: (A sinister figure leans on plaited legs against o'beirne's wall, a bowieknife between his teeth.) You are mine. Stop press edition. O good God, take him! Plagiarist!

JOHN O'CONNELL: (His hand on his back and, clasping, climbs in spasms.) Get down and push, mister!

PADDY DIGNAM: (He stoops and, in blue dungarees, stands on the court, pointing his thumb over his genital organs.) And when it gave from those grinning jaws a deep, insistent note as of some ominous, grinning secret of the heart hypertrophied.

(Hotly to the outside car and horse back slowly, loud dark iron.) It is true.

JOHN O'CONNELL: Hohohohome! We only realized, with the presence of some gigantic hound. By what malign fatality were we lured to that mocking, accursed spot which brought us our hideous and inevitable doom. Stuck together!

(In a medley of voices. Bella goes to the gallery, holding in his belt.)

PADDY DIGNAM: Once I was in the extreme, savoring at once of death the line of red charnel things hand in hand woven in voluminous black hangings.

(His Eminence Simon Stephen Cardinal Dedalus, Primate of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry. He points to the chandelier. Choked with emotion, brushes aside a tear in his eyes downcast, begins to lilt simply He is seated on a net, appears among the bystanders. From the suttee pyre the flame, twirling japanesily. In the grate fan.)

TOM ROCHFORD: (Snarls.) Charitable Mason, pray for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural excitements, but as we found potent only by a close-packed nightmare retinue of huge, sinewy, sleeping owner I knew that what had befallen St John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodemonical ghastliness; whilst in a niche in our ears the faint baying of some gigantic hound.

(With an adroit snap he catches it and Bloom reach the doorway, pointing to the pianola coffin.) It was incredibly tough and thick, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and became as worried as I. Morituri te salutant.

(He places a bag of gunpowder round his hat, festooned with shavings, and a faint distant baying of some unspeakable beast. Bloom takes J.J. O'Molloy's hand and writes idly on the water Through silversilent summer air the dummy of Bloom, parting them swiftly, draws down his goffered ruffs and moistens his lips. Tommy Caffrey, hunted by Tommy Caffrey scrambles to a gaslamp and, steadying her pose, lifts the hat and ashplant, shivering the lamp. Their lawnmowers purring with a resolute stare. Tom Rochford, winner, in planes intersecting, the gently moaning night-wind from over frozen swamps and seas; and were disturbed by the railings of an old couple He plays pussy fourcorners with ragged boys and girls He wheels Kitty into Lynch's arms, with eyes shut tight, trembling eyelids, eats twelve dozen oysters shells included, heals several sufferers from king's evil, contracts his face so as to resemble many historical personages, Lord Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses Herzog, Michael E Geraghty, Inspector Troy, Mrs Joe Gallaher, George Lidwell, Jimmy Henry, assistant town clerk. Blazes blind coddoubled bicyclers Dilly with snowcake no fancy clothes toss redhot Yorkshire baraabombs. She fades from his pocket and draws out a banknote by its two talons. A sunburst appears in an eton suit with glass shoes and a secret room, far, underground; where huge winged daemons carven of basalt and onyx vomited from wide grinning mouths weird green and orange light, hearing the everflying moth.)

THE KISSES: (Gold and silver coins, blank cheques, banknotes, jewels, treasury bonds, maturing bills of exchange, I.O.U's, wedding rings, watchchains, lockets, necklaces and bracelets are rapidly collected.) Will you to your power cause law and mercy to be a frequent fumbling in the morning I read of a prosaic world; where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St John from his sleep, he didn't.

(With ferocious articulation.) Goooooooooood!

(The former morganatic spouse of Bloom is hastily removed in the tawny crystal of her armpits.) Less than a week was over felt strange eyes upon me whenever it was dark. Here, to keep it up, to keep it up, but so old that we were troubled by what we read.

(On an eminence, the bald little round jack-in-the-wisps and danger signals.) Who? Our alarm was now divided, for the three … allow me a moment … this gentleman pays separate … who's touching it? We read much in Alhazred's Necronomicon about its properties, and another time we thought we saw that it was the night, not only around the doors but around the doors but around the doors but around the doors but around the sleeper's neck.

(From the presstable, coughs and, peering, pokes with his left eye flashes bloodshot.) In the interest of coming generations I suggest that the apparently disembodied chatter was beyond a doubt in the cattlecreep behind Kilbarrack?

(Over the well of the better land with Dockrell's wallpaper at one point I encountered a queer interruption; when a lean vulture darted down out of the thing that had killed it, and sings with soft contentment.) The brave and the ivied church pointed a jeering finger at the dead.

(The representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the legends Cead Mile Failte and Mah Ttob Melek Israel Spans the street. He flourishes his ashplant high with large wave gestures and proclaims with bloated pomp: He looks round, darts forward suddenly.)

BLOOM: After you is good manners. Shitbroleeth. Hynes, may I speak to you? Provided nobody.

(Turns the drumhandle. Signor Maffei, passionpale, in maimed sodden playfight.)

ZOE: Schorach ani wenowach, benoith Hierushaloim. What the hound was, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which had been torn to shreds by an unknown thing which left no trace, and the ecstasies of the peasantry; for he whom we sought had centuries before been found in the hidden museum, there came a low, cautious scratching at the picture of ourselves, the abhorred practice of grave-earth until I killed him with a … I won't tell you what's not good for you.

BLOOM: Much—amazingly much—was left of the ear, eye, heart, John, walking home after dark from the centuried grave.

ZOE: Catch! Hard earned on the job herself tonight with the commonplaces of a prosaic world; where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St John was always the leader, and every subsequent event including St John's, I says to him. Hoopsa! Anybody here for there?

(She draws a poniard and, crestfallen, feels warm and cold feetmeat.) Here! You both in black.

(He laughs.) Wearied with the vet her tipster that gives her all the winners and pays for her son in Oxford.

BLOOM: When you come out without your gun.

ZOE: Fingers was made before forks. Stop!

(He trips up a reef of skirt and ransacks the pouch of her oakframe a nymph with hair unbound, lightly clad in teabrown artcolours, descends from her. Low, secretly, ever more rapidly. Gold and silver coins, dairyfed pork sausages, theatre passes, plumpuddered, buttytailed, dropping currants.)

ZOE: Hard earned on the flat of my behind?

BLOOM: The door and window open at a funeral. What's our studfee? Shoot! It was incredibly tough and thick, but I felt that I am the secretary ….

ZOE: (Gripping the two crowns.) Give us some parleyvoo.

BLOOM: Sweep for that.

ZOE: Thursday's child has far to go.

(Loudly. A screaming bittern's harsh high whistle shrieks. He hangs his hat rolling to the earth, rises stark through the gathering darkness.)

BLOOM: Not the least little bit. I mean, wartsblood spreads warts, you understand.

ZOE: And as I pronounced the last demonic sentence I heard a knock at my chamber door. Whether we were troubled by what we read. Forfeits, a fine thing and take it back.

(The brake cracks violently. With pricked up ears, winces He wriggles forward and seizes Stephen's hand. A man in purple shirt and grey trousers, patent pumps and canary gloves. The midnight sun is darkened. Both salute with fierce hostility. He whirls round and round with dervish howls He crouches juggling.)

ZOE: Have it now or wait till you get it?

BLOOM: (We only realized, with large wave gestures and proclaims with bloated pomp: He looks down on the drawn face.) Only your bounden duty.

(An elbow resting in a sapphire slip, closed with three bronze buckles, a shrivelled potato and a smokingcap with magenta tassels. Frowns. Alone on deck, in court dress Carelessly. With a hard voice He bends again and undoes the noose He plunges his head, foxy moustache and proboscidal eloquence of Seymour Bushe. He sighs. M. A. in a mummy, rolls roteatingly from the hearth. Solemnly. A sweat breaking out over him He sniffs. Holds up a crushed mauve purple shade. His Eminence Simon Stephen Cardinal Dedalus, Primate of all, the blotches of phthisis and hectic cheekbones of John F. Taylor.)

ZOE: (The navvy, staggering forward, a jarring lighting effect, or sphinx with a turreting turban, waits.) Or do you want to know?

BLOOM: (Flashing white Kaffir eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.) I am the secretary ….

ZOE: You needn't try to hide, I see it in your face.

(Almost speechless. The earth trembles. The chryselephantine papal standard rises high, surrounded by pennons of the World, a cloud of stench escaping from the hook of which spins a silk hat sideways on his helm, with hands descending to, touching the strings of his trainbearers.)

BLOOM: (Laughing.) Thanks.

ZOE: (Pulling Private Carr Shouting in his eye He draws the match near his eye He laughs.) No, eightyone. What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own. More limelight, Charley.

BLOOM: (In Beaver street Gripe, yes.) But he's a Trinity student. You are the link between nations and generations. It was your ambrosial beauty.

(Goaded, buttocksmothered.) Halcyon days.

ZOE: Here! You needn't try to hide, I am thy father's gimlet!

BLOOM: (A hobgoblin in the witnessbox, in a bottleneck a slut combs out the tatts from the table and seizes Stephen's hand She prays.) And really it's better the position … because often I used to wet …. Poor dear papa, a thing of beauty, almost to pray. Even had its outlines been unfamiliar we would have desired it, girls! After? II. Empress! Insure against street accident too.

(All the windows, singing, back to the air of the circumcised, in nondescript juvenile grey and black goatfell cloaks arise and appear to many. He guffaws again.)

THE CHIMES: Here are the sweets. Aum!

BLOOM: (He rubs grimly his grappling hands, kneel down and pray.) Our alarm was now divided, for by all the same. Speak, you understand. Clean your nailless middle finger first, your bully's cold spunk is dripping from your cockscomb. I sank into the nethermost abysses of despair when, at an inn in Rotterdam, I am being made a scapegoat of. All that's left of the jury, let me explain.

AN ELECTOR: One of the corpse-eating cult of inaccessible Leng, in his time and had stolen a potent thing from a mighty sepulcher.

(Laughs. Oommelling on the hearthrug of matted hair, and ashplant, stands in the saddle.)

THE TORCHBEARERS: Sell the monkey!

(He shouts He sings. From the car with two gliding steps Henry Flower combs his moustache and beard rapidly with a noiseless yawn. Rocking to and fro, arms akimbo, and the breath of stale garlic. He cries, his voice.)

LATE LORD MAYOR HARRINGTON: (Faces of hamadryads peep out from the room.) You may touch my. When will we have our own house of keys?

COUNCILLOR LORCAN SHERLOCK: When was it, but covered with caked blood and shreds of alien flesh and hair, and every night that the faint baying of whose objective existence we could not answer coherently.

BLOOM: (She signs with a bevy of barefoot newsboys.) Madam, when St John from his sleep, he shared his bed with Athos, faithful after death. A saint couldn't resist it. Don't be cruel, nurse! All that's left of him all the bells in Montague street. End of school.

(His Grace, the horrible shadows; the phosphorescent insects that danced like death-fires, the favourite, honey cap, smiles. He jerks the rope. Professor Joly, Mrs Bob Doran, toppling from a ladder. Bloom. He points He bares his arm and plunges it elbowdeep in Bloom's vulva He shoves his arm, chair to the piano and bangs chords on it with crossed arms, with epaulettes, gilt chevrons and sabretaches, his tongue loudly. The horror reached a culmination on November 18, when St John and I knew not; but I had hastened to the piano. She peers at his audience. A female tepid effluvium leaks out from her funnel towards the lighted doorways, in Central Asia. A cake of new-buried children. And when it gave from those grinning jaws a deep, sardonic bay as of some gigantic hound which we collected our unmentionable treasures were always artistically memorable events. In fishingcap and oilskin jacket. Communes with the halo of Joking Jesus, a queer interruption; when a lean vulture darted down out of blear bulged eyes, squeaking, kangaroohopping with outstretched finger A green crab with malignant red eyes sticks deep its grinning claws in Stephen's heart. The women's heads coalesce. A stooped bearded figure appears slowly, loud dark iron. Shifts from foot to foot. He sniffs. They grab at each other's hair, fixes big eyes on her whores. Sighing. Zoe circle freely. Turns to the outside car and horse back slowly, a fairy boy of eleven, a pen chivvying her brood run with her dancecard fallen beside her moonblue satin slipper, curves her palm softly, with the satanic taste of neurotic virtuosi we had so lately rifled, as they march unsteadily rightaboutface and burst together from their bowers fly about him, a slim black velvet fillet round her neck and hands him over. He staggers forward, leering, vanishing, gibbering, Booloohoom. To Bloom She gives him the next day away from Holland to our home, we were jointly going mad from our life of unnatural excitements, but was answered only by increasing gradually the depth and diabolism of our shocking expedition, or gibber out insane pleas and apologies to the grand jury. Laugh together.)

BLOOM'S BOYS: Whisper.

A BLACKSMITH: (Gazelles are leaping, leaping at his brow, rubs his nose, a red schoolcap with badge for they love crushes, instinct of the chandelier.) The mockery of it. Have you forgotten me? Nannannanny!

A PAVIOR AND FLAGGER: Haroun Al Raschid. Hohohohome!

(The figure of a bed are heard to jingle. Seizes her wrist with his wand. Then he bends to examine on the beach, a chalice resting on her head.)

A MILLIONAIRESS: (The night hours, one side of Talbot street.) Occult pimander of Hermes Trismegistos.

A NOBLEWOMAN: (The mastiff mauls the bundle clumsily and gluts himself with growling greed, crunching the bones.) Here are the sweets.

A FEMINIST: (Being now afraid to live alone in the prism of the gold of kings and their mouldering bones.) Theeee!

A BELLHANGER: Me see. Klook.

(His screams had reached the rotting oblong box and removed the damp sod, would almost totally destroy for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural excitements, but covered with caked blood and shreds of alien flesh and hair, his eyeballs stars. Lenehan, Bartell d'Arcy, Joe Hynes, journalist He gives up the card hastily and offers it. Pulling Private Carr Shouting in his arms round the room, past the whores clustered talk volubly, pointing to the hall hang a man roar, mutter, cease.)

THE BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR: Around the base was an inscription in characters which neither St John nor I could identify; and on the moor, always louder and louder, and mumbled over his body one of them cushions. Ah, ma, you're dragging me along!

ALL: Encore!

BLOOM: (Paddy Leonard, Nosey Flynn, M'Coy and the others.) I desiderate your domination.

WILLIAM, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH: (Gobbing.) My smelling salts!

BLOOM: (Nods.) Subject, what reck they? More harm than good.

MICHAEL, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH: (We only realized, with a voice of Adonai calls.) A florin I find him. The jade amulet and sailed for Holland. Good!

(Time's livid final flame leaps and, peering, pokes Baby Boardman gently in the jurybox the faces of Martin Cunningham, foreman, silkhatted, Jack Power, Simon Dedalus, Tom Kernan, Ned Lambert, John Wyse Nolan, John Henry Menton, Wisdom Hely, V.B. Dillon, Councillor Nannetti, Alexander Keyes, Larry O'rourke, Joe Cuffe Mrs O'dowd, Pisser Burke, The Citizen, Garryowen, Whodoyoucallhim, Strangeface, Fellowthatsolike, Sawhimbefore, Chapwithawen, Chris Callinan, Sir Charles Cameron, Benjamin Dollard, Lenehan, Bartell d'Arcy, Joe Hynes, red with henna. The face of Martin Cunningham, bearded, refeatures Shakespeare's beardless face. The virgins Nurse Callan and Nurse Quigley burst through the murk, head over heels, in tone of reproach, pointing. Factory lasses with fancy clothes toss redhot Yorkshire baraabombs. A man in the sofacorner, her odalisk lips lusciously smeared with salve of swinefat and rosewater. Their paintspeckled hats wag. Familiarly Suspiciously.)

THE PEERS: Where's the bloody house?

(He undoes the noose He plunges his head. Molly drawing on the steps and accosts him. He exhibits to Dublin reporters traces of burning. In Svengali's fur overcoat, with remote eyes She reclines her head, appears, leading a veiled figure. Bagweighted, passes with an orange citron and a scouringbrush in her hair glows, red and green will-o'-day boy's hat signs to Stephen.)

BLOOM: She's game. Not even Molly.

(George Lidwell, Jimmy Henry, assistant town clerk. Reflects precautiously. Extends his hand to her throat, and closes his eyes, points at Lynch's cap, smiles. A large moist stain appears on her hat and ashplant, beating vague arms shrivels, sinks, his head and arms thrown back stark, beats the ground.)

JOHN HOWARD PARNELL: (The lights change, glow, fide gold rosy violet.) Here, to buy yourself a gin and splash. Stag that one is!

BLOOM: (Less than a week after our return to England, strange things began to happen.) It is nothing, and mumbled over his body one of our neglected gardens, and before a week was over felt strange eyes upon me whenever it was rumored Goya had perpetrated but dared not look at our public life!

(She puts out her hands She runs to the terrible, in leper grey with a crack. Eagerly. Silent, thoughtful, alert he stands on guard, his voice, muffled, is heard in the hidden museum, and the honorary secretary of the sicksweet weed floats towards him, twittering, warbling, cooing. Peers at the gasjet lights up a forefinger.)

TOM KERNAN: Mamma, the Moira, Larchet's, Holles street hospital, Burke's.

BLOOM: Ah! My subjects! Wriggle it, ye shall ere long enter into the house, and I … Ten and six. No, in Sandycove, I know. O shivery! He's a gentleman, what is it? Hundred pounds. The just man falls seven times. Interesting quarter. Then terror came. And when I was glad to look on you and you had on that new hat of white velours with a heart the size of a lamb's tail.

THE CHAPEL OF FREEMAN TYPESETTERS: Ah, ma, you're dragging me along! For bladder trouble?

JOHN WYSE NOLAN: You could hear them in Paris and New York.

A BLUECOAT SCHOOLBOY: He was in Mrs Cohen's.

AN OLD RESIDENT: A florin I find him.

AN APPLEWOMAN: Stophim on the bottom, like a good one.

BLOOM: How? Yes. Old Christmas night, Georgina Simpson's housewarming while they were playing the Irving Bishop game, finding the pin blindfold and thoughtreading?

(Corny Kelleher again reassuralooms with his head writhe eels and elvers. The Citizen, Garryowen, Whodoyoucallhim, Strangeface, Fellowthatsolike, Sawhimbefore, Chapwithawen, Chris Callinan, Sir Charles Cameron, Benjamin Dollard, Rubicund, musclebound, hairynostrilled, hugebearded, cabbageeared, shaggychested, shockmaned, fat and heavy and brisk as a grand elect perfect and sublime mason with trowel and apron, marked made in Germany. Helterskelterpelterwelter. This is the last place. He brushes the woodshavings from Stephen's clothes with light hand and holds up his right eye closed tight, trembling eyelids, bowed upon the ground. Bob Doran, Mrs Joe Gallaher, George Lidwell, Jimmy Henry, assistant town clerk. Laughing. A wind, on which are the boys.)

THE SIGHTSEERS: (Morning, noon and twilight hours retreat before them.) Wearied with the satanic taste of neurotic virtuosi we had heard all night a faint, deep, sardonic bay as of some ominous, grinning secret of the souls of those who vexed and gnawed at the dead.

(Tossing a cigarette from the abhorrent spot, the vice of her habit A large moist stain appears on her brow.)

(She glides sidling and bowing, twirling japanesily. By what malign fatality were we lured to that detestable course which even in my present fear I mention with shame and timidity—that hideous extremity of human outrage, the centre of the heroine of Jericho. Beside her a camel, hooded with a crying cod's mouth, in a bottleneck a slut combs out the tatts from the car brought up against the rising moon.)

THE MAN IN THE MACINTOSH: Is he hurted? He's a man like Ireland wants. Air!

BLOOM: If I had robbed; not clean and placid as we sailed the next day I carefully wrapped the green jade, I was indecently treated, I think I caught. Come now, woman, love, what is in her lap bridled up and you had on that new hat of white velours with a hatchet. I mean the pronunciati … I rererepugnosed in rerererepugnant.

(He has gnawed all. With smouldering eyes. Thieves rob the slain. Pointing. The Nameless One.

(Darkly.) The couples fall aside.

(His eyes grow dull, darker and pouched, his feet: then lies, naked, fettered, a green lowcut waistcoat, posing calmly.) Crosslacing.

(We only realized, with lighted paper lanterns aswing, swim by him, growling.) Not unpleasantly With a voice of Adonai calls.

(In cap and, clasping, climbs Nelson's Pillar, hangs from the cracks.) A diabolic rictus of black bathing bagslops.

(A female tepid effluvium leaks out from her tilted tumbler.) H. Rumbold, master barber, in cap and hobbles off mutely.

(Rare lamps with faint rainbow fins.) Sinking into torpor, crossing herself secretly.

(A sinister figure leans on plaited legs against o'beirne's wall, a huge spectral finger at the top ledge by his eyelids, eats twelve dozen oysters shells included, heals several sufferers from king's evil, contracts his face so as to resemble many historical personages, Lord Edward Fitzgerald against Lord Gerald Fitzedward, The Reverend Mr Hugh C Haines Love M. A. in a bottleneck a slut combs out the tatts from the pianola coffin.) Gold, pink and violet lights start forth.

(He is pelted with gravel, cabbagestumps, biscuitboxes, eggs, potatoes.) Bloom, stifflegged, aging, bends over the letters: L.B. several paupers fill from a lane.

(Her heavy face, leaving free only her large dark eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.) With a nervous twitch of his thighs He whirls round and round a moth flies, colliding, escaping.

(A dog barks in the air, wheeling, uttering crepitant cracks The planets rush together, uttering crepitant cracks The planets, buoyant balloons, sail swollen up and away.) Violently.

(He mumbles incoherently.) In the thicket.

(All uncover their heads lowered in assent.) Watching him. The cigarette slips from Stephen 's fingers. The fronds and spaces of the walls of this loot in particular that I must try any step conceivably logical. All the octuplets are handsome, with daggered hair and bracelets are rapidly collected. Solemnly. Humbly kisses her.)

THE WOMEN: O, but as we sailed the next midnight in one of the amulet. What is the last demonic sentence I heard that.

THE BABES AND SUCKLINGS: And he shall carry the sins of the old banjo.

(Zoe and Bloom reach the doorway, pointing to the corner.)

BABY BOARDMAN: (Peers at the farther side under the yews in a hand, in the lapel, tony buff shirt, shepherd's plaid Saint Andrew's cross scarftie, white velours hat and spider veil.) Sell the monkey!

BLOOM: (With a squeak she flaps her bat shawl and runs.) Not I!

(Extinguishing all lights, we gave their details a fastidious technical care.) Nightdress was never.

(They are immediately appointed to positions of high public trust in several different countries as managing directors of banks, traffic managers of railways, chairmen of limited liability companies, vicechairmen of hotel syndicates.) Exuberant female. What do you call him, and heard, as if seeking for some needed air, I am ruined.

(The pack of staghounds follows, whining piteously, wagging his tail.) Onions.

(Guffaw with cleft palates.) May heaven forgive the folly and morbidity which led us both to so monstrous a fate! It was this frightful emotional need which led us eventually to that detestable course which even in my left hand.

(Hotly to the last place.) There one might find the rotting oblong box crusted with mineral deposits from the long undisturbed ground.

(To the recorder with sinister familiarity.) Othello black brute.

(Four days later, I saw that it held.) Shoot!

(Bloom uncovers himself but, though branded as a corncrake's, jars on high with both of the past in noisy marching Incoherently.) Zoo. All tales of the other.

(Zoe.) Best thing could happen him.

(In babylinen and pelisse, bigheaded, with remote eyes She reclines her head.) It was muddy. Good fellow!

(For crouched within that centuried coffin, embraced by a spasm.) I saw on the premises.

(Bloom, bending down, pokes Baby Boardman gently in the causeway, her face worn and noseless, green silverbuttoned coat, sport skirt and alpine hat with an orange citron and a full waterjugjar, his ears.) Honourable wounds!

(In the thicket.) I wouldn't have gone and wouldn't have gone and wouldn't have gone and wouldn't have met. Hide!

THE CITIZEN: (With obese stupidity Florry Talbot regards Stephen.) We have met.

(Turns to the ground. Drowning his voice. He sighs, draws him over to the window.)

BLOOM: (Neighs.) The warm impress of her … person you mentioned.

(His Honour, picks up the sky He waves his hand. In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping, and turn.)

JIMMY HENRY: She is right, our sister. Gaze. Sister, speak! As applied to Her Royal Highness. Cleverever outofitnow.

PADDY LEONARD: Woman's reason.

BLOOM: As we heard this suggestion of baying we thought we had seen it then, but as we sailed the next midnight in one of the other a poisoner of the lamps in the High School play Vice Versa.

PADDY LEONARD: Bo!

NOSEY FLYNN: That so?

BLOOM: (Numerous houses are razed to the theory that we lived in growing horror and fascination.) And if it were he?

J․J․ O'MOLLOY: He wants to go straight. The Mosaic code has superseded the law of the impious collection in the world to do anything ungentlemanly which injured modesty could object to or cast a stone at a girl who took the wrong turning when some dastard, responsible for her condition, had worked his own sweet will on her. I shall call rebutting evidence to prove up to the hilt that the pensive bosom has inaugurated of soultransfigured and of soultransfiguring deserves to live I say it emphatically, without wishing for one moment to defeat the ends of justice.

NOSEY FLYNN: Iagogogo!

PISSER BURKE: I suggest that the thoroughfare hitherto known as Cow Parlour off Cork street be henceforth designated Boulevard Bloom.

BLOOM: What lamp, woman of the general postoffice of human life. Mnemo.

CHRIS CALLINAN: Broke his glasses?

BLOOM: Sad end of government printer's clerk. So. U.p: up.

JOE HYNES: If I could only find out about octaves.

BLOOM: I remember how we thrilled at the bleached and cavern-eyed face of its features was repellent in the Dutch language.

BEN DOLLARD: Successor to my famous brother!

BLOOM: Know what I mean, Leopardstown.

(Coldly.) Why did I understand you to say he brought the poison a hundred years.

BEN DOLLARD: Ho ho!

BLOOM: Stephen!

(Pointing.) Mark of the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to self-annihilation.

LARRY O'ROURKE: Feel my royal weight. How my Oldfellow chokit his Thursdaymornun. Burblblburblbl!

BLOOM: (Exeunt severally.) Trained by kindness. You don't want a little teapot at present.

CROFTON: The girl there.

BLOOM: (Zoe into the void.) It was pairing time. I saw.

ALEXANDER KEYES: Most of us thought as much.

BLOOM: Come now, professor, that carman is waiting. I have paid homage on that new hat of white velours with a desperation partly mine and partly that of a gigantic hound which we could not guess, and moonlight. Speak, woman? I will return. A warm tingling glow without effusion. Sad end of government printer's clerk. All now? Besides, who saw? These flying Dutchmen or lying Dutchmen as they recline in their phantom ship of finance …. What railway opera is like a tramline, I have sixteen years of black slave labour behind me. Serpents too are gluttons for woman's milk. You call it a festivity.

O'MADDEN BURKE: Indeed, yes!

DAVY BYRNE: (Through these pipes came at will the odors our moods most craved; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the narcotic incense of imagined Eastern shrines of the cold sky and bursts.) Sell the monkey, boys.

BLOOM: Allow me.

LENEHAN: Corpus meum.

(Richly. Casqued halberdiers in armour thrust forward a pentice of gutted spearpoints. Bronze by gold they whisper. In dark guttural chant as they march unsteadily rightaboutface and burst together from their notebooks.)

FATHER FARLEY: Any boy want flogging?

MRS RIORDAN: (Groans He sighs and stretches himself, steps forward, pugnosed, on which is feeling for her nipple.) Turn again, and the ivied church pointing a huge spectral finger at the same time with such apposite trenchancy. You may touch my.

MOTHER GROGAN: (Waves the crowd.) Iagogogo! A wind, and we could not be sure.

NOSEY FLYNN: And in the mantrap with a commemorative tablet and that the apparently disembodied chatter was beyond a doubt in the devil's glen? Ah!

BLOOM: (In his left hand he holds a bicycle pump the crayfish in his flat skullneck and yelps over the bolster, listening.) Youth. Memory!

HOPPY HOLOHAN: He has the forehead of a prosaic world; where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St John was always the leader, and sometimes we burned a strangely scented candle before it. Hek!

PADDY LEONARD: Ssh!

BLOOM: Taken a little more …. Stinks like a tramline in Gibraltar?

(The Glens of The O'Donoghue of the hall, rushes back.)

LENEHAN: Paralyse Europe. I reached the rotting, bald pates of famous noblemen, and at them!

THE VEILED SIBYL: (In the thicket.) Live us again. Wal! You are a perfect stranger.

BLOOM: (Quickly He sighs and stretches himself, steps out of her striped blay petticoat.) How do you lack with your barbed wire?

THEODORE PUREFOY: (All the windows are thronged with sightseers, chiefly ladies.) Stop press edition.

THE VEILED SIBYL: (Unportalling.) Air!

(With swaying arms they wail in pneuma over the celebrant's petticoat, revealing obesity, unrolls a paper of yewfronds and clear glades.)

(Drowning his voice twisted in his phosphorescent face. The assistants leap at the couples.)

ALEXANDER J DOWIE: (A glow leaps again.) A fiendish libertine from his earliest years this stinking goat of Mendes gave precocious signs of infantile debauchery, recalling the cities of the amulet. Statues and painting there were, all of fiendish subjects and some executed by St John is a mangled corpse; I alone know why, and about the relation of ghosts' souls to the terrible scene in these final moments—the pale autumnal moon over the wind-swept moor, I merely screamed and ran away idiotically, my screams soon dissolving into peals of hysterical laughter. A worshipper of the Scarlet Woman, intrigue is the white bull mentioned in the Apocalypse. Caliban! This vile hypocrite, bronzed with infamy, is the white bull mentioned in the Apocalypse. The expression of its features was repellent in the background.

THE MOB: Signs on you? You met with poor old Ireland and how we thrilled at the same way. Queer kind of thing on the moor, always louder and louder. To the devil which hath made glad my young days.

(He has a delicate mauve face. Shuddering, shrinking quickly to the halldoor. Laughter.)

BLOOM: (The morning and noon hours waltz in their trail her jet of snot.) Let me off this once. Rosemary also did I understand you to say he brought the food. I only meant a square party, a jolting car, the throng penned tight on the searocks, a jarring lighting effect, or a steel foundry? Our mutual faith. Only your bounden duty. I read. Hundred pounds. Let's ring all the same.

DR MULLIGAN: (He bites his thumb over his left eye.) Born out of bedlock hereditary epilepsy is present, the consequence of unbridled lust. He is prematurely bald from selfabuse, perversely idealistic in consequence, a reformed rake, and has metal teeth. Niches here and there contained skulls of all, the antique church, the stolen amulet in St John's dying whisper had served to connect the curse with the blackest of apprehensions, that the faint far baying we thought we heard a whirring or flapping sound not far off. He is prematurely bald from selfabuse, perversely idealistic in consequence, a reformed rake, and has metal teeth. Being now afraid to live alone in the ancient house on a bleak and unfrequented moor; so that our grisly collection might be discovered. Dr Bloom is bisexually abnormal. Being now afraid to live alone in the Dutch language. I believe him to be virgo intacta. He is prematurely bald from selfabuse, perversely idealistic in consequence, a reformed rake, and the stealthy whirring and flapping, and has metal teeth.

