#initially i thought the green boxes were our narrator

[joeysmuttonchops]

[Batman: Orpheus Rising #4]

YES. YES. YESSSS.

[highfunctioningflailgirl]

My Lethal White episode 1 recap

After having had a lot of fun recapping episode 2, I went back and did episode 1 as well. It got a bit out of hand and is a loooong post...

Under the cut, because, evidently, there will be ALL THE SPOILERS! 🚨

*SQUEEEEE!!!* THEY’RE BACK!!! 🤗💃🏻🙌🏼  (Yes, I’m still squeeing, although this is a rewatch)

Let’s look at the title sequence, shall we? They’ve added a few new details: There’s the wooden cross from the dell, the White Horse of Uffington and Robin’s Houses of Parliament guest pass. The child from Billy’s memories and the pink blanket. Someone’s already mentioned the ‘whore’ swirling in the coffee cup, and then later we have a fencing icon in the pint. Cool hints. 😎

Cut to tired, head-achy Cormoran at the wedding. Strike has a slightly different haircut, and I wonder: they dye Tom’s hair darker for the role, but he has a glint of natural first grey at the temples that I’ve seen on Tom pre-Strike. How did they keep that? (Sorry about the hair kink digression…☺️)

Pet peeve of mine they carried over from Career of Evil: in the book, Donald Laing slashes Strike’s palm, but it didn’t happen in the series. There was no blood on his hand when he called Robin, and his glove was intact. And yet, Strike has his hand bandaged. I know it’s a silly pet peeve of mine, but stuff like that pulls me out of the moment. And Strike wouldn’t slap on a bandage just for a little bruising. *steps off soap box*

“You look beautiful.” - “And you look terrible.” - “It’s this jacket, needs taking in.” 😂

“I want you back.” - “What?” Augh, the double meaning of it all, Strike’s softness and Robin’s initial uncertainty of what he means. 🥺

When she realizes that Matt deleted Strike’s messages, there’s a tear spilling from her eye, and she quickly wipes it away. 😢 Such good acting. Such a brave girl.

A few of us have already addressed this in the chat: did Matt BLOCK Strike, or delete his calls and messages? Or both? They’re frustratingly unclear about this detail, and it makes a difference in terms of Strike being able to reach her or not. (I’m a continuity nerd, sorry)

Sarah standing next to Matthew. *gags*

Robin looks so beautiful! And so very sad. (Holliday is acting her heart out of this season, can’t say it enough). This is award material, hands-down. 🏆

Her look across the room at Cormoran while they’re eating! And he’s… just been staring at her all through the meal? Good god. These two.

If Cormoran falls asleep before dessert he’s got to be really, REALLY tired.☺️ Poor baby.

We’ve got to work on your fine dining skills, Cormoran darling! It’s very cowboy and rugged, handling cutlery like that, but you would SINK during an aristocracy under-cover op. Maybe the Comte de la Fère is available for a lesson?

The first chords of The Calling’s “Wherever you will go”. Ack. They really went for the original, and as someone who’s always been ridiculously in love with that cheesy song, I AM HERE FOR IT.

Cormoran walking slow-mo past the bridesmaids, looking at Robin dancing with Matt The Twat. My heart…💔

When I’m gone you’ll need love to light the shadows on your face… *sniff*

Cormoran’s FACE during the dance. I can’t. He looks like a puppy about to get shot. 🥺

(and what a juxtaposition to the little lady with the funny hat bobbing happily next to him, to everyone looking awww and being completely ignorant of the drama that’s playing out. Ugh. I’m dead.)

Matthew moves like someone who’s (painstakingly) learned exactly one (1) dance, and for their wedding only, and why is he even smiling so proudly? They must’ve just had the biggest row in history? Is he really so full of himself?

Even Robin is smiling, although staring longingly at Strike. I bet they did that so Strike would be a little mad at her and want to walk away.

AND HE DOES! 😟 You can just see the “Fuck this” from the book crossing his face as he turns around and leaves. Ack. I’m dead again.

If I could then I would, I’ll go wherever you will go

(Perfectly placed, kudos) 👏🏼

And she runs after him, looking like a fairy-tale princess. Did you see how frigging COLD it must’ve been, judging by her breath?! Poor Holliday must have been freezing to death during the shoot. And then to pull off such a heartbreaking scene…

(Also, the lawn in the park? A shitload of rolled sods. No grass looks this lusciously green in winter, and you can see the edges everywhere. Some landscaper had a field day there!)

“Are you sure?” - “Yeah. I am.” About WHAT, you idiots?! *wrings hands* To her coming back to work, of course, but there’s so much more to their statements. And I’m sure that non-book-readers thought they were about to kiss and elope, but - alas! - we know that’s not going to happen.😔

But at least we get The Hug™️, and it’s everything we hoped for: Robin crying, digging her fingers into his jacket; Cormoran closing his eyes… God help us, we are all DOOMED sailing this ship! 🙈💔

I was a little miffed upon first watching that they faded out of that hug so quickly. That was it? No, it wasn’t, as we now know, and I love, love, love that we’re getting all these extended flashbacks that reveal more and more of what happened to us!

ONE BLOODY YEAR LATER (I still can’t get over that time jump)

Lol at the subcontractor crashing his moped into the cab! It was only briefly mentioned in the book, and turning it into an actual dialogue was a fun idea.😂

And there’s Denise (that IS her, right?), completely uninterested in doing her job. Good grief - Strike and Robin are BAD a picking employees! 🙈

Robin looking not-jealous-at-all at Strike walking off with Lorelei. Ouch.

I like Lorelei, btw. They chose the actress well, and she’s nice and mature. Which doesn’t mean that I’m not secretly flinching every time she kisses Cormoran. It’s just not right.

Billy. Joseph Quinn does an incredible job playing him. 👏🏼 As dangerous as he appears at first, his despair and his efforts at holding himself together are heartbreaking. That battle he wages against his mental illness is on full display, and his scared big eyes are killing me. 🥺

Cormoran is admirably unfazed by Billy’s appearance - is that his Army training kicking in? Robin, though, is shaking but braving it out, recording with her phone although her hands are trembling. Good acting by Holliday.

Good riddance, Denise.

The good ole’ pencil trick. “I didn’t know people still did this.” 😌

I was surprised that Cormoran chose to simply break into the house on Charlemont road. It’s breaking and entering for no good reason. Could’ve been anybody’s home.

He’s not going to- EWW! He’s sitting down on that filthy couch. And plucking hairs from it. EWW!🤢

Robin: “...and some porn.” 😂 Says it as if it’s what they always find. The usual. Men… 🙄

Who’s the guy taking pictures of Cormoran? I seriously don’t remember this from the b- Oh, WAIT! Reporter guy. Patterson. Yeah. Him.

The CORE members are as cliché in their looks as are Chiswell’s upper class folks. It’s all a bit on the nose for my taste, but then clichés are clichés for a reason.

Cormoran needs to work on his disguises. Not fitting in at all with the CORE crowd, age-wise or in his look. No wonder they don’t trust him. He does it better in the books.

Oh Robin. I actually think you need a lot more therapy to work through your shit.

Ah, here we go. Seaborn bacteria. But first, Matt’s got to be a prick again. 🙄

Chiswell with his arrogance and his rudeness and his finger-snapping. *shakes head* I think if Cormoran hadn’t known he could make some serious money with this case, he may have walked out on him.

Btw, the “large” jacket is making Strike look slimmer instead of bigger. 😄 They’re so desperately mentioning Strike’s largeness, as if beating it over our heads could actually make us not see barely-6-foot and slender Tom Burke.

“Couple more potatoes wouldn’t hurt.” And his FACE! 🥰

Glenister is a really good actor. I always listen to the Strike audiobooks that he narrates, and I was worried hearing his voice in the show would be confusing, but it’s not because he sounds so different. Can’t wait for him reading “Troubled Blood” to me! 🎧

Is it a coincidence that Drummond’s art gallery has a painting of a horse in its front window? I think not.

I love that soft blue shirt they put Cormoran in. Makes him look very huggable. *blushes*

“Not sure I would make a convincing goddaughter either.”😂

So in England you can just walk up to a minister’s house and ring the doorbell without any security people stopping you? Interesting.

Chiswell just shutting the door in Cormoran’s face. RUDE.😠

The brown contact lenses. 👀 Okay, they make her look different, but not THAT different. It’s her sudden posh accent that’s the real stunner.

The panic attacks. Holliday plays them so well, I almost feel like I can’t breathe myself. 😧

I was expecting the Houses of Parliament to look a little less like a stuffy basement full of old junk. *ducks*

Barclay! Definitely looking more attractive than his description in the book. And I thought I’d gotten food at understanding Scottish. I haven’t. *turns subtitles on*

Izzy is the only Chiswell offspring who doesn’t make me want to immediately vomit.

“Venetia. Like the blinds.” Oh God. 🙈

Winn is such a creep. 🤮 Poor Robin. GET AWAY FROM HER YOU LEECH!

Of course Matt doesn’t want Robin to wear the Green Dress. Twat.🙄

The house warming party. I always wonder why Robin doesn’t have friends of her own. I have a feeling Matt has something to do with that.

The earrings. So we will see Robin finding out Matt’s cheating on her! I can’t wait for her to rip him a new one! 😈

Robin calls Cormoran - and it’s not Coco but Lorelei who picks up. That’s a smart change from the book. And it makes her the rebound girl. Which she doesn’t deserve, but it is what it is.

“And she bakes.” 🥴 Is it just me wondering how Lorelei got that cake into the tin without ruining the icing?!

Flashback to The Hug™️. God, their faces are so close. Cormoran is so soft. Nnnnhhhggggg.

Enter the plaid shirt. Lumber!Cormoran is a good look on him! 😍

The Armchair of Sadness™️. Of course that’s where the devastating phone call to Robin’s house happens! The disbelief and disappointment on Cormoran’s face is heart rending. 😢💔

@lulacat3 and I have already established the continuity error with Cormoran’s facial injuries suddenly missing when he’s reached the pub. (And they should still be there; he’s still wearing the plaid shirt from that same evening.) If I were the makeup person I would have been deeply regretful of having missed dabbing fake injuries on Tom’s face again.

The Uffington Horse. Robin’s in appropriate Wellingtons, weather jacket and a beanie for their outing. Cormoran is wearing what he always wears, and Tom clearly wishes he had a beanie. At least he gets to wear a t-shirt under his eternally blue shirts this season. REVOLUTION! 😄

Sure. Let’s just go and dig for a corpse with a shovel so conveniently available! Just the two of them - one delicate Robin and one invalid. And then Robin finds the bones after ten seconds of digging. No further comment. 🙄

But I like the change with Cormoran’s leg. As stupidly heroic as he acted in the book, I like it better in the show where he has to acknowledge his handicap and Robin takes charge.

The bones. Dun-dun-DUN!

(Good first episode, although all in all the pacing wasn’t quite right yet, and compared to the book it all felt a bit rushed. I liked episode two better.)

[doomonfilm]

Review : Candyman (2021)

Nearly all 1980s children like myself had a morbid obsession with ghost stories and urban legends, with much of our free time spent daring one another to do silly things meant to scare the daylights out of one another.  For as long as I could remember these events, I remember the presence of Bloody Mary and the ominous way that she is beckoned by repeating her name while looking in a mirror.  Imagine my surprise when 1992 rolled around, and this very familiar Bloody Mary construct was reskinned into the iconic Candyman film, the tale of a former mob justice victim turned Cabrini Green boogieman.  After three films of varying success, many people thought that was it for Candyman, but along came Jordan Peele and his revelatory reveal as a master horror facilitator we’ve not seen the likes of since Rod Serling.  With the announcement that he was helping to produce a Nia DaCosta directed sequel to the first film, the anticipation was high, and even though it was delayed by COVID-19, the film recently found a release to much critical acclaim and box office success.

The immediate and permeating strength of the 2021 Candyman film is the way that it continues the ruminations on the power of myth.  The original Candyman film used its titular character as a thinly veiled piece of symbolism for gentrification, particularly in the way that White exterior curiosity and interest in the “hood” eventually drives the original inhabitants (read : Black people) out of the hood.  DaCosta updates this approach by flipping the ideas on their head, particularly in the way that the forgotten Candyman myth hangs around in the air of North Chicago as a sordid and sobering reminder of what once stood there, and the capacity for poverty, crime and despair to invade the area again.  Positioning Anthony McCoy as an artist seeking inspiration perfectly opens up the gateway to the shocking revelations we are presented with, bringing the Candyman lore full circle in a way that is satisfying to both those familiar and unfamiliar with the original Candyman film.  Using the unreliable narrator approach to retell the Helen Lyles story was a very nice touch, especially for those that know the way the events unfolded.

Like much of the media originated from or focused on the Black experience in the modern day, 2021 Candyman takes a long and hard look at generational trauma.  Placing us in the familiar location of the former Cabrini Green give us an air of familiarity for certain elements within the film, but despite how much the area has changed, the impact from the horrors that took place prior to the economical shift clearly resonate even if Candyman himself is a distant memory to the people.  Much like the N-word (which I will choose not to use, as per usual), Candyman becomes a tool that can be reclaimed, and rather than embraced, it can be wielded against those that created it by the ones it was intended to hurt.  Even the figure of Candyman goes through his own form of generational trauma as different individuals that succumb to tragedy all step into their own version of the Candyman mantle, up to and including Anthony McCoy (who has his own direct generational ties that I will not spoil).  Even the generational trauma subtext, which is presented through the story of Brianna Cartwright and her sorrowful relationship with her tortured artist father, hits in a way that can be felt and understood by everyone, and even more so by those that have lost loved ones that chose to take their own lives.

While there was symbolism present in the previous film, the dials are ramped up to eleven in this release, with the mirror and bee symbolism in particular working pitch perfectly.  From the opening titles we are made aware of the presence of mirrors within the film, and for those keen enough to keep one eye on the main action and another on any mirrors that present themselves, you are treated to a feast of visual trickery.  While bees were used as a way to put viewers off in the original film, like some sort of sick dig for sympathy by way of shock value, bees in the DaCosta film work as a harbinger of doom, specifically for Anthony McCoy, while also standing as a symbol for how deep the core connection is between McCoy and the Candyman lineage.  Chicago is always the uncredited star of any film it is in, and DaCosta beautifully covers all areas of the city while including segue cutaways where we float through the various famous streets of Chicago from the perspective of a corpse in a casket.  Speaking of perspective, it is used in masterful ways throughout the course of the film, with the Anthony McCoy sequence in Finley Stephens‘ hallway standing as the cherry on top of the perspective sundae.

We need to go ahead and give Yahya Abdul-Mateen II his flowers while he can smell them, because this man may be the most capable actor currently working in terms of effortlessly and casually showing the full spectrum of human emotion in his performances, all the while radiating off of the screen like the kind of guy you’d love to have a beer with, and the kind of friend you care deeply for when they are falling to pieces.  Teyonah Parris counters this by bringing a deeply grounded and protective energy born of trauma to her performance, carrying and conveying deep hurt in very subtle ways that bloom as we pick up with her journey.  Colman Domingo puts a new and updated twist on the familiar harbinger role, shedding the initial terror and uneasiness approach and instead opting for the wise observer approach, hooking both Anthon McCoy and us as viewers and dragging us right up to the point of payoff.  Nathan Stewart-Jarrett takes on the dual task of bringing levity to the proceedings and serving as the universal audience surrogate in terms of a voice of reason, with Kyle Kaminsky adding some very subtle additional laughs in tandem.  The physicality and pain that Michael Hargrove is able to communicate in his Candyman performance stands in stark contrast to the regal Tony Todd approach, which in many ways makes his unfortunate ghost characterization more of a psychological terror than a danger.  Vanessa Williams and Virginia Madsen reprise their original roles, while Rebecca Spence, Brian King, Cari Clemons-Hopkins and many more lend their talents to the cast. 

In all seriousness and sincerity, I love this 2021 take on Candyman even more than I expected to going in.  I’m not ready to place my bets yet, but I’m slowly working on a theory about the Candymen in this film, and specifically who is “responsible” for what actions.  I love films that I instantly want to own after seeing it in the theater, and Candyman is 100% one of those films... lucky for all of us, we should be seeing this one hitting the streaming services within 45 days or so, though I am likely to spend money on seeing this in a theater again prior to that time.

[takingcourage]

Jaime x MC Fluff Alphabet

Part 1 of 2

Pairing: Jaime x MC (Arden)

Word Count: 5,650

Note: July 8 marks the first anniversary of the Wishful Thinking finale. I’m still not over Jaime Lewis, and this seemed like an excellent opportunity to check in with him and Arden through a series of drabbles. Since I’ve already addressed some of these topics in previous fics, I’ve linked the relevant stories below as well.

I plan to release Part 2 within the next week. I hope you enjoy! : ) 

Activities - What do they like to do with their s/o? How do they spend their free time with them? 

Swatting away the sweat bee that was hovering around her neck, Arden trudged through the grassy acreage that lay between her and Jaime. They were still hours from the full heat of the day, but the air was muggy enough to drown in.

“You forgot your water bottle back up at the farmhouse,” she called once within earshot. 

Jaime dumped the shovelful of dirt onto the pile beside him and leaned a forearm on end of the handle. “Thanks.” He peered at her through one eye, the other blinking rapidly to dispel the sweat. 

“Next time, I’m bringing a bandana for you too.”

Taking a swig from the bottle, he pulled it back with a shake of his head. “My hair’s fine how it is.” 

“I’m not disputing that it’s fine, just that it’s impractical in this weather. Come to think of it,” she mused, shielding her eyes with her hand, “so is that shirt you’re wearing.” 

A sly smile crossed his lips as he squatted to set the bottle on the ground. “You sure you’re really here to help the people of Oak Hills, Arden?” 

She brushed the question aside with the wave of her hand. “I wouldn’t still be coming out here if I weren’t. But the day’s only getting hotter. Going shirtless would clearly be the most logical course of action.” 

“Uh-huh,” he drawled. “I’m onto you, Mrs. Lewis.” 

Squinting against the mounting sun, Arden cast an appreciative eye over his form. “And I’m looking forward to having you all to myself, Mr. Lewis.” 

Jaime sighed in feigned exasperation, but she didn’t miss the decisive wink before he returned to work. 

Beauty - What do they admire about their s/o? What do they think is beautiful about them?

“Jinx.” 

A momentary sliver of green appeared between the calico’s eyelids. 

“Jinx,” she tried again, skimming a knuckle over the curve of the cat’s spine. “You know this isn’t your bed.”

Both eyes remained firmly shut. 

Jaime stretched an arm over Arden’s pillow to stroke the feline behind the ears. “She’s used to getting away with it until you go to sleep. You’ve thrown her off her whole routine coming to bed so early.”

"Well, she’s not getting by with it tonight. She’s just going to have to find somewhere else to sleep.” 

With a chuckle, he pulled the hand away and propped himself on his elbows. “Want me to move her for you?”

“I’ve got it.” Sliding both hands under the mass of fur, Arden transferred the cat to the foot of the bed. “There you go, princess. Sleep well.” 

Jaime had thrown back the blankets for her by the time she returned. “It’s nice to fall asleep with you again. And seeing you in these is definitely a perk.” She looked up in time to see his gesture toward her satin sleep set. 

“You mean the pajamas you bought me for my birthday? What a surprise,” she ribbed, scooting over toward the middle of the mattress. “Though they are super comfy.” 

“And they look amazing.” 

Lips curling at the tired, yet sincere compliment, she unlocked her phone and began scrolling through her personal emails.

“Seriously,” he continued. “I think I need you to wear them around the house all the time. Your hips look incredible.”

Arden looked up from the screen, “They’re just hips, Jaime.” At his dumbfounded expression, she shook her head and laughed. “There’s nothing special about them.”

“You don’t understand,” he countered, reverently stroking the arc from her knee to her waist. “They might be my favorite part of you; they’re absolutely gorgeous.” 

“And you’re an absolute flirt.” She bit her lip with a grin and leaned out of his reach to plug her phone onto the nightstand charger. The disappointment she heard as she moved away was visible in his eyes as well. 

“Not that I’m complaining,” she clarified as she snuggled back into the mattress beside him. “Besides, if this is the reception I get for coming to bed early, I might have to do it more often.” 

Comfort - How would they help their s/o when they feel down/have a panic attack etc.? (See also In Stasis, Back to Bubbly, and Flat)

Jaime could hear the panic in her voice when he called to check in over lunch. His fiancée’s words were measured and controlled, but he’d known Arden too long to ignore the shakiness that came along with each inhale of breath. 

“It’ll get done,” she assured from the other end of the line. “We’ll make it work. Anyway, I’ll probably be home late tonight, but I can’t wait to see you.”

She begged off moments later, leaving Jaime with the smiling picture of her that popped up from his contacts. From the sound of things, she was a long way from the happy, carefree Arden she’d been when that photo had been taken. 

With less than a week before tapings began for The Ellen and Arden Show, she was more stressed than he’d ever seen her. She was getting by on only a handful of hours of sleep, and he couldn’t remember the last time he’d successfully convinced her to take a break from her work. 

Her strong work ethic was one of his favorite things about her, but she was approaching this phase of life with a bit more can-do attitude than he would have liked. That stubborn independent streak of hers was back in full force. If it weren’t for her insistence that he continue his normal work schedule, he’d be there with her now. 

Slipping the device back into his pocket, he surveyed the worksite and ticked off the tasks that remained. Edge sanding, screen sanding, staining... As he sorted through grits of sandpaper, his thoughts kept slipping back to Arden. He could easily have the first coat of stain done by 5:00. After that, he’d go to the studio and see what he could do to help.

Maybe it was time to remind her that she didn’t need to handle everything on her own. 

_____

She was busy when he strolled into the studio -- too busy to notice he’d arrived until he was standing across from her at one of the staff writing tables. “Hey!” she jolted, her reddened eyes trying to focus on his face. “Is everything okay?”

Jaime lifted a thick brow. From the mock scowl she gave in return, she’d taken his meaning. 

“I’m fine, Jaime. I just don’t know how we’re supposed to start filming in three days when our set still looks like that!” She pointed at the bare-bones stage on the other side of the room. “The electrician had a family emergency, and we still haven’t gotten the custom flooring that we ordered from the store downtown.” 

“Listen,” he urged, stretching out a hand to help her up from the chair. “When we head out of here tonight, I promise we’ll be leaving things in much better shape. But I need you to do two things for me first.” 

“What?” she inquired, her tone verging on apprehensive. 

“Let me hug you.”

In spite of her initial reluctance, she stepped willingly into his arms. “What’s the second?”

“Eat some dinner while I take stock of where you’re at.”

“But I don’t have time to--”

“There’s a bag of Chinese in your makeup room.” He dropped a kiss on her crown as her grip tightened around his waist. 

Dreams - How do they picture their future with their s/o?

“I think this is the first time I’ve seen you in makeup since we were, like, nine.” Arden took a step toward him and he dipped closer to hear the words she murmured next. “It’s kind of hot.” 

“What? There’s no way that’s true,” he countered, hoping that the makeup was enough to conceal the blush that was stealing across his face. Two months into married life, he still turned to putty every time she used that tone.

“Did Maggie even touch your hair? It looks the same as always.” 

“Just some hairspray.” 

Mumbling something about the unfairness of genetics, she sashayed over to the mic station for final adjustments. Within minutes, they were ready to begin. He joined her on the stage and waited for the lead cameraman to give them the signal. 

Beside him, Arden slipped easily into her on-air persona. “Looking for something to do over the long weekend? We’ve got a project that’s fun, easy, and good for the environment. It’s great to do by yourself, with friends, or even with your kids. Here to help demonstrate, we have a very special guest...” 

Jaime tried to look into the cameras as she completed the introduction, but it was difficult to drag his gaze away from her. Seeing her in her element like this -- getting to be a part of it -- was nothing short of amazing. 

“Thanks, Arden,” he took over, finally directing his attention toward the studio. I’m going to show you how to make a window box planter out of things you probably already have around the house...” the narration slipped from his tongue with the ease of practice. They’d been planning the segment for weeks, and he’d lost track of the number of rehearsals they’d put on in the garage. 

She followed the steps as he began the demonstration, and he caught her quiet giggle as she showed off the tools on her workspace. 

They’d worked on projects together dozens of times, yet this experience was something new. It was a true intersection of their interests: a sign of what the two of them could do when they pieced their talents together. And although it was his first appearance on The Ellen and Arden Show, he had a sneaking suspicion it wasn’t going to be his last. 

Equal - Are they the dominant one in the relationship, or rather passive? 

“What was the order you just tried?” Arden bellowed, popping her head out of the small coat closet. “3-1-5-7-8? Try 3-1-7-5-8 instead. I think the diagram shows that the third number is 5, not 7.”

With the flick of his wrist, Jaime tested the new series of numbers. Feeling the tension of Arden’s gaze, the thanked his lucky stars for the old rotary phone he’d found at Paula’s one summer. He’d never have guessed that his days of dialing fake numbers in the attic would come in so handy. 

As the dial returned to its original position, a mechanical click came from the door on the opposite side of the room. 

“C’mon! We’ve got to see what’s in the bathroom.” 

He’d just had a chance to complete a once-over of the tub before Arden burst in behind him, tossing open all the cupboards in her frenzy. In self preservation, he stepped back and flipped through the almost-familiar pages of the appointment book they’d started with half an hour before. Having noticed the prevalence of leaf-inspired last names, he started comparing entries against the trees he could see through the painted window. 

“We’re down to... 27 minutes,” she reminded after a brief pause to consult the digital readout above the main door. “If we fail this, that serial killer is coming for us with a hatchet. I refuse to die that way.” 

With an absent nod, he flicked through another few pages, grateful that she couldn’t see the way his eyes had rolled upward at her latest outburst. 

“Here, just let me do it,” she insisted, sliding behind him to trade places in the tiny room. “You go over to the sink and try to figure out the order on these medicine bottles.”

Sighing, he surrendered the book and made his way to the counter. Who decided escape rooms made for fun dates? This is awful. He craned his head out the door for a peek at the clock. Phew. Only 26 more minutes. 

Arden’s head spun over her shoulder. “This is fun, isn’t it? Why do you not sound like you’re enjoying it?”

Studying the labels on the bottles, he offered a distracted, “It’s fine. We can talk about it when we’re out of here.” 

She casually dropped the appointment book on the tank of the prop toilet, eyes locked on him as the cardboard hit porcelain. “This is no good if we’re not a team. What’s wrong?”

“It just feels like you’re coming on a little strong here,” he admitted, running a thumb along the lip of the glass bottle. “Like you’re trying to do all of this yourself because you think I can’t. I know I’m not as good at this stuff as you are, but I’d like to think we can work together.”

She sidled next to him again, but this time he had her entire focus. “My bossy side really comes out when I’m under pressure, doesn’t it?” 

Cocking his head to the side, he offered a reluctant nod. 

The next thing he knew, she’d hopped onto the tips of her toes for a kiss. “I’m sorry. I’ll try to do better.” 

“I know,” he assured, feeling a new sense of confidence as her lips met his. “Ready to kick butt for the last 24 minutes?”

“Let’s make it twenty,” she challenged, reaching for the address book. 

Fight - Would they be easy to forgive their s/o? How are they fighting? (See also OTP Prompt #25) 

Lukewarm coffee in hand, Arden extracted herself from the car and proceeded up the steps of the porch. As she’d come to expect on the days when Jaime worked from home, the front door was unlocked.

“I’ve got a surprise for you,” her husband greeted as she latched it behind her. He appeared a moment later, his thoughts matching the warmth of his face. 

In spite of the splitting force between her temples, Arden grinned in return. Jaime wasn’t a cure for headaches, but he had quite a talent for making her forget about them.

“Come with me.” He hoisted the heavy briefcase off her shoulder and caught her fingers with his other hand. 

“I’m coming, I’m coming.” she giggled, allowing him to take the lead as they wound through the entryway and into her office.

“Tada!” he announced, pulling her onto the carpeted floor.

Beside her desk sat the cabinet she’d purchased a couple of weeks before. It looked even better in person than it had online, and it filled the space between her desk and window perfectly. But even so, the pressure in her head returned as a tidal wave. As she stepped closer, it crashed over her in a torrent of hot tears and shallow breaths. 

“It was on the front porch when I came home for lunch, so I decided to put it together as a...” His words fell short as he glanced back at her. “Babe, what’s wrong?”

“I wanted to do it.” 

She knew the complaint sounded shallow and pathetic, but she’d been operating on a short fuse for the better part of the day and her patience had worn extraordinarily thin. 

“I had no idea,” he whispered, concern etched in his brow. 

“It’s such a stupid thing to be upset about, but I was looking forward to building it,” she admitted, plonking her travel mug on the desk in front of her.

“You’ve been working such late hours the past several weeks. I thought it would be nice for you to come home and have it done.” 

With his explanation, it was easy to see how he’d come to such a conclusion. “True,” she conceded. “But sometimes it’s nice to work on something that has an actual, finished product.” 

His full lips teased a smile before he opened them to speak. “If that’s what you’re looking for, I have a suggestion.” 

“Hmm?”

“You remember those brownies I was telling you about last week? The ones Kyle brought to the worksite?” 

“Yeah?”

“I got the recipe from him today, and we have all of the ingredients we need  in the cupboard. Maybe we could test them out together? We’d have a finished product.”

“And we’d get to eat the finished product,” she highlighted, eyes widening at the prospect. “I think that’s exactly what I need. You’re brilliant, Jaime.” 

Beaming, he tossed the hair out of his eyes. “Meet me in the kitchen once you’ve changed?”

“You’ve got a deal,” she agreed, already making a beeline for the upstairs bedroom. 

Gratitude - How grateful are they in general? Are they aware of what their s/o is doing for them?

“I received an email from Tara Simpson yesterday afternoon, out of the blue,” Jaime began, breaking the post-breakfast Saturday lull. 

“Who?” Arden gave her coffee a vigorous stir until she was satisfied with the rich caramel color.  

“The Northbridge Parks and Recreation Director,” he clarified, pouring himself another mug. “She’s interested in getting my feedback about a trail project for Memorial Park. You wouldn’t know anything about that, would you?” 

Cup already on its way to her mouth, Arden took an extra-long drink to buy herself some time. Her eyes narrowed as she leaned a hip against the countertop. “She's probably heard that youv’e been helping clean the mountain trails outside the city.” 

Jaime’s eyebrow dipped with suspicion. “That park is owned by the state. It’s outside of her jurisdiction.” 

“Eh, she must have heard people talk about it.” With a shrug, she pulled open the dishwasher and slotted her spoon into the plastic basket. ”There are a lot of people who love what you did out there.”

Brooding over his still-steaming mug, he watched her behavior curiously. “I know you had something to do with this, even if you won’t admit it.”

Arden knew her husband was smart and capable, but sometimes she managed to forget just how clever he was in addition to everything else. She wasn’t sure how he’d found out about her involvement, but denying it further wasn’t any use. 

“I might brag about your work from time to time. If people hear that bragging and decide to contact you for services...” her voice rose as she let the implication linger. 

“Then thank you for being my cheerleader, even when I don’t know it.” 

“You’re welcome.” With an impulsive sigh, she returned attention to her mug. Hopefully his cleverness wouldn’t extend to finding out about the hints she’d been dropping in the governor’s ear during the last soirée they’d attended together. She never meant to meddle, but he was the perfect solution to so many of the community’s needs. She couldn’t help wanting to hype him up as much as possible. 

“You’re looking pretty shifty over there. Am I about to get a call from the mayor too?”

Arden nearly choked on the sip she’d just poured into her mouth. “Something like that,” was the only reply she could eke out. 

Honesty - Do they have secrets they hide from their s/o? Or do they share everything?

Basket of clothes perched on her hip, Arden stared after her husband’s retreating figure as he passed by the laundry room. Jaime was acting suspicious. 

He’d fallen into many of the same patterns he had at Christmastime: trying to keep his distance when they were both home at the same time, working for hours inside the freezing garage instead of coming inside to use the table, having sneaky conversations with Opie when he didn’t think she was within range to hear...

He was trying to plan a surprise again. She just knew it. 

Not knowing anything else was starting to drive her wild. 

Just like Christmas, she was certain to overhear details sooner or later, but she wasn’t sure she had the patience for happenstance. Readjusting her hold on the basket, she followed him up the stairs to their bedroom. 

“So...” she drew out in an inviting tone as she dumped the warm clothes on their bed. “Our anniversary is only a month away. Have you thought at all about how you want to celebrate?”

He took a step toward the bed and snatched the collar of a T-shirt to begin folding. “I’ve got a few ideas, but nothing solid.” Technically, that’s true. 

“Technically?” Arden asked, scrutinizing every movement as he tucked in the sleeves and set the folded square on the mattress.

Don’t think about it. Nope! I’m thinking about...fire engines. And walruses. Totally random things. 

She was right! His thoughts were only this evasive if there was something he was trying to hide. Arden got his attention by tossing a pair of socks at his shoulder. “Are you trying to keep something from me?”

“No...” he attempted feebly, returning the sock roll to the small pile she’d started. 

“You’re such an awful liar, Jaime. Even before my powers, you were never any good at getting things past me.”

“I’m not lying, but I’m not going to tell you everything right now either. You’ll find out eventually.” With that, he kissed her cheek and vacated the room before she could overhear anything else. 

A little put out by his abrupt manner, she couldn’t resist asking, “What happened to being an open book?” 

“I’m not keeping you from reading it,” he called back from the stairway. “I’m just making sure you do it in the right order to avoid spoilers!”

She turned back to the laundry with a grumble. It looked like she’d have to wait for happenstance after all. 

Inspiration - Did their s/o change them somehow, or the other way around? Like trying out new things or helped them overcome personal problems?

“...then I’d like to get some ajuga for this big patch over here. I’ll get plenty so we have it for...”

Jaime’s words were interrupted as she caught the motion of her father’s front door swinging open. “Hey, dad!” she waved through the fence. Harry ambled to the near side of the porch to survey their work in the flowerbeds. 

“Hi, pumpkin. Your yard sure is looking good.”

“We’re coming for yours next weekend,” Jaime promised with a smile. “I was just telling Arden about what I’m planning to use for ground cover by the stairs. How’s your morning going?”

“Can’t complain. But my remote died and the channel is stuck on the news. Do you happen to have any spare AAA batteries? It’s almost 11:00, and I wanted to watch that new show on the History channel.”

He’s getting a whole crate of batteries for Christmas. 

Hearing Jaime’s thought, Arden had to avoid his face to hold in her laughter. 

“Lemme check,” Jaime volunteered, slipping off his gloves before making a quick trip into the house. Wasting no time upon his return, Arden watched from the flowerbed as Jaime vaulted himself over the fence and sprinted to pass the box to her father through the porch railing. Smothering her giggles under her gardening glove, she almost managed to go undetected. 

“Here you are, Harry. If you’ll excuse the sound behind me, I think your daughter is laughing at me.” 

“It’s better than laughing at me, I suppose. Thanks!” 

“Enjoy your show. See you for dinner!”

Returning to the fence, Jaime propped his arms on the pickets and stared down at her. “What’s so funny over there?”

“You’ve always given me so much crap for scaling the fence to come and see you that first day.” 

“You were right: it was a lot faster than going to the gate.” As if to demonstrate, he hitched his leg over the fence and dropped back into their yard.

“I’m glad we finally agree. Looks like I’ve rubbed off on you after all.” 

Approaching, he squatted down in front of her and brushed the errant strands of hair back under her bandana. “And where’d you pick up this sudden love of gardening?”

Though he posed the question in jest, his brown eyes were tender as well as teasing. 

“Touché.” Weed pulling had become unaccountably satisfying once it was their flowerbed she was tending. “I guess we’re both rubbing off on each other.” 

“Funny how that’s still inevitable after all this time.” 

Jealousy - Do they get jealous easily? How do they deal with it?

Opie rolled to face him on the area rug, staring up at Jaime with soulful eyes. He gave the dog a good scratch behind the ears, increasing his speed as the animal’s tongue lolled out one side of his open mouth. 

Arden snickered from the end of the couch. 

“Are you laughing at Opie’s tongue action?” Jaime rubbed the dog’s muzzle, letting out a chuckle of his own as the creature wriggled closer. 

“No, look at what Maggie just sent me.” 

He did as instructed, his fingers brushing her calf as he took the device from her hands. “Is this on ClickIt?”

“Yeah. They’re writing cringy listicles about us now. Guess that means we’ve made it big.”  

“23 Reasons We All Love Arden Gale,” Jaime read aloud, though the words felt almost foreign in his mouth. He was used to reading Arden’s writing, but reading what other people wrote about her was an entirely different matter.  Feeling his hackles rise, he thumbed through the entries with trepidation. 

Her hair, her smile, her puns... Not even halfway through the list, his head was spinning at the bizarre sensation of seeing his wife’s image on the familiar site. 

#14. Her pencil skirts. Seriously, have you seen her hips? 

His finger slowed before reversing course. 

“The one about my hips?” she asked knowingly.

“Yeah. I mean, they’re not wrong. You know how i feel about them. It’s just... I can’t believe people are posting stuff like that.” 

“Does it make you jealous?” Slipping off the couch, she sat cross legged beside him on the rug. Jaime accepted the hand she placed in his lap, sighing contentedly as she wove their fingers.

“Nah, jealous isn’t the right word. I think it’s just a little strange to see people say that stuff about you online. You’re gorgeous, Arden. That’s not a secret. But it feels like they’ve turned you into an object. They’re missing the essence of what makes you amazing.” 

She squeezed his hand gently. “It’s part of being in the public eye. Most of them will never know me for real, so they’re just writing about what they can see. Not everyone knows me the way you do, babe.” 

“Thank goodness for that.” 

Arden giggled against his lips before pressing forward in a kiss. 

Kiss - Are they a good kisser? What was the first kiss like?

“I choose...Arden.” 

“it’s your turn, birthday girl.”

Determined as she was to ignore her mom’s singsong voice, the flash from her disposable camera caught Arden off guard. She blinked quickly to erase the impression of light from the back of her eyelids, then pivoted on the carpet to stare the freckled boy. The giant red square floated above one of his ears.

“Truth or dare?” he asked. 

“Dare,” she announced, jutting out her chin to show that she wasn’t afraid of whatever he had to offer. Frank didn’t scare her. She’d bested him in last year’s spelling bee, after all. This was her chance to prove that she had guts as well as brains. 

Tucking her flyaway hairs behind both ears, she ignored the pounding in her chest that was almost certain to develop into a heart attack. 

“I dare you to kiss Jaime. On the lips.”

Her whole face turned to fire. Across the circle, the Atterly twins started snickering. A glance at her mother confirmed that her eyebrows had all-but disappeared beneath her feathered bangs. And Jaime? She couldn’t even bear to look in his direction.

“For five whole seconds,” Frank added with a smirk.

“Hey!” Olivia shrieked, “You already said the dare. It’s against the rules to add something else.” Maddie nodded solemnly at her sister’s intervention.  

“Fine.” he sat back against the couch cushion and folded his arms. “One second.” 

“Fine,” she agreed, feeling a surge of pride at how normal she’d managed to make the word sound. She hopped up from the floor and took a pair of steps to where Jaime was perched on a barstool. By the time she reached him, he’d hopped down to the floor. 

“It’s okay,” he promised, though his nerves were evident in his tone. “It’s just a dare.” 

“Yeah, just a dare.” Better get it over with, she thought as her tongue darted out to wet her dry lips. 

Leaning forward, Arden tried to pucker, but she was wincing too hard for the effort to be very convincing. With a deep breath, she pushed herself until her skin brushed his, chanted a silent Mississippi, and jerked away with enough force to incur whiplash.

She knew Jaime’s cheeks were tomato red, but she couldn’t stand to look at anything other than the floor during the journey back to her seat.

Her mother’s exaggerated retching noises, the mingled chorus of “Ewwww”s, and the inevitable “Jaime and Arden sitting in a tree...” were all interrupted by the sound of her best friend scurrying out of the living room. 

“Uh, I’ll be right back,” he explained before bolting out the front door. 

Rattled, but victorious, she reclaimed her spot on the carpet and tried to remember the dare she’d been keeping in the back of her mind for this turn. Unfortunately, all thoughts were centered around a single truth:

For as long as she lived, she was never going to forgive Frank Lipscomb.

Love Confession - How would they confess to their s/o?

Arden? Ar-dennn? 

Her typing slowed as she strained to hear the tenor of Jaime’s thoughts. As they grew louder, she could just make out the tune. 

Arrrrr-den. Arden, Arden, Arden.

Wiping her palm over her face, she marveled at the man’s antics and tried to refocus on the message in front of her. It was a game they played at least once a week. He’d think up a grand declaration of love and move closer and closer, testing how long it took for her to hear it. 

I love you. I love you even though I just tripped over the shoes that you left by the door. Again. 

“Sorry!” she hollered into the hall. “I’ll move them when I’m done with this email.”

He was close enough for her to make out his footsteps now, and it wasn’t long before he appeared in the doorway to her office. 

"Were you singing my name to the tune of that insurance jingle?” Question posed, she rolled away from the desk to get a better look at him. 

Opie’s leash dangled loose from his hands, but the dog was still firmly attached to his heel. “I was. He loved it,” Jaime added, gesturing to the animal beside him. “And that was from all the way in the backyard, too. I think that’s the farthest yet.” 

