1460
Tramfare
0 – 0 – 1
1 In Memoriam Patrick Dignam
0 – 5 – 0
2 Banbury cakes
0 – 0 – 1
1 Lunch
0 – 0 – 7
1 Renewal fee for book
0 – 1 – 0
1 Packet Notepaper and Envelopes
0 – 0 – 2
1 Dinner and Gratification
0 – 2 – 0
1 Postal Order and Stamp
0 – 2 – 8
Tramfare
0 – 0 – 1
1 Pig’s Foot
0 – 0 – 4
1470
1 Sheep’s Trotter
0 – 0 – 3
1 Cake Fry’s Plain Chocolate
0 – 1 – 0
1 Square Soda Bread
0 – 0 – 4
1 Coffee and Bun
0 – 0 – 4
Loan (Stephen Dedalus) refunded
1 – 7 – 0
Balance
0 -16 – 6
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2 -19 – 3
?
2 -19 – 3
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Did the process of divestiture continue?
Sensible of a benignant persistent ache in his footsoles he extended his foot to one side and observed the creases, protuberances and salient points caused by foot pressure in the course of walking repeatedly in several different directions, then, inclined, he disnoded the laceknots, unhooked and loosened the laces, took off each of his two boots for the second time, detached the partially moistened right sock through the fore part of which the nail of his great toe had again effracted, raised his right foot and, having unhooked a purple elastic sock suspender, took off his right sock, placed his unclothed right foot on the margin of the seat of his chair, picked at and gently lacerated the protruding part of the great toenail, raised the part lacerated to his nostrils and inhaled the odour of the quick, then, with satisfaction, threw away the lacerated ungual fragment.
Why with satisfaction?
Because the odour inhaled corresponded to other odours inhaled of other ungual fragments, picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, pupil of Mrs Ellis’s juvenile school, patiently each night in the act of brief genuflection and nocturnal prayer and ambitious meditation.
In what ultimate ambition had all concurrent and consecutive ambitions now coalesced?
Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English, or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation ?42), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as