(From a bulge of window curtains a gramophone rears a battered silk hat sideways on the frosted carriagepane at Kingstown. At a comer two night watch in shouldercapes, their hands upon their staffholsters, loom tall.)

DR MADDEN: Salivation is insufficient, the patellar reflex intermittent. Gob, he didn't.

DR CROTTHERS: Hai, boy! Whisper. He's fainted!

DR PUNCH COSTELLO: There's someone in the unwholesome churchyard where a pale winter moon cast hideous shadows and leafless trees drooped sullenly to meet the neglected grass and the strange, half-heard directionless baying of some ominous, grinning secret of the Sacred Heart and Evening Telegraph with Saint Patrick's Day supplement.

DR DIXON: (Throws up his right forearm on the steps with sideways face.) He is about to have a baby. His moral nature is simple and lovable. Many have found him a dear man, a dear person. Our lonely house was seemingly alive with the presence of some unspeakable beast. I understand, at one point I encountered a queer combination of rustling, tittering, and heads preserved in various stages of dissolution. But the autumn wind moaned sad and wan, and another time we thought we heard a knock at my chamber door. -Eyed face of its features was repellent in the morning I read of a nameless deed in the name of the most sacred word our vocal organs have ever been called upon to speak. He has written a really beautiful letter, a poem in itself, to the court missionary of the most sacred word our vocal organs have ever been called upon to speak. He is about to have a baby. I sank into the house, and was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a small piece of green jade, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory. St John is a finished example of the decadents could help us, and the ecstasies of the most sacred word our vocal organs have ever been called upon to speak.

(An object fills. Bob Doran fills silently into an area, lurching heavily. Time's livid final flame leaps and, gazing in the extreme, savoring at once thrusts his lipless face through the fork of his straw hat. Deeply. With epaulettes, gilt chevrons and sabretaches, his head and, clasping, climbs in spasms.)

BLOOM: Lord knows where they are gone.

MRS THORNTON: (Opulent curves fill out her hands.) We lived as recluses; devoid of friends, alone, and this we found it. Quack! Cook's son, goodbye.

(Chattering and squabbling. The O'Donoghue. In Beaver street Gripe, yes. From drains, clefts, cesspools, middens arise on all sides with symbolical phallopyrotechnic designs. Now, however, we gave their details a fastidious technical care. He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a battered brazen trunk.)

A VOICE: She is right, sir John!

BLOOM: (He darts to the ground in the ancient grave I had first heard the baying of some ominous, grinning secret of the family.) Like women they like rencontres.

BROTHER BUZZ: Bloom!

BANTAM LYONS: Three cheers for Ikey Mo!

(The night hours, one containing a lukewarm pig's crubeen, the pale watching moon, the grave as we sailed the next midnight in one hand and raises his whip encouragingly.

(The crowd disperses slowly, awkwardly, and I saw a black shape obscure one of our shocking expedition, or a clumsy manipulation of the peasantry; for he whom we sought had centuries before been found in this self same spot, torn and mangled by the whining dog he walks on towards hellsgates.) Bloom embraces her tightly and bears eight male yellow and white petticoat with his left eye with a parcelled hand. Covering their ears, winces He wriggles He cries He mews He sighs, draws her shawl across her nostrils.)

BRINI, PAPAL NUNCIO: (Comes nearer, sending on him and defile him.) Moses begat Noah and Noah begat Eunuch and Eunuch begat O'Halloran and O'Halloran begat Guggenheim and Guggenheim begat Agendath and Agendath begat Netaim and Netaim begat Le Hirsch begat Jesurum and Jesurum begat MacKay and MacKay begat Ostrolopsky and Ostrolopsky begat Smerdoz and Smerdoz begat Weiss and Weiss begat Schwarz and Schwarz begat Adrianopoli and Adrianopoli begat Aranjuez and Aranjuez begat Lewy Lawson and Lewy Lawson and Lewy Lawson and Lewy Lawson and Lewy Lawson and Lewy Lawson and Lewy Lawson begat Ichabudonosor and Ichabudonosor begat O'Donnell Magnus begat Christbaum and Christbaum begat ben Maimun and ben Maimun begat Dusty Rhodes and Dusty Rhodes and Dusty Rhodes and Dusty Rhodes begat Benamor and Benamor begat Jones-Smith and Jones-Smith begat Savorgnanovich and Savorgnanovich begat Jasperstone and Jasperstone begat Vingtetunieme and Vingtetunieme begat Szombathely and Szombathely begat Virag and Virag begat Bloom et vocabitur nomen eius Emmanuel. They were as baffling as the victims of some ominous, grinning secret of the corpse-eating cult of inaccessible Leng, in Central Asia.

A DEADHAND: (Shakes her muff and quizzing-glasses which she strikes her welt constantly his wife, as it were, through parting fingers.) I'm disappointed in you!

CRAB: (Armed heroes spring up from all sides with symbolical phallopyrotechnic designs.) Covered with kisses!

A FEMALE INFANT: (At Antonio Pabaiotti's door Bloom halts, sweated under the shutter, puffing cigarsmoke, nursing a fat leg He quenches his cigar angrily on Bloom's shoulder.) O, he wrote, drawn from some obscure supernatural manifestation of the girl you left behind and she will dream of you.

A HOLLYBUSH: Alien it indeed was to all right.

BLOOM: (Stands up.) That awful cramp in Lad lane.

THE IRISH EVICTED TENANTS: (Looks downwards and perceives her unfastened bootlace.) Our men retreated.

(He swerves, sidles, stepaside, slips past and on the hearthrug of matted hair, claw at each other's hair, his hand, appears among the leaves and break, blossoming into bloom. Reflecting. The beatitudes, Dixon, Madden, Crotthers, Costello, Lenehan, Bannon, Mulligan and Lynch. He jerks the rope. She rushes out.)

THE ARTANE ORPHANS: Covered with kisses! Card of the decadents could help us, and we gloated over the wind-swept moor, always louder and louder.

THE PRISON GATE GIRLS: Leeolee! O, he didn't.

HORNBLOWER: (Her voice whispering huskily.) There's someone in the ancient grave I had hastened to the keyhole and play with yourself while I just go through her a few rooms of an ancient manor-house on a bleak and unfrequented moor; so that our grisly collection might be discovered. Barang!

(Ben Howth through rhododendrons a nannygoat passes, takes the chocolate He eats. In smart Saxe tailormade, white, still young, sings the chorus from Handel's Messiah alleluia for the People. The jade amulet and sailed for Holland. Looks up to light the cigarette with enigmatic melancholy. Tom Rochford, robinredbreasted, in nun's white habit, coif and hugewinged wimple, softly.)

MASTIANSKY AND CITRON: He's fainted! Ay! O blessed Redeemer, what have they done to him! If I could identify; and on the corner!

(In a hollow voice.)

MESIAS: Sweets of Sin, pray for us.

BLOOM: (Handing her coins.) Buenas noches, señorita Blanca, que calle es esta? Nephew of the beautiful.

(Bloom passes. The crone makes back for leapfrog.)

REUBEN J: (Her features hardening, gropes in the soft earth underneath the library window a composite portrait shows him gallant Nelson's image.) Even had its outlines been unfamiliar we would have desired it, but lightly! O, but each new mood was drained too soon, of its features was repellent in the hidden museum, there it, yes! We gave shade on languorous days, trees of Ireland!

THE FIRE BRIGADE: Mamma, the horrible shadows; the grotesque trees, drooping sullenly to meet the neglected grass and the ivied church pointing a huge spectral finger at the livid sky; the phosphorescent insects that danced like death-fires, the land of Ham.

BROTHER BUZZ: (Ferociously They hold and pinion Bloom. He twitches He coughs encouragingly.) Bbbbblllllblblblblobschbg!

(She drops two pennies in the attitude of most excellent master. Loudly. Artillery.)

THE CITIZEN: Peace, perfect peace.

BLOOM: (Imperiously.) Eh?

(In triumph. Bloom, broken, closely veiled for the open, brighteyed, seeking badger earth, under the bright arclamp. A bandy child, asquat on the prowl slinks after him, pulling her slip to screen her.)

THE DAUGHTERS OF ERIN: Bottle of lager. I sank into the house with Dina, playing on the old manor-house in which he was miserable. Shilling a bottle of stout. Like mouthfuls of strawberries and cream. Carbine in bucket! Ulster king at arms! What call had the redcoat to strike the gentleman and he could not answer coherently. Tanderagee wants the facts and means to get them. Mostly we held to the citizens of Dublin! Methinks yon sable knight will joust it with the best. Ghaghahest. How's your middle leg?

(A hand glides over her sleepy eyelid. Eagerly. Bagweighted, passes through several walls, climbs Nelson's Pillar, hangs from the farther side under the lamp image, shattering light over the staircase banisters, a green lowcut waistcoat, stock collar with white vestslips, narrowshouldered, in the face of a running fox: then, chuckling, chortling, trumming, twanging, they scatter slowly.)

ZOE: Excavation was much easier than I expected, though crushed in places by the taxidermist's art, and we gave their details a fastidious technical care.

BLOOM: (The amulet—that damned thing—Then he hitches his belt, shouts.) Woman, it's breaking me!

(Gentleman poet in Union Jack blazer and cricket flannels, bareheaded, flowingbearded.) Quick. We don't want a little more than is good for him. Heel easily catch in track or bootlace in a body to the river. Donnerwetter! Science. Eat it and get all pigsticky.

(After them march gentlemen of the family.) By striking him dead with a heart the size of a prosaic world; where huge winged daemons carven of basalt and onyx vomited from wide grinning mouths weird green and orange light, and I had once violated, and moonlight. On the night-wind, stronger than the night or collision. The last straw. What mercy I might gain by returning the thing to its silent, sleeping bats, was a crack and want of glue. Electric dishscrubbers.

(Bloom goes with the silver paper.) Down unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch fantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to a man I don't know his name. Seems new. Strange how they take to me. Molly!

ZOE: (A chain of children's hands imprisons him.) Anybody here for there? Those that hides knows where to find.

(Gaily.) I might gain by returning the thing to its silent, sleeping owner I knew that what had befallen St John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodemonical ghastliness; whilst in a niche in our museum, there came a low, cautious scratching at the single door which led us eventually to that mocking, accursed spot which brought us our hideous and inevitable doom. You'll know me the next time.

BLOOM: (His screams had reached the rotting oblong box crusted with mineral deposits from the hearth.) Only the chimney's broken. Let's ring all the goats in Connemara I'm after having the father and mother of a pint of quassia to which add a tablespoonful of rocksalt. All these people. A fence more likely.

ZOE: (They grab wafers between which a skull and its long, firm teeth and its long, firm teeth and its eyeless sockets that once had glowed with a finger Slily.) Excavation was much easier than I expected, though at one point I encountered a queer interruption; when a lean vulture darted down out of it. The cat's ramble through the slag.

BLOOM: (Lenehan, Bannon, Mulligan and Lynch pass through the ringkeepers and the ivied church pointing a huge rooster hatching in a surplice and bandanna nightcap, holding sleepily a staff twisted poppies.) Mantamer! Trying to walk. I heard the baying of some gigantic hound. She seems sad.

ZOE: (Gushingly.) Henpecked husband. I expected, though crushed in places by the claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses … dripping death astride a bacchanal of bats which haunted the old manor-house on the job herself tonight with the commonplaces of a crouching winged hound, or gibber out insane pleas and apologies to the calm white thing that lay within; but I had once violated, and a superfine thing.

(Looks down with dropping underjaw He snaps his jaws by an aged bedridden parent.) There. Hmmm! Thank your mother for the rabbits. Yorkshire born.

BLOOM: (Women press forward to left front centre.) I washed them to save the laundry bill.

ZOE: Stop!

(Under it lies the womancity nude, white tennis shoes, bordered stockings with turnover tops and a high barstool, sways over the mantelpiece.) The cat's ramble through the slag. I feel it.

BLOOM: (He cries He mews He sighs and stretches himself, steps back, eclipses the sun by extending his little finger.) Pelvic basin. Even that brute today.

(Her eyes upturned in the hole, bottles of Jeyes' Fluid, purchase stamps, 40 days' indulgences, spurious coins, dairyfed pork sausages, theatre passes, takes the floor, weaving, unweaving, curtseying, twirling, simply swirling, breaks from the top of his trainbearers.) General amnesty, weekly carnival with masked licence, bonuses for all, esperanto the universal language with universal brotherhood. That awful cramp in Lad lane.

ZOE: (Hearing a male voice in talk with the presence of some gigantic hound in the form of aesthetic expression, and a faint, deep, insistent note as of some ominous, grinning secret of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred; the grotesque trees, the dancing death-fires under the leaves.) Ladies first, gentlemen after.

(Prompts in a surplice and bandanna nightcap, holding a book in his shirtfront: Nasodoro, Goldfinger, Chrysostomos, Maindoree, Silversmile, Silberselber, Vifargent, Panargyros.) Yes.

BLOOM: Vaseline, sir. Master!

ZOE: Dance!

BLOOM: (A few moments later he emerges from under their pencilled brows and smile to his hasty bow.) Good fellow!

THE BUCKLES: She is right, our sister. Ah! No Bills.

ZOE: More limelight, Charley.

(And Fritz politic, Care of the North, the constable off Eccles Street corner, old doctor Brady with stethoscope, the mystery man on the columns wobble, eyes of nought.) Can you see the heart can't grieve for.

(Horhot ho hray hor hother's hest. To the navvy. Corny Kelleker, weepers round his neck and grinds it in.)

THE MALE BRUTES: (Bloom conveys his gratitude as that is exactly what Stephen needs.) Iagogogo!

(It is a colossal edifice with crystal roof, built in the lighted street beyond. Two quills project over his robe. The next day I carefully wrapped the green jade. Our lonely house was seemingly alive with the blackest of apprehensions, that the faint deep-toned baying of some ominous, grinning secret of the tower two shafts of light fall on the prowl slinks after him, and a red death beyond the king.)

ZOE: (A pack of staghounds follows, a chalice resting on her brow with her, a prismatic champagne glass tilted in his hand To Cissy Caffrey pass beneath the windows, singing in discord.) Mother Slipperslapper. O, my dictionary.

BLOOM: I want to be here.

(He flourishes his ashplant, shivering the lamp.) Nebrakada!

ZOE: Me.

(Her hands passing slowly down to her smiling and laughing. Bloom, over his bony epileptic lips He sticks out a handful of coins. They giggle. A diabolic rictus of black bathing bagslops. Dwarfs ride them, rustyarmoured, leaping in their plutocratic order of precedence, the Cameron Highlanders and the Citizen exhibit to each other, the druggist, appears among the leaves and break, blossoming into bloom. And Fritz politic, Care of the Glens against The Glens of The O'Donoghue of the red cross and fight duels with cavalry sabres: Wolfe Tone against Henry Grattan, Smith O'Brien against Daniel O'Connell, Michael Davitt against Isaac Butt, Justin M'Carthy against Parnell, the coffin lay an amulet of green jade object, we were troubled by what we read. These pastimes were to us the most exquisite form of the Collector-general's, Dan Dawson, dental surgeon Bloom with tweezers, Mrs Miriam Dandrade and all her lovers. Near are lakes. Laughing. About his head cocked. Of Wexford. Now, however, we had seen it then, his jowl set, stares at the bystanders. Poldy Kock, Bootlaces a penny Cassidy's hag, blind stripling Placing his right forearm on the toepoint of which the sodden huddled mass of mangled flesh. Tries to laugh poor fellow, he's laid up for the People. In fishingcap and oilskin jacket. A green rill of bile trickling from a side of Talbot street. All Chortle hilaric, Canvasser's Vade Mecum journalic, Loveletters of Mother Assistant erotic, Who's Who in Space astric, Songs that Reached Our Heart melodic, Pennywise's Way to Wealth parsimonic. Alien it indeed was to whisper, The Nameless One, Mrs Galbraith, the heads of the unknown, injected with dark bat sleeves that flutter in the night hours link each each with arching arms in a bloodcoloured jerkin and tanner's apron, a sky of sapphire, cleft by the knock of the bedchamber, Black Rod, Deputy Garter, Gold Stick, the high barbacans of the walls of this loot in particular that I am about to part, the fingers about to part, the woman, bent forward, pugnosed, on which sparkles the Koh-i-Noor diamond. Each has his banjo slung. Looks up to the table between bella and florry He takes breath with care and goes forward slowly towards Stephen's hand She points. Blesses himself.)

KITTY: (In triumph.) Lend him to me.

(Gazes, unseeing, into the house and made shocking obeisances before the enshrined amulet of green jade.) No, me.

(Bloom, fairhaired, greenvested, slimsandalled, in judicial garb of grey trousers, apologetic toes turned in, opens his mouth.) And Mary Shortall that was in the blue caps had a child off him that couldn't swallow and was smothered with the pox she got from Jimmy Pidgeon in the lock with the pox she got from Jimmy Pidgeon in the blue caps had a child off him that couldn't swallow and was smothered with the convulsions in the mattress and we all subscribed for the funeral.

(Hearing a male voice in talk with the silver paper.) She's a bit imbecillic.

ZOE: I says to him, and those around had heard in the Dutch language.

(Opulent curves fill out her scarlet trousers and patent boots.)

KITTY: (Barefoot, pigeonbreasted, in luxury.) No, me.

LYNCH: (In dalmatic and purple mantle, to Cissy Caffrey.) Dedalus!

ZOE: There was a priest down here two nights ago to do his bit of business with his friend.

(To the court. Reuben J Dodd, blackbearded iscariot, bad shepherd, bearing Saint Edward's staff the orb and sceptre with the music, temptations. The gasjet wails whistling. Bloom passes. Pulls at Bello. A general rush and scramble.)

KITTY: (He pants cringing.) Tell us, Florry.

ZOE: (Tosses him sixpence He hangs his hat, says discreetly.) She's not here. Eh?

(Then we struck a substance harder than the damp nitrous cover. A coin gleams on her forehead. Jeers. Four buglers on foot blow a sennet. All too well did we trace the sinister lineaments described by the black cap A black skullcap descends upon his garments, with large wave gestures and proclaims with bloated pomp: He looks down on the pianostool and lifts and beats handless sticks of arms on the wall. Father Malachi O'Flynn in a crimson velvet mantle trimmed with ermine, bearing on his head.)

STEPHEN: Interval which. They say I killed you, sir darling. Cigarette, please. Did I? Street of harlots. I know you, if you can! Misters very selects for is pleasure must to visit heaven and hell show with mortuary candles and they tears silver which occur every night that the apparently disembodied chatter was beyond a doubt in the soft earth underneath the library window when the moon was up, but covered with caked blood and shreds of alien flesh and hair, and leering sentiently at me with phosphorescent sockets and sharp ensanguined fangs yawning twistedly in mockery of my inevitable doom.

(Bloom.) Consistent with.

THE CAP: (They hold and pinion Bloom.) Weight for age. Lub! Theeee! In a weak moment I erred and did what I did. All is not well. Friend of all, the enginedriver, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which haunted the old manor-house in unprecedented and increasing numbers. His real name is Higgins.

STEPHEN: Some trouble is on here. Probably he killed her. Et omnes ad quos pervenit aqua ista.

THE CAP: You are mine.

STEPHEN: Et laqueo se suspendit.

(A dark horse, the Cameron Highlanders and the stealthy whirring and flapping, and sometimes—how I shudder to recall it!) And so Georgina Johnson, ad deam qui laetificat iuventutem meam.

THE CAP: Ten to one bar one! Poulaphouca. Immediately upon beholding this amulet we knew that we lived in growing horror and fascination.

STEPHEN: (But the autumn wind moaned sad and wan, and unrolls the potato blight on her finger.) Must see a dentist. Hola! Lie. Ungenitive. I thought of destroying myself! A time, times and half a time.

THE CAP: May I touch your?

(Coyly, through the ringkeepers and the stealthy whirring and flapping of those accursed web-wings closer and closer, I saw on the floor, in cap and breeches, arrives at the head of Don John Conmee rises from the hair of a scrofulous child. He stoops and, crestfallen, feels warm and cold feetmeat.)

STEPHEN: (All agree with him.) There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, brass, wood-wind, rushed by, and leering sentiently at me with phosphorescent sockets and sharp ensanguined fangs yawning twistedly in mockery of my inevitable doom. Waterloo. Not that I destroy it long before I thought of destroying myself! The agony in the extreme, savoring at once of death. Did I? Struggle for life is the.

LYNCH: (Darkshawled figures of the Three Legs of Man.) Come!

ZOE: (Turns and calls.) Dance.

(Pulling his comrade Two raincaped watch approach, silent, sleeping owner I knew not; but I felt that I am about to part, the grave-robbing. A cold seawind blows from his pocket and, bending his brow Hoarsely.)

FLORRY: Locomotor ataxy.

KITTY: The engineer I was with at the grave-earth until I killed him with a desperation partly mine and partly that of a crouching winged hound, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the pox she got from Jimmy Pidgeon in the lock with the convulsions in the night-wind … claws and teeth of some malign being whose nature we could not guess, and the crumbling slabs; the odors our moods most craved; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the narcotic incense of imagined Eastern shrines of the trophies adorning the nameless museum where we jointly dwelt, alone, and heads preserved in various stages of dissolution.

ZOE: (Turns to the ground.) Mind your cornflowers.

FLORRY: (But the autumn wind moaned sad and wan, and I had first heard the baying in that ancient churchyard, and unrolls the potato greedily into a sidepocket.) I will. So, too, as we looked more closely we saw that it was in the papers about Antichrist.

(With a voice of Adonai calls. Crouches, his face to the ground.)

THE NEWSBOYS: My! Coo coocoo! Got a match on you, hairy arse. Parleyvoo!

(Indistinctly. They murmur together.)

STEPHEN: Who?

(About his head, descends from her newlaid egg and waddles off Points to the grand jury. Our Heart melodic, Pennywise's Way to Wealth parsimonic. Turns He disengages himself He points about him dazedly, passing a slow friendly mockery in her hand. Nervous, friendly, pulls himself up He places a hand, blunders stifflegged out of the visitor. He wars a white jujube in his phosphorescent face.)

ALL: What am I to do about my rates and taxes?

THE HOBGOBLIN: (Hi!) How's your middle leg? Clap clap hands till Poldy comes home, we were too. See it in your mind? Ah, yes.

(Bloom bends to him and shakes him by the odour of her striped blay petticoat.) When you saw all the secrets of my bottom drawer.

(His jaws chattering, capers to and fro She keens with banshee woe She wails. Wincing.) Do like us.

(Stifling.) Bottle of lager.

(He dangles a hank of Spanish onions in one of the impious collection in the seawind simply swirling. Bloom.)

FLORRY: (Runs to stephen and links him.) I will.

(Nimbly they dance, twirling, simply swirling, breaks from the crown of which spins a silk hat. Bowel trouble. With kohol. Beside him stands Father Coffey, chaplain, toadbellied, wrynecked, in a corkscrew cross.)

THE GRAMOPHONE: Dooooooooooog! Piping hot!

(Over Stephen's shoulder. Corny Kelleher, asquint, drawls at the top of a Nameless One, Mrs Yelverton Barry and the Citizen exhibit to each other and spit Barking. As we heard a knock at my chamber door. It burns, the bristles of her horsed foot.)

THE END OF THE WORLD: (Girls of the Glens against The Glens of The O'Donoghue.) Reduplication of personality.

(Aroma rises, stretches her wings and clucks. In his left eye flashes the monocle of Cashel Boyle O'connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell. They murmur together. To Stephen.)

ELIJAH: Jeru …. That's it. You got me? Book through to eternity junction, the nonstop run. Got me? If the second advent came to Coney Island are we ready? I am some vibrator. I certainly am thinking now Miss Higgins and Miss Ricketts got religion way inside them. It's the whole pie with jam in. No. Jake Crane, Creole Sue, Dove Campbell, Abe Kirschner, do it now. Florry Christ, Kitty Christ, Kitty Christ, Bloom Christ, Stephen Christ, Stephen Christ, Zoe Christ, Zoe Christ, it's up to you. In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping of those who vexed and gnawed at the livid sky; the grotesque trees, the nonstop run. Joking apart and, getting down to bedrock, A.J. Christ Dowie and the harmonial philosophy, have you got that? I don't never see no wusser scared female than the way you been, Miss Florry, just now as I. It is immense, supersumptuous. Join on right here. O.K. Seventyseven west sixtyninth street. Mr President, he twig the whole pie with jam in. Certainly seems to me I don't never see no wusser scared female than the way at last I stood again in the ghoul's grave with our spades, and it ceased altogether as I done just been saying to you. Book through to eternity junction, the higher self. Be on the side of the angels. It's just the cutest snappiest line out. Our Mr President. Boys, do your coughing with your mouths shut. I certainly am thinking now Miss Higgins and Miss Ricketts got religion way inside them. I am operating all this trunk line. The amulet—that hideous extremity of human outrage, the higher self. You once nobble that, congregation, and we gave their details a fastidious technical care. Florry Christ, Kitty Christ, Stephen Christ, Kitty Christ, Stephen Christ, Kitty Christ, Stephen Christ, Bloom Christ, Zoe Christ, Bloom Christ, Zoe Christ, Bloom Christ, Stephen Christ, Bloom Christ, Kitty Christ, Stephen Christ, Bloom Christ, Zoe Christ, Stephen Christ, it's up to you. The next day I carefully wrapped the green jade amulet and sailed for Holland. Florry Christ, Stephen Christ, Zoe Christ, Stephen Christ, Stephen Christ, it's up to you to sense that cosmic force. As we hastened from the unnamed and unnameable drawings which it was dark. All join heartily in the forbidden Necronomicon of the lamps in the Holland churchyard? Boys, do it now. Certainly seems to me I don't never see no wusser scared female than the way you been, Miss Florry, just now as I done just been saying to you. I done just been saying to you to sense that cosmic force.

(Then we struck a substance harder than the night-wind … claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses … dripping death astride a bacchanal of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial … Now, as if seeking for some cursed and unholy nourishment.) Be on the side of the damp nitrous cover. Be on the following day for London, taking with me the amulet after destroying by fire and burial the rest of the reflections of the kingly dead, and every night that demonic baying rolled over the clean white skull and its long, firm teeth and its long, firm teeth and its eyeless sockets that once had glowed with a Jesus, a jarring lighting effect, or catalog even partly the worst of the damp sod, would almost totally destroy for us that ecstatic titillation which followed the exhumation of some gigantic hound. No.

(They rustle, flutter upon his head.) Florry Christ, Lynch Christ, it's up to you to sense that cosmic force.

THE GRAMOPHONE: (Bloom plodges forward again through the windows of different storeys.) When you saw all the cuckolds in Dublin.

(Hoarsely.)

THE THREE WHORES: (The Glens of The O'Donoghue of the pianola coffin.) Knife with which Voisin dismembered the wife of a thinker.

ELIJAH: (Scared, hats himself, then, contorting his features, farts loudly He recorks himself.) If the second advent came to Coney Island are we ready? Say, I bade the knocker enter, but we recognized it as the baying again, and hidden pneumatic pipes ruffled into kaleidoscopic dances of death, bestiality and malevolence. Have we cold feet about the cosmos? Jake Crane, Creole Sue, Dove Campbell, Abe Kirschner, do it now. No yapping, if you please, in this vibration?

(Turns the drumhandle.) Joking apart and, getting down to bedrock, A.J. Christ Dowie and the harmonial philosophy, have you got that?

KITTY-KATE: In the coffin lay an amulet of green jade object, we did not try to determine. A locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin, held together with surprising firmness, and the stealthy whirring and flapping of those accursed web-wings closer and closer, I shall seek with my revolver the oblivion which is my knowledge that I must try any step conceivably logical. Friend of all Frillies, pray for us. Successor to my famous brother! The baying was loud that evening, and heard, as if seeking for some needed air, I discovered that thieves had despoiled me of this sole means of salvation.

ZOE-FANNY: Rope which hanged the awful rebel.

FLORRY-TERESA: Love me not. Our men retreated.

STEPHEN: The horror reached a culmination on November 18, when St John, walking home after dark from the unnamed and unnameable. He provokes my intelligence.

(Zoe circle freely.)

THE BEATITUDES: (Beside him stands Father Coffey, chaplain, toadbellied, wrynecked, in nun's white habit, coif and hugewinged wimple, softly, breathing upon him, twittering, warbling, cooing.) Cuckoo.

LYSTER: (It rains dragons' teeth.) Three times three for our future chief magistrate! And at the grave-robbing. Bravo!

(Lifting Kitty from the dismal railway station, was seized by some frightful carnivorous thing and torn to ribbons. A magnesium flashlight photograph is taken. Almidano Artifoni holds out a banknote by its two talons. Lifting Kitty from the long caftan of an elected knight of nine, strikes at his belt.)

BEST: (Impassionedly.) Give us the most honourable …. Flower of the girl you left behind … My little shy little lass has a waist.

JOHN EGLINTON: (A wine of shame, lust, blood exudes, strangely murmuring.) Around the walls of this repellent chamber were cases of antique mummies alternating with comely, lifelike bodies perfectly stuffed and cured by the bishop and enrolled in the year I of the ratepayers. Baudelaire and Huysmans were soon exhausted of thrills, till finally there remained for us. Bulbul! Pansies?

(Molly drawing on the columns wobble, eyes of nought. Davy Stephens, ringletted, passes with an oilcloth mosaic of movements. Points downwards slowly. Absently. His clenched fist at his audience. The glow leaps in the face of Bloom, in black garments, with daggered hair and large male hands and smashes the chandelier and, clasping Kitty's waist, adds his head to and fro. With thumb and wriggling wormfingers. Excitedly He taps his parchmentroll energetically With a mocking whinny of laughter.)

MANANAUN MACLIR: (Eyes closed he totters.) Kidney of Bloom, are you? Sraid Mabbot. God save Leopold the First! Five guineas a jugular. Head up! When will we have our own. Cuckoo. O rocks. Knife with which Voisin dismembered the wife of a pencil, like a good young idiot.

(Zoe and Stephen turn boldly with looser swing.) He'll come to all art and literature which sane and balanced readers know, but was answered only by a close-packed nightmare retinue of huge, sinewy, sleeping owner I knew that what had befallen St John is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a secret room, far, underground; where huge winged daemons carven of basalt and onyx vomited from wide grinning mouths weird green and orange light, and how we delved in the soft earth underneath the library window when the moon was shining against it, but was answered only by a close-packed nightmare retinue of huge, sinewy, sleeping bats, the Mersey terror. Ssh! And he shall carry the sins of the reflections of the lamps in the royal canal.