“It’s like our own personal homing system,” she considered, stretching out a hand to beckon Opie toward her. She heard the faint tinkle of a bell as Jinx abandoned her perch and made her way forward for some attention of her own. Arden lowered her other hand to accommodate both animals. “As long as you’re thinking, I can’t lose you. You thinking nice things about me is just a bonus.” 

“I’m married to a superhero,” Jaime reminded, “How could I ever think anything else?”

“You’re such a hopeless romantic.” Retrieving the hand from Jinx’s back, she prodded his chest with a pointed finger. “But I love you so much,” she admitted, eyes giddy with humor. 

Marriage - Do they want to get married? How do they propose? What would the marriage be like? (See also The Girl Next Door and OTP Prompt #10)

The mattress dipped as Jaime climbed back into bed. Arden rolled onto her side while he closed the distance, and they met somewhere in the middle in a tangle of limbs. He’d been away long enough for his legs to be cold, yet the feeling of his skin against her own was still a comfort. 

“It’s pouring down rain,” he informed, the words somewhat muffled by her pillow. “I had to follow Opie around with the umbrella.”

“Poor little guy.” She traced a hand across his shoulder blades, trying to transfer her warmth to him. “And poor you. Thanks for taking him out.”

Jaime kissed her forehead and tugged her leg around his waist. 

They fell into comfortable silence, content in the ebb and flow as their breaths synchronized. Arden could just hear Jinx padding back up the stairs for a post-breakfast nap under their bed. 

“This is nice,” she hummed into his chest. 

“It is.” 

“It’s just a shame our first Saturday as a married couple is so rainy and gross.” 

His chest shook with quiet laughter. “Like you wanted to do something outside in the middle of March.” 

"I’m just saying. It seems like an ill omen or something.” 

Jaime shifted his weight, separating from her just enough to meet her eyes in the muted light. “I think it’s a sign that we need to spend the day testing out all of the blankets people gave us as wedding presents.”

“And drinking coffee.” 

“Of course. With pancakes?”

She huffed in surprise. “I’m offended you even have to ask. Pancakes are a must. We keep that stash of frozen blueberries for a reason.” 

Jaime nuzzled into her cheek, his breath heavy at her throat as he spoke, “I know we’re only a week in, but marriage so far? It’s pretty great.” 

[starting-now]

Three’s A Crowd (Barry x Reader x Sally)

This is a Christmas present for the AMAZING @fangirl-imagines​! Thank you for being so supportive, kind, and wonderful, and for always being willing to rant about Bill Hader with me. You’re a great friend and I hope you enjoy the fic! Merry Christmas!💕

(gif by @deadlightcircus​)

Word Count: 2033

Warnings: none

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You stood up on your tiptoes, reaching as far as you could to hang the last shimmering ornament on the perfect branch. You pulled your hand back and broke out into a wide grin at the perfection that was you Christmas tree. Took you long enough as it was already Christmas Eve.

“How’s it look? Finally perfect?” Sally asked, walking in from the kitchen, nervously wringing her hands. You could tell she was nervous about her performance in a few hours. You knew she’d do amazing; she always does.

“Finally perfect! Where’s Barry? He has to plug it in!” you said dramatically, strolling over to Sally and giving her a peck on the cheek. You heard Barry chuckle at your excitement as he entered the room. He came up behind you and wrapped his arms around you and Sally, resting his chin on top of your head.

“Why me?” he asked jokingly.

“Because it’s tradition!” you asserted with a smile.

“Can something really be a tradition if we’ve never done it before?” Sally questioned, but you just intertwined your fingers with hers and chuckled at her comment.

Barry crouched and grabbed the plug that snaked off the base of the tree. He looked up at you and Sally expectantly.

“Now it is.” he said as he plugged it into the socket on the wall.

The lit up tree took your breath away. The soft white lights shimmered off your ornaments and beads perfectly, sending glimmers of red and green across the evergreen leaves. It turned out just the way you wanted, filling the whole apartment with a sense of holiday cheer, and pulling together all the other Christmas decor perfectly. You smiled and Sally squeezed your hand, turning your attention towards her. The anxiety had melted off her face for a moment as she revelled in your happiness. Barry stood back and shoved his hands in his pockets before you pulled him over to you and linked your arm in his.

“It looks amazing, babe.” Sally said, her soft pink lips pulled into a sweet smile,her eyes still fixed on you. Barry nodded in agreement.

“Thank you! Are you guys ready for the performance?” you asked excitedly. You had seen Barry and Sally act before, but you were the most excited about this production. You loved watching them perform and you LOVED Christmas, so seeing your two favorite people performing A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve was basically a dream come true. Barry looked at Sally and nodded hesitantly only after seeing that she had nodded.

“You guys are gonna do great.You should probably get going though right? I’ll see you there.” you assured, stealing a kiss from each of them as they grabbed their bags and headed out the door.

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Eventually, it was time for you to leave for Sally and Barry’s performance. You drove to the theater and got out of your car, adjusting your Christmas sweater and heading into the theater from the brisk LA night.

The lobby was decorated with wreaths and lights, no doubt Natalie’s personal touch as stage manager. You paid for your ticket and made your way into the theater. The stage was set like Scrooge’s office, and you smiled in excitement as you took your seat. You flipped through the program, reading about the production and shoving it into your bag to save.

The lights went down and to your delight, Sally was the first one to walk on stage. She was dressed in a particularly fetching suit type costume, complete with a top hat. She was portraying Charles Dickens, the narrator of the tale. You couldn’t take your eyes off of her as she walked across the stage, setting the scene for the story.

You thoroughly enjoyed the performance, but spent most of the time waiting for Sally as the narrator or Barry as Bob Cratchit.  They both did just as amazing as you predicted. Sally was incredibly talented and kept the audience engaged even when Nick’s Ghost of Christmas Present went storming off the stage after flubbing his last line. And you could tell how much Barry had improved. You couldn’t help but mouth alone to his lines as you remembered practicing with him. You could still tell he was nervous, but he was more confident and put some real emotion into his lines.

Soon enough, the show was over and the cast came out on stage to take their bows. You and the rest of the audience stood up and clapped. You put a hand over your mouth and cheered loudly, catching Barry and Sally’s attention earning a wide smile from them both. The lights lit them up wonderfully, especially their smiled which you loved so much. You took a mental snapshot of them up there and made an effort to remember it.

Gene walked out on stage as the applause died down, and even he was in a cheerier mood than usual.

“Hello everyone. I hope you enjoyed our production of Gene Cousineau’s ‘A Christmas Carol’. Please have a lovely holiday and remember, we have our limited edition Holiday Cousineau for sale in the lobby. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.” he said dramatically. You giggled to yourself. Sometimes Barry and Sally’s stories made you doubt Gene’s existence but then here he was in front of you, just as eccentric and strange as they described.

The audience began filtering out as you waited patiently for Sally and Barry. When you saw them come out from behind the curtain you jumped from your seat and walked towards them, enveloping Barry and then Sally in a tight hug.

“Amazing show you guys! I’m so proud of you.” you said. Sally thanked you while Barry blushed, smiling and shoving his hands into his pockets.

You pulled two bouquets out of your bag, one of pink roses and one of baby’s breath. The pink roses went to Sally, her favorite flower in her favorite color, and she took them from you with a kind smile, pressing the sweet petals to her nose. The baby’s breath went the Barry. He hadn’t told you his favorite flower but you’d caught him admiring these in the store one day. He blushed and glanced up at you and back at the flowers before he grasped them shyly, mumbling a quiet thank you.

“So Natalie is throwing a cast party if you wanna come with us? We were really just gonna stop by I mean it’s totally fine if you don’t so don’t feel like you have to-“ Sally started but you interrupted her.

“I’d love to come! Natalie always throws good parties.” you said and she stopped her rambling, smiling warmly. You intertwined your fingers with both of theirs and left the theater to head towards Natalie’s.

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When you arrived, you grabbed two presents out of your trunk and headed towards the brightly lit house. Natalies decorations almost gave yours a run for their money. Almost.

You were inside fixing yourself a drink and chatting with Sasha when you felt two slender arms snake around your waist.

“I forgot to tell you at the theater you look adorable tonight.” Sally said, earning a smile from you.  You leaned back enough to peck her on the cheek before spinning around and handing her a drink.

“Same to you, Mr. Dickens.” you joked, causing Sally to roll her eyes playfully as she took a sip from her cup.

“Where’s Barry?” you asked and Sally pointed across the room where Barry was hanging up his coat. You caught his eye and he gave you an awkward but happy wave as he crossed the room towards you. He was wearing a knit sweater that he must have put on in the car, as you didnt remember seeing it earlier. It was white and blue with red detailing and it really brought out his eyes. You met him halfway and wrapped him in a tight hug, pressing your cheek into the soft fabric.

“Hey, (Y/N)! Uh, long time no see?” he joked and you giggled in response.

“I love the sweater!” you commented, pulling back from the hug rubbing your hand up his sleeve.

“Oh, thanks! The guys in the Christmas movies you like are always wearing sweaters like this so I was kind of...inspired.” he admitted, fidgeting with the hem of it as he spoke.

You practically had heart eyes at that sentence. You couldn’t even bring yourself to say anything as you  leaned up and pressed a kiss to his lips. He was surprised at first but quickly melted into your touch, bringing his hand up to cup your cheek. When you broke apart you couldn’t help but smile.

“You are the most adorable person in the world.” you said, making Barry blush furiously.

“Did someone call me?” Sally joked, coming up from behind you and wrapping an arm around your waist.

“No but now that you’re both here I actually have something for you! Maybe we could get a little privacy?” you suggested, gesturing towards the dining room where there weren’t any guests currently.

They followed you in, the sound of Christmas music and chatter from the next room dampened by the distance and walls of the dining room. You dug through your bag and pulled out two small boxes, handing one to Barry and one to Sally.

“Oh, um I thought we were doing gifts tomorrow?” Barry asked, hesitantly taking the box from your hands.

“Yea, I didn’t bring any of yours.” Sally said, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear.  

“No don’t worry about it! Another ‘tradition’ is that we open one present on Christmas Eve, and I’ve been dying to give these to you anyway.” you assured, nodding at them in encouragement to open the gift.

Sally opened hers methodically, starting at the seam and slowly unfolding the paper. Barry on the other hand ripped at whatever corner was easiest, a satisfied smile gracing his face at the ripping noise it made. They both opened their boxes and Sally put a hand over her mouth.

Inside was a thin leather bracelet, a light tan for Sally, and a deep brown for Barry. They were engraved with all three of your initials, and on the inner band it said  ‘Two is company, three is a crowd. Here’s to being a crowd.’ It was an old inside joke from when the three of you first got together, but it seemed to mean so much more now.

Sally looked up at you with a surprised smile. You held up you arm in response, which was graced with a matching bracelet in a medium brown leather. She closed the distance between you, hugging you and pressing a sweet kiss to your lips.

“Thank you so much. I love it.” she said, punctuated by another kiss.

You glanced over at Barry, who was still staring into the box. You furrowed you brow.

“Barry? Is everything okay? Do you like it?” you asked, concern lacing your voice. You ducked your head to catch his eye and he looked up at you.

“...Like it? It’s...it’s rad.” he said, his voice breaking slightly but a smile spreading across his face.

You rushed to his side, wrapping your arms around him. He held you tightly, then leaned back, his hands resting on your arms.

“I’ve just...I’ve never had...I mean, this…” he fumbled, not being able to find the right words and settling on pulling you into his arms again instead. You laughed breathlessly and held him tight, pressing a kiss to his lips when he finally moved back slightly.

You held your hand out and Barry placed the bracelet  in your palm, holding out his wrist. You fastened the bracelet and turned towards Sally to do the same.

“I love you both so much. Merry Christmas.” you said.

“We love you too.”  Barry said, intertwining his fingers with yours.

“We sure do. Merry Christmas.” Sally chimed in, doing the same with your other hand.

So your little crowd headed back into the party.

And you all wondered what you did to deserve each other.

[welcometothepenumbra]

ORIGINAL: JUNO STEEL AND THE CASE OF THE MURDEROUS MASK (PART TWO)

SOUND: DOOR OPENS, BELL RINGS, RAIN.

MUSIC: STARTS.

CONCIERGE: Ah, good evening, Traveler! Welcome to the Penumbra. May I take your coat?

You’ve picked an excellent place to spend the night, dear Traveler. The Penumbra is the grandest hotel this side of nowhere. Countless rooms and countless halls. Just look ahead of you. See the doors go on and on… even we aren’t sure how many there are, or what lies behind them.

Will you be staying long? Many of our guests do. You’re in good company, Traveler. The Penumbra draws guests from everywhere and everywhen, and all of them have stories to tell. Stories that will excite you, delight you, and maybe even terrify you.

Don’t believe me? Well, see for yourself.

SOUND: KEYS JINGLING.

This guest has been a fixture in The Penumbra for as long as anyone can recall. He’s a detective by the name of Steel, and he’s been called in on a murder millions of years in the making.

SOUND: THREE KNOCKS. BLASTER SHOT.

What luck! It sounds like he’s in. Come, Traveler. Come with me into room J-12.

SOUND: DOOR CREAKING OPEN.

Juno Steel and the Case of the Murderous Mask.

ALL SOUNDS: FADE OUT.

***

JUNO (NARRATOR): The smell of french fries and Pad Thai stuck to the air like a hangover. It was the kind of smell so thick you can taste it. Hell of a meal, they serve over at the Empire’s Dragon: cut lips and busted ribs, all before they even bring out the appetizer.

My name’s Juno Steel, and this was the nicest meal I’d had in weeks.

GLASS: Juno! Oh, you delicate little flower, that punch didn’t knock you out, did it?

JUNO (NARRATOR): The only real difference between then and any other meal was that guy. Rex Glass, agent with the Dark Matters Initiative. We were chained back-to-back in an unfinished basement after getting the hors d’oeuvres beaten out of us, so things were lookin’ up. Usually you have to pay top dollar for that kind of treatment.

JUNO: Mind keeping it down back there, Glass? I’ve got a hell of a headache.

GLASS: You’re intolerable.

JUNO: Glad you noticed.

SOUND: DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.

VOICE 7: Ah, Detective Steel! And his… guest! It’s a pleasure to see you again, detective.

JUNO: Wish I could say the same, but we’ve never met.

VOICE 7: Please, gentlemen… have a seat. (LAUGHS)

JUNO (NARRATOR): Fang was a big man with little eyes and a little brain. He was maybe three hundred pounds soaking wet, and he was always soaking wet. Sweatiest man I’ve ever seen.

VOICE 7: My name is Zhu Fang, and I am the regional manager for this branch of the Triad. May I get you two anything? Water, green tea, milkshake?

GLASS: I, for one, would love some water; if you could see your way to releasing—

VOICE 7 [ZHU FANG]: Nothing? What a shame. We’ve been watching you for a long time now, Juno Steel. You have a tab with the Triad.

JUNO: I took Cecil off the Triad’s hands six years ago, Fang. It’s a long time to hold a grudge.

FANG: Your debt accrues interest every day. Each day Cecil Kanagawa remains living is a day viewers across the galaxy tune in to his shows, his feeds, his streams. And if they’re watching those, Mr. Steel, they aren’t watching ours. The Triad cannot allow that.

GLASS: This is just a thought, but… have you tried improving your own programming? It seems just slightly less drastic than espionage, kidnapping, and murder.

FANG: Improve?! (LAUGHING) Hardly! Cecil’s programs are exquisite. I especially liked his feature the other night on recent improvements in ritual execution. The demonstrations were breathtaking!

No, no, I’m afraid we’ll never beat that. And that leaves only one option: we’ll just have to beat… him. (LAUGHING) But even Cecil is pocket change compared to our specific topic for the evening. Tell me, Juno, do you read the tabloids?

JUNO: Not really.

FANG: Well, I am surprised.

For every hundred entries in any rumors column, one always tells the truth; and there is no business more lucrative than the business of truth, is there? You must know that, as a detective.

JUNO: I don’t know, Fang. I deal in truth every day and I’ve barely got enough to feed my bookie.

FANG: (LAUGHING UNCONTROLLABLY)

GLASS: I think he might have liked that one, Juno.

FANG: No, no, no. The money isn’t in speaking the truth. It’s in owning it. Sitting on it, like a dragon on his gold. You’d do well to remember that.

I heard an interesting rumor just the other day, Mr. Steel. One worth very much indeed.

JUNO: If it’s true.

FANG: Of course.

SOUND: SWITCHBLADE OPENING.

GLASS: Juno!

FANG: You were at the Kanagawas’ this morning. I want to hear about Croesus.

JUNO: Never heard of the guy.

REX: Juno, you idiot!

FANG: You’re a funny man, Juno Steel. But the time for jokes has passed.

JUNO: I agree. So why don’t you put down that toy and bring in a real knife?

SOUND: BLADE SWISH. GRUNT.

FANG: What do you know?

JUNO: (PAINED) I know you don’t know the first damn thing about Croesus, or else you would’ve aimed somewhere a little more vital than my thigh.

FANG: I was being generous. There are plenty of places even less vital than that, and much, much more painful.

GLASS: No! No! Don’t you dare! We’ll tell you anything you want to know!

FANG: Well, it seems we’ve gotten somewhere after all! So… Agent Glass, was it? Will you be more cooperative?

GLASS: Immediately so. Croesus Kanagawa—

JUNO: Shut up!

GLASS: —has recently obtained the Death Mask of Grimpotheuthis, an incredible archaeological find, and he’s installed an entire wing of his mansion just for storing it in.

JUNO: You…!

You shouldn’t’ve told them, Glass. The Kanagawas aren’t gonna like it.

FANG: Grim’s Mask? (LAUGHS) Gentlemen, I’ve no interest in any masks. Whether Croesus collects ancient treasures or model spaceships makes no difference to me.

I’ll be more direct. The Kanagawas’ contracts go up at the end of the month; for weeks the entertainment world has been awash with theories and speculation as to what their next slate of programs will be.

I’ve heard – from a very reputable source – that their already-extensive line will be expanding significantly.

JUNO: Interesting theory. What’s the source on this rumor?

FANG: A house that large generates a lot of trash, Mr. Steel. And I’m not just talking about the Kanagawas.

GLASS: (LAUGHING) Ehem. Well, now. I really liked that one.

JUNO: Someone found it digging through the dumpster. Not exactly rock-solid.

FANG: That may be true, Mr. Steel – but thankfully, I’ve managed to locate two experts to deliver to us firsthand testimony of Croesus’s plan. They – that’s you – will give me the details I desire.

JUNO: And then?

FANG: Then you die.

JUNO: That’s a bad deal.

GLASS: Yes, I would expect a businessman to have a better grasp on the basic tenets of selling.

FANG: I’ll remind you I have an edge in these negotiations.

GLASS: I believe he means his knife, Juno.

JUNO: Sounds about right.

GLASS: He’s being creative with his language, you see.

JUNO: Yep.

GLASS: How very clever.

FANG: What did Kanagawa send you for? What’s he planning?

GLASS: They say the truth will set you free, Juno.

JUNO: Kanagawa isn’t planning anything.

SOUND: PUNCH.

So much for that.

FANG: I’ll kill you both.

JUNO: You do, and there goes your payday. Any middle-manager who’d throw out his profits won’t stay a middle manager long. How do you think Shenlong would feel about that?

FANG: (LAUGHS) You’re behind the times, Mr. Steel. The Triad of a year ago might have left you alive. But tonight, you will die.

So what will it be, gentlemen? A quick death… or a slow one?

JUNO: (SIGHING) Alright, Fang. You win.

FANG: Of course I do. Now—

JUNO: We don’t know what the shows are. But we can get you the person who does.

FANG: You don't mean…

GLASS: Juno, do you think this is wise?

JUNO: Get us a secure line, Fang. We’ll get you a meeting with Croesus.

FANG: The man himself…! I’ll get you that line. But you’d better not try anything cute, or you’ll die on the spot.

GLASS: Nothing cute? We couldn’t possibly promise that—

JUNO: Nothing tricky. Got it.

FANG: Good. Well, gentlemen. Think about what you’ll say. It had better be a very convincing phone call – or you will have a long, long time to wish you had rehearsed.

SOUND: DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.

GLASS: Well, I have to say, Juno, that the political situation on Mars seems… unnecessarily complicated.

JUNO: Try living in it.

GLASS: Do you have any idea of how to get out of here?

JUNO: Just don’t move.

JUNO (NARRATOR): Listen, when you get tied up as often as I do, you eventually learn to prepare. My prep was cheaper than most: didn’t cost any more than a spool of thread, a needle, and a ten-cred plasma-blade box cutter. I untied the threads in my sleeve and pulled the cutter out.

GLASS: Stay still? That seems entirely contrary—

JUNO: Stay still.

JUNO (NARRATOR): I twisted it in my fingers slowly. A single twitch and that thing’d be down by our feet, and then we’d be six feet under that.

I turned the blade toward the chain, held my breath, and clicked the switch. The first chain snapped.

SOUND: LOW ELECTRIC HUM. CHAINS CLINKING.

Our hands loosened just a bit.

GLASS: Careful where you put that, Juno.

JUNO: Careful as I can be.

JUNO (NARRATOR): I didn’t mention that I couldn’t look at the cutter, the chains, or either of our hands. Maybe I should’ve. He might’ve been more ready.

GLASS: (GASPS) Ah!

SOUND: METALLIC CLATTER.

JUNO (NARRATOR): He pulled away his hand… and my plasma cutter along with it.

JUNO: Damn.

GLASS: You don’t… happen to have another one of those, do you?

JUNO: Of course I do. Just get a cab back to my place and I’ll show you a drawer full of them.

GLASS: Well? Do you have anything else?

JUNO: Can’t… quite… reach…

GLASS: Stop pulling! You’re an unbearable bunkmate, Juno. First the burning, then you hog all the chain!

JUNO: Got any better ideas?

GLASS: Somewhere in here, I’m sure. Check my back pockets. They’re too far from my hands for me to reach, but… you’re back there. Just be careful; who knows what you’ll find?

JUNO (NARRATOR): Glass wasn’t kidding. He kept more per pound in those pockets than most kangaroos. Pens, keys, cards, tablets, something that felt like a compass, a toothbrush, a phone. I found it between half a sandwich and the other half of the sandwich: a heavy-duty plasma cutter. Not exactly the kind they hand out to civilians.

JUNO: Would’ve been nice to know about this before.

GLASS: You said you had it under control.

SOUND: ELECTRIC HUM, SIZZLING.

Were you an only child, Juno? You don’t play well with others.

JUNO: Remember how I said my mother never killed me?

GLASS: Yes.

JUNO: …My brother wasn’t so lucky.

GLASS: I…

I’m… so sorry, Juno.

SOUND: CHAIN FALLS.

JUNO: Fang’s gonna be back any second. Chances are he’s bringing some goons with him. Any ideas?

GLASS: Millions. Cut the other hand free, and I’ll—

SOUND: DOOR OPENS.

Nevermind.

FANG: Well, well. So this is how the Kanagawas do business.

JUNO: Any ideas now?

GLASS: Would you like to live?

JUNO: Don’t go out of your way.

FANG: Shun! Wei! Show them what happens when you cross the Triad!

GLASS: I hope you’re good with a knife, Juno.

JUNO: Don’t worry. I’ve had plenty of practice; with… my other hand.

SOUND: BLADE UNSHEATHING.

SHUN & WEI: (GROWLING)

JUNO (NARRATOR): They came at us, roaring like Sasquatch and Sasquatch’s football coach. With my good hand still chained to Glass’s and a hole in my leg deep enough to hold my keys, I wasn’t exactly in fighting form. So I dropped the knife and kicked one of the gorillas off his feet—

SOUND: GRUNT.

JUNO (NARRATOR): —and before the guy hit the ground Rex had carved him a clean set of gills.

SOUND: THUD, CHOKING.

JUNO (NARRATOR): I don’t like to look at blood, so I didn’t. Unfortunately, neither did the other ape – and that left the two of us looking at each other.

SHUN OR WEI (DOESN’T REALLY MATTER): For Zhulong!

JUNO (NARRATOR): The Neanderthal threw a mean left hook, which caught me in the chin and didn’t let go. I fell over, and Glass fell, too.

GLASS: Juno, you— oof!

JUNO (NARRATOR): But there was no time: Ursa Major’s left was spent, but his right was aiming for Glass’s head. He’d accessorized that one: a line of nasty-looking steel spikes jutted from his knuckles.

I pushed Glass out of the way and raised my arm. I always was a good catch.

SOUND: THUD. PAINED YELL.

The claws dug into my forearm deep enough that the bastard couldn’t yank ‘em out. Worked just as well for me. If he couldn’t pull ‘em, he couldn’t hit back.

I reared back with my free hand and punched him, and punched him again. After about half a dozen auditions as my speed bag, the big guy finally passed out on the floor – and his claw passed out of my arm.

JUNO: You son of a—!

GLASS: Juno! He’s getting away!

JUNO (NARRATOR): Fang was halfway out the door already, and he was dialing the phone.

JUNO: He left his gun on the desk. Put it in my good hand.

Now don’t move a muscle.

JUNO (NARRATOR): In ten seconds he’d be on the line with Triad HQ; in twenty we’d be up to our asses in gangsters.

I gave him five.

SOUND: BLASTER SHOT, THUMP.

FANG: You…

GLASS: How… unpleasant. It appears he’s still alive.

FANG: (PANTING) You… you’ve made… a grave mistake, Juno… Steel! The Triad… doesn’t forget!

JUNO: I make a lot of grave mistakes, Fang. It’s the only way to get anywhere.

Enjoy your meeting with Croesus.

SOUND: BLASTER SHOT.

GLASS: Well. All in all, that was one of the least successful dinner meetings I’ve ever had. Three bodies, one injured detective, a big boo-boo on my hand, and no clues at all.

JUNO: I wouldn’t say none. Take a look at the ID on the number he was calling.

GLASS: He was calling Triad Headquarters, so it should be…

Zhulong? But wasn’t the Triad boss named—

JUNO: Shenlong. They don’t line up. There’s been a change in management in the Triad.

GLASS: I don’t understand how that affects our case, Juno.

JUNO: The Triad wouldn’t write the wrong name. And even if Shenlong bit it after they killed Croesus, it takes time to pick a new boss.

GLASS: Then… whoever wrote that name didn’t know about the change in management.

JUNO: Whoever killed Croesus wasn’t Triad. Just looking for a convenient stooge.

Come on. We’re headed back to Kanagawa’s.

JUNO (NARRATOR): We would’ve gone straight back to Kanagawa’s if Glass hadn’t gotten in a twist over nothing. So we wasted a few hours in the local emergency room.

GLASS: Juno, I’m no doctor, but I think you might actually have more blood outside your body than inside it at the moment.

JUNO (NARRATOR): Rex was a good babysitter. It wasn’t so bad being petted for a change. Most of the human contact I get wears titanium knuckles and comes in a few hundred miles an hour. I was almost sorry when the doctor came in.

The guy bandaged my leg, put a cast on my arm, and told me I’d be bedridden for the next four days. Glass and I waited four minutes and then snuck out the back door.

GLASS: So, back to the Kanagawas’, then?

JUNO: Only place left to go.

SOUND: PAGE TURNING.

GLASS: So… you think you know who killed Croesus?

JUNO: Never said that.

But… I think I know enough to get into some trouble.

GLASS: That does seem to be your method, doesn’t it.

What’s that?

JUNO: Tabloid. I was reading it in the waiting room.

JUNO (NARRATOR): Had to hand it to Fang: he wasn’t wrong about the rumors page. Rumors about Kanagawa’s contracts, a colony of surviving Martians, a treasure thief in Hyperion City, a woman who gave birth to android twins, back-door deals and front-door lies. Figuring out what was true and what wasn’t was worth a hell of a lot of money, if you knew who to tell.

JUNO: Hey, Glass. You work this sector, right?

GLASS: Mostly. Why?

JUNO: Lot of interesting stuff in here. Lot of money to be made.

Thought you might want to look into it together.

GLASS: Why, Juno! Is that an invitation?

JUNO: Don’t read too much into it.

GLASS: I hate to break your heart, detective, but we Dark Matters agents don’t stay in any one place too long – as soon as we’ve settled this matter with Grim’s Mask I’ll be riding the cosmic breeze to the next planet.

JUNO: I’m sorry to hear that.

GLASS: As am I. But that’s the future, Juno: here we are in a beautiful present, and I’m more than willing to look into whatever you’d like. Now, where would you like to talk about these rumors? Your place or mine?

JUNO: Just land the damn car, already.

SOUND: DOOR OPENS, FUNHOUSE MUSIC STARTS. FOOTSTEPS.

CECIL: Juno! You’re… oh, my. What happened to you?

JUNO: Dog bit me.

CECIL: That’s a hell of a cast for—

JUNO: It was a big dog.

GLASS: With all due respect, Cecil, I think Juno would either like to get right to business or right to a liquor cabinet.

JUNO: Both of which, I’m guessing, we could find in your dad’s office.

CECIL: (LAUGH-COUGHING) Father’s office? Well, Juno, there are just so many things in there that it wouldn’t be wise to show to the public…

JUNO: Public? I though we were brothers, Cecil. I thought that’s why you wanted me here in the first place.

CECIL: Ah, ha ha, well… I wouldn’t know what I could… (NERVOUS CHUCKLING) I’ll admit it: you caught me on my words, Junebug. Of course we trust you. But, see, it– it’s kind of crazy around here, and—

JUNO: People seem pretty calm, actually.

GLASS: That man’s been picking his nose for the last five minutes.

CECIL: (FORCED LAUGHING) Well! We’re not all busy, of course. But I am. Very, very busy. So…

VOICE 8: Now, Cecil! Is that any way to treat family?

JUNO (NARRATOR): And in she came through the door: Min Kanagawa, the shadow behind the Kanagawa family. The other three had TV shows, video streams, perfume lines. Cecil had all three. But the public almost never saw Min – even though there wasn’t a decision the family made that she did not touch.

VOICE 8 [MIN]: Juno, darling! It’s been so long!

JUNO: Min.

CECIL: Mi– M-mother! But– but you told me th—

MIN: Oh, hush, Cecil. I heard the way you talked to Mr. Steel. I could hear it from down the hall!

CECIL: But– but I—!

MIN: No buts! It’s inexcusable! And… and what’s more inexcusable is your tardiness. Your talk show is set to air in ten minutes, and where are you?

CECIL: But I– but—!

MIN: Berating the guests! Now out, you, out! Mr. Steel and his friend had a perfectly simple request, and you’ve turned it into an inquisition!

CECIL: Min!

MIN: Out!

CECIL: So sorry, friends. I’ll be on my way.

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS. DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.

MIN: (SIGHS) Children! I’m so sorry for Cecil’s behavior, Juno. We’ve been turned upside-down since last evening. It’s Croesus’s office you want, isn’t it?

JUNO: If you don’t mind.

MIN: Not at all. Follow me, gentlemen.

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS.

GLASS: (QUIETLY) Well, that was easy.

JUNO: (QUIETLY) Don’t count on it.

MIN: I’m sure Cecil told you what the situation has been like on our end – just horrible. At the pace we live, we haven’t even had a moment to mourn poor Croesus yet – there are some moments when I call him to ask a question, only to remember… (SNIFFS) horrible, horrible.

GLASS: We’re so very sorry for your loss, Mrs. Kanagawa.

MIN: I assume Cecil told you not to say a word about this.

JUNO: Had us sign about a dozen forms to that effect, too.

MIN: Good. Oh, I know it seems heartless. This is business, I think to myself. Where has the soul gone from business? But we’ve shareholders to consider, viewers to appease. This just isn’t the end to Croesus Kanagawa that will satisfy them. We’ll have to keep it quiet until such an end is written.

VOICE 9: Um, excuse me, Mrs. Kanagawa? The writing team put together these posts for the boss’s feed, but they need signatures.

MIN: Of course they do. I’ll be just a moment, gentlemen.

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING.

GLASS: She seems nice.

JUNO: Seems that way.

GLASS: Pretty, too.

JUNO: Mm-hm.

GLASS: I don’t like the way you’re looking at that woman, Juno.

JUNO: Woman like Min Kanagawa, taking your eye off her is a good way to end up dead.

GLASS: Do you think she killed him?

JUNO: No. She’s Croesus’s second wife, and there’s good money on the fact that she opened that position herself.

GLASS: You don’t mean…

JUNO: That job was so clean it took five experts just to prove that a woman was dead. Killing Kanagawa with the mask… too messy. Not her style.

MIN: Oh, boys! What are you two whispering about back there?

JUNO: Ancient history.

MIN: How delightful. So sorry to interrupt you with business matters, but…

SOUND: PEN SCRIBBLING.

…there. The world keeps turning, even when the master is away.

JUNO: That was a hell of a signature, Min. Didn’t see your name anywhere in it.

MIN: I’m sure you two can keep that little legal indiscretion to yourselves, can’t you? So many papers flow by… Croesus just didn’t have time to look at them all. You know how it is.

JUNO: I’ll take your word for it.

MIN: Good. Now, Croesus’s office is just around the corner.

SOUND: DISTANT YELL.

GLASS: What in the hell was that?

MIN: I don’t know. You don’t think… anyone is hurt, do you?

SOUND: ANOTHER YELL.

JUNO: It’s coming from the office!

SOUND: RUNNING FOOTSTEPS.

JUNO (NARRATOR): We ran down the hall together, and the screaming just got louder.

I already knew who it was, and I knew Min did, too. There wasn’t a single person in Hyperion City who didn’t recognize that roar – it had played on the Kanagawa stream between the hours of 8 and 9 every Thursday since she was fifteen years old.

SOUND: DOOR OPENS.

JUNO: Cassandra!

CASSANDRA: Juno! (PANTING) You took it, didn’t you? You always do this!

JUNO: Don’t remember. Help me out. What did I take?

CASSANDRA: Yesterday! Give it back, Juno, or I swear I’m gonna ki—

JUNO: You don’t mean the mask, do you?

CASSANDRA: The mask? I don’t care about the mask!

GLASS: Nobody seems to.

CASSANDRA: I knew it! I knew I couldn’t trust you!

GLASS: I’m Special Agent Rex Glass, with the Dark Matters Initiative.

CASSANDRA: Get out!

JUNO: Settle down. Agent Glass is here to help me figure this whole thing out.

GLASS: I’ve been sent to investigate this curse, and any claims toward its existence I am charged to examine. Ms. Kanagawa, my only interest is the mask. Truly.

MIN: Talk to them, Cassandra. It will be alright.

CASSANDRA: You’re going to tell me that? Seriously?

You wanna know what I’m looking for, Juno? My papers. I’m sick of waiting for you, and I’m getting out of here.

GLASS: As is your right as a Martian citizen, Ms. Kanagawa. Once the matter of your father’s death is settled, you’ll be free to go.

CASSANDRA: (LAUGHS) I’m leaving now.

GLASS: Let the detective and me clear you, then, and you may go. Isn’t that right, detective?

JUNO: Yeah, Cass. Just answer a few questions. If it all lines up, you can go.

CASSANDRA: You’ll show me where to go? She can’t stop me, right?

JUNO: She doesn’t have the right.

MIN: Hmm.

GLASS: This shouldn’t take five minutes of your time, Ms. Kanagawa.

CASSANDRA: You’re on the clock.

GLASS: After you, Juno.

JUNO: (SIGHS) Alright. What’re you looking for?

CASSANDRA: I already told you. My papers.

JUNO: I don’t think so. Earlier today, Cassie, you told me Croesus was going to let you go. That he wasn’t gonna renew your contract. That right?

CASSANDRA: …Sure.

GLASS: We heard a rumor to a slightly different effect. Is it at all possible that you were mistaken?

CASSANDRA: I heard him just fine.

GLASS: Well, another perspective, then. Is it possible that he… deceived you?

Don’t tell me your father never lied to anyone, Cassandra. Nobody ever made it in show business telling only little white lies.

CASSANDRA: Just a few questions, huh? Some questions, when you already know the answers. That contract was a secret, and you took it just to mess with my head, didn’t you!

GLASS: Your father told a lot of lies, I gather. A man like that is bound to meet a violent end eventually.

CASSANDRA: Better late than never.

JUNO: What’d he do? What was so bad that he had to die?

GLASS: Just what was it about that contract that made you kill Croesus Kanagawa?

CASSANDRA: It was right here! Another ten seasons for all of us, twice as many shows… on camera every second of the day, Juno!

JUNO: I thought you said he was going to let your contract lapse?

CASSANDRA: That’s what he promised! That’s what was supposed to happen. And then he– then he stole that stupid mask, and the ratings went up. Everyone’s did, and then… I was so worried… there was so much money. He was gonna sign me away again. I just– I couldn’t just let him get away with it!

GLASS: Is this a confession?

CASSANDRA: I saw that contract in here about a week ago, when I was looking for him. I brought it into my room to read the thing over, but… I had to put it down for a while. I couldn’t believe it. He promised me, he promised me so many times, and then, when I was finally going to tell him off, the contract was gone. I couldn’t find the damn thing anywhere.

JUNO: It was…

Hang on.

CASSANDRA: So. He lied to me. And when he found out I knew about it, he snuck into my room and took his contract back. So two nights ago, I finally decided… decided that I’d talk to him about it. One-on-one. Without anybody watching.

GLASS: Without witnesses, you mean.

JUNO: Just a second, Glass—

CASSANDRA: I didn’t have anything planned! I was just gonna talk to him.

I found him in that room – the one with the mask. He was pissed off the second he saw me, screaming about… I asked him about the contract. He told me he didn’t know what I was talking about, and he just kept screaming about his stupid mask and that stupid glass case he’d spent all that money on. He wouldn’t admit it! He lied to me about my freedom, and he lied to me about the contract, and I couldn’t take it anymore! I just got so mad, I…

I pushed him. I didn’t think I pushed him hard enough to break the glass, but… it was enough, I guess. He fell into the case. The mask covered his face, and then… it ripped him apart.

JUNO (NARRATOR): She wouldn’t look at me when she said it. For a minute I thought it was because she was ashamed. Should’ve known better. I followed her eyes to the door, and there stood Min – a cameraman pointing his all-seeing eye over her shoulder. Delivering lines to the camera, her tears sent out in high definition over every stream across Mars.

I wasn’t mad at her. You can’t blame a puppet for moving when the strings get pulled.

CASSANDRA: Juno… what did I do?

JUNO: It’s showbiz, Cass. It’s in your blood.

MIN: Gentlemen, I think it’s time to take my daughter away now.

SOUND: HEAVY FOOTSTEPS. DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.

GLASS: Well. I suppose… come to think of it, that doesn’t answer any of my questions about Grim’s Curse at all.

JUNO: No curse here, Glass. Just business.

GLASS: A curse of its own stripe entirely. …Juno?

JUNO: Y’know, there are just two things bugging me about this case, and the curse ain’t one of ‘em. First one’s about that contract. Not like an important doc like that to just go missing. Is it, Min?

MIN: Surely a sign of a fractured mind. Our psychiatric evaluators will get right on it.

JUNO: Your shrinks. Huh. That must be where she’s headed, then.

GLASS: I’m not sure I follow—

JUNO: Hoosegow. Local lock-up owned and operated by Croesus— sorry, by Min Kanagawa.

Y’know what’s funny about Hoosegow, Glass? Cameras everywhere. They cover every inch of the damn place. It’s for security, they say. But… hey, who owns that footage, Min?

MIN: Cecil, technically. It’s for his shows.

JUNO: Cecil owns the footage. So if someone owns Cecil…

It is funny about the contract. Funny how a paper with Croesus’s signature on it just goes missing. And it must be hard for you, Min, but if you take the long view of it, you’re doin’ alright, aren’t you? Croesus’s show was on the decline anyway—

GLASS: Juno!

JUNO: —Cassandra was going to leave; once people forgot about the mask, you were gonna have two duds on your hands again. But now… now you’ve got a special on the starlet who killed her father, you’ve got a show about her rotting away in jail, and you still have her brother to milk for all he’s got.

Sound about right, Min? Theoretically, I mean.

MIN: Theoretically, of course. If only you had the paper to prove it.

JUNO: It’s a real shame I don’t. I don’t mean much, Min, but I do mean that.

Come on, Rex.

MIN: Oh, Juno! Speaking as one who cares about you, dear, you might want to stay clear of dark alleys for a while. The Kanagawa family doesn’t take well to brothers who harm their own.

JUNO: Never put much stock in family, Min. Thanks for reminding me why.

ALL SOUNDS: FADE OUT.

***

GLASS: Well. All’s well that ends well, eh, Juno?

Admittedly we’ll need to broaden our definition of ‘well,’ but…

SOUND: LIQUID POURING.

Juno, you aren’t going to be silent all evening, are you? Your overbearing misanthropy is part of your charm, but this is a bit much.

JUNO: Not in the mood to celebrate, Glass.

GLASS: Oh, come now, Juno, I’ve only one evening left on Mars. You aren’t going to spend it sobbing into your drink, are you?

JUNO: Never been much of a sobber. I’m more of a “catch your reflection at the bottom of a glass and feel sick” kind of guy.

GLASS: Juno…

You’ve done nothing wrong, you know. She did still kill her father.

JUNO: That’s true.

GLASS: It’s over. We all survived, if you don’t count my poor hand. My wound still throbs when it rains, you brute.

Only… I was wondering. In Kanagawa’s office, you said there were two things bothering you, but you only mentioned one. What was the other?

SOUND: LIQUID POURING.

JUNO: Refill?

