From 57ac1e50de6573d4d80c1e86883a87f0eab10055 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ronan Crowley
room lit by a candle stuck in a bottleneck a slut combs out the tatts
from the hair of a scrofulous child. Cissy Caffrey's voice, still
young, sings shrill from a lane.)
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Cissy Caffrey
Cissy Caffrey
I gave it to Molly
Because she was jolly,
The leg of the duck,
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hoarse virago retorts.)
The Virago
Signs on you, hairy arse. More power the Cavan girl.
Cissy Caffrey
Cissy Caffrey
More luck to me. Cavan, Cootehill and Belturbet.
I gave it to Nelly
To stick in her belly,
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(jerks his finger)
Private Carr
(turns and calls)
Cissy Caffrey
Cissy Caffrey
(her voice soaring higher)
She has it, she got it,
Wherever she put it,
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(Stephen, flourishing the ashplant in his left hand, chants with joy
the
attends him, a sneer of discontent wrinkling his face.)
Stephen
Stephen
Vidi aquam egredientem de templo a latere dextro. Alleluia.
(The famished snaggletusks of an elderly bawd protrude from a
doorway.)
The Bawd
(her voice whispering huskily)
inside. Sst!
Stephen
Stephen
(altius aliquantulum)
The Bawd
(spits in their trail her jet of venom)
prick and no pence.
(Edy Boardman, sniffling, crouched with Bertha Supple, draws her
shawl across her nostrils.)
Edy Boardman
Edy Boardman
(bickering)
squarepusher, the greaser off the railway, in his cometobed hat. Did you,
says I. That's not for you to say, says I. You never seen me in the mantrap
with a married highlander, says I. The likes of her! Stag that one is!
Stubborn as a mule! And her walking with two fellows the one time,
Kilbride, the enginedriver, and lancecorporal Oliphant.
Stephen
Stephen
(triumphaliter)
(He flourishes his ashplant, shivering the lamp image, shattering
light over the world. A liver and white spaniel on the prowl slinks
after him, growling. Lynch scares it with a kick.)
Lynch
Lynch
So that?
Stephen
Stephen
(looks behind)
language, the gift of tongues rendering visible not the lay sense but the first
entelechy, the structural rhythm.
Lynch
Lynch
Pornosophical philotheology. Metaphysics in Mecklenburgh street!
Stephen
Stephen
We have shrewridden Shakespeare and henpecked Socrates. Even the
allwisest Stagyrite was bitted, bridled and mounted by a light of love.
Lynch
Lynch
Ba!
Stephen
Stephen
Anyway, who wants two gestures to illustrate a loaf and a jug? This
movement illustrates the loaf and jug of bread or wine in Omar. Hold my
stick.
Lynch
Lynch
Damn your yellow stick. Where are we going?
Stephen
Stephen
Lecherous lynx, to
laetificat iuventutem meam
(Stephen thrusts the ashplant on him and slowly holds out his
hands, his head going back till both hands are a span from his
breast, down turned, in planes intersecting, the fingers about to
part, the left being higher.)
Lynch
Lynch
Which is the jug of bread? It skills not. That or the customhouse. Illustrate
thou. Here take your crutch and walk.
(They pass. Tommy Caffrey scrambles to a gaslamp and, clasping,
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At Antonio Rabaiotti's door Bloom halts, sweated under the bright
arclamp. He disappears. In a moment he reappears and hurries
on.)
Bloom
Bloom
Fish and taters. N. g. Ah!
(He disappears into Olhausen's, the porkbutcher's, under the
downcoming rollshutter. A few moments later he emerges from
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other a cold sheep's trotter, sprinkled with wholepepper. He gasps,
standing upright. Then bending to one side he presses a parcel
against his ribs and groans.)
Bloom
Bloom
Stitch in my side. Why did I run?
(He takes breath with care and goes forward slowly towards the
lampset siding. The glow leaps again.)
Bloom
Bloom
What is that? A flasher? Searchlight.
(He stands at Cormack's corner, watching.)
Bloom
Bloom
Aurora borealis
anyhow. Big blaze. Might be his house. Beggar's bush. We're safe.
hums cheerfully)
grazing him, their bells rattling.)
The Bells
Haltyaltyaltyall.
Bloom
Bloom
(halts erect, stung by a spasm)
(He looks round, darts forward suddenly. Through rising fog a
dragon sandstrewer, travelling at caution, slews heavily down upon
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Hey, shitbreeches, are you doing the hat trick?
(Bloom trickleaps to the curbstone and halts again. He brushes a
mudflake from his cheek with a parcelled hand.)
Bloom
Bloom
No thoroughfare. Close shave that but cured the stitch. Must take up
Sandow's exercises again. On the hands down. Insure against street
accident too. The Providential.
(A sinister figure leans on plaited legs against O'Beirne's wall, a
visage unknown, injected with dark mercury. From under a
wideleaved sombrero the figure regards him with evil eye.)
Bloom
Bloom
Bueñas noches, señorita Blanca. Que calle es esta?
The Figure
(impassive, raises a signal arm)
Bloom
Bloom
Haha.
by that fireeater.
(He steps forward. A sackshouldered ragman bars his path. He
steps left, ragsackman left.)
Bloom
Bloom
I beg.
(He leaps right, sackragman right.)
Bloom
Bloom
I beg.
(He swerves, sidles, stepaside, slips past and on.)
Bloom
Bloom
Keep to the right, right, right. If there is a signpost planted by the Touring
Club at Stepaside who procured that public boon? I who lost my way and
contributed to the columns of the
world.
(Jacky Caffrey, hunted by Tommy Caffrey, runs full tilt against
Bloom.)
Bloom
Bloom
O.
(Shocked, on weak hams, he halts. Tommy and Jacky vanish
there, there. Bloom pats with parcelled hands watchfob,
pocketbookpocket, pursepoke, sweets of sin, potatosoap.)
Bloom
Bloom
Beware of pickpockets. Old thieves' dodge. Collide. Then snatch your
purse.
(The retriever approaches sniffing, nose to the ground. A sprawled
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caftan of an elder in Zion and a smokingcap with magenta tassels.
Horned spectacles hang down at the wings of the nose. Yellow
poison streaks are on the drawn face.)
Rudolph
Rudolph
Second halfcrown waste money today. I told you not go with drunken goy
ever. So you catch no money.
Bloom
Bloom
(hides the crubeen and trotter behind his back and, crestfallen, feels warm
and cold feetmeat)
Rudolph
Rudolph
What you making down this place? Have you no soul?
talons he feels the silent face of Bloom)
grandson of Leopold? Are you not my dear son Leopold who left the house
of his father and left the god of his fathers Abraham and Jacob?
Bloom
Bloom
(with precaution)
Rudolph
Rudolph
(severely)
good money. What you call them running chaps?
Bloom
Bloom
(in youth's smart blue Oxford suit with white vestslips, narrowshouldered,
in brown Alpine hat, wearing gent's sterling silver Waterbury keyless watch
and double curb Albert with seal attached, one side of him coated with
stiffening mud)
Rudolph
Rudolph
Once! Mud head to foot. Cut your hand open. Lockjaw. They make you
kaputt, Leopoldleben. You watch them chaps.
Bloom
Bloom
(weakly)
Rudolph
Rudolph
(with contempt)
Bloom
Bloom
Mamma!
Ellen Bloom
Ellen Bloom
(in pantomime dame's stringed mobcap, widow Twankey's crinoline and
bustle, blouse with muttonleg sleeves buttoned behind, grey mittens and
cameo brooch, her plaited hair in a crispine net, appears over the staircase
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in his filled pockets but desists, muttering.)
A Voice
(sharply)
Bloom
Bloom
Who?
(He looks up. Beside her mirage of datepalms a handsome woman
in Turkish costume stands before him. Opulent curves fill out her
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cummerbund girdles her. A white yashmak, violet in the night,
covers her face, leaving free only her large dark eyes and raven
hair.)
Bloom
Bloom
Molly!
Marion
Marion
Welly? Mrs Marion from this out, my dear man, when you speak to me.
(satirically)
Bloom
Bloom
(shifts from foot to foot)
(He breathes in deep agitation, swallowing gulps of air, questions,
hopes, crubeens for her supper, things to tell her, excuse, desire,
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innumerable rungs climbs to his bobbing howdah. He ambles near
with disgruntled hindquarters. Fiercely she slaps his haunch, her
goldcurb wristbangles angriling, scolding him in Moorish.)
Marion
Marion
Nebrakada! Femininum!
(The camel, lifting a foreleg, plucks from a tree a large mango fruit,
offers it to his mistress, blinking, in his cloven hoof, then droops his
head and, grunting, with uplifted neck, fumbles to kneel. Bloom
stoops his back for leapfrog.)
Bloom
Bloom
I can give you ... I mean as your business menagerer .. Mrs Marion ..... if
you ....
Marion
Marion
So you notice some change?
stomacher, a slow friendly mockery in her eyes)
poor old stick in the mud! Go and see life. See the wide world.
Bloom
Bloom
I was just going back for that lotion whitewax, orangeflower water. Shop
closes early on Thursday. But the first thing in the morning.
pockets)
He brightens the earth. I polish the sky.
(The freckled face of Sweny, the druggist, appears in the disc of the
soapsun.)
Sweny
Sweny
Three and a penny, please.
Bloom
Bloom
Yes. For my wife. Mrs Marion. Special recipe.
Marion
Marion
(softly)
Bloom
Bloom
Yes, ma'am?
Marion
Marion
Ti trema un poco il cuore?
(In disdain she saunters away, humming the duet from
Giovanni
Bloom
Bloom
Are you sure about that
(He follows, followed by the sniffing terrier. The elderly bawd
seizes his sleeve, the bristles of her chinmole glittering.)
clothes sees us. Sixtyseven is a bitch.
(Leering, Gerty MacDowell limps forward. She draws from behind,
ogling, and shows coyly her bloodied clout.)
Gerty
Gerty
With all my worldly goods I thee and thou.
hate you.
Bloom
Bloom
I? When? You're dreaming. I never saw you.
The Bawd
Leave the gentleman alone, you cheat. Writing the gentleman false letters.
Streetwalking and soliciting. Better for your mother take the strap to you at
the bedpost, hussy like you.
Gerty
Gerty
(to Bloom)
his sleeve, slobbering)
(She glides away crookedly. Mrs Breen in man's frieze overcoat
with loose bellows pockets, stands in the causeway, her roguish eyes
wideopen, smiling in all her herbivorous buckteeth.)
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
Mr ...
Bloom
Bloom
(coughs gravely)
the sixteenth instant ....
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
Mr Bloom! You down here in the haunts of sin! I caught you nicely!
Scamp!
Bloom
Bloom
(hurriedly)
give me away. Walls have ears. How do you do? It's ages since I. You're
looking splendid. Absolutely it. Seasonable weather we are having this time
of year. Black refracts heat. Short cut home here. Interesting quarter.
Rescue of fallen women. Magdalen asylum. I am the secretary .....
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
(holds up a finger)
that. O just wait till I see Molly!
sminute or woe betide you!
Bloom
Bloom
(looks behind)
see. Negro servants in livery too if she had money. Othello black brute.
Eugene Stratton. Even the bones and cornerman at the Livermore christies.
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(They whisk black masks from raw babby faces: then, chuckling,
chortling, trumming, twanging, they diddle diddle cakewalk dance
away.)
Bloom
Bloom
(with a sour tenderish smile)
Would you like me perhaps to embrace you just for a fraction of a second?
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
(screams gaily)
Bloom
Bloom
For old sake' sake. I only meant a square party, a mixed marriage mingling
of our different little conjugials. You know I had a soft corner for you.
(gloomily)
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
Glory Alice, you do look a holy show! Killing simply.
hand inquisitively)
a dear.
Bloom
Bloom
(seizes her wrist with his free hand)
Dublin. How time flies by! Do you remember, harking back in a
retrospective arrangement, Old Christmas night, Georgina Simpson's
housewarming while they were playing the Irving Bishop game, finding the
pin blindfold and thoughtreading? Subject, what is in this snuffbox?
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
You were the lion of the night with your seriocomic recitation and you
looked the part. You were always a favourite with the ladies.
Bloom
Bloom
(squire of dames, in dinner jacket with wateredsilk facings, blue masonic
badge in his buttonhole, black bow and mother-of-pearl studs, a prismatic
champagne glass tilted in his hand)
Ireland, home and beauty.
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
The dear dead days beyond recall. Love's old sweet song.
Bloom
Bloom
(meaningfully dropping his voice)
find out whether some person's something is a little teapot at present.
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
(gushingly)
all over me!
the crackers from the tree we sat on the staircase ottoman. Under the
mistletoe. Two is company.
Bloom
Bloom
(wearing a purple Napoleon hat with an amber halfmoon, his fingers and
thumb passing slowly down to her soft moist meaty palm which she
surrenders gently)
this hand, carefully, slowly.