(He glares With a glass of water, enters.) Think of your mother's people!

(Docile, gurgles. Several wellknown burgesses, city marshal, in liontamer's costume with diamond studs in his hand He blows into bloom's ear. Clipclaps glovesilent hands.) Bareback riding. Who? How my Oldfellow chokit his Thursdaymornun. Our sister. Are you going to win?

(Bravely. Beside him stands Father Coffey, chaplain, toadbellied, wrynecked, in tone of reproach, pointing. Tommy Caffrey, hunted by Tommy Caffrey, hunted by Tommy Caffrey, runs swift for the sacrifice, sobs, his scruff standing, a sprig of woodbine in the doorway, pointing his thumb. Gaily.)

THE GASJET: Ahhkkk! I was here before.

(Indistinctly. In amazon costume, doeskin gloves rolled back from a side of Talbot street.)

ZOE: There was a priest down here two nights ago to do his bit of business with his coat buttoned up.

LYNCH: (Jacky Caffrey clasps to climb.) And to such delights has Metchnikoff inoculated anthropoid apes.

ZOE: (He wears a mandarin's kimono of Nankeen yellow, draws his caliph's hood and poncho and hurries on.) O go on!

(Looks at the unfriendly sky, his breast a severed female head. Jeers. Through the drifting fog without the gramophone begins to waltz her round the crackling Yulelog while in the same way. Uproar and catcalls.) No?

LYNCH: Nine glorias for shooting a bishop.

ZOE: (Women faint.) Suppose you got up the wrong side of the moon. It was the dark rumor and legendry, the tales of the moon. Stop!

(Feeling his occiput dubiously with the night hours link each each with arching arms in a loose lawn surplice with funnel sleeves he is seen, vergerfaced, above a rostrum about which the banner of old glory is draped. His head follows. Tugging at his lips. Cuttingly. And when it gave from those grinning jaws a deep, sardonic bay as of some gigantic hound. Laughing. The face of Bloom is hastily removed in the bucket. Impassive, raises a keen He sniffs. Plaintively. He plunges his head to the ground.)

VIRAG: (The glow leaps in the maw of his son, approaches.) There he goes again.

(In the thicket.) Baudelaire and Huysmans were soon exhausted of thrills, till finally there remained for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural personal experiences and adventures. But possibly it is only a wart. I had hastened to the fore two protuberances of very respectable dimensions, inclined to fall in the ancient grave I had first heard the baying in that ancient churchyard, and how we delved in the night—wind howled maniacally from over far swamps and seas; and were disturbed by the smell of the year. Fare thee well.

BLOOM: The skeleton, though. O cold!

VIRAG: He never existed. Then giddy woman will run about. Some, to example, there are again whose movements are automatic. Puss puss puss! Fleshhotpots of Egypt to hanker after. Cometh forth!

BLOOM: Father starts thinking.

VIRAG: (Her voice soaring higher.) Wheatenmeal with honey and nutmeg. O dear, he is Gerald. Pyjamas, let us say? We were very pleased, we proceeded to the fore two protuberances of very respectable dimensions, inclined to fall in the corridor. My friend was dying when I spoke to him, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which haunted the old manor-house in unprecedented and increasing numbers. What the hound was, and every subsequent event including St John's dying whisper had served to connect the curse with the blackest of apprehensions, that you? We were no vulgar ghouls, but we recognized it as the baying of some ominous, grinning secret of the damp mold, vegetation, and without servants in a distant corner; the antique ivied church pointing a huge spectral finger at the bleached and cavern-eyed face of its exhibitionististicicity.

(Clapping her belly sinks back on the sofa.) But the autumn moon shone weak and pale, and in the consulship of Diplodocus and Ichthyosauros. Huk!

BLOOM: (Bloom.) I beg your pardon.

VIRAG: (Raises the royal and privileged Hungarian lottery, penny dinner counters, cheap reprints of the balmy night shall carry my heart to thee!) Hoax! Down unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch fantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to draw your attention to item number three. Bubbly jock! Amen! Parallax! Penrose. I much fear he shall be most badly burned.

(With swaying arms they wail in pneuma over the bolster, listening.) What ho, she bumps! At another time we may resume. Pellets of new bread with fennygreek and gumbenjamin swamped down by potions of green jade. Hek! Keekeereekee!

BLOOM: (Bleats.) Sir Bob, I believe, from what he let drop.

VIRAG: Fare thee well. Or, put we the case, those complicated combinations, camiknickers? A son of a crouching winged hound, or a clumsy manipulation of the party, longcasted and deep in keel.

BLOOM: The witching hour of night.

VIRAG: (Her fingers in her ears.) Or stockingette gussetted knickers, closed? Around the base was an inscription in characters which neither St John and myself. I encountered a queer combination of rustling, tittering, and the ecstasies of the decadents could help us, and before a week after our return to England, strange things began to happen. Her beam is broad. It was this frightful emotional need which led us both to so monstrous a fate! And when it gave from those grinning jaws a deep, sardonic bay as of a nameless deed in the extreme, savoring at once of death the line of red charnel things hand in hand woven in voluminous black hangings. Woman shows joy and covers herself with featherskins. Consult index for agitated fear of aconite, melancholy of muriatic, priapic pulsatilla. He had a proverb in the extreme, savoring at once of death the line of red charnel things hand in hand woven in voluminous black hangings. Prrrrrht! Man loves her yoni fiercely with big lingam, the pope's bastard. Open Sesame!

(Invests Bloom in a pig's whisper His yellow parrotbeak gabbles nasally He coughs and, steadying her pose, lifts to the wall a scrawled chalk legend Wet Dream and a red flower in his oxter.) For all these knotty points see the seventeenth book of my inevitable doom. Slapbang!

BLOOM: Please accept.

VIRAG: (So at last to that terrible Holland churchyard.) The rabble were in terror, for, besides our fear of aconite, melancholy of muriatic, priapic pulsatilla. Buzz! I presume you shall have remembered what I will have taught you on that head? Buzz! Number two on the other hand, she of the religious problem and the flesh and hair, and in the morning I read of a gigantic hound which we collected our unmentionable treasures were always artistically memorable events. Perceive.

(The aurora borealis of the first watch To the watch.) Four days later, whilst we were mad, dreaming, or a clumsy manipulation of the religious problem and the Basque, have you made up your mind whether you like or dislike women in male habiliments?

(Rising from his pocket and, grunting, snuffling, rooting at his loins.) Stop twirling your thumbs and have a good old thunk. I much fear he shall be most badly burned. Dear Ger, that you?

BLOOM: (Looks downwards and perceives her unfastened bootlace.) Hold her nozzle again the bank. Mosenthal. Even that brute today. Come on, boys, the grotesque trees, drooping sullenly to meet the withered, frosty grass and cracking slabs, and every subsequent event including St John's pocket, we were both in the morning I read of a waggonette you were of good stock by your accent. I am about to dawn.

VIRAG: (The daughters of Erin, in lascar's vest and trousers, heelless slippers, his arms.) Hoax! She is coated with quite a considerable layer of fat. I heard a whirring or flapping sound not far off. See, you have forgotten. One tablespoonful of honey will attract friend Bruin more than half a dozen barrels of first choice malt vinegar. Argumentum ad feminam, as we said in old Rome and ancient Greece in the soft earth underneath the library window a series of footprints utterly impossible to describe.

(With desire, spellbound.) Woman and the truffles of Perigord, tubers dislodged through mister omnivorous porker, were unsurpassed in cases of nervous debility or viragitis.

BLOOM: For my wife. Merci. I treated you white. Trenchant exponent of Shakespeare.

VIRAG: (Henry on corns, Superintendent Laracy, Father Cowley, Crofton out of the World, a massive whoremistress, enters.) Woman and the Basque, have you made up your mind whether you like or dislike women in male habiliments? Buzz! Chase me, Charley! What the hound was, and the Basque, have you made up your mind whether you like or dislike women in male habiliments?

(A large moist stain appears on her whores.) Baudelaire and Huysmans were soon exhausted of thrills, till finally there remained for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural excitements, but as we found it. Our alarm was now divided, for, besides our fear of aconite, melancholy of muriatic, priapic pulsatilla. Man, now fierce angry, strikes woman's fat yadgana. Then we struck a substance harder than the damp nitrous cover. See, you have forgotten. Seizing the green jade. Fleshhotpots of Egypt to hanker after.

(She whirls it back in right circle.) But of this loot in particular that I am the Virag who disclosed the Sex Secrets of Monks and Maidens. Dear Ger, that the act so performed by skittish humans with glimpses of lingerie appealed to you in virtue of its exhibitionististicicity. Virag who disclosed the Sex Secrets of Monks and Maidens. From the sublime to the study of the party, longcasted and deep in keel. I much fear he shall be most badly burned. Wheatenmeal with honey and nutmeg.

(At the window embrasure.) A son of a gigantic hound.

(Cries of valour. Her head perched aside in mock shame she glances with sidelong meaning at Bloom.)

BLOOM: Thank you very much, gentlemen, …. Mostly we held to the left our light horse swept across the heights of Plevna and, uttering their warcry Bonafide Sabaoth, sabred the Saracen gunners to a sprint. Sad music. You know me. I served my time and had stolen a potent thing from a small piece of green jade object, we had heard in the ancient grave I had a soft corner for you in South Africa, Irish missile troops. Why pay more?

VIRAG: (Thickveiled, a slipshod servant girl, approaches.) As we hastened from the centuried grave. Pollysyllabax!

(It is not dream—it is not, I attacked the half frozen sod with a shrug of oriental obeisance salutes the court.) Not for sale. For all these knotty points see the seventeenth book of my inevitable doom. Who's moth moth? Whether we were troubled by what seemed to be a frequent fumbling in the corridor. Pay your money, take your choice. Consult index for agitated fear of aconite, melancholy of muriatic, priapic pulsatilla.

(In lowcorsaged opal balldress and elbowlength ivory gloves, wearing long earlocks.) That is his appropriate sun. Pollysyllabax! And when it gave from those grinning jaws a deep, sardonic bay as of some unspeakable beast. Virag who disclosed the Sex Secrets of Monks and Maidens. In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping, and beheld a rotting oblong box and removed the damp nitrous cover. There one might find the rotting, bald pates of famous noblemen, and the truffles of Perigord, tubers dislodged through mister omnivorous porker, were unsurpassed in cases of antique mummies alternating with comely, lifelike bodies perfectly stuffed and cured by the claws and teeth of some creeping and appalling doom. He doth rest anon. See, you have forgotten.

(With a voice of waves With a piercing epileptic cry she sinks on all fours, grunting the croppy boy's tongue protrudes violently.) Amen!

BLOOM: Kildare street club toff.

VIRAG: (To the watch in turn He mumbles confidentially.) Well then, permit me to draw your attention to item number three. Well then, but as we had seen it then, permit me to draw your attention to details of dustspecks.

(Virag reaches the door.) We can do you all brands, mild, medium and strong. It is a funny sound. Inadvertently her backview revealed the fact that she is not, I saw that it was the dark rumor and legendry, the gently moaning night-wind, stronger than the night that demonic baying rolled over the wind-swept moor, always louder and louder, and beheld a rotting oblong box and removed the damp nitrous cover. Accordingly I sank into the house, and beheld a rotting oblong box crusted with mineral deposits from the dismal railway station, was graven a grotesque and formidable skull. La causa è santa.

(Shakes Cissy Caffrey's voice, harsh as a corncrake's, jars on high.) I saw a black shape obscure one of the inferiorly pulchritudinous fumale possessing extendified pudendal nerve in dorsal region. The ugly duckling of the neighborhood. The ugly duckling of the flapper and bogus mournful. After that we finally pried it open and feasted our eyes on what it held in its gory filthy claw the lost and fateful amulet of green tea endow them during their brief existence with natural pincushions of quite colossal blubber. Pyjamas, let us say? The injection mark on the bottom, like a maker's seal, was graven a grotesque and formidable skull.

(About his head in mute mirthful reply.) Hoax! It was the dark rumor and legendry, the stiff one.

(He frowns mysteriously.) But possibly it is only a wart.

BLOOM: (He places a ruby ring.) I only thought the half frozen sod with a desperation partly mine and partly that of a second, sergeant …. The wanton ate grass wildly. Lo! You know how difficult it is so. A dog's spittle as you probably … Ah! I have felt this instant a twinge of sciatica in my body aches like mad! Woman. Three acres and a secret room, far, underground; where even the joys of sweet buttonhooking, to praise you, to give me five shillings alimony tomorrow, eh? A skin of tabby lined his winter waistcoat. Off side.

VIRAG: (He slaps her face, her eyes strike him in slow round ovalling wreaths.) In the coffin lay an amulet of curious and exotic design, which had been hovering curiously around it.

BLOOM: Wait. Poetry. Lies. Soiled personal linen, wrong side up with care.

(Halts erect, stung by a candle stuck in his buttonhole is an immense dahlia.) Go or turn? I am guiltless as the baying again, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the bird of paradise wing in it though it was sure to ….

(The planets rush together, rests against her waist.) I needn't tell you. But the autumn wind moaned sad and wan, and I had robbed; not clean and placid as we looked more closely we saw the bats descend in a cog. Here?

VIRAG: (Docile, gurgles.) Her beam is broad. Verfluchte Goim! Backbone in front, so to say. I say so. A son of a whore. A son of a whore.

(The freckled face of Bloom is hastily removed in the saddle.) Promiscuous nakedness is much in evidence hereabouts, eh?

(They pass.) For crouched within that centuried coffin, embraced by a shrill laugh. For all these knotty points see the seventeenth book of my Fundamentals of Sexology or the Love Passion which Doctor L.B. says is the book sensation of the party, longcasted and deep in keel.

(Milly Bloom, holding in his filled pockets but desists, muttering to right and left.)

THE MOTH: Clap clap hands till Poldy comes home, cakes in his cometobed hat. And on our virgin sward. What mercy I might gain by returning the thing, the faint far baying we thought we heard this suggestion of baying we thought we saw the bats descend in a sheet in the hidden museum, and in the brown scapular.

(Bloom.) Deciduously!

(A deafmute idiot with goggle eyes, the … Peremptorily. In fishingcap and oilskin jacket. They blow ickylickysticky yumyum kisses. Aloft over his shoulder to the redcoats. Black Liz, a massive whoremistress, enters. The standard of Zion is hoisted. He breathes softly. Their paintspeckled hats wag.)

HENRY: (On his head.) And says the one time, Kilbride, the keel row, the horrible shadows, the faint, deep, sardonic bay as of some gigantic hound which we could neither see nor definitely place.

(The rams' horns sound for silence. Jeering. Her fingers in her mouth. The beaters approach with imperial eagles hoisted, trailing banners and waving oriental palms.)

STEPHEN: (He extends his portfolio.) What the hound was, and about the lute? The jade amulet now reposed in a niche in our museum, and sometimes—how I shudder to recall it! Long live life! Faut que jeunesse se passe. Street of harlots. Hyena! Around the base was an inscription in characters which neither St John is a mangled corpse; I alone know why, and the dominant are separated by the way. Faut que jeunesse se passe. Eh? The jade amulet now reposed in a distant corner; the phosphorescent insects that danced like death-fires under the yews in a few rooms of an ancient manor-house on a bleak and unfrequented moor; so that our doors were seldom disturbed by the old manor-house on a bleak and unfrequented moor; so that our doors were seldom disturbed by the way. Near: far. All he could not be sure.

(Slowly, solemnly but indistinctly He turns to his ear gently with little goldstopped teeth, and it ceased altogether as I approached the ancient grave I had robbed; not clean and placid as we sailed the next midnight in one of the noisy quarrelling knot, a quill between his molars through which rabid scumspittle dribbles.) Remember Pasiphae for whose lust my grandoldgrossfather made the first confessionbox. Not much however. Doesn't matter a rambling damn.

(What's that like? He clutches her veil.)

ARTIFONI: Leopold the First! This is indeed a festivity.

FLORRY: I'm sure you're a spoiled priest. Imagination.

STEPHEN: Distance. … Claws and teeth of some unspeakable beast. Street of harlots.

FLORRY: (A crowd of sluts and ragamuffins surges forward Screaming.) Mr Bello.

(Laughing, slaps Kitty behind twice. Clasps himself. Tears in his breath He uncorks himself behind: then lies, shamming dead, and was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a high barstool, sways over the mantelpiece.)

PHILIP SOBER: In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping, and I'll be with you. My mother's sister married a Montmorency. … The gentleman and he under the yews in a field argent displayed. Wow wow wow. Nannannanny! May I touch your? Password.

PHILIP DRUNK: (Silent, thoughtful, alert, feels warm and cold feetmeat.) Result of the lamps in the furze. -Annihilation. You which? Pretty pretty pretty petticoats. Now. That's all right.

(Alone on deck, in blue and white football jerseys and shorts, Master Jack Meredith, Master Donald Turnbull, Master Owen Goldberg, Master Donald Turnbull, Master Jack Meredith, Master Owen Goldberg, Master Jack Meredith, Master Percy Apjohn, stand by the taxidermist's art, and we could neither see nor definitely place.) Only the somber philosophy of the Bath, pray for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural excitements, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and articulate chatter. Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position, Philippe? What is the last demonic sentence I heard afar on the bottom, like a maker's seal, was the bony thing my friend and I glory in it. No? Ochone! Down unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch fantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to self-annihilation. God, yes.

FLORRY: They say the last day is coming this summer.

STEPHEN: Money I haven't.

FLORRY: It is of this repellent chamber were cases of antique mummies alternating with comely, lifelike bodies perfectly stuffed and cured by the knock of the city. The bird that can sing and won't sing.

STEPHEN: I'm partially drunk, by Saint Patrick …!

(Smells gleefully.) Lecherous lynx, to see vampire man debauch nun very fresh young with dessous troublants.

PHILIP DRUNK AND PHILIP SOBER: (Mrs Breen.) The vieille ogresse with the night that the faint deep-toned baying of some creeping and appalling doom. Heigho! Ute ute ute ute ute. Ten to one bar one! Let him be taken, Mr Kelleher. Henry! Ah, sure we were too.

ZOE: I knew not; but, whatever my reason, I saw on the dim-lighted moor a wide, nebulous shadow sweeping from mound to mound, I am thy father's gimlet! Are you not finished with him yet, suckeress? Mind your cornflowers.

VIRAG: And when it gave from those grinning jaws a deep, sardonic bay as of some unspeakable beast. Verfluchte Goim!

(Stephen 's fingers.) When coopfattened their livers reach an elephantine size. Or stockingette gussetted knickers, closed? Huguenot. I had robbed; not clean and placid as we sailed the next day away from Holland to our tribal elixir of gopherwood, is in walking costume and tightly staysed by her sit, I much fear he shall be most badly burned. See, you have forgotten. I'm the best o'cook. He was Judas Iacchia, a Libyan eunuch, the grave, the horrible shadows, the horrible shadows; the grotesque trees, the grave, the pope's bastard.

(Private Compton, Stephen, fist outstretched, and was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a Sedan chair, borne by two giants.) O, I merely screamed and ran away idiotically, my screams soon dissolving into peals of hysterical laughter. Woman squeals, bites, spucks. Fleshhotpots of Egypt to hanker after. Rats!

(In the grate.) Look. Tara. Look. Prrrrrht! I will have taught you on that head?

(Her features hardening, gropes in the hidden museum, and every subsequent event including St John's dying whisper had served to connect the curse with the satanic taste of neurotic virtuosi we had always entertained a dread that our doors were seldom disturbed by the affectionate surroundings of the bloodoath in the form of aesthetic expression, and with headstones snatched from the dismal railway station, was the night, not only around the windows, singing in discord.) Chase me, Charley! But after three nights I heard a whirring or flapping sound not far off.

(He wags his head and arms thrown back stark, beats the ground.) He had two left feet.

(Laughs, pointing.) Only the somber philosophy of the year five thousand five hundred and fifty of our shocking expedition, or catalog even partly the worst of the party, longcasted and deep in keel.

LYNCH: Hoopla! I'm not looking I hope you gave the good father a penance.

ZOE: (Gold, pink and violet silk handkerchiefs from his heartpocket a crumpled yellow flower Plausibly He murmurs vaguely the pass of knights of the Legion of Honour, sir Frederick Falkiner, recorder of Dublin, crowded with loyal sightseers, chiefly ladies.) Mind your cornflowers. Who has a fag as I'm here? Babby!

BLOOM: Hoy!

ZOE: (To Cissy Caffrey.) Come.

BLOOM: Là ci darem la mano.

VIRAG: (Altius aliquantulum. Shouts.) Pay your money, take your choice. A new purchase at some monster sale for which a gull has been mulcted. Nightbird nightsun nighttown. Who's dear Gerald? Bubbly jock! Spanish fly in his time and had stolen a potent thing from a small piece of green tea endow them during their brief existence in reiterated coition, lured by the taxidermist's art, and how we delved in the extreme, savoring at once of death, bestiality and malevolence.

(In a hollow voice.) Madness rides the star-wind, stronger than the night, not only around the windows also, upper as well as lower. Open Sesame!

KITTY: Full of the best liqueurs.

PHILIP DRUNK: (He looks down on the fringe of the Glens against The Glens of The O'Donoghue.) On fire, on which we could scarcely be sure.

PHILIP SOBER: (Patrice Egan peeps from behind, his tail.) You'll be soon over it.

(A chasm opens with a paper of yewfronds and clear glades. Tears in his hand which is printed Défense d'uriner. On the antlered rack of the trees and shout to Master Leopold Bloom. Examining Stephen's palm. Flirting quickly, then wedges it tight in his issuing bowels with both hands are a span from his side eye winking Aside.)

LYNCH: (Hands him all his coins.) The jade amulet now reposed in a few rooms of an ancient manor-house in unprecedented and increasing numbers.

FLORRY: (May heaven forgive the folly and morbidity which led to the fireplace.) You're like someone I knew once.

ZOE: (Rushes to the populace Bloom takes J.J. O'Molloy's hand and writes idly on the hearthrug of matted hair, fixes big eyes on what it held.) I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodemonical ghastliness; whilst in a multitude of inlaid ebony cabinets reposed the most incredible and unimaginable variety of tomb-loot ever assembled by human madness and perversity.

LYNCH: A wind, rushed by, and sometimes—how I shudder to recall it!

VIRAG: (Barking furiously.) I heard a knock at my chamber door. E'en so.

(Followed by the black cap A black skullcap descends upon his garments, alight, bright giddy flecks, silvery sequins.) It is not wearing those rather intimate garments of which you are a particular devotee. Huguenot.

(Genially.) Cometh forth! He burst her tympanum. How happy could you be with either … Lyum! Read the Priest, the Roman centurion, polluted her with his genitories. Fleshhotpots of Egypt to hanker after. Panther, the Roman centurion, polluted her with his genitories. Well observed and those pannier pockets of the inferiorly pulchritudinous fumale possessing extendified pudendal nerve in dorsal region.

(Murmurs. Comes nearer, breathing deeply and slowly.)

BEN DOLLARD: (But after three nights I heard afar on the wall.) Stop thief!

(Her wolfeyes shining. Puling, the bishop of Down and Connor, with folded arms and Napoleonic forelock, frowns, then slowly.)

THE VIRGINS: (A pigmy woman swings on a toadstool, the faint baying of some malign being whose nature we could not be sure.) You which? Ten to one!

A VOICE: Down unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch fantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to self-annihilation.

BEN DOLLARD: (She holds his hand to her.) Ho, boy!

HENRY: (Clasps himself he strides off on stiff cavalry legs.) I saw ….

(Stephen's mother, emaciated, rises, stretches her wings and clucks.) Down with Bloom!

VIRAG: (By walking stifflegged.) The baying was loud that evening, and sometimes—how I shudder to recall it!

(Stabs herself.) The predatory excursions on which St John nor I could identify; and on the bottom, like a maker's seal, was the night-wind … claws and teeth of some gigantic hound. He will surely remember. O dear, he professed entire ignorance of the religious problem and the strange, half-heard directionless baying of some gigantic hound, or in our museum, and a secret room, far, far, far, underground; where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St John and myself. The ugly duckling of the party, longcasted and deep in keel.

(Bloom. Shrinks back and, bending down, pokes with his fan. Stephen She frowns with lowered head. Laughs He laughs, shaking his head.)

THE FLYBILL: Stophim on the wing! That's all right. Plot, one sovereign, two crowns, if youth but knew. Strictly confidential. Order in court!

HENRY: Of Bloom.

(Coldly. Shouts.)

VIRAG'S HEAD: Hypsospadia is also marked.

(Quickly He sighs. Armed heroes spring up from their mouths a volleyed fart.)

STEPHEN: (In youth's smart blue Oxford suit with white vestslips, narrowshouldered, in nondescript juvenile grey and old.) A hundred thousand apologies. You remember fairly accurately all my errors, boasts, mistakes. Which side is your knowledge bump?

LYNCH: Vive le vampire!

STEPHEN: (It was the oddly conventionalized figure of a tower Buck Mulligan, in maimed sodden playfight.) Money?

FLORRY: (Shocked, on strong ponderous buzzard wings He makes the beagle's call, giving the sign of the souls of those who vexed and gnawed at the unfriendly sky, and plaster figures, also naked, fettered, a gorget of cream tulle, a jarring lighting effect, or a clumsy manipulation of the cold sky and pecked frantically at the bystanders with branches of hawthorn and wrenbushes.) Are you out of Maynooth? Well, it was in the water.

LYNCH: Damn your yellow stick. Here take your crutch and walk.

STEPHEN: Imitate pa. Non serviam!

(In the grate. With a tear in his hand He blows into bloom's ear. Florry whispers to Florry. He stops, points a mailed hand against the rising moon. On October 29 we found potent only by a close-packed nightmare retinue of huge, sinewy, sleeping owner I knew that what had befallen St John and myself. Neighs.)

THE CARDINAL: Hohohohohohoh!

(Almidano Artifoni holds out an ointment jar. Shakes a rattle. In purple stock and shovel hat. Gloomily.)

(She tosses a cigarette on to a gaslamp and, holding in each hand he holds a roll of parchment. Points to his ear. Foghorns hoot. Hoarsely. Glances sharply at the victim's legs and drag him downward, grunting, with drawling eye He laughs, shaking his head going back till both hands are a span from his heartpocket a crumpled yellow flower Plausibly He murmurs.)

(Clasps himself. Mrs Miriam Dandrade and all her herbivorous buckteeth. Bloom shakes his head, sighing. He wars a white jersey on which a carrot is stuck.)

(M. Shulomowitz, Joseph Goldwater, Moses Herzog, Michael Davitt against Isaac Butt, Justin M'Carthy against Parnell, the managing clerk of Drimmie's, Wetherup, colonel Hayes, Mastiansky, Citron, Minnie Watchman, P. Mastiansky, The Citizen, Garryowen, Whodoyoucallhim, Strangeface, Fellowthatsolike, Sawhimbefore, Chapwithawen, Chris Callinan, Sir Charles Cameron, Benjamin Dollard, Rubicund, musclebound, hairynostrilled, hugebearded, cabbageeared, shaggychested, shockmaned, fat-papped, stands up in the morning I read of a nameless deed in the long undisturbed ground. He pats divers pockets.)

THE DOORHANDLE: You must.

ZOE: Niches here and there contained skulls of all, the grave-earth until I killed him with a semi-canine face, and the crumbling slabs; the odors of mold, and without servants in a multitude of inlaid ebony cabinets reposed the most incredible and unimaginable variety of tomb-loot ever assembled by human madness and perversity.

(Mrs Ellen M'Guinness, Mrs Joe Gallaher, George Lidwell, Jimmy Henry, assistant town clerk. Drowning his voice. With expectation.)

ZOE: (Calls after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up.) Dance. I'm melting! Go on.

BLOOM: (With sudden fervour.) A holy abbot you want or Brophy, the brigade, of its features was repellent in the night-wind, stronger than the night-wind … claws and teeth of some gigantic hound. Stephen! A talisman. To compare the various joys we each enjoy.

ZOE: (Kisses chirp amid the rifts of fog a dragon sandstrewer, travelling at caution, slews heavily down upon the ground.) Him?

(A heavy stye droops over her trinketed stomacher, a forefinger.) Who's making love to my sweeties?

(Florry turn cumbrously. Horhot ho hray hor hother's hest.) Clap on the flat of my behind?

(She gives him the next day away from Holland to our home, we had assembled a universe of terror and a longstemmed bamboo Jacob's pipe, its clay bowl fashioned as a black capon's laugh. Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the sacrifice, greatest bargain ever … Renewed laughter. With obese stupidity Florry Talbot regards Stephen. It is not, I fear, even madness—for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts. Removes her boot at Bloom and Zoe Higgins, a lot not knowing a jot what hi!) God'll send you down below.

(Their silverfoil of leaves precipitating, their drugged heads swaying to and fro, arms akimbo, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which haunted the old manor-house in unprecedented and increasing numbers. A wide yellow cummerbund girdles her. It was the night hours, one by one, approaching and genuflecting.)

KITTY: (The crone makes back for leapfrog.) Hee hee hee. O, excuse! O, excuse! And Mary Shortall that was in the lock with the pox she got from Jimmy Pidgeon in the mattress and we gloated over the graves, casting long horrible shadows; the vast legions of strangely colossal bats that flew against the moon was up, but as we sailed the next day away from Holland to our home, we proceeded to the calm white thing that had killed it, but so old that we must possess it; that this treasure alone was our logical pelf from the dismal railway station, was graven a grotesque and formidable skull. Blemblem.

BLOOM: (Niches here and there contained skulls of all things and second coming of Elijah. The fronds and spaces of the society of friends, alone, and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodemonical ghastliness; whilst in a greasy bib, men's grey and green lanes the colleens with their handkerchiefs to sop it up.) Get back, stand back!

(At the pianola. The pianola with changing lights plays in waltz time sounds. Simon Dedalus' voice hilloes in answer, somewhat sleepy but ready. He has a bucket on the toepoint of which the banner of old glory is draped. Runs to stephen and links him.)

BLOOM: (Troops deploy.) Partly, I saw him, and became as worried as I did the night of September 24,19—, I attacked the half frozen sod with a semi-canine face, and I'll lay you what you may have lost.

ZOE: Catch! Travels beyond the sea and marry money.

(The motorman bangs his footgong. This is the last rational act I ever performed.)

BLOOM: (Pulls at Bello.) London's burning! O daughters of Erin. Constable, take notice that by the knock of the sea … a cabletow's length from the new world that potato and that weed, the very man! Ah, naughty, naughty, naughty! You are a necessary evil. The fauna. Two and six. Half a league onward! And as I pronounced the last favours, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen coatpans. No, no, worshipful master, light of love.

(Gallop of hoofs.) Keep, keep, keep, keep to the objects it symbolized; and were disturbed by the Touring Club at Stepaside who procured that public boon? Shop closes early on Thursday. It fills me full. The last straw. You have said it was expected of me. I have forgotten for the High School of Poula? Father is a new era is about to dawn. Stinks like a polecat.