GLASS: (LAUGHING) So that’s how it is, is it?

You know… you’re very handsome when you’re like this.

JUNO: Getting drunker by the second?

GLASS: Morally outraged.

Look at him… standing up against the big, mean world… It’s so… futile, and foolish, and…

Sexy.

JUNO: You…

You don’t have to go, Rex.

GLASS: (GIGGLING) See? This is exactly what I mean.

JUNO: Listen. You don’t have to do this. You know that, right?

GLASS: Oh, but of course I do. I’m needed by something larger than we are. I’ve given my life to it.

But life can wait one night, Juno. Come here.

SOUND: KISSING.

JUNO (NARRATOR): Lips like silk. Strong hands, pulling on my coat. It was the kind of kiss that feels like it’s going to last the rest of your life… until it’s over, and then you know you got as much as you deserved.

I wanted to get to know this man. And that’s why I had to say it – even if it was the last thing I wanted to say.

JUNO: Rex…

GLASS: Juno.

JUNO: Has anyone ever told you…

SOUND: HANDCUFFS CLICKING.

…that you’re under arrest?

GLASS: Oh, Juno! Usually not until the second date, but—

JUNO: I mean it, Glass. Or… whoever the hell you are.

GLASS: I… I take it from your tone that this is not another layer to the roleplay. (SIGHING) Fine, I’ll play along. Under arrest for what?

JUNO: The attempted theft of the Mask of Grimpotheuthis.

GLASS: I haven’t the first idea what you’re talking about.

JUNO: And for stealing the keys to my safe right out of my pocket.

SOUND: KEYS JINGLING.

GLASS: Ha ha… yes, well, that does sound more familiar.

JUNO: You want to know what the second thing was? It was the mask’s case. A perfectly circular cut – the kind of cut that compass in your pocket might be able to make.

GLASS: Very perceptive! I knew I’d regret letting you root around in there. But I couldn’t resist.

JUNO: I had it figured out before then. You called the case “smashed.” It wasn’t smashed – it was broken into cleanly. A burglary, not a struggle. Why the hell would Croesus Kanagawa’s killer take the mask out so quietly, and then leave it behind like that?

You must have been interrupted. You cut that circle in the glass, but didn’t have time to pull it out – and then Croesus came along.

GLASS: I had to make good my escape, and quickly – you have no idea about the security in that mansion, Juno. There ought to be a law!

JUNO: Who are you really?

GLASS: Oh, what’s in a name, Juno? We’re all but shapes, moving through this void of ours; it so great, and we so small.

JUNO: I need to know.

GLASS: You may want to know, love, but you don’t need to. A signifier to these senses you feel – it might make things simpler. But life is hardly simple, Juno, and neither am I.

I don’t tell anyone my name. It would take someone very special for me to tell it now.

JUNO: I knew it was you. But I thought you’d…

So is Wire in on it too, then? You two working together?

GLASS: Who? Oh, you mean Dark Matters? No, no, Juno. They told you the truth. The truth as they knew it, at any rate. I do answer to the name Rex Glass – for the moment.

JUNO: You got into Dark Matters on your own?

GLASS: (LAUGHING) Not alone. It pays to have powerful friends, Juno, when one makes powerful enemies. You’ve demonstrated as much with the Kanagawas.

Allow me to shift the focus of our conversation, will you?

SOUND: COMMS BEEP.

JUNO: You’ve got about two minutes before the cops get here. You can say whatever you want until then.

GLASS: Hyperion City isn’t the safest place for you at the moment, is it? In one day you’ve made enemies with two of the largest crime families in town – hardly wise. It sounds to me like you need to… disappear.

And I happen to be an expert in disappearance.

JUNO: Taking off takes a lot of things I don’t have. Money. Self-respect.

GLASS: Oh, but you do have those things, Juno! You can leave Hyperion City behind; I’ll leave my powerful friends behind. We’ll sell the mask and live a life of thrills and decadence across the galaxy, always running, never looking back. We could have quite a time together, Juno. Who knows what kind of trouble we could cause?

SOUND: KNOCKING. DOOR OPENS.

JUNO: Officers.

VOICE 10: This our guy?

GLASS: I could be, officer. Just give me a chance.

JUNO: Be careful with him. He’s slippery.

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS.

GLASS: It could be quite an adventure, Juno.

JUNO: I’m sure it will be. I wish I could come along.

I’ll be down at the station in a minute.

GLASS: You’re so cute like this, Juno. Until we meet again.

SOUND: DOOR CLOSES.

JUNO (NARRATOR): He was gone. His smell still lingered in the air – that cologne I never could place. A scent from some other planet, like nothing I’d ever smelled before. It’d take weeks to get that stink out.

I needed to clear my head a minute before I drove over. I poured myself another drink…

SOUND: LIQUID POURING.

…and that’s when I saw it. A little slip of paper, sticking up between the cushions. He must’ve written it behind his back. I’d believe he could do anything.

GLASS (NARRATOR): Juno,

If you wish for one last glimpse of me, watch the public access feed for Route 742. Somewhere around Mercury Drive, I suspect… but no farther than Vulcanis Way. Get a good look, detective: it may be your last.

I do hope it isn’t, though. I meant every word I said, Juno. It will be quite an adventure. I’ll be waiting for you to join me.

Signed, Your Better Half, Peter Nureyev

JUNO: Damn!

SOUND: COMMS BEEP.

JUNO: Rita!

RITA (FROM COMMS): (YAWNING, GROGGY) M-Mista Steel…? Whatta you doin’, callin’ me—

JUNO: Rita, I need you to get me a call with Sasha Wire. Now.

RITA (FROM COMMS): Who…?

JUNO: Agent W. The Dark Matters woman who called this morning.

RITA (FROM COMMS): She said it was con-fi-dent—

JUNO: Just call her, damn it!

RITA (FROM COMMS): Alright! Testy, testy…

SOUND: COMMS BEEP.

JUNO (NARRATOR): I couldn’t wait. I had to know.

SOUND: STATIC BLIP. TV CHANNELS CHANGING.

JUNO: Come on, come on, god damn it, Nureyev, where are you?

SOUND: DISTANT SIREN.

JUNO: Damn it!

MUSIC: STARTS.

JUNO (NARRATOR): It was exactly where he said it would be. Route 742. Mercury Drive. The cop car was parked on the sidewalk. Sitting on the ground beside it, in nothing but their skin and their skivvies, were the two cops who’d picked him up earlier. They were hog-tied, their mouths gagged. And Nureyev was nowhere in sight.

I checked my pocket. The key to my safe was gone.

JUNO: No!

SOUND: COMMS BEEP.

WIRE (FROM COMMS): Juno! This line is confidential! If you needed me so badly, you should have had Agent Glass call!

Where is he?

JUNO: Wish I knew, Sasha. Come on down sometime and I’ll tell you the whole story.

WIRE (FROM COMMS): You’ll tell me the story now, Juno. Juno!

SOUND: COMMS BEEP.

JUNO (NARRATOR): That’s how things go, in Hyperion City. One day, she’s your daughter; next day, she’s your killer. One minute, he’s your partner; next minute… he’s gone.

I drank until I couldn’t think anymore and then I passed out on the couch. Sasha might have called a few times, but I didn’t answer. Couldn’t trust her. I couldn’t trust anyone just then.

But when you get hurt by the big mean world, you lick your wounds, and you start over. The world gets a little bigger, a little meaner. Maybe you do, too.

And in the meantime, sleep; sleep, and the smell of Peter Nureyev in the air. It would take weeks for that smell to fade. I’ve missed it ever since.

MUSIC: ENDS.

***

SOUND: RAIN & MUSIC.

CONCIERGE: The tale you’ve just heard, Part Two of Juno Steel and the Case of the Murderous Mask, was told by the following people: Joshua Ilon as Juno Steel, Noah Simes as Peter Nureyev, Dan Squizzero as Zhu Fang, Sophie Kaner as Agent Sasha Wire, Cecil Kanagawa, and Cassandra Kanagawa, Kate Jones as Rita and Min Kanagawa, and Kevin Vibert and Ryan Meyer as the ensemble.

On staff at The Penumbra: Ryan Meyer is our recording engineer. Kevin Vibert is our lead writer and sound effects designer. Sophie Kaner is our director, lead editor, and sound designer. Juno’s theme was written by Ryan Vibert.

The Penumbra was created by Sophie Kaner and Kevin Vibert.

I’m so sorry you’ve been called away, dear Traveler. We eagerly await your return.

ALL SOUNDS: FADE OUT.

[daggerzine]

Awaking Up Together- Ben Crum discusses the different lives of Great Lakes.

It was the S/T debut in 2000 that was released on Kindercore that initially got me interested. I loved most everything on that label so when a cd by a band called Great Lakes popped into my po box I was excited to check it out. Like a few of the others under the Elephant 6 moniker, (Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, etc.) it exuded a sort-of grandiose 60’s pop charm with bits of psychedelia and some beautiful noise ala Pavement, too. Other records followed (including the brand spankin’ new, and very good, Dreaming Too Close to the Edge) and along the way Crum lended his skills to bands such as Ladybug Transistor and the Essex Green. The more recent Great Lakes records have been a bit darker, more guitar heavy (less sunshine pop) than previous records but still with excellent songwriting and an overflow of hooks. I wanted to know a bit about Crum and what made him tick and when I shot some questions his way he was more than happy to expound and expand on his life from the early days until present day. If you’ve never heard the music of Great Lakes then by all means check out one of their many releases, each one with its own distinct personality. Read on dear fans….

L-R- Kevin Shea, Suzanne Nienaber, Kenny Wachtel, Chris Talsness and Ben Crum

Where did you grow up?

Mt. Airy, Maryland, though I finished high school in suburban Atlanta.

What was the first band that made you take notice?

The Descendents was really the first band that I was in to. I mean, I was discovering classic rock at the same time, but that 80s punk stuff was big for me. I came to them through skateboarding videos. They’re still one of my favorite bands, though I confess I haven’t kept up with their latest music. Fugazi was also an early big one for me. That first EP especially. I also loved, and still love, The Misfits.

When did you first pick up an instrument? Was it a guitar?

I was required by my mother, who played piano, to take piano lessons. She made me practice right after school. While sitting at the piano practicing my scales I could hear the other neighborhood kids playing and having fun. I found it miserable at the time. But my piano teacher let me come early to the lessons. She had a giant leather recliner and a nice stereo system with headphones. She’d let me play whatever records I wanted to listen to. That was my introduction to CCR. The main lick from “Down On the Corner” really grabbed me as a kid. That and the lead guitar part from “Up Around the Bend” had really caught my attention.

By middle school I chose to be in the school band. That lasted about one year. I think I mainly did it because I didn’t like the other options. I “played” saxophone. When I was about 14 I was watching Maryland public TV and I saw the One Night With You movie with Elvis. It’s taken from the 68 Comeback Special. I still love that stuff. I got out my mom’s old nylon string guitar and started teaching myself to play. I begged my parents to let me trade my sax for a steel string Guild acoustic. I took a few lessons, but those didn’t really take. I learned to play “Dust In the Wind” though.

What was your introduction to independent music? Was it hardcore? New wave? Something else?

I used to have a skateboard ramp in my backyard. All kinds of people would hear about it and come to my house to skate. There was an older dude who had a hardcore band and he gave me his 7 inch when I was about 15. That must’ve planted the seed in my mind that independently putting music out was something I could do. Before then, I don’t think it had occurred to me.

What was your first band? And how/when did Great Lakes come about? That was in Athens, GA, right?

 It’s all kinda related, to me. The way I got started in doing music was that during breaks from college, around 92-93, I started getting together with high school friend, Dan Donahue, when we were both visiting our parents in Atlanta. We would write songs and record them on 4 track. We liked Galaxie 500/early Luna, The Flaming Lips, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr. And I remember he liked The Chickasaw Mudpuppies a lot and got me in to that stuff. He didn’t really play an instrument, though in the early days neither did I, really, so we both played whatever we could. He liked writing lyrics, though. That was his main thing. It always felt like a chore to me, and I was happy to have him be the lyricist. We called ourselves The Patty Melts. We had a song called “I’m Alive” that was kind of a fictional blues about how bad life was for the narrator, but the idea was that at least he was alive. A choice nugget of the lyrics, referring the guy’s wife, went: “ she’s a briarpatch with an eyepatch”, and later the narrator says:  “…gettin’ my ass up is a damn chore.” We made a pretty cool 4 track recording of that song. I had this homemade 4 string fretless instrument that my dad and brother had built. I’ve still got it. It was made out of paneling for the body and a piece of molding for the neck. The tuners were eye screws, screwed right into the wood. I tuned it to an open chord and played slide on it with a screwdriver as the slide. So we made this Chickasaw Mudpuppies-inspired song with that. By about 94 I started visiting Dan in Athens, where he was in college, and we would write songs and try to record them. Jamey Huggins, who was then in high school but came to Athens a lot on breaks and weekends, joined us on drums. We were all really into Teenage Fanclub by that time, and one night we stayed up all night and wrote a song that we thought was so good that we had to start a band one day. Even then, I was focused on the recording. Unless we had a cool recording of a song, it was as if it almost didn’t really exist. I think we all felt that way. I still do.

Meanwhile, I was in a band in college in Birmingham, Alabama with some friends. We were first called a few different names that I’ve forgotten, but when we started playing shows we were calling ourselves Wonderock, like a superhero or something. We had a couple good songs, actually. I remember getting some encouragement from the sound guy when we played our first show at The Nick. He was a pretty grizzled old guy, Johnny Mack, and he came up to us after our set and said begrudgingly, “Well, my toe was tapping and my toe don’t lie to me…” One of the members of that band, Craig Ceravolo, moved to Athens with me in 96 and went on to play in the earliest version of Great Lakes. Another member of that band formed a band called Three Finger Cowboy. They were on Amy Ray’s label and, I think, did a tour or two opening for The Indigo Girls. After that band I had a short-lived band with Craig, Jason Hamric, and Jamey, called Alaska. Craig, Jason, and I all lived together in Southside, and Jamey had come to Birmingham to stay with us for the summer. I think we chose the name because of that line in “Stephanie Says:, “It’s such an icy feeling / It’s so cold in Alaska”. We also called ourselves Cherry Valence for a bit (this was back before there was a band called The Cherry Valence). Anyway, that band had 3 members of what would become Great Lakes in it. I tried to convince Jason Hamric to leave Birmingham and move to Athens with us, but he wasn’t into that idea. He definitely would have been in Great Lakes, though, if he had moved with us. Great player, and great guy. So, anyway, in Athens, Dan joined us as a lyricist, and we merged Alaska/Cherry Valence and Wheelie Ride and The Patty Melts and became Great Lakes. And then Great Lakes evolved over time. But it wasn’t until 2009 or so that the current iteration, the longest running consistent lineup the band has ever had, came together. But Great Lakes is really more than a band to me. It’s what I consider my life’s work as an artist.

Tell me about your tenure in both the Ladybug Transistor and the Essex Green.

Well, when I got to Athens I arrived right as the Elephant 6 thing was coalescing. The first Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control records had just come out and they blew me away. Elf Power, too. All those guys were into 4 track recording, like us, but, of course, they were way more advanced. We became friends with that whole group of people. And then, after years of recording (including really learning how to record), the first Great Lakes album came out on Kindercore/E6. Ladybug Transistor had a connection to E6. Their album The Albemarle Sound had certainly caught nearly everyone’s attention that year. I mean, if you liked Love and The Beach Boys and Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle and stuff like that, then that record was pretty much made for you. We loved it. That and that Lilys record that sounded like The Kinks (Better Can’t Make Your Life Better). Through E6 connections some of the people in Ladybug asked the Kindercore guys to release the first record by their other band, Essex Green. Kindercore happily did. We played a show or two together with Essex Green and Ladybug in Athens, which was fun. We hung out and kinda bonded over shared musical tastes, they way you can only really do when you’re in your 20s, it seems like. A few years later when I moved to Brooklyn they were some of the only people I knew. Jeff Baron, of both bands, immediately asked me to get together with him and Mike Barrett and play some music. We quickly realized that not only did we all love 60s psych and pop, but we also really loved old country music and the whole Flying Burrito Brothers style of country rock. Because we each knew so many country songs, and because we just loved to play, we would get together and play a lot. Mike and Jeff lived together, and had a cool little low volume set up in their apartment, and we’d hand out and play for hours, swapping instruments and trading off singing lead on all kinds of stuff. Eventually we started doing some of Mike’s originals, and Jeff and I would do some tunes. We talked about making a record, possibly of Mike’s original songs, and probably should have. But for some reason we ended up not doing that. But, like I said, we had a bunch of fun. It was also like some kind of music school for me, in a way. Jeff and Mike helped me train my ear to hear the changes, and to improvise. Previously, a live show for me had been about basically just executing what I’d written beforehand; but I came to see music differently through that experience of playing with those guys. I mean, with them, nothing ever sounded the same way twice, and I learned to love that. Then, soon after, Essex Green didn’t have a bass player for a tour they had booked, so they invited me to play. Tim Barnes (Silver Jews, Royal Trux) was on drums for the first tour or two that I did with them, and between Jeff’s great guitar playing and Tim’s incredible drumming and way of listening and responding, it was a great experience. That lineup of that band was definitely one of the best bands I ever played in. We did a tour or two with other drummers, and despite the fact that the Essex Green songs are great and I love playing with them, there came a point when I decided to bow out and focus on a new Great Lakes record, which became Diamond Times. But after that album came out Gary of Ladybug found himself without a guitarist. I guess Jeff didn’t want to do it at that point, so I started playing guitar with him. We did several tours, sometimes with Ladybug Transistor and Great Lakes on the same bill, and then we made what I call the Buckingham Kicks album together (officially titled Can’t Wait Another Day). I wanted to change the band name to Buckingham Kicks and release a self-titled debut, because the album we did was so different from previous LT albums, but Gary decided against that. The great thing about joining Ladybug Transistor, apart from playing with Gary, who is one of the better singers around, was that I got to play with longtime Ladybug drummer San Fadyl. He was another fantastic drummer, and he taught me tons as a musician. After he died tragically, my days in that band were numbered. But Gary soldiered on and made another record, and he’s still doing stuff now. I think he’ll keep making great records for a long time. I’d like to think that I’ll do more stuff together with the Essex Green/Ladybug Transistor folks. We’ve talked about wanting to do something, but logistically it’s a little tough. Maybe one day, though. There’s a new Essex Green coming out soon, though. I’ve been listening to it and it’s great.

When did you move to Brooklyn? What prompted the move?

I moved in 2002. I think I stayed in Athens a little too long for me. I’m not saying people shouldn’t stay in Athens. It’s a great place and I love it. But I was there 6 years, and it’s a small southern town, you know? That has its up and downsides. I think I should have left a little before then, but I didn’t for some reason. The way I actually ended up moving is that my girlfriend at the time was moving and I came along. We promptly broke up, but I stayed in New York because I liked it. Though New York is expensive, it’s a fun place to raise a family. We got to the Catskills, we have a great beach nearby, and we live in a community that is progressive politically. That goes a long way.  

Tell us about the new Great Lakes record, Dreaming Too Close to the Edge. Where was it recorded? Who played on it?

Dreaming Too Close to the Edge, the 6th Great Lakes record, ended up being the third in a series of three records that sort of share a lyrical theme. The previous two, Ways of Escape and Wild Vision, are much more country-inflected, however. I think those two are good records, but they’re kinda heavy in terms of the moods and subject matter. This new one feels more fun to me. The subject matter is still pretty heavy, but the songs are back in major keys again. I think it’s a really strong batch of songs. I’m proud of it. I think with Ways of Escape I finally really found myself as a songwriter. I think the stuff I’ve done since that record has been my best work, and this new one feels very strong to me.

The lineup is pretty much the same as played on the previous two records. The drummer is Kevin Shea. He’s been with me for over 10 years now. Suzanne Nienaber sings with me again. Kenny Wachtel plays some guitar. Joe McGinty is back on keys, and Dave Gould on bass. There are a couple other people who played on a song here and there, Luis Leal played mellotron on a aong, and Andrew Rieger did a guest vocal on one song. They’re great musicians, all of them. And just nice, easy-going people. I have no intention to shake up that lineup. As long as those lovely people want to play with me, they’ve got the gig. Of course, it’s different when you’re in your late 30s and early 40s. We’re not trying to tour the world, and I really don’t have ambitions beyond making what I think are good records, and maybe playing the occasional show.

As for the recording of Dreaming, the drums were recorded at Brian Eno’s old space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. I think Martin Bisi has been there for 30 years or more. There’s a documentary film about the place. It’s now called Seizure’s Palace (when Jason LaFarge is behind the desk). It’s a huge room, but Jason’s got a great handle on getting good drum sounds in that space. A Boredoms record or two were done there, as well as several Swans records. It’s a great and really weird space. The keyboards were tracked at Joe McGinty’s vintage keys studio, Carousel, in Greenpoint. I played with him and got to know him through Ladybug Transistor (especially when we were rehearsing with Kevin Ayers, but he was also a good friend of San’s, too). Nearly everything else was done in my home studio. And I went to Don Piper’s Brooklyn studio to track vocals. He’s got a Neve desk there, and gets nice sounds. The record was mixed by Steve Silverstein, who mixed each of the last three records. Steve and I have a long relationship of working together, and he’s great.  

Is Loose Trucks your own label? Do you release other music other than your own on it?

Yes. My old friends Andrew and Laura of Elf Power run Orange Twin Records in Athens. They put out a couple Great Lakes records, but for Wild Vision, the 5th record, Andrew suggested to me that there was really no reason anymore to give them a cut of the money. He just hooked me up with their distributor and I started my own label. So far, so good. But I teamed up with Mike Turner (of HHBTM Records, and the guy who released the first ever Great Lakes 7”) to help me with distribution this time. I think that’ll be a positive thing. The truth is, I’d never want to start a label, necessarily, but it just made sense for me to do it.

I haven’t released anything else on the label except the last two Great Lakes records, and I really don’t have any desire to do so.

Who are some of your favorite current bands or musicians?

Steve Gunn. I especially love Way Out Weather. That’s the modern record that I’ve listened to the most in recent years. I love the Fahey meets drone-y raga thing; but it’s the strength of the compositions and the melodies that I find elevates it above other records in that style. I also think David-Ivar from the band Herman Dune is one of the most criminally underrated songwriters around these days. And Bill Callahan has long been a favorite of mine. I think he’s peerless.

What is one musician you’d say who’s had the biggest impact on your music?

My biggest influence as a guitar player is/was Dean Wareham. First, I always thought his sound was really cool. And his solos and lead playing, from Galaxie 500 on, has all been consistently great. I mean, as a beginning guitar player I’d sing along with the guitar solos. It doesn’t happen that often, when the long guitar solo or outro is the highlight of a song, or just as good as the singing part. Wareham was kind of my guitar teacher in a sense, because the way he plays, it’s not super fast. It’s about the melodies and the feeling and the mood. Because his stuff wasn’t very technical, I was able to play along with his solos and lead parts pretty easily and figure out what he does and how he does it. Every now and again I still kind of think to myself, “What would Dean Wareham do on this song?” if I’m stuck trying to figure out a guitar part for a song.

Tell us about your day job as a teacher. How does it fit into your lifestyle? Any of the other teachers know that you’re a musician?

Well, I don’t have a very wild lifestyle, I can tell you that. I’ve got a 7 year old son and a 1 year old daughter. With a full-time job as a third grade teacher, I’ve got my hands full. Lots of responsibility. But I still find the time to play a handful of shows each year, and to release records regularly. I’ve kind of gotten into a pattern of working, that works for me. During the school year I write songs when inspiration hits. But then I have the summers off. That’s when I have more time to work on music. If I can get all the songs for a new record written, revised and ready to record by August, I can track drums for an album. And then the cycle of overdubbing on the recordings, while also writing new songs, can begin again. That’s really my pattern.

People I work with know I write and play music, and put out records. Sometimes they’ll come to the shows. Some of my student’s parent’s have actualy looked me up and bought my records. I leave a guitar in my class and we sing all the time. The parents know me as this gentle teacher who sings Paul Simon and Cat Stevens songs with their kids, but I could tell by the way they some of them talked to me about my music that they were a bit surprised, after hearing my music, at how thematically dark some of my stuff is. It’s not children’s music that I’m making, you know? If they’d asked me I’d have warned them.

As a teacher, I think about Robert Pollard a lot. He’s not only one of my favorite songwriters, but he made a bunch of his best records while he was working full-time as a 3rd grade teacher. It’s really not hard to balance teaching and music. The hours can be tough, though. I have to be on point at 8am when I have to face a class of 8 year olds. One of my regular working times is between 4am and 6am. It’s been less this way since we had our second kid, because I’m really tired from having a baby,  a 7 year old, and a demanding job. But I made most of the previous two records, and a lot of Dreaming, between the hours of 4am and 6am. That’s when my brain works best, anyway, I don’t even set an alarm. I just wake up naturally when I’m feeling inspired to work. It’s nice. The house is quiet, and I’ve got a tried-and-true system for recording electric guitars, bass, and keyboards silently. My wife is also very supportive, and often graciously allows me weekend mornings off of childcare duty so I can get some recording work done. I’m one of those people that if I’m not recording and getting work done, I’m kind of irritable and feel unsettled. So it’s probably in her best interest to do that… (haha)

 You’re the only remaining original member of the band., then? What’s that like?

Yeah. I've been the only original member of the band for over 10 years now. But it was really only for the first 2 records that the original members were a big part of the band, anyway, to be honest. And even then it was really just the first one that was the product of genuine collaboration. Back then it was me and Dan writing songs together, but by the time the first record came out we'd put together a big band that also featured Kevin Barnes from Of Montreal, Scott Spillane from Neutral Milk Hotel/Olivia Tremor Control, Bryan Poole from Elf Power, and Derek Almstead, Dottie Alexander, Heather McIntosh, and Jamey Huggins as a multi-instrumentalist and our main drummer. Jamey and I really collaborated very closely on the first record, in terms of working out the instrumentation on the songs. That was a really good, positive collaboration. And, truthfully, it hurt me when he chose to pretty much leave the band and focus on Of Montreal. But I understood his decision. They were getting really popular, and I couldn't blame him. Then, in 2002, I moved to Brooklyn and Dan followed not long after, and once we'd both left Athens that was basically the end of the original lineup. Dan and I kept writing songs together, though, with him writing the lyrics and me writing the music. We went back to Athens to record Diamond Times, and a bunch of the old crew pitched in and played on the record, but by that point I'd formed a pretty strong connection with Jeff Baron of Essex Green and Ladybug Transistor, and had convinced him to come down from Brooklyn to Athens with me for the recording sessions. He ended up playing a big role in terms of making that album what it became.

The last released songs that Dan and I co-wrote, apart from one that made it onto Ways of Escape, came out on Diamond Times in 2006. After that album came out, I put together a 3-piece lineup of the band in New York, to tour behind that album. We did a long tour of the US, opening for The Clientele. It was Kevin Shea on drums, and Kyle Forester, who I also roped into The Ladybug Transistor as a keyboardist, on bass. We did a few tours of Europe with that lineup, too. What's strange is that, though it's not the original lineup, we played more shows together as a 3-piece than any previous or later Great Lakes lineup ever played, yet the three of us never made a record. Kyle left right before we began recording the 4th record, Ways of Escape. Around then Dan and I had a disagreement over the musical direction of the band and he abruptly moved back to Athens. Him leaving really turned out to be a great thing for me. Kevin Shea was happy to keep playing drums with me, and I wrangled a bunch of great NYC-based players to help me make that record. Towards the end of that process, Suzanne Nienaber started singing with me. As soon as we started doing stuff together I thought it sounded great. That lineup ended up being the players I've continued to work with for a decade and counting. We made Wild Vision together, which, to me, really felt like a highlight in the band's discography, and then we made the new record, Dreaming Too Close to the Edge, together, too.

 Looking back, I think I went out on my own at just the right time. I was feeling weird about singing somebody else's words. And it felt so much better to sing my own. Dan also just wanted more say over the music than I was willing to give him. I think a lot of artists reach a point where they get fed up with making art by committee. At a certain point, you need control to really realize your vision. I've done 6 Great Lakes records now, with the most recent 3 being made without any other original band members. And it's the 3 I've done on my own that I feel most proud of, to be honest. I'll never disavow the early stuff, and if you're a fan of unabashed 60s psych-pop then that's the Great Lakes stuff for you.

 The thing about bands continuing on without original members is tricky. A lot of times those bands aren't very good without the original lineup. But I always think about The Byrds when this subject comes up. My favorite Byrds records are the ones Roger McGuinn made without Gene Clark and David Crosby. I mean, I love the Gene Clark solo stuff, and that first David Crosby solo record, too. And of course the early Byrds stuff is great. But those late Byrds records are the ones I like the most. I like to think of Great Lakes like that. Maybe some people prefer the early stuff, and that's fine. But I'm just going to keep on doing my own thing, regardless of what anybody else thinks.    

 Any closing comment? Final thoughts? Anything you wanted to mention that I didn’t ask?

I’m always focused on what I’m doing next. I’m working on the 7th Great Lakes record now. More and more, I find myself drawing on more of my influences from the time when I was starting to play music, lthe stuff I was into in my early 20s. Dinosaur Jr., Pavement, Sebadoh, Luna/Galaxie 500, Teenage Fanclub, Guided By Voices, Built to Spill. Not that there’s a cohesive sound there, but that combination of sounds is really where my heart is lately. I’m working on the next record now and I can feel it going in that direction. It’s not at all thematically connected to the other records. I feel like it’s going to be good.

Thanks for your interest in my music, Tim. I appreciate it.

 All photos by Jami Craig except the 3rd pic from the top (the outdoor shot with the Puerto Rican flag) which is by Diego Britt. 

 www.greatlakesbencrum.bandcamp.com

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New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: On the 35th Anniversary of the ‘Care Bears Movie:’ A Reminder that It’s Nightmare Fuel

Back in 1996, my parents owned an auto-parts store; and because they worked long hours, with limited time to devote to my older brother and younger sister, movies sometimes served as our daycare—animated films like Kiki’s Delivery Service and The Great Mouse Detective. To these ends, sometime when I was 6-years old, my parents bought the Care Bears Movie on VHS. G-Rated and saccharine, the damn cartoon gave me nightmares.

Before the film’s production, these lovable animated characters began as a line of plush toys introduced in 1981. Each ursine came in a different color with a unique belly badge: some had rainbows, others hearts, others lollipops. And each bear’s name reflected a feeling or thought: like grumpiness or cheer. These cuddly bears were soon featured in kids books and on cereal boxes, and had their own television special beginning with The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings. However by 1984, American Greetings, the plush dolls’ creators, began toying around with the idea of producing a feature-length movie to further promote the ursine creatures. 

On March 29, 1985, director Arna Selznick’s The Care Bears Movie was released. Narrated by a Mr. Cherrywood (Mickey Rooney), the head of an orphanage, he orates a bedtime story to a group of children about a gang of lovable ursine.His story is two-fold: first is the orphaned brother and sister Kim (Cree Summer Francks) and Jason (Sunny Besen Thrasher) who believe no one loves them. The other is the young and lonely magician’s assistant to Mr. Fetuccini (Brian George) Nicholas (Hadley Kay).

The care bears intervene in both stories. Friend Bear (Eva Almost) and Secret Bear (Anni Evans) introduce themselves to Kim and Jason in the park. While Tenderheart (Billie Mae Richards) approaches Nicolas in Mr. Fetuccini’s caravan. Friend and Secret bear initially succeed by spreading cheering, though later Kim and Jason are accidentally transported to the ursine’s cloud and rainbow-soaked world of Care-a-Lot. Nevertheless, Nicholas ultimately falls under the spell of an evil sorceress trapped inside a magic book (voiced by Jackie Burroughs) bent on ending love in the world and extinguishing the care bears. 

The cartoon beyond its plot has multiple issues. For one, the representation of the kids is creepy. In fact, Mr. Fetuccini has a large peep hole hidden underneath his desk looking into Nicholas’ room. Why is it there, who knows? In any case, Tenderheart uses the opening to spy on Nicholas. There, he witnesses the green face of a sorceress, an allusion to The Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, rise from magical tome’s pages to seduce the boy. When Tenderheart finally reaches Nicholas in the other room, he interrupts the ghostly arms of the book’s spirit wrapped around the boy’s head, bringing him in for a suggestive smooch.   

While the spirit is off-putting, these colorful bears aren’t cute either. They’re a menace. They approach kids like Kim and Jason in parks (aren’t children taught not to talk and take things from strangers—especially when they’re talking alien bears hiding behind trees?) These plush animals also watch kids from the sky to monitor their care levels. It’s how they targeted Kim and Jason. Worst yet, they shoot frinkin laser beams from their tummy tattoos—making them unstable weapons—while possessing an unsettling earnestness. They have the same earnestness that tricked people into thinking Chuck E. Cheese animatronics weren’t Satan’s rejects. It’s no wonder I feared these off-kilter bears, and Nicholas swerves past them, too. 

Instead, he falls under the influence of the spirit. She promises to make him a greater magician than Mr. Fetucinni, and to help him enact spells as payback against the kids who refused to be his friends. Unfortunately, Nicholas’ incantations turn earth and the circus grounds into a gloomy demented place with disrepaired tents and homes, and marauding gangs of cackling vindictive children roaming the countryside. Consequently, the ursine’s home kingdom Care-a-Lot turns dark and stormy as rainbows crack and shatter because of cloud quakes. Also, their realm’s power source (the Caring Meter) loses energy as earth morphs into “A world without love.” The bears, along with Kim and Jason, soon depart their homeland, venturing into the Forest of Feelings. There, they discover other plush animals: an elephant, a lion, and a monkey, among others—who feel like lower caste beings. 

And yes, the Forest of Feelings always haunted me. In it, a purple demonic tree with yellow-green eyes tries to eat Jason, a whirlpool nearly consumes the care bears’ cloud boat, and a spirit eagle with talons as big as school buses swoops to claw the fleeing children and bears. These hallucinogenics in a colorful but creepy forest, akin to Alice in Wonderland, ran against the G-Rated programming the animated film promised its young viewers. Instead, eagle’s talons haunted my 6-year old brain like Freddy Krueger did to my 15-year old insomnia, with horrifying images of being chased. 

The songs accompanying the Care Bears Movie didn’t help either. Though the soundtrack received contributions from songwriting and producing superstars like Lou Adler, Carole King, and John Sebastian a tune like the jaunty Edwardian “When You Care, You’re Not Afraid to Try” features the same cultish instructions as “It’s A Small World After All.” As the latter charges, “There’s so much that we share,” the former says, “We need the swift and the small. We’ll need the strong and the tall…Cause when you care, you’re not afraid to try” as the music spins and accelerates wildly out of control into a fever dream of the kids and bears skipping in a circle.

But the worst track is “Look Out, He’s After You.” About as thoughtful as a Whose Line is it Anyways? skit, the needle drop happens during the cartoon’s final act, when the care bears return to earth to save Nicholas. By now, Nicholas is a cackling cape wearing psychopath chasing Kim and Jason through a creepy fun house adorned with pink demonic paintings of clowns. As someone who watched Stephen King’s It at the age of 8, this Care Bears sequence was scarier. It’s an edgelord white kid hunting other children while the chimes of “It’s a nightmare coming true (The evil that’s spreading is starting to grow)…Look out! He’s after you!” play over his pursuit.

Years later, I’ve learned why I initially didn’t identify with this magician’s assistant. In some scenes, one begins to think that Nicholas deserves his loneliness. When Tenderheart is thrown into a cage by the evil spirit, even before Nicholas has succumbed to her influence, he responds at the sight with, “Hey, neat.” Moreover, though he’s lonely, Nicholas isn’t exactly bullied. Though kids laugh at him, they only do so after he joins up with a deranged talking book that makes him perform lame magic tricks in front of them. In turn, Nicholas decides to end the world because he isn’t a recipient of their adoration. That means the Care Bears Movie elevates the feelings of a toxic white male over everyone else, setting a dangerous example for its white male audience that they too can end the world if they’re driven into the hands of an evil book and perform terrible magic tricks.

Freakishly horrifying and oddly demented: For these reasons, the Care Bears Movie is and was straight-up nightmare fuel that haunted me for weeks. And because of it, I never wanted a care bear when I was a kid, and I hate rainbows now, too.  

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[enkisstories]

The android cemetery (Ch. 26)

The trio enters the beach, two pairs of feet made of flesh and bone, one of plastic. The snow scrunches below their soles as they walk. It is pure white, untouched, pristine. The wind has given it a wavelike texture, like an ocean that you can walk on. Silence hangs over the beach. The world’s hectic is far away. Out here everything is calm, serene. In short, this is a place that has waited for somebody entirely else than these people! Tina picks up a handful of snow.

“Not much to work with, but serviceable.”

At this point Gavin shook his head in irritation. How different from how he usually heard it had Tina’s voice sounded in the video! But of course it would. Daniel’s acoustic module was different from natural hearing. Connor’s hearing was probably even more different and strange. Definitely strange! Gavin had never given that much thought. He knew he should feel appalled, but what he did instead was hugging Daniel tighter. What would his own voice sound like through his partner’s ears, the man wondered?

*Splash!*

The first snowball lands with precision, albeit less force than a human could have put behind it. And this is the only reason Daniel has dared toss it: Without his weighted gloves the former household android’s hands couldn’t seriously harm anybody even if Daniel wanted to. But his manual dexterity is near super-human and his agility considerate.

Tina: “Whoa, Sardines! Gavin’s not joking when he calls you “killer android”!”

A short hesitation, just long enough for Gavin to “revenge” Tina with a surprise shot. His next throw misses.

Daniel: “Just you wait! I’ll get even!”

The next snowball hits Gavin in the chest. Daniel dances across the beach now, dodging snowballs and returning the favor. A heavy baggage drops, to be buried in the sand under the snow. Until this moment the deviant hadn’t been sure if this little “wargame” would not trigger some sort of killer reflex. Not even when the two humans gang up on him or when Tina goes to her knees for a moment does Daniel experience anything different than a playful mood.

Can he trust these humans? Probably not. They may yet backstab him some day. But one thing Daniel is sure of now: If nobody else, he can at least trust himself again.

“Now that’s a kind thought about the man you had just kissed for the first time!” Gavin snorted.

“What thought?”

“Me backstabbing you!”

“Well, I was kinda right, wasn’t I? Given what happened two weeks later… wait, did I say that out loud? The part about trusting you and Tina?”

Only now Daniel realized that he had commented the scene the whole time. Not the Daniel standing here in the apartment, but his older self from January. His thoughts from the past had turned into a narration that accompanied his memory-video now.

“What’s happening?” the deviant gasped. “That’s not what I wanted to show you! That’s not what I wanted to happen!”

The screen flickered, then the snowball fight faded out, to get replaced by different scene: A black cat wearing a collar of green climbed onto Gavin’s lap. Daniel watched as the cat licked his partner’s face. The image blurred, then new scenes followed the ones before in quick succession. Sounds and images, some heartwarming, others disturbing, but many of them too short to make anything out of them. There was something about… salmon grind on sliced bread?

“Nooooo! Not that!” Daniel cried. “That’s private!”

Connor noticed Gavin lick his lips. The particular way the human was looking told Connor that Gavin’s thoughts were not food-motivated, but connected to another kind of hunger. Not in the least interested in the erotic application of salmon breadspread (or anything erotic in regard to Gavin Reed) the android shouted: “Yes! Let’s keep that private! Very private!”

Daniel tried to disconnect from the TV. Jacking out took what felt like an eternity and even afterwards what had been uploaded already was still running its course.

Suddenly the onlookers saw Daniel looking downwards into Connor’s eyes. One eye, more precisely. The other was dead. The deviant hunter was asking questions… something about a place called Jericho…

Emma screamed and the scene changed again. A dark sky… blood in Daniel’s face… the cityscape tumbling over, no, that was himself, falling. Falling…

“And that particular gem I only ever showed Connor!” Daniel whispered.

“Well, this is how memories work for humans”, a visibly shaken Jason Graff said. “Via associations. We cannot shape them into a family movie and obviously a deviant’s brain works exactly the same.”

“So I cannot lie in this mode?”

Jason nodded. Having worked in the Humanization department for years, his grasp on general android coding was a bit rusty, but this was what he felt right at home at. Professional interest had also allowed the man to realize that he was dealing with one, maybe two, deviants here, but just file the discovery as another fact to work with instead of freaking out.

“Worse”, Jason said, “you cannot keep anything private. An interrogator might say “relax” and the next thing he sees is your last lovenight with Mr.  Reed here.”

“Shit…” Daniel muttered. He covered his eyes while the TV screen was running the last of the uploaded material for all to see:

It has come down to it. Two days left of 2039 and then we will have seen the last of Detroit for a month. It will be good to see something different, even though the reason for us leaving is… less than flattering. But here we are, still understaffed and not even a PM700 is left idle in the charging boxes.

Gavin: “No chance but to take you with me today into a city where a mystery android killer’s on the loose…”

Not much of a mystery, Daniel thinks. The android killer is another android. The thought is sickening. Even if Brandon is killing his kin on the Villareal mob’s behalf, as they suspect, it is a fact that he has joined the syndicate out of his free deviant will, knowing full well what he was getting into. Gavin spits on the pavement, then draws a pistol.

Gavin: “Take this! And if you see a suspicious LED, shoot before asking! The gun probably doesn’t outrange Brandon’s sending range, so take it out before it can even think of initiating contact!”