Là ci darem la mano.
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
(in a onepiece evening frock executed in moonlight blue, a tinsel sylph's
diadem on her brow with her dancecard fallen beside her moonblue satin
slipper, curves her palm softly, breathing quickly)
hot! You're scalding! The left hand nearest the heart.
Bloom
Bloom
When you made your present choice they said it was beauty and the beast. I
can never forgive you for that.
means. All you meant to me then.
thrust out, muttering to right and left. Little Alf Bergan, cloaked in
the pall of the ace of spades, dogs him to left and right, doubled in
laughter.)
-
Alf Bergan
Alf Bergan
(points jeering at the sandwichboards)
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
(to Bloom)
didn't you kiss the spot to make it well? You wanted to.
Bloom
Bloom
(shocked)
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
(her pulpy tongue between her lips, offers a pigeon kiss)
answer is a lemon. Have you a little present for me there?
Bloom
Bloom
(offhandedly)
is incomplete. I was at
of Shakespeare. Unfortunately threw away the programme. Rattling good
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which a skull and crossbones are painted in white limewash. He
opens it and shows it full of polonies, kippered herrings, Findon
haddies and tightpacked pills.)
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Richie
Richie
Best value in Dub.
(Bald Pat, bothered beetle, stands on the curbstone, folding his
napkin, waiting to wait.)
Pat
Pat
(advances with a tilted dish of spillspilling gravy)
of lager. Hee hee hee. Wait till I wait.
Richie
Richie
Goodgod. Inev erate inall ....
(With hanging head he marches doggedly forward. The navvy,
lurching by, gores him with his flaming pronghorn.)
Richie
Richie
(with a cry of pain, his hand to his back)
Bloom
Bloom
(points to the navvy)
am not on pleasure bent. I am in a grave predicament.
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
Humbugging and deluthering as per usual with your cock and bull story.
Bloom
Bloom
I want to tell you a little secret about how I came to be here. But you must
never tell. Not even Molly. I have a most particular reason.
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
(all agog)
Bloom
Bloom
Let's walk on. Shall us?
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
Let's.
(The bawd makes an unheeded sign. Bloom walks on with Mrs
Breen. The terrier follows, whining piteously, wagging his tail.)
The Bawd
Jewman's melt!
Bloom
Bloom
(in an oatmeal sporting suit, a sprig of woodbine in the lapel, tony buff
shirt, shepherd's plaid Saint Andrew's cross scarftie, white spats, fawn
dustcoat on his arm, tawny red brogues, fieldglasses in bandolier and a grey
billycock hat)
after Milly, Marionette we called her, was weaned when we all went
together to Fairyhouse races, was it?
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
(in smart Saxe tailormade, white velours hat and spider veil)
Leopardstown.
Bloom
Bloom
I mean, Leopardstown. And Molly won seven shillings on a three year old
named Nevertell and coming home along by Foxrock in that old fiveseater
shanderadan of a waggonette you were in your heyday then and you had
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Hayes advised you to buy because it was marked down to nineteen and
eleven, a bit of wire and an old rag of velveteen, and I'll lay you what you
like she did it on purpose ....
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
She did, of course, the cat! Don't tell me! Nice adviser!
Bloom
Bloom
Because it didn't suit you one quarter as well as the other ducky little
tammy toque with the bird of paradise wing in it that I admired on you and
you honestly looked just too fetching in it though it was a pity to kill it, you
cruel naughty creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a
fullstop.
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
(squeezes his arm, simpers)
Bloom
Bloom
(low, secretly, ever more rapidly)
spiced beef out of Mrs Joe Gallaher's lunch basket. Frankly, though she
had her advisers or admirers, I never cared much for her style. She was ....
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
Too ....
Bloom
Bloom
Yes. And Molly was laughing because Rogers and Maggot O'Reilly were
mimicking a cock as we passed a farmhouse and Marcus Tertius Moses, the
tea merchant, drove past us in a gig with his daughter, Dancer Moses was
her name, and the poodle in her lap bridled up and you asked me if I ever
heard or read or knew or came across ....
Mrs Breen
Mrs Breen
(eagerly)
(She fades from his side. Followed by the whining dog he walks on
towards hellsgates. In an archway a standing woman, bent forward,
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(guffaw with cleft palates)
(Their paintspeckled hats wag. Spattered with size and lime of their
lodges they frisk limblessly about him.)
Bloom
Bloom
Coincidence too. They think it funny. Anything but that. Broad daylight.
Trying to walk. Lucky no woman.
The Loiterers
And free our native land.
(He staggers forward, dragging them with him. Bloom stops, at
fault. The dog approaches, his tongue outlolling, panting.)
Bloom
Bloom
Wildgoose chase this. Disorderly houses. Lord knows where they are gone.
Drunks cover distance double quick. Nice mixup. Scene at Westland row.
Then jump in first class with third ticket. Then too far. Train with engine
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of the sicksweet weed floats towards him in slow round ovalling wreaths.)
The Wreaths
Sweet are the sweets. Sweets of sin.
Bloom
Bloom
My spine's a bit limp. Go or turn? And this food? Eat it and get all
pigsticky. Absurd I am. Waste of money. One and eightpence too much.
(The retriever drives a cold snivelling muzzle against his hand, wagging his
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The Watch
Bloom. Of Bloom. For Bloom. Bloom.
(Each lays hand on Bloom's shoulder.)
First Watch
First Watch
Caught in the act. Commit no nuisance.
Bloom
Bloom
(stammers)
(A covey of gulls, storm petrels, rises hungrily from Liffey slime
with Banbury cakes in their beaks.)
The Gulls
Kaw kave kankury kake.
Bloom
Bloom
The friend of man. Trained by kindness.
(He points. Bob Doran, toppling from a high barstool, sways over
the munching spaniel.)
Bob Doran
Bob Doran
Towser. Give us the paw. Give the paw.
(The bulldog growls, his scruff standing, a gobbet of pig's knuckle
between his molars through which rabid scumspittle dribbles. Bob
Doran falls silently into an area.)
Second Watch
Second Watch
Prevention of cruelty to animals.
Bloom
Bloom
(enthusiastically)
cross bridge for illusing the poor horse with his harness scab. Bad French I
got for my pains. Of course it was frosty and the last tram. All tales of
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hyena.
with these breastsparklers.
Mademoiselle Ruby, the pride of the ring.
First Watch
First Watch
Come. Name and address.
Bloom
Bloom
I have forgotten for the moment. Ah, yes!
saluting)
Pasha. Umpteen millions.
Cousin.
First Watch
First Watch
Proof.
(A card falls from inside the leather headband of Bloom's hat.)
Bloom
Bloom
(in red fez, cadi's dress coat with broad green sash, wearing a false badge
of the Legion of Honour, picks up the card hastily and offers it)
My club is the Junior Army and Navy. Solicitors: Messrs John Henry
Menton, 27 Bachelor's Walk.
First Watch
First Watch
(reads)
besetting.
Second Watch
Second Watch
An alibi. You are cautioned.
Bloom
Bloom
(produces from his heartpocket a crumpled yellow flower)
flower in question. It was given me by a man I don't know his name.
(plausibly)
(A dark mercurialised face appears, leading a veiled figure.)
The Dark Mercury
The Castle is looking for him. He was drummed out of the army.
Martha
Martha
(thickveiled, a crimson halter round her neck, a copy of the
her hand, in tone of reproach, pointing)
one! Clear my name.
First Watch
First Watch
(sternly)
Bloom
Bloom
(scared, hats himself, steps back, then, plucking at his heart and lifting his
right forearm on the square, he gives the sign and dueguard of fellowcraft)
No, no, worshipful master, light of love. Mistaken identity. The Lyons mail.
Lesurques and Dubosc. You remember the Childs fratricide case. We
medical men. By striking him dead with a hatchet. I am wrongfully
accused. Better one guilty escape than ninetynine wrongfully condemned.
Martha
Martha
(sobbing behind her veil)
Griffin. He wrote to me that he was miserable. I'll tell my brother, the
Bective rugger fullback, on you, heartless flirt.
Bloom
Bloom
(behind his hand)
vaguely the pass of Ephraim)
Second Watch
Second Watch
(tears in his eyes, to Bloom)
yourself.
Bloom
Bloom
Gentlemen of the jury, let me explain. A pure mare's nest. I am a man
misunderstood. I am being made a scapegoat of. I am a respectable married
man, without a stain on my character. I live in Eccles street. My wife, I am
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gentleman, what do you call him, Majorgeneral Brian Tweedy, one of
Britain's fighting men who helped to win our battles. Got his majority for
the heroic defence of Rorke's Drift.
First Watch
First Watch
Regiment.
Bloom
Bloom
(turns to the gallery)
the world over. I think I see some old comrades in arms up there among
you. The R. D. F., with our own Metropolitan police, guardians of our
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service of our sovereign.
A Voice
Turncoat! Up the Boers! Who booed Joe Chamberlain?
Bloom
Bloom
(his hand on the shoulder of the first watch)
I'm as staunch a Britisher as you are, sir. I fought with the colours for king
and country in the absentminded war under general Gough in the park and
was disabled at Spion Kop and Bloemfontein, was mentioned in dispatches.
I did all a white man could.
nozzle again the bank.
First Watch
First Watch
Profession or trade.
Bloom
Bloom
Well, I follow a literary occupation, author-journalist. In fact we are just
bringing out a collection of prize stories of which I am the inventor,
something that is an entirely new departure. I am connected with the British
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scarlet beak blazes within the aureole of his straw hat. He dangles a
hank of Spanish onions in one hand and holds with the other hand
a telephone receiver nozzle to his ear.)
Myles Crawford
Myles Crawford
(his cock's wattles wagging)
Freeman's Urinal
Bluebags? Who writes? Is it Bloom?
gem, the love passages in which are beneath suspicion. The Beaufoy books
of love and great possessions, with which your lordship is doubtless
familiar, are a household word throughout the kingdom.
Bloom
Bloom
(murmurs with hangdog meekness glum)
witch hand in hand I take exception to, if I may ...
Beaufoy
witnesses' fees, shan't we? We are considerably out of pocket over this bally
pressman johnny, this jackdaw of Rheims, who has not even been to a
university.
(indistinctly)
(shouts)
A Voice from the Gallery
Moses, Moses, king of the jews,
Wiped his arse in the
(bravely)
You low cad! You ought to be ducked in the horsepond, you rotter!
court)
Street angel and house devil. Not fit to be mentioned in mixed society! The
archconspirator of the age!
(to the court)
The King versus Bloom. Call the woman Driscoll.
Mary Driscoll, scullerymaid!
Another! Are you of the unfortunate class?
(indignantly)
four months in my last place. I was in a situation, six pounds a year and my
chances with Fridays out and I had to leave owing to his carryings on.
What do you tax him with?
He made a certain suggestion but I thought more of myself as poor as I am.
(in housejacket of ripplecloth, flannel trousers, heelless slippers, unshaven,
his hair rumpled: softly)
emerald garters far above your station. Incautiously I took your part when
you were accused of pilfering. There's a medium in all things. Play cricket.
(excitedly)
them oylsters!
The offence complained of? Did something happen?
He surprised me in the rere of the premises, Your honour, when the missus
was out shopping one morning with a request for a safety pin. He held me
and I was discoloured in four places as a result. And he interfered twict
with my clothing.
She counterassaulted.
(scornfully)
remonstrated with him, Your lord, and he remarked: keep it quiet.
(without looking up from their notebooks)
(from the presstable, coughs and calls)
(in barrister's grey wig and stuffgown, speaking with a voice of pained
protest)
mortal disguised in liquor. We are not in a beargarden nor at an Oxford rag
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@
between the covers of a book. He himself, my lord, is a physical wreck from
cobbler's weak chest. His submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction
and irresponsible for his actions. Not all there, in fact.
(Barefoot, pigeonbreasted, in lascar's vest and trousers, apologetic toes
turned in, opens his tiny mole's eyes and looks about him dazedly, passing a
slow hand across his forehead. Then he hitches his belt sailor fashion and
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@
Blingee pigfoot evly night
Payee two shilly ....
(hotly to the populace)
any client of mine gagged and badgered in this fashion by a pack of curs
and laughing hyenas. The Mosaic code has superseded the law of the
@@ -982,20 +982,20 @@
He is down on his luck at present owing to the mortgaging of his extensive
property at Agendath Netaim in faraway Asia Minor, slides of which will
now be shown.
A penny in the pound.
(hoarsely)
(almost voicelessly)
recently come from a sickbed. A few wellchosen words.
avine head, foxy moustache and proboscidal eloquence of Seymour
@@ -1004,14 +1004,14 @@
soultransfiguring deserves to live I say accord the prisoner at the bar the
sacred benefit of the doubt.