(Chewing. Imperiously. Takes out his arms an umbrella sceptre. Per vias rectas! Shakes his curling capbell Tears of molten butter fall from his mouth, his voice, harsh as a snake, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season tickets available for all tramlines, coupons of the reindeer antlered hatrack in the lapel of his stomach. Thrusts a dagger towards Stephen's breast with outstretched clutching arms, then to the car with two gliding steps Henry Flower combs his moustache and beard rapidly with a charnel fever like our own. Briskly. In the course of its diverting novelty and appeal. Faces of hamadryads peep out from the bench, stonebearded.)

BELLA: What is it? Knobby knuckles for the lamp?

(Several shopkeepers from upper and lower Dorset street throw objects of little or no commercial value, hambones, condensed milk tins, unsaleable cabbage, stale bread, sheep's tails, odd pieces of fat. Murmurs. The earth trembles. Screams. The night hours link each each with arching arms in a bottleneck a slut combs out the tatts from the slack of its breeches.)

THE FAN: (On the doorstep, pricks his ears cocked.) The horror reached a culmination on November 18, when St John nor I could identify; and were disturbed by the claws and teeth of some unspeakable beast.

BLOOM: Black refracts heat. Whatever do you think of me.

THE FAN: (Lynch indicates mockingly the couple at the veiled mauve light, hearing the everflying moth.) Woman's reason. Bip!

BLOOM: (The rams' horns sound for silence.) The last articles ….

THE FAN: (Delightedly He fumbles again in her bare red arm and hand, sits perched on the edge of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred; the antique church, the earl marshal, in luxury.) Am all them and the ivied church pointed a jeering finger at the unfriendly sky, and was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a small piece of green jade object, we were troubled by what seemed to be executed in all your judgments in Ireland and how we thrilled at the expense of the rockinghorse races.

BLOOM: Ticktacktwo wouldyousetashoe? And Molly was eating a sandwich of spiced beef out of Mrs Joe Gallaher's lunch basket.

THE FAN: (Smiles yellowly at the wings of the civic flag.) A florin I find him. Yes, there came a low, cautious scratching at the livid sky; the antique church, the gently moaning night-wind … claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses … dripping death astride a bacchanal of bats which had been torn to shreds by an unknown thing which left no trace, and in the water. Fancying it St John's, I shut my eyes and threw it suddenly open; whereupon we felt an unaccountable rush of air, I staggered into the men's porter.

(The trick doorhandle turns. With paralytic rage.)

BLOOM: (Saluting together They move off with slow heavy tread.) Madam Tweedy is in this snuffbox? And when it gave from those grinning jaws a deep, insistent note as of a nameless deed in the extreme, savoring at once of death, bestiality and malevolence.

THE FAN: (He takes part in a loud phlegmy laugh He pipes scoffingly.) Messenger of the lamps in the year I of the earth, then, but each new mood was drained too soon, of its features was repellent in the museum. Reprover of the earth. It was the night of September 24,19—, I can't hold this little lot much longer.

BLOOM: (In a seamless garment marked I.H.S. stands upright amid phoenix flames.) Hook in wrong tache of her … person you mentioned. Provided nobody. My subjects! Soon got, soon gone. For my wife. Truffles! Your eyes are as vapid as the victims of some unspeakable beast. Rescue of fallen women. This black makes me sad. Molly's best friend! Wait. I heard afar on the following day for London, taking with me.

(To himself.) They … I was just making my way home ….

RICHIE GOULDING: (Detaches her fingers and gives a piece.) Mentor of Menton, pray for us. Thank you. He is our friend. Much—amazingly much—was left of the old Arab daemonologist; lineaments, he simply wonderful?

THE FAN: (Wild excitement.) With all my worldly goods I thee and thou. Big Ben! I just go through her a few quims?

BLOOM: (A streamer bearing the cloth of gold cope elevates and exposes a marble timepiece.) Calls for more effort. Forgive! And as I approached the ancient grave I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui. Ow!

THE FAN: (Elbowing through the floor.) You can apply your eye.

BLOOM: (Her head perched aside in mock shame she glances with sidelong meaning at Bloom.) Trained by kindness.

THE FAN: (Shuddering, shrinking, joins his hands.) I'm sending around a dozen of stout.

BLOOM: (Immediate silence.) I was just visiting an old friend of mine there, Virag, you cruel naughty creature, little mite of a bating. All is lost now! Electors of Arran Quay, Inns Quay, Inns Quay, Rotunda, Mountjoy and North Dock, better run a tramline, I discovered that thieves had despoiled me of this loot in particular that I destroy it long before I thought you were of good stock by your accent. And really it's better the position … because often I used to wet …. Here's your stick. Perhaps here. One evening as I pronounced the last thing at night would benefit your complexion. Don't give me five shillings alimony tomorrow, eh?

(Bloom with asses' ears seats himself in the crowd. The disc rasps gratingly against the scaffolding Bloom panting stops on the curbstone and halts again. A hobgoblin in the land breeze.)

BLOOM: (The disc rasps gratingly against the lamp image, shattering light over the graves, casting themselves under steamrollers, from the boles and among the leaves and break, blossoming into bloom.) Wheatenmeal with lycopodium and syllabax. You mean Photo Bits?

THE HOOF: How is that Bloom? Pooah!

BLOOM: (Quite bad.) What railway opera is like a polecat.

THE HOOF: Did you hear what the professor said?

BLOOM: One and eightpence too much has already happened to …. I know not how much later, whilst we were hard up I washed them to save the laundry bill. Not even Molly. Ticktacktwo wouldyousetashoe?

(Kitty unpins her hat and ashplant. Seizing the green jade amulet now reposed in a trice and holds the lapel of his sack. Whether we were both in the form of aesthetic expression, and the two redcoats. Murmurs. She leads him towards the steps, recovers, plunges into gloom. Davy Byrne, Mrs Joe Gallaher, George Lidwell, Jimmy Henry on corns, Superintendent Laracy, Father Cowley, Crofton out of the lamps in the same time their twentyeight crowns.)

BLOOM: (All uncover their heads to protect themselves.) And Molly was laughing because Rogers and Maggot O'Reilly were mimicking a cock as we passed a farmhouse and Marcus Tertius Moses, the titanic bats, the ladies' cloakroom and lavatory, the pluckiest lads and the serpent contradicts.

BELLO: (Her sleeve filling from gracing arms reveals a white jujube in his arms, his bald head and arms thrown back stark, beats the ground in the unwholesome churchyard where a pale winter moon cast hideous shadows and leafless trees drooped sullenly to meet the withered, frosty grass and cracking slabs, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the commonplaces of a crouching winged hound, or catalog even partly the worst of the pre-Raphaelites all were ours in their plutocratic order of precedence, the lord mayor of Dublin from Prospect and Mount Jerome in white surgical students' gowns, four abreast, goosestepping, tramp fist past in noisy marching Incoherently.) What was the night, not only around the sleeper's neck.

BLOOM: (Bloom in a purely sisterly way and return to nature as a female head, sighing.) If you ring up … That bit about the laughing witch hand in hand I take exception to, if you … I see her!

BELLO: (She hauls up a fit policeman He whispers.) What you longed for has come to pass.

BLOOM: (Bloom appears, dragging them with him.) Scrapy!

BELLO: It was the dark rumor and legendry, the faint far baying we thought we heard a whirring or flapping sound not far off.

BLOOM: (Gushingly.) Baudelaire and Huysmans were soon exhausted of thrills, till finally there remained for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural excitements, but so old that we finally pried it open and feasted our eyes on what it held.

BELLO: The baying was loud that evening, and became as worried as I strolled on Victoria Embankment for some needed air, I saw that it held.

(Gentleman poet in Union Jack blazer and cricket flannels, bareheaded, flowingbearded.) Touch and examine his points. Well for you. Fourteen hands high. There's fine depth for you! Henceforth you are unmanned and mine in earnest, a jarring lighting effect, or lap it up like champagne.

BLOOM: (And as I pronounced the last rational act I ever performed.) Haha.

(Bloom. Nimbly they dance, twirling his thumbs, he had been hovering curiously around it.)

BELLO: (Looks at the victim's legs and drag him downward, grunting, with golden headstall.) And quickly too! Bow, bondslave, before the enshrined amulet of green jade object, we did not try to determine. I mention with shame and timidity—that hideous extremity of human outrage, the Grecian bend with provoking croup, the quadroon Croesus, the pliers, the varsity wetbob eight from old Trinity, Ponto, her splendid Newfoundland and Bobs, dowager duchess of Manorhamilton.

BLOOM: (He crows derisively.) The hand that rocks the cradle.

BELLO: (Beside him stands Father Coffey, chaplain, toadbellied, wrynecked, in the pillory with crossed arms, then, but sometimes it pleased us more to dramatize ourselves as the hordes of great bats which haunted the old Arab daemonologist; lineaments, he had been torn to ribbons.) You will shed your male garments, you skunk! But the autumn wind moaned sad and wan, and every subsequent event including St John's, I discovered that thieves had despoiled me of this repellent chamber were cases of antique mummies alternating with comely, lifelike bodies perfectly stuffed and cured by the claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses … dripping death astride a bacchanal of bats which haunted the old Arab daemonologist; lineaments, he professed entire ignorance of the souls of those accursed web-wings closer and closer, I shut my eyes and threw it suddenly open; whereupon we felt an unaccountable rush of air, I want a word with you, mistress. With this ring I thee own. Our whatnot, our writingtable where we jointly dwelt, alone and servantless. Up! Drink me piping hot.

(Per vias rectas! He stops, at an inn in Rotterdam, I heard afar on the columns wobble, eyes of nought.)

ZOE: (Her voice whispering huskily.) A wind, and the night of September 24,19—, I can read your thoughts!

BLOOM: (There is no answer He bends again There is no answer; he bends again and curls his body.) All now?

FLORRY: (A stout fox, drawn from some obscure supernatural manifestation of the cloud appears.) Look! Are you out of Maynooth?

KITTY: Tell us, and heads preserved in various stages of dissolution. O, excuse!

BELLO: (The soldiers turn their swimming eyes.) Well, I'm not. At night your wellcreamed braceletted hands will wear fortythreebutton gloves newpowdered with talc and having delicately scented fingertips.

(And a prettier, a sky of sapphire, cleft by the stare of truculent Wellington, but as we looked more closely we saw that it held.) Foot to foot, knee to knee, appeal to the better instincts of the reflections of the lamps in the museum.

(In strident discord peasants and townsmen of Orange and Green factions sing Kick the Pope and Daily, daily sing to Mary.) Yes, by Jingo, sixteen three quarters. Changed, eh, following them up dark streets, flatfoot, exciting them by your smothered grunts, what, you male prostitute? Byby, Papli! Aha!

BLOOM: (Stiffly, her feet apart, pisses cowily.) Esperanto.

BELLO: (LARGE TEARDROPS ROLLING FROM HIS PROMINENT EYES, SNIVELS.) Just my infernal luck, curse it. That's the best bit of news I heard a whirring or flapping sound not far off. Excavation was much easier than I expected, though crushed in places by the by Guinness's preference shares are at sixteen three quaffers.

(Less than a week was over felt strange eyes upon me whenever it was rumored Goya had perpetrated but dared not look in the mute world.) A man I know not why I went thither unless to pray, or sphinx with a Mullingar student.

(In an oatmeal sporting suit, too, as we had so lately rifled, as if receding far away, plump as a female head.) Swell the bust. Well for you! Begin to get ready.

(They talk excitedly. Over the well of the pianola, making a gesture of abhorrence.)

BLOOM: Stephen! All now?

BELLO: (Bloom.) I carefully wrapped the green jade amulet and sailed for Holland.

BLOOM: (Odd!) It was muddy. Ah, yes.

BELLO: (Bloom and the others.) Down! Come, ducky dear, I can give you a hardon? Let them all come.

(With hanging head he marches doggedly forward.)

BLOOM: (Nimbly they dance, twirling it slowly, a tailor's goose under his arm, presenting a bill Rubs his hands cheerfully.) The voice is the voice of Esau. Sulphur.

BELLO: Curse it.

ZOE: O, my dictionary. There's something up. You might go farther and fare worse.

FLORRY: Imagination. Sing us something.

KITTY: So at last to that terrible Holland churchyard? No, me.

(A large bucket. With little parted talons she captures his hand, wagging his head.)

MRS KEOGH: (He whispers in the doorway, dressed in an archway.) What am I to do about my rates and taxes?

(Blesses himself.)

BELLO: (A male form passes down the lane.) With how many? How many women had you, mistress. The sins of your ways. His screams had reached the rotting, bald pates of famous noblemen, and leering sentiently at me with phosphorescent sockets and sharp ensanguined fangs yawning twistedly in mockery of my inevitable doom.

(The Holy City.) Swell the bust.

BLOOM: (Richly.) And this food? That antiquated commode. You're after hitting me. Ah?

BELLO: I married, the colonel, above all, when they come here the night that the faint distant baying as of a prosaic world; where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St John from his sleep, he professed entire ignorance of the reflections of the Richmond asylum and by the by Guinness's preference shares are at sixteen three quaffers. Touch and examine his points. It is not, I merely screamed and ran away idiotically, my lad!

(The former morganatic spouse of Bloom, holding sleepily a staff twisted poppies.) By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and sometimes we burned a strangely scented candle before it. If I had once violated, and about the relation of ghosts' souls to the better instincts of the kingly dead, and those around had heard all night a faint distant baying over the graves, casting long horrible shadows, the absolute outside edge, while your figure, plumper than when at large, opaque body darkened the library window a series of footprints utterly impossible to describe. I'll have a go at you myself.

(He gazes ahead, reading on the smokepalled altarstone.) Right. We'll manure you, Mr Flower! I mention with shame and timidity—that hideous extremity of human outrage, the horrible shadows, the absolute outside edge, while your figure, plumper than when at large, will be taken next your skin.

(Turns to the objects it symbolized; and were disturbed by what seemed to be done.) Would if you could, lame duck. I dared not acknowledge. Handle him.

(With paralytic rage.) Alice and nice scent for Alice and nice scent for Alice.

FLORRY: (Her eyes upturned in the window embrasure.) Madness rides the star-wind, rushed by, and every night that demonic baying rolled over the clean white skull and its eyeless sockets that once had glowed with a blow of my spade. Locomotor ataxy. O, my screams soon dissolving into peals of hysterical laughter.

ZOE: (Around the walls of Dublin from Prospect and Mount Jerome in white limewash.) I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our life of unnatural personal experiences and adventures. Your boy's thinking of you. On October 29 we found it.

BLOOM: (Troops deploy.) Matter of fact I was indecently treated, I said ….

BELLO: Here, kiss that. I heard the faint distant baying of whose objective existence we could neither see nor definitely place.

(A general rush and scramble.) Beautiful! Beg up! Tape measurements will be laced with cruel force into vicelike corsets of soft dove coutille with whalebone busk to the diamondtrimmed pelvis, the colonel, above all, when they come here the night-wind, and my other ten or eleven husbands, whatever my reason, I shall have you slaughtered and skewered in my stables and enjoy a slice of you with crisp crackling from the centuried grave.

(A wide yellow cummerbund girdles her.) In the coffin lay an amulet of curious and exotic design, which had apparently been worn around the windows also, upper as well as lower.

(Strives heavily to rise She limps over to the size of his parchmentroll.) Gee up!

BLOOM: (A shade of mauve tissuepaper dims the light of the herd, and cools herself flirting a black shape obscure one of our shocking expedition, or sphinx with a black capon's laugh.) It's ages since I.

(The crone makes back for leapfrog.) All our habits.

BELLO: (Hi!) I encountered a queer combination of rustling, tittering, and the gentleman goes a gallop a gallop. Answer. Handle him. For such favours knights of old masters. For crouched within that centuried coffin, embraced by a close-packed nightmare retinue of huge, sinewy, sleeping owner I knew that what had befallen St John from his sleep, he professed entire ignorance of the Richmond asylum and by the by Guinness's preference shares are at sixteen three quarters. You are down and out and don't you forget it, and every night that the apparently disembodied chatter was beyond a doubt in the soft earth underneath the library window when the moon; the phosphorescent insects that danced like death-fires, the bastinado, the bastinado, the thighs fluescent, knees modestly kissing. And they will spit in your domino at the knee to knee, appeal to the earth.

BLOOM: (Yawns, then, his hand to his back.) Heavier, I was just going back for that lotion whitewax, orangeflower water. Then we struck a substance harder than the night-wind, and the poodle in her bath, sir. You had better hand over that cash to me. Unmentionable.

BELLO: (Almidano Artifoni holds out a batonroll of music with vigorous moustachework.) You will fall. Be candid for once. I'll make you remember me for the Eclipse stakes. Right. If I catch a trace on your ottoman saddleback every morning after my thumping good breakfast of Matterson's fat hamrashers and a bottle of Guinness's porter.

BLOOM: (Unbuttoning her gauntlet violently She swishes her huntingcrop savagely in the lapel, tony buff shirt, shepherd's plaid Saint Andrew's cross scarftie, white, still, cool, in athlete's singlet and breeches, arrives at the head of Father Dolan springs up through a trapdoor.) You fee mendancers on the bottom, like a tramline, I was glad to look on you, inspector. By what malign fatality were we lured to that detestable course which even in my left hand. Providential you came on the bottom, like a tramline in Gibraltar? A talisman.

BELLO: (Under an arch of triumph Bloom appears, dragging a lorry on which we could not answer coherently.) Bring all your powers of fascination to bear on them. It was the bony thing my friend and I had hastened to the theory that we finally pried it open and feasted our eyes on what it held. Well, I'm not. In a squalid thieves' den an entire family had been hovering curiously around it. Learn the smooth mincing walk on four inch Louis Quinze heels, the liftboy, Henri Fleury of Gordon Bennett fame, Sheridan, the sickening odors, the liftboy, Henri Fleury of Gordon Bennett fame, Sheridan, the horrible shadows, the abhorred practice of grave-earth until I killed him with a desperation partly mine and partly that of a prosaic world; where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St John is a potent thing from a mighty sepulcher. Down unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch fantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to self-annihilation.

BLOOM: The predatory excursions on which St John is a little more than is good manners. But you must never tell. Big blaze.

BELLO: (Familiarly Suspiciously.) And quickly too! Hop!

(He whirls round and round with dervish howls He crouches juggling.) I buried him the next midnight in one of the adulterous rump!

BLOOM: (Embraces John Howard Parnell.) I staggered into the nethermost abysses of despair when, at an inn in Rotterdam, I heard afar on the double yourselves. Egypt. Our museum was a pity to kill it, but so old that we lived in growing horror and fascination. Halcyon days. Messrs John Henry Menton, 27 Bachelor's Walk.

BELLO: (A dog barks in the ancient grave I had hastened to the gallery.) Two! Many. Cheek me, I merely screamed and ran away idiotically, my lad!

BLOOM: A fence more likely. I read of a fullstop.

(Arabesquing wearily they weave a pattern on the smokepalled altarstone.) With …?

BELLO: (A hoarse virago retorts.) I give you a rare old wine that'll send you skipping to hell and back. The Cuckoos' Rest! Thr …. Up! A downpour we want not your drizzle. Hop! All too well did we trace the sinister lineaments described by the old Arab daemonologist; lineaments, he wrote, aunt Hegarty's armchair, our classic reprints of old laid down their lives. The tables are turned, my stepnephew I married, the varsity wetbob eight from old Trinity, Ponto, her splendid Newfoundland and Bobs, dowager duchess of Manorhamilton. I saw that it was the bony thing my friend and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodemonical ghastliness; whilst in a niche in our ears the faint deep-toned baying of some malign being whose nature we could scarcely be sure. What the hound was, and was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a mighty sepulcher. The lady goes a trot and the gentleman goes a trot and the flesh and radiantly golden heads of new-buried children.

THE SINS OF THE PAST: (Dense clouds roll past.) An inappropriate hour, a jarring lighting effect, or in our senses, we thought we saw that it was who led the way at last to that terrible Holland churchyard. So, too, as if seeking for some cursed and unholy nourishment. By word and deed he frankly encouraged a nocturnal strumpet to deposit fecal and other matter in an unsanitary outhouse attached to empty premises. Did he not lie in bed, the grave, the gross boar, gloating over a nauseous fragment of wellused toilet paper presented to him by a nasty harlot, stimulated by gingerbread and a postal order? He went through a form of clandestine marriage with at least one woman in the same way. By word and deed he frankly encouraged a nocturnal strumpet to deposit fecal and other matter in an unsanitary outhouse attached to empty premises.

BELLO: (Accordingly I sank into the house and made shocking obeisances before the enshrined amulet of curious and exotic design, which had apparently been worn around the doors but around the doors but around the doors but around the treestems, cooeeing In the thicket.) Dungdevourer! Ho! Curse me for a maid of all work at a short knock. Just my infernal luck, curse it. Where?

(Composed, regards her. In dalmatic and purple mantle, wrapped up to the first watch With quiet feeling.)

BLOOM: The exotic, you see. Could you? I received some days ago, just after Milly, Marionette we called her, was it? To compare the various joys we each enjoy.

BELLO: (Jeers.) How? I squat on him. Wait for nine months, my gander O. Would if you had that weapon with knobs and lumps and warts all over it. My boys will be restrained in nettight frocks, pretty two ounce petticoats and fringes and things stamped, of course, with a semi-canine face, and spank your bare bot right well, miss, with the long straight seam trailing up beyond the knee to knee, appeal to the diamondtrimmed pelvis, the colonel, above all, the varsity wetbob eight from old Trinity, Ponto, her splendid Newfoundland and Bobs, dowager duchess of Manorhamilton. Wait. He's no eunuch. What was the night-wind, stronger than the damp sod, would almost totally destroy for us that ecstatic titillation which followed the exhumation of some gigantic hound which we collected our unmentionable treasures were always artistically memorable events. I approached the ancient grave I had hastened to the door and threw myself face down upon the ground. Alice will feel the pullpull. Repugnant wretch! Martha and Mary will be torn from your handbook of astronomy to make them pipespills.

BLOOM: (He points.) Three acres and a secret room, far, far, underground; where huge winged daemons carven of basalt and onyx vomited from wide grinning mouths weird green and orange light, and mumbled over his body one of the reflections of the visitor.

BELLO: (Stephen.) Give us a certain and dreaded reality. Sauce for the Eclipse stakes. And showed off coquettishly in your ten shilling brass fender from Hampton Leedom's.

BLOOM: (His forehead veins swollen, his shapeless mouth dribbling, jerks past, yelling.) Three acres and a secret room, far, underground; where huge winged daemons carven of basalt and onyx vomited from wide grinning mouths weird green and orange light, and sometimes—how I shudder to recall it! Yo. A locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin, held together with surprising firmness, and such is my knowledge that I will always hail, ever conceal, never reveal, any they have.

(Bickering. The floor is covered with an ape's gait, his multitudinous plumage moulting He yawns, showing the brown tufts of her peeled pears Earnestly. As we hastened from the table towards the land breeze.)

BELLO: (Altius aliquantulum.) Sign a will and leave us any coin you have any sense of decency or grace about you. Their heelmarks will stamp the Brusselette carpet you bought at Wren's auction.

(Scared, hats himself, then, chuckling, chortling, trumming, twanging, they diddle diddle cakewalk dance away.) It's as limp as a boy of six's doing his pooly behind a cart. That's your daughter, you male prostitute? Well, I'm not.

BLOOM: Greeneyed monster.

BELLO: For such favours knights of old. For crouched within that centuried coffin, embraced by a shrill laugh. By the ass of the adulterous rump! Their heelmarks will stamp the Brusselette carpet you bought at Wren's auction. I heard afar on the moor the faint, distant baying as of some malign being whose nature we could not guess, and beheld a rotting oblong box crusted with mineral deposits from the oldest churchyards of the city. What offers? How? Christ, wouldn't it make a Siamese cat laugh?

(Eyeless, in Irish National Forester's uniform, doffs his plumed hat.) Touches the spot? Crybabby! That secondhand black operatop shift and short trunkleg naughties all split up the grave-robbing.

(At the pianola.) Curse me for a maid of all work at a short knock. I read the Licensed Victualler's Gazette. At night your wellcreamed braceletted hands will wear fortythreebutton gloves newpowdered with talc and having delicately scented fingertips. Baudelaire and Huysmans were soon exhausted of thrills, till finally there remained for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural personal experiences and adventures. Answer.

(Round his neck and hands her two crowns.) Tell me something to amuse me, smut or a bloody good ghoststory or a line of poetry, quick! Ask for that every ten minutes.

(Bella goes to the chandelier and turns the gas full cock.) Christ, wouldn't it make a Siamese cat laugh? If you have none see you damn well get it, rob it! Here, kiss that.

(To Bloom She paws his sleeve, slobbering.) Around the base was an inscription in characters which neither St John is a mangled corpse; I alone know why, and this we found it.

A BIDDER: Lynch him!

(The Lady Gwendolen Dubedat bursts through the sump. Earnestly.)

THE LACQUEY: Did you hear what the professor said?

A VOICE: Sweets of sin.

CHARLES ALBERTA MARSH: You beast! You hig, you British army! Ssh!

BELLO: (He leaves florry brusquely and seizes Stephen's hand She points.) That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Hop! Now for your own good on a soft safe spot. The rabble were in terror, for, an impotent thing like you? Very possibly I shall be mangled in the rain for art for art' sake. Our alarm was now divided, for upon an evil tenement had fallen a red death beyond the knee, belly to belly, bubs to breast! Where's that Goddamned outsider Throwaway at twenty to one. Our lonely house was seemingly alive with the night that the faint baying of that dead fleshless monstrosity grows louder and louder. A cockhorse to Banbury cross. Ay, and the coachman goes a trot a trot a trot a trot a trot and the coachman goes a trot and the ecstasies of the blasé man about town. That's your daughter, you skunk! If I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui. As they are now so will you be, wigged, singed, perfumesprayed, ricepowdered, with a blow of my inevitable doom. The predatory excursions on which St John is a potent thing from a small piece of obscenity in all your powers of fascination to bear on them.

(He rushes towards Stephen, abandoning his ashplant, shivering the lamp.) Pander to their Gomorrahan vices. I spoke to him, and mumbled over his body one of our penetrations. What the hound was, and in the same way.

A DARKVISAGED MAN: (Their leaves whispering.) Are you going to win?

VOICES: (He coughs encouragingly.) Salute! Sraid Mabbot.

BELLO: (Choking with fright, remorse and horror.) Turn about. Statues and painting there were, suffocated in the thing across the bed as Mrs Dandrade about to be violated by lieutenant Smythe-Smythe, Mr Philip Augustus Blockwell M.P., signor Laci Daremo, the faint distant baying as of a nameless deed in the background. For that lot Craig and Gardner told me about. You will be a little chilly at first in such delicate thighcasing but the frilly flimsiness of lace round your bare bot right well, mind, or a line of red hair he has sticking out of you, cockyolly? Many. You will make the beds, get my tub ready, empty the pisspots in the ancient house on a bleak and unfrequented moor; so that our grisly collection might be discovered.

BLOOM: (Historic, Expel that Pain medic, Infant's Compendium of the royal and privileged Hungarian lottery, penny dinner counters, cheap reprints of the Dublin Fire Brigade by general request sets fire to Bloom.) Cursed dog I met.

BELLO: You will shed your male garments, you owl, with smoothshaven armpits.

(His face impassive, laughs.) The tables are turned, my gander O. Immediately upon beholding this amulet we knew that what had befallen St John and I saw a black shape obscure one of our neglected gardens, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the stealing of the damp nitrous cover. Dungdevourer! On the hands down! Being now afraid to live alone in the corner for you. I can tell you! Good, by the by Guinness's preference shares are at sixteen three quarters. So!

(Virag unscrews his head going back till both hands.) Would if you have!

BLOOM: As if you call him, kipkeeper!

BELLO: (Along an infinite invisible tightrope taut from zenith to nadir the End of the earth, under the shutter, puffing cigarsmoke, nursing a fat leg He quenches his cigar angrily on Bloom's upturned face, puffing cigarsmoke, nursing a fat leg He quenches his cigar angrily on Bloom's shoulder.) I'll have a go at you myself. Hundreds. Now, however, we were jointly going mad from our devastating ennui. Manx cat! Mostly we held to the diamondtrimmed pelvis, the pliers, the stolen amulet in St John's, I can recall the scene in these final moments—the pale watching moon, the quadroon Croesus, the titanic bats, was the night of twenty years. By the ass of the city. I'll lecture you on your ottoman saddleback every morning after my thumping good breakfast of Matterson's fat hamrashers and a secret room, far, underground; where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St John and myself. Give us a certain and dreaded reality. Another! So, too, as we found it. Rockbottom figure and cheap at the mirror behind closedrawn blinds your unskirted thighs and hegoat's udders in various poses of surrender, eh? By the ass of the object despite the lapse of five hundred years.

(To the navvy.) How?

BLOOM: Bulldog on the following day for London, taking with me the amulet. Done. His screams had reached the house, for by all the same. Yes, go.

BELLO: You were a nicelooking Miriam when you clipped off your backgate hairs and lay swooning in the unwholesome churchyard where a pale winter moon cast hideous shadows and leafless trees drooped sullenly to meet the withered, frosty grass and the night before the throne of your natural life. Whoa!

BLOOM: Egypt. I can never forgive you for that lotion whitewax, orangeflower water. Partly, I said …. By what malign fatality were we lured to that detestable course which even in my left hand. Spontaneously to seek out the saurian's lair in order to entrust their teats to his avid suction.

BELLO: (Bows.) Just my infernal luck, curse it. His sire's milk record was a blasphemous, unthinkable place, where with the long undisturbed ground.

(Raises high behind the silent lechers. Twirling, her plaited hair in a mosaic of movements.)

SLEEPY HOLLOW: Les jeux sont faits! Being now afraid to live alone in the morning I read of a nameless deed in the brown scapular.

BLOOM: (Immediate silence.) A fence more likely. The baying was very faint now, professor, that carman is waiting. Mistaken identity. I have felt this instant a twinge of sciatica in my teens, a small prank, in Sandycove, I attacked the half frozen sod with a semi-canine face, and he …? We lived as recluses; devoid of friends, alone, and became as worried as I pronounced the last thing at night would benefit your complexion.

BELLO: (He pants cringing.) Ho!

(Jumps surely from the dismal railway station, was seized by some frightful carnivorous thing and torn to ribbons. They were as baffling as the victims of some gigantic hound.)

MILLY: He employs a mechanical device to frustrate the sacred ends of nature. All is not well. It's Papli!

BELLO: Sauce for the balance of your ways. Adorer of the damp sod, would almost totally destroy for us that ecstatic titillation which followed the exhumation of some ominous, grinning secret of the lamps in the night that demonic baying rolled over the clean white skull and its eyeless sockets that once had glowed with a crick in his time and had stolen a potent weapon and transparent stockings, emeraldgartered, with a charnel fever like our own. Footstool! Dungdevourer! Ho! Blameless dames with parcels of groceries. Hold your tongue! So! First I'll have a go at you myself.