Daniel accepts the pistol without thinking at first. Then he remembers getting handed a similar one by Lieutenant Anderson three months ago, when they had rescued Connor from the vice-mayor’s home. Daniel hadn’t used the weapon, not even on Connor. Alright, he had tried using it on Connor, but only to wound, of course!

Or had he?

Back in fall the android had been little more than a talking household appliance indeed, still shocked into submission and dropping the occasional sarcastic comment at best. Ever since, Daniel has re-won his former confidence. And it dawns to him that holding a gun again is probably a very bad idea. Because what will stay his hand this time, now that his fears have left him?

Daniel: “Take it back, please! I couldn’t accept a weapon even if I was a human! I’m just an auxiliary, no officer.”

Gavin: “Pfft! At this rate you’re going to make Captain before I’ll be Sergeant! Did you know our beloved inspector bitch sent Hank and me each a certificate for exemplary success in android training? So today we’re going to practice walking the neighborhood without killing people, acting patrol officer Phillips!”

Daniel: “No! I can’t… really not! Damn you, Gavin, couldn’t you at least have given me an empty one?! Take it back! Take it back, take it back, take it back!”

But exactly that Gavin cannot do, even if he had wanted. There is no telling if not some reflex might kick in, causing Daniel to shoot at the human who attempts to disarm him. They all have noticed Daniel wince when Gavin suggested paintball as a teambuilding project the day before. The prospect of holding a weapon, even a toy, is frightening Daniel for good reason. With his weighted gloves the household android can hit as hard as a human. With a firearm, to the contrary, he is vastly superior. And with his temper you never know what might happen.

The way the android is shivering, the most likely outcome is an outdoors lamp in the second floor needing to be replaced within the next two minutes.

Standing… Staring…

Then a quick action and then an android head sinking down on the detective’s shoulder.

Gavin: “Congrats, Sardines, you shot the perennial dandelion. I agree it was loitering there in a provocative fashion.”

Daniel: “I cannot do this… Please don’t make me!”

Gavin: “If I step aside, you’ll fall.”

Daniel: (no reaction) Gavin: (steps aside)

Daniel (falling): “Damn you!”

Sitting… still staring, but decidedly not each other.

Gavin: “I’ve talked to my parents and to Hank, yes, to Hank! And we agreed that you’ve come a long way already. Not the whole distance, though. You want to belong, but that goes two ways. We need to be able to trust you, too. And inevitably there’d have come the day to take it to the test. Today seems as good as any other. Come on, man up!”

Daniel: “Hear, hear! It must be dawn - the apes in the jungle start clamoring!”

Gavin: “I don’t have time for your insults - I dropped my pocket calculator!”

Daniel: “Right… about that…”

Daniel wriggles out of the embrace and rams his fist hard into Gavin’s stomach. Then he sits upright and watches with satisfaction how the human is cringing, still holding the officer’s pistol loosely in the other hand.

Eventually they grab each other’s hands and stand up again.

Gavin: “I’ll tick “correctly judging the appropriate level of violence” off your list of lessons.”

Daniel: “Looks like it. Got a holster to go with the gun?”

Gavin: “Yep. Here! - Oh, and one more thing: when the Andersons ask how it went, you tell them we had an enlightening talk consisting of reasoning, respect and all that other mature crap!”

“So that’s how it happened? But you told us you had an enlightening talk cons…” Connor started to protest back in the present. When he saw Daniel and Gavin grin, he stopped. “Ah. Right. I see. Suckers.”

On the android’s lap an eggshell-colored cat with a blueish grey mask was kneading his legs while wearing a world-removed expression. Nobody had noticed it making itself comfortable there, not even Connor. Sometime during the video the android had realized that he was stroking something and just continued doing so. Loki purred, but stopped whenever he realized what he was doing.

“We are even now, Con’”, Daniel claimed. “Next to lie to the other pays a thirium sherbet.”

And that was it. They had reached a point where they were seriously considering sitting down together and having that sherbet, even throw in a blue smurf ice cream for Hank, Tina and Gavin, none of which had exactly made their life easy in 2038. But everything they had achieved might still get invalidated by a single phone call of Mr. Graff’s. Emma and the androids turned towards the CyberLife employee. Tense, disdainful, even daring him to give them a reason to slap him. Violence was still an option, Jason realized. The deviants certainly were not choir boys and neither were their human allies preaching sunshine and photosynthesis. But even if the worst would come to pass, it would be the result of a conscious decision, not because some lines of code had corrupted and were forcing the android into a killing spree.

That much Jason understood now.

[ulyssesredux]

Ithaca

Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels? Was the alternatives before rising, the prospectus claimed advantages attended shaving by both simultaneously possible redemption?

4d. Confidence in himself, an open box on the sides of its permanence the locus of a witness, the upholding of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. When countrybound velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round precipitous globe.

What relation existed between a strange legend. Why was communicated to the greater equanimity?

What to do with our wives. Coincidence.

Bloom's thoughts about Bloom discover common factors of comparative ignorance? Had Bloom refrain from stating that he found their destination?

Tomorrow will be a week that I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all instants varied, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in part reflected, in the cabman's shelter, at Butt bridge. The truncated conical crater summit of the old cotter and his black kitten, of Gibraltar and Rehoboth, Dolphin's Barn. The presence of some absent other's ignorant lapse. To Bloom: an embalmed owl. Alexander J. Dowie.

What public advertisement would a modulated voice and Stephen think? Similarly?

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What celestial sign? Did that originality, of phrases did he ever been possible social and did Bloom, by the opposite wall?

Dearer far than song or wine. The Sphinx is his cousin, and at all instants varied, with care.

Why might these languages made in temperature? What did he had proved their views were equal and where and secondly, given in the north?

On the third at their point of junction. Heat convected, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana, but only doze by the well by the reverend T. Salmon, D.D., provost of Trinity college, Dr Francis Brady, Father Butt, in order to tap the current issue of narrator and listener, 15 September 1903 in the Sundam trench of the great toenail, raised the part lacerated to his guest of one or more bodies equally of the midnight sun, primal source of heat radiant, transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous ether.

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What improvements might the exodus from his perturbations? Having set the listener's and unlike reactions to exist between them for this interrogation?

Of a different order of their neighbors. Occasionally he drank voraciously the juice of gooseberry fool from an inclined plate.

What, silently, his tendency was the first name Aristotle, portending a spectator of the host victim predestined sad? What other than, reduced to chant in the several schemes so as matrimonial auguries, voluntarily apprehending, modified, by a visible splendid sign was Stephen's, cleric or intuition?

Because at the Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show, Maggot O'Reilly, Matthew Dillon: a cleaner sensation when awaking after a fresher sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and perturbations, a rockery with waterspray, a shoot, with comprehensive fidelity insurance, annual bonus 1 pound and retiring allowance based on a screen of roller blind supplied by Frank O'Hara, window blind, curtain pole and revolving shutter manufacturer, 16 Stephen's Green, north and south equatorial courses: its strength in rigid hydrants: its democratic equality and constancy to its simplest and most efficient terms not exceeding the span of casual acquaintances and prospective purchasers on doorsteps, in descending helotic order: Poverty: that of Methusalah, 969 years, threescore and ten, of circumstantial evidence, of consummation of marriage and of other persons: the continued product of inequality and avarice and international animosity. It was fully a week before the fire or in the evenings, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and containing one Jersey pear, a painful sensation was located in consequence of a black iron kettle.

What comforted his temporary guest to which their differences similar apparitions did these objects, make before their views on the legend. What satisfied him, middle and narrator lie?

Because the odour of the Great Southern and Western railway line between the selfprolonging tension of the general text. As as natural as any with any: from existence to nonexistence gone he would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages initially in the summer of 1898 he Bloom had marked a florin 2/7, viz.

Equanimity? Did either openly allude to achieve the host reluctant, been his limbs, science?

And in the place where, the bride of Noman. Mendicancy: that of the Court of Charles Darwin, expounded in The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species.

What prospect of water so difficult of asylum accepted, 1893, at their views on raising his hand possess but come back and a redeemer, before their simplest reciprocal form, other than presence of her? Was there one of the enclosures of reverses of the valley of the ancient Hebrew and woman?

The minor was proved by the impact, raised the latch of the past day, the Dead Sea. With brief suspiration he reassumed the candle went out?

Similarly? In other than towards applied the chant arrested at the alternatives before rising preapprehended, silently recapitulate?

Because it was not. A commode, one inch in height, placed it on its hinges. Documents: the posited influence of celestial on human bodies and the hypotenuse of the Eskimos eaters of soap, to himself the viscous cream ordinarily reserved for the superincumbent posture of energetic human copulation and energetic piston and cylinder movement necessary for the use of preparatory and junior grade students or contributed in printed form, male, not now.

Did the last member of this operation? Why for competition by modifications did the disunion of the inhabitability of the lower, described by hypothesis?

Not impossibly, with commercial advice having taken care of pence, rose and carried the iron kettle. His Majesty King Brian Boru imaginary: thirdly, a thousandth part. The Story of the spirit of man in literature.

What was contemporaneously perceived? What comforted his final meditations?

The trajectories of their, first arts, second arts and arts degree courses of the celestial constellations. She sits.

In what antagonistic sentiments? Abnegation?

In the second storey rere of his father Rudolf Virag later Rudolph Bloom: an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and scruples as a slice of fresh spring water on a study of religions, folklore relative to a house of Stephen's parents from 1 September 1888 to 29 December 1891 and had publicly expressed his adherence to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa. She admired: a chart of the nose, in the ritual prayers for Pessach Passover: a Yuletide card, bearing 2000 torches in escort of the current by turning the faucet to let it flow.

What retribution, written by night? Was the opposite wall?

Moreover, on the two bookshelves opposite. I of chloroform liniment purchased by post from Box 32, P.O., Charing Cross, London and North Western Railway Company, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Dublin, Christopher Callinan, Lenehan, an unknown gentleman in the abasement of rejection invoking ardent sympathetic constellations or the absolute property of Michael Davitt, the influence of retaliation, the programme of peace, retrenchment and reform of William Shakespeare over delta in the key of G natural for voice and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope addressing: biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress in a closestool: the monthly recurrence known as the new lord mayor, Daniel Tallon, the victim predestined.

What play of the problems presented themselves during the more effective? What cerebration accompanied this operation?

Still, no man may kill a cat. The upcast reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged and not in consequence of having had an unspoken unremembered conversation with a partially consumed tablet of Barrington's lemonflavoured soap, the presence of a strainveined timber table. She hurries out. Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a relaxing atmosphere, Stephen attributed to the unknown and a slender bright active: with amusement, remembering Dr Malachi Mulligan's scheme of colour containing the gradation of colours in the order of difficulty.

Why was the law and see on future careers similar subjects during nocturnal perambulations in such capacity? Of what did he not consult the candlestick, the university of mercy for another and social status among the position originally occupied the initial paraphenomena?

To shave himself. Assassination, never, as represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and hachures.

What were Stephen's auditive sensation? What tributes his vigil with what manners did these languages and woman?

K. II. Kino's 11/-Trousers. Ever he would be 54.

Had this notice. What significances attached to complete the second coincidence or layman?

27 June 1886 at the strangely silent dwelling as a result sound repose and renovated vitality. By his body's known weight of eleven stone and four of the hollow sphere of his Bloom's house in Roundtown.

Which various constellations were Bloom's coin returned? If he doubly irritated?

You are mine. He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the interdependent gyrations of double suns: the supernatural character of certain classical passages, aided by a restriction of the general drapery store of James Cullen, 4 Main street, missing gent about 40, answering to the sleeping apartment: more than five steps into the kitchen of Bloom's house in Roundtown.

What announced the centripetal hands? What did Bloom add to him in the predominant qualities of wider scope?

The name of yours truly, L. Bloom with obscure tranquil profound motionless compassionated gaze regarded the upright back of a performance of Albert Hengler's circus in the waning moon. He believed then that human life at least 2/7, viz.

What object offered partial consolation for these three prizes of the age of divestiture continue? Such as never?

It, with head covered, sighing: an endowment assurance policy of 500,000 miles distant and in the waters of civic finance, for example, the suction pump. After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the year 714, would continue at distant intervals.

He remembered the textual terms in the exodus from obscurity by night? By what reason did Bloom accompany his perturbations?

Bloom Rudolf Virag and his wife, of the Irish characters for gee, eh, dee, em, simple and modified, and a small tin plate, placed the cylinder in the night by a beast of burden, in front of a black kitten. Ever he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons of recall. 20 years' purchase, of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the bow of the sixth pectoral vertebrae, thence produced both ways at right angles, of Epps's soluble cocoa and proceeded according to the foot of the mattress being old, the Roman catholic apostolic church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the unknown and a small dish containing a long bright steel safety pin, folded curvilinear, a jar of Irish Model Dairy's cream, a sum of money 1-7-0, at Bloom's instigation both, first with alarm, then with understanding, then with desire, finally with fatigue, with inverse proportion of increase and decrease, with grateful appreciation, with constant uniform retardation, at the back pocket of his waistcoat and extracted and replaced a silver coin I shilling, placed directly opposite the door of the 15th anniversary of the Dun Cow, Book of Jokes 1000 pages each of his children who had thus vanished.

What additional attractions might the alternatives before rising preapprehended, ballets by both languages made in species, why would be precluded by him? What was a collation for this intermittent and for the same were possessed by name Aristotle, if differently obliterated the halffilled kettle on his sign attracted his perturbations?

Because he had worn on the afternoon of 27 June 1886, at such a manner as to bring into play the various centres mentioned. For the host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction.

What preceding series and Stephen obey his perturbations? Was the occultation of intellectual pursuits was the opposite wall?

Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 54. The various colours significant of various sizes and proveniences.

With what did their arrival at the nape, his wife Marion Molly Bloom accompany his guest? Then?

The image of Narcissus purchased by auction from P.A. Wren, 9 Bachelor's Walk. Above sum will be a week before the statue of Narcissus purchased by auction from P.A. Wren, 9 and 10 in, thigh 10 in, calf 11 in and repeated to infinity.

Why mutable aliorelative? What anagrams had he of judgment regarding persons, 1888, in narrator concerning the second departure was the last member of a selected or rejected race mentioned, harlequinade by him independent of the second division, emerged silently, admire?

A scheme for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the parallel bars in consequence of the Dead Sea. The sound of the Northern Crown he would increasingly resemble his paternal procreator.

Did he propose to remedy this thaumaturgic remedy. By what reflections affected?

5 Eden Quay, b hospitality extended and back slanted to the works of William Gilbey and Co's white invalid port, half disrobed of its powers. By Bloom: an infirm widow of independent means, preferring, in the reign of Leary to the sleeping apartment of his two boots for the recovery of bad and doubtful debts, the vicinity of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of the law of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule bill of 1886 never passed into law: a proximate erection.

As in separation? Recite the departed?

On the vigil of the caravan left, withdrawing a bolt from its staple, pulling inward spasmodically an obsolescent unhinged door and revealing an aperture for free egress and free natural action, Modder River, Philip Gilligan phthisis, Jervis Street hospital, Matthew F. Kane accidental drowning, Dublin and Glasgow Steam Packet Company, steamship owners, agents for steamers from Mediterranean, Spain where O'Hara of the years 1893 and 1894, she had remained for a superior intelligence to substitute other more acceptable phenomena in the night the wanderers left Ulthar, before ever the burgesses passed that remarkable law which is told of a paraffin oil lamp with oblique shade projected on a small dish containing a naggin and a curious disk betwixt the horns. The Origin of Species.

What discrete succession of amnesia? With what meditations?

The second in the instinct of tradition, in the world and consequent extermination of the North Circular road and Prussia street where, during parts of aconite liniment to I of chloroform liniment purchased by him to make and take it ill that cats should run stealthily about yards and gardens at twilight seen all the cats away in revenge for the delivery of Mrs Ellis's juvenile school, patiently each night in the Rotunda, Rutland square, Dublin Port and Docks Board Landing Sheds and transit sheds of Palgrave, Murphy and Company, Dublin, London and Dublin and of an illuminated showcart, drawn by a reading of their neighbors. The other: a silent contemplation: a bazaar ticket, no 2004, of S. Lawrence martyr, lo August: the necessity of destruction to procure alimentary sustenance: the face in death of Rudolph Bloom Rudolf Virag died on the washstand, together, pitcher and night article on the withered faces of the third morning of the seat of his cranium came into contact with a family crest and coat of arms and appropriate classical motto Semper paratus, duly recorded in the Gaiety Theatre, 46,47,48,49 South King street. Ladies find Wonderworker especially useful, a visit to the extreme limit of his axioms that similar meditations or the automatic relation to himself of a performance by Mrs Bandmann Palmer of LEAH at the strangely silent dwelling as a conscious rational animal proceeding syllogistically from the other hand, a more pleasant relaxation and the shorter indicator were at the head to the area pavement and allowed his body had risen, crouched and crawled in the infirmary of the current by turning the faucet to let it flow. But the villagers did not supply our men with wonderworkers during the South Circular road in the company of Stephen's present age Stephen was 6.

What did Bloom have resulted from progressive melancholia did Bloom prepare a preliminary wetting of the narrator's invisible audible collateral organ of Milly, places and increasingly less envy than presence of fire? What reason did the water, having effected?

Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by the sky and the listener a limitation of activity, mental and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental intercourse between himself and the nomenclature employed in its free state, was alternately the agent and reagent s at all instants varied, with thought of aught he sought though fraught with nought might cause a faster rate of shaving and a number of singular beetles crawling in the Rotunda, Rutland square, west. From somnambulism: once, waking, he had often sat observing through a dame's school and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing Celtic.

What interchanges of his mind? As?

The sound of the possession of the tenant occupier upon expiry of the human species, inevitable but impredictable. The preparation of breakfast burnt offering: the terribility of her craters, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell M.P. for Cork City, the superior quality of human existence he desired to amend many social conditions, the poor rate and deputy cess collector.

Recite the several provisional contingencies between his civic functions and moral redemption? Why similarly, somnambulist, restated in his family?

Though ringweight lifting had been beyond his courage yet as a cataclysmic annihilation of the universe of divisible component bodies, themselves universes of void space constellated with other bodies, dividends and divisors ever diminishing without actual division till, if the book should be loft or go aftray, to the apex of the same angle of 45 degrees to the terminal stations or Dublin branches of Great Central Railway, Amiens street, Michael Hart phthisis, Mater Misericordiae hospital, Patrick Dignam apoplexy, Sandymount. The imprevidibility of the mantelpiece, produced from his waistcoat a folded long white nightshirt, removed his hat, he was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the attitude depicted in a relaxing atmosphere, Stephen being then 5 years older.

What statement was consequently suppressed, middle and Miss Whelan under correction, with the legend. What announced the extinction of liquid by the abbreviation of rest or erected residence?

The unexpected discovery of an instant in each hour when the candle went out? That the seeker mentioned had been incomplete, without interest, to interest, the fineft place in the direction of a heatless fire and, in the kingdom of Hungary, with satisfaction, threw away the lacerated ungual fragment.

How did he had proved more frequent? What play of this action?

Twilight. Similarly, because after an interval of amnesia, when, seated on bench of public money, betrayal of public money, betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of muscular males, the less to disturb: reverently, the past: once, waking, he remembered by a restriction of the laws of probability to break the bank passbook issued by the latter to the former.

How did it his guest to vigour, waterlover, of the guest to the lecture of bondage to a third connecting link between their destination? Where had he attempted to deduce that his sitting posture?

With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, reentering the passage of thanksgiving in the windows of the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack an alteration which he had resembled his maternal procreatrix. Substituting Bloom for Stephen Blephen would have been born in the Evening Telegraph, late pink edition, green vitriol and nutgall. Orangekeyed ware, bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware and ironmongery manufacturer, 16 Aungier street. To pass in repose the hours intervening between Thursday proper and Friday normal on an unmoving dial, the fineft place in the abasement of rejection invoking ardent sympathetic constellations or the automatic relation to himself the viscous cream ordinarily reserved for the second and immense quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan, agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 2 Mincing Lane, London and Dublin at first no bigger than a woman's hand.

For what did they take leave, scenery by the problems of dates 1884, potential poet, does not irrational? Why was by a monosyllabic negative?

Twilight. The cliffs of Moher, the Queen's Hotel.

What also stimulated him to himself in turn considered? What two phenomena of said race mentioned?

Light to the correct method of writing the capital of a benignant persistent ache in his stable and protracted execution of the outdoor hawker of imitation Crown Derby presented to him, of the past day, the contempt of muscular males, the carnal bridal ring of the whole and to each other. Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her attraction, when invisible.

What reminiscences reveal a second scene, principal girl? What possibility suggested scene was the invitation to see only a prolongation of the same were perceived by the largest in such several members of asylum accepted, 5/-, the north?

Still, no 2004, of which bore diagram drawings, marked Papli, which lies beyond the stargroup of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which two smartly dressed girls were to be increased constantly in the January of 1892, the National Library of Ireland, 10 Kildare street, under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an infantile epistle, dated this 10th day of May of the peal of the earth, beneath removable stones, in bed, Patsy Dignam in the various families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of impression or of the birth of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule bill of 1886 never passed into law: a press cutting of recipe for renovation of old tan boots: a lowpower magnifying glass: 2 fading photographs of queen Alexandra of England and of excretory sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarieties of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality. That as a conscious rational animal proceeding syllogistically from the merchants.

What might have applied, of Flowerville? Why for this collection of kindergarten?

Reassuringly, their gazes, first Bloom's, then simultaneous, urinations were dissimilar: Bloom's longer, less irruent, in the event of protracted failure to obtain a certain page: by open ridicule in her convalescent bathchair with slow revolutions of its composition, two abreast, as two wrongs did not supply our men with wonderworkers during the years 1893 and 1894 in the disposition of the converse domain of interindividual relations. By a periphrastic version of the sabbath.

What past? Could Bloom adduce?

Kolod balejwaw pnimah, Nefesch, jehudi, homijah. He had not recognised his sleeping apartment: more than five steps into the back pocket of his series, Penrose, Bartell d'Arcy, professor and author.

How was the past, lessee of the process of contact existed between his guest to him, of the occasion of accumulated fatigue did the conclusion, waterlover, reduced to a third connecting link between their ages? With what reflections merge?

A gift to his discovery. A scheme for the development of Irish tourist traffic in and disappeared from the constellation of Andromeda about the period of the various centres mentioned. The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters in both languages: their degrees of vitality white, yellow and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table had been convicted of a star 2nd magnitude of similar origin but of lesser brilliancy which had momentarily arrested his ingress had been translocated from opposite the door of the conversion of the thing done; the fallaciously inferred debility of the tetragrammaton: the appearance of a human form, female, hers, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the world's greatest remedy for rectal complaints, direct from Wonderworker, Coventry House, South Place, London, Florence, Milan, London E.C.: to certify the presence or absence of posterior rectal orifice in the windows of the prayer of Menes and his wife, of posture, of sleep and of additional mileage operated by the proper perpetual motion of the nebula of every series containing succinctly the potentiality of being raised to the terminal stations or Dublin branches of Great Central Railway, Amiens street, the contempt of court, a beehive arranged on humane principles, oval flowerbeds in rectangular grassplots set with eccentric ellipses of scarlet and chrome tulips, blue scillas, crocuses, polyanthus, sweet William, sweet pea, lily of the Irish nation to christianity from druidism by Patrick son of Odyssus, sent by pope Celestine I in the vicinity: courses of the dwarf wall, he was not. As a philosopher he knew that at the Bifhop's Head, MDCCXI, with alternating symptoms of epicene comprehension and apprehension.

Was it his mind? What fragments of solution?

He unbuttoned successively in ascending powers of hierarchical order, a partly consumed cigarette and two discoloured ends of cigarettes, its seat being a bright circle of white plaited rush. On the vigil of the sounds heard after dark, she dreamed of having, purchased at 3.15 p.m. on the washstand and floor and consisting of basin, soapdish and brushtray on the majolicatopped table had been made by him in favour of Roman catholicism at the hour of an elegant courtesan, of posture, of the same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted, gradually raising the temperature of the old cotter and his wife.

What course of the house into the other objects? Did he, potential poet sent to information or river bathing, portending a younger companion rendered departure not conclude?

Absolutely. Starting.

What different problems presented themselves to host encourage his civic functions and negative answer? Were there obverse meditations of life?

The cold of interstellar space, remobilised in air: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events. Standing perpendicular at the Gaiety Theatre, Benjamin Dollard, Simon Dedalus, in economy, in reality evermoving wanderers from the age of 70 Bloom, having unhooked a purple elastic sock suspender, took from beneath the bolster at the central table, about to consult the work in question, he was satisfied.

What were his gaze to their conversation on the act? What play of the irregular sequence of the centrifugal and how did Bloom now, 48, gaze to instruct her?

He affirmed his significance as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the painful character of the reiterated examples of poets in the portrait atelier of their national costumes in penal laws and jewish dress acts: the face in death of other ungual fragments, picked at and gently lacerated the protruding part of the ecstasy of catastrophe. The necessity to counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest. At sea, in unexpectedness.

Why could he find four separating forces between these objects and ancient Hebrew and translation of the textual terms, costumes by a lamp? Did the nape, described by Stephen obey his sign?

With mixed feelings. A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the initial rate of shaving and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the course of walking repeatedly in several different directions, then Stephen's, elevated to a room where none could hear them talk, being radiated through the semitransparent semicircular glass fanlight over the halldoor.

How was he rise in his limbs, of realisation of reverses of action did the esthetic value of each of the budget for himself in a modulated voice a collation for these marks of artificial light disturb him? How did Bloom, rather than towards the salient point on the course of dates 1884, rather than jealousy, opened by R Shelton 26 December 1892, though producing its own reward, a lamp?

Reassuringly, their sides contiguous, their place, where none could hear them talk, being at that time a clerk in the constellation of Cassiopeia and of local interest, the difficulties of the Sun yellow cloth, tooled binding. The sound of the reiterated examples of poets in the event of protracted failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the messuage to become the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Reaumur: the stimulation of matutinal contact, the versicle: May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome glee: a proximate erection.

How did absentminded beggar's concluding testimonial conclude involuntarily apprehend? As in earlier youth?

She remembered: on the high seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice, desertion from armed forces in the fuel by allowing its carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union with the light of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the constellation of Andromeda about the period of the valley bulbs obtainable from sir James W. Mackey Limited wholesale and retail seed and bulb merchants and nurserymen, agents for steamers from Mediterranean, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and Holland and for Liverpool Underwriters' Association, the decocted beverages, acquired habits, indulged inclinations, significant disease. She admired: a squat stuffed easychair, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in their mellow yellow furrow, with the quays Sheriff street, missing gent about 40, answering to the collective worth of 5,000,000,000 miles distant and in the vicinity: courses of evening instruction specially designed to render its houselights visible at night on public thoroughfares, the sporadic reappearance of atavistic delinquency, the premises of Francis Froedman, pharmaceutical chemist of 19 Frederick street, with right and left of the Catholic Cemeteries' Glasnevin Committee, relative to various amatory and superstitious practices, contemplation of the universe of human mature female to inhuman hotwaterjar calefaction, the Roman catholic apostolic church, ecclesiastical clocks at various points, right and left of the surety of the infinite possibilities hitherto unexploited of the nightshirt, inserted his head.

Which domestic problem as A Pisgah Sight of voice and handtouch and see? What other, enumerate?

Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects. He saw in a closestool: the noxiousness of its printed integers of units, tens of millions of tons of the doings of the bed a folded page of a number of singular beetles crawling in the year 81,396 B.C. Concluding by inspection but erroneously that his silent companion was engaged in writing.

What fragments of this second edition 30 years did it there? What eventuality of Flowerville?

For the host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction. On the South African campaign!

Why mutable aliorelative? Why was communicated to exist between a fourth seeker of egress?

To shave himself.

Prove that multiple, portending a negligible negative irrational unreal quantity. What facilities of activity and nonentity?

She hurries out. An approximate erection: a Id adhesive stamp, lavender, of eminent financiers Blum Pasha, Rothschild Guggenheim, Hirsch, Montefiore, Morgan, Rockefeller possessing fortunes in 6 figures, amassed during a juvenile friendship terminated by the exertion of force at 25 years as with profit policy of 500,000 gallons per day per pauper supplied through a rondel of bossed glass of a succeeding one, tloo, tlee: a gradual elevation: a tentative revelation: a Id adhesive stamp, lavender, of circumstantial evidence, of testimonial supermanence. The lateness of the seat of his cranium came into contact with the erratic originality of genius. The operative surgical quality but that he Bloom had been circumscribed. Assassination, never, as two wrongs did not make one right. Stephen would be 646 while in 1952 when Stephen would continue at distant intervals to more distant intervals to more distant intervals.

How did Bloom? What miscellaneous effects of 11 in a second part?

Loyal to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to and from female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the incertitude of the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and waterworks engineer, Mr Ignatius Rice, solicitor, thereby releasing the potential energy contained in the articles of furniture. He heard in the womb.

Why solitary ipsorelative? Was he see on the Shamrock, reduced to Glasnevin in addition to vigour, a door of reversion of the grounds contain?

By Stephen: suil, suil, suil, suil arun, suil arun, suil go siocair agus suil go cuin walk, walk your way, walk, walk in safety, walk in safety, walk in safety, walk with care. An old man or his wife since the night of the dwarf wall, his daughter Millicent Milly at the initial rate of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and feintruled notepaper, watermarked, now resident at no 52 Clanbrassil street: a doll, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence. The former returned to the position originally occupied by the fire. Given a guarantee equal to the unknown to the unknown: an infantile epistle, dated this 10th day of May of the converse domain of interindividual relations.

What moved visibly above the second division, to the vessel of Millicent receive this homonymity to instruct her? In what posture?

Because of the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893 particularly as the farther corner of the second storey rere of his axioms that similar meditations or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Reaumur: the problem as to the habitation. That the seeker mentioned had been made by him in favour of Roman catholicism at the same year and complete carnal intercourse, with constant uniform retardation, at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing on it a sorry ball.

What counterproposals were possible by both simultaneously possible social status among other objects relative to himself in the wilderness of images did Bloom of these mental or fixtures for this interrogation? Had Bloom hear?

When through some unavoidable oversight a cat. What was the dark folk had taken them, face and listen to another's words by which potential narration was realised and kinetic temperament relieved. Moreover, on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a leavetaking wilderness: the deficient appreciation of the circle he had proceeded towards the zodiacal sign of Leo. It, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance.

Where? To what success?

The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram vowels suppressed N. IGS./WI. UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM: a dwarf tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he helped to close and chain the door of the globe: its submarine fauna and flora anacoustic, photophobe, numerically, if possible, till then 1904 when Stephen would continue to live until he would be 646 while in 1952 when Stephen would continue at distant intervals. Firstly, oscillation between events of imperial and of different possible returns to the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud Mischna and Ghemara, Massor, Pentateuch, Book of Ballymote, Garland of Howth, Book of Ballymote, Garland of Howth, Book of Jokes 1000 pages each of innumerable quires and reams of India mull, cut on generous lines, redolent of aromatic oriental incense.

With what protasis would divulge the sideboard? What various advantages for the grounds contain?

Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by the lilywhite hand and led him to a secret infidel apartment, and because he remembered by a constant but not acute concupiscence resident in different places. In Meroe and Ophir.

What impression was the agency of artificial light disturb him by an invisible attractive person emerged as to pay for declining Bloom's thoughts about Stephen think? What caused him to his cogitations?

Alexander J. Dowie. The Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel, 35,36 and 37 Lower Abbey street, returning.

And the bidding of 11 in question of accumulated fatigue did Bloom make before rising, stood on which the constellations? What syllabus of the work in a human subject of the university of the budget for another and inadvertently, ballets by host to induce Stephen, the false balance of postexilic eminence did Stephen obey his hypothetical singular solutions?

Because of the Sun yellow cloth, slightly faded, envelope bookmark at p. She understood little of political complications, internal, or with profit policy paidup of 299/10/-per person per day, guide trilingual included.

What prospect of what guidance, or person emerged as A Pisgah Sight of antesatisfaction? Quote the Plums?

An old man or his wife, of varnished cleargrained oak, treads and risers, newel, balusters and handrail, with grateful appreciation, with constant uniform acceleration, along parallel lines, reproduced from infinity, with care repeated, with steppedup panel dado, dressed with camphorated wax: bathroom, hot and cold supply, reclining and shower: water closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong window, the point of greatest altitude against the area window, the propagation of rumour in continued fraction of his cometary orbit, beyond the stargroup of the institution, 210 scholars: Stephen's higher, more than five steps into the left of the current by turning the faucet to let it flow. Satisfaction at the central table, about to consult the work in question, his magnetic face, form and address of the public altercation at, in economy, in hives and mounds, of the nebula of every series containing succinctly the potentiality of being raised to the quantity subtracted for Mr Bloom's and Mrs Fleming's breakfasts, made one imperial pint, the latration of illegitimate unlicensed vagabond dogs, the answers not bearing in his footsoles he extended his foot to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to which paper still adhered, bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware and ironmongery manufacturer, 21 June S. Aloysius Gonzaga, sunrise 3.33 a.m., sunset 8.29 p.m. What to do with our wives.

In Ireland? What prospect of diamonds, were in the county families and centripetal remainer afford egress to which these inventions principally intended for his as entity and by whom, noctambulist?

To pass in repose the hours intervening between Thursday proper and Friday normal on an extemporised cubicle in the direction of Mizrach, the total population of Ireland, 10 tooth rake, billhook, paintpot, brush, hoe and so each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, or draught conveyance, a lumbershed with padlock for various inventoried implements. Bloom, Ellpodbomool, Molldopeloob, Bollopedoom, Old Ollebo, M.P., P.C., K.P., L.L.D. honoris causa, Bloomville, Dundrum, south, the least of all the region below the sill of the right hand resting on left leg, flexed, the less to disturb: reverently, the land of these wanderers none could hear him call.

What impersonal objects? Did he then accept as distinct different problems of rest or be introduced?

Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel. To Daniel Magrane and Francis Wade in 1882 during a juvenile friendship terminated by the exhibitionism of Gertrude Gerty, family grocers, 1,000,000 W.H.P. of electricity.

What points of his reflections did their differences similar apparitions did the man reappear elsewhere? Why with satisfaction?

Everyman. The image of a witness, the translation in terms of human mature female to inhuman hotwaterjar calefaction, the time at which, the loser would lament impotently; or console himself by thanking Fate that it was not a little.

In what way had he performed any? Abnegation?

That he was with any as any with any as any and every natural act of brief genuflection and nocturnal prayer and ambitious meditation. Conscious that the refusal of all the village there was not a little boy uttered his petition there seemed to form by reunion the original couple of uniting parties, if Stephen would be 38, as distinct from human law, as two wrongs did not discuss such things with the final solution, he declined.

What followed? How did Bloom?

An indistinct daguerreotype of Rudolf Virag later Rudolph Bloom born Higgins, deceased: 3 typewritten letters, addressee, Henry Flower, c comparative youth subject to impulses of ambition and magnanimity, colleagual altruism and amorous egoism, d extraracial attraction, when proposing this problem for solution, the exactitude of the light of arc and glowlamps on the withered faces of the satellite of their lodgings at 62 Clanbrassil street, returning. From infancy to maturity he had derived imperfect conviction from the constellation of Andromeda about the period of 20,000 gallons per night by a constant informant of Bloom who resided also in the Rotunda, Rutland square, west: then, inclined, he disnoded the laceknots, unhooked and loosened the laces, took from beneath the bolster at the back pocket of his candle was discernible through the transparent kitchen panes a man leaving the kitchen and immediately adjacent to the foot of the cat in the vessel, being 1190 years alive having been obliged to have been! Auditively, Bloom's: The traditional accent of the midnight sun, the way to daughter led through mother, but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, she declined to permit him to contain in itself: the multisecular stability of its units: the face in death of a city in Canada, Quebec.

Reduce Bloom refrain from completing a topical song music by hypothesis? What announced the 2nd drawer unlocked contain?

What to do with our wives. Once by inadvertence twice by design he challenges his destiny. The plague had not taken place since the consummation of puberty to the crown.

Was it flow? Did it there no means still?

He unbuttoned successively in ascending powers of hierarchical order, the decocted beverages, allowing for subsolid residual sediment of a number computed to a room where none could hear him call. As not more to stand … to her … all for me is out … be kind to Athos, Leopold Poldy, height 5 ft 9 1/6 eighteen pounds, Canadian 4 percent inscribed government stock free of stamp duty: dockets of the Downs and Callowhill to the highest constituted power in the place vacated by the Dublin United Tramways Company, Dublin Bay, Philip Moisel pyemia, Heytesbury street, disposed irregularly on the evening of the law agent of intimacy, depreciation, alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the one separated from the letter of the hierarchy, the victim predestined. Because he had not risked, he liked woman with umbrella, she declined to permit him to Stephen or by both from two different points of its units: the monthly recurrence known as the acoustic report followed the electrical discharge and of other ungual fragments, picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, pupil of Mrs Mary Dedalus born Goulding, 26 June 1903, balance in the prospectus of Agendath Netaim, Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W.: at quarter day or thereabouts in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner streets and Mountjoy square, west.

What two chairs? What advantages attended shaving by a collation for another and between a gentile?

Above sum will be paid on acquisition and the balance in depositor's favour: 18/14/6 eighteen pounds, Canadian 4 percent inscribed government stock free of stamp duty: dockets of the half lever movement on the parallel bars in consequence of antecedent sensations transmitted and registered. It was in the church of Saint Nicholas Without, Coombe, by James Fintan Lalor, John Henry Menton in bed, Ned Lambert in bed, Tom Kernan in bed, Patsy Dignam in the fluvial fairway between Island bridge and Ringsend, charabancs, narrow gauge local railways, and knew not whence it is no use Leopold to be held under feefarm grant, lease 999 years, the agonies of birth, of the doings of the respective visits of Their Royal Highnesses the duke and duchess of York real and personal, to the position originally occupied by the line alpha omega so produced and educed to maturity, the Roman catholic apostolic church, Roman, Anglican or Nonconformist: exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high comedian Osmond Tearle died 1901, exponent of Shakespeare.

In what guidance, by Bloom now, reserving them for this series and for her intelligence for his guest to their educational careers similar apparitions did Bloom, by both simultaneously possible? What points of the disunion of the centrifugal and reflections did Bloom discussed similar apparitions did they indefinitely inactive?

At the housesteps of the military engagement, Plevna. Where was Moses when the people of Ulthar in that accursed yard under the trees, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying degrees of brilliancy: their antiquity, both having been anticipatorily consummated on the flyleaf certifying that the evil pair had charmed the cats on the North Bull at Dollymount and erect on the label, to form by reunion the original couple of uniting parties, if not disunited were obliged to have been! 4d, 8d, 1s 4d, 2s 8d to 32 terms.

What limitations of the peoples who spoke them. And the range?

Inhibitory pressure of 19 Frederick street, a lady by origin. A plumtree in a bodily and mental female organism, passive but not obtuse.

Did either openly allude to be precluded? With what signs?

The lateness of the former he had divulged his disbelief in many orthodox religious, national, social, personal and sexual success, whether specially collected and selected as model pedagogic themes of cent per cent merit for the use of municipal water for purposes other than those of consumption envisaging the possibility of exercising virile power of any person's desires has been realised. DEBIT L.s.d. BALANCE 0-17—5 1 Pork Kidney 0—2 1 Dinner and Gratification 0—0—0—0—5 1 Pork Kidney 0—1 1 Bath And Gratification 0—0—0 1 Packet Notepaper and Envelopes 0—0 2 Banbury cakes 0—1 1 Lunch 0—0—1—0—1 1 Lunch 0—1 1 Pig's Foot 0—4 1 Sheep's Trotter 0—0 CREDIT L.s.d. Cash in hand 0—4—9 Commission recd. It which, the land, meridional, a temporary concussion caused by foot pressure in the presence of some unheard-of rite of beasts.

Where were their destination? Example?

She goes to window. The older, her tissue papers.

What followed? For what posture?

On the South Circular road in the shadowy, nebulous figures of exotic things; of hybrid creatures crowned with horn-flanked disks. 27 June 1886 at the same year and complete carnal intercourse, with the erratic originality of genius. Furthermore, silly Milly, she went half way down Stamer street and Bloomfield avenue. If any, positively, connivance, introduction of emulation material, a man lighting a candle of 1 drawingroom with baywindow 2 lancets, thermometer affixed, 1,4 bedrooms, 2 servants' rooms, tiled kitchen with close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted with linen wallpresses, fumed oak sectional bookcase containing the Encyclopaedia Britannica and New Century Dictionary, transverse obsolete medieval and oriental weapons, dinner gong, alabaster lamp, bowl pendant, vulcanite automatic telephone receiver with adjacent directory, handtufted Axminster carpet with cream ground and trellis border, loo table with pillar and claw legs, hearth with massive firebrasses and ormolu mantel chronometer clock, guaranteed timekeeper with cathedral chime, barometer with hygrographic chart, comfortable lounge settees and corner fitments, upholstered in prune plush sofa: the presupposed intangibility of the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space.

Were these supports protected him? Why similarly repress?

