mother,5 the rum turn tiddledy turn. Lawn Tennyson,6 gentleman poet. Gia.1 For the old hag with the yellow teeth. And Monsieur Drumont, gentleman journalist. Gia. My teeth are very bad. Why, I wonder? Feel. That one is going too. Shells. Ought I go to a dentist, I wonder, with what money? That one. Toothless Kinch, the superman. Why is that, I wonder, or does it mean something perhaps?
My handkerchief. He threw it. I remember. Did I not take it up?
His hand groped vainly in his pockets. No, I didn't. Better buy one.
He laid the dry snot picked from his nostril on a ledge of rock, carefully. For the rest let look who will. Behind. Perhaps there is someone. He turned his face over a shoulder, rere regardant.8 Moving through the air
high spars of a threemaster, her sails brailed up on the crosstrees, homing, upstream, silently moving, a silent ship.
[LESTRYGONIANS]9
Pineapple rock, lemon platt, butter scotch. A sugarsticky girl shovelling scoopfuls of creams for a christian brother. Some school treat. Bad for their
1. Another quotation from Ariel's song (1.2.404). 2. Prize of Paris. The reference is probably to the Paris Exposition of 1889, where prizes were awarded in various categories of food and other commodities; the winners bore the seal of the prize on the label (hence, 'beware of imitations'). Stephen mentally awards the prize to death by drowning. 3. Lucifer, I say, who knows not his fall (Latin). Thunder and lightning recall the fall of Lucifer. 4. From Ophelia's mad song (Hamlet 4.5.23?26): 'How should I your true love know / From another one?? / By his cockle hat and staff. / And his sandal shoon.' Ophelia, too, was drowned. 5. Cf. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'The May Queen': 'You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; / Tomorrow ill be the happiest time of all the glad New Year.' 6. A parody of ihe poet's name, punning on 'lawn tennis,' attributed to W. B. Yeats.
7. Let's go (Italian). 8. Looking behind him (heraldic terminology). Stephen, as we leave him sitting by the shore, is described in a highly stylized, heraldic language. 9. The eighth of the novel's eighteen episodes. It is lunchtime in Dublin, and Leopold Bloom, as he walks through the city in no great hurry (for he likes to linger and watch what goes on around him), thinks of food. The Lestrygonians in book 10 of the Odyssey1 are cannibals, and throughout this episode there are suggestions of the slaughter of living creatures for food or of food as something disgusting, which make somewhat tenuous contact with Homer's description of the cannibals spearing Ulysses' men for food. This episode shows us Bloom's consciousness responding to the sights and sounds of Dublin. His humane curiosity, his desire to learn and to improve the human lot. his
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tummies. Lozenge and comfit manufacturer to His Majesty the King. God. Save. Our. Sitting on his throne sucking red jujubes white.
A sombre Y. M. C. A. young man, watchful among the warm sweet fumes of Graham Lemon's, placed a throwaway in a hand of Mr Bloom.
Heart to heart talks.
Bloo . . . Me? No.
Blood of the Lamb.1
His slow feet walked him riverward, reading. Are you saved? All are washed in the blood of the lamb. God wants blood victim. Birth, hymen, martyr, war, foundation of a building, sacrifice, kidney burntoffering, druids' altars. Elijah is coming. Dr John Alexander Dowie,2 restorer of the church in Zion, is coming.
Is coming! Is coming!! Is coming!!! All heartily welcome.
Paying game. Torry and Alexander last year. Polygamy. His wife will put the stopper on that. Where was that ad some Birmingham firm the luminous crucifix. Our Saviour. Wake up in the dead of night and see him on the wall, hanging. Pepper's ghost idea.3 Iron Nails Ran In.
Phosphorus it must be done with. If you leave a bit of codfish for instance. I could see the bluey silver over it. Night I went down to the pantry in the kitchen. Don't like all the smells in it waiting to rush out. What was it she4 wanted? The Malaga raisins. Thinking of Spain. Before Rudy5 was born. The phosphorescence, that bluey greeny. Very good for the brain.
From Butler's monument house corner he glanced along Bachelor's walk. Dedalus' daughter there still outside Dillon's auctionrooms. Must be selling off some old furniture. Knew her eyes at once from the father. Lobbing about waiting for him. Home always breaks up when the mother goes. Fifteen children he had. Birth every year almost. That's in their theology or the priest won't give the poor woman the confession, the absolution. Increase and multiply. Did you ever hear such an idea? Eat you out of house and home. No families themselves to feed. Living on the fat of the land. Their butteries and larders. I'd like to see them do the black fast Yom Kippur.6 Crossbuns. One meal and a collation for fear he'd collapse on the altar. A housekeeper of one of those fellows if you could pick it out of her. Never pick it out of her. Like getting L s. d.7 out of him. Does himself well. No guests. All for number one. Watching his water. Bring your own bread and butter. His reverence. Mum's the word.
sympathetic concern for Mrs. Breen and Mrs. Purefoy, his feeding the gulls, his recollections of a happier time when his daughter was a baby and his relations with his wife were thoroughly satisfactory, his interest in opera, his continuous shying away from thoughts of his wife's rendezvous with the dashing Blazes Boylan?all this helps to build up his character in depth and to differentiate him sharply from Stephen. Unlike Stephen, Bloom's interest in language is confined to simple puns and translations; his interest in poetry is obvious and sentimental; his interest in the nature of reality takes the form of half-forgotten fragments of science remaining in his mind from school days. Everything about him is concrete, practical, sen
('throwaway') containing the phrase 'Blood of the Lamb.' He at first mistakes 'Blood' for 'Bloom.'
2. Scottish American evangelist (1847?1907), who established the 'Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion' in 1896 and founded Zion City, IL, in 1901. 3. A dramatic troupe advertising as 'The original Pepper's Ghost! and Spectral Opera Company' was popular in the late-19th century; it seems to have specialized in ghostly special effects, possibly achieved through the use of phosphorescent material on its costumes. 4. I.e., Bloom's wife, Molly, born in Gibraltar. 5. Their son, who had died in infancy eleven years before. sual, and middlebrow or lowbrow, as distinct from 6. Jewish Day of Atonement. the abstract, theoretical, esoteric speculations of 7. I.e., cash: L, s., d. are the abbreviations, respec- Stephen in the 'Proteus' episode. tively, for pounds, shillings, and pence.
1. Bloom has been handed a religious leaflet