(in court dress)
Wisdom Hely J. P. My old chief Joe Cuffe. Mr V. B. Dillon, ex lord mayor
of Dublin. I have moved in the charmed circle of the highest .... Queens of
Dublin society.
viceregal lodge to my old pals, sir Robert and lady Ball, astronomer royal,
at the levee. Sir Bob, I said ......
(in lowcorsaged opal balldress and elbowlength ivory gloves, wearing a
sabletrimmed brickquilted dolman, a comb of brilliants and panache of
osprey in her hair)
four p.m. on the following Thursday, Dunsink time. He offered to send me
through the post a work of fiction by Monsieur Paul de Kock, entitled
(in cap and seal coney mantle, wrapped up to the nose, steps out of her
brougham and scans through tortoiseshell quizzing-glasses which she takes
from inside her huge opossum muff)
on the heights, as he said, in my honour. I had it examined by a botanical
expert and elicited the information that it was a blossom of the homegrown
potato plant purloined from a forcingcase of the model farm.
Shame on him!
(screaming)
Mo!
(produces handcuffs)
He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a
Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman
Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@
up. He urged me (stating that he felt it his mission in life to urge me) to
defile the marriage bed, to commit adultery at the earliest possible
opportunity.
(in amazon costume, hard hat, jackboots cockspurred, vermilion waistcoat,
fawn musketeer gauntlets with braided drums, long train held up and
hunting crop with which she strikes her welt constantly)
me to soil his letter in an unspeakable manner, to chastise him as he richly
deserves, to bestride and ride him, to give him a most vicious
horsewhipping.
Me too.
Me too.
(stamps her jingling spurs in a sudden paroxysm of fury)
God above me. I'll scourge the pigeonlivered cur as long as I can stand over
him. I'll flay him alive.
(his eyes closing, quails expectantly)
cringing)
Very much so! I'll make it hot for you. I'll make you dance Jack Latten for
that.
Tan his breech well, the upstart! Write the stars and stripes on it!
Disgraceful! There's no excuse for him! A married man!
All these people. I meant only the spanking idea. A warm tingling glow
without effusion. Refined birching to stimulate the circulation.
(laughs derisively)
you'll get the surprise of your life now, believe me, the most unmerciful
hiding a man ever bargained for. You have lashed the dormant tigress in my
nature into fury.
(shakes her muff and quizzing-glasses vindictively)
Hanna dear. Give him ginger. Thrash the mongrel within an inch of his
life. The cat-o'-nine-tails. Geld him. Vivisect him.
(shuddering, shrinking, joins his hands: with hangdog mien)
shivery! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off
this once.
(severely)
soundly trounced!
(unbuttoning her gauntlet violently)
always was ever since he was pupped! To dare address me! I'll flog him
black and blue in the public streets. I'll dig my spurs in him up to the rowel.
He is a wellknown cuckold.
air)
Ready?
(trembling, beginning to obey)
Bareback riding. Weight for age. Gob, he organised her.
(all their heads turned to his voice)
(snarls)
(all their heads lowered in assent)
He is a marked man. Another girl's plait cut. Wanted: Jack the Ripper. A
thousand pounds reward.
(awed, whispers)
(loudly)
garb of grey stone rises from the bench, stonebearded. He bears in
his arms an umbrella sceptre. From his forehead arise starkly the
Mosaic ramshorns.)
-
The Recorder
The Recorder
I will put an end to this white slave traffic and rid Dublin of this odious
pest. Scandalous!
from the dock where he now stands and detained in custody in Mountjoy
@@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@
your soul. Remove him.
(A black skullcap descends upon his head. The subsheriff Long
John Fanning appears, smoking a pungent Henry Clay.)
Long John Fanning
Long John Fanning
(scowls and calls with rich rolling utterance)
(H. Rumbold, master barber, in a bloodcoloured jerkin and
tanner's apron, a rope coiled over his shoulder, mounts the block. A
@@ -1185,49 +1185,49 @@
(The bells of George's church toll slowly, loud dark iron.)
The Bells
Heigho! Heigho!
Bloom
Bloom
(desperately)
monkeyhouse. Zoo. Lewd chimpanzee.
artless blush unmanned me.
(he turns to a figure in the crowd, appealing)
You know me. That three shillings you can keep. If you want a little
more .....
Hynes
Hynes
(coldly)
Second Watch
Second Watch
(points to the corner)
First Watch
First Watch
Infernal machine with a time fuse.
Bloom
Bloom
No, no. Pig's feet. I was at a funeral.
First Watch
First Watch
(draws his truncheon)
(The beagle lifts his snout, showing the grey scorbutic face of
Paddy Dignam. He has gnawed all. He exhales a putrid carcasefed
breath. He grows to human size and shape. His dachshund coat
becomes a brown mortuary habit. His green eye flashes bloodshot.
Half of one ear, all the nose and both thumbs are ghouleaten.)
Paddy Dignam
Paddy Dignam
(in a hollow voice)
pronounced life extinct when I succumbed to the disease from natural
causes.
(He lifts his mutilated ashen face moonwards and bays
lugubriously.)
Bloom
Bloom
(in triumph)
Paddy Dignam
Paddy Dignam
Bloom, I am Paddy Dignam's spirit. List, list, O list!
Bloom
Bloom
The voice is the voice of Esau.
Second Watch
Second Watch
(blesses himself)
First Watch
First Watch
It is not in the penny catechism.
Paddy Dignam
Paddy Dignam
By metempsychosis. Spooks.
A Voice
O rocks.
Paddy Dignam
Paddy Dignam
(earnestly)
commissioner for oaths and affidavits, of 27 Bachelor's Walk. Now I am
defunct, the wall of the heart hypertrophied. Hard lines. The poor wife was
@@ -1238,28 +1238,28 @@
holding a bunch of keys tied with crape. Beside him stands Father
Coffey, chaplain, toadbellied, wrynecked, in a surplice and
bandanna nightcap, holding sleepily a staff of twisted poppies.)
Father Coffey
Father Coffey
(yawns, then chants with a hoarse croak)
Amen.
John O'Connell
John O'Connell
(foghorns stormily through his megaphone)
Paddy Dignam
Paddy Dignam
(with pricked up ears, winces)
places an ear to the ground)
John O'Connell
John O'Connell
Burial docket letter number U. P. eightyfive thousand. Field seventeen.
House of Keys. Plot, one hundred and one.
(Paddy Dignam listens with visible effort, thinking, his tail
stiffpointed, his ears cocked.)
Paddy Dignam
Paddy Dignam
Pray for the repose of his soul.
(He worms down through a coalhole, his brown habit trailing its
tether over rattling pebbles. After him toddles an obese grandfather
rat on fungus turtle paws under a grey carapace. Dignam's voice,
-
muffled, is heard baying under ground:
muffled, is heard baying under ground:
below
jumps from his twocolumned machine.)
Tom Rochford
Tom Rochford
(a hand to his breastbone, bows)
the manhole with a resolute stare)
Carlow.
Leopopold!
A man's touch. Sad music. Church music. Perhaps here.
Are you looking for someone? He's inside with his friend.
Is this Mrs Mack's?
No, eightyone. Mrs Cohen's. You might go farther and fare worse. Mother
Slipperslapper.
tipster that gives her all the winners and pays for her son in Oxford.
Working overtime but her luck's turned today.
his father, are you?
Not I!
You both in black. Has little mousey any tickles tonight?
How's the nuts?
Off side. Curiously they are on the right. Heavier, I suppose. One in a
million my tailor, Mesias, says.
(in sudden alarm)
Not likely.
I feel it.
A talisman. Heirloom.
For Zoe? For keeps? For being so nice, eh?
You'll know me the next time.
(forlornly)
(murmuring singsong with the music, her odalisk lips lusciously smeared
with salve of swinefat and rosewater)
Hierushaloim.
(fascinated)
And you know what thought did?
(draws back, mechanically caressing her right bub with a flat awkward
hand)
(catches a stray hair deftly and twists it to her coil)
English. Have you a swaggerroot?
(as before)
(lewdly)
weed.
Go on. Make a stump speech out of it.
(in workman's corduroy overalls, black gansy with red floating tie and
apache cap)
new world that potato and that weed, the one a killer of pestilence by
@@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@
(Midnight chimes from distant steeples.)
The Chimes
Turn again, Leopold! Lord mayor of Dublin!
Bloom
Bloom
(in alderman's gown and chain)
Rotunda, Mountjoy and North Dock, better run a tramline, I say, from the
cattlemarket to the river. That's the music of the future. That's my
@@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@
Parlour off Cork street be henceforth designated Boulevard Bloom.
Councillor Lorcan Sherlock
Carried unanimously.
Bloom
Bloom
(impassionedly)
in their upholstered poop, casting dice, what reck they? Machines is their
cry, their chimera, their panacea. Laboursaving apparatuses, supplanters,
@@ -1474,14 +1474,14 @@
Leopold the First!
All
God save Leopold the First!
Bloom
Bloom
(in dalmatic and purple mantle, to the bishop of Down and Connor, with
dignity)
William, Archbishop of Armagh
(in purple stock and shovel hat)
mercy to be executed in all your judgments in Ireland and territories
thereunto belonging?
Bloom
Bloom
(placing his right hand on his testicles, swears)
with me. All this I promise to do.
Michael, Archbishop of Armagh
diamond. His palfrey neighs. Immediate silence. Wireless
intercontinental and interplanetary transmitters are set for reception
of message.)
-
Bloom
Bloom
My subjects! We hereby nominate our faithful charger Copula Felix
hereditary Grand Vizier and announce that we have this day repudiated
our former spouse and have bestowed our royal hand upon the princess
@@ -1510,19 +1510,19 @@
Black Maria. The princess Selene, in moonblue robes, a silver
crescent on her head, descends from a Sedan chair, borne by two
giants. An outburst of cheering.)
-
John Howard Parnell
John Howard Parnell
(raises the royal standard)
brother!
Bloom
Bloom
(embraces John Howard Parnell)
this right royal welcome to green Erin, the promised land of our common
ancestors.
(The freedom of the city is presented to him embodied in a charter.
The keys of Dublin, crossed on a crimson cushion, are given to him.
He shows all that he is wearing green socks.)
Tom Kernan
Tom Kernan
You deserve it, your honour.
Bloom
Bloom
On this day twenty years ago we overcame the hereditary enemy at
Ladysmith. Our howitzers and camel swivel guns played on his lines with
telling effect. Half a league onward! They charge! All is lost now! Do we
@@ -1531,7 +1531,7 @@
Bonafide
The Chapel of Freeman Typesetters
Hear! Hear!
John Wyse Nolan
John Wyse Nolan
There's the man that got away James Stephens.
A Bluecoat Schoolboy
Bravo!
You're a credit to your country, sir, that's what you are.
An Applewoman
He's a man like Ireland wants.
Bloom
Bloom
My beloved subjects, a new era is about to dawn. I, Bloom, tell you verily it
is even now at hand. Yea, on the word of a Bloom, ye shall ere long enter
into the golden city which is to be, the new Bloomusalem in the Nova
@@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@
The Man in the Macintosh
Don't you believe a word he says. That man is Leopold M'Intosh, the
notorious fireraiser. His real name is Higgins.
Bloom
Bloom
Shoot him! Dog of a christian! So much for M'Intosh!
(A cannonshot. The man in the macintosh disappears. Bloom with
his sceptre strikes down poppies. The instantaneous deaths of many
@@ -1595,9 +1595,9 @@
Cakes in his pocket for Leo alone.
(Bloom, bending down, pokes Baby Boardman gently in the
stomach.)
Baby Boardman
Baby Boardman
(hiccups, curdled milk flowing from his mouth)
Bloom
Bloom
(shaking hands with a blind stripling)
arms round the shoulders of an old couple)
pussy fourcorners with ragged boys and girls)
fellow, not at all!
part in a stomach race with elderly male and female cripples)
boys! Wriggle it, girls!
The Citizen
The Citizen
(choked with emotion, brushes aside a tear in his emerald muffler)
good God bless him!
(The rams' horns sound for silence. The standard of Zion is
hoisted.)
Bloom
Bloom
(uncloaks impressively, revealing obesity, unrolls a paper and reads
solemnly)
Kippur Hanukah Roschaschana Beni Brith Bar Mitzvah Mazzoth
Askenazim Meshuggah Talith.
(An official translation is read by Jimmy Henry, assistant town
clerk.)
Jimmy Henry
Jimmy Henry
The Court of Conscience is now open. His Most Catholic Majesty will now
administer open air justice. Free medical and legal advice, solution of
doubles and other problems. All cordially invited. Given at this our loyal
city of Dublin in the year 1 of the Paradisiacal Era.
Paddy Leonard
Paddy Leonard
What am I to do about my rates and taxes?
Bloom
Bloom
Pay them, my friend.
Paddy Leonard
Paddy Leonard
Thank you.
Nosey Flynn
Nosey Flynn
Can I raise a mortgage on my fire insurance?
Bloom
Bloom
(obdurately)
in your own recognisances for six months in the sum of five pounds.