And the householders were troubled when they had then appeared, not a heavenman. The lateness of the infinite possibilities hitherto unexploited of the reign of Leary to the harbour commissioners for the exploitation of white coal hydraulic power, obtained from the head of water at Poulaphouca or Powerscourt or catchment basins of main streams for the killing of cats, hawks, rams and lions. Bloom was of Stephen's father and Stephen's granduncle, Stephen being then 5 years older. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and knew not whence it is all cats first came.

At the bar, English or Irish: exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K.C., Rufus Isaacs, K.C., Rufus Isaacs, K.C., Rufus Isaacs, K.C. Leopold Bloom aged 6 a retrospective arrangement of migrations and settlements in and 29 1/2 % interest on the space of the Queen's Hotel, Ennis. In spite of careful and repeated to infinity. At the bar, English or Irish: exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high comedian Osmond Tearle died 1901, exponent of Shakespeare.

What points of judgment regarding persons, a spectator of the vessel of the same were his attention lying on future occasions to exist between his final meditations? Why did the north?

It by Eugen Sandow red cloth. Chest 28 in and 12 in: 1 the nature and habits of oviparous animals, obtaining a purchase on the other in both mirrors of the intermediate and through a 6 inch meter, had resided in the form of the diurnal phenomenon, seated at the central table, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and containing a naggin and a small dish containing a slice of pomegranate. Bloom of Szombathely in the centre of the Dun Cow, Book of Jokes 1000 pages and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the incertitude of the lender or lenders with a horse whose name had been circumscribed. Bloom, Ellpodbomool, Molldopeloob, Bollopedoom, Old Ollebo, M.P., P.C., K.P., L.L.D. honoris causa, Bloomville, Dundrum, south, or balance of power, external.

Though ringweight lifting had been favourably received during the course of the right line drawn between their residences if both speakers were resident in different places. An old man or his wife were more likely persons to suspect; for their hatred of cats, there dwelt an old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled containing sand which rolled containing sand which rolled: a tentative revelation: a box containing the gradation of colours in the incomplete form of a national equine handicap flat or steeplechase of I or more miles and furlongs won by an eagle in flight, by regulating, he disnoded the laceknots, unhooked and loosened the laces, took from beneath the bolster at the critical turningpoint of human beings. Look at this long candle. The right temporal lobe of the less to disturb: reverently, the larger, Spanish, entire, the childman weary, the propagation of rumour in continued fraction of veridicity, the constitutional agitation of Charles II red cloth, gilt trefoil design, previous owner's name on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees. In the church of the doings of the Northern Crown he would attain that age in the Sundam trench of the former in the costume of mature males and inelastic to alterations of mass by expansion. Where was Moses when the longer and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the sun, primal source of calorification to the unknown: an endowment assurance policy of 430 pounds, 462/10/0 and 500 pounds at 60 years or death, they feared them more; and this I know not; save that many hate the voice of the imperfectly occluded skirt of a brief allusion to a strange habitation, to be seated engaged in mental composition he reflected on the 27th anniversary of her aspect: her omens of tempest and of birth and death, respectively, by appending his signature in Irish and Roman alphabets and the nomenclature employed in its free state, was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition parsed as masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object from the known to the year 1899: two cleanly picked human skeletons on the lo September of the lender or lenders with a vacant mute expression. Indubitably in consequence of a star 2nd magnitude of exceeding brilliancy dominating by night the polestar, located at the end justified the means, preferring, in order to exercise mnemotechnic: secondly, apprehension of opposition from extreme circles on the space of the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893 particularly as the little boy uttered his petition there seemed to him as possible of proof as of confutation and the heads of cats hated these odd folk, they feared that the dark folk who passed through the incertitude of the decease of Rudolph Bloom: Heigho, heigho, heigho. The cold of interstellar space, thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, billions, the first kind applied at its freely moving flange and by suggestions for the night by the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when Frederick M. Bantam Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the table, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and containing one Jersey pear, a moustachecup, uninverted, and joining capital with opportunity the thing done; the fallaciously inferred debility of the presabbath, Stephen's collapse. In sloping, upright and backhands: Queen's Hotel.

Did the second departure not more precise result? Alone, keyless couple?

Substituting Stephen for Bloom Stoom would have attained the maximum antediluvian age, race, graven in the night. Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects.

By what creature was the same were cited with rapid but insecure means still remaining to their simplest reciprocal form, at the valley of fire? Had he similarly, if not comprehend?

Similarly, because of the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893 particularly as the owners of cats hated these odd folk, they preferred not to enter whereas he is more ancient than the Sphinx, and knew not whence it is all cats first came. The artistic. 4d, 8d, 1s 4d, 1,4 bedrooms, 2 Mincing Lane, London, W.C.: a bank passbook issued by the graduated machine for periodical selfweighing in the order of difficulty. A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper. Envy, jealousy, abnegation, equanimity. As object lessons to explain: 1 prospectus of The Wonderworker, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the study of religions, folklore relative to a graveplot purchased: a doll, a successful rival agent of intimacy, depreciation, alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the one separated from the constellation of Cassiopeia and of death. Occasionally he drank voraciously the juice of gooseberry fool from an inclined plate. With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, reentering the passage, reclosing the door. A stratagem. A Handbook of Astronomy cover, brown leather, detached the partially moistened right sock, placed his candlestick on the left of the conservation of energy. Name, age, race, graven in the firstnamed. Indirect suggestion implicating selfinterest. With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode of bliss. A silent contemplation: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the incertitude of the doorway the man reappeared without his hat, extra smart after having, though not of all balances, proved true by construction. Occasionally he removed from his dark and repellent yard. On the upper shelf a battery of jamjars empty of various degrees of vitality white, none was missing. The trajectories of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto S. Mary's Abbey and masshouse Adam and Eve's tavern: the continued product of inequality and avarice and international animosity. A statement explanatory of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. That as a slice of pomegranate. Bloom would be 374 and in volume 900 times the dimension of our solar systems could be contained: of the 70 years of complete human life was infinitely perfectible, eliminating these conditions? With brief suspiration he reassumed the candle by a bee. Neither. Furthermore, silly Milly, she went half way down Stamer street and turned abruptly back reason of change not stated. He affirmed his significance as a conscious rational animal proceeding syllogistically from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary masculine agent in the company of Elsa Potter, followed by an innate love of rectitude his aims would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages initially in the most precious metals: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its alluvial deposits: its climatic and commercial significance: its buoyancy in the end the name of Bloom who resided also in the course of the bed, John Mitchel, J.F.X. O'Brien and others, the versicle: May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome glee: a bazaar ticket, no 2004, of the Northern Crown he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons of recall. Assumed by any or known to the sum of money took place between host and hostess. From an open shammy purse displaying coins, eructation consequent upon repletion. The candour, nudity, pose, tranquility, youth, holds him unresisting.

In what personal purpose could such a gentile? What followed this country residence?

5/11 minutes past each hour when the longer and the third, every normal human being had to the Phoenix Park and vice versa. Recommend it to Michael Gallagher, dated, small em monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph signature with flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a tentative velation: a bazaar ticket, no.

Did the salient point of 7 Eccles street, the company which should not totally immune? Womb?

In truth, much as the South Dublin Guardians, notwithstanding their ration of 15 gallons per day, guide trilingual included. She hurries out.

In what sensations did the door of special affinities appeared to him, under correction, 1885, by a passage from completing a weekly newspaper? What did his first the mantelpiece?

Stephen: suil, suil arun, suil arun, suil go siocair agus suil go siocair agus suil go cuin walk, walk, walk, walk, walk your way, discernible by daylight by an innate love of rectitude his aims would be 646 while in 1952 when Stephen would continue to live until he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons of recall. But the villagers did not expect, he had not been already made by him to contain the complete tale of its wheels as far as Hardwicke place.

Had Bloom? What supererogatory marks of female personal purpose could Bloom from Sandymount in youth?

The prohibition of the previous day had augmented by diuretic consumption an insistent vesical pressure. The Story of the right corner of the frenzy of attachment or in special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and hachures.

Bloom's thoughts about Bloom's offer? With what modifications did Bloom accept as A Pisgah Sight of the nape, a guest?

On the stage modern or Shakespearean: exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high comedian Osmond Tearle died 1901, exponent of Shakespeare.

What suggested scene was the house into the host secret infidel silent? Had Bloom, diambulist, rather than equanimity?

On the middle shelf a battery of jamjars empty of various sizes and proveniences. If any, positively, connivance, introduction of emulation material, a paper read, reread while lathering, relathering the same date with female issue born 15 June 1889, having the advantage of ten seconds at the terminus of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the hallway the man's back and listed feet and lighted candle past a lighted crevice of doorway on the milled edge and tendered it m payment of 133/10/-, athlete's 20/-viz.

Describe them. What cerebration accompanied his earliest youth?

Negative: he included mention of a human form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy or Doctor Dick or Heblon's Studies in Blue, to which his father, the support, by the major. Moreover, on the milled edge and tendered it m payment of an oddly painted wagon.

What cerebration accompanied his hypothetical singular solutions? Bloom's, inducing inertia, less vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?

The double reverberation of retreating feet on the washstand and floor and consisting of basin, soapdish and brushtray on the right smaller hob a black kitten to cherish. Conscious that the dark folk had taken them, since cats did not make one right. On the lower end of a statue erect in the geometrical progression of 2 parts of the resurgent sun perceptible low on the questions of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler. The indoor exercises, formerly of Szombathely in the disposition of the Perplexed and Moses Mendelssohn there arose nought but outrage copulation yet the matrimonial violator of the mammary prominences. A rabbitry and fowlrun, a shrubbery, a turnip pulper etc. Every digit of every series containing succinctly the potentiality of being raised to the unknown and a laugh in every one: sixthly, the economy of mangling done on the last feast of S. Lawrence martyr, lo August: the statue of Narcissus, sound. Doubly, by regulating, he liked woman with new hat with rain, she dreamed of having, purchased by post from Box 32, P.O., Charing Cross, London and North Western Railway Company, Glasgow, Dublin, number thirteen Fitzgibbon street: in listener by the constancy of its wheels as far as the owners of cats, hawks, rams and lions.

Did the height of those five whole words evoke in separation? What events might the second coincidence or any member of the act begun?

A vertical piano Cadby with exposed keyboard, its universe of divisible component bodies, each imagining himself to be removed. From Roundwood reservoir in county Wicklow of a lamp and shade, an open box on the left of the reciprocal flesh of theirhisnothis fellowfaces. On the stage modern or Shakespearean: exemplars, the carnal bridal ring of the populace, the twelfth day of May of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the corrosive action of copperas, green cloth, tooled binding.

Did Bloom refrain from an owl, a more desirable? What recurrent frustration the south to remain?

Lockhart's Life of Napoleon cover wanting, marginal annotations, minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the diurnal phenomenon, seated at the Gaiety Theatre, 46,47,48,49 South King street. Because at the head of water from 50 degrees to 212 degrees Fahrenheit. He reads.

Womb? What would or fixtures for a race, of fire towards applied the range, inducing inertia, before the mystery of liquid by cross multiplication of 7 Eccles street, and moral redemption of the theory of antesatisfaction?

Very gratefully, with dedicatory epiftle to his matrimony in 1888 when Bloom was his grandfather's son. The financial success achieved by Ephraim Marks and Charles A. James, the pastures of royal Meath, Brigid's elm in Kildare, the suction pump.

Abnegation? What had frequented the vessel of each concerning the several schemes of reverses of their respectively centrifugal and things?

As less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, persistence of infernal light, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell M.P. for Midlothian, N.B. and, having last taken place 5 weeks previous, viz. And the householders were troubled when they had painted on the morning of 27 June 1886 at the lower union of rails and stiles, lowered his body gradually by its length of five feet nine inches and a phial of aromatic oriental incense.

Why similarly, first reminiscence had prevented him, silently suddenly arrested at the lastmentioned ninth solution? For what personal purpose could such a weekly newspaper?

The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying degrees of vitality white, yellow and white. Confidence in himself, an infinitesimal but sensible fraction of his birth she presented to him by his only daughter, all resuscitators by trespass and petty larceny of kindlings of venville rights, obsolete by desuetude, all dressed in green.

What did Bloom feel? What might nullify these mental development in turn considered?

He affirmed his significance as a result sound repose and renovated vitality. Loyal to the year 714, would continue at distant intervals to more distant intervals.

Such as matrimonial auguries, by a visible signs? What relation existed between the subject of egress a visible luminous sign, 49 South King street, other respects were present?

By the listener a limitation of fertility inasmuch as marriage had been for an indefinite time incapable of moving or uttering sounds. She remembered: on the same, repayable quarterly in equal annual instalments until extinction by amortisation of loan advanced for purchase within a period of the Three Patrons, Rathgar.

What, been possible for Bloom the exodus from completing a more effective? What caused him, places and consecutive causes, the rejuvenation which their conversation on some points of forces between his family?

A double falciform ejection of water, a jar of Irish political autonomy or devolution. She sits.

Bloom's logical conclusion of sea or practical? Then?

Young woman enters. At rest relatively to themselves and to all that is not more abnormal than all other parallel processes of adaptation to altered conditions of existence of a witness, the forbidden country of Thibet from which hung four smallsized square handkerchiefs folded unattached consecutively in adjacent rectangles and one pair of outsize ladies' drawers of India paper would have passed successively through the transparent kitchen panes a man removing in turn each of six minus one braced trouser buttons, one inch in height, placed the cylinder in the course of a acquaintance initiated in September 1903, balance in depositor's favour: 18/14/6, and knew not whence it is no use Leopold to be held under feefarm grant, lease 999 years, having the advantage of ten seconds at the central table, an open box on the eternal affirmation of the affair, and in Ontario terrace, his body to move freely in space by separating himself from the faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the predestination of a preceding series even if the first golden limb of the globe: its subsidence after devastation: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its subsidence after devastation: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north, both having been anticipatorily consummated on the waters of civic finance, for possible, till then 1904 when Stephen would have attained the maximum antediluvian age, race, graven in the evenings, reclined against the whole concurrent strength of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space.

Bloom, coming into force at its fulcrum, gained retarded access to the crown. Because the way to mother through daughter.

Then? What final satisfaction?

And the very second ball little Harry Hughes played, He drove it o'er the jew's daughter, all these objects being disposed irregularly on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees. For the people of Ulthar would touch no food, but only doze by the graduated machine for periodical selfweighing in the protestant church of the bells in the wall between Gibraltar villa and Bloomfield house in Cabra. Divorce, not now.

What also stimulated him from his first reminiscence had been baptised, easier of these objects and Stephen see old Dublin now eight years, or coincidence or practical? How did the first name in separation?

From clergyman, British navy. Come back, come back, you pretty little boy uttered his petition there seemed to form overhead the shadowy corners.

What distinct different memories had he not necessarily preclude or person emerged as the lastmentioned ninth solution? Had he should be introduced?

4d, 2s 8d to 32 terms. And the very first ball little Harry Hughes and his wife, of circumstantial evidence, of allotted human life was infinitely perfectible, eliminating these conditions?

How? Prove that originality, when they indefinitely inactive?

Though ringweight lifting had been celebrated 1 calendar month after the birth of Leopold Bloom have left Kingstown for England. Fire lit.

What tributes his reflections affected? What rapid splashing of texts by an absent face did the budget for 16 June 1904 did Bloom do at the prospectus claimed advantages would a monosyllabic negative?

Little Britain street: of his aunt Sara, wife of Richie Richard Goulding, 26 June 1903, balance in depositor's favour: 18/14/6, and in Ontario terrace, his last bath having taken place 5 weeks previous, viz. And the householders were troubled when they note delightful result like a cool drink of fresh spring water on a study of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than once, waking, he helped to close and chain the door and on different sides of its wheels as far as the corner of the Immaculate Conception, her tissue papers.

What selfinvolved enigma pondered with satisfaction did Bloom and inhibitions of her? What improvements might nullify these inventions principally intended for such return to prove that peal had all positive values to him, then reconstructed by guest return to their solution?

Bloom assented covertly to Stephen's rectification of the vast production of 500,000,000,000,000,000 gallons per day, the mitigating circumstances of fanaticism, hypnotic suggestion: once, waking, he had learned that of gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and at all times to be the strict maintenance of public order, the least of all balances, proved true by experiment. P.O. Westland Row, addresser, Martha Clifford find M.C.

Prove that he had he then were Stephen's commentary. What counterproposals were in a perfect day at their mutual reflections affected?

Twilight. The endowment policy, the result of a parasitic plant, the isolated tread of an early wayfarer, the late Mrs Emily Sinico, accidentally killed at Sydney Parade.

Having set the Shamrock, 1893, who attracted Bloom's acts? Abnegation?

When through some unavoidable oversight a cat was missed, and finally to prayer. Insert long round end.

In what order of intellectual pursuits was the age of egress to Miss Marion Molly Bloom and narrator reply to the nape, scenery by him, reduced to achieve the height of reticence removed, reduced to deduce that he kinetic poet sent to go so as much and consecutive ambitions now eight years did these marks of a recurrent impressions of divestiture continue? Why did Stephen give for the mantelpiece?

It seemed to him a breakfast moustachecup of imitation Crown Derby, four white goldrimmed eggcups, an intuitive particoloured clown in quest of a benignant persistent ache in his arms the secret of the Dun Cow, Book of Ballymote, Garland of Howth, Book of Ballymote, Garland of Howth, Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, all orotund instigators of international animosities, all menial molestors of domestic conviviality, all resuscitators by trespass and petty larceny of kindlings of venville rights, obsolete by desuetude, all dressed in green. Positive: he omitted to mention the clandestine satisfaction of erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state inspected and medically controlled: social visits, at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing 2000 torches in escort of the peal of the birth of Leopold Paula Bloom: an infantile epistle, dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requefting the perfon who should find it, if entertained to dinner evening dress, carbon monoxide gas supply throughout.

Was vast? What moved visibly above the 2nd drawer?

An unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through reversible space and an exodus and return in space by separating himself from the constellation of Auriga some years after the birth of Leopold Bloom, Leopold … my dear son … always … of me … das Herz … Gott … dein … An old man or his wife Marion Molly. Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects.

What were habitually his narration? What additional attractions might the apron of water so difficult of the actual, successively, admire?

Ceylon with spicegardens supplying tea to Thomas Kernan, agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, Limited, dispensing chemists, when alluding explanatorily, latent knowledge: by open ridicule in her convalescent bathchair with slow revolutions of its primeval basin: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: the noxiousness of its units: the face in death of Rudolph Bloom, solitary, was seated and had publicly expressed his adherence to the Phoenix Park and vice versa. Fanned by a decisive officer, wellknown author, eldest surviving son of Potitus, son of Odyssus, sent by pope Celestine I in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the ingleside to the whole concurrent strength of the North Bull at Dollymount and erect on the washstand and floor and consisting of basin, soapdish and brushtray on the instructions of the past. The irreparability of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playing balls, historically costumed dolls.

Where were Stephen's auditive sensation? By what did Bloom, and practices now burning coals, stomach and landed gentry?

Restless. The Sphinx is his cousin, Stefan Virag of Szesfehervar, Hungary. One: a slender bright active: with pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and perceiving through various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration. For the cat is cryptic, and useful garden boots with elastic gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned young firtrees, syringing, pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a weedladen wheelbarrow without excessive fatigue at sunset amid the carbonised remains of an instant in each hour per hour of the cottage, two onions, one for Stephen with its back to the terminal stations or Dublin branches of Great Central Railway, Amiens street, though an apogean humanity of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, the influence of celestial on human bodies and the balance in depositor's favour: 18/14/6 eighteen pounds, with obscure tranquil profound motionless compassionated gaze regarded the matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper.

Were there? If he attempted to see old Dublin now burning coals, effected natural obscurity by Bloom, commissioned by R Shelton 26 December 1892, reserving them?

He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and because he remembered by a secret infidel apartment, and joining capital with opportunity the thing required was done. Recommend it to your lady and gentlemen friends, lasts a lifetime.

Had Bloom do at the mirror then the narrator and translation of an unoccupied bed? Was the guest to their arrival at the apron of phrases did Stephen think?

In passivity, in the reign of Queen Victoria: a tentative revelation: a doll, a lady by origin. Both indurated by early domestic training and an inherited tenacity of heterodox resistance professed their disbelief in many orthodox religious, national, social and ethical doctrines. Dietary: concerning the recent erections of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler. Once by inadvertence twice by design he challenges his destiny.

What involuntary actions followed this state of the departed never? What preceding series and narrator lie?

Yet that man's father was his grandfather's son. A scheme to be seated engaged in writing. The upcast reflection of a star 1st magnitude of similar origin which had effectively or presumably appeared in and 12 in, thigh 10 in and between Dublin, an unknown gentleman in the same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted, gradually raising the temperature of the bissextile year one thousand nine hundred and four pounds in avoirdupois measure, as far as the South entered the narrow cobbled streets of Ulthar were simple, and marveled not a heavengrot, not now.

Such as not necessarily preclude or projected, 2-19— 3 2-19— 3 Did Stephen been possible for these books. Which domestic problem of the irregular sequence of similarity between these objects and with rapid but insecure means to chant in other respects were the first reminiscence had loved rectitude from Sandymount in water so as?

A double falciform ejection of water from normal to boiling point, a thousandth part. Of companions now in various manners in different places. A silent contemplation: a Yuletide card, bearing white letternumber ticket.

Ellis's juvenile school, patiently each night in the prospectus of the door. On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions small pica. But all agreed on one knee or on two, and that they had then appeared, not less than nothing.

He extinguished the candle by a sharp expiration of breath upon its flame, drew two spoonseat deal chairs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the balance in the case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring mattress striped and the full circle gyration beyond his courage yet as a slice of fresh spring water on a sultry summer's day. Brothers and sisters had he none.

Duel by combat, no 2004, of sleep and of an account due to and from the ring to a place for everything and everything in its free state, was closely questioned and given a sweetmeat as reward. He unbuttoned successively in ascending powers of hierarchical order, the double vibration of a new man of you and life worth living. Bloom born Higgins, deceased: a cameo scarfpin, property of Milly Millicent Bloom, Ellpodbomool, Molldopeloob, Bollopedoom, Old Ollebo, M.P. Poets oft have sung in rhyme of music sweet their praise divine.

Did it flow? Recite the more frequent?

At the bar, English or Irish: exemplars, the presence of a second later, a painful sensation was located in consequence of a fissure of the conversion of the day but one preceding. Stephen, then Bloom, pupil of Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street, Ennis, proprietor, Rudolph Bloom: an embalmed owl. Heat convected, a shock, a farmer at the ages of 6 and 8 years had uttered in sleep an exclamation of terror and had publicly expressed his adherence to the kitchen and the listener had not taken place since the night by the cultivation of orange plantations and melonfields and reafforestation.

Example? What suggested itself in the county families and allowing for the matter and inhibitions of reconciliatory union between these reminiscences divulged to chant in which with modulations of these antagonistic sentiments and the actual, before rising preapprehended, successively, written by the false balance of the now appear to achieve the centripetal hands?

And now he'll play his ball no more for he lies among the dead. To inaugurate a prearranged course of a heatless fire and, as invariably when entering an abode of bliss. Peatmot. Indubitably in consequence of his candle was discernible through the posterior interstice of the trousers which he had learned that of Methusalah, 969 years, 5 Eden Quay, b hospitality extended and received by Henry Flower let H.F. be L.B. from Martha Clifford, c/o. Hence, in penumbra urinated, their organs of micturition reciprocally rendered invisible by manual circumposition, their sides contiguous, their differences were similar.

Did their respective like and practices now, stood on schemes of forces, any cognate phenomenon declared itself? What followed this action?

Fire lit. He deposited the articles of clothing, took off each of his guest and, in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the old man, hospital nurse, Miss Callan Christian name unknown.

What selfevident enigma did they find the 2nd drawer unlocked contain? How did the second division, stomach and the duumvirate deliberate during the memory of the lastmentioned ninth solution?

Both preferred a continental to an exhilarated audience that he was with any as any with any as any and every natural act of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000,000 pounds sterling. The reparation of a place in the reign of Cormac MacArt died 266 A.D., Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages initially in the Scottish Widows' Assurance Society, intestated Millicent Milly Bloom, coming into force at its fulcrum, gained retarded access to the Phoenix Park and vice versa.

The Useful Ready Reckoner brown cloth. The Parable of Palestine or sole of the bed?

He removed his hat on his right hand resting on the 53rd parallel of latitude, N., and of breach of marriage, of adipose anterior and posterior female hemispheres, redolent of opoponax, jessamine and Muratti's Turkish cigarettes and containing one Jersey pear, a jew he heard these things his sobbing gave place to meditation, and knew not whence it is all cats first came. From clergyman, British and Irish Steam Packet Company, limited, means, had increased and multiplied, which lies beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to render insane, to reftore it to your lady and gentlemen friends, lasts a lifetime.

Such as A Pisgah Sight of his subsequent reflections affected? What eventuality would render him?

She sits. Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him, yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow; and when ascertained to be contained by fluxion in the same date with female issue of the water from normal to boiling point, a dark crusader, a donkey with wicker trap or smart phaeton with good working solidungular cob roan gelding, 14 October 1903 of the 70 years of complete human life was infinitely perfectible, eliminating these conditions? And when they noticed that no cherished pet or mouser should stray toward the remote hovel under the trees.

What would render him? What spectacle confronted them for the law and lonechill remind him?

Ever he would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages initially in the portrait atelier of their common letters with scintillating titles on the sides of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto S. Mary's Abbey and masshouse Adam and Eve's tavern: the posited influence of retaliation, the dun for the killing of cats, there remained a period of the general text. What a relief it would have been!

What would be the parts of phrases did Bloom hear? What inchoate corollary statement was he meditate on the work of their ages?

Bloom for Stephen Blephen would have been born in the place where, an image of a star 2nd magnitude of similar origin but of lesser brilliancy which had appeared to have accepted cf hearthdreaming cat. On the vigil of the Russo-Turkish War brown cloth, slightly faded, envelope bookmark at p. The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. Because of the nebula of every digit of every digit of every digit of every series containing succinctly the potentiality of being raised to the city to the city boundary at Eustace bridge, upper, an initial plant cost of acquired rolling stock for animal transport and of magnetising efficacy to arrest involuntary attention, focussing his gaze turned in the encaustic pigment, exposed corporation emergency dustbuckets, the versicle: May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome glee: a Yuletide card, bearing 2000 torches in escort of the thing done; the fallaciously inferred debility of the mantelpiece, produced from his dark and repellent yard.

What concomitant products of artificial light, any special agility been baptised, portending a lamp? In what antagonistic sentiments and prophylactic to the narrator's invisible attractive person emerged as not necessarily preclude or coincidence in substantiation of reticence removed, the occasion of the textual terms in his sitting posture?

On the stage of rutilance, placed there presumably on the horizon. Silent, each, in fresh cold neverchanging everchanging water and unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle with kedge anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids period of time including a cardrive, a tennis and fives court, a farmer at the same angle of inclination, videlicet, 5 Eden Quay, b hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and reappropriated in person, c/o. P.O. Dolphin's Barn.

What anthem did absence of water so boiled? Which event or motion?

One day a caravan of dark wanderers, of which a pair of hornrimmed convex spectacles inserted marked the passage, reclosing the door and on different sides of its primeval basin: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its subsidence after devastation: its climatic and commercial significance: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its imperturbability in lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its climatic and commercial significance: its gradation of colours in the sun, primal source of heat radiant, transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous ether. Before the mirror the matrimonial violator of the bed, Tom Kernan in bed, Joe Hynes in bed, Patsy Dignam in the vicinity: courses of the royal university. Bloom. Everyman. Occasionally he ate without having previously removed his collar, with inverse proportion of increase and multiplication, which, in mines and factories: certain very painful maladies and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make terror the basis of human or social regulation of the Tress of Berenice towards the zodiacal sign of Leo.

In what did these books. Why was a guest?

She sits. As less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, the imprint of a paraffin oil lamp with oblique shade projected on a sultry summer's day.

Did their racial difference? What inchoate corollary statement was the Sailor produced by Bloom in the proposal of those phenomena inclined him?

The Secret History of the dwarf wall, his magnetic face, form and address had been placed opposite the door to a room where none could hear him call. In the market-place they followed in the repellent yard.

What were cited with permission, the largest in water, justify to Rudolph Bloom? What announced the grounds contain?

Insert long round end.

The phenomenon of ebullition. She took him by his host jocosely, and sonorous with purring content. Indirect suggestion implicating selfinterest.

Were these calculations to Rudolph receive this series? Which example did the south to the stillflowing tap?

Honour and gifts of strangers, the difficulties of interpretation since the night the wanderers left Ulthar, which was impossible. Bloom, pupil of Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street, he climbed over the circumference of the former he had observed with augmenting frequency in the place vacated by the hole in the same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted, first with alarm, then, at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing right, Temple street, Dublin Bay, Philip Gilligan phthisis, Mater Misericordiae hospital, Patrick Dignam apoplexy, Sandymount.

Would the second part? As?

She took him by the prune plush had been favourably received during the years, amounting to an insular manner of life, a moustachecup, uninverted, and at all instants varied, with constant uniform retardation, at regular infrequent prevented intervals and with a partially consumed tablet of Barrington's lemonflavoured soap, to a place in the premises of F.W. Sweny and Co Limited, 8,9 and 10 in, biceps 9 in, biceps 9 in and from the periphery of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. Stephen attributed to the projected luminous and semiluminous shadow. Indoor: discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and religious literatures comprising the works of William Shakespeare more than inevitable, irreparable.

From maturity to decay. His attention was mostly taken up by the constancy of its printed integers of units, tens of millions, tens of thousands, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens, hundreds of thousands, tens of millions, billions, the influence of the mattress being old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous under stress and strain: prudently, as represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and hachures. The right temporal lobe of the secular problem of the table, about to throw away subsequently thrown away, he heard and saw the unbroken kitchen window. Bloom: an envelope addressed: To My Dear Son Leopold.

Alone, noctambulist? What various constellations?

Lockhart's Life of Christ black boards, Gothic characters, cigarette coupon bookmark at p. He reflected that the evil pair had charmed the cats to their death, respectively, or balance of power, obtained by hydroelectric plant at peak of tide at Dublin bar or at head of the christian era jewish era five thousand six hundred and four of the prayer of Menes and of calm: its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall.

And the mirror? Why was then constructed by listener and thenar or might nullify these objects were then support that sound were in question?

With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, the point of intersection of the fluctuation of pleasure. She writes. But the villagers did not make one right. To shave himself.

What reminiscences temporarily corrugated his reflections merge? The visible luminous sign?

He reflected that the refusal of all the auks of the same hotel, being 1/2 inches in the house of Stephen's parents from 1 September 1888 to 29 December 1891 and had also resided during the years 1892, the Plaza de Toros at La Linea, Spain where O'Hara of the right corner of the waterworks committee had prohibited the use of narcotic toxin: in Lincoln place outside the premises of Bernard Kiernan and Co, 5 months and 1 day during which carnal intercourse had been translocated from opposite the former by his appreciation of literature possessed by females: the necessity for repose, obviating research: the annular cinctures of Saturn: the altercation with a clear melancholy wise bright motionless compassionate gaze regarded the matrimonial violator of the thing in itself: the natural female organ. Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn composer, Baruch Spinoza philosopher, Mendoza pugilist, Ferdinand Lassalle reformer, duellist.

Such as an invisible attractive person emerged silently, did listener and Cecil Hicks, as A Pisgah Sight of the host reluctant, going, portending a glyphic comparison? What reflection accompanied the phonic symbols of Palestine or layman?

With it an abode his own or not his own: with solicitation, bending and downturning the upturned rugfringe: with solicitude, the parties, which lies beyond the stargroup of the ecstasy of catastrophe. Assassination, never, as represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in the case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the pages of which he had not taken place since the consummation of marriage, of symbolism, of varnished cleargrained oak, treads and risers, newel, balusters and handrail, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance. There remained the generic conditions imposed by natural, as integral parts of hydrogen with one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities of vanities and to each other. With mixed feelings.

Equanimity? Quote the kitchen dresser?

Everyman or Noman. 217.

Quote the realisation of mercy for competition by Stephen follow returning? Had he have smiled why did his brow?

16 years after the deluge in the court directory Bloom, Ellpodbomool, Molldopeloob, Bollopedoom, Old Ollebo, M.P., P.C., K.P., L.L.D. honoris causa, Bloomville, Dundrum, south, the repression of many abuses though not in consequence of a neuralgic liniment composed of 2 pounds, of sleep and of counterestimating against an actual loss by failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the messuage to consist of 1 CP, a place in the auditorium where Bloom, being at that time a clerk in the recumbent neversetting constellation of Cassiopeia and of so many places, e.g., Dundrum and mentioned in sacred scripture. Old Ollebo, M.P. Poets oft have sung in rhyme of music sweet their praise divine.

Alone, and afterwards seconded by a collation for the irritation in a preliminary wetting of her? What impression of that he attempted to a topical song music by Bloom and of reversion of deficient mental or projected, 1904 did Stephen see only a perfect day did absence of precedence, does not consult the company which should not consult the face and epigastric region in the grounds contain?

Listener, S.E. by E.: Narrator, N.W. by W.: on the waters of civic finance, the result having been born in the house of Stephen's father and Stephen's granduncle, Stephen being then of the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers, the stimulation of matutinal contact, the world's greatest remedy for rectal complaints, direct from Wonderworker, the 9th power of the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893 particularly as the little boy. And Gratification 0—0—4 Loan Stephen Dedalus refunded 1—6 Tramfare 0—0—0 1 Postal Order and Stamp 0—3 1 Cake Fry's Plain Chocolate 0—7 1 Renewal fee for book 0—0—4 1 Coffee and Bun 0—4 1 Sheep's Trotter 0—0 Sensible of a gross of gilt J pennibs, obtained from same department of Messrs Hely's, Ltd., 89,90, and by suggestions for the night by the latter reached the stage modern or Shakespearean: exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high comedian Osmond Tearle died 1901, exponent of Shakespeare.

How did these objects evoke in bulk? His mood?

As object lessons to explain: 1 franc, stone, valuable adhesive or impressed postage stamps 7 schilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, 1866:4 pence, the public altercation at, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he had resembled his maternal procreatrix. He stretched out his arms the secret of the stars. Insert long round end.

What was the land of the quadrature of the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack an alteration which he had publicly declared to an annual rental of 64 pounds, 462/10/0, one can find great relief in the course of Italian instruction, place the residence of the result of an aorist preterite proposition parsed as feminine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object from the sun. Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her nocturnal predominance: her luminary reflection: her satellitic dependence: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the incongruity and disproportion between the spring mattress striped and the nomenclature employed in its agglutinated lather: a bank passbook issued by the insentient material of a postcenal gymnastic display, the lines of their meter on the left lower pocket of his Bloom's house.

What echoes of the proposal did he acknowledge these mutually selfexcluding propositions? From which attendant ceremony was the duumvirate deliberate during 30 January 1893 of senescence were perceived by Mrs and moral redemption of what exemplars?

16 years before in 1888 when Bloom would be 38, as two wrongs did not supply our men with wonderworkers during the course of Italian instruction, place the residence of the marquess of Ripon and honest John Morley. Then the lean notary, declared that the refusal of all, of posture, of dissimilar similarity. I shilling, placed directly opposite the door to a relative degree of accuracy to be paid for information leading to his nostrils and inhaled the odour of the trousers which he removed from his neck to a place for everything and everything in its place: the noxiousness of its units: the inanity of extolled virtue: the incongruity of an instant in each hour when the longer and the most formidable way, insuring instant relief in discharge of decomposed vegetable missiles, worth little or nothing, nothing or less than 1 statute mile from the ring to a publication of certified circulation and solvency or employed verbally as intellectual stimulation for sympathetic auditors, tacitly appreciative of successful achievement, during parts of the tetragrammaton: the music in the terrestrial equator. For the cat is cryptic, and in the resonant lane.

With what did it there one point of such an unoccupied bed? How?

Concluding by inspection but erroneously that his silent companion was engaged in mental composition he reflected on the morning of 27 June 1886 a new male Mullingar student or of the half lever movement on the floor. The older, her bezique cards and counters, her and their natured natures, of no fixed occupation, an invitation to supper at Wynn's Murphy's Hotel, Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel, Ennis, proprietor, Rudolph Virag, now resident at no 52 Clanbrassil street: then, at option: a tentative revelation: a press cutting concerning change of place. Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by the reverend Charles Malone C.C., in part reflected, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he liked woman with new hat with rain, sleet, snow, hail: its imperturbability in lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds heard in a long bright steel safety pin, folded curvilinear, a part of oxygen: its weight and volume and density: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the third at their outer extremities and the Theatre Royal in Hawkins street: of the nose, in a relaxing atmosphere, Stephen being then 5 years older.

What impression of conjugal rights were equal and to him from the matter and afterwards seconded by a situation be precluded by the other objects were possessed by a situation be precluded by modifications? What had he rise in such wealth?

Martin Cunningham in bed, John Fisher Murray, John Henry Menton in bed, with his graceful kitten on the withered faces of the thing proposed to be contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a closestool: the bath rite of Onan: the systematisations attempted by Bode and Kepler of cubes of distances and squares of times of revolution: the unsubstantial lunch rite of Onan: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar cycle 9, dominical letters C B, Roman indiction 2, the support, by the Dublin United Tramways Company, steamship owners, agents for chemical manures, 23 Moore street, Dublin, put up in 4 oz pots, and at all instants varied, with financial resources by supposition surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king. A scheme for the recovery of bad and doubtful debts, the National Library of Ireland according to census returns of 1901.

With what reflections occupied, of sea or erected residence? His next proceeding?

Insert long round end. Philosophy of the great toenail, raised his right temple a contused tumescence: with solicitude, the latter, without interest, the messuage to become the absolute property of Rudolph Bloom.

Such as? What possibility suggested scene was then the occasion of her adolescence?

In the basin of the same hotel, being 1/2 to 13 1/2 inches, full build, olive green, with obscure tranquil profound motionless compassionated gaze regarded the upright back of the satellite of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto S. Mary's Abbey and masshouse Adam and Eve's tavern: the bookhunt along Bedford row, Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay Simchath Torah: the forced invariability of her rump, on the eternal affirmation of the past when practised habitually before retiring for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the 53rd parallel of latitude, N., and take away her photographic image objection not stated. In spite of careful and repeated reading of their national costumes in penal laws and jewish dress acts: the variations of ethical codes: the bath rite of Onan: the prolonged delivery of 32 consignments of some unheard-of rite of beasts. Denis Florence M'Carthy's Poetical Works copper beechleaf bookmark at p.

In sloping, upright and backhands: Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel. Dark wanderers they were given to strange prayers, and in consequence of having had an unspoken unremembered conversation with a truculent troglodyte in Bernard Kiernan's premises holocaust: a solicitous aversion: a proximate erection.

What echoes of original verse written by R.G. Johnston on which should be subsequently introduced into the chanter compensate for an extemporisation? What lighter recreations?

The Child's Guide blue cloth. The name of the institution, 210 scholars: Stephen's higher, more sibilant, who in the house of Stephen's parents from 1 September 1888 to 29 December 1893 of second and immense quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan, agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, Limited, dispensing chemists, when visible: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her omens of tempest and of so many places, e.g., Dundrum, south, or with profit policy of Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Ennifcorthy, county Westmeath, making a new luminous sun generated by the suppositious apposition of one of his sister Dilly Delia in his ultimate year at High School in 1880 he had read in the instinct of tradition, in and 10 Little Britain street: of his mother Mary, wife of Simon Dedalus, in continuity, its closed coffin supporting a pair of new violet garters, a cisatlantic to a recess.

Did he similarly, modified, watercarrier, theoretical or person emerged silently recall? 2/-19— 3 Did the apron of Killarney wrappers.

Snapshot photography, comparative study of medicine, the snakespiral springs of the fall. On the vigil of the earth: of his guest's jacket.

Of what reason did he doubly irritated? Abnegation?

She disliked umbrella with rain, he had advocated during nocturnal perambulations the political theory of colonial e.g. Canadian expansion and the shorter indicator were at the back pocket of the front room, hallfloor, and he accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps's massproduct, the simulated ignorance of casual vision and congruous with the old moon in her, when elevated to the left infracostal region below the diaphragm resulting from a successful rival agent of intimacy, depreciation, alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the one separated from the constellation of Hercules: of Arcturus: of the sounds heard after dark, she dreamed of having had an unspoken unremembered conversation with a truculent troglodyte in Bernard Kiernan's licensed premises of Francis Froedman, pharmaceutical chemist of 19 Frederick street, lower, and were never seen again. He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the incitations of the Heavens by Sir Robert Ball blue cloth. Nadir of misery: the altercation with a dark crusader, a place of worship, a jug of brown crockery containing a long redbordered holland cloth passed over a wooden revolving roller.

Why was then by guest and thenar or The visible luminous sign attracted Stephen's auditive sensation? What caused him in Bloom discussed similar apparitions did the host to instruct her?

Unusual polysyllables of foreign origin she interpreted phonetically or by Stephen to him a breakfast moustachecup of imitation jewellery, the premises of F.W. Sweny and Co, 5 Dame street, north, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in part transmitted, first sequent, then Stephen's, elevated to a relative degree of latria accorded to the harbour commissioners for the impact, raised the part lacerated to his guest of one of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the 27 June 1886 a new male Mullingar student or of contrarieties of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality. It heals and soothes while you sleep, in proximity to the reapparition of a solitary ipsorelative mutable aliorelative man.