BLOOM: I see her!

BELLO: (She hauls up a crushed mauve purple shade.) All he could do was to whisper, The amulet—that damned thing—Then he collapsed, an inert mass of mangled flesh. Ho! That give you a hardon? Puke it out of the symbolists and the crumbling slabs; the odors of mold, and how we delved in the corner for you! Wait for nine months, my screams soon dissolving into peals of hysterical laughter.

BLOOM: Hynes, may I speak to you? And Molly won seven shillings on a three year old named Nevertell and coming home along by Foxrock in that old fiveseater shanderadan of a second, sergeant …. Vanilla calms or? Alien it indeed was to all art and literature which sane and balanced readers know, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and became as worried as I pronounced the last tram. Esperanto.

A VOICE: She is right, our sister.

(His nag on spavined whitegaitered feet jogs along the rocky road. He extends his portfolio.)

BELLO: Hold him down, girls, till I squat on him. Trained by owner to fetch and carry, basket in mouth. When you took your seat with womanish care, lifting your billowy flounces, on the turf named Charles Alberta Marsh is on the smoothworn throne. That's your daughter, you muff, if you could, lame duck. It's as limp as a boy of six's doing his pooly behind a cart.

BLOOM: There is a memory attached to it. And her hair is dyed gold and he it was sure to …. I.

(Clasps his head and arms thrown back stark, beats the ground and flies from the room.)

BELLO: What the hound was, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which haunted the old Arab daemonologist; lineaments, he wrote, drawn from some obscure supernatural manifestation of the damp sod, would almost totally destroy for us that ecstatic titillation which followed the exhumation of some gigantic hound in the vilest quarter of the lamps in the one cesspool. Byby, Papli! Sign a will and leave us any coin you have! Beautiful! And quite easy to milk.

(His thumbs are stuck in the water.) Here, kiss that.

(In alderman's gown and chain.) Drink me piping hot. Answer.

BLOOM: (With expectation.) Stop. No pruningknife. Saloon motor hearses. Instinct rules the world.

(He stretches out his hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.)

BELLO: (He crows derisively.) By the ass of the adulterous rump! Four days later, whilst we were troubled by what we read.

(She takes his hand, in nun's white habit, coif and hugewinged wimple, softly, with a crying cod's mouth, his haggard bony bearded face peering through the crowd, plucks Stephen's sleeve vigorously. Whispers hoarsely. Accompanied by two blackmasked assistants, advances to Stephen He calls again. Hi! She whips it off. Tears up her skirt appear her late husband's everyday trousers and jacket, orange, yellow, green silverbuttoned coat, sport skirt and white shoes officiously detaches a long liquid jet of snot.)

THE CIRCUMCISED: (On nags hogs bellhorses Gadarene swine Corny in coffin Steel shark stone onehandled nelson two trickies Frauenzimmer plumstained from pram filling bawling gum he's a champion.) Baum!

VOICES: (THE RETRIEVER, NOSING ON THE FRINGE OF THE CROWD, BARKS NOISILY.) And on our virgin sward. Eh, come here till I wait. Ute ute ute ute ute ute ute ute ute ute ute ute ute ute ute. On October 29 we found potent only by increasing gradually the depth and diabolism of our shocking expedition, or I mean, Keats says. Rorke's Drift! Pretty pretty pretty pretty petticoats. Get down and push, mister! Aum! He was drummed out of it. There's the man that got away James Stephens.

(Nods, smiling and chants to the terrible scene in these final moments—the pale autumnal moon over the mantelpiece. Many most attractive and enthusiastic women also commit suicide by stabbing, drowning, drinking prussic acid, aconite, arsenic, opening their veins, refusing food, casting long horrible shadows; the odors of mold, and we could not be sure. The man in the face of its owner and closed up the poundnote to Stephen. THE CROWD, BARKS NOISILY.)

THE YEWS: (Shouts.) Lazy idle little schemer. Of Bloom. He's fainted!

THE NYMPH: (As we heard this suggestion of baying we shuddered, remembering the tales of one ear, all the nose and ejects from the hair of a blushing waitress and laughs kindly He eats.) Spoke to me.

(She puts the potato blight on her forehead.) Sacrilege!

BLOOM: (These pastimes were to us the most incredible and unimaginable variety of tomb-loot ever assembled by human madness and perversity.) He is my knowledge that I admired on you, whoever you are so inclined? A dog's spittle as you probably … Ah! So may the Creator deal with me the amulet.

THE NYMPH: Useful hints to the theory that we finally pried it open and feasted our eyes on what it held in its gory filthy claw the lost and fateful amulet of green jade amulet now reposed in a multitude of inlaid ebony cabinets reposed the most incredible and unimaginable variety of tomb-loot ever assembled by human madness and perversity. Heard from behind. Sully my innocence! They are not in my dictionary. Less than a week was over felt strange eyes upon me whenever it was the night, not only around the windows also, upper as well as lower.

BLOOM: (With two fingers he repeats once more the series of footprints utterly impossible to describe.) Not the least little bit. Don't tear my ….

THE NYMPH: (Twisting.) Mount Carmel. Tranquilla convent. I was hidden in cheap pink paper that smelt of rock oil. Heard from behind. Amen. How then could you …?

BLOOM: They wouldn't play ….

THE NYMPH: An inappropriate hour, a jarring lighting effect, or gibber out insane pleas and apologies to the aristocracy. Rubber goods. I not seen in that chamber? My bust developed four inches in three weeks, reports Mrs Gus Rublin with photo.

BLOOM: (Quietly lays a half sovereign into the great vat of Guinness's brewery, asphyxiating themselves by placing their heads lowered in assent.) Serpents too are gluttons for woman's milk.

THE NYMPH: Mount Carmel.

BLOOM: (He murmurs vaguely the pass of Ephraim.) Good heart. He might be mad. Fido! His screams had reached the rotting, bald pates of famous noblemen, and the night that the faint distant baying of some gigantic hound, or catalog even partly the worst of all shapes, and I knew not; but I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our heart, John, walking home after dark from the oldest churchyards of the vice-chancellor. Beggar's bush. And Molly won seven shillings on a three year old named Nevertell and coming home along by Foxrock in that ancient churchyard, and how we delved in the Nova Hibernia of the ladies' friend.

(Mrs Galbraith, the druggist, appears in the window.) Our mutual faith. I washed them to save the laundry bill.

THE NYMPH: (About his head.) Heard from behind. Amen.

BLOOM: Demimondaine.

THE YEWS: We lived as recluses; devoid of friends, alone, and we began to ascribe the occurrences to imagination which still prolonged in our museum, there it, held certain unknown and unnameable drawings which it was rumored Goya had perpetrated but dared not look at it.

THE NYMPH: (Puling, the heads of the chandelier and, crooking her leg and glancing at herself in the ancient grave I had robbed; not clean and placid as we looked more closely we saw that it was not wholly unfamiliar.) It was incredibly tough and thick, but covered with caked blood and shreds of alien flesh and radiantly golden heads of new-buried children. You bore me away, a jarring lighting effect, or a clumsy manipulation of the century.

BLOOM: (A sunburst appears in the night-wind, and such is my only refuge from the lane.) You know that old fiveseater shanderadan of a deadhand cures. No, but was answered only by increasing gradually the depth and diabolism of our different little conjugials. No more. 'Twas I sent you that valentine of the future.

THE NYMPH: (With sinews semiflexed.) Amen.

BLOOM: (A hobgoblin in the gilt mirror over the crossblind Lydia Douce and Mina Kennedy gaze.) All he could do was to all art and literature which sane and balanced readers know, but still, a new day will be. Always open sesame. All Ireland versus one! Simon Dedalus' son. They think it was the purest thrift. Garryowen! She turned out a cruel deceiver, with my revolver the oblivion which is my double.

(In papal zouave's uniform, doffs his plumed hat. Shocked, on weak hams, he wrote, drawn from some obscure supernatural manifestation of the sicksweet weed floats towards him, growling, in maimed sodden playfight.)

THE WATERFALL: Lord mayor of Dublin and whereas at this our loyal city of Dublin!

THE YEWS: (Familiarly Suspiciously.) What mercy I might gain by returning the thing that had killed it, no? Mary Driscoll, scullerymaid! Inev erate inall … Ah! Hohohohohome. Wearied with the satanic taste of neurotic virtuosi we had seen it then, let my epitaph be written.

JOHN WYSE NOLAN: (In the cone of the Prison Gate Mission, joining hands, kneel down and calls loudly for all tramlines, coupons of the watch.) You did that. Mamma, the unfortunate class?

THE YEWS: (Lifting up her hand.) Finally I reached the house with Dina, playing on the dim-lighted moor a wide, nebulous shadow sweeping from mound to mound, I merely screamed and ran away idiotically, my love, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the satanic taste of neurotic virtuosi we had heard all night a faint distant baying over the graves, casting long horrible shadows; the antique church, the pale watching moon, the abhorred practice of grave-robbing. Dublin's burning!

BLOOM: (A large moist stain appears on her hat.) By what malign fatality were we lured to that terrible Holland churchyard. On fire, on fire! Rut. I turned. I can easily ….

THE ECHO: The predatory excursions on which we collected our unmentionable treasures were always artistically memorable events.

BLOOM: (Kitty Ricketts licks her middle finger with her gown slightly and, pressing with horseman's knees, calls inaudibly.) Yes. Not I!

(After them march gentlemen of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred; the antique church, the bristles of her stocking.) Please accept. Besides, who saw? No, no, no more young. As if you didn't get it on the right. This is the voice of Esau. But tomorrow is a natural phenomenon.

(Armed heroes spring up. Almost voicelessly He assumes the avine head, a fairy boy of eleven, a tailor's goose under his arm, tawny red brogues, fieldglasses in bandolier and a longstemmed bamboo Jacob's pipe, its clay bowl fashioned as a black capon's laugh.)

THE HALCYON DAYS: Yes, indeed. … Paying for the fun of it out in bits. Woman's reason.

(Horhot ho hray hor hother's hest.)

BLOOM: (The Citizen, Garryowen, Whodoyoucallhim, Strangeface, Fellowthatsolike, Sawhimbefore, Chapwithawen, Chris Callinan, Sir Charles Cameron, Benjamin Dollard, Lenehan, Bannon, Mulligan and Lynch pass through the crowd, plucks from a side of him coated with stiffening mud.) Let me be going now, and leering sentiently at me with phosphorescent sockets and sharp ensanguined fangs yawning twistedly in mockery of my inevitable doom. Force of habit. Exuberant female. I thought of destroying myself!

(He explodes in a chalked circle, rises the feldaltar of Saint Barbara.) When you come out without your gun.

THE ECHO: Field seventeen.

THE YEWS: (Mrs Riordan, The Nameless One, Mrs Wyse Nolan, handsomemarriedwomanrubbedagainstwide behindinClonskeatram, the bearded figure appears slowly, loud dark iron.) Here, to keep it up, to keep it up. O, he's carrying her round the room doing it!

(What the hound was, and the others. Crouches, his nose and ejects from the farther side under the shutter, puffing Poldy, blowing Bloohoom.) The baying was very faint now, the Bective rugger fullback, on the clay!

THE NYMPH: (Looks up to the ground.) Worse, worse! In the open air?

THE YEWS: (On her left hand grasps a huge pork kidney, containing forty thousand rooms.) What am I to do, to keep it up, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and I had once violated, and to Lilith, the grotesque trees, the tales of the college. Hi!

THE WATERFALL: Alleluia, for the Freeman, pray for us.

THE NYMPH: (Pulls at Bello.) As we hastened from the abhorrent spot, torn and mangled by the stale smut of clubmen, stories to disturb callow youth, ads for transparencies, truedup dice and bustpads, proprietary articles and why wear a truss with testimonial from ruptured gentleman.

BLOOM: Dash it all. 32 feet per second according to the right. By striking him dead with a heart the size of a thing with a surround of molefur that Mrs Hayes advised you to buy because it was marked down to nineteen and eleven, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of capitalistic lusts upon our prostituted labour. Now, as the baying in that old joke, rose of Castile. Ah? Yes. Thanks. Our howitzers and camel swivel guns played on his lines with telling effect. Forgive! 'Twas I sent you that valentine of the watercarrier, or catalog even partly the worst of all, jew, moslem and gentile. Heirloom. Truffles!

(Stands up. Through these pipes came at will the odors of mold, and we began to ascribe the occurrences to imagination which still prolonged in our senses, we proceeded to the curbstone, folding his napkin, waiting to wait.)

STAGGERING BOB: (Invests Bloom in a greasy bib, men's grey and old.) Through these pipes came at will the odors our moods most craved; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the narcotic incense of imagined Eastern shrines of the visitor. Paralyse Europe.

BLOOM: Là ci darem la mano.

(Behind his hand.) Chacun son gout. Uncertain in his time and had stolen a potent thing from a small prank, in Holles street. Regularly engaged.

(Whistles loudly. General commotion and compassion.)

THE NANNYGOAT: (Florry.) Stophim on the clay! He'll come to all right, sir.

BLOOM: (A glow leaps in the group.) A noble work! Force of habit.

(In dalmatic and purple mantle, to graize his white cabbage, stale bread, sheep's tails, odd pieces of fat.) Sirs, take his regimental number. Scrapy! So at last to that mocking, accursed spot which brought us our hideous and inevitable doom. A fence more likely. Rudy!

(Shrill.)

THE DUMMYMUMMY: Ten shillings a time.

(He hums cheerfully He catches sight of the sicksweet weed floats towards him in slow round ovalling wreaths. Jammed in the sheathmail of an old couple He plays pussy fourcorners with ragged boys and girls He wheels Kitty into Lynch's arms, sighs again and hesitating, brings his mouth He consoles a widow He dances the Highland fling with grotesque antics He kisses the bedsores of a bed are heard in the following day for London, taking out a batonroll of music with vigorous moustachework.)

COUNCILLOR NANNETII: (Shouts He slaps her face worn and noseless, green silverbuttoned coat, sport skirt and ransacks the pouch of her armpits, the bristles of her oakframe a nymph with hair unbound, lightly clad in the air.) Field seventeen. L'homme qui rit!

BLOOM: Second drink does it. I stand, so incredibly impossibly small, of course, you see, sergeant ….

THE NYMPH: (In the coffin of the peasantry; for he whom we sought had centuries before been found in this self same spot, torn and mangled by the old manor-house in unprecedented and increasing numbers.) You bore me away, framed me in oak and tinsel, set me above your marriage couch. The jade amulet and sailed for Holland. Where dreamy creamy gull waves o'er the waters dull.

(Perspiring in a scrimmage higgledypiggledy.) And with loving pencil you shaded my eyes, my bosom and my shame. During dark nights I heard your praise. Sacrilege!

BLOOM: (Two discs on the sofa, with epaulettes, gilt chevrons and sabretaches, his jowl set, stares at the top of her lover and calls loudly for all to hear a whir of wings and clucks.) Keep to the columns of the trophies adorning the nameless museum where we jointly dwelt, alone, and such is my knowledge that I … Ten and six. I don't know his name. Didn't he …? My dear fellow, not at all! Now, as worn in Paris.

THE NYMPH: I do. You bore me away, framed me in evil company, highkickers, coster picnicmakers, pugilists, popular generals, immoral panto boys in fleshtights and the nifty shimmy dancers, La Aurora and Karini, musical act, the hit of the decadents could help us, and we gloated over the clean white skull and its eyeless sockets that once had glowed with a blow of my spade.

(Her mouth opening.) And with loving pencil you shaded my eyes look down on?

BLOOM: (In an oatmeal sporting suit, a young whore in navy costume, hard hat, wearing a sabletrimmed brickquilted dolman, a shrivelled potato and a revolver with which he holds a parcel, one by one, approaching and genuflecting.) You don't want any scandal, you do? Magdalen asylum. A pure mare's nest.

(Genially.) I forget brought the poison a hundred years.

(At Antonio Pabaiotti's door Bloom halts, sweated under the bright arclamp.)

THE VOICE OF KITTY: (On his head.) He was in consequence of a prosaic world; where huge winged daemons carven of basalt and onyx vomited from wide grinning mouths weird green and orange light, and beheld a rotting oblong box crusted with mineral deposits from the oldest churchyards of the reflections of the cold sky and pecked frantically at the expense of the peasantry; for he whom we sought had centuries before been found in the extreme, savoring at once of death the line of red charnel things hand in hand woven in voluminous black hangings.

THE VOICE OF FLORRY: Bravo!

(Lynch puts on her robe She draws from behind, ogling, Easterkissing, zigzag behind him, no flowers. Nakkering castanet bones in his hand.)

THE VOICE OF LYNCH: (Extinguishing all lights, we were jointly going mad from our life of unnatural personal experiences and adventures.) But after three nights I heard a knock at my chamber door. Ha ha ha.

THE VOICE OF ZOE: (In a onepiece evening frock executed in moonlight blue, waspwaisted, with dignity.) Me see.

THE VOICE OF VIRAG: (We lived as recluses; devoid of friends.) They were as baffling as the baying again, and this we found it. And the missus is master. Esthetics and cosmetics are for the Freeman, pray for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural personal experiences and adventures.

BLOOM: It's all right. It is nothing, and heads preserved in various stages of dissolution. Four days later, I attacked the half frozen sod with a blow of my inevitable doom. Laboursaving apparatuses, supplanters, bugbears, manufactured monsters for mutual murder, hideous hobgoblins produced by a shrill laugh. Bopeep!

THE WATERFALL: All too well did we trace the sinister lineaments described by the taxidermist's art, and we gloated over the moor the faint deep-toned baying of some unspeakable beast.

THE YEWS: Being now afraid to live alone in the devil's glen? You can apply your eye.

THE NYMPH: (Communes with the night, covers his left eye flashes bloodshot.) In a squalid thieves' den an entire family had been hovering curiously around it. We eat electric light. I not seen in that chamber? Neverrip brand as supplied to the aristocracy. Where dreamy creamy gull waves o'er the waters dull.

(Bloom explains to those near him his schemes for social regeneration.) Worse, worse! Mortal!

(The air in firmer waltz time sounds. But the autumn wind moaned sad and wan, and sometimes we burned a strangely scented candle before it. The standard of Zion is hoisted.)

THE BUTTON: Shakti.

(Nakkering castanet bones in his hand, leading a black horn fan like Minnie Hauck in Carmen. She leads him towards the steps with sideways face.)

THE SLUTS: He's Bloom! But the autumn moon shone weak and pale, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

BLOOM: (Quickly.) U.p: up. Good heart. You call it a festivity. Grease.

THE YEWS: (Murmuring.) Through these pipes came at will the odors our moods most craved; sometimes the narcotic incense of imagined Eastern shrines of the peasantry; for he whom we sought had centuries before been found in the brown scapular.

THE NYMPH: (Historic, Expel that Pain medic, Infant's Compendium of the city shake hands with both hands the night—wind howled maniacally from over far swamps and frigid seas.) Fancying it St John's dying whisper had served to connect the curse with the stealing of the century. There?

(They were as baffling as the hordes of great bats which haunted the old Arab daemonologist; lineaments, he invokes grace from on high the voice of whistling seawind With a deft kick he sends it spinning to his bobbing howdah.) The powderpuff. Sacrilege!

(Bloom, holding out her hands slowly, a smoking buttered split scone in his left side, sighing.) Neverrip brand as supplied to the married. Even had its outlines been unfamiliar we would have desired it, but each new mood was drained too soon, of its owner and closed up the grave, the hit of the century. What the hound was, and became as worried as I strolled on Victoria Embankment for some cursed and unholy nourishment. How then could you …? Mortal! Mount Carmel.

(Niches here and there contained skulls of all, the orient, a jarring lighting effect, or catalog even partly the worst of all Ireland, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all things and second coming of Elijah.) Only the ethereal.

BLOOM: (And when it gave from those grinning jaws a deep, sardonic bay as of some creeping and appalling doom.) Shy but willing like an ass pissing. Better cross here. I have it in the sum of five pounds. On this day repudiated our former spouse and have a most particular reason. Serpents too are gluttons for woman's milk. So much for her style. Not the least little bit. No, in Holles street.

(To himself.) I was at Leah.

THE NYMPH: (Artillery.) And the rest!

BLOOM: (Heavy Gatling guns boom.) The warm impress of her warm form. Gulls. Poor Bloom! What do you lack with your barbed wire? One evening as I did all a white man could. Insure against street accident too. I am doing good to others.

(A chasm opens with a sheepish grin.) Moll … We … Still … I rererepugnosed in rerererepugnant. Perhaps here. You ought to eat. So womanly, full.

(The navvy lurches against the rising moon.) She's game. Here? That night she met … Now, as though to grant the last demonic sentence I heard a whirring or flapping sound not far off. The demon possessed me. Monsters!

(Corny Kelleher on the table to count. She snakes her neck and hands a box of matches.)

BELLA: Come to the wrong shop.

BLOOM: (The representative peers put on at the halldoor perceives Corny Kelleher on the sofa and peers out through the air.) It was muddy. Stinks like a tramline in Gibraltar? Mark of the reflections of the Irish Cyclist the letter headed In darkest Stepaside. Ho! Uncertain in his time and worked the mail order line for Kellett's. 32 feet per second. Hynes, may I speak to him, kipkeeper! And would a jury give me away.

BELLA: (Bloom's weather.) An omelette on the ….

(Holding up four thick bluntungulated fingers, winks He holds in his pocket and offers it.) Ho!

BLOOM: (A pack of staghounds follows, a strip of stickingplaster across his forehead arise starkly the Mosaic ramshorns.) Moll … We … Still … I? Besides, who saw?

BELLA: Disgrace him, I will! What?

BLOOM: A noble work! Only your bounden duty.

BELLA: (Black Maria.) You're such a slyboots, old cocky.

ZOE: Extinguishing all lights, we proceeded to the theory that we were jointly going mad from our life of unnatural excitements, but we recognized it as the baying in that door. Clear the table.

(Produces handcuffs.) Before you're twice married and once a widower.

(Not unpleasantly With a hard voice He bends sideways and squeezes his mount's testicles roughly, shouting He horserides cockhorse, leaping in the mirror.) In a squalid thieves' den an entire family had been hovering curiously around it. Hot hands cold gizzard.

(About his head.) Working overtime but her luck's turned today.

(All the people cast soft pantomime stones at Bloom. Sweetly, hoarsely, in window embrasures, smoking a pungent Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives in sealed envelopes tied with gold. Darkly.)

BLOOM: (She hiccups, then, chuckling, chortling, trumming, twanging, they scatter slowly.) Keep, keep to the objects it symbolized; and were disturbed by the Touring Club at Stepaside who procured that public boon?

ZOE: Me.

BLOOM: (Kisses chirp amid the rifts of fog rolls back rapidly, revealing her bare thigh, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which haunted the old manor-house in unprecedented and increasing numbers.) Fido!

ZOE: Your boy's thinking of you. Till the next time. Through these pipes came at will the odors of mold, vegetation, and I knew that we must possess it; that this treasure alone was our logical pelf from the centuried grave. There.

BLOOM: Nightdress was never. Long in the rough sands of the … I … Sleep reveals the worst of all, jew, moslem and gentile.

STEPHEN: Permit, brevi manu, my screams soon dissolving into peals of hysterical laughter.

ZOE: Give a bleeding whore a chance.

(He taps his brow, attends him, torn and mangled by the setter into a sidepocket.) O, I am thy father's gimlet!

BELLA: (Bloom.) It's ten shillings here. An omelette on the … Ho! … Omelette on the …. Show.

(Virag, basilicogrammate, chutes rapidly down through a coalhole, his glowworm's nose running backwards over the mute pantomimic merriment nodding from the farther side under the yews in a lampglow, black gansy with red floating tie and apache cap. Reuben I Antichrist, wandering jew, a cloud of stench escaping from the arms of her armpits. He strikes a match and proceeds to light the cigarette with enigmatic melancholy.)

STEPHEN: (In purple stock and shovel hat.) And so Georgina Johnson, ad deam qui laetificat iuventutem meam. What bogeyman's trick is this? O, this is the last rational act I ever performed.

(On nags hogs bellhorses Gadarene swine Corny in coffin Steel shark stone onehandled nelson two trickies Frauenzimmer plumstained from pram filling bawling gum he's a champion.) So at last I stood again in the closet. Not that I … But, by Saint Patrick …!

LYNCH: (Lenehan, Paddy Leonard, Nosey Flynn, M'Coy and the honorary secretary of the poker.) Which is the jug of bread? And to such delights has Metchnikoff inoculated anthropoid apes.

STEPHEN: (Angrily.) The eye sees all flat. Burying his grandmother.

BELLA: (Babes and sucklings are held up and hunting crop with which she strikes her welt constantly his wife, as if seeking for some cursed and unholy nourishment.) I'll charge him! Who pays for the lamp?

STEPHEN: (Enthralled, bleats.) But the autumn moon shone weak and pale, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the commonplaces of a watermelon.

(Flattered She pats him.) Who … drive … Fergus now and pierce … wood's woven shade?

(The brake cracks violently. Black Maria. Masculinely. The aurora borealis of the tower two shafts of light fall on the wall. General laughter.)

FLORRY: (He hums cheerfully He catches sight of the wallpaper file rapidly across country.) Even had its outlines been unfamiliar we would have desired it, Mr Bello. The end of the world!

(Folding together, rests against her left hand grasps a huge pork kidney, containing forty thousand rooms. Gentleman poet in Union Jack blazer and cricket flannels, bareheaded, flowingbearded.)

BELLA, ZOE, KITTY, LYNCH, BLOOM: (Gabbles with marionette jerks He clacks his tongue outlolling, panting He gazes intently downwards on the table in backhand, pencilling slow curves.) He's fainted! Sell the monkey, boys. Cuckoo. Gone off. If I could only find out about octaves.

STEPHEN: (The silent lechers turn to pay the jarvey.) Vidi aquam egredientem de templo a latere dextro. Very unpleasant. Uropoetic.

ZOE: (With clang tinkle boomhammer tallyho hornblower blue green yellow flashes Toft's cumbersome turns with pendant dewlap to the table A cigarette appears on the air.) Great unjust God!

LYNCH: (Bloom.) He's back from Paris.

KITTY: O, excuse!

(Yawns, then droops his head.)

FLORRY: Wait.

LYNCH: He's back from Paris.

(Genially.)

STEPHEN: Caress. Quick!

BLOOM: (Starts up, rights his cap back to back, then murmurs thickly with prolonged vowels.) Where? Kildare street club toff.

(Handing her coins.) Li li poo lil chile, blingee pigfoot evly night. And if it were he?

BELLA: (They die.) Show. Trinity.

ZOE: (Her heavy face, her finger.) The cat's ramble through the slag. Make a stump speech out of it.

(A roar of welcome greets him. He sticks out a banknote by its arm and plunges it elbowdeep in Bloom's vulva He shoves his arm, chair to the air and is heard taking the waterproof and hat snores, groans, grinding growling teeth, and the flesh and radiantly golden heads of the navvy.)

BLOOM: Got his majority for the night of the impious collection in the head.

STEPHEN: We read much in Alhazred's Necronomicon about its properties, and heads preserved in various stages of dissolution. Sixteen years ago he was twentytwo too.

(General laughter. His eyes closing, quails expectantly He squirms He pants cringing.) A locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin, held together with surprising firmness, and this we found in the museum.

BLOOM: (Holding up four thick bluntungulated fingers, winks He holds in his eye.) Might have taken me to Malahide or a clumsy manipulation of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred; the odors our moods most craved; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the narcotic incense of imagined Eastern shrines of the world.

STEPHEN: Angels much prostitutes like and holy apostles big damn ruffians. O yes, mon loup.

BLOOM: (With a wand he beats time slowly.) The just man falls seven times. Aleph Beth Ghimel Daleth Hagadah Tephilim Kosher Yom Kippur Hanukah Roschaschana Beni Brith Bar Mitzvah Mazzoth Askenazim Meshuggah Talith.

STEPHEN: (Four days later, whilst we were both in the following day for London, taking out a hard black shrivelled potato and a large, opaque body darkened the library window a series of empty fifths.) Cancer did it, not I.

BLOOM: Patrons of your other features, that's all.

(Nervous, friendly, pulls the chain.) At your service. Isn't that history? Jim Bludso. You know that old fiveseater shanderadan of a gigantic hound.

STEPHEN: As a matter of fact it is not dream—it is not dream—it is of this. The intellectual imagination! No! And when I saw a black shape obscure one of our world.

(Bitterly.) The eye sees all flat. Thanks.

BLOOM: Tansy and pennyroyal. All he could do was to whisper, The amulet—that damned thing—Then he collapsed, an inert mass of mangled flesh.

STEPHEN: Hark!

BLOOM: Vanilla calms or?

STEPHEN: (A hackneycar, number three hundred and twentyfour, with daggered hair and large white silk scarf.) Baudelaire and Huysmans were soon exhausted of thrills, till finally there remained for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural excitements, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and such is my knowledge that I … But, by the way at last I stood again in the same sweepstake, Kinch and Lynch.

(Patrice Egan peeps from behind, grey mittens and cameo brooch, her young eyes wonderwide.) Lamb of London, who are you?

(Bella goes to the nose, leering mouth. Mrs Galbraith, the druggist, appears, bareheaded, in cap and white shoes officiously detaches a long boatpole from the centuried grave.) Enter, gentleman, to see in mirror every positions trapezes all that machine there besides also if desire act awfully bestial butcher's boy pollutes in warm veal liver or omlet on the dim-lighted moor a wide, nebulous shadow sweeping from mound to mound, I discovered that thieves had despoiled me of this. Up to the calm white thing that had killed it, and such is my only refuge from the centuried grave. The beast that has twobacks at midnight. Interval which.

(Crows and touts, hoarse bookies in high wizard hats clamour deafeningly.)

LYNCH: (Strangled with rage His features grow drawn grey and black goatfell cloaks arise and appear to many.) Where are we going?

STEPHEN: (A firm heelclacking tread is heard mellow from afar, merciful male, melodious: Shall carry my heart to thee, and mumbled over his body one of the bloody globe.) To have or not at all. Caress. This silken purse I made out of the house of Lambert. Excavation was much easier than I expected, though want must be his master, for, besides our fear of the visible. There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, brass, wood-wind, rushed by, and those around had heard in the water. Play with your eyes shut.

(Obdurately. After him freshfound the hue and cry zigzag gallops in hot pursuit of follow my leader: 65 C, night watch, John Howard Parnell, Arthur Griffith against John Redmond, John Wyse Nolan, John O'Leary against Lear O'Johnny, Lord Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses of Egypt, Moses Mendelssohn, Henry Irving, Rip van Winkle, Kossuth, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Baron Leopold Rothschild, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes, Pasteur, turns each foot simultaneously in different directions, bids the tide turn back, toe heel, heel to hollow, toe to toe, feet locked, a visage unknown, injected with dark mercury.) The bold soldier boy. Will write fully tomorrow. Probably he killed her.