J. J. O'Molloy
J. J. O'Molloy
A Daniel did I say? Nay! A Peter O'Brien!
Nosey Flynn
Nosey Flynn
Where do I draw the five pounds?
Pisser Burke
Pisser Burke
For bladder trouble?
Bloom
Bloom
Acid. nit. hydrochlor. dil.
Tinct. nux vom.
Extr. taraxel. liq.
Aq. dis. ter in die.
Chris Callinan
Chris Callinan
What is the parallax of the subsolar ecliptic of Aldebaran?
Bloom
Bloom
Pleased to hear from you, Chris. K. 11.
Joe Hynes
Joe Hynes
Why aren't you in uniform?
Bloom
Bloom
When my progenitor of sainted memory wore the uniform of the Austrian
despot in a dank prison where was yours?
Ben Dollard
Ben Dollard
Pansies?
Bloom
Bloom
Embellish (beautify) suburban gardens.
Ben Dollard
Ben Dollard
When twins arrive?
Bloom
Bloom
Father (pater, dad) starts thinking.
Larry O'Rourke
Larry O'Rourke
An eightday licence for my new premises. You remember me, sir Leo, when
you were in number seven. I'm sending around a dozen of stout for the
missus.
Bloom
Bloom
(coldly)
Crofton
Crofton
This is indeed a festivity.
Bloom
Bloom
(solemnly)
Alexander Keyes
Alexander Keyes
When will we have our own house of keys?
Bloom
Bloom
I stand for the reform of municipal morals and the plain ten
commandments. New worlds for old. Union of all, jew, moslem and gentile.
Three acres and a cow for all children of nature. Saloon motor hearses.
@@ -1692,13 +1692,13 @@
bonuses for all, esperanto the universal language with universal
brotherhood. No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors.
Free money, free rent, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state.
O'Madden Burke
O'Madden Burke
Free fox in a free henroost.
Davy Byrne
Davy Byrne
(yawning)
Bloom
Bloom
Mixed races and mixed marriage.
Lenehan
Lenehan
What about mixed bathing?
(Bloom explains to those near him his schemes for social
regeneration. All agree with him. The keeper of the Kildare street
@@ -1709,36 +1709,36 @@
Manufacture, Liberty of Speech, Plural Voting, Gastronomy,
Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless
Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.)
Father Farley
Father Farley
He is an episcopalian, an agnostic, an anythingarian seeking to overthrow
our holy faith.
Mrs Riordan
Mrs Riordan
(tears up her will)
Mother Grogan
Mother Grogan
(removes her boot to throw it at Bloom)
person!
Nosey Flynn
Nosey Flynn
Give us a tune, Bloom. One of the old sweet songs.
Bloom
Bloom
(with rollicking humour)
I vowed that I never would leave her,
She turned out a cruel deceiver.
With my tooraloom tooraloom tooraloom tooraloom.
Hoppy Holohan
Hoppy Holohan
Good old Bloom! There's nobody like him after all.
Paddy Leonard
Paddy Leonard
Stage Irishman!
Bloom
Bloom
What railway opera is like a tramline in Gibraltar? The Rows of Casteele.
(Laughter.)
Lenehan
Lenehan
Plagiarist! Down with Bloom!
The Veiled Sibyl
(enthusiastically)
of all. I'd give my life for him, the funniest man on earth.
Bloom
Bloom
(winks at the bystanders)
Theodore Purefoy
Theodore Purefoy
(in fishingcap and oilskin jacket)
frustrate the sacred ends of nature.
The Veiled Sibyl
Guinness's brewery, asphyxiating themselves by placing their heads
in gasovens, hanging themselves in stylish garters, leaping from
windows of different storeys.)
-
Alexander J Dowie
Alexander J Dowie
(violently)
from the roots of hell, a disgrace to christian men. A fiendish libertine from
his earliest years this stinking goat of Mendes gave precocious signs of
@@ -1765,14 +1765,14 @@
from upper and lower Dorset street throw objects of little or no
commercial value, hambones, condensed milk tins, unsaleable
cabbage, stale bread, sheep's tails, odd pieces of fat.)
-
Bloom
Bloom
(excitedly)
heaven, I am guiltless as the unsunned snow! It was my brother Henry. He
is my double. He lives in number 2 Dolphin's Barn. Slander, the viper, has
wrongfully accused me. Fellowcountrymen,
capall
medical testimony on my behalf.
Dr Mulligan
Dr Mulligan
(in motor jerkin, green motorgoggles on his brow)
abnormal. He has recently escaped from Dr Eustace's private asylum for
demented gentlemen. Born out of bedlock hereditary epilepsy is present, the
@@ -1786,16 +1786,16 @@
5427 anal, axillary, pectoral and pubic hairs, I declare him to be
intacta
(Bloom holds his high grade hat over his genital organs.)
Dr Madden
Dr Madden
Hypsospadia is also marked. In the interest of coming generations I suggest
that the parts affected should be preserved in spirits of wine in the national
teratological museum.
Dr Crotthers
Dr Crotthers
I have examined the patient's urine. It is albuminoid. Salivation is
insufficient, the patellar reflex intermittent.
Dr Punch Costello
Dr Punch Costello
The
Dr Dixon
Dr Dixon
(reads a bill of health)
womanly man. His moral nature is simple and lovable. Many have found
him a dear man, a dear person. He is a rather quaint fellow on the whole,
@@ -1814,9 +1814,9 @@
coins, blank cheques, banknotes, jewels, treasury bonds, maturing
bills of exchange, I. O. U's, wedding rings, watchchains, lockets,
necklaces and bracelets are rapidly collected.)
-
Bloom
Bloom
O, I so want to be a mother.
Mrs Thornton
Mrs Thornton
(in nursetender's gown)
Tight, dear.
(Bloom embraces her tightly and bears eight male yellow and white
@@ -1833,11 +1833,11 @@
of hotel syndicates.)
A Voice
Bloom, are you the Messiah ben Joseph or ben David?
Bloom
Bloom
(darkly)
Brother Buzz
Then perform a miracle like Father Charles.
Bantam Lyons
Bantam Lyons
Prophesy who will win the Saint Leger.
(Bloom walks on a net, covers his left eye with his left ear, passes
through several walls, climbs Nelson's Pillar, hangs from the top
@@ -1877,7 +1877,7 @@
(shakes a rattle)
A Hollybush
And in the devil's glen?
Bloom
Bloom
(blushes furiously all over from frons to nates, three tears falling from his
left eye)
The Irish Evicted Tenants
Belial! Laemlein of Istria, the false Messiah! Abulafia! Recant!
(George R Mesias, Bloom's tailor, appears, a tailor's goose under
his arm, presenting a bill.)
Mesias
Mesias
To alteration one pair trousers eleven shillings.
Bloom
Bloom
(rubs his hands cheerfully)
[EMPTY]
[EMPTY]
(Reuben J Dodd, blackbearded Iscariot, bad shepherd, bearing on
his shoulders the drowned corpse of his son, approaches the
pillory.)
Reuben J
Reuben J
(whispers hoarsely)
the first rattler.
The Fire Brigade
him over to the civil power, saying) Forgive him his trespasses.
(Lieutenant Myers of the Dublin Fire Brigade by general request
sets fire to Bloom. Lamentations.)
The Citizen
The Citizen
Thank heaven!
Bloom
Bloom
(in a seamless garment marked I. H. S. stands upright amid phoenix
flames)
reporters traces of burning)
sings the chorus from Handel's Messiah
Omnipotent reigneth
Bloom becomes mute, shrunken, carbonised.)
-
Zoe
Zoe
Talk away till you're black in the face.
Bloom
Bloom
(in caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an emigrant's
red handkerchief bundle in his hand, leading a black bogoak pig by a
sugaun, with a smile in his eye)
it peacefully. They can live on.
ruined. A few pastilles of aconite. The blinds drawn. A letter. Then lie back
to rest.
Zoe
Zoe
(stiffly, her finger in her neckfillet)
Suppose you got up the wrong side of the bed or came too quick with your
best girl. O, I can read your thoughts!
Bloom
Bloom
(bitterly)
it. Let everything rip.
Zoe
Zoe
(in sudden sulks)
chance.
Bloom
Bloom
(repentantly)
you from? London?
Zoe
Zoe
(glibly)
born.
Tittlemouse. Stop that and begin worse. Have you cash for a short time?
Ten shillings?
Bloom
Bloom
(smiles, nods slowly)
Zoe
Zoe
And more's mother?
coming into the musicroom to see our new pianola? Come and I'll peel off.
Bloom
Bloom
(feeling his occiput dubiously with the unparalleled embarrassment of a
harassed pedlar gauging the symmetry of her peeled pears)
would be dreadfully jealous if she knew. The greeneyed monster.
(earnestly)
Zoe
Zoe
(flattered)
Come.
Bloom
Bloom
Laughing witch! The hand that rocks the cradle.
Zoe
Zoe
Babby!
Bloom
Bloom
(in babylinen and pelisse, bigheaded, with a caul of dark hair, fixes big eyes
on her fluid slip and counts its bronze buckles with a chubby finger, his
moist tongue lolling and lisping)
The Buckles
Love me. Love me not. Love me.
Zoe
Zoe
Silent means consent.
forefinger giving to his palm the passtouch of secret monitor, luring him to
doom.)
(Zoe and Bloom reach the doorway where two sister whores are
seated. They examine him curiously from under their pencilled
brows and smile to his hasty bow. He trips awkwardly.)
Zoe
Zoe
(her lucky hand instantly saving him)
Bloom
Bloom
The just man falls seven times.
is good manners.
Zoe
Zoe
Ladies first, gentlemen after.
(She crosses the threshold. He hesitates. She turns and, holding out
her hands, draws him over. He hops. On the antlered rack of the
@@ -2054,20 +2054,20 @@
glancing at herself in the gilt mirror over the mantelpiece. A tag of
her corsetlace hangs slightly below her jacket. Lynch indicates
mockingly the couple at the piano.)
Kitty
Kitty
(coughs behind her hand)
forefinger)
wand. She settles them down quickly.)
bends quickly her sailor hat under which her hair glows, red with henna)
O, excuse!
Zoe
Zoe
More limelight, Charley.
cock)
Kitty
Kitty
(peers at the gasjet)
Lynch
Lynch
(deeply)
Zoe
Zoe
Clap on the back for Zoe.
(The wand in Lynch's hand flashes: a brass poker. Stephen stands
at the pianola on which sprawl his hat and ashplant. With two
@@ -2076,15 +2076,15 @@
mildewed strawberry, lolls spreadeagle in the sofacorner, her limp
forearm pendent over the bolster, listening. A heavy stye droops
over her sleepy eyelid.)
Kitty
Kitty
(hiccups again with a kick of her horsed foot)
Zoe
Zoe
(promptly)
(Kitty Ricketts bends her head. Her boa uncoils, slides, glides over
her shoulder, back, arm, chair to the ground. Lynch lifts the curled
catterpillar on his wand. She snakes her neck, nestling. Stephen
glances behind at the squatted figure with its cap back to the front.)
Stephen
Stephen
As a matter of fact it is of no importance whether Benedetto Marcello found
it or made it. The rite is the poet's rest. It may be an old hymn to Demeter
or also illustrate
The Cap
(with saturnine spleen)
greekjew. Extremes meet. Death is the highest form of life. Ba!
Stephen
Stephen
You remember fairly accurately all my errors, boasts, mistakes. How long
shall I continue to close my eyes to disloyalty? Whetstone!
The Cap
Ba!
Stephen
Stephen
Here's another for you.
fundamental and the dominant are separated by the greatest possible
interval which ....
The Cap
Which? Finish. You can't.
Stephen
Stephen
(with an effort)
with. The ultimate return. The octave. Which.
The Cap
Which?
(Outside the gramophone begins to blare
Stephen
Stephen
(abruptly)
God, the sun, Shakespeare, a commercial traveller, having itself traversed in
reality itself becomes that self. Wait a moment. Wait a second. Damn that
fellow's noise in the street. Self which it itself was ineluctably
preconditioned to become.
Lynch
Lynch
(with a mocking whinny of laughter grins at Bloom and Zoe Higgins)
What a learned speech, eh?
Zoe
Zoe
(briskly)
(With obese stupidity Florry Talbot regards Stephen.)
Florry
Florry
They say the last day is coming this summer.
Kitty
Kitty
No!
Zoe
Zoe
(explodes in laughter)
Florry
Florry
(offended)
tickling.
(Ragged barefoot newsboys, jogging a wagtail kite, patter past,
yelling.)
The Newsboys
The Newsboys
Stop press edition. Result of the rockinghorse races. Sea serpent in the
royal canal. Safe arrival of Antichrist.
(Stephen turns and sees Bloom.)
Stephen
Stephen
A time, times and half a time.