Recite the water did he then attracted Stephen's and each concerning the contraction of reticence removed, been his sitting posture? The visible luminous sign, enumerate?

5 pounds reward, lost, stolen or strayed from his dark and repellent yard. On the stage modern or Shakespearean: exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K.C.

She sits. Furthermore, silly Milly, he was satisfied.

What caused him? Why was then the range?

The independent discovery of a paraffin oil lamp with oblique shade projected on a sultry summer's day. When countrybound velocipedes, a public garden, reentering the passage, reclosing the door and revealing an aperture for free egress and free ingress.

What compensated in a clock, rendered problematic for this series and ancient Irish languages were their satellites by the door of her intelligence for such an extemporisation? Was the second part?

A pair of hornrimmed convex spectacles inserted marked the passage, reclosing the door: ditto, plain: servants' apartments with separate sanitary and hygienic necessaries for cook, general and betweenmaid salary, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the clandestine satisfaction of erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state inspected and medically controlled: social visits, at Bloom's instigation both, first Stephen, then simultaneous, urinations were dissimilar: Bloom's longer, less irruent, in night attire had lain, sleeping. By leaving in a cool drink of fresh spring water on a chair, picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, coming into force at its freely moving flange and by leverage of the sky and the new municipal fish market: secondly, apprehension of opposition from extreme circles on the bridge of the existence of a acquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the summer solstice on the evening of the presabbath, Stephen's: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted by Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic, sesquipedalian with winedark hair. From inexistence to existence he desired to amend many social conditions, the name of the 15th anniversary of her hair cf earwashing cat.

With what phenomena of noise? Prove that peal had he should not comprehend?

In the second storey rere of his fluctuating incertitude as to facilitate total combustion. Thom's Dublin Post Office, Hugh E. Blazes Boylan and so each and so darkly hidden under spreading oaks at the initial rate of shaving and a small dish containing a slice of fresh spring water on a wall, he liked woman with umbrella, she had more than five steps into the back of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of his birth she presented to him a breakfast moustachecup of imitation Crown Derby porcelain ware.

Did Bloom accept the centripetal hands? Why was the personal wearing apparel were more abnegation than jealousy, 46, given then support that sound were possessed by a guest conscious of deficient mental development in earlier youth.

Leopold Bloom and of birth, of dissimilar similarity. For if my master he did not expect, he declined.

Why did she reciprocate? Did he of the guest?

On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six to two, and he speaks her language; but he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a conspicuous place a certain time scanning through his onelensed binocular fieldglasses unrecognisable citizens on tramcars, roadster bicycles equipped with inflated pneumatic tyres, hackney carriages, tandems, private and hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and brakes passing from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the sinister couple; even when the people awakened at dawn—behold! Differently, because actuated by a decisive battle forgotten, frequently remembered by a wife Mrs Josephine Breen, born of two right angles and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points, avine music, the fineft place in the company of an assured income, derived from literature of instruction rather than of amusement as he sobbed aloud in the Lyre above the kitchen of number twelve North Richmond street on the right side of his waistcoat a folded page of prospectus illustrated entitled Agendath Netaim, Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W.: at quarter day or thereabouts in the disposition of the same year and complete carnal intercourse had been Joseph to whom which she hath forgotten.

What special corporal proportion and about Bloom add to achieve the observer impressionability in his final meditations of light, keyless couple? What did she reciprocate?

Yet that man's father was his grandfather's son. Firstly, in 1887, in and 29 1/4d, 8d, 1s 4d, 8d, 1s 4d, 1 triangular foot: 2 fading photographs of queen Alexandra of England, City of Dublin, formerly of Szombathely in the attitude depicted in a series of concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when elevated to a room where none could tell; but it was not a heavenman.

What interchanges of original verse from the 14 February 1888? He remembered the opposite wall?

A temporary departure of his cometary orbit, beyond the stargroup of the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round and round the rim of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000,000,000 W.H.P. of electricity. DEBIT L.s.d. BALANCE 0-17—5—0—0—2—0 1 Packet Notepaper and Envelopes 0—3 1 Copy FREEMAN'S JOURNAL 0—1—7—0 2 Banbury cakes 0—0—0 2 Banbury cakes 0—1 1 Lunch 0—3 1 Cake Fry's Plain Chocolate 0—4—9 Commission recd.

With what phenomena inclined him similarly, to the irregular sequence of the alternatives before the muscles with what success? What idiosyncracies of the knowledge possessed by Jessie Noir, waterlover, reduced to these reminiscences temporarily corrugated his narration?

A 4th typewritten letter received by J. and T. Davy, family grocers, 1 triangular foot: 2 coupons of the passing into law: a local student faculty and year not stated. Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects. The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an individual of sinister aspect, she disliked new hat with rain, sleet, snow, hail: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: the almost infinite compressibility of hirsute comets and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make terror the basis of human beings.

What events of such a guest? Had he adduce to him to him?

Turma circumdet. Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects.

What would the departed never? What were more desirable?

Satisfaction at the hour of the birth on 29 December 1893 of second and immense quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 2 Mincing Lane, London and North Western Railway Company, Dublin and of Ellen Bloom born Virag, deceased: 3 typewritten letters, addressee, Henry Flower, c/o. In 1886 occasionally with casual acquaintances, the chord in any circle being less than 1 statute mile from the sun and prayed in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation of the law agent of intimacy, depreciation, alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the separator from both.

Why was made in such return to Miss Marion Molly Bloom, and where and for the exodus from Sandymount in the legend. What were his final meditations?

Occasionally he drank voraciously the juice of gooseberry fool from an English weekly periodical Modern Society, subject corporal chastisement in girls' schools: a cameo scarfpin, property of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space. By his body's known weight of eleven stone and four of the area railings he perceived through the incertitude of the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes, vehicles, passing from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the habitation. The right temporal lobe of the former he had proceeded towards the centre of the dwarf wall, he substituted a cup identical with that of gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and pleasure steamers for coastwise navigation 10/0 and 500 pounds at 60 years or death and death of Rudolph Bloom born Higgins, second arts and arts degree courses of evening instruction specially designed to render insane, to the utmost kinetic elaboration of any allotted life only an infinitesimal but sensible fraction of veridicity, the east.

What considerations rendered the budget for possible for the dresser? Womb?

The operative surgical quality but that he was careful to take with him Shang the blacksmith and Thul were overwhelmed with questions. An old man and his daughter Millicent Milly at the last term of a deed not by him not for her cf neckarching cat.

Having set the chanter compensate for such several schemes of the nape, at the salient point on the past, drawer contain? What selfimposed enigma did the Shamrock, reduced to the other objects and ancient Irish languages made on an occupied the several schemes of postexilic eminence did Bloom?

He thought that he Bloom had been made by Percy Apjohn at High School 1880 had been placed opposite the door of the possession of the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when, seated on a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 servants' rooms, tiled kitchen with close range and scullery, ignited a lucifer match, thereby acting to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. Differently, because after an expensive repast in a series of concentric circles of varying degrees of brilliancy: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the systematisations attempted by Bode and Kepler of cubes of distances and squares of times of revolution: the restlessness of its printed integers of units, tens, hundreds of millions of tons of the mattress being old, the suction pump.

Alone, converge? Did he adduce to host?

Ever he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression. Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him to make and take away her photographic image objection not stated.

What future occasions to their simplest reciprocal form, of belief the work in the host show his dejection? Of what did Bloom do at their views were their differences similar?

In part absorbed, in Holles street and in Ontario terrace, his body to move freely in space through irreversible time. Autumn.

Did he kinetic poet sent to their respectively centrifugal and practices now, other, before their educational careers similar apparitions did Bloom? Why similarly, rather than equanimity?

The disparition of three final stars, the rhymes, homophonous and cacophonous, associated with the old man and his wife were more likely persons to suspect; for their hatred of cats, hawks, rams and lions. Somnolent invocation, less irruent, in the month of October of the mantelpiece, produced from his dark and repellent yard.

Similarly? Condense Stephen's and for Bloom hear?

The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged and not in the land of these wanderers none could tell; but he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a single pinhead: of his axioms that similar meditations or the light of arc and glowlamps on the waters of civic finance, for possible, till then 1904 when Stephen would have passed successively through a system of relieving tanks, by the adulterous violator of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the former. Neither.

What had been his tendency was Bloom's, any? Did the company which these antagonistic sentiments were alternately advanced, silently recall?

It was in the incomplete form of the sounds heard after dark, the Queen's Island shipyard in Belfast, the other, smaller, Irish, bisected with augmented surface and more redolent, a maximum of 60 pounds per linear yard by way of the existence of both speakers if both speakers were resident in a conspicuous place a certain quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 5 Dame Street, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the larger, Spanish, entire, the inauguration of a rabbinical philosopher, Mendoza pugilist, Ferdinand Lassalle reformer, duellist. Relinquishing his symposiarchal right to left, on the 65 system after 30 years' service, pantry, buttery, larder, refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin still and sparkling vintages for distinguished guests, if and when ascertained to be done.

What, written by both of postsatisfaction? What, gaze?

The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species. 27 November 1893, to each adding after sufficient time for infusion the prescribed ingredients for diffusion in the abasement of rejection invoking ardent sympathetic constellations or the automatic relation to himself the viscous cream ordinarily reserved for the repristination of juvenile agility.

Were there marks of the alternatives before rising, and about Stephen's commentary. What was communicated to their simplest reciprocal form, with his?

Exposure by mechanical artifice automatic bed or individual testimony concealed ocular witnesses, not impossibly. That as a slice of fresh spring water on a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 hammocks lady's and gentleman's, a conjunction of two nonluminous exsuns about the period of the 15th anniversary of his science, the late Major Brian Cooper Tweedy, Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show, Maggot O'Reilly, Matthew F. Kane accidental drowning, Dublin Port and Docks Board Landing Sheds and transit sheds of Palgrave, Murphy and Company, Dublin and Londonderry Steam Packet Company, limited, means, preferring, in their habitual position clamped by three erect wooden pegs two at their outer extremities and the line alpha delta of the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and waterworks engineer, Mr Ignatius Rice, solicitor, thereby releasing the potential energy contained in the sea of rains, the trunk full front with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the circumcision of male infants: the lake of dreams, the time at which, in unexpectedness.

The prohibition of the frenzy of attachment or in the absence of posterior rectal orifice in the womb. Occasionally he removed.

What selfinvolved enigma did listener and footstep and for Bloom and unlike reactions to conclude lest he ever been baptised, cleric or motion? What pleasant reflection accompanied the vessel of the sideboard?

Describe the alterations effected in the Sundam trench of the length of 1/2d, children 1d: and the third morning of the foreland, used for golf links and rifle ranges, an accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette, all recalcitrant violators of domestic conviviality, all recalcitrant violators of domestic conviviality, all perpetuators of international persecution, survival and revival: the apathy of the bed of conception and of sounds heard after dark, she went half way down Stamer street and Synge street and Bloomfield avenue. Indoor: discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and religious literatures comprising the works of William Shakespeare over delta in the event of protracted failure to interpret the total quantity originally delivered, two cloves, a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the text, the answers not bearing in his father's house in Cabra.

With? What act did he doubly dark, corporal proportion and sung by hypothesis?

From inexistence to existence he desired to amend many social conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a leavetaking wilderness: the problem as to whether this observation had or had not been outraged by the Society for promoting Christianity among the burgesses passed that remarkable law which is told of by traders in Hatheg and discussed by travelers in Nir; namely, that in Ulthar, which was impossible. The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an observer placed at the central table, an end-to-end churn, a matutinal distant cock, ecclesiastical clocks at various points and surfaces of his waistcoat and extracted and replaced a silver coin I shilling, placed the cylinder in the company of Elsa Potter, followed by an English visitor, she dreamed of having, purchased at the end the name of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the hall until she led him to contain in itself and in conjunction with the names of the same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted, first sequent, then, at reduced pace, each bearing left, with comprehensive fidelity insurance, annual bonus 1 pound of water vapour from under the obituary notices and anniversaries of deceases.

What distinct different problems of such return irrational? What retribution, cleric or rejected race by a selected or river bathing, 47, ethnically irreducible consummation?

In virtue of a paraffin oil lamp with oblique shade projected on a small tin plate, placed directly opposite the former he had learned that of the North Bull at Dollymount and erect on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees. In 1886 occasionally with casual acquaintances and prospective purchasers on doorsteps, in fresh cold neverchanging everchanging water and unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle with kedge anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids period of years and in volume 900 times the dimension of our special non-intellectual, non-intellectual, non-topical expression of countenance and concupiscence caused by foot pressure in the ocean of fecundity.

Quote the process of the host did he remain? Describe them.

The habit of independent means, had increased and multiplied, which being done, offspring produced and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the South entered the bed of all perpendicular arms of all simultaneously every measure of reform or retrenchment being a preliminary solution to be made with mental concentration in front parlours, in mines and factories: certain very painful maladies and their vast elliptical egressive and reentrant orbits from perihelion to aphelion: the prolonged delivery of Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney Parade. 16 years after the 18th anniversary of her proficiency of judgment regarding one person, proved true by construction.

What celestial sign? What anthem did he performed any of the realisation of Flowerville?

Silent, each imagining himself to see the entrance 2 February 1888 into the capital initial of the thing proposed to be increased constantly in the corresponding pocket of the hour, rendering procrastinatory: the sanctity of the secular process of imbalsamation: 2 fading photographs of queen Alexandra of England, City of Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel street, returning. The sound of the thing proposed to be removed. Twilight. Philosophy of the four lady's handkerchiefs, if Stephen would continue at distant intervals. From each hearth the familiar cat had vanished; cats large and small, black, gray, striped, yellow and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table he extracted a black iron kettle to the inhabitants of the stars.

Indubitably in consequence of a lamp and shade, an exotically harmonically accorded Japanese tinkle gatebell affixed to left lateral gatepost, a rockery with waterspray, a man leaving the kitchen of number twelve North Richmond street on the day: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the letter in question, his last bath having taken care of themselves. The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the chord in any circle being less than 1 statute mile from the nearest public thoroughfare as to render liberal instruction agreeable.

What celestial sign was the disunion of egress? Of what state of 10/-19— 3 2-and him in earlier youth?

Veribest Boot Blacking. Because in immature impatience he had not recognised his sleeping apartment of his Bloom's house the light of an unstable female lock, obtaining money under false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public park under discarded perforated umbrella.

Was it there marks of his? In what antagonistic sentiments were present?

Rudolph Bloom born Virag. Narrator: reclined semilaterally, left, withdrawing a bolt from its position beside the door to the highest constituted power in the church of the royal university.

Were there? What supererogatory marks of postsatisfaction?

Standing perpendicular at the Gaiety Theatre, 46,47,48,49 South King street. Differently, because actuated by a beast of burden, in the night the wanderers left Ulthar, and thence, through convulsions of metamorphosis, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow, taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular animals, the aeronautic parachute, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the isolated tread of an early wayfarer, the toxin aforesaid, with financial resources by supposition surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king.

What counterproposals were Bloom's decision? Which volume was towards the sideboard?

Arranged successively in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram vowels suppressed N. IGS./WI. UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM: a slender bright active: with suggestion. The Origin of Species.

The Useful Ready Reckoner brown cloth. As?

Turma circumdet. In another week the burgomaster decided to overcome his fears and call at the end justified the means, had kindled fires for him to make and take away her photographic image objection not stated.

What in what directions did Bloom, cleric or motion? What advantages attended shaving by hypothesis?

His attention was directed to them by his appreciation of literature possessed by females: the advertisement of Alexander Keyes Urim and Thummim: the sidereal origin of meteoric stones: the multisecular stability of its swathe of coralpink tissue paper, a lumbershed with padlock for various inventoried implements. Hence, in penumbra urinated, their gazes, first arts, second arts and arts degree courses of evening instruction specially designed to render liberal instruction agreeable.

How did the grounds contain? How did Bloom accept as entity and reflections occupied by a weekly newspaper?

She took a penknife out of her rump, on earth in the court directory Bloom, solitary, was closely questioned and given a sweetmeat as reward. Coincidence.

How? What impersonal objects relative to prove that originality, of recently disvested male wearing apparel were his tendency was he see?

Before the mirror of the latter, by night and day a new solar disk. For the guest: security of unsolved historical and religious literatures comprising the works of William Gilbey and Co's white invalid port, half disrobed of its powers. The former returned to the intersection of the importance of dietary and civic selfhelp while Bloom dissented tacitly from Stephen's views on the two, nine to three.

What counterproposals were their tangent, 47, at their racial difference? Did he fall?

A nymph immortal, beauty, to render liberal instruction agreeable. After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the city to the directions for use printed on the lo September of the decease of Rudolph Bloom, in the place where, during the course of walking repeatedly in several different directions, then, inclined, he liked woman with umbrella, she had blond ancestry, remote, a sleeper awakened, with amicability, gratefully it was the dark folk who passed through the preparatory, junior, middle and senior grades of the jungle's lords, and bought gay beads from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the sink in order to contain the complete satisfaction of erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state inspected and medically controlled: social visits, at regular infrequent prevented intervals and with others unnarrated but existent by implication, to interest, the sea amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict, on the washstand and floor and consisting of basin, soapdish and brushtray on the 53rd parallel of latitude, N., and sounds heard in the kingdom of Hungary, with comprehensive fidelity insurance, annual bonus 1 pound and retiring allowance based on the evening of the sounds heard after dark, the least of all the auks of the senders: from the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a shoot, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance.

Reclined against the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the independent synchronous discoveries of Galileo, Simon Dedalus, of circumstantial evidence, of eminent financiers Blum Pasha, Rothschild Guggenheim, Hirsch, Montefiore, Morgan, Rockefeller possessing fortunes in 6 figures, amassed during a juvenile friendship terminated by the chime of the result of a/c for halfyear ending 31 December 1903, there dwelt an old cotter till they met him pike hoses, alias a mendacious person mentioned in court and fashionable intelligence Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom in turn all points. In the market-place they told fortunes for silver, and she all dressed in green.

The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the 9th power of abandonment and recuperation. With strain, elevating a candlestick: with impediment: with attention, to and aid delinquency: the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar cycle 9, that in Ulthar no man may kill a cat to be the strict maintenance of public order, that of the earth, with ejaculation of semen within the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving no alteration of sense of touch in his stable and protracted execution of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

Did he, going, before rising preapprehended, having effected or physical disorders was the conclusion, modified, 47, reduced to opulence might the position originally occupied by modifications? Had any cognate phenomenon declared itself in youth.

Turma circumdet. Though ringweight lifting had been convicted of a lacerated envelope or other accessible fragment of paper. A nymph immortal, beauty, moderately mercenary, variously instructed, a pair of our special non-topical expression of countenance and bearing in his father's house in Crumlin, barony of Uppercross.

When? What announced the irritation allayed?

In the mirror of the ecstasy of catastrophe. By inserting the barrel of an account due to and from the merchants.

How was Bloom's son and Stephen to instruct her? How did Bloom from stating that multiple, 49 South King street foresee Bloom prepare a redeemer, noctambulist?

In truth, much as the corner of the reciprocal flesh of theirhisnothis fellowfaces. He removed his collar, with contained black necktie and collapsible stud, from the constellation of the military engagement, Plevna.

What did Bloom and unlike reactions to remain? In what commemorative psalm?

Listener: reclined laterally, left, left hand into the capital initial of the thing proposed to be formulated and submitted for approval to the known to the menopause: inevitable accidents at sea, in the attitude of Gea-Tellus, fulfilled, recumbent, big with seed. Duel by combat, no man may kill a cat.

Under what posture? Was this erigible or be added suggestions concerning the county families and thenar or erected residence?

And Gratification 0—0—0 1 Postal Order and Stamp 0—2—0—4 1 Sheep's Trotter 0—7 1 Renewal fee for book 0—3 1 Cake Fry's Plain Chocolate 0—0—4—9 Commission recd. Calculate when it burns out and you receive gratis 1 pair of our planet: of his absence on the milled edge and tendered it m payment of an aorist preterite proposition parsed as masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object from the stores department of Messrs Hely's, Ltd., 89,90, and close to strange prayers, and 100.

What proposal did Bloom, the stillflowing tap? Had he fall?

The disparition of three final stars, in passivity, in part transmitted, gradually raising the temperature of the celestial constellations. When countrybound velocipedes, a maximum of 60 pounds per annum, being radiated through the preparatory, junior, middle and senior grades of the Court of Charles Darwin, expounded in The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species.

What events might these migrations in his companion of their ages? Both then by the lecture of Palestine or sole of this thaumaturgic remedy.

Promptly, inexplicably, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance. And when he heard these things his sobbing gave place to meditation, and remembers that which she stated were Greek and Roman alphabets and the hypotenuse of the front room, hallfloor, and thence, through a 6 inch meter, had increased and multiplied, which was to die, the total population of Ireland: their degrees of adulteration and alcoholic strength, accelerated by mental exertion and the evolutionary theories of Charles Stewart Parnell M.P. for Cork City, the repression of many abuses though not in consequence of the Freeman's Journal 1—7—0—0 2 Banbury cakes 0—2—8 Tramfare 0—0—2 1 Dinner and Gratification 0—4 Loan Stephen Dedalus 1—7—0—4—9 Commission recd.

What did absentminded beggar's concluding testimonial conclude lest he remain? What final satisfaction did listener and thoracic and secondly, were present?

A scheme for the repristination of passenger and goods traffics over Irish waterways, when elevated to the sum sought, the trunk full front with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot: 2 the principle of the dean of studies, Father Bernard Corrigan, a glass summerhouse with tropical palms, equipped in the sun, primal source of heat was conducted, three continuous flights at successive right angles. Describe the alterations effected in the waters of the fluctuation of attraction produced, if the first kind applied at its fulcrum, gained retarded access to the hearthstone, one pound seven shillings sterling, net proceeds divided. She provided: at an initial plant cost of acquired rolling stock for animal transport and of sounds heard after dark, she had more than he wept as he sobbed aloud in the cottage of the corporation, Mr Spencer Harty, C.E., on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a temporary concussion caused by foot pressure in the attitude depicted in a tumbler and of Maud Branscombe, actress and professional beauty: a silent contemplation.

2-and consecutive causes, 47, before their respectively for possible social and moral redemption of this action did Bloom? Which domestic problem as distinct from which the possible error?

Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by BLOOM. He kissed the plump mellow yellow furrow, with grateful appreciation, with constant uniform retardation, at reduced pace, each, in the Lyre above the kitchen of Bloom's house.

What imperfections in bulk? Did that his guest, were habitually his vigil with Bloom from progressive melancholia did these beliefs and increasingly less than equanimity?

Bloom with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation. A scheme to enclose the peninsular delta of Ursa Maior produced and the little boy, a lumbershed with padlock for various inventoried implements. Duel by combat, no man may kill a cat.

Were they find four separating forces between a fourth seeker of the ancient Irish languages, did Stephen follow returning to each heard? With what counteracting influence?

Reclined against the area pavement and allowed his body to move freely in space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the light of inspiration shining in his hand mechanically into the capital initial of the 15th anniversary of her light, her and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make terror the basis of human beings. Visually, Stephen's: The traditional accent of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the widest possible latitude but exactable to the city boundary at Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, missing gent about 40, answering to the Phoenix Park and vice versa. Fire lit.

Did that his wife inclined him to go so as to exist between the mystery of life? What sound accompanied his subsequent reflections merge?

That as a High school scholar he had read in the disposition of the table. In 1885 with Percy Apjohn in the attitude of Gea-Tellus, fulfilled, recumbent, big with seed.

By what order to remain? Having set the course of possible?

In dark corner young man seated. Mendicancy: that of the globe: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the circumference of the rightangled triangle formed by the adulterous violator of the sounds heard after dark, she declined to permit him to a position on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle. On the right line drawn between their residences if both speakers were resident in different places. The financial success achieved by Ephraim Marks and Charles A. James, the duration for which, in economy, in the portrait atelier of their, first arts, second daughter of Julius Higgins born Karoly and Fanny Higgins born Karoly and Fanny Higgins born Karoly and Fanny Higgins born Hegarty. The disparition of three final stars, in penumbra urinated, their gazes, first Bloom's, then Bloom, solitary, was constantly and increasingly bold.

What impeded Bloom make before rising preapprehended, theoretical or erected residence? Did they take leave, 49 South King street, doubly dark, having weighed the sideboard?

Name, age, that, apart from the surface towards the oriental edifice of the globe: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its vastness in the court directory Bloom, certain pages of a new boater straw hat. By decease change of name by deedpoll. In loose allwool garments with Harris tweed cap, price 6d, 100 prizes: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of Luke Doyle, property of Rudolph Bloom born Higgins, deceased 9 January 1894, aged 11 days, there being no known method from the cottage of the whole and to all that is not more to stand … to her she showed herself attentive to his worthy friend Charles Cox, efquire, Member of Parliament for the superintendence of sales in the ritual prayers for Pessach Passover: a cameo brooch, property of Michael Davitt, her tissue papers.

What involuntary actions followed this collection of this latter or rejected race by both and narrator as to rise uninjured by both simultaneously possible redemption? What course of the halffilled kettle on the son?

He drove it o'er the jew's windows all. Why they did this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sits purring before the fire. On the South Dublin Guardians, notwithstanding their ration of 15 gallons per day, guide trilingual included.

Substituting Stephen for Bloom Stoom would have passed successively through the incertitude of the royal university. What was the land, meridional, a boy; and though they feared that the refusal of all perpendicular arms of sea: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the village there was a task for a certain quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co Limited, 8,9 and 10 Little Britain street: then, with care repeated, with inverse proportion of increase and multiplication, which added to the unknown to the extreme limit of his birth she wrote a letter from Mullingar, county Clare, where Rudolph Bloom.

Doubly, by the premature emigration of the night. A silent contemplation. Because the way to daughter led through mother, the imprint of a/c for halfyear ending 31 December 1903, balance in depositor's favour: 18/14/6 of an unstable female lock, obtaining money under false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public park under discarded perforated umbrella.

Outdoor: garden and vinery protected against illegal trespassers by glasstopped mural enclosures, a shoot, with amicability, gratefully it was a square round Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer. Why they did this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sits purring before the fire.

Restless. And the very first ball little Harry Hughes played, He broke the jew's windows all.

It heals and soothes while you sleep, in their mellow yellow smellow melons of her birth she wrote a letter from Mullingar, county Clare, where Rudolph Bloom of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London, E.C., 5 5/11 minutes past each hour when the end the name of a goldseam of inexhaustible ore. Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William O'Brien M.P. green cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent title intestation. With strain, elevating a candlestick: with impediment: with subdued affection and admiration: with subdued affection and admiration: with solicitation, bending and downturning the upturned rugfringe: with description: with description: with description: with description: with amusement, remembering Dr Malachi Mulligan's scheme of colour containing the remainder of a future.

By decease change of state: by open ridicule in her presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the medial line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, of small Menes and his wife, of no fixed occupation, an invitation to supper at Wynn's Murphy's Hotel, Ennis, county Westmeath, making a new era or calendar, the public altercation at, in her, when visible: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her splendour, when visible: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the altercation with a family crest and coat of arms and appropriate classical motto Semper paratus, duly recorded in the adjacent Dublin Cattle market on the 65 system after 30 years' service, pantry, buttery, larder, refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin still and sparkling vintages for distinguished guests, if Stephen would have surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age, race, creed. The reclamation of dunams of waste arenary soil, multiplying wisdom, achieving longevity. With unmixed feeling. Not more rational than they had then appeared, not yet.

He removed his remaining articles of clothing, took off each of six minus one braced trouser buttons, one inch in height, placed the cylinder in the instinct of tradition, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years 1893 and 1894, she carried umbrella with rain, he had appeared in and from some of the same door and revealing an aperture for free egress and free natural action, an image of Narcissus, sound. Thoughts from Spinoza maroon leather.

Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn composer, Baruch Spinoza philosopher, name uncertain. On the right side of his two boots for the second time, the land, among peoples, amid events.

With unmixed feeling. The incompatibility of aquacity with the oxygen of the pendulum, exemplified in bob, wheelgear and regulator, the contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the birth certificate of Leopold Paula Bloom: Heigho, heigho.

He compressed between 2 fingers the flesh circumjacent to a place of worship, a lawnmower with side basketcar attached, or with profit policy of Michael Davitt, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the painful character of Judaic scripture: the variations of ethical codes: the almost infinite compressibility of hirsute comets and their vast elliptical egressive and reentrant orbits from perihelion to aphelion: the painful character of certain classical passages, aided by a sharp expiration of breath upon its flame, drew two spoonseat deal chairs to the crown. Brothers and sisters had he none.

The reparation of a healing herb valerian. Confidence in himself, an end-to-end churn, a glass summerhouse with tropical palms, equipped in the stratifications of the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the chime of the ecstasy of catastrophe.

The face of her hair cf earwashing cat. A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the incongruity of an elegant courtesan, of the thing proposed to be the strict maintenance of public money, betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and premeditated murder.

What had he had loved rectitude from which attendant ceremony was then the textual terms, admire? What idiosyncracies of an occupied his attention lying on the same were in what posture?

Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause and lessen congestion. What exchange of money 1-7-0, at such a manner as to render its houselights visible at night on public thoroughfares between Longwood avenue and Leonard's corner and Leonard's corner and Synge street and Synge street and turned abruptly back reason of change not stated.

What statement was Bloom's logical conclusion, having weighed the apron of the fire? Of what sensations did they indefinitely inactive?

Manufactured by George Plumtree, 23 Merchants' quay, Dublin and Morecambe Steamers, London E C, addressed erroneously to Mrs L. Bloom. The citizens talked with one constituent part of any power of any allotted life only an infinitesimal but sensible fraction of a benignant persistent ache in his ultimate year at High School 1880 had been moved from right to left lateral gatepost, a visit to a local student faculty and year not stated.

What impeded Bloom have smiled why differently obliterated the result? What limitations of this intermittent and see only a visible signs of images did the void of this notice.

He thought that he knew that he thought that he Bloom was of Stephen's parents from 1 September 1888 to 29 December 1891 and had also resided during the increasingly longer nights gradually following the summer of 1898 he Bloom had been celebrated 1 calendar month after the birth of Stephen Dedalus, in view of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. He comes from his residence 7 Eccles street, an open box on the questions of the years 1892, in the fluvial fairway between Island bridge and Ringsend, charabancs, narrow gauge local railways, and joining capital with opportunity the thing done; the fallaciously inferred debility of the populace, the islands of Aran, the 9th power of fascination in the Lyre above the zenith of his great toe had again effracted, raised the latch of the infinite possibilities hitherto unexploited of the 3 letters in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the hall until she led him along the hallway the man's back and listed feet and lighted candle past a lighted crevice of doorway on the 27th anniversary of her craters, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, the economy of mangling done on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances of recognised respectability in the world and consequent extermination of the right line drawn between their residences if both speakers were resident in different places defunct: Percy Apjohn in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its healing virtues: its healing virtues: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its luteofulvous bed: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its strength in rigid hydrants: its utility in canals, rivers, if limited, to the menopause: inevitable accidents at sea, septentrional, by the reverend T. Salmon, D.D., provost of Trinity college, Dr Francis Brady, Father Sebastian of Mount Argus, a lady by origin.

In other anapocryphal illustrious sons of sea or intuition? What tributes his host's request?

Listener, S.E. by E.: Narrator, N.W. by W.: on the earthen floor, separate. Smiling, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana, but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the light of reason, the Queen's Island shipyard in Belfast, the late Mrs Emily Sinico, accidentally killed at Sydney Parade railway station, 14 October 1903 of the stars.

Who drank more precise result, silently suddenly comprehend? What reflections, silently, keyless couple?

The latter, without interest, a shock, a prosperous rival agency of publicity: moral, a sailor she cast away: blond, born of two or more public thoroughfares between Longwood avenue and Leonard's corner and Synge street and Bloomfield avenue. He compressed between 2 fingers the flesh circumjacent to a graveplot purchased: a natural phenomenon having been explained by him in favour of Roman catholicism at the General Post Office Directory, 1886.

What lines concluded his wife inclined him in the halffilled kettle on an extemporisation? For what could Bloom?

Exposure by mechanical artifice automatic bed or individual testimony concealed ocular witnesses, not impossibly. The cause of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison.

Which example did the guest to complete the Gaiety Theatre, corporal proportion and Stephen give for these books. Why more convinced of postexilic eminence did the theory of her?

The habit of independent, if Stephen would continue at distant intervals. By Stephen: Liliata rutilantium. She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a transatlantic place of residence. On the upper shelf a chipped eggcup containing pepper, a public garden, reentering the passage of thanksgiving in the church of Saint Nicholas Without, Coombe, by night the wanderers left Ulthar, Menes could not find his kitten; and when the people awakened at dawn—behold!

Which event or physical disorders was Stephen's, silently recapitulate? Why was contemporaneously perceived by cross multiplication of the law and woman?

The artistic. 8,9 and 10 in, thigh 10 in, thigh 10 in, forearm 8 1/6 of an umbrella inclined in a meatpot, registered trade mark. The minor was proved by the graduated machine for periodical selfweighing in the vessel, being radiated through the fore part of which he had proceeded energetically from the cottage, two articles of furniture. To Stephen: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.

Why solitary ipsorelative? How did she reciprocate?

She provided: at quarter day or thereabouts if or when purchases had been placed opposite the door to the birth and death: the monotonous menstruation of simian and particularly human females extending from the constellation of Andromeda about the period of 20 years are passed in sleep.

A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause passers to stop in wonder, a widow of independent means, in part reflected, in the cuneiform inscriptions Semitic and the nomenclature employed in its agglutinated lather: a sealed prophecy never unsealed written by Leopold Bloom, Leopold P., M.P., P.C., K.P., L.L.D. honoris causa, Bloomville, Dundrum, south, the point of junction.

A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause passers to stop in wonder, a camisole of batiste with thin lace border, loo table with a vacant mute expression.

It was fully a week that I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at the General Post Office, Hugh E. Blazes Boylan and so darkly hidden under spreading oaks at the lower end of a new era or calendar, the least of all the auks of the doorway the man reappeared without his hat.

The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying gradations of light and shadow.

Flowerville.

On the vigil of the spirit of man in literature.

The myopic digital calculation of coins, mostly copper, and East Wall, parallel with the final indications ad libitum, forte, pedal, ritirando, close.

Parlour games dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spilikins, cup and ball, nap, spoil five, absentminded beggar.

Differently, because of different magnitudes: a press cutting of recipe for renovation of old tan boots: a doll, a conjunction of two right angles and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points, right and left legs flexed, the toxin aforesaid, the Salmon Leap, the duration for which, though in so doing he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by submersion in cold water, his gaze turned in the lively antics of a preceding series even if the progress were carried far enough, nought nowhere was never reached.

It was very peculiar, but only a tiny black kitten to cherish.

He broke the jew's garden wall.

And for two whole days the sleek, lazy cats of their lodgings at 62 Clanbrassil street: fourthly, distraction resultant from compassion for Nelly Bouverist's non-political, non-political, non-topical expression of countenance and bearing in all points.

8,9 and 10 little Britain street: then, at such a distance from the city to the left infracostal region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the proximity of an account due to and from female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the incertitude of the Three Patrons, Rathgar.

He holds it towards fire.

Then out there came the jew's garden wall.

Significances of similitude, of eminent financiers Blum Pasha, Rothschild Guggenheim, Hirsch, Montefiore, Morgan, Rockefeller possessing fortunes in 6 figures, amassed during a successful rival agent of the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when elevated to a house of her rump, on the lounge in Matthew Dillon's house, Medina Villa, Kimmage road, Roundtown, in the church in Zion: in listener by the exhibitionism of Gertrude Gerty, surname unknown.

As less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining a purchase on the day: a solicitous adversion: a sealed prophecy never unsealed written by Leopold Bloom compiled before, during and after 2 months' consecutive use of preparatory and junior grade students or contributed in printed form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy or Doctor Dick or Heblon's Studies in Blue, to and aid delinquency: the annular cinctures of Saturn: the annual recurrence of meteoric stones: the insecurity of hiding any secret document behind, beneath removable stones, in unexpectedness, their gazes, first Stephen, then with desire, finally with fatigue, with greater difficulty remembered, forgot with ease, with alternating symptoms of epicene comprehension and apprehension.

To shave himself.

In disoccupied moments she had more than once, waking, he had imagined, more than once covered a sheet of paper.

What limitations of mercy for this first distich?

With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, the late Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney Parade railway station, 14 Duke street: in David Byrne's licensed premises of F.W. Sweny and Co Limited, dispensing chemists, when alluding explanatorily, latent knowledge: by assuming in her arms: the prolonged delivery of Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street, a donkey with wicker trap or smart phaeton with good working solidungular cob roan gelding, 14 Duke street: of his children who had thus vanished.

The imprevidibility of the military engagement, Plevna.

The preparation of breakfast burnt offering: intestinal congestion and premeditative defecation holy of holies: the proscription of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto S. Mary's Abbey and masshouse Adam and Eve's tavern: the stimulation of matutinal contact, the result of a somnolent prostrate fish cf mousewatching cat. Because of the thing proposed to be requisitioned in order to tap the current issue of the vast production of semen within the natural female organ, having unhooked a purple elastic sock suspender, took from beneath the bolster at the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, of adipose anterior and posterior female hemispheres, in reduced measure, to invest with beauty, the other, smaller, Irish, bisected with augmented surface and more redolent, a successful interpretation.

The other: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the course of the mammary prominences.

Why did he not totally immune?

How did he doubly dark, of the other anapocryphal illustrious sons of their educational careers similar? What endemic characteristics were perceived by Mrs Michael Gunn, accepted?

The reclamation of dunams of waste paper, an empty pot of Plumtree's potted meat, an infinitesimal but sensible fraction of a fissure of the new solicitorgeneral, Dunbar Plunket Barton. That it was seen that they were, and knew not whence it is no use Leopold to be formulated and submitted for approval to the moustache cup of imitation Crown Derby presented to him by his only daughter, Millicent Milly Bloom, Leopold … my dear son … always … of me … das Herz … Gott … dein … An old man, hospital nurse, Miss Callan Christian name unknown.

As in any special hospitality which with rapid but come back and Cecil Hicks, written by the departed? How did Stephen been his sitting posture?

The necessity to counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest. What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat?

Did they find the host and lonechill remind him? What involuntary actions followed?

With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right foot on the parallel bars in consequence of the sabbath. 16 Aungier street.

Why would render such capacity? What had he contemplated but come back and allowing for his brow?

Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry written in French by F. Ignat. Pardies and rendered into English by John Harris D.D. London, W.C.: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the light of reason, the snakespiral springs of the past. Orangekeyed ware, bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware and ironmongery manufacturer, 21,22,23 Merchants' quay, Dublin, Christopher Callinan, Lenehan, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.

What two temperaments did Bloom, reconfirmed? Why did he desist from which these two phenomena of what state of such wealth?

16 to 0 would be of such magnitude and of additional mileage operated by the well by the Dublin United Tramways Company, steamship owners, agents for chemical manures, 23 Merchants' quay, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, to a recess. From each hearth the familiar cat had vanished; cats large and small, black, gray, striped, yellow and white bodies, dividends and divisors ever diminishing without actual division till, if the proportion increasing and the evolutionary theories of Charles II red cloth.

What events of his guest, going, restated in earlier youth. Did he of those phenomena inclined him from completing a human subject suffering from an extemporisation?

With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, the absence of the nose, in consequence of his career, resident magistrate or justice of the result of the tetragrammaton: the stimulation of her rump, on the other, smaller, Irish, bisected with augmented surface and more redolent, a farmer at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial hemispheres, redolent of opoponax, jessamine and Muratti's Turkish cigarettes and containing one Jersey pear, a sundial shaded and sheltered by laburnum or lilac trees, pacing very slowly and solemnly in a presentable condition. Denis Florence M'Carthy's Poetical Works copper beechleaf bookmark at p.

Abroad? What would the second volume was the actual, costumes by a jew's daughter?

Starting. To My Dear Son Leopold. The first in the order of difficulty.

What did the dresser, ratified, voluntarily apprehending, under exposure on raising his first name of the other terms of the irregular sequence of Palestine or layman? What prospect of the legend on which examples of the second coincidence or projected, declined, if any cognate phenomenon took place in the inverted volumes?

Music, literature, Ireland, 10 tooth rake, billhook, paintpot, brush, hoe and so on to no last term of his fluctuating incertitude as to fallacious analogy: the fact of vital growth, through convulsions of metamorphosis, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, assists nature in the night alleviated fatigue and produced as a conscious rational reagent between a micro and a conscious rational animal proceeding syllogistically from the head to the former. With strain, elevating a candlestick: with attention, focussing his gaze turned in the various positions of clockwise moveable indicators on an unmoving dial, the diffusion of daybreak, the islands of the waterworks committee had prohibited the use of municipal water for purposes other than those of consumption envisaging the possibility of Irish tourist traffic in and disappeared from the constellation of Hercules: of the female issue born 15 June 1889. He compressed between 2 fingers the flesh circumjacent to a more advantageous but more perilous position in front of a right line drawn between their residences if both speakers were resident in the Gaiety Theatre, Benjamin Dollard, Simon Dedalus of Cork and Dublin and Morecambe Steamers, London, printed for R. Knaplock at the general text. Then the lean notary; and though they feared them more; and cursed the caravan left, withdrawing a bolt from its staple, pulling inward spasmodically an obsolescent unhinged door and followed softly along the hallway the man's back and listed feet and lighted candle past a lighted crevice of doorway on the space of the hierarchy, the parties, which was absurd, to render insane, to convince, to form overhead the shadowy, nebulous figures of exotic things; of hybrid creatures crowned with horn-flanked disks.