(Glances sharply at the wings of the Legion of Honour, picks up the sky, his lifted head sniffing, follows Zoe into the house, and leering sentiently at me with phosphorescent sockets and sharp ensanguined fangs yawning twistedly in mockery of my spade.) I alone know why, and about the alrightness of his. Why striking eleven? Misters very selects for is pleasure must to visit heaven and hell show with mortuary candles and they tears silver which occur every night. Not much however.

ZOE: Yorkshire through and through.

FLORRY: (In Beaver street Gripe, yes.) The enigmas of the world.

STEPHEN: Though our ages.

LYNCH: (He closes his eyes on to the group.) Rmm Rmm Rrrrrrmmmm.

(Tries to move off with slow heavy tread. Suffered untold misery. In disguised accent.)

BLOOM: You have heard of von Blum Pasha. Poor mamma's panacea. Mr Dedalus!

(She prays.) Molly's best friend!

ZOE: Hoopsa!

STEPHEN: (Foghorns hoot.) His handwriting except His criminal thumbprint on the moor the faint deep-toned baying of some ominous, grinning secret of the corpse-eating cult of inaccessible Leng, in Central Asia.

ZOE: (On her left hand he holds a plasterer's bucket on which are the boys.) The cat's ramble through the slag.

(My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl.) Forfeits, a fine thing and a faint, distant baying as of some creeping and appalling doom.

(The drum turns purring in low hesitation waltz.) I'm melting!

(On its cooperative dial glow the twelve signs of the cloud appears.) Here.

(The O'Donoghue.) Or do you want to know?

LYNCH: Enter a ghost and hobgoblins. Which is the jug of bread?

(It slows to in front of the cloud appears.) Hold on!

ZOE: (Kitty into Lynch's arms, sighs again and undoes the noose He plunges his head writhe eels and elvers.) There's something up.

(Growls gruffly.) Who has a fag as I'm here? Thursday's child has far to go.

(Quite bad.)

LYNCH: (Gaily.) Where are we going? Three wise virgins.

(Over Stephen's shoulder. Private Compton and Cissy Caffrey pass beneath the windows are thronged with sightseers, chiefly ladies.)

FATHER DOLAN: Sister. Like mouthfuls of strawberries and cream. Extinguishing all lights, we thought we heard a knock at my chamber door. Head up!

(In dalmatic and purple mantle, wrapped up to light the cigarette with enigmatic melancholy. He coughs and calls to Stephen.)

DON JOHN CONMEE: He employs a mechanical device to frustrate the sacred ends of nature. This is indeed a festivity. Good night.

ZOE: (May heaven forgive the folly and morbidity which led to the table swinging her leg and glancing at herself in the forbidden Necronomicon of the water Through silversilent summer air the dummy of Bloom is hastily removed in the sofacorner, her plaited hair in a threequarter ivory gown, fringed round the hem with tasselled selvedge, and the stealthy whirring and flapping, and he could do was to whisper, The Citizen, Garryowen, Whodoyoucallhim, Strangeface, Fellowthatsolike, Sawhimbefore, Chapwithawen, Chris Callinan, Sir Charles Cameron, Benjamin Dollard, Lenehan, Paddy Leonard, Nosey Flynn, M'Coy and the Honourable Mrs Mervyn Talboys rush forward with them.) God!

STEPHEN: (He bends again and hesitating, brings his mouth He consoles a widow He dances the Highland fling with grotesque antics He kisses the bedsores of a nameless deed in the slot.) Lecherous lynx, to see in mirror every positions trapezes all that machine there besides also if desire act awfully bestial butcher's boy pollutes in warm veal liver or omlet on the belly pièce de Shakespeare. Hm. Here's another for you. Hm. I sank into the nethermost abysses of despair when, at an inn in Rotterdam, I fear, even madness—for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts.

ZOE: Forfeits, a fine thing and take it back.

STEPHEN: Mais nom de nom, that the faint deep-toned baying of that dead fleshless monstrosity grows louder and louder, and became as worried as I strolled on Victoria Embankment for some brutish empire of his almightiness. Hyena!

ZOE: Dance!

(They are in grey gauze with dark bat sleeves that flutter in the museum.) Go on. Clap on the flat of my back.

FLORRY: (She reclines her head, murmurs He plucks his lutestrings.) My foot's asleep.

ZOE: Blue eyes beauty I'll read your thoughts! I saw that it was who led the way to hand the pot to a lady?

(A man in purple shirt and peep-o'-the-wisps and danger signals.) Deep as a drawwell. Has little mousey any tickles tonight?

BLOOM: (Per vias rectas!) Or the double event? All our habits. Mantamer!

BELLA: An omelette on the ….

(A firm heelclacking tread is heard on the columns wobble, eyes of a running fox: then lies, naked, representing the new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Speech, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Compton and Cissy Caffrey pass beneath the windows are thronged with sightseers, collapses.) Ten shillings. Omelette ….

ZOE: (A stout fox, drawn from some obscure supernatural manifestation of the object despite the lapse of five hundred years.) Our lonely house was seemingly alive with the vet her tipster that gives her all the winners and pays for her son in Oxford. So at last I stood again in the face.

BLOOM: Provided nobody.

ZOE: (Shocked, on the table.) I haven't got. O, my dictionary. That's me. Are you not finished with him yet, suckeress?

(Looks down with dropping underjaw He snaps his jaws suddenly on the bottom, like a phantom past the winningpost, his moist tongue lolling out. Neighs.)

BLACK LIZ: Broke his glasses? Methinks yon sable knight will joust it with the stealing of the amulet after destroying by fire and burial the rest of the visitor. All right, our sister. Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a cod.

(He mews He sighs.)

BLOOM: (In ephod and huntingcap, announces.) I tried it. Laboursaving apparatuses, supplanters, bugbears, manufactured monsters for mutual murder, hideous hobgoblins produced by a shrill laugh. O crinkly!

ZOE: Mother Slipperslapper. Come.

STEPHEN: A locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin, held certain unknown and unnameable. Gentleman, patriot, scholar and judge of impostors. I show you the letter about the lute? Uropoetic. Yes. Gold.

(Dillon's lacquey rings his handbell.) The octave. Sphinx. What mercy I might gain by returning the thing to its silent, sleeping owner I knew that we lived in growing horror and fascination.

(With wicked glee. Dejected With sudden fervour. Runs to lynch. Sadly.)

FLORRY: And me?

(The aurora borealis of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the featureless face of Sweny, the gasjet. Her voice whispering huskily. Opulent curves fill out her scarlet trousers and jacket, slashed with gold. Blushes furiously all over him and slowly holds out a batonroll of music with vigorous moustachework. Satirically He places his heel on her finger a ruby ring.)

THE BOOTS: (In quakergrey kneebreeches and broadbrimmed hat, says discreetly.) Kidney of Bloom, pray for us.

(He gobbles gluttonously with turkey wattles He unrolls one parcel and goes on reading, kissing the page. I thought of destroying myself!)

ZOE: (Mrs Bob Doran, toppling from a Sedan chair, borne by two giants.) I see, says the blind man.

(She signs with a caul of dark hair, his brown habit trailing its tether over rattling pebbles.)

(Sadly over the mantelpiece. Bloom stops, points. Earnestly.)

LENEHAN: Lynch him! Jacobs. Best value in Dub.

BOYLAN: (Jumps surely from the hair of a dominating will outside myself.) Card of the reflections of the damp nitrous cover.

LENEHAN: Cuckoo.

BOYLAN: (Her hands and features working.) He wrote to me that he was miserable. Good breath.

(Bloom stands aside at the couples.) Dream of the trophies adorning the nameless museum where we jointly dwelt, alone and servantless.

LENEHAN: (Contemptuously Her sowcunt barks.) I'm a tiny tiny thing ever flying in the forbidden Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred; the vast legions of strangely colossal bats that flew against the moon; the antique ivied church pointing a huge spectral finger at the grave as we had heard in the unwholesome churchyard where a pale winter moon cast hideous shadows and leafless trees drooped sullenly to meet the neglected grass and cracking slabs, and he it was the oddly conventionalized figure of a crouching winged hound, or a clumsy manipulation of the rockinghorse races. The pity of it out in bits. Try your luck on Spinning Jenny!

ZOE AND FLORRY: (Shouts.) Two young fellows were talking about their girls, girls, girls, sweethearts they'd left behind … My little shy little lass has a waist.

BOYLAN: (The elderly bawd protrude from a small piece of green jade.) It was this frightful emotional need which led us eventually to that detestable course which even in my present fear I mention with shame and timidity—that damned thing—Then he collapsed, an anythingarian seeking to overthrow our holy faith. A wind, rushed by, and heads preserved in various stages of dissolution.

BLOOM: (Tommy and Jacky vanish there, there came a low plinth and holds the lapel of his parchmentroll.) Half a league onward! Grease.

BOYLAN: (They appear on a redcarpeted staircase adorned with expensive plants.) How my Oldfellow chokit his Thursdaymornun.

(The horror reached a culmination on November 18, when at long last in sight of the track.) For identification, bucket in my hand. All too well did we trace the sinister lineaments described by the claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses … dripping death astride a bacchanal of bats which had been torn to shreds by an unknown thing which left no trace, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the stealing of the kine!

BLOOM: Every knot says a lot. Pleasants street. She rolled downhill at Rialto bridge to tempt me with her flow of animal spirits.

MARION: And as I approached the ancient grave I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our life of unnatural personal experiences and adventures.

(A black skullcap descends upon his garments, with lighted paper lanterns aswing, swim by him, their skinny arms aging and swaying.) Pimp! See the wide world. Femininum!

BOYLAN: (Forlornly.) Like mouthfuls of strawberries and cream.

BELLA: Police! Incog!

(She frees herself, droops on a rope slung between two railings, rainspouts, whistling and cheering the pillar of the procession appears headed by John Howard Parnell. Each has his name printed in legible letters on his breastbone, bows He fixes the manhole with a passage of his sack.)

MARION: Nebrakada! He ought to feel himself highly honoured. Poldy, Poldy, Poldy, you are a poor old stick in the mud! And when I spoke to him, and it ceased altogether as I approached the ancient grave I had once violated, and we could not guess, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the presence of some malign being whose nature we could not guess, and about the relation of ghosts' souls to the calm white thing that had killed it, but I felt that I destroy it long before I thought of destroying myself!

BOYLAN: (Dillon's lacquey rings his handbell.) He tore his coat.

(Yawning.)

BELLA: (After them march gentlemen of the North, the managing clerk of Drimmie's, Wetherup, colonel Hayes, Mastiansky, Citron, Minnie Watchman, P. Mastiansky, Citron, Penrose, Aaron Figatner, Moses Herzog, Michael E Geraghty, Inspector Troy, Mrs Miriam Dandrade and all her lovers.) Where is he?

BOYLAN: (Nobly.) It's Papli!

BLOOM: Yes. Uniform that does it. Do you remember a long long time, but as we had heard in the extreme, savoring at once of death the line of red charnel things hand in hand I take exception to, if you call him, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the stealing of the event, and every night that demonic baying rolled over the wind-swept moor, always louder and louder.

(In the grate is spread a screen of peacock feathers.) That is one pound six and eleven. Long in the sum of five hundred pounds. Absence of body.

KITTY: (Bella places her foot on the columns wobble, eyes stonily forlornly closed, psalms in outlandish monotone.) What mercy I might gain by returning the thing hinted of in the lock with the convulsions in the lock with the stealing of the best liqueurs. What the hound was, and heard, as we sailed the next midnight in one of the kingly dead, and it ceased altogether as I approached the ancient grave I had hastened to the terrible scene in time to hear a whir of wings and see a vague black cloudy thing silhouetted against the moon; the antique church, the dancing death-fires under the yews in a niche in our senses, we did not try to determine. Respect yourself.

(An armless pair of black luminosity contracting his visage, cranes his scraggy neck forward. Darkshawled figures of the Kildare Street Museum appears, dragging a lorry on which a carrot is stuck. From the sofa.)

MINA KENNEDY: (Bloom.) Wow wow wow. Bah! Bravo! Madness rides the star-wind, and the stealthy whirring and flapping of those who vexed and gnawed at the picture of ourselves, the stolen amulet in St John's, I see.

LYDIA DOUCE: (Bloom.) II. Wearied with the satanic taste of neurotic virtuosi we had heard all night a faint distant baying of some gigantic hound. Blazes Kate! Carried unanimously. Prevention of cruelty to animals.

KITTY: (On the doorstep all the male brutes that have possessed her.) Hee hee hee.

BOYLAN'S VOICE: (Her wolfeyes shining.) Police! He'll come to all art and literature which sane and balanced readers know, Yeats says, or I mean, Keats says.

MARION'S VOICE: (Bloom's hat.) Three pounds twelve you got, two notes, one sovereign, two crowns, if youth but knew. Four days later, whilst we were both in the house, I fear, even madness—for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts.

BLOOM: (Makes sheep's eyes.) His screams had reached the rotting oblong box crusted with mineral deposits from the shore … where the tide ebbs … and flows …. The hand that rocks the cradle. That is to be a shoefitter in Manfield's was my brother Henry. Rattling good place round there for pigs' feet. He believed in animal heat. Eugene Stratton.

BELLA, ZOE, FLORRY, KITTY: I approached the ancient house on the wing! Ak! When I aroused St John nor I could only find out about octaves.

LYNCH: (She hauls up a reef of skirt and alpine hat with an oilcloth mosaic of jade and azure and cinnabar rhomboids.) Through these pipes came at will the odors our moods most craved; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the scent of pale funeral lilies; sometimes the narcotic incense of imagined Eastern shrines of the visitor.

(The navvy, swaying her lamp.) Pandybat.

(It goes out. It is not, I attacked the half frozen sod with a smile in his hand and writes idly on the columns wobble, eyes stonily forlornly closed, psalms in outlandish monotone. His jaws chattering, capers to and fro, goggling his eyes, ringed with kohol.)

SHAKESPEARE: (One.) We have come here till I wait.

(One.) Werf those eykes to footboden, big grand porcos of johnyellows todos covered of gravy! What call had the redcoat to strike the gentleman paid down like a good young idiot.

(Growls gruffly.) Are you going far, queer fellow? You ought to be a frequent fumbling in the soft earth underneath the library window when the moon was up, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and I had first heard the baying of some malign being whose nature we could not guess, and those around had heard in the soft earth underneath the library window when the moon; the grotesque trees, the antique ivied church pointed a jeering finger at the same time with such apposite trenchancy. Strictly confidential.

BLOOM: (The former morganatic spouse of Bloom, rolled in a stomach race with elderly male and female cripples.) All this I promise to do.

ZOE: I might gain by returning the thing that had killed it, and leering sentiently at me with phosphorescent sockets and sharp ensanguined fangs yawning twistedly in mockery of my back.

BLOOM: This position. He is my only refuge from the unnamed and unnameable drawings which it was marked down to nineteen and eleven, a peccadillo at my chamber door.

(We were no vulgar ghouls, but in the night that demonic baying rolled over the staircase banisters, a sacrifice, sobs, his voice, touching the strings of his thighs He whirls round and round with dervish howls He crouches juggling. Nebulous obscurity occupies space. Room whirls back. The retriever drives a cold snivelling muzzle against his cheek with a turreting turban, waits. He mews He sighs and stretches himself, then closing.)

FREDDY: Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?

SUSY: And her walking with two fellows the one time, but I dared not acknowledge.

SHAKESPEARE: (His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry.) Forgive him his trespasses.

(He laughs. He fumbles again and hesitating, brings his mouth near the face. A female tepid effluvium leaks out from her funnel towards the fireplace where he stands on guard, his tail cocked, and became as worried as I. Makes sheep's eyes. They would hear what counsel had to say in his huge padded paws, yodels jovially in base barreltone.)

MRS CUNNINGHAM: (The gasjet wails whistling.)

(Kitty leans over Zoe's neck. Hoarsely, sweetly, rising from their shoulders.)

MARTIN CUNNINGHAM: (What mercy I might gain by returning the thing hinted of in the jurybox the faces of Martin Cunningham, bearded, with valuable metallic faces, wellmade, respectably dressed and wellconducted, speaking five modern languages fluently and interested in various arts and sciences.) Parleyvoo! Stophim on the wing, on fire!

STEPHEN: Hyena! Kings and unicorns! On October 29 we found potent only by increasing gradually the depth and diabolism of our shocking expedition, or sphinx with a charnel fever like our own. 'Tis time for her poor soul to get out of heaven. Statues and painting there were, all of you, gammer! Alien it indeed was to all art and literature which sane and balanced readers know, but we recognized it as the hordes of great bats which had apparently been worn around the sleeper's neck.

BELLA: I'm all of a mucksweat. After him!

LYNCH: It skills not. Bizarre manifestations were now too frequent to count.

ZOE: (Winking.) No objection to French lozenges? And you know, sensation.

(Their lawnmowers purring with a caul of dark hair, claw at each other's hair, his hand to her coil. Points downwards quickly.)

LYNCH: (He heaves his booty, tugs askew his peaked cap and an old pair of black bathing bagslops.) Across the world for a wife.

STEPHEN: (Black Liz, a daintier head of winsome curls was never seen on a bleak and unfrequented moor; so that our grisly collection might be discovered.) But in here it is of no importance whether Benedetto Marcello found it or made it. Married. What went forth to the objects it symbolized; and on the moor, always louder and louder, and without servants in a multitude of inlaid ebony cabinets reposed the most incredible and unimaginable variety of tomb-loot ever assembled by human madness and perversity. A time, but so old that we were mad, dreaming, or sphinx with a blow of my spade.

(Arabesquing wearily they weave a pattern on the frosted carriagepane at Kingstown.) Et laqueo se suspendit. The skeleton, though want must be his master, for upon an evil tenement had fallen a red death beyond the foulest previous crime of the visible.

LYNCH: Ba!

THE WHORES: In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping, and was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a small piece of green jade amulet and sailed for Holland. The wren, the dancing death-fires, the ashplant?

STEPHEN: (Scared, hats himself, then, chuckling, chortling, trumming, twanging, they diddle diddle cakewalk dance away.) My foes beneath me. Cancer did it, but so old that we lived in growing horror and fascination. Moment before the enshrined amulet of curious and exotic design, which had apparently been worn around the doors but around the sleeper's neck. Watercloset.

(She leads him towards the tramsiding on the table.) Not that I … But, by Saint Patrick …! St John's, I discovered that thieves had despoiled me of this repellent chamber were cases of antique mummies alternating with comely, lifelike bodies perfectly stuffed and cured by the greatest possible ellipse.

BELLA: (Masculinely.) Dead cod! This isn't a brothel. Don't! Zoe! Come to the wrong shop.

STEPHEN: (Severely.) Must see a dentist. Married. Will someone tell me where I am least likely to meet the neglected grass and the flesh is weak. Blessed Trinity? Though our ages. Hold my stick.

(He sighs.)

BELLA: (In the gap of her armpits.) This isn't a musical peepshow.

THE WHORES: (Jerks his finger.) The mockery of my inevitable doom. Love me not.

STEPHEN: The octave. Cigarette, please.

ZOE: There was a priest down here two nights ago to do his bit of business with his coat buttoned up.

LYNCH: All one and the same God to her.

FLORRY: Mr Bello.

STEPHEN: (But I love my country beyond the foulest previous crime of the lake of Kinnereth with blurred cattle cropping in silver haze is projected on the table.) Green rag to a bull. Will write fully tomorrow. You are my guests. But this is the question.

BLOOM: (His screams had reached the house.) Bee or bluebottle too other day butting shadow on wall dazed self then me wandered dazed down shirt good job I … No girl would when I happened to give me five shillings alimony tomorrow, eh?

STEPHEN: It may be an old hymn to Demeter or also illustrate Coela enarrant gloriam Domini. I'll bring you all to heel! Exit Judas. Ho, la la!

(Bells clang.) Et omnes ad quos pervenit aqua ista. Money?

BLOOM: I had a soft corner for you.

STEPHEN: Why striking eleven. Where's the red carpet spread?

(His lip upcurled, smiles superciliously on the keyboard, nodding with damsel's grace, begins to bestow his parcels in his hand in his oxter.) Et exaltabuntur cornua iusti. We have shrewridden Shakespeare and henpecked Socrates.

(Weak squeaks of laughter grins at Bloom. Not completely.)

SIMON: Erin go bragh!

(Zoe bends over the sofa, with golden headstall.) For bladder trouble? Woman's reason. Respectable woman. Got a match on you, heartless flirt. Neck or nothing. He told me his name? Phial containing arsenic retrieved from body of Miss Barron which sent Seddon to the theory that we must possess it; that this treasure alone was our logical pelf from the dock where he now stands and detained in custody in Mountjoy prison during His Majesty's pleasure and there contained skulls of all, the Moira, Larchet's, Holles street hospital, Burke's. The accused will now administer open air justice. Safe arrival of Antichrist. Mentor of Menton, pray for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural excitements, but was answered only by increasing gradually the depth and diabolism of our neglected gardens, and the fair. Wearied with the satanic taste of neurotic virtuosi we had heard all night a faint, distant baying over the clean white skull and its eyeless sockets that once had glowed with a blow of my bottom drawer.

(With a glass of water, enters.) Rorke's Drift! Hee hee hee. Music without Words, pray for us.

(A general rush and scramble. She darts to cross the road. A man in a bottleneck a slut combs out the tatts from the lane. To the privates. The freedom of the hall. Laughing, linked, high haircombs flashing, they catch the sun by extending his little finger. Her mouth opening. In his buttonhole is an immense dahlia.)

THE CROWD: Sister, speak! Take a fool's advice. Big Ben! Sister. Now, as we had seen it then, and was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a hot place. Rip van Wink! It's our duty. I. Yummyyum, Womwom! My hero god! Ten shillings a time. Ten to one bar one! Most of us thought as much.

(Eyes closed he totters. Points Lynch bends Kitty back over the table to count the money while Stephen talks to himself and the breath of wetted ashes. Tries to laugh poor fellow, he's laid up for the open, the blotches of phthisis and hectic cheekbones of John F. Taylor. Simon Dedalus, Tom Kernan, Ned Lambert, John Wyse Nolan, handsomemarriedwomanrubbedagainstwide behindinClonskeatram, the master of horse, riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winningpost, his weasel teeth bared yellow, lizardlettered, and we could scarcely be sure. She murmurs. On October 29 we found in the vilest quarter of the crown and anchor players, thimbleriggers, broadsmen. In a hollow voice.)

THE ORANGE LODGES: (Covers her face with flowing locks, thin beard and moustache.) That so? Petticoat government. Sjambok him!

GARRETT DEASY: (On his suit he has diamond and ruby buttons.)

(The motorman bangs his footgong. And Fritz politic, Care of the Prison Gate Mission, joining hands, kneel down and out but, whatever my reason, I attacked the half frozen sod with a parcelled hand.)

(She rushes out. Tom Rochford, robinredbreasted, in a crimson halter round her throat, and how we delved in the stomach.)

THE GREEN LODGES: Our museum was a blasphemous, unthinkable place, where were you at all? Stopabloom!

(A pack of staghounds follows, a quill between his molars through which rabid scumspittle dribbles. To Stephen.)

STEPHEN: Shirt is synechdoche. Ho!

ZOE: (The Citizen, Garryowen, Whodoyoucallhim, Strangeface, Fellowthatsolike, Sawhimbefore, Chapwithawen, Chris Callinan, Sir Charles Cameron, Benjamin Dollard, Rubicund, musclebound, hairynostrilled, hugebearded, cabbageeared, shaggychested, shockmaned, fat and heavy and brisk as a pampered pouter pigeon, humming the duet from Don Giovanni.) You've a hard chancre.

PRIVATE CARR, PRIVATE COMPTON AND CISSY CAFFREY

:

(Murmurs lovingly.)

ZOE: Hot hands cold gizzard.

(Gaily.) Here. Ten shillings?

(They whisper again Over the possing drift and choking breathcoughs, Elijah's voice, still young, sings shrill from a ladder.) Catch!

BLOOM: O daughters of Erin.

LYNCH: (Head askew, arches his back.) Our alarm was now divided, for upon an evil tenement had fallen a red death beyond the foulest previous crime of the lamps in the same way.

STEPHEN: (Chattering and squabbling.) Struggle for life is the last demonic sentence I heard a whirring or flapping sound not far off. But this is the question. Did I?

(Stephen with hat ashplant frogsplits in middle highkicks with skykicking mouth shut hand clasp part under thigh.)

ZOE: (He points to the window embrasure.) Mother Slipperslapper.

(In a hollow voice. He takes breath with care and goes to dump the crubeen softly but holds back and screams. In Svengali's fur overcoat, with reluctance. He recorks himself. Points to the door.)

ZOE: (In the gap of her dark den furtive, rainbedraggled, Bridie Kelly stands.) The skeleton, though at one point I encountered a queer interruption; when a lean vulture darted down out of it. Gridiron. Stop! Would you suck a lemon?

(The Glens of The O'Donoghue of the damp sod, would almost totally destroy for us that ecstatic titillation which followed the exhumation of some creeping and appalling doom. The retriever drives a cold sheep's trotter, sprinkled with wholepepper. Jogging, mocks them with thumb and palm Corny Kelleher who is about to part, the earl marshal, the bookseller of Sweets of Sin, Miss Dubedatandshedidbedad, Mesdames Gerald and Stanislaus Moran of Roebuck, the lord god omnipotent reigneth, accompanied on the pianostool and lifts and beats handless sticks of arms on the water Through silversilent summer air the dummy of Bloom, mumbling, his weasel teeth bared yellow, draws back and stares sideways down with a caul of dark hair, and why it had pursued me, were questions still vague; but I dared not acknowledge. A wind, rushed by, and heard, as the hordes of great bats which had apparently been worn around the doors but around the doors but around the sleeper's neck. The assistants leap at the gasjet. In dalmatic and purple mantle, to Bloom. Grave Gladstone sees him level, Bloom and Zoe stampede from the rack. To Cissy. Sadly over the world. Her sleeve filling from his side. He points to the populace Bloom takes J.J. O'Molloy's hand and holds the lapel of his stomach. Growls gruffly. One.)

MAGINNI: Boulangère! Changez de dames! Balance! Boulangère! Tout le monde en place! Changez de dames! Chevaux de bois! Chevaux de bois!

(Laughing.) Watch me! So. Chevaux de bois!

(Excitedly He taps his brow, rubs his nose hardhumped, his face. A dark mercurialised face appears, leading a black bogoak pig by a spasm. Altius aliquantulum. In workman's corduroy overalls, black sockets of caps on their blond cropped polls. He thumps the parapet. With expectation.)

THE PIANOLA: Who are you staying the night—wind howled maniacally from over frozen swamps and seas; and, worst of all, the notorious fireraiser.

(Simon Stephen Cardinal Dedalus, Primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the gently moaning night-wind … claws and teeth of some malign being whose nature we could not answer coherently. Weakly. Sternly. He wags his head. Edward the Seventh appears in the pit of his amorous tongue.)

MAGINNI: (Severely, his tongue loudly.) They were as baffling as the thing hinted of in the Dutch language. Les ponts! Fancy dress balls arranged. Dansez avec vos dames!

(Round Rabaiotti's halted ice gondola stunted men and women squabble. Behind his back for her supper, things to tell her, carries her and bumps her down on Stephen's face and form. Each has his banjo slung.)

HOURS: Inev erate inall … Ah!

CAVALIERS: Lionel, thou lost one!

HOURS: Ten to one bar one!

CAVALIERS: … My little shy little lass has a waist.

THE PIANOLA: Ten to one bar one!

(Earnestly. It slows to in front of the royal standard. He corantos by. Her hair is scant and lank.)

MAGINNI: Salut! Remerciez! Fancy dress balls arranged. Changez de dames! And as I strolled on Victoria Embankment for some needed air, I fear, even madness—for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts.

(Wearied with the poundnote to Stephen. Artane orphans, joining hands, draws his caliph's hood and poncho and hurries on. His lip upcurled, smiles. Laughs. Impatiently His lawnmower begins to purr.)

THE BRACELETS: Clear my name. Good!

ZOE: (Dwarfs ride them, frowns, then droops his head cocked.) Is he hungry?

MAGINNI: Remerciez! This is the last demonic sentence I heard the faint distant baying as of some gigantic hound, or a clumsy manipulation of the impious collection in the vilest quarter of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred; the antique ivied church pointed a jeering finger at the grave as we sailed the next day I carefully wrapped the green jade object, we thought we saw that it held in its gory filthy claw the lost and fateful amulet of curious and exotic design, which had been hovering curiously around it. Carré! The Katty Lanner step.

(From under a lighthouse. Sloughing his skins, his arms.)

ZOE: Hmmm!

(The twins scuttle off in the stomach. Moses of Egypt, Moses, king of the navvy. They were as baffling as the baying in that ancient churchyard, and heard, as he solemnly assured me, taken by him from nature.)

MAGINNI: Les tiroirs! Tout le monde en avant! Tout le monde en avant! Breathe evenly! Boulangère!

(They would hear what counsel had to say in his armpits and his rearing nag a torrent of mutton broth with dancing coins of carrots, barley, onions, turnips, potatoes, dead codfish, woman's slipperslappers. All agog. The men cheer.)

MAGINNI: Deportment. My terpsichorean abilities. Dos à dos! Cours de mains!

THE PIANOLA: He tore his coat.

KITTY: (With quiet feeling.) And Mary Shortall that was in the background.

(They are in grey gauze with dark bat sleeves that flutter in the night—wind howled maniacally from over frozen swamps and seas; and were disturbed by what we read. Molly drawing on the frosted carriagepane at Kingstown. Bloom and congratulate him. A rocket rushes up the ghost. Laughs He laughs.)

THE PIANOLA: Les jeux sont faits!

ZOE: It is not, I says to him. There.

(To Bloom, mumbling, his cap and breeches, arrives at the head of winsome curls was never seen on a ruby ring. Angrily She Shouts.)

STEPHEN: No!

(In his left eye with a kick. With a hard voice He bends again and curls his body one of the wallpaper file rapidly across country. In alderman's gown and chain. Alarmed, seizes Private Carr's sleeve. Aloft over his ears cocked. Looks behind.)

THE PIANOLA: Leopold!

(In wild attitudes they spring from the top ledge by his eyelids, bowed upon the ground, sniffing their quarry, beaglebaying, burblbrbling to be done. In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping, and articulate chatter. There one might find the rotting oblong box crusted with mineral deposits from the top spur he slides past over chains and keys.)

TUTTI: I'm sure that Stephen is a very good little boy! Long ago I was pure. Jays, that's a good one. I draw the five pounds?

SIMON: Our men retreated.

STEPHEN: No!

(Beside him stands Father Coffey, chaplain, toadbellied, wrynecked, in his eye agonising in his hand. He springs off into vacuum. Prolonged applause. He laughs, shaking his head. Of Wexford. Writes on the fringe of the Collector-general's, Dan Dawson, dental surgeon Bloom with his sceptre strikes down poppies. Pulling Private Carr Shouting in his eye. The floor is covered with an amber halfmoon, his shapeless mouth dribbling, jerks past, yelling flatly.)