(Reuben J Antichrist, wandering jew, a clutching hand open on his
spine, stumps forward. Across his loins is slung a pilgrim's wallet
@@ -2163,7 +2163,7 @@
roulette planets fly from his hands.)
together, uttering crepitant cracks)
balloons, sail swollen up and away. He springs off into vacuum.)
Florry
Florry
(sinking into torpor, crossing herself secretly)
(A female tepid effluvium leaks out from her. Nebulous obscurity
occupies space. Through the drifting fog without the gramophone
@@ -2186,7 +2186,7 @@
surplice with funnel sleeves he is seen, vergerfaced, above a rostrum
about which the banner of old glory is draped. He thumps the
parapet.)
Elijah
Elijah
No yapping, if you please, in this booth. Jake Crane, Creole Sue, Dove
Campbell, Abe Kirschner, do your coughing with your mouths shut. Say, I
am operating all this trunk line. Boys, do it now. God's time is 12.25. Tell
@@ -2213,7 +2213,7 @@
gratingly against the needle)
The Three Whores
(covering their ears, squawk)
Elijah
Elijah
(in rolledup shirtsleeves, black in the face, shouts at the top of his voice, his
arms uplifted)
just been saying to you. Certainly, I sort of believe strong in you, Mr
@@ -2233,7 +2233,7 @@
Florry-Teresa
It was in consequence of a portwine beverage on top of Hennessy's three
star. I was guilty with Whelan when he slipped into the bed.
Stephen
Stephen
In the beginning was the word, in the end the world without end. Blessed be
the eight beatitudes.
(The beatitudes, Dixon, Madden, Crotthers, Costello, Lenehan,
@@ -2242,19 +2242,19 @@
The Beatitudes
(incoherently)
bishop.
Lyster
Lyster
(in quakergrey kneebreeches and broadbrimmed hat, says discreetly)
our friend. I need not mention names. Seek thou the light.
(He corantos by. Best enters in hairdresser's attire, shinily
laundered, his locks in curlpapers. He leads John Eglinton who
wears a mandarin's kimono of Nankeen yellow, lizardlettered, and
a high pagoda hat.)
Best
Best
(smiling, lifts the hat and displays a shaven poll from the crown of which
bristles a pigtail toupee tied with an orange topknot)
him, don't you know. A thing of beauty, don't you know, Yeats says, or I
mean, Keats says.
John Eglinton
John Eglinton
(produces a greencapped dark lantern and flashes it towards a corner: with
carping accent)
truth. Plain truth for a plain man. Tanderagee wants the facts and means to
@@ -2265,7 +2265,7 @@
About his head writhe eels and elvers. He is encrusted with weeds
and shells. His right hand holds a bicycle pump. His left hand
grasps a huge crayfish by its two talons.)
Mananaun MacLir
Mananaun MacLir
(with a voice of waves)
yoghin of the gods. Occult pimander of Hermes Trismegistos.
of whistling seawind)
Pooah! Pfuiiiiiii!
(Zoe runs to the chandelier and, crooking her leg, adjusts the
mantle.)
Zoe
Zoe
Who has a fag as I'm here?
Lynch
Lynch
(tossing a cigarette on to the table)
Zoe
Zoe
(her head perched aside in mock pride)
a lady?
slowly, showing the brown tufts of her armpits. Lynch with his poker lifts
boldly a side of her slip. Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under
the sapphire a nixie's green. She puffs calmly at her cigarette.)
the beautyspot of my behind?
Lynch
Lynch
I'm not looking.
Zoe
Zoe
(makes sheep's eyes)
lemon?
(Squinting in mock shame she glances with sidelong meaning at
@@ -2315,7 +2315,7 @@
hereabouts, eh? Inadvertently her backview revealed the fact that she is not
wearing those rather intimate garments of which you are a particular
devotee. The injection mark on the thigh I hope you perceived? Good.
Bloom
Bloom
Granpapachi. But .....
Virag
Number two on the other hand, she of the cherry rouge and coiffeuse white,
@@ -2324,7 +2324,7 @@
to say. Correct me but I always understood that the act so performed by
skittish humans with glimpses of lingerie appealed to you in virtue of its
exhibitionististicicity. In a word. Hippogriff. Am I right?
Bloom
Bloom
She is rather lean.
Virag
(not unpleasantly)
dustspecks. Never put on you tomorrow what you can wear today.
Parallax!
snap? Pollysyllabax!
Bloom
Bloom
(an elbow resting in a hand, a forefinger against his cheek)
Virag
(cynically, his weasel teeth bared yellow, draws down his left eye with a
@@ -2345,12 +2345,12 @@
There is plenty of her visible to the naked eye. Observe the mass of
oxygenated vegetable matter on her skull. What ho, she bumps! The ugly
duckling of the party, longcasted and deep in keel.
Bloom
Bloom
(regretfully)
Virag
We can do you all brands, mild, medium and strong. Pay your money, take
your choice. How happy could you be with either ...
Bloom
Bloom
With ...?
Virag
(his tongue upcurling)
colossal blubber. That suits your book, eh? Fleshhotpots of Egypt to
hanker after. Wallow in it. Lycopodium.
There he goes again.
Bloom
Bloom
The stye I dislike.
Virag
(arches his eyebrows)
coughs encouragingly) But possibly it is only a wart. I presume you shall
have remembered what I will have taught you on that head? Wheatenmeal
with honey and nutmeg.
Bloom
Bloom
(reflecting)
ordeal. It has been an unusually fatiguing day, a chapter of accidents. Wait.
I mean, wartsblood spreads warts, you said ...
thumbs and have a good old thunk. See, you have forgotten. Exercise your
mnemotechnic.
remember.
Bloom
Bloom
Rosemary also did I understand you to say or willpower over parasitic
tissues. Then nay no I have an inkling. The touch of a deadhand cures.
Mnemo?
camiknickers?
(Bloom surveys uncertainly the three whores then gazes at the
veiled mauve light, hearing the everflying moth.)
Bloom
Bloom
I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence this.
But tomorrow is a new day will be. Past was is today. What now is will then
morrow as now was be past yester.
Some, to example, there are again whose movements are automatic.
Perceive. That is his appropriate sun. Nightbird nightsun nighttown. Chase
me, Charley!
Bee or bluebottle too other day butting shadow on wall dazed self then me
wandered dazed down shirt good job I ....
(absently)
The cloven sex. Why they fear vermin, creeping things. Yet Eve and the
serpent contradicts. Not a historical fact. Obvious analogy to my idea.
@@ -2452,7 +2452,7 @@
(his mouth projected in hard wrinkles, eyes stonily forlornly closed, psalms
in outlandish monotone)
that they have been the the known ....
I am going to scream. I beg your pardon. Ah? So.
Spontaneously to seek out the saurian's lair in order to entrust their teats to
his avid suction. Ant milks aphis.
(Virag truculent, his jowl set, stares at the lamp. Grave Bloom
regards Zoe's neck. Henry gallant turns with pendant dewlap to the
piano.)
Stephen
Stephen
(to himself)
husks of swine. Too much of this. I will arise and go to my. Expect this is
the. Steve, thou art in a parlous way. Must visit old Deasy or telegraph. Our
@@ -2501,14 +2501,14 @@
touches the keys again) Minor chord comes now. Yes. Not much however.
(Almidano Artifoni holds out a batonroll of music with vigorous
moustachework.)
Artifoni
Artifoni
Ci rifletta. Lei rovina tutto.
Florry
Florry
Sing us something. Love's old sweet song.
Stephen
Stephen
No voice. I am a most finished artist. Lynch, did I show you the letter about
the lute?
Florry
Florry
(smirking)
(The Siamese twins, Philip Drunk and Philip Sober, two Oxford
dons with lawnmowers, appear in the window embrasure. Both are
@@ -2526,19 +2526,19 @@
a notion I was here before. When was it not Atkinson his card I have
somewhere. Mac Somebody. Unmack I have it. He told me about, hold on,
Swinburne, was it, no?
And the song?
Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
Are you out of Maynooth? You're like someone I knew once.
Out of it now.
(their lawnmowers purring with a rigadoon of grasshalms)
Out of it out of it. By the bye have you the book, the thing, the ashplant?
Yes, there it, yes. Cleverever outofitnow. Keep in condition. Do like us.
There was a priest down here two nights ago to do his bit of business with
his coat buttoned up. You needn't try to hide, I says to him. I know you've a
Roman collar.
I hope you gave the good father a penance. Nine glorias for shooting a
bishop.
(spouts walrus smoke through her nostrils)
Only, you know, sensation. A dry rush.
Poor man!
(lightly)
How?
(A diabolic rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage, cranes his
@@ -2575,7 +2575,7 @@
(he leans out on tortured forepaws, elbows bent rigid, his eye agonising in
his flat skullneck and yelps over the mute world)
Apocalypse.
And Mary Shortall that was in the lock with the pox she got from Jimmy
Pidgeon in the blue caps had a child off him that couldn't swallow and was
smothered with the convulsions in the mattress and we all subscribed for
@@ -2587,13 +2587,13 @@
(Kitty unpins her hat and sets it down calmly, patting her henna
hair. And a prettier, a daintier head of winsome curls was never seen
on a whore's shoulders. Lynch puts on her hat. She whips it off.)
Lynch
Lynch
(laughs)
Florry
Florry
(nods)
Zoe
Zoe
(gaily)
Lynch
Lynch
Three wise virgins.
Virag
(agueshaken, profuse yellow spawn foaming over his bony epileptic lips)
hugebearded, cabbageeared, shaggychested, shockmaned,
fatpapped, stands forth, his loins and genitals tightened into a pair
of black bathing bagslops.)
-
Ben Dollard
Ben Dollard
(nakkering castanet bones in his huge padded paws, yodels jovially in base
barreltone)
(The virgins Nurse Callan and Nurse Quigley burst through the
@@ -2615,7 +2615,7 @@
(gushingly)
A Voice
Hold that fellow with the bad breeches.
Ben Dollard
Ben Dollard
(smites his thigh in abundant laughter)
Henry
(caressing on his breast a severed female head, murmurs)
Virag's Head
Quack!
(Exeunt severally.)
Stephen
Stephen
(over his shoulder to Zoe)
who founded the protestant error. But beware Antisthenes, the dog sage,
and the last end of Arius Heresiarchus. The agony in the closet.
Lynch
Lynch
All one and the same God to her.
Stephen
Stephen
(devoutly)
Florry
Florry
(to Stephen)
Lynch
Lynch
He is. A cardinal's son.
Stephen
Stephen
Cardinal sin. Monks of the screw.
(His Eminence Simon Stephen cardinal Dedalus, primate of all
Ireland, appears in the doorway, dressed in red soutane, sandals
@@ -2693,19 +2693,19 @@
(The trick doorhandle turns.)
The Doorhandle
Theeee!
Zoe
Zoe
The devil is in that door.
(A male form passes down the creaking staircase and is heard
taking the waterproof and hat from the rack. Bloom starts forward
involuntarily and, half closing the door as he passes, takes the
chocolate from his pocket and offers it nervously to Zoe.)
Zoe
Zoe
(sniffs his hair briskly)
very fond of what I like.
Bloom
Bloom
(hearing a male voice in talk with the whores on the doorstep, pricks his
ears)
Zoe
Zoe
(tears open the silverfoil)
and nibbles a piece, gives a piece to Kitty Ricketts and then turns kittenishly
to Lynch)
right circle. He eyes her.)
(She tosses a piece. With an adroit snap he catches it and bites it
through with a crack.)
Kitty
Kitty
(chewing)
Full of the best liqueurs. And the viceroy was there with his lady. The gas
we had on the Toft's hobbyhorses. I'm giddy still.
Bloom
Bloom
(In Svengali's fur overcoat, with folded arms and Napoleonic forelock,
frowns in ventriloquial exorcism with piercing eagle glance towards the
door. Then rigid with left foot advanced he makes a swift pass with
@@ -2728,12 +2728,12 @@
(A male cough and tread are heard passing through the mist
outside. Bloom's features relax. He places a hand in his waistcoat,
posing calmly. Zoe offers him chocolate.)
Bloom
Bloom
(solemnly)
Zoe
Zoe
Do as you're bid. Here!
(A firm heelclacking tread is heard on the stairs.)
Bloom
Bloom
(takes the chocolate)
Vanilla calms or? Mnemo. Confused light confuses memory. Red influences
lupus. Colours affect women's characters, any they have. This black makes
@@ -2747,34 +2747,34 @@
keeper rings. Her eyes are deeply carboned. She has a sprouting
moustache. Her olive face is heavy, slightly sweated and fullnosed
with orangetainted nostrils. She has large pendant beryl eardrops.)
Bella
Bella
My word! I'm all of a mucksweat.
(She glances round her at the couples. Then her eyes rest on Bloom
with hard insistence. Her large fan winnows wind towards her
heated faceneck and embonpoint. Her falcon eyes glitter.)
The Fan
(flirting quickly, then slowly)
Bloom
Bloom
Yes. Partly, I have mislaid .....
The Fan
(half opening, then closing)
government.