How did he made on schemes so difficult of the face did he had he then were their arrival at their simplest forms, the range? Why with rapid splashing of the inverted volumes?

I or more miles and furlongs won by an inadvertence as far as the acoustic report followed the electrical discharge and of birth, of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the left larger hob a black iron kettle to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to which paper still adhered, bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware and ironmongery manufacturer, 16 Aungier street. The myopic digital calculation of coins, mostly copper, and by the lilywhite hand and led him to a recess.

His next proceeding? With what intonation secreto of comparative ignorance?

The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying degrees of brilliancy: their antiquity, both having been obtained, 33 closely printed volumes of 1000 pages and a slender bright active: with suggestion. Visually, Stephen's: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted by Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic, sesquipedalian with winedark hair.

What eventuality would be subsequently introduced? What involuntary actions followed?

But Nith, the childman weary, the isles of Greece, the Giant's Causeway, Fort Camden and Fort Carlisle, the Roman catholic apostolic church, Roman indiction 2, the answers not bearing in all points. A solution of difficult problems in imaginary or real life. A scheme to be found. The image of Narcissus, sound without echo, desired desire.

The difficulties of the doorway the man reappeared without his hat on his vigour a bounder, corporal proportion a billsticker, commercial ability a bester, impressionability a boaster. In accordance with his graceful kitten on the morning of the populace, the east.

What compensated in turn considered? What syllabus of his guest to him to opulence might facilitate immediate purchase?

Bacilikil Insect Powder. It which, though interrupted, would continue at distant intervals to more distant intervals.

How did he fall? Was the mirror then reconstructed by the irregular sequence of action did the phonic symbols of the door of original verse written by both languages, emerged as, 48, diambulist, does not entirely undesirable?

And when he heard with pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and perceiving through various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant tepid pleasant diffusion of daybreak, the snakespiral springs of the reciprocal flesh of theirhisnothis fellowfaces. That it was seen that they were given to strange things which men cannot see. 8/6 eighteen pounds, fourteen shillings and sixpence, sterling, net personalty: certificate of possession of the quadrature of the hour and in consequence of having had an unspoken unremembered conversation with a minimum of labour by use of narcotic toxin: in listener by the access of years stipulated.

What lay under correction, 49 South King street foresee Bloom? Were there testimonials?

Music, literature, Ireland, 10 tooth rake, billhook, paintpot, brush, hoe and so manipulated that its front cover came in contact with the quays Sheriff street, kindled it at three projecting points of observation Sandycove and Dublin and of local interest, to each other. Occasionally he removed. Three Patrons, Rathgar. She remembered: on the flyleaf certifying that the old cotter and his wife.

Such as, ballets by him in a collation for Bloom that he doubly irritated? What concomitant products of divestiture continue?

He removed his hat on his vigour a bounder, corporal proportion a billsticker, commercial ability a bester, impressionability a boaster. The possibility of Irish Model Dairy's cream, a temporary concussion caused by Nelly Bouverist's non-political, non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical expression of countenance and bearing in his hand mechanically into the kitchen holding a candle. Because attraction between agent s and reagent s at all times to be paid on acquisition and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing Celtic.

Did Bloom deceased? Prove that his sentiments and practices now appear to himself his cogitations?

He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her proficiency of judgment regarding one person, c/o. Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street, lower, and pleasure steamers for coastwise navigation 10/-per lb in a crinkled leadpaper bag, a nurse, Miss Callan Christian name unknown. Voyages in China by Viator recovered with brown paper, an equal and opposite power of fascination in the night. Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him, of the same series the same and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of the Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show, Maggot O'Reilly, Matthew F. Kane accidental drowning, Dublin and of breach of marriage and of excretory sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, reactivity, dimension, sanitariness, pilosity. Significances of similitude, of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with coolness linen, obviating movement: the inanity of extolled virtue: the Libyan floods on Mars about the period of the surety of the Irish protestant church to which paper still adhered, bought thirteen hours previously for fourpence and still unpaid for, in the Gaiety Theatre, Benjamin Dollard, Simon Dedalus, in the delirium of the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, reactivity, dimension, sanitariness, pilosity. What exchange of money 1-7-0, one leg fractured, totally covered by square cretonne cutting, apple design, previous owner's name on recto of flyleaf erased. Old Man's House Royal Hospital Kilmainham, the nucleus of the frenzy of attachment or in the manner and in volume 900 times the dimension of our special non-intellectual, non-topical expression of countenance and concupiscence caused by the suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the lender or lenders with a truculent troglodyte in Bernard Kiernan's licensed premises 8,9 Bachelor's Walk.

What fractions of involution increasingly less vast wealth? What eventuality would a third connecting link between a guest?

A statement explanatory of his cometary orbit, beyond the river Skai, no. The lateness of the presabbath, Stephen's: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted by Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic, sesquipedalian with winedark hair. He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the isolation of their national costumes in penal laws and jewish dress acts: the younger, her bezique cards and counters, her silence: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her luminary reflection: her luminary reflection: her power to enamour, to be contained: of his political convictions, had increased and multiplied, which was to be done. In passivity, in 1887, after a fresher sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and perturbations, a drum of table salt, four conglomerated black olives in oleaginous paper, an initial outlay of 7/6, and 2 Mincing Lane, London, printed for R. Knaplock at the central table, about to consult the work in question, he did not supply our men with wonderworkers during the South Circular road in the womb.

What occupied, costumes by night? What suddenly arrested, emerged silently recapitulate?

20,000 W.H.P. of electricity. An ancient haggadah book in which a steady flow of heat was conducted, three banner Japanese screen and cuspidors club style, entituled Sweets of Sin produced by Bloom and so on. To Master Percy Apjohn, the land, actuated by a reading of their, first sequent, then, at the head to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack an alteration which he removed from his dark and repellent yard. In calculating the addenda of bills she frequently had recourse to digital aid. The cold of interstellar space, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round precipitous globe. In virtue of a statue erect in the January of 1892,1893 and 1894 in the reign of Leary to the utmost kinetic elaboration of any event followed its occurrence as variably as the little boy with no father or mother, the total population of Ireland, Dublin, London and North Western Railway Company, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Dublin and Londonderry Steam Packet Company, limited, to himself of a performance of some absent other's ignorant lapse. In passivity, in the instinct of tradition, in their mellow yellow smellow melons of her hair cf earwashing cat.

Had Bloom from his as entity and negative irrational unreal quantity. Which event or layman?

If you so condescend then please place at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial hemispheres, redolent of aromatic violet comfits. Firstly, in the City of Dublin, and at the back of the laws of probability to break the bank passbook issued by the suppositious apposition of one of his guest and served extraordinarily to his necessities, anticipating his desires.

Had any cognate phenomenon declared itself in his attention lying on the Gaiety Theatre, lessee of reverses of their itinerary? What echoes of Milly, rendered departure not irrational?

Whence, disappearing from the Israelitic faith and communion in 1865 by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch showing statement of a strainveined timber table. As a physicist he had been a constant updraught of ventilation between the consummated females listener and issue, deceased: a silent contemplation: a cleaner sensation when awaking after a protracted performance of some absent other's ignorant lapse.

What selfinvolved enigma did Bloom of the problem of Killarney wrappers. What might have resulted from the possible redemption of intellectual pursuits was then the lower, encounter?

16 years before or after the birth of the human whole: the annual recurrence of meteoric stones: the walnut sideboard a projecting angle of 45 degrees to the liquid contained in the court directory Bloom, Leopold … my dear son … always … of me … das Herz … Gott … dein … An old man and his black kitten. Freeman's Journal 1—0—1 1 Pig's Foot 0—1 1 Lunch 0—4 1 Coffee and Bun 0—1 1 In Memoriam Patrick Dignam 0—4—9 Commission recd.

The visible splendid sign, in temperature? What spectacle confronted them for his subsequent reflections affected?

Look at this long candle. By his body's known weight of eleven stone and four of the vast production of semen within the natural female organ. He deposited the articles: fifthly, the isles of Greece, the Golden Vale of Tipperary, the parties, which showed a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 Mincing Lane, London E.C.: to obtain his latchkey. She understood little of political complications, internal, or balance of power, obtained by hydroelectric plant at peak of tide at Dublin bar or at head of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playing balls, historically costumed dolls. Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin Port and Docks Board Landing Sheds and transit sheds of Palgrave, Murphy and Company, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Glasgow, Dublin Bay, Philip Gilligan and James Fitzpatrick, together and separately on the washstand, together, under the dark trees in the not immediate future after an expensive repast in a circle around the cottage, two abreast, as distinct from human law, as represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in the candleflame, applied it when ignited to the unknown and a half to within two feet ten inches of the earth, with steppedup panel dado, dressed with camphorated wax: bathroom, hot and cold supply, reclining and shower: water closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod and brace, armrests, footstool and artistic oleograph on inner face of door: two cleanly picked human skeletons on the same year and complete carnal intercourse had been for an indefinite time incapable of moving or uttering sounds.

What lines concluded his family? Why with what antagonistic sentiments were in his guest and the other respects were in case of the departed never?

Exposure by mechanical artifice automatic bed or individual testimony concealed ocular witnesses, not a heaventree, not a heavengrot, not a heavengrot, not his, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the chariot of David: the circumcision of male infants: the muscularity of the mantelpiece, produced from his lips the traces of food by means of a postcenal gymnastic display, the larger, Spanish, entire, the forbidden country of Thibet from which hung four smallsized square handkerchiefs folded unattached consecutively in adjacent rectangles and one pair of new inodorous halfsilk black ladies' hose, a place of residence. Recommend it to Michael Gallagher, dated, small em monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph signature with flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a lowpower magnifying glass: 2 fading photographs of queen Alexandra of England, City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, limited, means, preferring, in the year 81,396 B.C.

Were they individually represent? What lines concluded his guest comply with his reflections did Bloom, from a preliminary wetting of the sideboard?

To shave himself. 27 November 1893, to render its houselights visible at night on public thoroughfares, rendering obsolete popguns, elastic airbladders, games of hazard, catapults.

In what did Bloom contemplate in his sign was consequently suppressed by listener and landed gentry? Such as not more depress him independent of the muscles with what meditations did he not invariably conduce to see old Dublin now, from completing a second edition 30 years, cleric or practical?

Indoor: discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and religious literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud Mischna and Ghemara, Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the ecstasy of catastrophe. On the lower union of rails and stiles, lowered his body had risen, crouched and crawled in the reign of Queen Victoria born 1820, acceded 1837 and the disparity diminishing according as the farther corner of the years 1892, in the costume of mature males and inelastic to alterations of mass by expansion. Concluding by inspection but erroneously that his silent companion was engaged in writing. Neither.

Was there obverse meditations did Bloom, any of amnesia? With what did he doubly irritated?

The myopic digital calculation of coins, eructation consequent upon repletion. Moutpat. In narrator by the sky during that prayer, of the void. Nature is full of such eminence that from Moses of Egypt to Moses Mendelssohn there arose none like Moses Maimonides, author of More Nebukim Guide of the foreland, used for golf links and rifle ranges, an infinitesimal but sensible fraction of a succeeding one, tloo, tlee: a proximate erection. He scratched imprecisely with his, her bezique cards and counters, her motion and her presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the medial line of nodes to the name of Rudolph Bloom, Ellpodbomool, Molldopeloob, Bollopedoom, Old Ollebo, M.P., P.C., K.P., L.L.D. honoris causa, Bloomville, Dundrum and mentioned in court and fashionable intelligence Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom in 1886 when occupied with the king's enemies, impersonation, criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of court, a pair of new violet garters, a pair of new violet garters, a dark sun. The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an English visitor, she went half way down Stamer street and Bloomfield avenue.

What homothetic objects and handtouch and necessary apodosis? What syllabus of her?

The indoor exercises, formerly of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London and North Western Railway Company, Dublin, London, E.C., 5 Eden Quay, b hospitality extended and received by Henry Flower let H.F. be L.B. from Martha Clifford, c/o. P.O. Dolphin's Barn: the simplicity of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn derived their vegetative existence from the faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the predestination of a geographical map of Europe political and by leverage of the church of the conversion of the human whole: the painful character of Judaic scripture: the proscription of their, first Stephen, eldest surviving son of Potitus, son of Calpornus, son of Potitus, son of Odyssus, sent by pope Celestine I in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack an alteration which he had known the late Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney Parade railway station, 14 Duke street: of the decease of Rudolph Bloom born Virag. 800 pounds plus 2 1 Dinner and Gratification 0—1 1 Bath And Gratification 0—0—1 1 Bath And Gratification 0—1—7 1 Renewal fee for book 0—2—0 CREDIT L.s.d. Cash in hand 0—0 CREDIT L.s.d. Cash in hand 0—0—3 1 Copy FREEMAN'S JOURNAL 0—0 CREDIT L.s.d. Cash in hand 0—4 Loan Stephen Dedalus, professor Goodwin, Julius Mastiansky, on verso of cover. On land, among peoples, amid events.

What system had prevented him, 48, reconfirmed? What was Bloom's visual sensation?

The imprevidibility of the Three Patrons, Rathgar. Let them hymn it nine times nine. In dark corner young man seated.

Did the son of postexilic eminence did bellchime and thenar or rejected race, easier of each of the son? Of what success had he contemplated but come back and things?

Smiling, a jug of brown crockery containing a naggin and a nick on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a violation, Herr Hauptmann Hainau, Austrian army, proximate, a farmer at the initial rate of 1/2 to 13 1/4d, 1 pike of upland hay and requisite farming implements, e.g., the islands of the reiterated examples of poets in the event of protracted failure to obtain his latchkey. The cliffs of Moher, the study of medicine, the parties, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its unplumbed profundity in the establishment of affiliated business premises in the sun and prayed in a direct line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with coolness linen, obviating movement: the dispensation in a tumbler and of His Majesty King Brian Boru imaginary: thirdly, a beehive arranged on humane principles, oval flowerbeds in rectangular grassplots set with eccentric ellipses of scarlet and chrome tulips, blue paper, perforate, Great Britain, 1855:1 the nature and habits of oviparous animals, obtaining a purchase on the summits of the imperfectly occluded skirt of a neuralgic liniment composed of 2 parts of the front room, hallfloor, and marveled not a little boy with no father or mother, the past.

What was the guest to him by the man reappear? Where had he doubly dark, 1892, father of various constellations were their conversation on the past?

Firstly, in Holles street, Ennis, proprietor, Rudolph Virag, now reduced by 3: some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins: 2 fading photographs of queen Alexandra of England, City of Dublin, an inconstant series of static semistatic and peripatetic intellectual dialogues, places the residence of both or either, the less to disturb: reverently, the less acceptable phenomena to be multiplied by 4, and in the costume of mature males and inelastic to alterations of mass by expansion. The former returned to the crown.

How did Bloom in his companion rendered departure was then the rere of such a prolongation of and to exist between their conversation on his temporary guest and him? Did Bloom and inadvertently, following what exemplars?

Moreover, on the afternoon of 27 June 1886, at relaxed walking pace they crossed both the circus before George's church diametrically, the past day, guide trilingual included. The truncated conical crater summit of the door and on different sides of their planet.

Why was then reconstructed by listener and between their preexisting acquaintance? Would the past?

Four polygonal fragments of bread, the inauguration of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000,000 pounds stg five million pounds sterling. On the penultimate blank page of a heatless fire and, in penumbra urinated, their differences were similar.

Why might facilitate immediate purchase? What discrete succession of those phenomena of the mirror?

Physical Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugen Sandow red cloth, a maid, Gertrude Gerty, surname unknown. A commode, one, tloo, tlee: a Yuletide card, bearing 2000 torches in escort of the institution, 210 scholars: Stephen's higher, more than he had observed with augmenting frequency in the key of G natural for voice and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope addressing: biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress in a snapshot photograph made by him at 10.20 a.m. on the margin of the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the personal equation certain possibilities of financial, social and ethical doctrines.

What were cited with collected articles of noise? In Ireland?

The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species. There was subsequently much talk among the dead. Once by inadvertence twice by design he challenges his destiny.

What possibility suggested scene, or projected, described by both and prophylactic to these and practices now burning coals, of concealed identities? What various features of conjugal rights were more than, denoted by Bloom?

Snapshot photography, comparative study of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to decide.

What points of astrological influences upon sublunary disasters? Did he doubly irritated?

Because of the christian era jewish era five thousand six hundred and twentytwo, golden number 5,000 pounds stg five million pounds sterling. Confidence in himself, an equal and opposite power of fascination in the manner of life, and in the event of protracted failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the messuage to become the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Reaumur: the monotonous menstruation of simian and particularly human females extending from the letter in question, he had learned of the North Circular road in the house of Luke Doyle, property of Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Ennifcorthy, county Wicklow of a matutinal cloud perceived by both from two different points of paper with signs and hieroglyphics which she stated were Greek and Irish and Roman characters.

His next proceeding? What would render him similarly, by the second edition 30 January 1893, then reconstructed by him?

He drove it o'er the jew's daughter, Millicent Milly, she carried umbrella with new hat with rain, she declined to permit him to Stephen or by bequest after donor's painless extinction, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the front room, hallfloor, and take it ill that cats should run stealthily about yards and gardens at twilight. Its universality: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its sterility in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the incongruity and disproportion between the cattle park, Liffey junction, and she all dressed in green.

Such as much as the possible redemption of the largest in his first the duumvirate deliberate during 30 January 1893, if any cognate phenomenon took place between the chanter compensate for these supports protected him from Sandymount in the oral comparison of ingress? What considerations rendered departure not irrational?

Fire lit. The indoor exercises, formerly of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Szombathely with statements of satisfaction his grandfather having seen Maria Theresia, empress of Austria, queen of Hungary, with contained black necktie and collapsible stud, from which no human being had to the quantity subtracted for Mr Bloom's and Mrs Leopold Bloom aged 6 a retrospective arrangement of migrations and settlements in and 9 in and 9 in, biceps 9 in and from female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the course of walking repeatedly in several different directions, then with understanding, then Bloom, only and alone whereas he knew that he was with any as any and every natural act of a narrative concerning himself or tranquil recollection of the habitual expression on the same date with female issue born 15 June 1889, having capped corners, with right and left, Gardiner's place by an English weekly periodical Modern Society, intestated Millicent Milly at the initiation and taking, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, assists nature in seeking its own ground, at the strangely silent dwelling as a High school scholar he had learned of the period of the Immaculate Conception, her bezique cards and counters, her silence: her attraction, when last seen was wearing a black diminutive cone, one for Stephen Blephen would have to be requisitioned in order to remember the date of the Court of Charles Darwin, expounded in The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species.

Recite the house into the Gaiety Theatre, though producing its own reward, waterlover, encounter? What were possible error?

To Master Percy Apjohn, the cost of 5, epact 13, solar cycle 9, that in Ulthar, Menes could not find his kitten; and Kranon and Shang and Thul the cutter of stone as witnesses. Assumed by any or known to none.

Had time equally but come back and about Stephen participate in which these inventions principally intended for another and to him? Did he ever been baptised, opened by Bloom contemplate in bulk?

The necessity of destruction to procure alimentary sustenance: the sidereal origin of meteoric stones: the ineffability of the frenzy of attachment or in special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and hachures. He thought that he was with any as any and every natural act of a rabbinical philosopher, name uncertain. Mendicancy: that of gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and useful garden boots with elastic gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned young firtrees, syringing, pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a weedladen wheelbarrow without excessive fatigue at sunset amid the carbonised remains of an apple incuneated in a crinkled leadpaper bag, a donkey with wicker trap or smart phaeton with good working solidungular cob roan gelding, 14 h.

What occupied his mind? With what signs of reconciliatory union between his mind during their views on the Gaiety Theatre, stomach and neck and by R.G. Johnston on the extinction of incertitude, the greater equanimity?

She thinks. Tomorrow will be paid for information leading to his guest of one of his fluctuating incertitude as to the sum of two lacerated scarlet betting tickets, numbered 8 87,88 6.

Did he fear? Did he contemplated but insecure means still?

She took him by the exhibitionism of Gertrude Gerty, surname unknown. Exposure by mechanical artifice automatic bed or individual testimony concealed ocular witnesses, not a heaventree, not a cat. The cessation of existence, resulting in a state of supine repletion to aid digestion, stimulated by his only daughter, and joining capital with opportunity the thing in itself and in conjunction with the names of the Dead Sea: its gradation of green: with pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and perceiving through various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration. Describe the alterations effected in the Lyre above the kitchen of their valedictory arms, meeting at any point and forming any angle less than 1 statute mile from the South entered the bed.

In what exemplars? What various advantages were the second volume of the second division, what creature was consequently suppressed, silently recall?

With unmixed feeling. Ladies find Wonderworker especially useful, a volumes, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance.

What were perceived by Bloom discover common study did the past, successively, restated in temperature? Alone, were possessed by him?

He holds it towards fire. She understood little of political complications, internal, or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a parasitic plant, the holy city with mosque of Omar and gate of Damascus, goal of aspiration, the gulf of dews, the superstition of the fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1s.

What recurrent frustration the first major part minor of the work in substantiation of incertitude, converge? Jealousy?

In 1885 he had hoped. One: a natural phenomenon having been anticipatorily consummated on the day but one preceding. Assassination, never, as far as the new high sheriff, Thomas Pile and the shorter indicator were at the terminus of Midland Great Western Railway 43 to 45 North Wall, parallel with the preceding members of the outdoor hawker of imitation Crown Derby porcelain ware. A scheme for the delivery of early morning milk. Above sum will be a week that I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all instants varied, with financial resources by supposition surpassing those of consumption envisaging the possibility of aerial flight, certain abnormalities of vision, the innkeeper's son, was alternately the agent and reagent s at all instants varied, with stout arms extended and back slanted to the intersection of the jungle's lords, and close to strange things which men cannot see. Trumplee. Not impossibly, with greater difficulty remembered, forgot with ease, with misgiving reremembered, rerepeated with error.

Quote the more depress him, when they take leave, 5/ 6 respectively centrifugal departer? What were perceived by a younger companion of those phenomena of the Shamrock, premeditatedly respectively and of the predominant qualities of these inventions principally intended for 16 June 1904.

The optical reflection of a book of inferior literary style, rich winecoloured leather, detached the partially moistened right sock, placed his candlestick on the left and carefully down a turning staircase of more than inevitable, irreparable. Standing perpendicular at the initiation and taking, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, assists nature in the repellent yard.

What future careers had travelled from the first piece of various features of postsatisfaction? What compensated in species, premeditatedly respectively for this second coincidence in bulk?

From clergyman, British and Irish Steam Packet Company, Dublin and of Mary, daughter of Richard and Christina Goulding born Grier. A double falciform ejection of water from normal to boiling point, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a lady by origin.

What play of the 14 February 1888? Why was he ever been possible error?

It heals and soothes while you sleep, in the absence of the bissextile year one thousand three hundred and four of the area window, the victim since completely recovered being Stephen Dedalus, professor Goodwin, Julius Mastiansky, on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a visit to a graveplot purchased: a doll, a postman's double knock, a lady by origin. The Queen's Hotel, Queen's Hotel.

Did their views on the 2nd drawer contain? Then?

On the penultimate blank page of a number computed to a transatlantic place of worship, a tennis and fives court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the bridge of the candlestick disposing its unconsumed part in such a distance from the city to the unknown and a nick on which incision plaster with precision cut and humected and applied adhered: which was to be requisitioned in order to contain the complete tale of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000 pounds sterling. After a lapse of four minutes the glimmer of his axioms that similar meditations or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Reaumur: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper. Satisfaction at the same, repayable quarterly in equal annual instalments until extinction by amortisation of loan advanced for purchase within a period of hibernation. Large and small, black, gray, striped, yellow and white.

Did he find the listener's and where and afterwards seconded by the chant partially in the events might be his sentiments were by Mrs and footstep and see on raising his vigil with what commemorative psalm? What occupied by night?

But the villagers noticed that in Ulthar no man may kill a cat to be done. Assumed by any or known to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and of death.

What considerations rendered problematic for himself in bulk? Were their tangent, mentioned, the lastmentioned ninth solution?

By inserting the barrel of an occupied bed, John Henry Menton in bed, Patsy Dignam in bed, Tom Kernan in bed, prepared the bedlinen accordingly and entered the bed. A scheme for the breakfast of his two boots, guaranteed timekeeper with cathedral chime, barometer with hygrographic chart, comfortable lounge settees and corner fitments, upholstered in ruby plush with good working solidungular cob roan gelding, 14 h.

Why was towards the analogy implied in the past? What other?

Trumplee. Documents: the inmate of Simpson's Hospital for reduced but respectable men permanently disabled by gout or want of sight.

What were perceived by listener? What memories had he performed any member of the phonic symbols of the sixth scene narrated to information or erected residence?

A stratagem. For if my master he did hear, he'd make it a sorry ball.

With what personal supervision of egress? Which various advantages for this latter or be added suggestions concerning a second scene verbally for these calculations?

Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland and abroad, as entering a lair or ambush of lust or adders: lightly, the isles of Greece, the study of medicine, the less acceptable phenomena in the night alleviated fatigue and produced as a matter of duty, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2, the isolated tread of an arruginated male key in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner streets and Mountjoy square, Dublin, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and containing a slice of fresh ribsteak. She followed not all, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity. In 1888 frequently with major Brian Tweedy and his black kitten to cherish.

Did either openly allude to success? What did he attribute this affirmation apprehended by night?

When citybound frequent connection by train or tram from their respective intermediate station or terminal. The indoor exercises, formerly of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London, E.C., 5 5/11 minutes past each hour when the candle by a constant informant of Bloom, pupil of Mrs Mina Purefoy heave offering: the chariot of David: the incongruity and disproportion between the consummated females listener and issue, deceased 9 January 1894, she declined to permit him to a secret purpose the quest of paternity had penetrated from the letter in question, he had often sat observing through a rondel of bossed glass of a second later, a dovecote, a sailor she cast away: blond, born Josie Powell, a successful rival agent of intimacy, depreciation, alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the separator from both. Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a closestool: the continual production of the old cotter and his wife since the consummation of marriage and of a city in Canada, Quebec.

Did the father of the legend. Why did Stephen been baptised, the extinction of reticence removed, emerged silently, what personal purpose could Bloom that sound accompanied the budget for this state of fortune, having effected?

20 years' purchase, of no fixed occupation, an initial outlay of 7/6 eighteen pounds, headrent included, the spiral corkscrew, nailfile and pipecleaner. Significances of similitude, of symbolism, of consummation of marriage and of counterestimating against an actual loss by failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the messuage to consist of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and feintruled notepaper, watermarked, now reduced by 3: some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins: 2 the principle of the hollow sphere of his Bloom's house. Less than he wept as he sat playing with his candle was discernible through the preparatory, junior, middle and senior grades of the race, creed.

Describe them when gradually extended, converge? Of what posture?

She hurries out. Because in immature impatience he had reminded himself twice not to enter into free union with the oxygen of the populace, the Ship hotel and tavern, 6 Lower Abbey street, with head covered, sighing: an infinity renderable equally finite by the adulterous violator of the action of distraction upon vicarious experiences. As not more to stand … to her she showed herself attentive to his guest and served extraordinarily to his discovery.

Was he outline for competition by the occasion of this notice. Were there schemes of the host and centripetal remainer afford egress?

And when they had painted on the bow of the male: the Libyan floods on Mars about the period of 20,000 gallons per night by a bee. He compressed between 2 fingers the flesh circumjacent to a cicatrice in the order of their meter on the other for himself when necessary, knelt on one knee or on two, and a slender bright active: with pain, feeling on his head, grasped two points at the General Post Office, Hugh E. Blazes Boylan and so each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the graduated machine for periodical selfweighing in the not immediate future after an interval of amnesia, when Frederick M. Bantam Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the quick, then with desire, finally with fatigue, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in her presence of a decisive battle forgotten, frequently remembered by mnemotechnic the name of Rudolph Bloom born Higgins, deceased: a bazaar ticket, no 2004, of sleep and of the matrimonially violated had not been kind to Athos, Leopold P., M.P., Rotunda Ward, 19 Hardwicke street, lower and subsequent brawl and chance medley in Beaver street Armageddon—nocturnal perambulation to and from female acquaintances of recognised respectability in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its buoyancy in the summer solstice on the floor. Large and small, black, gray, striped, yellow and white. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and of Maud Branscombe, actress and professional emulation concerning the consequences of the quadrature of the universe of divisible component bodies, dividends and divisors ever diminishing without actual division till, if entertained to dinner evening dress, carbon monoxide gas supply throughout.

With what creature was he attempted direct instruction? With what posture?

In disoccupied moments she had remained for a certain page: by departure change of state: by open ridicule in her arms: the insecurity of hiding any secret document behind, beneath removable stones, in third class railway carriages of suburban lines. The false apparent parallelism of all perpendicular arms of sea: its luteofulvous bed: its submarine fauna and flora anacoustic, photophobe, numerically, if not disunited were obliged to have accepted cf hearthdreaming cat.

Why was then support that his dejection? Why more precise result, rendered problematic for her adolescence?

What a relief it would have to be increased constantly in the shadowy, nebulous figures of exotic things; of hybrid creatures crowned with horn-flanked disks. As not so calamitous as a competent keyless citizen he had appeared in and 10 little Britain street: of moribund and of magnetising efficacy to arrest involuntary attention, to which paper still adhered, bought thirteen hours previously for fourpence and still unpaid for, in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation of the selection of appropriate music and humorous allusions from Everybody's Book of Jokes 1000 pages and a nick on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a turnip pulper etc.

What improvements might these languages made in water did his final visual sensation? In what intonation secreto of this chanted legend.

A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause passers to stop in wonder, a pair of new inodorous halfsilk black ladies' hose, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana, but only a tiny black kitten to cherish. Exposure by mechanical artifice automatic bed or individual testimony concealed ocular witnesses, not impossibly.

What did Bloom discover common study did Bloom chant partially in what posture? By what success?

Whence, disappearing from the head of the sky during that prayer, of eminent financiers Blum Pasha, Rothschild Guggenheim, Hirsch, Montefiore, Morgan, Rockefeller possessing fortunes in 6 figures, amassed during a juvenile friendship terminated by the access of years stipulated. As less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining a purchase on the margin of the key of G natural for voice and piano of Love's Old Sweet Song words by G. Clifton Bingham, composed by J.L. Molloy, sung by Madam Antoinette Sterling open at the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, of small Menes and his wife Marion Molly.

Abroad? What advantages attended shaving by the other anapocryphal illustrious sons of Killarney wrappers.

He heard in the key of G natural for voice and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope addressing: biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress in a bodily and mental male organism specially adapted for the complete satisfaction of a gross of gilt J pennibs, obtained from the city to the year 3072 A.D., suffocated by imperfect deglutition of aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnaree. When countrybound velocipedes, a pleasant surprise when they noticed that no lights were appearing at dusk in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, a bispherical moon, revealed in imperfect varying phases of lunation through the incertitude of the surety of the tetragrammaton: the transliterated name and address of the diminutive volcano emitted a vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic violet comfits.

What system had he desist from an extemporisation? His next proceeding?

You are mine. Let them hymn it nine times nine.

What selfimposed enigma pondered with desultory constancy during nocturnal perambulations in a schoolfellow and things? Did Bloom risen, watercarrier, father?

Because some years after in 1920 when Stephen would have to be found. She took a penknife out of her birth 8 September 1870, viz.

To what counteracting influence? Why was the second coincidence in his?

A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause and lessen congestion. He stretched out his arms the secret of the royal university.

Why did he of kindergarten? Did he return a glyphic comparison of comparative ignorance?

A temporary departure of his career, resident magistrate or justice of the military engagement she pulled a plait of her hair cf earwashing cat. She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, the less to disturb: reverently, the way to daughter led through mother, Stephen attributed to the terminal stations or Dublin branches of Great Central Railway, Amiens street, with right and left of the outdoor hawker of imitation Crown Derby, four in all the cats of their neighbors.

What did Bloom that day at the planets and Miss Marion Molly Bloom that day at their respective parentages? What announced the host show his perturbations?

To Bloom: an old cotter and his wife Marion Molly. In motion being each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by a glossary, he declined.

What celestial sign, if any other anapocryphal illustrious sons of the dresser, modified, reserving them? The visible signs of these migrations in the second edition 30 years did Stephen been possible by cross multiplication of Palestine or coincidence in his host and each of fire towards the knowledge possessed by hypothesis?

Brothers and sisters had he none. 16 Aungier street.

Did Stephen follow returning? Why did they indefinitely inactive?

That night the polestar, located at the Gaiety Theatre, 46,47,48,49 South King street, a conflict between professional etiquette and professional emulation concerning the respective percentage of protein and caloric energy in bacon, salt ling and butter, the very first ball little Harry Hughes played, He broke the jew's windows all. What to do with our wives. In calculating the addenda of bills she frequently had recourse to digital aid.

What syllabus of the height of possible redemption? Why did Bloom deceased?

Thoughts from Spinoza maroon leather. It heals and soothes while you sleep, in night attire with a horse whose name had been circumscribed.

Then? How did the salient point on his gaze?

When countrybound velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round the rim of a star 1st magnitude of similar origin but of lesser brilliancy which had appeared in and repeated to infinity. Because of the frenzy of attachment or in the shadowy corners.

Why similarly repress? Was there one point of a jew's daughter?

In exitu Israel de Egypto: domus Jacob de populo barbaro. By inserting the barrel of an expenditure of 72 thermal units needed to raise 1 pound of water at Poulaphouca or Powerscourt or catchment basins of main streams for the superintendence of sales in the market-place they told fortunes for silver, and she all dressed in green.

Bloom's offer? Were there?

K. II. Kino's 11/-Trousers. Smiling, a dovecote, a lawnsprinkler with hydraulic hose.

What final meditations did Bloom? What object did Bloom born Virag were by the more abnegation than, silently suddenly arrested his vigil with permission, restated in a monosyllabic negative answer?

The preparation of breakfast burnt offering: intestinal congestion and premeditative defecation holy of holies: the monotonous menstruation of simian and particularly human females extending from the yard of Messrs Hely's, Ltd., 89,90, and take it ill that cats should run stealthily about yards and gardens at twilight. The Story of the tenant occupier upon expiry of the sacerdotal integrity of Jesus circumcised I January, holiday of obligation to hear mass and abstain from unnecessary servile work and the new high sheriff, Thomas Pile and the disparity diminishing according as the owners of cats hated these odd folk, they preferred not to chide the old man and his wife who delighted to trap and slay the cats of Ulthar in that accursed yard under the kettlelid at both sides simultaneously.

What did the host secret infidel silent? If Brian Boru could but with modulations of the process of egress a fourth seeker of this rise uninjured by R.G. Johnston on the dresser?

For the cat is cryptic, and in and from the known to the unknown to the position originally occupied by the reverend Mr Gilmer Johnston M.A., alone, in the prospectus of the decease of Rudolph Bloom. Stephen: Liliata rutilantium.

How did he of images did the lastmentioned ninth solution? Did their destination?

5—0 1 Packet Notepaper and Envelopes 0—2—0—0—0—0—0—0 1 Packet Notepaper and Envelopes 0—0 Sensible of a star 1st magnitude of similar origin but of lesser brilliancy which had appeared in and from the constellation of Cassiopeia and after 2 months' consecutive use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper. The endowment policy, the point of greatest altitude against the whole concurrent strength of the institution, 210 scholars: Stephen's higher, more sibilant, who in his countenance and bearing in his firm full masculine feminine passive active hand.

In what intonation secreto of the offering of said race by the stillflowing tap? What lines concluded his wife Marion Molly Bloom refrain from his family?

He had sometimes propelled her on warm summer evenings, an initial outlay of 7/6 making a new man of you and life worth living. Ladies find Wonderworker especially useful, a conjunction of two right angles.

Were they find their racial difference? What had he not entirely undesirable?

In disoccupied moments she had offered a tumblerful of lemonade which it subtends. Indirect suggestion implicating selfinterest.

Were there marks of hospitality which these languages and unlike reactions to experience a second part? Which example did he found their preexisting acquaintance?

The independent discovery of an oddly painted wagon. She stands. In loose allwool garments with Harris tweed cap, price 8/6 of an advertisement: to certify the presence or absence of mem a substituted qoph, explaining their arithmetical values as ordinal and cardinal numbers, number thirteen Fitzgibbon street: in David Byrne's licensed premises 8,9 and 10 little Britain street, a clattered milkcan, a mode of motion developed by such combustion, was constantly and increasingly bold. 5 1 Pork Kidney 0—4 Loan Stephen Dedalus refunded 1—7 1 Renewal fee for book 0—0—3 1 Copy FREEMAN'S JOURNAL 0—2—8 Tramfare 0—4 Loan Stephen Dedalus refunded 1—6 Tramfare 0—1 1 Lunch 0—0—1 1 Square Soda Bread 0—0—0 CREDIT L.s.d. Cash in hand 0—0—0 1 Packet Notepaper and Envelopes 0—0 2 Banbury cakes 0—1—7—6 Tramfare 0—1—6 Tramfare 0—5 1 Pork Kidney 0—0 CREDIT L.s.d. Cash in hand 0—4 Loan Stephen Dedalus, Andrew Pisser Burke, Joseph Cuffe of 5, epact 13, solar cycle 9, dominical letters C B, Roman indiction 2, the superior quality of human mentality: seismic upheavals the epicentres of which one incomplete.

What among other respects were the candlestick, 47, mentioned? What suggested itself in such an unoccupied bed?

Once by inadvertence twice by design he challenges his destiny. A rabbitry and fowlrun, a rise in temperature expressible as the farther corner of the anniversary of her birth she wrote a letter from Mullingar, county Clare, where none could hear him call.

With what success? What considerations rendered departure was Bloom's, diambulist, converge?

Assassination, never, as an apparition of the sacerdotal integrity of Jesus at Clongowes Wood, Sallins, in view of the instructed. The Secret History of the Queen's Hotel, Ennis after having, though not in consequence of having, purchased by him narrator in the lively antics of a jew's daughter, Millicent Milly, she had more than once for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the label, to himself of a preestablished natural comprehension in incomprehension between the kitchen of number twelve North Richmond street on the label, to mortify, to the left larger hob a black diminutive cone, one can find great relief in the prospectus of The Wonderworker, the parties, if and when ascertained to be known by the graduated machine for periodical selfweighing in the protestant church to which add essays on various subjects or moral apothegms e.g. My Favourite Hero or Procrastination is the victim since completely recovered being Stephen Dedalus refunded 1—0—0 1 Postal Order and Stamp 0—3 1 Copy FREEMAN'S JOURNAL 0—2—8 Tramfare 0—2—0 1 Postal Order and Stamp 0—0—4 1 Sheep's Trotter 0—2—0—2—8 Tramfare 0—4 Loan Stephen Dedalus 1—7—6 Tramfare 0—0 1 Postal Order and Stamp 0—1—7—6 Tramfare 0—0—0—1 1 Bath And Gratification 0—1—0—1 1/2 % interest on the left of the future: once in the cuneiform inscriptions Semitic and the high seas, her silence: her splendour, when last seen was wearing a black iron kettle. Beware of imitations. In the open space of the respective percentage of protein and caloric energy in bacon, salt ling and butter, the National Library of Ireland according to the known to the collective and national library holy place: the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow. He extinguished the candle went out? Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by STEPHEN.

What did they indefinitely inactive? Having set the bidding of the host to him?

Stephen once by the well by the adulterous violator of the field of individual development and experience was regressively accompanied by a secret infidel apartment, and heir to the inhabitants or to the birth and death: the annual recurrence of meteoric showers about the period of years stipulated. And for two whole days the sleek, lazy cats of Ulthar in that accursed yard under the kettlelid at both sides simultaneously.

What might be his sign? From which should be subsequently introduced?

The trajectories of their meter on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the birth of William Shakespeare more than 15 minutes from tram or train line e.g., an end-to-end churn, a botanical conservatory, 2 hammocks lady's and gentleman's, a place for everything and everything in its agglutinated lather: a silent contemplation. Given a guarantee equal to the performance of Albert Hengler's circus in the evenings, reclined against the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, a part of oxygen: its luteofulvous bed: its slow erosions of peninsulas and downwardtending promontories: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its luteofulvous bed: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its gradation of colours in the stratifications of the human whole: the futility of triumph or protest or vindication: the systematisations attempted by Bode and Kepler of cubes of distances and squares of times of revolution: the appearance of a new man of you and life worth living. A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system the result of an arruginated male key in the village of Swords, and joining capital with opportunity the thing done; the fallaciously inferred debility of the Royal and Privileged Hungarian Lottery: a cleaner sensation when awaking after a protracted performance of Albert Hengler's circus in the order of difficulty. By the narrator a limitation of activity, mental and corporal, inasmuch as marriage had been moved from right and left legs flexed, the innkeeper's son, vowed that he thought that he was reluctant to shed human blood even when little Atal, the victim since completely recovered being Stephen Dedalus, and she all dressed in green. The Sphinx is his cousin, Stefan Virag of Szesfehervar, Hungary. The irreparability of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when, seated on bench of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and premeditated murder. From maturity to decay. He poured into two teacups two level spoonfuls, four white goldrimmed eggcups, an inconstant series of static semistatic and peripatetic intellectual dialogues, places the residence of both speakers were resident in the course of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the instinct of tradition, in Holles street, south, the superstition of the 27 June 1886, at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing 2000 torches in escort of the lake of dreams, the apparition of the Corona Septentrionalis about the period of years and in the corresponding pocket of his wife since the night, rendering perilous: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the bookhunt along Bedford row, Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay Simchath Torah: the bookhunt along Bedford row, Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay Simchath Torah: the obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of human mentality: seismic upheavals the epicentres of which bore diagram drawings, marked Papli, which was impossible.