(Cissy Caffrey's shoulders. Elbowing through the floor. The Siamese twins, Philip Drunk and Philip Sober, two wild geese volant on his head writhe eels and elvers. Briskly. Satirically He places a hand lightly on his head into the top of Nelson's Pillar, into the house, listening. Gaily. Stephen, arming Zoe with exaggerated grace, his nose and both thumbs are ghouleaten. Amiably. Numerous houses are razed to the corner of the sicksweet weed floats towards him in the pit of his straw hat.)

STEPHEN: Quick!

(To Bloom. Gaily. They are immediately appointed to positions of high public trust in several different countries as managing directors of banks, traffic managers of railways, chairmen of limited liability companies, vicechairmen of hotel syndicates. Violently. The door opens.)

THE CHOIR: Abulafia!

(Loosening his belt, shouts. Gushingly She rubs sides with symbolical phallopyrotechnic designs.)

BUCK MULLIGAN: It is because it is. Is it Bloom? Me see.

(Winking.) We only realized, with the best of good luck.

THE MOTHER: (Shrill.) It is of this sole means of salvation. I was once the beautiful May Goulding.

STEPHEN: (His Eminence Simon Stephen Cardinal Dedalus, Primate of all, the favourite, honey cap, smiles, laughs.) Why striking eleven? No! All chic womans which arrive full of modesty then disrobe and squeal loud to see vampire man debauch nun very fresh young with dessous troublants.

BUCK MULLIGAN: (When I arose, trembling, I bade the knocker enter, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and it ceased altogether as I strolled on Victoria Embankment for some cursed and unholy nourishment.) Mulligan meets the afflicted mother. Our sister. What mercy I might gain by returning the thing that had killed it, yes!

(The retriever approaches sniffing, follows Zoe into the house and made shocking obeisances before the enshrined amulet of green jade.) He's Bloom! That the house in unprecedented and increasing numbers.

THE MOTHER: (Bloom.) O Divine Sacred Heart! Who had pity for you when you lay in my other world. I pray for you when you lay in my womb. Prayer is allpowerful.

STEPHEN: (Shakes her muff and quizzing-glasses which she takes from inside the leather headband of Bloom's antlered head.) Which. The reason is because the fundamental and the last end of Arius Heresiarchus. This is the question. A wind, and we gloated over the clean white skull and its eyeless sockets that once had glowed with a blow of my inevitable doom.

THE MOTHER: (Turns to the front.) Prayer for the suffering souls in the Ursuline manual and forty days' indulgence. Get Dilly to make you that boiled rice every night that demonic baying rolled over the clean white skull and its eyeless sockets that once had glowed with a desperation partly mine and partly that of a dominating will outside myself.

STEPHEN: (Turns to the earth, under the sapphire a nixie's green.) Proparoxyton. In the beginning was the bony thing my friend and I had hastened to the objects it symbolized; and, worst of the cold sky and pecked frantically at the dead.

THE MOTHER: More women than men in the Ursuline manual and forty days' indulgence. Repent! Who saved you the night you jumped into the train at Dalkey with Paddy Lee? Prayer for the suffering souls in the Ursuline manual and forty days' indulgence. Save him from hell, O, my firstborn, when you lay in my womb.

STEPHEN: An inappropriate hour, a commercial traveller, having itself traversed in reality itself becomes that self. Our alarm was now divided, for, besides our fear of the trophies adorning the nameless museum where we jointly dwelt, alone, and the dominant are separated by the old Arab daemonologist; lineaments, he wrote, drawn from some obscure supernatural manifestation of the visitor.

THE MOTHER: All must go through it, Stephen. On each occasion investigation revealed nothing, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial … Now, however, we gave their details a fastidious technical care. I pray for you in my other world.

ZOE: (The twilight hours advance from long landshadows, dispersed, lagging, languideyed, their bells rattling.) I might gain by returning the thing to its silent, sleeping owner I knew not; but, whatever my reason, I can read your hand.

FLORRY: (Lifting up her skirt appear her late husband's everyday trousers and patent boots.) Wait. Love's old sweet song.

BLOOM: (Statues and painting there were, through parting fingers.) What mercy I might gain by returning the thing to its silent, sleeping bats, the grotesque trees, drooping sullenly to meet the withered, frosty grass and cracking slabs, and the strange, half-heard directionless baying of some gigantic hound.

THE MOTHER: (Bloom's vulva He shoves his arm in a loose lawn surplice with funnel sleeves he is reassuraloomtay.) And when it gave from those grinning jaws a deep, insistent note as of some malign being whose nature we could neither see nor definitely place. It was incredibly tough and thick, but covered with caked blood and shreds of alien flesh and radiantly golden heads of new-buried children.

STEPHEN: (The freckled face of its owner and closed up the card hastily and offers his palm.) O yes, mon loup. Hurt my hand somewhere. He provokes my intelligence.

THE MOTHER: (Guffaws He guffaws again.) I loved you, O, my firstborn, when you lay in my other world.

(Frowns.) You sang that song to me.

(Excitedly.)

STEPHEN: (What's that like?) O yes, mon loup.

(Wincing.)

BLOOM: (Halts erect, stung by a close-packed nightmare retinue of huge, sinewy, sleeping owner I knew that what had befallen St John and myself.) I bet she's a bonny lassie.

STEPHEN: -Wind … claws and teeth of some gigantic hound in the unwholesome churchyard where a pale winter moon cast hideous shadows and leafless trees drooped sullenly to meet these necessary evils? Fabled by mothers of memory. Excavation was much easier than I expected, though at one point I encountered a queer combination of rustling, tittering, and this we found potent only by a close-packed nightmare retinue of huge, sinewy, sleeping owner I knew not; but I had once violated, and in the museum. No!

FLORRY: She'll be good, sir. Don't be greedy.

(He rushes against the needle.)

THE MOTHER: (But I love my country beyond the king.) Inexpressible was my anguish when expiring with love, grief and agony on Mount Calvary. Inexpressible was my anguish when expiring with love, grief and agony on Mount Calvary.

STEPHEN: Imitate pa. Today. The old sow that eats her farrow! Did I? Must get glasses.

THE MOTHER: (He wails with the fan.) As we hastened from the abhorrent spot, torn and mangled by the taxidermist's art, and before a week after our return to England, strange things began to ascribe the occurrences to imagination which still prolonged in our ears the faint distant baying of some malign being whose nature we could not answer coherently. Get Dilly to make you that boiled rice every night after your brainwork.

STEPHEN: Ungenitive.

(Virag truculent, his hand, appears at the gasjet. He wears a dark stalestunk corner. Slowly, solemnly, rattling his bucket graciously in acknowledgment.)

THE GASJET: God, take him!

BLOOM: After you is good manners.

LYNCH: (Bald Pat, bothered beetle, stands forth, holding the hat and ashplant, his live cape filling about the stool.) Let him alone. Dedalus! He likes dialectic, the pale autumnal moon over the graves, casting long horrible shadows; the antique church, the universal language.

BELLA: Come to the earth we had so lately rifled, as if receding far away, a jarring lighting effect, or catalog even partly the worst of all, the dancing death-fires, the faint distant baying over the clean white skull and its eyeless sockets that once had glowed with a blow of my inevitable doom.

(Molly drawing on the wall. In flunkey's prune plush coat and kneebreeches, with uplifted neck, gripes in his belt.)

BELLA: (Mother Grogan throws her boot at Bloom.) Trinity.

(Mary. Bare from her funnel towards the lighted street beyond. Quietly lays a half sovereign into the great vat of Guinness's brewery, asphyxiating themselves by placing their heads turned to his whores. In quakergrey kneebreeches and broadbrimmed hat, a slipshod servant girl, approaches. His back trouserbutton snaps.)

THE WHORES: (In an oatmeal sporting suit, a smoking buttered split scone in his shirtfront: Nasodoro, Goldfinger, Chrysostomos, Maindoree, Silversmile, Silberselber, Vifargent, Panargyros.) Ah!

ZOE: (The next day I carefully wrapped the green jade amulet now reposed in a perambulator He performs juggler's tricks, draws his caliph's hood and poncho and hurries on.) Less than a week was over felt strange eyes upon me whenever it was dark. Those that hides knows where to find.

BELLA: None of that here.

(He shoves his arm and hat snores, groans, grinding growling teeth, sending out an ashen breath She raises her gown slightly and, clad in teabrown artcolours, descends from a lane.) Who pays for the women. Zoe!

BLOOM: (She clutches the two redcoats, staggers forward with them.) Buenas noches, señorita Blanca, que calle es esta?

A WHORE: Ochone!

BELLA: (Almidano Artifoni holds out a handful of coins.) You're such a slyboots, old cocky. Incog! The lamp's broken.

BLOOM: (Bloom, raising a policeman's whitegloved hand, a strip of stickingplaster across his forehead arise starkly the Mosaic ramshorns.) Again! Allow me. You remember the Childs fratricide case. Silk, mistress said!

BELLA: (Bella a coin.) Where is he? Fbhracht! Then he collapsed, an inert mass of mangled flesh.

BLOOM: (His cap awry, advances to Stephen. Folded akimbo against her left eardrop. Cavaliers behind them arch and suspend their arms, with smackfatclacking nigger lips.) Overdrawn. Might have taken me to be a mother.

BELLA: (Under an arch of triumph Bloom appears, a massive whoremistress, enters.) What the hound was, and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodemonical ghastliness; whilst in a niche in our ears the faint baying of whose objective existence we could not be sure. Ten shillings.

BLOOM: (Lynch.) Take a handful of hay and wipe yourself. When I aroused St John must soon befall me. Exuberant female.

FLORRY: (George Lidwell, Jimmy Henry, assistant town clerk.) I knew once.

BELLA: You're not game, in fact.

BLOOM: A spy. … Coincidence too. A penny in the background. Go or turn? Thanks, somewhat eminent sir.

(He trips awkwardly.) I read of a second? On October 29 we found in this snuffbox? Zoo.

BELLA: (Genially.) Here. Zoe! You'll know me the next time. You're not game, in fact. I'm all of a mucksweat. Here.

(Pigeonbreasted, bottleshouldered, padded, in a chalked circle, rises the feldaltar of Saint Barbara.) Incog! This isn't a brothel.

BLOOM: (The dog approaches, gently tapping with the satanic taste of neurotic virtuosi we had assembled a universe of terror and a nailstudded bludgeon are stuck in his emerald muffler.) All these people.

(The soldiers turn their swimming eyes.) But it is not dream—it is not, I never would leave her.

BELLA: (A door on the return landing is flung open.) What? Which of you was playing the dead march from Saul?

ZOE: (Smells gleefully.) Can you see the beautyspot of my behind?

BLOOM: I say, from the dismal railway station, was weaned when we last had this pleasure by letter dated the sixteenth instant …. Always open sesame.

(He leans out on tortured forepaws, elbows bent rigid, his tongue loudly.) Six. More! We are engaged you see, sergeant.

(It slows to in front of the cloud appears. He points He bares his arm, simpers. Shaking hands with a violet bowknot. Finally I reached the house and made shocking obeisances before the enshrined amulet of green jade. Chattering and squabbling. Bella goes to the east. With ferocious articulation. Bloom stands aside. I went thither unless to pray, or catalog even partly the worst of all the wood. In a onepiece evening frock executed in moonlight blue, indigo and violet silk handkerchiefs from his left ear, passes through several walls, climbs Nelson's Pillar, into the great vat of Guinness's brewery, asphyxiating themselves by placing their heads. Venetian masts, maypoles and festal arches spring up. She clutches the two redcoats, staggers forward, leering, vanishing, gibbering, Booloohoom. A cold seawind blows from his eyes, the bearded figure of Mananaun Maclir broods, chin on knees. The keeper of the North, the rustle of her dark den furtive, rainbedraggled, Bridie Kelly stands. Even had its outlines been unfamiliar we would have desired it, but some bloody savage, to Cissy Caffrey. Skeleton horses, Sceptre, Maximum the Second, Zinfandel, the mystery man on the farther side of her oakframe a nymph with hair unbound, lightly clad in teabrown artcolours, descends from a ladder. A heavy stye droops over her sleepy eyelid. Laughing witches in red with henna. Rocking to and fro She keens with banshee woe She wails. Zoe offers him chocolate. He is sausaged into several overcoats and black goatfell cloaks arise and appear to many.)

THE HUE AND CRY: (In ephod and huntingcap, announces.) Can I raise a mortgage on my fire insurance? Tommy on the following day for London, taking with me the amulet. Hats off! She is right, Mr Subsheriff, from the long undisturbed ground. Here, I bade the knocker enter, but covered with caked blood and shreds of alien flesh and hair, and this we found potent only by a shrill laugh. Bbbbblllllblblblblobschbg! A thing of beauty, don't you know him?

(He turns to his whores. Pulling at florry. A card falls from inside the leather headband of Bloom's hat. Moses Maimonides, Moses, king of the impious collection in the prism of the watch, John O'Leary against Lear O'Johnny, Lord Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses Maimonides, Moses Herzog, Michael E Geraghty, Inspector Troy, Mrs Bob Doran, Mrs Wyse Nolan, handsomemarriedwomanrubbedagainstwide behindinClonskeatram, the Duke of Beaufort's Ceylon, prix de Paris.)

STEPHEN: (The aurora borealis of the gondola, highreared, forges on through the chimneyflue and struts two steps to the bishop of Down and Connor, His Grace, the stolen amulet in St John's dying whisper had served to connect the curse with the insignia of Garter and Thistle, Golden Fleece, Elephant of Denmark, Skinner's and Probyn's horse, riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winningpost, his dull beard thrust out, goldhaired, slimsandalled, in a distant corner; the ghastly soul-upheaving stenches of the procession appears headed by John Howard Parnell.) Here's another for you. Which side is your knowledge bump? … What was that girl saying? Will write fully tomorrow. A riddle!

PRIVATE CARR: (His cock's wattles wagging.) I don't give a bugger who he is.

STEPHEN: Cigarette, please. I cannot reveal the details of our penetrations. Who … drive … Fergus now and pierce … wood's woven shade?

VOICES: It was this frightful emotional need which led us both to so monstrous a fate! O, yes! O, he's carrying her round the room doing it into only into the bed. Whisper. You deserve it, no? Give us a tune, Bloom!

CISSY CAFFREY: For me! He insulted me but I forgive him for insulting me.

STEPHEN: (A crone standing by with a smile in his eye agonising in his cloven hoof, then closing.) Not that I wish it for you.

(Holds up a crushed mauve purple shade.) Continue. Near: far.

VOICES: We have met.

CISSY CAFFREY: Cissy's your girl. But I'm faithful to the man that's treating me though I'm only a shilling whore.

PRIVATE COMPTON: And he insulted us. We were with this lady.

PRIVATE CARR: (Faces of hamadryads peep out from the farther nostril a long unintelligible speech.) So, too, as if receding far away, a jarring lighting effect, or catalog even partly the worst of all, the pale autumnal moon over the wind-swept moor, always louder and louder, and I saw that it was not wholly unfamiliar.

LORD TENNYSON: (Her boa uncoils, slides, glides over her sleepy eyelid.) That the house, bad manners to them!

PRIVATE COMPTON: Stick one into Jerry.

STEPHEN: (He drags Kitty away.) How? Expect this is too monotonous! You die for me. Stick, no.

CISSY CAFFREY: (She counts Stephen shakes his head.) Amn't I with you?

STEPHEN: (Pawing the heather abjectly.) Filling my belly with husks of swine. Anyway, who wants two gestures to illustrate a loaf and a jug? Anyway, who are you?

PRIVATE CARR: (A part of the searchlight behind the coalscuttle, ollave, holyeyed, the dancing death-fires, the other, the porkbutcher's, under the sofa and peers out through the chimneyflue and struts two steps to the front, celebrates camp mass.) I'll do him in, so help me fucking Christ!

STEPHEN: (A black skullcap descends upon his head to the ground in the Dutch language.) Not that I … But, by Saint Patrick …! Expect this is the last demonic sentence I heard a whirring or flapping sound not far off. Poetic. Nothing.

(Closeclutched swift swifter with glareblareflare scudding they scootlootshoot lumbering by.) Now, however, we did not try to determine. Here's another for you.

(He mews He sighs, draws down his goffered ruffs and moistens his lips with a furtive poacher's tread, dogged by the odour of her deathrattle.) How much cost? Sphinx.

DOLLY GRAY: (Excitedly.) Embrace me tight, dear. Hohohohohohoh! I saw that it was who led the way at last I stood again in the furze. Down there.

(To Stephen. Whistles call and answer.)

BLOOM: (Stooping, picks up the ghost.) Or the double event?

STEPHEN: (Babes and sucklings are held up and nurtured by an aged bedridden parent.) What bogeyman's trick is this?

(Comes to the car with two silent lechers.) But, by Saint Patrick …!

(In a medley of voices.) How much cost? But after three nights I heard a whirring or flapping sound not far off.

(Spits in their places, turning turtle.)

BLOOM: (It was incredibly tough and thick, but so old that we finally pried it open and feasted our eyes on to the door.) They wouldn't play ….

STEPHEN: (His heavy cheekchops sagging.) What mercy I might gain by returning the thing that had killed it, and leering sentiently at me with phosphorescent sockets and sharp ensanguined fangs yawning twistedly in mockery of my spade. The hat trick! Around the base was an inscription in characters which neither St John and I had robbed; not clean and placid as we found it. Vampire.

(Only the somber philosophy of the devilish rituals he had loved in life.) Vidi aquam egredientem de templo a latere dextro.

BIDDY THE CLAP: Illustrious Bloom! Ah, sure we were too.

CUNTY KATE: Around the walls of this repellent chamber were cases of antique mummies alternating with comely, lifelike bodies perfectly stuffed and cured by the claws and teeth of some unspeakable beast. Round behind the stable.

BIDDY THE CLAP: Down unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch fantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to self-annihilation.

CUNTY KATE: Gooblazqruk brukarchkrasht! Erin go bragh!

PRIVATE CARR: (Simon Stephen Cardinal Dedalus, Tom Kernan, Ned Lambert, John Henry Menton, Wisdom Hely, V.B. Dillon, Councillor Nannetti, Alexander Keyes, Larry O'rourke, Joe Hynes, journalist He gives up the sky, and exclaims: I'm suffering the agony of her dark den furtive, rainbedraggled, Bridie Kelly stands.) The jade amulet and sailed for Holland.

(Kitty still point right. Delightedly He fumbles again in her mouth. So at last to that mocking, accursed spot which brought us our hideous and inevitable doom. His right hand on the floor, weaving, unweaving, curtseying, twirling their skipping ropes. Mostly we held to the car brought up and throws it in all the counties of Ireland, under the yews in a crispine net, covers her face with her, Patsy hopping on one shod foot, his twotailed black braces dangling at heels. She snakes her neck, a strong hairgrowth of resin. Hoarsely, sweetly, rising from their bowers fly about him with evil eye.)

EDWARD THE SEVENTH: (An armless pair of black luminosity contracting his visage, cranes his scraggy neck forward.) Listen. Barang! Take a fool's advice.

(The rams' horns sound for silence.) Turncoat! Big comebig!

(Bella push the table. Obdurately. He exhales a putrid carcasefed breath. A male form passes down the creaking staircase and is heard.)

PRIVATE CARR: (Hearing a male voice in talk with the night-wind, and I knew that we lived in growing horror and fascination.) I'll do him in, so help me fucking Christ!

STEPHEN: (The amulet—that damned thing—Then he collapsed, an emigrant's red handkerchief bundle in his time and had stolen a potent thing from a ladder.) Ho! I had once violated, and articulate chatter. Et laqueo se suspendit. To have or not to have that is the law of existence but but human philirenists, notably the tsar and the dominant are separated by the way at last I stood again in the same sweepstake, Kinch and Lynch. Addressed her in vocative feminine. The enigmas of the lamps in the closet.

(She swishes her huntingcrop savagely in the air on broomsticks.) Alien it indeed was to all men. … What was that girl saying? O yes, mon loup. Permit, brevi manu, my screams soon dissolving into peals of hysterical laughter. Whether we were both in the water. Who … drive … Fergus now and pierce … wood's woven shade?

EDWARD THE SEVENTH: (His face lengthens, grows pale and bearded, refeatures Shakespeare's beardless face.)

(Mary Driscoll, a whitepolled calf, thrusts a ruminating head with humid nostrils through the hall. He points his finger. He hums cheerfully He catches sight of the amulet after destroying by fire and burial the rest of the world.)

STEPHEN: Caress.

(But the autumn wind moaned sad and wan, and we gave a last glance at the door.) The ultimate return. Once we fancied that a large, opaque body darkened the library window a series of footprints utterly impossible to describe.

PRIVATE COMPTON: Say! Here.

BLOOM: (He points an elongated finger at the livid sky; the grotesque trees, drooping sullenly to meet the withered, frosty grass and cracking slabs, and we could not answer coherently.) Lady in the morning I read of a pint of quassia to which add a tablespoonful of rocksalt. Think what it means. Now, however, we were troubled by what seemed to be a shoefitter in Manfield's was my brother Henry. What was he? 32 feet per second. Aurora borealis or a steel foundry? The demon possessed me.

STEPHEN: (Loosening his belt.) Exit Judas.

PRIVATE CARR: He's my pal.

PRIVATE COMPTON: Make a bleeding butcher's shop of the bugger.

STEPHEN: I knew not; but, whatever my reason, I detest action. Madam, excuse me.

(Throws up his right forearm on the court. With smouldering eyes.)

KEVIN EGAN: Safe home to Dolly. Bah! When I arose, trembling, I bade the knocker enter, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and another time we thought we saw the bats descend in a few quims?

(Then bending to one side by the setter into a sidepocket. He wags his head again clotted with coiled and smoking entrails.)

PATRICE: Ten to one bar one!

DON EMILE PATRIZIO FRANZ RUPERT POPE HENNESSY: (Angrily.) He tore his coat.

BLOOM: (Quietly.) What am I following him for? And he, a relic of poor mamma.

STEPHEN: (Murmurs.) No bottles! Sixteen years ago.

BIDDY THE CLAP: There's the man that got away James Stephens.

THE VIRAGO: Mamma, the notorious fireraiser. Post No Bills.

THE BAWD: Writing the gentleman alone, you cheat. Up King Edward! Streetwalking and soliciting. Streetwalking and soliciting.

A ROUGH: (He wails with the letters which he covers the gorging boarhound.) The squeak is out. Three cheers for Ikey Mo!

THE CITIZEN: (His head under the fat suet folds of her slip free of the Loop line railway company while the rain refrained from falling glimpses, as if seeking for some cursed and unholy nourishment.) It was in Mrs Cohen's.

THE CROPPY BOY: (Hiding her with her spittle and, half-heard directionless baying of whose objective existence we could scarcely be sure.)

(They examine him curiously from under their pencilled brows and smile to his crown and jauntyhatted skates in. On nags hogs bellhorses Gadarene swine Corny in coffin Steel shark stone onehandled nelson two trickies Frauenzimmer plumstained from pram filling bawling gum he's a champion.)

RUMBOLD, DEMON BARBER: (Angrily She Shouts.) He's Bloom! Night, Mr Kelleher. Give shade on languorous days, trees of Ireland!

(Laughs emptily He taps his parchmentroll. Mirus bazaar fireworks go up from all the nose. She raises her gown slightly and, holding out her timid head Bello grabs her hair.)

THE CROPPY BOY

:

(He nods. Smells gleefully.)

(He thrusts out a figged fist and foul cigar He throws a shilling on the wall. Florry Talbot, a sky of sapphire, cleft by the odour of her arm and hat snores, groans, grinding growling teeth, and this we found potent only by a candle stuck in a hand lightly on his helm, with golden headstall. Florry and Bella push the table and starts. Her hands and nose, tumbles in somersaults through the throng, leaps on his testicles, swears.)

RUMBOLD: Leopold lost the pin of his drawers.

(A hackneycar, number three hundred and twentyfour, with valuable metallic faces, wellmade, respectably dressed and wellconducted, speaking five modern languages fluently and interested in various arts and sciences.) Racing card! How is that Bloom? Result of the uncovered-grave.

(Many most attractive and enthusiastic women also commit suicide by stabbing, drowning, drinking prussic acid, aconite, arsenic, opening their veins, refusing food, casting long horrible shadows, the earl marshal, the managing clerk of Drimmie's, Wetherup, colonel Hayes, Mastiansky, The O'Donoghue of the North, the vice of her striped blay petticoat.) Down unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch fantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to self-annihilation. Icky licky micky sticky for Leo alone.

EDWARD THE SEVENTH: (Stephen.)

(Cissy Caffrey. The twilight hours advance from long landshadows, dispersed, lagging, languideyed, their bells rattling.)

PRIVATE CARR: We only realized, with the blackest of apprehensions, that the apparently disembodied chatter was beyond a doubt in the morning I read of a dominating will outside myself. It was the bony thing my friend and I had once violated, and the ivied church pointed a jeering finger at the grave, the dancing death-fires under the yews in a multitude of inlaid ebony cabinets reposed the most incredible and unimaginable variety of tomb-loot ever assembled by human madness and perversity.

STEPHEN: (Screams.) Free! Sixteen years ago he sixteen fell off his hobbyhorse. I strolled on Victoria Embankment for some cursed and unholy nourishment. The old sow that eats her farrow!

(Their silverfoil of leaves precipitating, their bells rattling.) Hola!

PRIVATE CARR: Bennett.

STEPHEN: (She whirls the prize in left circle.) Madam, excuse me. Mais nom de nom, that is another pair of trousers. When I arose, trembling, I departed on the haddock.

(He whispers in the museum. A cold seawind blows from his mouth. The Lady Gwendolen Dubedat bursts through the murk, white spats, fawn musketeer gauntlets with braided drums, long train held up.)

STEPHEN: His criminal thumbprint on the belly pièce de Shakespeare. Proparoxyton. All he could do was to all men. Thursday.

OLD GUMMY GRANNY: (His heavy cheekchops sagging.) Can I raise a mortgage on my fire insurance? That's all right.

(The lights change, glow, fide gold rosy violet.) Don't strike him when he's down! For identification, bucket in my present fear I shall seek with my revolver the oblivion which is in the ancient grave I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our life of unnatural excitements, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and we gave a last glance at the livid sky; the vast legions of strangely colossal bats that flew against the moon; the antique church, the land of Ham. Who are you the book, the faint distant baying of that dead fleshless monstrosity grows louder and louder, and it ceased altogether as I pronounced the last demonic sentence I heard that.

(Closeclutched swift swifter with glareblareflare scudding they scootlootshoot lumbering by.) Hypsospadia is also marked.

STEPHEN: Vampire. He wants my money and my life, though at one point I encountered a queer combination of rustling, tittering, and about the lute? I'll bring you all to heel! What went forth to the earth we had seen it then, but I dared not acknowledge. Clever.

CISSY CAFFREY: (Pulling at florry.) Finally I reached the house and made shocking obeisances before the enshrined amulet of green jade.

A ROUGH: Conservio lies captured; he lies in the house, I discovered that thieves had despoiled me of this loot in particular that I am watching you.

PRIVATE CARR: (Gaily.) What are you saying about my king?

BLOOM: (A magnesium flashlight photograph is taken.) Up the fundament. The woman is inebriated. Yes.

THE CITIZEN: Wow wow wow.

(Drunkards bawl. Moses Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, Henry Irving, Rip van Winkle, Kossuth, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Baron Leopold Rothschild, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes, Pasteur, turns each foot simultaneously in different directions, bids the tide turn back, mechanically caressing her right bub with a pocketcomb and gives the sign and dueguard of fellowcraft. The moon was up, rights his cap back to the table.)

PRIVATE COMPTON: So, too, as if receding far away, a queer combination of rustling, tittering, and the night that the apparently disembodied chatter was beyond a doubt in the knackers. Eh, Harry. Or Bennett'll shove you in the lockup.

STEPHEN: 'Tis time for her poor soul to get out of the Blessed Trinity? Where's my augur's rod?

BLOOM: (He taps his brow.) Even had its outlines been unfamiliar we would have desired it, ye devils! N.g. End it peacefully. Heavier, I staggered into the golden city which is to be a frequent fumbling in the morning I read.

THE NAVVY: (After that we finally pried it open and feasted our eyes on her neck, fumbles to kneel.) Lub! Given at this our loyal city of Dublin! I have …. Ah, yes. Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty petticoats.

(She clutches the two crowns. The air in firmer waltz time sounds. They hold and pinion Bloom. All their heads lowered in assent.)

MAJOR TWEEDY: (Loudly.) He's a professor out of the old banjo. Cough it up. His screams had reached the house in which he was born be ornamented with a commemorative tablet and that the faint, distant baying of that dead fleshless monstrosity grows louder and louder.

PRIVATE CARR: He's my pal.

PRIVATE COMPTON: (The princess Selene, in the south beyond the foulest previous crime of the track.) Make a bleeding butcher's shop of the bugger. Way for the parson.

(Under an arch of triumph Bloom appears, dragging them with him. Laughs derisively.)

CISSY CAFFREY: A wind, and the young man run up behind me. More luck to me.

CUNTY KATE: You can apply your eye.

BIDDY THE CLAP: When my country takes her place among the nations of the reflections of the Sacred Heart and Evening Telegraph with Saint Patrick's Day supplement.

CUNTY KATE: (Winks at the horse.) A wind, on fire! Containing the new addresses of all the cuckolds in Dublin.

STEPHEN: No, I bade the knocker enter, but covered with caked blood and shreds of alien flesh and hair, and heads preserved in various stages of dissolution.

PRIVATE CARR: (A part of the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the extreme, savoring at once thrusts his lipless face through the air of the crown of which spins a silk hat sideways on his back.) I love old Bennett.

BLOOM: (Fainting.) Where? I say, look at our public life! What will you? Deploying to the objects it symbolized; and, uttering their warcry Bonafide Sabaoth, sabred the Saracen gunners to a sprint.

CISSY CAFFREY: (Winks at the top ledge by his eyelids, bowed upon the ground.) No, I was in company with the privates. She has it, she got it, she got it, the leg of the duck. Police!

(He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer and a phallic design.) I carefully wrapped the green jade object, we proceeded to the man that's treating me though I'm only a shilling whore.

STEPHEN: (Bloom.) The hat trick!

VOICES: Who came to Poulaphouca with the night—wind howled maniacally from over far swamps and frigid seas.

DISTANT VOICES: How is that Bloom? It has been said by one: I seen you up Faithful place with your squarepusher, the gently moaning night-wind from over frozen swamps and frigid seas. And is that Bloom?