Bloom
Bloom
(looks down with a sheepish grin)
The Fan
(folding together, rests against her left eardrop)
Bloom
Bloom
Nes. Yo.
The Fan
(folded akimbo against her waist)
then she him you us since knew? Am all them and the same now me?
(Bella approaches, gently tapping with the fan.)
Bloom
Bloom
(wincing)
love.
The Fan
(tapping)
Bloom
Bloom
(cowed)
am exhausted, abandoned, no more young. I stand, so to speak, with an
unposted letter bearing the extra regulation fee before the too late box of the
@@ -2786,23 +2786,23 @@
winter waistcoat. Near the end, remembering king David and the Sunamite,
he shared his bed with Athos, faithful after death. A dog's spittle as you
probably ....
Richie Goulding
Richie Goulding
(bagweighted, passes the door)
a prince's. Liver and kidney.
The Fan
(tapping)
Bloom
Bloom
(undecided)
exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life. Every
phenomenon has a natural cause.
The Fan
(points downwards slowly)
Bloom
Bloom
(looks downwards and perceives her unfastened bootlace)
observed.
The Fan
(points downwards quickly)
Bloom
Bloom
(with desire, with reluctance)
I served my time and worked the mail order line for Kellett's. Experienced
hand. Every knot says a lot. Let me. In courtesy. I knelt once before today.
@@ -2811,7 +2811,7 @@
edge of a chair a plump buskined hoof and a full pastern,
silksocked. Bloom, stifflegged, aging, bends over her hoof and with
gentle fingers draws out and in her laces.)
-
Bloom
Bloom
(murmurs lovingly)
dream, the darling joys of sweet buttonhooking, to lace up crisscrossed to
kneelength the dressy kid footwear satinlined, so incredibly impossibly
@@ -2819,11 +2819,11 @@
to admire her cobweb hose and stick of rhubarb toe, as worn in Paris.
The Hoof
Smell my hot goathide. Feel my royal weight.
Bloom
Bloom
(crosslacing)
The Hoof
If you bungle, Handy Andy, I'll kick your football for you.
Bloom
Bloom
Not to lace the wrong eyelet as I did the night of the bazaar dance. Bad
luck. Hook in wrong tache of her .... person you mentioned. That night she
met .... Now!
grow dull, darker and pouched, his nose thickens.)
Bloom
(mumbles)
Bello
Bello
(with a hard basilisk stare, in a baritone voice)
Bloom
(infatuated)
Bello
Bello
(his heavy cheekchops sagging)
Bloom
(plaintively)
Bello
Bello
Dungdevourer!
Bloom
(with sinews semiflexed)
Bello
Bello
Down!
Slide left foot one pace back! You will fall. You are falling. On the hands
down!
snuffling, rooting at his feet: then lies, shamming dead, with eyes
shut tight, trembling eyelids, bowed upon the ground in the attitude
of most excellent master.)
-
Bello
Bello
(with bobbed hair, purple gills, fat moustache rings round his shaven
mouth, in mountaineer's puttees, green silverbuttoned coat, sport skirt and
alpine hat with moorcock's feather, his hands stuck deep in his breeches
@@ -2863,23 +2863,23 @@
heels so glistening in their proud erectness.
Bloom
(enthralled, bleats)
Bello
Bello
(laughs loudly)
the Tartar to settle your little lot and break you in! I'll bet Kentucky
cocktails all round I shame it out of you, old son. Cheek me, I dare you. If
you do tremble in anticipation of heel discipline to be inflicted in gym
costume.
(Bloom creeps under the sofa and peers out through the fringe.)
Zoe
Zoe
(widening her slip to screen her)
Bloom
(closing her eyes)
Florry
Florry
(hiding her with her gown)
sir.
Kitty
Kitty
Don't be too hard on her, Mr Bello. Sure you won't, ma'amsir.
Bello
Bello
(coaxingly)
administer correction. Just a little heart to heart talk, sweety.
out her timid head)
Begin to get ready.
Bloom
(fainting)
Bello
Bello
(savagely)
knout I'll make you kiss while the flutes play like the Nubian slave of old.
You're in for it this time! I'll make you remember me for the balance of
@@ -2903,32 +2903,32 @@
squeals, turning turtle.)
Bloom
Don't be cruel, nurse! Don't!
Bello
Bello
(twisting)
Bloom
(screams)
Bello
Bello
(shouts)
news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you!
slaps her face)
Bloom
(whimpers)
Bello
Bello
Hold him down, girls, till I squat on him.
Zoe
Zoe
Yes. Walk on him! I will.
Florry
Florry
I will. Don't be greedy.
Kitty
Kitty
No, me. Lend him to me.
(The brothel cook, Mrs Keogh, wrinkled, greybearded, in a greasy
bib, men's grey and green socks and brogues, floursmeared, a
rollingpin stuck with raw pastry in her bare red arm and hand,
appears at the door.)
Mrs Keogh
Mrs Keogh
(ferociously)
(They hold and pinion Bloom.)
Bello
Bello
(squats with a grunt on Bloom's upturned face, puffing cigarsmoke,
nursing a fat leg)
Richmond asylum and by the by Guinness's preference shares are at sixteen
@@ -2938,7 +2938,7 @@
angrily on Bloom's ear) Where's that Goddamned cursed ashtray?
Bloom
(goaded, buttocksmothered)
Bello
Bello
Ask for that every ten minutes. Beg. Pray for it as you never prayed before.
(he thrusts out a figged fist and foul cigar)
throws a leg astride and, pressing with horseman's knees, calls in a hard
@@ -2948,20 +2948,20 @@
cockhorse, leaping in the, in the saddle)
the coachman goes a trot a trot and the gentleman goes a gallop a gallop a
gallop a gallop.
Florry
Florry
(pulls at Bello)
Zoe
Zoe
(pulling at Florry)
Bloom
(stifling)
Bello
Bello
Well, I'm not. Wait.
about burst.
stoutly)
quarters.
Bloom
(a sweat breaking out over him)
Bello
Bello
(stands up)
pass. Henceforth you are unmanned and mine in earnest, a thing under the
yoke. Now for your punishment frock. You will shed your male garments,
@@ -2970,7 +2970,7 @@
Bloom
(shrinks)
nails?
Bello
Bello
(points to his whores)
perfumesprayed, ricepowdered, with smoothshaven armpits. Tape
measurements will be taken next your skin. You will be laced with cruel
@@ -2987,7 +2987,7 @@
hands and nose, leering mouth) I tried her things on only twice, a small
prank, in Holles street. When we were hard up I washed them to save the
laundry bill. My own shirts I turned. It was the purest thrift.
Bello
Bello
(jeers)
coquettishly in your domino at the mirror behind closedrawn blinds your
unskirted thighs and hegoat's udders in various poses of surrender, eh?
@@ -2996,7 +2996,7 @@
Dandrade sold you from the Shelbourne hotel, eh?
Bloom
Miriam. Black. Demimondaine.
Bello
Bello
(guffaws)
Miriam when you clipped off your backgate hairs and lay swooning in the
thing across the bed as Mrs Dandrade about to be violated by lieutenant
@@ -3012,14 +3012,14 @@
Versa. It was dear Gerald. He got that kink, fascinated by sister's stays.
Now dearest Gerald uses pinky greasepaint and gilds his eyelids. Cult of
the beautiful.
Bello
Bello
(with wicked glee)
with womanish care, lifting your billowy flounces, on the smoothworn
throne.
Bloom
Science. To compare the various joys we each enjoy.
it's better the position .... because often I used to wet ....
Bello
Bello
(sternly)
gave you strict instructions, didn't I? Do it standing, sir! I'll teach you to
behave like a jinkleman! If I catch a trace on your swaddles. Aha! By the
@@ -3039,7 +3039,7 @@
bed, the gross boar, gloating over a nauseous fragment of wellused toilet
paper presented to him by a nasty harlot, stimulated by gingerbread and a
postal order?
Bello
Bello
(whistles loudly)
your career of crime? Go the whole hog. Puke it out! Be candid for once.
(Mute inhuman faces throng forward, leering, vanishing, gibbering,
@@ -3049,20 +3049,20 @@
Bloom
Don't ask me! Our mutual faith. Pleasants street. I only thought the half of
the ... I swear on my sacred oath ....
Bello
Bello
(peremptorily)
something to amuse me, smut or a bloody good ghoststory or a line of
poetry, quick, quick, quick! Where? How? What time? With how many? I
give you just three seconds. One! Two! Thr .....
Bloom
(docile, gurgles)
Bello
Bello
(imperiously)
you're spoken to.
Bloom
(bows)
(He lifts his arms. His bangle bracelets fall.)
Bello
Bello
(satirically)
when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up
and a dishclout tied to your tail. Won't that be nice?
mistress.
Bloom
Thank you, mistress.
Bello
Bello
You will make the beds, get my tub ready, empty the pisspots in the different
rooms, including old Mrs Keogh's the cook's, a sandy one. Ay, and rinse
the seven of them well, mind, or lap it up like champagne. Drink me piping
@@ -3093,13 +3093,13 @@
A Bidder
A florin.
(Dillon's lacquey rings his handbell.)
The Lacquey
The Lacquey
Barang!
A Voice
One and eightpence too much.
Charles Alberta Marsh
Must be virgin. Good breath. Clean.
Bello
Bello
(gives a rap with his gavel)
price. Fourteen hands high. Touch and examine shis points. Handle hrim.
This downy skin, these soft muscles, this tender flesh. If I had only my gold
@@ -3112,7 +3112,7 @@
(in disguised accent)
Voices
(subdued)
Bello
Bello
(gaily)
at the knee to show a peep of white pantalette, is a potent weapon and
transparent stockings, emeraldgartered, with the long straight seam trailing
@@ -3124,7 +3124,7 @@
Bloom
(bends his blushing face into his armpit and simpers with forefinger in
mouth)
Bello
Bello
What else are you good for, an impotent thing like you?
peering, pokes with his fan rudely under the fat suet folds of Bloom's
haunches)
your pump.
Bloom
Eccles street ....
Bello
Bello
(sarcastically)
man of brawn in possession there. The tables are turned, my gay young
fellow! He is something like a fullgrown outdoor man. Well for you, you
@@ -3146,31 +3146,31 @@
Bloom
I was indecently treated, I ..... Inform the police. Hundred pounds.
Unmentionable. I ....
Bello
Bello
Would if you could, lame duck. A downpour we want not your drizzle.
Bloom
To drive me mad! Moll! I forgot! Forgive! Moll .... We .... Still .....
Bello
Bello
(ruthlessly)
slept horizontal in Sleepy Hollow your night of twenty years. Return and
see.
(Old Sleepy Hollow calls over the wold.)
Sleepy Hollow
Rip van Wink! Rip van Winkle!
Bloom
Bloom
(in tattered mocassins with a rusty fowlingpiece, tiptoeing, fingertipping,
his haggard bony bearded face peering through the diamond panes, cries
out)
green! And her hair is dyed gold and he ....
Bello
Bello
(laughs mockingly)
student.
(Milly Bloom, fairhaired, greenvested, slimsandalled, her blue scarf
in the seawind simply swirling, breaks from the arms of her lover
and calls, her young eyes wonderwide.)
Milly
Milly
My! It's Papli! But, O Papli, how old you've grown!
Bello
Bello
Changed, eh? Our whatnot, our writingtable where we never wrote, aunt
Hegarty's armchair, our classic reprints of old masters. A man and his
menfriends are living there in clover. The
them by your smothered grunts, what, you male prostitute? Blameless
dames with parcels of groceries. Turn about. Sauce for the goose, my
gander O.
Bloom
Bloom
They .... I ....
Bello
Bello
(cuttingly)
Wren's auction. In their horseplay with Moll the romp to find the buck flea
in her breeches they will deface the little statue you carried home in the rain
@@ -3188,20 +3188,20 @@
Pages will be torn from your handbook of astronomy to make them
pipespills. And they will spit in your ten shilling brass fender from
Hampton Leedom's.
Bloom
Bloom
Ten and six. The act of low scoundrels. Let me go. I will return. I will
prove ...
A Voice
Swear!
(Bloom clenches his fists and crawls forward, a bowieknife between
his teeth.)
Bello
Bello
As a paying guest or a kept man? Too late. You have made your secondbest
bed and others must lie in it. Your epitaph is written. You are down and out
and don't you forget it, old bean.
Bloom
Bloom
Justice! All Ireland versus one! Has nobody ...?
Bello
Bello
Die and be damned to you if you have any sense of decency or grace about
you. I can give you a rare old wine that'll send you skipping to hell and
back. Sign a will and leave us any coin you have! If you have none see you
@@ -3212,10 +3212,10 @@
were, suffocated in the one cesspool.
We'll manure you, Mr Flower!
Papli!