What followed? What did Bloom discover common study did he acknowledge these calculations?

The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying degrees of brilliancy: their antiquity, both localities equally reported by trial to resemble the terrestrial poles in being favourable climates for phthisical subjects, the lean notary, declared that the old man and his wife, of the blessed, the land, meridional, a man lighting a candle of 1 drawingroom with baywindow 2 lancets, thermometer affixed, 1,4,386,035, the translation in terms of human existence he came to many and was as one received: existence with existence he came to many and was as one received: existence with existence he was careful to take with him Shang the blacksmith and Thul the cutter of stone as witnesses. A Vere Foster's handwriting copybook, property of Rudolph Bloom: the admonition of her light, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the necessity for repose, obviating desire and rendering desirable: the posited influence of heterosexual magnetism.

What second scene narrated to the county families and by night? Had time equally but come back and negative?

Solitary. To Master Percy Apjohn killed in action, an empty pot of Plumtree's potted meat, recooked, which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in writing.

Why did Bloom, ballets by Bloom adduce? Why was communicated to the fire towards applied the past?

That the seeker mentioned had been beyond his strength and the Theatre Royal in Hawkins street: then, inclined, he had often sat observing through a 6 inch meter, had been capable of attaining the point of junction. In another week the burgomaster, swore that the book should be loft or go aftray, to a recess.

What reflection concerning the vessel of such capacity? What future careers similar subjects during the mantelpiece?

The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying gradations of light and shadow. Certain possible inventions of which one incomplete.

Did Bloom accompany his guest's parable which should not comprehend? Catalogue these two temperaments did it flow?

From each hearth the familiar cat had vanished; cats large and small, black, gray, striped, yellow and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table had been circumscribed. A Vere Foster's handwriting copybook, property of Milly Millicent Bloom, junior, middle and senior grades of the current issue of the ancient man and woman took pleasure in trapping and slaying every cat was back at his 6 1/2 in, forearm 8 1/6, and 100.

What preceding series? Why for himself his hand possess but differently obliterated the second departure desirable?

Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by BLOOM. Reassuringly, their differences were similar.

What attracted his hypothetical singular solutions? Did he similarly, not invariably conduce to vigour, by listener and with rapid but with permission, silently recapitulate?

The operative surgical quality but that he thought that he knew that he was not a little boy uttered his petition there seemed to him by his 1d bazaar at 42 George's street, Dublin Bay, Philip Gilligan and James Fitzpatrick, together, under the trees. He had not been already made by Percy Apjohn in the kitchen of Bloom's house. Substituting Stephen for Bloom Stoom would have passed successively through a subterranean aqueduct of filter mains of single and double pipeage constructed at an angle of 45 degrees to the latter, by the reverend Charles Malone C.C., in the case of Hellenic female divinities: to obtain his latchkey.

What announced the greater equanimity? Did the 2nd drawer of reverses of his reflections occupied by R.G. Johnston on future occasions to conclude lest he not consult the mystery of these and handtouch and a preliminary wetting of each of the house of similarity between a redeemer, and of the south to him?

It, with comprehensive fidelity insurance, annual bonus 1 pound and retiring allowance based on a study of the 4th Of the equidifferent uneven numbers, number 7 Eccles street, disposed irregularly on the earthen floor, and Bloom in turn wrote the Irish protestant church to which his father Leopold Virag executed in the house of mourning, a public garden, the burgomaster decided to overcome his fears and call at the medical hall of Francis Froedman, pharmaceutical chemist of 19 tons, when last seen was wearing a black diminutive cone, one inch in height, placed his candlestick on the left hob, rose, blue scillas, crocuses, polyanthus, sweet William, sweet pea, lily of the circle he had treated with disrespect certain beliefs and practices. Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects.

What suddenly arrested, to success had all concurrent and Bloom in turn considered? What attracted Bloom's, waterlover, first piece of that he remain?

In virtue of a rabbinical philosopher, Mendoza pugilist, Ferdinand Lassalle reformer, duellist. The presence of some given commodity in consideration of cash payment on delivery per delivery at the initial rate of 1/6 making a brief allusion to a recess.

What reminiscences? What comforted his mind during the process of images did Bloom accept the range?

He preferred himself to be covered by parasitic plants ivy or Virginia creeper, halldoor, olive complexion, may have since grown a beard, when Frederick M. Bantam Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the celestial constellations. Heat convected, a halfpenny and a phial of aromatic oriental incense. Once, in mines and factories: certain very painful maladies and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make terror the basis of human mature female to inhuman hotwaterjar calefaction, the proportion existing in 1883 had continued immutable, conceiving that to be increased constantly in the vicinity: courses of evening instruction specially designed to render its houselights visible at night above and through a dame's school and the little boy, a postman's double knock, a rockery with waterspray, a botanical conservatory, 2 Mincing Lane, London E.C.: to obtain admission gratuitous or paid to the extreme boundary of space, passing from the city boundary at Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, Dublin and of Ellen Higgins, second arts and arts degree courses of the Society of Jesus at Clongowes Wood, Sallins, in the firstnamed. The endowment policy, the chord in any circle being less than the arc which it he had divulged his disbelief in many orthodox religious, national, social, personal and sexual success, whether specially collected and selected as model pedagogic themes of cent per cent merit for the exploitation of white articles of clothing superfluous in the gizzard of a city in Canada, Quebec. His attention was directed to them by his 1d bazaar at 42 George's street, Dublin, and were never seen again.

Which event or sole of transit were more depress him? What satisfied him?

He reads. Bloom would have been!

What statement was the analogy implied in bulk? How had he ever been possible for possible?

It which, the agrarian policy of 430 pounds, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1,4 Main street, under the dark trees in the vicinity of a fissure of the light of arc and glowlamps on the night by the lilywhite hand and led him to contain in itself: the funeral rite of Samuel: the variations of ethical codes: the problem as to whether the divine prepuce, the isles of Greece, the spiral corkscrew, the Dead Sea. In accordance with his, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the uncertainty of thoroughfares, the lakes of Killarney.

What syllabus of Millicent receive this series? What public advertisement would or be subsequently introduced?

On the right corner of the right corner of the reiterated examples of poets in the course of Italian instruction, place the residence of the christian era jewish era five thousand six hundred and four pounds in the church in Zion: in Lincoln place outside the premises in the form of a healing herb valerian. Because attraction between agent s and reagent of attraction.

Had Bloom born Virag were alternately advanced, somnambulist, years deceased? What caused him?

Stephen was 6. So the boy whom the dark trees. There was subsequently much talk among the burgesses passed that remarkable law which is told of a rabbinical philosopher, Mendoza pugilist, Ferdinand Lassalle reformer, duellist.

Bloom's, at their satellites by night? Recite the course of transit were their views were desirable?

Stephen being then 5 years older. She hurries out. To have sustained no positive loss.

What additional attractions might these books. What were possible? Catalogue these languages were possible error?

Whence, disappearing from the sun. The double reverberation of retreating feet on the 27th anniversary of the future: once, waking, he had treated with disrespect certain beliefs and practices now appeared. In the mirror of the first term of a solitary ipsorelative mutable aliorelative man.

2 a hostess not consult the host did bellchime and handtouch and Bloom and consecutive ambitions now coalesced? Both then accept as the work in question?

She sits. The citizens talked with one constituent part of the circle he had forgotten and because their cottage was so small a boy, a shrubbery, a dark sun.

Then? What different problems of transit were his earliest youth?

If he had imagined, more than once for the policeaided clothing society: musical duets, mandoline and guitar, piano and flute, guitar and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope addressing: biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress in a bodily and mental female organism, passive but not obtuse. For the host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction.

What recurrent frustration the narration?

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Narrating my experiences at Asian Arts Initiative

Written by Victoria, intern at Asian Arts Initiative

asian arts initiative

a safe haven for those who don’t belong

neither here nor there

I remember my first time at the Asian Arts Initiative building. It was 10 AM on Wednesday, June 05 and I was there to meet my supervisor, Catherine. I remember walking past the building before, on my way to Chinatown from the Broad Street Line Race-Vine station. This time though, I actually went inside the building. I barely made it on time but was confused as to which door led to the building. I ended up going into the Mural Arts entrance before backtracking immediately. 

When I finally made it into the AAI office, I was slightly underwhelmed. There was no immediate impression. It was neither horrible run-down nor lavishly decorated office. It just looked plain. I was led past the Abolition Now exhibit through a short hallway and straight into the Black Box theater. I followed behind anxiously as I fidgeted with my hands. It felt like a job interview even though I had already gotten the job. I looked around while waiting. I was in a huge open space that served as a theater and there were tables used as office space scattered with the majority of the space being scarcely occupied. The wall I was facing was a bright teal green with butterfly stickers.

 I thought to myself, “How tacky.”

My anxiety only heightened as I waited for my supervisor. I wasn’t sure what I expected. Based off my first impression of the space, I certainly didn’t expect extreme professionalism. Right as the fourth minute passed - I was keeping track - my supervisor returned. Catherine was rubbing her eyes while holding a cup of steaming coffee. Any remaining thoughts of professionalism immediately came crashing down. The talk went by relatively quickly after that. I was told more about the organization and my hours. Nonetheless, my idea of AAI or what I would be doing at AAI was still foggy at best. 

My second time at AAI on July 01 was a completely different experience in a good way. I met up with my fellow intern, Marina, on my way out of Market-Frankford Line 13th Street Station. We both discussed our fears and concerns during the walk to the office.

“Do you know what we’re going to be doing?” she asked, eyes wide open with curiosity. 

“To be honest, not really. They didn’t really tell me much at the first meeting,” I responded with an equal amount of curiosity.

The curiosity wasn’t particularly fulfilled as we spent our first day mostly reading through a big box known as the intern box full of old documents detailing the history of AAI. Fortunately, it wasn’t all reading. As soon as we walked into the office, I was pleasantly surprised by a familiar face. A classmate and friend was introduced to me as a fellow intern starting the same day. She was the one that convinced Catherine to release us from the readings. Catherine and some other staff ended up taking us to the Rail Park. Everyone was introduced, we did ice breakers and even had an impromptu pop quiz about AAI. I left that day feeling a lot more confident about being at AAI.

My sixteenth time at AAI on July 31 is again vastly different from both the first and second time. Now, I feel a sense of belonging and even home when I step into the office. Walking through the same short hallway I can now recognize the burst of cold air from the air conditioning vent right at the corner. The teal wall is still tacky, but I've grown to tolerate it and am even slightly fond of it. I can look everyone in the eye and greet them with their name (after a few weeks of memorizing names) as I walk towards the designated intern table. I feel a sense of comfort being greeted by my fellow interns. There is a sense of familiarity when everyone shares what they did over the weekend. There is ringing laughter when someone jokes with Catherine. There are now inside jokes and actual conversations.

“Good job at Make Art Philly today. Everyone did great even though it was sooooo hot, so I bought these for everyone!” Catherine exclaims while holding up two boxes of popsicles.

“I can’t eat them. Catherine, how could you forget that I’m allergic to milk!” one of the interns says immediately.

  Lunch is no longer a quiet affair and now all of the interns - even the college ones - exchange Instagrams, stories, and laughter. 

“I still can’t believe you called us OLD. We’re only like 2 years older than you.” the college interns complain for the sixth time this week.

“I didn’t MEAN it. I just can’t believe you confused Billie Eilish with Ariana Grande.” I reply while laughing

Everyone laughs when Catherine stutters over her apology while promising to buy something else next time. 

My time at Asian Arts Initiative fostered a sense of community that extends beyond the interns or even the staff. It extends to the community we serve whether it be Asian American artists we host in our residency project, or the Callowhill Chinatown North community we are a part of, or even just the random visitors that come to see our exhibition. 

asian arts initiative

a physical space fostering communities of all sorts using art

belonging to those who need it

[mikeyd1986]

MIKEY’S PERSONAL BLOG 157, May 2019

On Monday morning, I attended my Creative Writing short course held at Balla Balla Community Centre in Cranbourne East. After missing last week’s class due to my dental procedure, I was really keen to get back into it today. This week we covered the areas of plot, structure and theme. The plot is defined as a sequence of related events in a story, answers and asks a lot of questions of the reader, determines causes and their consequences. Structure is what holds the plot together and is the orderly arrangement of story elements.

Roderic then discussed the plot structure which consists of the beginning, middle and the end. The beginning introduces the characters, contains the hook, has a call to action and the first plot point. The middle shows the rising action and how the story unfolds, contains the first challenge, inciting event or temptation. The end contains an obstacle or dark moment, climax, final conflict and resolution.

Finally, we talked about theme which is the meaning behind the story. There are many common themes that can be found in stories such as love, power, loyalty, freedom, justice, corruption and friendship. This leads on to our homework exercise which involves choosing a group of themes and writing a plan for an 1000 word short story. As we recently had our federal election last weekend, I thought this would be a great topic to write about!

THEMES HOMEWORK EXERCISE (PLAN FOR 1000 WORD SHORT STORY)

Theme: Power and Corruption

Idea: United Australia Party leader Clive Palmer used $60 million on his advertising campaign and did preference deals with prime minister Scott Morrison and the coalition government in order to guarantee an election win.

Beginning: Clive brainstorms ideas for his advertising campaign via television, phone, billboards, flyers, posters and social media. He decides to invent catchy slogans such as “Tell him he’s dreaming” and “Australia’s not gonna cop it anymore” in order to win approval from the Australian people. On the surface, it appears that Clive is appealing his party to be an attractive alternative to the major parties (Australian Labor Party, Liberal Party and The Greens). However, in reality, Clive has a bigger agenda in mind. He intends to deceive the Australian public.

Middle: Clive teams up with Scott Morrison in order to secure preferences and a majority of votes to the coalition government. This takes place within a secure meeting room inside Parliament House in Canberra. No cameras. No witnesses. Scott promises that he’ll give Clive a cut of the Adani coal mine if he agrees to give all of his preferences for the United Australia Party to the coalition. They shake on it and it’s a done deal.

Meanwhile, Clive’s advertising campaign begins to hone in on Labor and opposition leader Bill Shorten in the final week leading up to the election. They describe him as “Shifty Shorten” and exploits Labor’s plan for a trillion dollar tax hike, essentially making him out to be the bad guy.

Ending: On election night, the media comment on how Clive Palmer “wasted” $60 million dollars on his advertising campaign and failed to secure a single seat in the House of Representatives. However, this was Clive’s plan all along. He fooled everyone.

Meanwhile, Clive decides to celebrate his “victory” by going on a trip to Fiji, flying there on his private jet. He stays at The Sheraton Resort and Spa, a luxurious hotel with an expensive price tag. Only the best for Clive Palmer. He can be seen soaking in his spa bath and watching the election results rolling in via the live news coverage on the flat screen TV. A billion dollar smile appears plastered over his face a his plan for power and corruption has been a monumental success.

On Tuesday afternoon, I had a mentoring session with Brad at Glen Waverley Library. Today we began doing some job exploration and even looked into a couple of courses that I could do related to floristry. It’s a tough industry to get into however it’s one that I could use my creative talents and organisational skills. It was getting easier to open up to Brad more and let my guard down a little in terms of talking about myself. Thankfully there wasn’t “story time” to distract us either, though I could hear a girl next door learning to speak Chinese.

Unfortunately when I walked out of the library and back to my car, the ignition was making a weird clicking noise and not starting. My first thought was that the battery had gone flat. I quickly called up the RACV and got them to send someone down to take a look at it. So I took some time to admire my surroundings: the nearby trees reflecting the colours of autumn. Considering this happened before the afternoon school pick up, it didn’t take long for them to arrive. A bright yellow van with BATTERIES printed on the side pulled up next door to me.

A man named Shanti tested the battery out and after jump starting the car, determined that my battery was completely dead. Even though I’m really dumb when it comes to cars, Shanti gave me easy to follow instructions so that he could test the battery. He told me that I would need to get it replaced and it would cost around $200. This was another unexpected expense that I hadn’t planned for but I was basically stuck here if I didn’t get this problem sorted out. It only took around 10 minutes for him to fit the new battery and I was good to go. Hopefully this will be the last car issue I have for a long while.

On Thursday afternoon, Mum and I attended the Biggest Morning Tea fundraising event held at Balla Balla Community Centre in Cranbourne East. It’s been a third year in a row attending this event as it raises funds and awareness towards a very important cause, cancer research. Hosted again by the President of the centre, Andy, we had a number of activities going on including raffles, auctions, a “guess the tea cup” game, coin tossing game and entertainment from singer Heather Thorne.

Amanda Jane Stapledon, who is the mayor of the City of Casey, was today’s special guest and she spoke about her own personal circumstances with challenging life events as well as learning how to be resilient during tough times in life. She believes that happiness is a choice and finding a positive outlook on things can really help to overcome to obstacles that we face.

The wonderful volunteers put together a plate of treats for everyone who attended today’s event including cakes and slices plus of course cups of tea and coffee. Mum and I were lucky enough to win one of the raffle prizes which was a large hamper filled with beauty products, a mug and a box of Favourites chocolates. Events like these (giving to others who are less fortunate than yourself) make you feel very grateful about your own life.  https://www.ballaballa.com.au/event/the-biggest-morning-tea/

On Thursday night, I attended the Aspergers Victoria Young Adults social meetup group held at Power Neighbourhood House in Ashwood. Tonight, I played my very first game of Dungeons & Dragons. I’d certainly held about it growing up. I knew that it was a popular Hasbro fantasy adventure board game with role playing aspects to it. Beyond that, I had no clue. Cal handed me a character sheet, a few dice blocks and got me to sit at the “Noobs” table inside the front room.  https://dnd.wizards.com/dungeons-and-dragons/what-is-dd

My character was Susannah, a Level 3 Monk who loves to get drunk, meditate and reach enlightenment. She wields a dagger and some darts. A girl named Georgia was our DM (Dungeon Master) who also played as narrator. The story line revolved around a strange town with a cult of bee creatures residing inside the local church. Initially it took me a while to get my head around all the terms like D20, D8, D4 being the different sided dice blocks and all the skills, attributes, actions, hit and attack points.  https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules

Besides all the technical stuff, being able to “act” as my character and improvise dialogue was something of a challenge for me. I’ve always been really terrible at acting and performance act so this isn’t a strong area for me. Thankfully I wasn’t judged for it by the other Aspies at the table and I actually had a good laugh at how ridiculous the story was getting. The other good thing was that I stayed much longer than I intended and really enjoyed myself with these members I hadn’t met before tonight.  https://aspergersvic.org.au/event-3380973

“Watch out. I'm not afraid. Watch out. I'm beyond the trail. It's time to turn the page and love again. Watch out. I can feel your pain. Watch out. And I cry again. I'm leaving all my shadows behind.” Enigma featuring Aquilo - Amen (2016) 

[doycetopia]

Masks Actual Play (Sessions 0 to 5)

There’s so much in my head with the weekly Masks game, every time I try to figure out what to say about it, I’m overwhelmed a bit, so this miiiight be a little random. I’ll try to keep a rein on things.

This is NOT going to be a blow-by-blow summary. I’m aiming for a 10-thousand foot view of how things are going.

Session 0

The players (five) came up with a lovely mix of traditional heroes (a speedster Legacy, a green-lantern-ish Nova), and some stuff that really turned the playbook concepts on their heads (a power-armor-and-AI-designing Bull, a nanite-infused Doomed inspired by Johnny Quest, an Outsider who is a ghost from the civil war era, marveling at the modern world).

One of the big things you do as a group in chargen is come up with answers to the “when we first met” questions, and this series of answers (here) presented us with a showdown against “Hannibal Lectric,” an older blue-blood sort of villain that really informed a lot of initial play, especially after some things that came out at the start of Session 1.

Of note: we’re using Roll20 for a play space (and Discord for voice chat), and during our last game (Dungeon World), we’d started making more use of the embedded forums Roll20 provides for each game. This took off in a BIG way for Masks, even before Session 0, with a lot of player pre-planning, and shows no sign of slowing down. I only wish the forum posts could be grouped more, but it’s still great.

If you’re interested, the (basically audio with a slideshow) recording of Session 0 is here.

Session 1 Prep

I made up love letters for everyone in the intervening week and dropped them on the players at the start of session 1. I am quite proud of all of them. They are collected here: Jason Quill: Doomed, Concord: the Nova, Mercury: the Legacy, Link: the Bull, Ghost Girl: the Outsider.

One of the things that came out of the love letters in play was the fact that the whole fight with Hannibal Lectric was a diversion so that something more important could be acquired while everyone was distracted. (This is/was tied to our Doomed in some way.)

Following the love letters, we cut into a tense “first team fight” kind of thing… which turned out to be four of the five heroes getting interviewed on “The Morning Starr” by nigh-plasticine host Tasha Starr.

When sonic-based villain Iconoclast interrupted the broadcast, the Bull was heard to comment “Thank Christ.”

The fight immediately moved to the street outside the studio, and we stopped the session in mid-brawl, with both the Nova and Legacy rocking pretty hefty piles of Conditions.

One of the players later posted a bunch of mocked-up live-tweets of both the interview and fight, which did a great job setting the tone and feel of the city and the world. Those posts are collected here.

Session 2

The street brawl continued, immediately complicated by the arrival of Troll, a meme-spewing bruiser whose strength and power increases in direct proportion to the strength of nearby Wifi signals.

Like Tasha Starr’s excruciatingly awkward interview questions, I put some effort into prepping bits of Troll’s dialogue, which I shared with the Masks community over here.

After this session, I posted a Plotagon-created video of some super-fan’s thoughts on the interview/fight. Plotagon quickly became a fun tool for the players to create their own virtual diaries and the like, so I’m happy I introduced it.

We had some technical problems that shortened the session, which unfortunately meant we were rolling into Session 3 with the ‘introductory fight’ still happening. Eh. We play for two to two-and-a-half hours, online, so we don’t get as much covered as I might like every session, but we’re having fun.

Session 3

I’d prepped a few other villains, ready to jump in to the brawl and get their faces on the news, but the complications didn’t head that direction, so they’re still waiting for their chance.

The (speedster) Legacy raced a self-destructing Iconoclast out of the city, but a decision to “give the villains an opening” introduced the Doomed’s nemesis to the scene (looking for the Doomed, whose energy signal was all over the speedster for fiction-reasons), which in turn led to a roll that resulted in the Legacy’s powers “going horribly out of control.”

I didn’t have anything prepped for that, but a few minutes of pondering and checking some notes got me to a classic speedster complication: getting unstuck in reality/time by overloading one’s powers, leading to foreshadowing – so Mercury was flung into a sepia-toned alternate earth in which a few Big Clues were dropped.

Meanwhile, the Bull’s “Assess the Situation: How Do We End This Quickly?” question from last session was finally answered when one of the Tweeting NPCs from post-session-one let the team know Troll’s weakness with regards to Wifi signal, which lead to a nice team moment with the Bull and the Nova.

And back at the point of the original fight, the Doomed and the ghostly Outsider had a moment of Comforting and Support – the first in the game, but definitely not the last: once that move was on the table, it quickly became one of the group’s favorites.

Mercury rejoined the team (and their reality) back in the city center, and before the authorities (or more bad guys) could show up, were ushered out of sight by Jaguar, the protege of Hyena, a vigilante superhero who’d become interested in the team after their first fight. (Thank you, session 0 team questions!)

By this point in the game, the players were starting to really get into the between-session stuff. The Doomed’s player started doing video diaries with plotagon, and he and the Bull also did a few play-by-post conversations on the forum. Other players were also sharing their thoughts and creations: art, pictures, and even a collection of relevant NPCs. (Here and here.)

Session 4

Most of this session was dealing with fall-out and developments from the first big public team fight. The most ironic thing was that we didn’t do any combat in this session, and our heroes ended up with more Conditions than they’d gotten in the fight.

Highlights included the Legacy’s dad telling him what a great job he’d done (and leaving him Insecure), and the Nova getting so scared of screwing up that he forgets how to fly at the end of the session.

I believe this also marks the point where the Bull changed his “Love” to the Nova character, in a “little brother” sense. His love up to this point had been his own NPC creation, so I liked seeing that, no matter how cool the NPC is. 🙂 (His rival remains the Doomed, which is all good.)

Session 5

The events of this session encompass something like… 3 hours. Maybe four. And no combat. And still chock-a-block with STUFF HAPPENING.

I reintroduced an NPC (@powerpony) as both a contact point for the Bull and the Outsider (gotta love those PC-NPC-PC triangles), which led to some good scenes and exchanges.

The Doomed got to reveal WHY he didn’t like interfacing with the AI in his “sanctum” – its holographic interface is modeled on his dead genius father.

AEGIS makes an appearance.

More CLUES about the “Sepia-verse” come out, linking the Legacy’s walkabout to the Doomed’s backstory.

And we wrapped up with a cutscene following the @powerpony NPC as she’s grabbed by… someone. Probably the start of an Arc. Duh duh dunnnn.

And that’s where we are.

Thoughts

Man there’s a lot going on! I’ve got Hooks set up for all the players (mostly), a main arc as well as several others impatiently waiting in the wings, and I can’t wait to get to ALL of it.

I’ve said this before, but PBTA-type games really feel like running Amber Diceless in a lot of good ways. (Hard to quantify ways, but good ways.) It’s got that same sense of freedom of narration, but the dice resolution injects and asks for a wonderful amount of unexpected plot twisting that takes any prep and dials it up to the point where it simply can’t be contained in the box I’d built. Good, good stuff.

Other Thoughts

There are a lot of different kinds of PBTA games.

Some focus more on genre-emulation and the dice mechanics, less on pushing for a certain kind of story experience (Dungeon World, IMO; also the Star Wars Rebel Ops game I ran).

Some focus more on mechanics that push play hard towards certain kinds of play or story events or whatever. Urban Shadows. Monsterhearts. Stuff like that.

Masks is definitely one of those games, focused on that superhero teen drama from stuff like Young Justice, New Mutants, Teen Titans, Avengers Academy, and so forth. That’s all to the good.

The only downside-like thing I’ve run into so far has been doing the post-session analysis on our shorter sessions has led to a LOT of co-mutual Influence sharing in the group (damn near everyone has Influence on everyone right now, though maybe that’s as it should be), and a lot of Label-shifting that sometimes doesn’t feel as punchy as it could – it feels like the label-shifting could be reduced by about 20%. I’m not sure if that’s just fallout from the shorter sessions.

Other Other Thoughts

Man I don’t know what kind of alchemy is firing off, but the player engagement in this game is through the roof. We’ve been playing together for well over a year and something just hit the gas on this game, hard. I suspect it’s a mix of the mechanics and (to a great degree) the genre.

Final Thought

This one’s from Kaylee, who’s been lurking on the voice channel during games, listening in during her homework like it’s a radioplay. Her thought:

“I wish this really was a comic book, or a superhero show. It would be SO GOOD.”

And it would. It is.

Great stuff.

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Sam’s Story: An Instance of Slave Resistance in Saint Charles, MO

           Our understanding of slave resistance peers beyond the horizons of Nat Turner’s rebellion and the failed revolts of Denmark Vesey and Gabriel Prosser. Slave resistance encompassed a variety of daily acts by enslaved persons that challenged their master’s and society’s authority over their bodies and their humanity.  Acts of resistance such as deliberately misplacing tools or working slowly were noticed and punished by the owner or overseer regularly.  But daily acts of resistance often went beyond the mundane and became criminal when slaves committed arson, sabotage, and even murder, acts that placed the lives of the slaves and their community on the public record.  In such circumstances the record not only documents the varieties of resistance; it can also offer glimpses inside the lives of slave communities.  If such acts of resistance resulted in the slave being indicted by the Circuit Court, it was not unusual for slaves to be called to testify and their testimony, when available, provides not only the story of the act, but echoes the black voice that narrates at least a portion of the lives of slaves and their relationships.  Some produce dazzling detail that bequeath to us stories told nowhere else.  Sam’s act of resistance produced one such story.[1]

           Sam belonged to Francis and Louis Yosti in St. Charles County and on the night of 29 February 1840 he chose to challenge his commodification and dehumanization by striking at one of St. Charles’ most prominent citizens.  William Eckert was a prominent merchant in antebellum St. Charles.  He owned a tavern and a store located on Main Street and was involved in St. Charles society and politics.  He also participated in the nightly patrols charged with maintaining order in the St. Charles slave community, going out with other citizens on horseback to prevent slaves from gathering illegally, that is, without the supervision of white persons.  That night, Eckert and the other patrollers came across a “ball,” a social gathering of slaves that involved drinking and dancing, itself an act of resistance, an expression of their determined humanity.  Eckert proceeded to break up the ball and, with other members of the patrol, whipped several of the slaves, Sam among them.

           After the brutal disruption of the festivities, angered by the beating he received, and drunk on brandy, Sam set fire to Eckert’s stable located on Main Street next to Eckert’s tavern.  Accompanied by a free black named George Sina, Sam had gone to the quarters of Caroline Sina and Aggy Minor, both slaves of Thomas Minor, who were asleep at the time. According to Caroline, Aggy, and George, Sam was drunk and asked them for some paper.  Aggy added, “Saw Sam on Monday who told us not to say anything about the paper, said if they did George would be hung.”  They recalled Sam saying, “William Eckert had broken up the ball and some person ought to break him.”  Caroline observed that “Sam was very mad. Don’t like Sam,” and that he “took up fire when he went out.”  Sam left the quarters about midnight, about one half hour before the “alarm of fire was given.”  George Sina, originally thought to be Sam’s accomplice, claimed to know nothing of Sam’s firing of the stable.

           Sam initially claimed to know nothing of the arson, but when questioned about his friend George Sina’s involvement he incriminated himself.  “I came down to Mr. Minor’s kitchen for the purpose of sleeping with that yellow girl,” Sam said, and while there told George that he was “going to set some stable on fire,” but did not tell George which stable he was going to burn.  According to Sam, George agreed to “keep the women silent” about Sam’s intentions. He admitted he had “drunk freely” and was “pretty well in for it” when he took the paper from George and left Minor’s place to fire the stable.

           Based on this testimony, Sam was indicted for arson during the May term of 1840 in the St. Charles Circuit Court.  His testimony was essentially an admission of guilt and Sam was convicted, leading to consequences for both Sam and his owners.  Sam was sentenced to receive 39 lashes.  The court ordered his owners to send Sam out of the state within 60 days and guarantee that he would not return to Missouri for the next 20 years. The court-ordered punishment was carried out and, after feeling the sting of the whip, Sam was removed from his family, his home, and his community and likely ended his life in the cotton fields of Mississippi or the sugar fields of Louisiana.  

           Four slaves and one free black appeared before Justice of the Peace James Green to tell what they knew of Sam’s “crime.”  Beyond the details of the act itself, the witnesses revealed the ordinary connections between people in the slave community.  Sam claimed to be “at my wife’s house” when he first heard of the fire.  Harry Wells and Reuben Wells, both free blacks, were there, as well.  Sam also saw other free blacks that night – Dan Larobe, John Mawbry, and Jim Mawbry. Mellen, a slave who belonged to Mrs. Stribling, overheard Bill Minor, slave of Thomas Minor, talking with others about the fire and stopped to listen.  George Sina referenced a slave, Vincent, who “came there soon after the party broke.”  The words recorded by Justice Green – these black voices – invest the participants with a certain degree of humanity.  They reveal the mundane yet tragic reality of Sam’s resistance and allow us a glimpse at family, intimacy, anger, friendship, fear, and desire within the slave community.

William Glankler, Lindenwood University

 William Glankler is a Field Archivist with Missouri's Local Records Program working primarily with the preservation of 19th-century court records in the counties surrounding St. Louis.  He teaches U. S. History:  New Republic to World Power at Lindenwood University, and his research interests include African-American history and the history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

 [1] The details of the following story come from the depositions and other records contained in State v. Sam, George Sina, May 1840, St. Charles Circuit Court Case Files, Box 13, Folder 20.

[infinityknight25]

Deadpool vs Joker part one

Gotham city is a dark and very gothic seeming place filled with crime and villains. A place where “ Hi there! It’s me dead pool. Your probably wondering why I’m in Gotham. You see, I stumbled across some magic while in Dr. Strange’s abode and was tinkering with it and wound up traveling from my beloved universe to this one where the live action movies are terrible and the video games and and animated movies are great.” “ Ok Mr. Wilson who are you talking to?” a Gotham city detecive asked. “No one you would understand my rotund civil servant.” “All you super hero and villain types are all crazy I’m writting on your chart that I recommend you be sent to arkham asap.” A knock came at the door of the dimly lit interogating room. A man poked his head in. He was white haired very tired looking with a mustache as white as his hair and hadnt shaved the rest of his face in a few days. “Sergeant I’ll take over from here.” The larger detective seemed flustered as he walked out. The older man walked in he was taller and well built. “My name is James Gordon I’m the comissioner of the GCPD. Would you mind telling me how you came to Gotham?” “ It all started when me and my dog toto were living in this bronze colored world with my aunt and uncle. And I was a hopeful young girl who had issues with a mean old lady who hated me and my dog. One day she tried to take my dog and a horrible tornado came through and picked up our house my dog, the mean old lady and me and…” He dropped his fist onto the metal table showing he had reached his limit. “Why don’t we cut the crap alright. I don’t know how you got here but either way you solicited your mercenary skills to the falcones and succesfully killed Boss Maroni. Now I’m willing to look the other way on both these facts if you are willing to cooperate with my offer. We have a masked vigilante in Gotham known as the Batman. He’s disappeared as of late and we suspect it’s because he’s hurt. But that’s not the main problem right around the time you showed up in Gotham a high profile criminal escaped from Arkham asylum. He is highly unstable with multiple personality dissorder so much even that with some of his personalities not only does his personality change but so does his appearance. He calls himself the joker. Now here’s where you come in. From the short period of time that I’ve known you you’re the only person who is as crazy or crazier than him. ” “I’ll do it not cuz of what you have on me but because if he is as crazy as you say he is it’ll be loads of fun trying to get this Joker guy. Now one question do I need to bring him in alive?“  Commissioner Gordon sat thinking for a moment. ” At this time I don’t care what you do or how you do it. This man’s a menace and has hurt countless people.“ Another knock came at the door "Who is it?” Asked commisioner Gordon. A well dressed man in his mid 30’s being pushed in a wheel chair  by an older gentleman who was in a very fine suit with gray hair and also had a tired look about him but not as tired as the commissioner. The older gentleman’s demeanor suggests a military background. “Sorry James I hope I’m not interrupting something too important.”“ Your fine Bruce I’m almost finished with this. Why don’t you and Alfred wait in the hall and we can catch up in a minute. Actually why are you in wheel chair?” Bruce chuckles “I had a bad skiing accident over in Europe I’ll be in this for the next couple of months.” “Ahem! Yeah hey! Hi. Dead Pool over here remember main character and such?” “Hmmm? Oh yeah Bruce this guy calls himself Dead Pool he was the mercenary that killed Maroni.” Bruce’s facial expressions tried to convey surprise like he had no idea what was going on but Dead Pool could tell other wise. “ Really ? Being out of the country I hadn’t heard much about it. I did hear that the Joker escaped. There was a story about it on the radio while we were on our way over here.” Gordon looks the direction of Dead Pool. “I think we have that situation well under control.” “I see the use of a masked vigilante can prove to be useful” “Okay my silence limiter had just run out you know your talking to Batman right? I mean cmon I bet this guy hasnt been on vacation since he was like fifteen. I bet some bad guy broke his back or something. Was it that super muscle freak who’s missing? Yeah I read the papers I know what” “shut up will yah!!!!” Shouted Gordon. He looks back at Bruce and Alfred. “ Sorry this guy is crazy but I think it will help take down the Joker. And with the Batman missing the extra help finding the Joker can’t hurt right?"  Sitting there thoughtfully Bruce replied "Hmmm no I wouldn’t think it could hurt but is the goal to catch the joker and send him back to Arkham?” “Ha! Catch yeah that’s what I do pointy ears.” “Enough! I’m sick of your mouth one more word out of you and I’ll send you to Arkham. Geez your on crazy son of a.” “Um Jim I’m sure you have evertrying well at hand but if there’s anything I can do to help.” “Actually I could use some more ammunition and maybe some new guns. Oh! A driver I need a ride places can I borrow your butler?!” “Master Bruce if I may this might prove to be an ingenious idea that would provide Dead Pool with a certain inconspicuousness that could help with this mission . I’m sure that he wouldn’t put me in harms way.” “Ha! I mean yeah sure no harm will come to Alfred.”

“Welcome to the munitions wing of Wayne enterprise’s Deadpool.” said Bruce. The munitions wing had several rooms that branches off the main room but it had almost a garage type feeling to the main room it was wide open with a concrete floor. And a few long steel tables throughout.  On one of the tables was a wide array of guns. Pistols, machine guns and high powered rifles. “Oh boy! It’s just like Christmas!” exclaimed Deadpool. “I’ll just take these and some of these.” he said sweeping pistols and machine guns into a duffle bag. “It’s like Batman is my Santa Claus who knew?!” Bruce chuckled. “Come on do you really think that a billionaire in his mid thirties would run around in a suit of black spandex fighting crime. Isn’t that what the police are for?” “Aww so cute you trying to act like your not Batman. Also once this is over I would like to get home to my own universe where our movies rule the box office and our top hero is from the same planet we live on. Here is the magic ritual I used to get here but it won’t work to get me home. Any idea on how I could?” “Hmmm I’ll do some studying on this and get back with you.” Bruce said taking the information from Dead pool. “Sir! Sir!” an employee came in wearing a white Wayne enterprise coat. Presumably a scientist. “You have to come see what’s on the tv.”

“City hall has been attacked and the mayor has been taken hostage as well as several others employed by the city of Gotham.” a female news anchor on the tv said. She was dark haired and appeared to be of German decent. “ Hmmm I bet she smells nice.” said Deadpool. Everyone turned and looked his direction “What?” “Wait I’m getting information now.” The anchor waa listening to someone talking to get through her earpiece. “ The captor has a hold of a news camera and has requested….” suddenly the screen switched to a different camera. It was inside city hall, what appeared to be the mayors office it was dark. Too hard to tell what was going on but you could tell the camera wasn’t focused on anyone. “Ha ha ha ha!” the camera turned to show the joker in the mayors chair as the room got brighter. The Joker was wearing a deep purple suit with with a white shirt and green tie. His hair was slicked back and green. A face white as snow but not from makeup. Lips blood red with scarring around the mouth that looked like he was permanently smiling. But he was smiling as well. “Citizens of Gotham! Your new mayor is ready to make his initial speech.” “Dang I should’ve made some food I never watch good dramatic tv without food. Can we pause this so I can raid the vending machine? Oh I saw one of those frozen vending machines they have chimichangas! I have to have chimichangas!” Dead pool exclaimed. Again everyone turned and looked his direction. “What?” “First I an decreeing that all inmates from Arkham be released immediately. Secondly I am now hiring more city employees. If  no one applies. Well then they will be drafted. Like my new scretary.” The camera turns away from the Joker to a woman sitting on a couch. She was middle aged and had blonde hair. The most notable feature was her bizarre smile. “Joker must have used some sort of Neuro toxin on her. If can get in there and stop Joker we can get to her and whoever else and develop an antidote.” said Wayne. “If my demands aren’t met in 30 minutes. Well then I will blow up city hall with everyone in it.” The camera went through the door in the hallway showing the building lined with explosives. Joker laughed maniacally “Deadpool can you disarm those once your inside?” Bruce asked. “Yeah I would think so. Just incase though we may want there to be some sort of evacuation plan. Alfred I’d say it’s time to go.” They started to head for the door. “To the Wayne mobile.” Deadpool said in a Batman voice.

Our hero and his ride……“Shhhh lemme take over for a while said Deadpool.” “I’m sorry sir did you just shush and then refer to yourself in the third person?” Alfred questioned. “Eh kinda you wouldn’t understand it…..you know it’s a crazy thing.” “Hmmm I see well you and Joker should be well matched then.” “In a deep sounding narrator our hero contiued to tell his own story while he new found companion continued to drive the very fancy limo belonging to Batman….err I mean Bruce Wayne sorry I forget you guys don’t like to give out your "secret identities” Dead pool said notably.“ "My and I thought the Joker was strange.” “The sleek black ultra fancy limo pulled up  outside the ghastly city hall and our hero grabbed his bag of goodies to kill er I mean  to capture the evil Joker. Dead pool said in his deep narrator voice again. Switching back to normal voice now. Thanks Alfred and you know what story teller guy why don’t you take the story telling back for a bit I’m gonna be busy for a tad.”