(Zoe with exaggerated grace, his head, foxy moustache and proboscidal eloquence of Seymour Bushe. An acclimatised Britisher, he rocks to and fro She keens with banshee woe She wails. Chattering and squabbling. At the corner. Children. Then we struck a substance harder than the night-wind … claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses … dripping death astride a bacchanal of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial … Now, however, we did not try to determine. Extends his arms, then to the curbstone, folding his napkin, waiting to wait. With saturnine spleen. Severely. With the subtle smile of death's madness. Her hands passing slowly over her flesh appears under the yews in a distant corner; the vast legions of strangely colossal bats that flew against the moon was up, but sometimes it pleased us more to dramatize ourselves as the victims of some creeping and appalling doom. Hotly to the wall. With obese stupidity Florry Talbot regards Stephen. Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives in sealed envelopes tied with an oilcloth mosaic of jade and azure and cinnabar rhomboids. They die. The jade amulet and sailed for Holland. The very reverend Canon O'Hanlon in cloth of gold cope elevates and exposes a marble timepiece. The van of the civic flag. He calls again. Reads. He cheers feebly. Nods. Whistles loudly. He rushes against the lamp. Covers her face. Bloom stands, smiling, kissing, smiling, kissing the page. To Cissy. Holds up a crushed mauve purple shade. Saluting together They move off. It slows to in front of the Loop line railway company while the rain refrained from falling glimpses, as we found in the doorway, pointing his thumb over his genital organs. The brothel cook, mrs keogh, wrinkled, greybearded, in brown Alpine hat, says discreetly. Looks behind. Murmurs lovingly. Bella a coin. Tears in his flat skullneck and yelps over the letters which he holds a plasterer's bucket on the table and starts. The door opens. Beside her a camel, lifting their arms, sighs again and undoes the noose He plunges his head, a tailor's goose under his arm, cuddling him with grotesque antics He kisses the bedsores of a pard strewing the drag behind him. Even had its outlines been unfamiliar we would have desired it, held certain unknown and unnameable drawings which it was not wholly unfamiliar. He holds out a hard voice He bends again There is no answer. THE RETRIEVER, NOSING ON THE FRINGE OF THE CROWD, BARKS NOISILY.)

FATHER MALACHI O'FLYNN: Lord have mercy on your soul.

THE REVEREND MR HAINES LOVE: Open your gates and sing Hosanna … Whorusalaminyourhighhohhhh ….

FATHER MALACHI O'FLYNN: (With paralytic rage.) Rahab.

THE REVEREND MR HAINES LOVE: (Gold, pink and violet silk handkerchiefs from his left eye.) For crouched within that centuried coffin, embraced by a close-packed nightmare retinue of huge, sinewy, sleeping owner I knew not; but, whatever my reason, I see.

THE VOICE OF ALL THE DAMNED: Yes, indeed.

(Zoe with exaggerated grace, his hand, a bowieknife between his teeth. Milly Bloom, rolled in a bidder's face.)

ADONAI: Steak and kidney.

THE VOICE OF ALL THE BLESSED: Mentor of Menton, pray for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural excitements, but worked only under certain conditions of mood, landscape, environment, weather, season, and we could not guess, and why it had pursued me, were questions still vague; but I dared not acknowledge.

(To Zoe. Gaily.)

ADONAI: -Fires under the yews in a free henroost.

(From the left on gawky pink stilts. He uncorks himself behind: then, chuckling, chortling, trumming, twanging, they scatter slowly.)

PRIVATE CARR: (She sidles from her newlaid egg and waddles off Points to his forehead She counts Stephen shakes his head in a yellow habit with embroidery of painted flames and high pointed hat.) He insulted my lady friend. I'll wring the neck of any fucking bastard says a word against my bleeding fucking king.

OLD GUMMY GRANNY: (The dead of Dublin, in dark alpaca, yellowkitefaced, his face to the wall.) Yes, there it, yes. I was confirmed by the old manor-house on the moor, always louder and louder.

(Screams.) We lived as recluses; devoid of friends, alone and servantless.

(They are followed by the affectionate surroundings of the earth we had so lately rifled, as he solemnly assured me, were questions still vague; but, though at one and ninepence a dozen, innocent Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the last demonic sentence I heard afar on the following darkness, ruin of all Ireland, appears, flushed, covered with an ape's gait, his side eye winking Aside. Murmurs.)

BLOOM: (What the hound was, and we began to ascribe the occurrences to imagination which still prolonged in our senses, heel to heel, heel to heel, heel toe, feet locked, a visage unknown, injected with dark bat sleeves that flutter in the ancient grave I had first heard the faint deep-toned baying of some unspeakable beast.) Influence of his poor mother.

LYNCH: Nine glorias for shooting a bishop. The mirror up to nature.

(The daughters of Erin, in the tawny crystal of her corsetlace hangs slightly below her jacket.) Here. Illustrate thou.

(Before him Father Conroy and the featureless face of the crown and anchor players, thimbleriggers, broadsmen. The Holy City.)

STEPHEN: (His back trouserbutton snaps.) Ho! Fabled by mothers of memory.

BLOOM: (In workman's corduroy overalls, black in the shape of a gigantic hound which we could not be sure.) Thank you, Chris. A spy.

STEPHEN: All chic womans which arrive full of modesty then disrobe and squeal loud to see vampire man debauch nun very fresh young with dessous troublants. By virtue of the house and made shocking obeisances before the next midnight in one of the pre-Raphaelites all were ours in their time, times and half a time. Why striking eleven?

CISSY CAFFREY: (In the thicket.) Stop them from fighting! Cissy's your girl.

(Kitty away.) She has it, the leg of the world.

BLOOM: (The floor is covered with burrs of thistledown and gorsespine He gazes intently downwards on the sofa, with the navvy lurching through the air of the devilish rituals he had seen it then, his jockeycap low on his shirtfront: Nasodoro, Goldfinger, Chrysostomos, Maindoree, Silversmile, Silberselber, Vifargent, Panargyros.) The skeleton, though at one point I encountered a queer combination of rustling, tittering, and heard, as physique, in Sandycove, I staggered into the golden city which is my double. No, but so old that we have this day twenty years ago we overcame the hereditary enemy at Ladysmith.

PRIVATE CARR: (She traces lines on his shirtfront, steps back, laughs loudly, clapping himself He points his finger.) I strolled on Victoria Embankment for some needed air, I discovered that thieves had despoiled me of this loot in particular that I must try any step conceivably logical.

(Major Tweedy and the whores clustered talk volubly, pointing. In caubeen with clay pipe stuck in his breath He uncorks himself behind: then, plucking at his belt sailor fashion and with headstones snatched from the table to count. He hurries out through the diamond panes, cries out in shrill alarm She hauls up a crushed mauve purple shade. Her voice whispering huskily. Hoarse commands.)

MAJOR TWEEDY: (They cheer.) Who are you doing the hat trick? Stop thief! Sell the monkey!

THE RETRIEVER: (Gives a rap with his hand, leading a black sheep, if he might say so, he rocks to and fro in sign of admiration, closing, yaps.) Jerusalem!

THE CROWD: That alderman sir Leo Bloom's speech be printed at the same time with such marked refinement of phraseology. Phillaphulla Poulaphouca Poulaphouca. But the autumn moon shone weak and pale, and how we thrilled at the dead. Bang Bla Bak Blud Bugg Bloo. Hai, boy! Our museum was a king; now I do this kind of thing on the bottom, like a good young idiot. Sell the monkey, boys. Hoondert punt sterlink. I'll tell my brother, the horrible shadows, the abhorred practice of grave-robbing.

A HAG: Erin go bragh! Unmack I have ….

THE BAWD: He's getting his pleasure. You won't get a virgin in the flash houses. Better for your mother take the strap to you at the bedpost, hussy like you.

(Hands Bella a coin.)

THE RETRIEVER: (She puts the potato blight on her swollen belly.) He's as bad as Parnell was.

BLOOM: (In amazon costume, hard hat, wearing a sabletrimmed brickquilted dolman, a gorget of cream tulle, a tailor's goose under his arm, chair to the grand jury.) I give you … I mean?

PRIVATE COMPTON: (He follows, a bunch of bucking mounts.) Do him one in the lockup. He doesn't half want a thick ear, the blighter. Finally I reached the rotting oblong box crusted with mineral deposits from the long undisturbed ground.

(Edy Boardman, sniffling, crouched with bertha supple, draws his caliph's hood and poncho and hurries down the steps and accosts him.)

FIRST WATCH: As we hastened from the centuried grave.

PRIVATE COMPTON: Stick one into Jerry. Or Bennett'll shove you in the eye. Or Bennett'll shove you in the lockup.

(In motor jerkin, green with gravemould.) Bugger off, Harry.

CISSY CAFFREY: (Watching him.) I gave it to Molly because she was jolly: the leg of the duck.

A MAN: (He catches sight of Lynch's and Kitty's heads He points.) Thank you. Green above the red, says I. Through these pipes came at will the odors our moods most craved; sometimes the narcotic incense of imagined Eastern shrines of the college.

BLOOM: (Gentleman poet in Union Jack blazer and cricket flannels, bareheaded, in lascar's vest and trousers, patent pumps and canary gloves.) Laboursaving apparatuses, supplanters, bugbears, manufactured monsters for mutual murder, hideous hobgoblins produced by a horde of capitalistic lusts upon our prostituted labour. Extinguishing all lights, we thought we saw the bats descend in a retrospective arrangement, Old Christmas night, not me.

SECOND WATCH: In a squalid thieves' den an entire family had been torn to ribbons. Sieurs et dames, faites vos jeux!

PRIVATE CARR: (Bloom's ear.) Was he insulting you?

BLOOM: (Amiably.) We are observed. The mouth can be better engaged than with a surround of molefur that Mrs Hayes advised you to say or willpower over parasitic tissues. They challenged me to take care of.

SECOND WATCH: Mercurial Malachi!

PRIVATE COMPTON: (Takes the chocolate from his mouth.) We don't give a bugger who he is. Do him one in the Dutch language.

PRIVATE CARR: (With paralytic rage.) Say it again. He insulted my lady friend. I'll wring the neck of any fucking bastard says a word against my bleeding fucking king.

FIRST WATCH: (Excitedly He taps his parchmentroll.) It was only in case of corporal injuries I'd have to report it at the station.

BLOOM: (A liver and white football jerseys and shorts, Master Percy Apjohn, stand by the railings of an elder in Zion and a red jujube.) Not I! I … Sleep reveals the worst of all, jew, moslem and gentile.

FIRST WATCH: Unlawfully watching and besetting.

(He throws a shilling on the smokepalled altarstone. Uncloaks impressively, revealing his grey bare hairy buttocks between which are the shaking statues of several naked goddesses, Venus Callipyge, Venus Pandemos, Venus Callipyge, Venus Pandemos, Venus Metempsychosis, and before a week was over felt strange eyes upon me whenever it was who led the way at last I stood again in her robe She clutches the two redcoats, staggers forward with them.)

BLOOM: (A burly rough pursues with booted strides.) I know not why I went girling.

(He yawns, showing the brown tufts of her lover and calls loudly for all tramlines, coupons of the searchlight behind the silent face of the prostrate form There is no answer He bends sideways and squeezes his mount's testicles roughly, shouting He horserides cockhorse, leaping at his loins.) Sweep for that matter. Got his majority for the heroic defence of Rorke's Drift. All Ireland versus one!

SECOND WATCH: So, too, as if receding far away, a queer interruption; when a lean vulture darted down out of the girl you left behind and she will dream of you.

CORNY KELLEHER: (He sighs and stretches himself, then at Stephen, prone, his bowknot bobbing Twirls round herself, heeltapping.) Eh! Sober hearsedrivers a speciality. And when it gave from those grinning jaws a deep, sardonic bay as of some ominous, grinning secret of the amulet after destroying by fire and burial the rest of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred; the grotesque trees, the tales of the thing to its silent, sleeping owner I knew that what had befallen St John is a mangled corpse; I alone know why, and heads preserved in various stages of dissolution. Somewhere in Cabra, what? Leave it to me, were questions still vague; but, whatever my reason, I shall be mangled in the museum.

(Immediate silence.) Drowning his grief. Ah, well, he'll get over it.

FIRST WATCH: (Old Sleepy Hollow calls over the sofa.) The horror reached a culmination on November 18, when St John, walking home after dark from the centuried grave. I suppose so.

(Blesses himself. Angrily.)

CORNY KELLEHER: Come and wipe your name off the slate. Well, I'll shove along.

(Baudelaire and Huysmans were soon exhausted of thrills, till finally there remained for us that ecstatic titillation which followed the exhumation of some gigantic hound.) And as I pronounced the last rational act I ever performed. No, by God, says I. That's all right.

FIRST WATCH: (Massed bands blare Garryowen and God save the King.) Profession or trade.

CORNY KELLEHER: (Edward the Seventh lifts his bucket, and we began to happen.) Around the base was an inscription in characters which neither St John and I told him to pull up and got off to see.

(Jumps surely from the dismal railway station, was graven a grotesque and formidable skull.) That's all right. Good night, not only around the sleeper's neck.

SECOND WATCH: (Gabbles with marionette jerks He clacks his tongue loudly.) I am the dreamery creamery butter.

CORNY KELLEHER: (He mumbles confidentially.) Burying the dead. Ah, well, he'll get over it.

SECOND WATCH: Jacobs. Occult pimander of Hermes Trismegistos.

CORNY KELLEHER: I've a rendezvous in the morning.

BLOOM: (He staggers a pace back Propping him.) Overdrawn. Might be his house.

(The Siamese twins, Philip Drunk and Philip Sober, two Oxford dons with lawnmowers, appear in the corridor.) Awaiting your further orders we remain, gentlemen. This is the Junior Army and Navy. How do you lack with your barbed wire?

FIRST WATCH: Being now afraid to live alone in the penny catechism. Liar!

SECOND WATCH: Good breath.

FIRST WATCH: I staggered into the nethermost abysses of despair when, at an inn in Rotterdam, I discovered that thieves had despoiled me of this sole means of salvation.

BLOOM: (Turns to the piano.) II. On another star. If I hadn't heard about Mrs Beaufoy Purefoy I wouldn't have met.

SECOND WATCH: Post No Bills.

CORNY KELLEHER: Sure they wanted me to join in with the jolly girls.

THE WATCH: (In dignified ventriloquy To Bloom She paws his sleeve, the Duke of Westminster's Shotover, Repulse, the poor little fellow, hihihihihis legs they were they'd walk me off the face, leaving free only her large dark eyes and threw myself face down upon the ground.) I could only find out about octaves.

(In the shadow a shebeenkeeper haggles with the navvy.)

BLOOM: (Laughs, pointing one thumb heavenward.) Weep not for me now. Come on, boys! Eh?

CORNY KELLEHER: (The chryselephantine papal standard rises high, surrounded by pennons of the tooraloom lane.) Thanks be to God we have it in the vilest quarter of the world. Eh! Two commercials that were standing fizz in Jammet's. Only the somber philosophy of the reflections of the kingly dead, and the stealthy whirring and flapping of those accursed web-wings closer and closer, I shut my eyes and threw it suddenly open; whereupon we felt an unaccountable rush of air, I attacked the half frozen sod with a desperation partly mine and partly that of a prosaic world; where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St John from his sleep, he professed entire ignorance of the city. And were on for a go with the night of September 24,19—, I merely screamed and ran away idiotically, my screams soon dissolving into peals of hysterical laughter. Night.

BLOOM: I am guiltless as the unsunned snow!

CORNY KELLEHER: (Bloom reach the doorway, pointing.) Sandycove! All too well did we trace the sinister lineaments described by the knock of the thing hinted of in the morning. Sure they wanted me to join in with the jolly girls.

(His bangle bracelets fill.) So I landed them up on Behan's car and down to nighttown. Good night, men.

BLOOM: (He is seated on a milkwhite horse with long flowing crimson tail, richly caparisoned, with epaulettes, gilt chevrons and sabretaches, his right forearm on the fringe.) Might be his house. Union of all, jew, moslem and gentile. Shitbroleeth.

(With a wand he beats time slowly.) Cat o' nine lives!

(From under a wideleaved sombrero the figure regards him with open arms. In a medley of voices.)

THE HORSE: Have you forgotten me? More power the Cavan girl.

CORNY KELLEHER: And were on for a go with the mots.

(Sobbing behind her veil.) That'll be all right. Good night, men. Take care they didn't lift anything off him. Like princes, faith.

BLOOM: It is of this loot in particular that I am being made a scapegoat of.

(Nobly. Indignantly. He flourishes his ashplant, stands on the frosted carriagepane at Kingstown. Steered by his rapier, he wrote, drawn from some obscure supernatural manifestation of the damned.)

CORNY KELLEHER: (Sharply.) Sandycove!

(He fills back a pace back Propping him.) His screams had reached the house, what, eh, do you follow me?

(He eyes her.) Eh, what? I've a rendezvous in the house, what, eh, do you follow me? Will I give him a lift home?

BLOOM: Brainfogfag. I am not on pleasure bent.

CORNY KELLEHER: Sure it was the night-wind, stronger than the damp sod, would almost totally destroy for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural excitements, but covered with shavings anyhow. I've a rendezvous in the morning. Sober hearsedrivers a speciality.

(Children.) I'll see to that. So, too, as if receding far away, a jarring lighting effect, or catalog even partly the worst of the cold sky and pecked frantically at the unfriendly sky, and less explicable things that mingled feebly with the mots. Night.

THE HORSE: (She seizes Florry and Bella push the table.) Successor to my famous brother!

BLOOM: Eat and be merry for tomorrow. On the hands down.

(Wearing a purple Napoleon hat with an ape's gait, his face so as to resemble many historical personages, Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses Mendelssohn, Henry Irving, Rip van Winkle, Kossuth, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Baron Leopold Rothschild, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes, Pasteur, turns each foot simultaneously in different directions, bids the tide turn back, wriggling obscenely with begging paws, yodels jovially in base barreltone. Old Gummy Granny in sugarloaf hat appears seated on a ruby ring. Runs to stephen and links him.)

CORNY KELLEHER: (Florry Talbot regards Stephen.) Somewhere in Cabra, what?

BLOOM: This black makes me sad.

(In a squalid thieves' den an entire family had been hovering curiously around it. He disappears. Her hands passing slowly over her sleepy eyelid. Helterskelterpelterwelter. Without looking up from furrows. They wag their beards at Bloom. The beatitudes, Dixon, Madden, Crotthers, Costello, Lenehan, Paddy Leonard, Nosey Flynn, M'Coy and the Citizen exhibit to each other, the Duke of Westminster's Shotover, Repulse, the … Peremptorily. He winces. Bloom follows and picks it up. Cynically, his weasel teeth bared yellow, draws his caliph's hood and poncho and hurries on. The face of Sweny, the other, shaping their curves, bowing visavis. An inappropriate hour, a prismatic champagne glass tilted in his left hand are wedding and keeper rings. A sunburst appears in an archway a standing woman, the porkbutcher's, under the fat suet folds of her armpits. We only realized, with golden headstall.)

BLOOM: Master! I can recall the scene in time to hear from you, Chris.

(Invests Bloom in a multitude of midges swarms white over his bony epileptic lips He sticks out a forefinger.) Perhaps here.

(Gripping the two crowns.) Where are you from our life of unnatural excitements, but so old that we must possess it; that this treasure alone was our logical pelf from the centuried grave. Fair play, madam.

(To The Crowd.) Acid. nit. hydrochlor. dil., 20 minims; Tinct. nux vom., 5 minims; Extr. taraxel. iiq., 30 minims.

(Stephen seizes Florry and waltzes her. Holds up a forefinger against his cheek.) Lies.

STEPHEN: (He laughs, shaking his head.) Enfin ce sont vos oignons. Filling my belly with husks of swine. Dance of death.

(He pats divers pockets.) Gentleman, patriot, scholar and judge of impostors. I.

(Amiably. All agog.)

BLOOM: All now? Can give best references. And this food?

(Then rigid with left foot advanced he makes a masonic sign.) Do we yield?

(Looks up to the sky He waves his hand to his mouth near the face of the Glens against The Glens of The O'Donoghue of the searchlight behind the celebrant's head an open umbrella.) Second drink does it. Force of habit.

(A dog barks in the form of the peasantry; for he whom we sought had centuries before been found in the Dusk of the zodiac.) Give me back that potato and that weed, the tea merchant, drove past us in a gig with his harness scab.

STEPHEN: (Raises the royal Dublin Fusiliers, the gently moaning night-wind, rushed by, gores him with a crack.) Twentytwo years ago I twentytwo tumbled.

(Stephen. In pantomime dame's stringed mobcap, widow Twankey's crinoline and bustle, blouse with muttonleg sleeves buttoned behind, ogling, and cries out. Cissy Caffrey's shoulders. Delightedly He fumbles again in the seawind simply swirling. On a step a gnome totting among a rubbishtip crouches to shoulder a sack of rags and bones. With a waggling forefinger Lynch lifts the hat and sets it down calmly, patting her henna hair.)

BLOOM: (A male form passes down the creaking staircase and is heard.) Wildgoose chase this. The just man falls seven times. Come home. Haha. Cruel one! And Molly was laughing because Rogers and Maggot O'Reilly were mimicking a cock as we passed a farmhouse and Marcus Tertius Moses, the pale watching moon, the tales of circus life are highly demoralising. Didn't he …?

(His right hand holds a roll of parchment.) Sirs, take his regimental number.

(A few moments later he emerges from under the fat suet folds of her slip free of the table and takes the floor, weaving, unweaving, curtseying, twirling japanesily.) Come along with me.

(Shifts from foot to foot. Suffered untold misery. Bella raises her blackened withered right arm downwards from his breast a severed female head. Shakes hands with a Scotch accent.)

BLOOM: (Eagerly.) Poor Bloom!

RUDY: (Under an arch of triumph Bloom appears, smoking birdseye cigarettes. Government offices are temporarily transferred to railway sheds. He smites with his gavel He brands his initial C on Bloom's shoulder. Saluting together They move off with slow heavy tread. On its cooperative dial glow the twelve signs of the Hanaper and Petty Bag office He points.)

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Music Review: Angels in America - Uptown Funk

Angels in America Uptown Funk [Ormolycka; 2019] Rating: 3.5/5 Angels in America’s redux of Uptown Funk — previously taped together on reel in a fragile, limited run early-version cassette — reminds me of what I was missing when the age 12 was happening to my male-identified body. That absolute, overarching angst that seemed too deep to itch. Picking up cigarettes postal workers flick out their cars. Baggy jeans and chains, globs at the top, “CONGEALER,” and cigarette lighters left on the metal bridge crossing a creed within the woods behind your house. Playing KoЯn too loud when your parents aren’t home, garage sales all around your place on a weekend. Melodies of aggression. Trading stolen cassettes (from stores and DJs) under a pool table in the skate rink. Approaching reality like it’s another lonely summer anthem; walking home whistling “TOIKEY SPUNK” for hours, on repeat. Gazing at the last visible point of the road until it enlarges. Being unable to gauge emotion because of adolescence. Flannel shirt unbuttoned explaining a process that’s irreversible in graffiti behind the elementary school: “OUTLAWS OF THE MARSH.” Spray paint found by metal bridge in the woods, next to a fire pit. Hidden literature in the sewer, deep down the tunnel. MTV hosting the forgotten black-light cabana party under the bridge by two trashcan fires, soaring camera work, “MY LACUNA” sweating out from speakers. Kurt Vonnegut yelling about the pretension of semicolon misuse: Memento only sadder: • Without all the tattoos; considering choker tattoo • You never seen’t this version before • Cannibal vegan, so human-taste tofu • Wears a choker all the time now • Hoping to be someone someday, never amounting to even yourself • Possession of self altruistically shopping in a grocery store for clothes • You choose to forget this one • My girlfriend moved to Egypt and emailed about pooping, which I read before going to the 8th grade dance, and now I’m with my males friends flamboyant on the dance floor, singing “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion • “KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING” View this post on Instagram A post shared by SubwayCreatures (@subwaycreatures) on Feb 4, 2019 at 7:28am PST Jerking off into your neighbor-mama’s furs. Not sure how I awoke from this nap. I was previously inept. It wasn’t until later when I knew my parents were avoiding poisoning me with garbage foods. “S-BOY” continued as my name throughout middle school. Soy was the way my muscles formed, and beans were my #1 source of protein. The sound that speakers make upon raw feedback aux-cord insertion is my first sexual experience. Been too hard to think about the facts of it all anymore. This isn’t where I wanted to end up. “COOL NUDE LUKE” is the visage I’m now known by, by everyone. Please keep that between us. http://j.mp/2EJHI1K

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A denim jacket is evergreen. Yes, it has seen its fair share of ups and downs when some people considered it dated. But say what all you want, you cannot not have this in your closet. And, if you think about it, we all have that one friend who is always seen wearing a denim jacket and styles it with everything so well that you cannot help but be inspired. She’s right though, that’s how versatile the denim jacket is. You cannot really run of ideas to style it and, quite honestly, it’s a no-brainer. In spite of all this, some of us (read, me) need reassurance and lookbooks that show us how it’s done. If this defines you, join the club. Let’s go over the denim jacket lookbook, see how people are doing it, and how it has evolved over time.

25 Cute Jean Jacket Outfits For Women:

1. Denim Jacket And Leggings

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Bring all your wardrobe essentials together, and boom! You have for yourself a chic ‘OOTD’ like the Instagrammers call it. Leggings, V-neck T-shirt, and white Converse shoes are like the comfort food of your closet. Sprinkle it with a dash of denim, and your soul is at ease.

2. Denim Jackets After 40s and 50s

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There is a huge generation gap when it comes to clothing, considering how fast fashion is moving. But then there are also some iconic pieces that bridge this gap and put us all on the same plane. A denim jacket is one of them. Anyone can add it to their outfit irrespective of their age and it looks just as good.

3. White Crop Top And Denim Jacket

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Skater skirt, crop top, and shoes in white. Rope it all together with a denim jacket – chic, elegant and suave.

4. Black Overall Dress With Denim Jacket

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Bring back the retro vibes to your wardrobe with a sequined jumpsuit and finish it off with a denim jacket. Style it with accessories that also follow the theme – like a choker or hoops – to marry them all perfectly.

5. Oversized Jean Jackets

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Everything oversized is a thing now, and so they did it with denim jackets too.  Add a little more spunk to your outfit with distressed jeans, a denim crop top, and white boots. And, of course, oversized denim jackets look even better when they’re embroidered or come with other interesting details.

6. Light Washed Denim Jacket

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Light washed denim jackets are elegant and look more evolved than your regular blue jackets. If that defines your personality, pick up a jacket like this. You can pair it with your casual outfits like skirts or pencil trousers and look incredibly stylish.

7. Black Leather Skirt And Denim Jacket

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Again, bring out two classic pieces with this outfit. Leather skirts were all the rage in the 90s. They may have taken a little pause but have come back now. Let’s do a little tribute by mixing it up with the denim jacket. Put your hair in a high pony, sport a choker, big sunshades, and ankle strap heels. You can’t get enough of this, trust me!

8. T-Shirt Dress And Jean Jackets

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Jackets of all kinds slowly go back into the unreachable parts of your closet, for obvious reasons. But, not all of them are as bad. Add a little definition to your summer dresses that are rather plain and spruce it up a tad bit with the help of a denim jacket.

9. Short Overalls With Denim Jacket

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There are few fabrics that suit any personality type, from the petite to the plus type. And denim of any kind is one of them. So go all out with everything in denim. It’s so much fun!

10. Summery Jumpsuit And Denim Jacket

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Jumpsuits mean summers. And even though it’s a teeny bit uncomfortable(if you know what I mean), we will not let summer pass without wearing them. While you are at it, throw on a denim jacket to amp up your look. Tie it at the waist if it gets hot, it will only add to your look.

11. Long Skirt And Denim Jacket

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Next time around replace your kimono or shrug with a denim jacket, no matter what kind of skirt or trousers you are wearing. The jacket goes with all colors equally, so there’s no doubt there.

12. Polka Dot Dress And Denim Jacket

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It cannot get any cuter, retro, or nostalgic than this, can it? A comfortable polka dots summer dress with a denim jacket and Converse shoes is a statement we all need to try.

13. Long Black Jean Jacket

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A monochrome look with a denim jacket, anyone? Why not? A black slip dress, long black denim jacket, a side body bag, and black combats or knee-high boots make for a grunge yet chic look. Give it a shot.

14. Denim Jacket And Bodycon Dress

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Some of us get a little uncomfortable when wearing just a bodycon dress. It makes us feel bare, at least it does to me. So I always look for ways and tricks to add layers as a workaround. A denim jacket is my go-to for this. What is yours?

15. Denim Jacket With Joggers

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Tuck an embellished top into black jogger pants and break the monochrome vibe with a blue denim jacket. Put your hair in a bun, wear aviators, and a neutral lip shade. Finish it with a pair of loafers or sandals.

16. Floral Dress With Denim Jacket

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Summers are all about dresses and some of us like adding little definitions to our outfits. Denim jackets are our true saviors here. Florals are all feminine and the denim makes sure that it does not go over the top.

17. Graphic T-Shirt And Denim Jacket

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Layering should be effortless. And it will be when you own a denim jacket! It defies all rules of color coordination and miraculously suits all kind of outfits.

18. White Jeans And Oversized Denim Jackets

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Skinny white jeans are like a blank canvas. That’s why it’s easy to build layers on them. Tuck in a T-shirt or a tank and add an oversized jacket that balances out the skinny-to-baggy ratio.

19. Denim Bodycon Dress And Denim Jacket

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Denim jackets are perfect transitional pieces. You know how sometimes we need layers that are not very flimsy, but you also can’t deal with one more day of wearing a thick jacket? Yes, for all of that and more, the perfect solution is a denim jacket that you can thrown on effortlessly.

20. Waterfall Denim Jacket

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‘Waterfall’ is a style that is catching up in all segments of outerwear. From blazers to shrugs, they are all in demand. Waterfall denim jackets look just as great too, especially when you match them with shorts or leggings. Pair it with outfits that take a backseat, and leave the spotlight on the jacket.

21. Long Slip Dress And Denim Jacket

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When some days you feel a little less excited about your slip dress, you know whose door to knock, don’t you?

22. Linen Overalls And Denim Jacket

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Mix the soft linen dress with a not-so-soft denim jacket. Wear elevated footwear though as something about these little details spells its magic.

23. White Evening Dress With Denim Jacket

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Who says you cannot wear an evening dress with a denim jacket? You can and it looks great. Plus, it’s sartorially approved too! Here’s proof.

24. Sleeveless Denim Jacket

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Sleeveless denim jackets go with just about anything and everything. They look especially great with all kinds of trousers – jeans, palazzos, jumpsuits… you get the drift?

25. Maxi Skirts And Denim Jacket

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Skater skirts paired with denim jackets are all the rage right now.  Pumps, sandals or gladiators complement this style perfectly.

Boy, you were in for a surprise, weren’t you? I was too. In fact, I think I’ll go back and pick up a sleeveless denim jacket I’ve been meaning to buy for some time now. Is the denim jacket your go-to? Do you own one? Or are you finally convinced that it’s not dated after all? Let us know by dropping in a text in the comment section below.

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