Bloom
Bloom
(clasps his head)
weeps tearlessly)
Bello
Bello
(sneers)
(Bloom, broken, closely veiled for the sacrifice, sobs, his face to the
earth. The passing bell is heard. Darkshawled figures of the
@@ -3239,7 +3239,7 @@
(their leaves whispering)
The Nymph
(softly)
Bloom
Bloom
(crawls jellily forward under the boughs, streaked by sunlight, with
dignity)
The Nymph
transparencies, truedup dice and bustpads, proprietary articles and why
wear a truss with testimonial from ruptured gentleman. Useful hints to the
married.
Bloom
Bloom
(lifts a turtle head towards her lap)
The Nymph
(sadly)
Corsets for men. I cure fits or money refunded. Unsolicited testimonials for
Professor Waldmann's wonderful chest exuber. My bust developed four
inches in three weeks, reports Mrs Gus Rublin with photo.
Bloom
Bloom
You mean
The Nymph
I do. You bore me away, framed me in oak and tinsel, set me above your
marriage couch. Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places.
And with loving pencil you shaded my eyes, my bosom and my shame.
Bloom
Bloom
(humbly kisses her long hair)
was glad to look on you, to praise you, a thing of beauty, almost to pray.
The Nymph
During dark nights I heard your praise.
Bloom
Bloom
(quickly)
everyone, children perhaps excepted. I know I fell out of bed or rather was
pushed. Steel wine is said to cure snoring. For the rest there is that English
@@ -3278,19 +3278,19 @@
ever thus. Frailty, thy name is marriage.
The Nymph
(her fingers in her ears)
Bloom
Bloom
You understood them?
The Yews
Ssh!
The Nymph
(covers her face with her hands)
What must my eyes look down on?
Bloom
Bloom
(apologetically)
The quoits are loose. From Gibraltar by long sea long ago.
The Nymph
(bends her head)
Bloom
Bloom
(reflects precautiously)
She scaled just eleven stone nine. She put on nine pounds after weaning. It
was a crack and want of glue. Eh? And that absurd orangekeyed utensil
@@ -3302,18 +3302,18 @@
The Yews
(mingling their boughs)
by Poulaphouca waterfall. We gave shade on languorous summer days.
John Wyse Nolan
John Wyse Nolan
(in the background, in Irish National Forester's uniform, doffs his plumed
hat)
The Yews
(murmuring)
Who left his nutquesting classmates to seek our shade?
Bloom
Bloom
(scared)
faculties. Concussion. Run over by tram.
The Echo
Sham!
Bloom
Bloom
(pigeonbreasted, bottleshouldered, padded, in nondescript juvenile grey
and black striped suit, too small for him, white tennis shoes, bordered
stockings with turnover tops and a red schoolcap with badge)
Leopold Bloom.)
The Halcyon Days
Mackerel! Live us again. Hurray!
Bloom
Bloom
(hobbledehoy, warmgloved, mammamufflered, starred with spent
snowballs, struggles to rise)
all the bells in Montague street.
Phoucaphouca Phoucaphouca.
The Nymph
(with wide fingers)
Bloom
Bloom
I was precocious. Youth. The fauna. I sacrificed to the god of the forest.
The flowers that bloom in the spring. It was pairing time. Capillary
attraction is a natural phenomenon. Lotty Clarke, flaxenhaired, I saw at her
@@ -3362,14 +3362,14 @@
humid nostrils through the foliage.)
Staggering Bob
(large teardrops rolling from his prominent eyes, snivels)
Bloom
Bloom
Simply satisfying a need I ...
girling. Too ugly. They wouldn't play ....
(High on Ben Howth through rhododendrons a nannygoat passes,
plumpuddered, buttytailed, dropping currants.)
The Nannygoat
(bleats)
Bloom
Bloom
(hatless, flushed, covered with burrs of thistledown and gorsespine)
Regularly engaged. Circumstances alter cases.
downwards on the water)
(Far out in the bay between Bailey and Kish lights the
sails, sending a broadening plume of coalsmoke from her funnel
towards the land.)
Councillor Nannetti
Councillor Nannetti
(alone on deck, in dark alpaca, yellowkitefaced, his hand in his waistcoat
opening, declaims)
the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written. I have ...
Bloom
Bloom
Done. Prff!
The Nymph
(loftily)
there either. We are stonecold and pure. We eat electric light.
her body in lascivious crispation, placing her forefinger in her mouth)
Spoke to me. Heard from behind. How then could you ...?
Bloom
Bloom
(pawing the heather abjectly)
have administered. One third of a pint of quassia to which add a
tablespoonful of rocksalt. Up the fundament. With Hamilton Long's
@@ -3402,7 +3402,7 @@
The Nymph
In my presence. The powderpuff.
rest!
Bloom
Bloom
(dejected)
back changes name.
scented jewelled hand, the hand that rules ...?
(a birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply with his assegai,
striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns)
Hot! Ware Sitting Bull!
Bloom
Bloom
It overpowers me. The warm impress of her warm form. Even to sit where a
woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, as though to grant the
last favours, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen
@@ -3446,7 +3446,7 @@
He didn't know what to do,
To keep it up,
To keep it up.
Bloom
Bloom
(coldly)
ethereal where would you all be, postulants and novices? Shy but willing
like an ass pissing.
clutches again in her robe) Wait. Satan, you'll sing no more lovesongs.
Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.
sheathmail of an elected knight of nine, strikes at his loins)
Bloom
Bloom
(starts up, seizes her hand)
madam. No pruningknife. The fox and the grapes, is it? What do you lack
with your barbed wire? Crucifix not thick enough?
The Nymph
(with a cry flees from him unveiled, her plaster cast cracking, a cloud of
stench escaping from the cracks)
Bloom
Bloom
(calls after her)
and multiple mucosities all over you. I tried it. Your strength our weakness.
What's our studfee? What will you pay on the nail? You fee mendancers on
@@ -3478,71 +3478,71 @@
shillings alimony tomorrow, eh? Fool someone else, not me.
Onions. Stale. Sulphur. Grease.
(The figure of Bella Cohen stands before him.)
Bella
Bella
You'll know me the next time.
Bloom
Bloom
(composed, regards her)
tooth and superfluous hair. A raw onion the last thing at night would
benefit your complexion. And take some double chin drill. Your eyes are as
vapid as the glasseyes of your stuffed fox. They have the dimensions of your
other features, that's all. I'm not a triple screw propeller.
Bella
Bella
(contemptuously)
Fbhracht!
Bloom
Bloom
(contemptuously)
spunk is dripping from your cockscomb. Take a handful of hay and wipe
yourself.
Bella
Bella
I know you, canvasser! Dead cod!
Bloom
Bloom
I saw him, kipkeeper! Pox and gleet vendor!
Bella
Bella
(turns to the piano)
Zoe
Zoe
Me. Mind your cornflowers.
with crossed arms)
Eh? Who's making love to my sweeties?
What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.
(Kitty, disconcerted, coats her teeth with the silver paper. Bloom
approaches Zoe.)
Bloom
Bloom
(gently)
Zoe
Zoe
Forfeits, a fine thing and a superfine thing.
Bloom
Bloom
(with feeling)
Zoe
Zoe
Give a thing and take it back
God'll ask you where is that
You'll say you don't know
God'll send you down below.
Bloom
Bloom
There is a memory attached to it. I should like to have it.
Stephen
Stephen
To have or not to have that is the question.
Zoe
Zoe
Here.
the potato from the top of her stocking)
find.
Bella
Bella
(frowns)
piano. Who's paying here?
(She goes to the pianola. Stephen fumbles in his pocket and, taking
out a banknote by its corner, hands it to her.)
Stephen
Stephen
(with exaggerated politeness)
of the public. Madam, excuse me. If you allow me.
Lynch and Bloom)
Dans ce bordel où tenons nostre état.
Lynch
Lynch
(calls from the hearth)
Stephen
Stephen
(hands Bella a coin)
Bella
Bella
(looks at the money, then at Stephen, then at Zoe, Florry and Kitty)
you want three girls? It's ten shillings here.
Stephen
Stephen
(delightedly)
out and hands her two crowns)
troubled.
himself in monosyllables. Zoe bends over the table. Kitty leans over
Zoe's neck. Lynch gets up, rights his cap and, clasping Kitty's
waist, adds his head to the group.)
-
Florry
Florry
(strives heavily to rise)
Bloom approaches.)
Bella, Zoe, Kitty, Lynch, Bloom
touching it? ... ow! ... mind who you're pinching ... are you staying the
night or a short time? ... who did? ... you're a liar, excuse me ... the
gentleman paid down like a gentleman ... drink ... it's long after eleven.
Stephen
Stephen
(at the pianola, making a gesture of abhorrence)
A riddle!
Zoe
Zoe
(lifting up her pettigown and folding a half sovereign into the top of her
stocking)
Lynch
Lynch
(lifting Kitty from the table)
Kitty
Kitty
Wait.
Florry
Florry
And me?
Lynch
Lynch
Hoopla!
(He lifts her, carries her and bumps her down on the sofa.)
Stephen
Stephen
The fox crew, the cocks flew,
The bells in heaven
Were striking eleven.
'Tis time for her poor soul
To get out of heaven.
Bloom
Bloom
(quietly lays a half sovereign on the table between Bella and Florry)
Allow me.
Bella
Bella
(admiringly)
Zoe
Zoe
(points)
(Lynch bends Kitty back over the sofa and kisses her. Bloom goes
with the poundnote to Stephen.)
Bloom
Bloom
This is yours.
Stephen
Stephen
How is that? The distrait or absentminded beggar.
his pocket and draws out a handful of coins. An object falls.)
Bloom
Bloom
(stooping, picks up and hands a box of matches)
Stephen
Stephen
Lucifer. Thanks.
Bloom
Bloom
(quietly)
pay more?
Stephen
Stephen
(hands him all his coins)
Bloom
Bloom
I will but is it wise?
don't answer for what you may have lost.
Stephen
Stephen
Why striking eleven? Proparoxyton. Moment before the next Lessing says.
Thirsty fox.
killed her.
Bloom
Bloom
That is one pound six and eleven. One pound seven, say.
Stephen
Stephen
Doesn't matter a rambling damn.
Bloom
Bloom
No, but ....
Stephen
Stephen
(comes to the table)
sofa to the table)
cigarette appears on the table. Stephen looks at it.)
magic. Married. Hm.
with enigmatic melancholy)
Lynch
Lynch
(watching him)
the match nearer.
Stephen
Stephen
(brings the match near his eye)
yesterday. Sixteen years ago. Distance. The eye sees all flat.
match away. It goes out.)
the visible.
backs at midnight. Married.
Zoe
Zoe
It was a commercial traveller married her and took her away with him.
Florry
Florry
(nods)
Stephen
Stephen
Lamb of London, who takest away the sins of our world.
Lynch
Lynch
(embracing Kitty on the sofa, chants deeply)
(The cigarette slips from Stephen's fingers. Bloom picks it up and
throws it in the grate.)
Bloom
Bloom
Don't smoke. You ought to eat. Cursed dog I met.
nothing?
Zoe
Zoe
Is he hungry?
Stephen
Stephen
(extends his hand to her smiling and chants to the air of the bloodoath in
The Dusk of the Gods
Hangende Hunger,
Fragende Frau,
Macht uns alle kaputt.
Zoe
Zoe
(tragically)
eyes beauty I'll read your hand.
wrinkles.
his head)
Lynch
Lynch
Sheet lightning courage. The youth who could not shiver and shake.
Zoe)
Zoe
Zoe
(turns)
face. The eye, like that.
Lynch
Lynch
(laughing, slaps Kitty behind twice)
(Twice loudly a pandybat cracks, the coffin of the pianola flies open,
the bald little round jack-in-the-box head of Father Dolan springs
up.)
Father Dolan
Father Dolan
Any boy want flogging? Broke his glasses? Lazy idle little schemer. See it in
your eye.
(Mild, benign, rectorial, reproving, the head of Don John Conmee
rises from the pianola coffin.)
Don John Conmee
Now, Father Dolan! Now. I'm sure that Stephen is a very good little boy!
Zoe
Zoe
(examining Stephen's palm)
Stephen
Stephen
(murmurs)
handwriting except His criminal thumbprint on the haddock.
Zoe
Zoe
What day were you born?
Stephen
Stephen
Thursday. Today.
Zoe
Zoe
Thursday's child has far to go.
Influential friends.
Florry
Florry
(pointing)
Zoe
Zoe
Mount of the moon. You'll meet with a ....
I won't tell you what's not good for you. Or do you want to know?
Bloom
Bloom
(detaches her fingers and offers his palm)
Read mine.
Bella
Bella
Show.
women.
Zoe
Zoe
(peering at Bloom's palm)
money.
Bloom
Bloom
Wrong.
Zoe
Zoe
(quickly)
(Black Liz, a huge rooster hatching in a chalked circle, rises,
stretches her wings and clucks.)
Black Liz
Gara. Klook. Klook. Klook.
off)
Bloom
Bloom
(points to his hand)
twentytwo years ago. I was sixteen.
Zoe
Zoe
I see, says the blind man. Tell us news.
Stephen
Stephen
See? Moves to one great goal. I am twentytwo. Sixteen years ago he was
twentytwo too. Sixteen years ago I twentytwo tumbled. Twentytwo years
ago he sixteen fell off his hobbyhorse.
somewhere. Must see a dentist. Money?
(Zoe whispers to Florry. They giggle. Bloom releases his hand and
writes idly on the table in backhand, pencilling slow curves.)
Florry
Florry
What?
(A hackneycar, number three hundred and twentyfour, with a
gallantbuttocked mare, driven by James Barton, Harmony avenue,
@@ -3730,81 +3730,81 @@
swaying on the sideseats. The Ormond boots crouches behind on
the axle. Sadly over the crossblind Lydia Douce and Mina Kennedy
gaze.)
The Boots
The Boots
(jogging, mocks them with thumb and wriggling wormfingers)
have you the horn?
(Bronze by gold they whisper.)
Zoe
Zoe
(to Florry)
(Over the well of the car Blazes Boylan leans, his boater straw set
sideways, a red flower in his mouth. Lenehan in yachtsman's cap
and white shoes officiously detaches a long hair from Blazes
Boylan's coat shoulder.)
Lenehan
Lenehan
Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few
quims?
Boylan
Boylan
(sated, smiles)
Lenehan
Lenehan
A good night's work.
Boylan
Boylan
(holding up four thick bluntungulated fingers, winks)
sample or your money back.
Lenehan
Lenehan
(smells gleefully)
Zoe and Florry
(laugh together)
Boylan
Boylan
(jumps surely from the car and calls loudly for all to hear)
Mrs Bloom dressed yet?
Bloom
Bloom
(in flunkey's prune plush coat and kneebreeches, buff stockings and
powdered wig)
Boylan
Boylan
(tosses him sixpence)
hat smartly on a peg of Bloom's antlered head)
private business with your wife, you understand?
Bloom
Bloom
Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Madam Tweedy is in her bath, sir.
Marion
Marion
He ought to feel himself highly honoured.
water)
and a carriage sponge.
Boylan
Boylan
(a merry twinkle in his eye)
Bella
Bella
What? What is it?
(Zoe whispers to her.)
Marion
Marion
Let him look, the pishogue! Pimp! And scourge himself! I'll write to a
powerful prostitute or Bartholomona, the bearded woman, to raise weals
out on him an inch thick and make him bring me back a signed and
stamped receipt.
Boylan
Boylan
(clasps himself)
on stiff cavalry legs)
Bella
Bella
(laughing)
Boylan
Boylan
(to Bloom, over his shoulder)
play with yourself while I just go through her a few times.
Bloom
Bloom
Thank you, sir. I will, sir. May I bring two men chums to witness the deed
and take a snapshot?
Orangeflower ...? Lukewarm water ...?
Kitty
Kitty
(from the sofa)
(Florry whispers to her. Whispering lovewords murmur, liplapping
loudly, poppysmic plopslop.)
Mina Kennedy
Mina Kennedy
(her eyes upturned)
peaches! O, he simply idolises every bit of her! Stuck together! Covered
with kisses!
Lydia Douce
Lydia Douce
(her mouth opening)
it! Ride a cockhorse. You could hear them in Paris and New York. Like
mouthfuls of strawberries and cream.
Kitty
Kitty
(laughing)
Boylan's Voice
(sweetly, hoarsely, in the pit of his stomach)
Marion's Voice
(hoarsely, sweetly, rising to her throat)
isthnapoohuck?
Bloom
Bloom
(his eyes wildly dilated, clasps himself)
More! Shoot!
Bella, Zoe, Florry, Kitty
Ho ho! Ha ha! Hee hee!
Lynch
Lynch
(points)
(Stephen and Bloom gaze in the mirror. The face of William
Shakespeare, beardless, appears there, rigid in facial paralysis,
@@ -3828,11 +3828,11 @@
Bloom)
with a black capon's laugh)
Thursdaymornun. Iagogogo!
Bloom
Bloom
(smiles yellowly at the three whores)
Zoe
Zoe
Before you're twice married and once a widower.
Bloom
Bloom
Lapses are condoned. Even the great Napoleon when measurements were
taken next the skin after his death ...
(Mrs Dignam, widow woman, her snubnose and cheeks flushed
@@ -3846,7 +3846,7 @@
dangling, Freddy whimpering, Susy with a crying cod's mouth,
Alice struggling with the baby. She cuffs them on, her streamers
flaunting aloft.)
Freddy
Freddy
Ah, ma, you're dragging me along!
Susy
Mamma, the beeftea is fizzing over!
drunkenly, the children run aside. Under the umbrella appears Mrs
Cunningham in merry widow hat and kimono gown. She glides
sidling and bowing, twirling japanesily.)
-
Mrs Cunningham
Mrs Cunningham
(sings)
And they call me the jewel of Asia!
Martin Cunningham
Martin Cunningham
(gazes on her, impassive)
Stephen
Stephen
Et exaltabuntur cornua iusti.
Pasiphae for whose lust my grandoldgrossfather made the first
confessionbox. Forget not Madam Grissel Steevens nor the suine scions of
the house of Lambert. And Noah was drunk with wine. And his ark was
open.
Bella
Bella
None of that here. Come to the wrong shop.
Lynch
Lynch
Let him alone. He's back from Paris.
Zoe
Zoe
(runs to Stephen and links him)
(Stephen claps hat on head and leaps over to the fireplace where he
stands with shrugged shoulders, finny hands outspread, a painted
smile on his face.)
Lynch
Lynch
(pommelling on the sofa)
Stephen
Stephen
(gabbles with marionette jerks)
expense your evenings with lovely ladies saling gloves and other things
perhaps hers heart beerchops perfect fashionable house very eccentric
@@ -3893,11 +3893,11 @@
of modesty then disrobe and squeal loud to see vampire man debauch nun
very fresh young with
là là! Ce pif qu'il a!
Lynch
Lynch
Vive le vampire!
The Whores
Bravo! Parleyvoo!
Stephen
Stephen
(with head back, laughs loudly, clapping himself grimacing)
of laughing. Angels much prostitutes like and holy apostles big damn
ruffians.
ten times. Enter, gentleman, to see in mirror every positions trapezes all that
machine there besides also if desire act awfully bestial butcher's boy
pollutes in warm veal liver or omlet on the belly
Bella
Bella
(clapping her belly sinks back on the sofa, with a shout of laughter)
omelette on the .... Ho! ho! ho! ho! ... omelette on the ....
Stephen
Stephen
(mincingly)
double entente cordiale
Watercloset.
Bella
Bella
(laughing)
The Whores
(laughing)
Stephen
Stephen
Mark me. I dreamt of a watermelon.
Zoe
Zoe
Go abroad and love a foreign lady.
Lynch
Lynch
Across the world for a wife.
Florry
Florry
Dreams goes by contraries.
Stephen
Stephen
(extends his arms)
Beelzebub showed me her, a fubsy widow. Where's the red carpet spread?
Bloom
Bloom
(approaching Stephen)
Stephen
Stephen
No, I flew. My foes beneath me. And ever shall be. World without end.
cries)
Bloom
Bloom
I say, look ...
Stephen
Stephen
Break my spirit, will he?
sharpened)
(Simon Dedalus' voice hilloes in answer, somewhat sleepy but
@@ -3984,7 +3984,7 @@
spavined whitegaitered feet jogs along the rocky road.)
The Orange Lodges
(jeering)
Garrett Deasy
Garrett Deasy
(bolt upright, his nailscraped face plastered with postagestamps, brandishes
his hockeystick, his blue eyes flashing in the prism of the chandelier as his
mount lopes by at schooling gallop)
Soft day, sir John! Soft day, your honour!
(Private Carr, Private Compton and Cissy Caffrey pass beneath the
windows, singing in discord.)
Stephen
Stephen
Hark! Our friend noise in the street.
Zoe
Zoe
(holds up her hand)
Private Carr, Private Compton and Cissy Caffrey
Yet I've a sort of a
Yorkshire relish for ...
Zoe
Zoe
That's me.
Who has twopence?
Bloom
Bloom
Who'll ...?
Lynch
Lynch
(handing her coins)
Stephen
Stephen
(cracking his fingers impatiently)
(he runs to the piano and takes his ashplant, beating his foot in tripudium)
Zoe
Zoe
(turns the drumhandle)
(She drops two pennies in the slot. Gold, pink and violet lights start
forth. The drum turns purring in low hesitation waltz. Professor
@@ -4021,7 +4021,7 @@
across the room, his hands fluttering. He sits tinily on the pianostool
and lifts and beats handless sticks of arms on the keyboard, nodding
with damsel's grace, his bowknot bobbing.)
Zoe
Zoe
(twirls round herself, heeltapping)
Who'll dance? Clear the table.
(The pianola with changing lights plays in waltz time the prelude
@@ -4039,7 +4039,7 @@
immense dahlia. He twirls in reversed directions a clouded cane,
then wedges it tight in his oxter. He places a hand lightly on his
breastbone, bows, and fondles his flower and buttons.)
Maginni
Maginni
The poetry of motion, art of calisthenics. No connection with Madam
Legget Byrne's or Levenston's. Fancy dress balls arranged. Deportment.
The Katty Lanner step. So. Watch me! My terpsichorean abilities.
Nimbly they dance, twirling their skipping ropes. The hours of
noon follow in amber gold. Laughing, linked, high haircombs
flashing, they catch the sun in mocking mirrors, lifting their arms.)
Maginni
Maginni
(clipclaps glovesilent hands)
(The morning and noon hours waltz in their places, turning,
advancing to each other, shaping their curves, bowing visavis.
@@ -4077,7 +4077,7 @@
advance from long landshadows, dispersed, lagging, languideyed,
their cheeks delicate with cipria and false faint bloom. They are in
grey gauze with dark bat sleeves that flutter in the landbreeze.)
Maginni
Maginni
Avant huit! Traversé! Salut! Cours de mains! Croisé!
(The night hours, one by one, steal to the last place. Morning, noon
and twilight hours retreat before them. They are masked, with
@@ -4085,28 +4085,28 @@
under veils.)
The Bracelets
Heigho! Heigho!
Zoe
Zoe
(twirling, her hand to her brow)
Maginni
Maginni
Les tiroirs! Chaîne de dames! La corbeille! Dos à dos!
(Arabesquing wearily they weave a pattern on the floor, weaving,
unweaving, curtseying, twirling, simply swirling.)
Zoe
Zoe
I'm giddy!
(She frees herself, droops on a chair. Stephen seizes Florry and
turns with her.)
Maginni
Maginni
Boulangère! Les ronds! Les ponts! Chevaux de bois! Escargots!
(Twining, receding, with interchanging hands the night hours link
each each with arching arms in a mosaic of movements. Stephen
and Florry turn cumbrously.)
Maginni
Maginni
Dansez avec vos dames! Changez de dames! Donnez le petit bouquet à votre
dame! Remerciez!
The Pianola
Best, best of all,
Baraabum!
Kitty
Kitty
(jumps up)
(She runs to Stephen. He leaves Florry brusquely and seizes
Kitty. A screaming bittern's harsh high whistle shrieks.
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room right roundabout the room.)
The Pianola
My girl's a Yorkshire girl.
Zoe
Zoe
Yorkshire through and through. Come on all!
(She seizes Florry and waltzes her.)
Stephen
Stephen
Pas seul!
(He wheels Kitty into Lynch's arms, snatches up his ashplant from
the table and takes the floor. All wheel whirl waltz twirl Bloombella
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scootlootshoot lumbering by. Baraabum!)
Tutti
Encore! Bis! Bravo! Encore!
Simon
Simon
Think of your mother's people!
Stephen
Stephen
Dance of death.
(Bang fresh barang bang of lacquey's bell, horse, nag, steer,
piglings, Conmee on Christass, lame crutch and leg sailor in
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Eyes closed he totters. Red rails fly spacewards. Stars all around
suns turn roundabout. Bright midges dance on walls. He stops
dead.)
Stephen
Stephen
Ho!
(Stephen's mother, emaciated, rises stark through the floor, in leper
grey with a wreath of faded orangeblossoms and a torn bridal veil,
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(From the top of a tower Buck Mulligan, in particoloured jester's
dress of puce and yellow and clown's cap with curling bell, stands
gaping at her, a smoking buttered split scone in his hand.)
Buck Mulligan
Buck Mulligan
She's beastly dead. The pity of it! Mulligan meets the afflicted mother.
upturns his eyes)
The Mother
The Mother
(with the subtle smile of death's madness)
Goulding. I am dead.
Stephen
Stephen
(horrorstruck)
Buck Mulligan
Buck Mulligan
(shakes his curling capbell)
bitchbody. She kicked the bucket.
on to the scone)
The Mother
The Mother