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He read, marcato:
—Characters:TODY TOSTOFF (a ruined Pole)
CRAB (a bushranger)
MEDICAL DICK )
and ) (two birds with one stone)
MEDICAL DAVY )
MOTHER GROGAN (a watercarrier)
FRESH NELLY
and
ROSALIE (the coalquay whore).He laughed, lolling a to and fro head, walking on, fol-
lowed by Stephen: and mirthfully he told the shadows, souls
of men:
—O, the night in the Camden hall when the daughters
of Erin had to lift their skirts to step over you as you lay
in your mulberrycoloured, multicoloured, multitudinous
vomit!
—The most innocent son of Erin, Stephen said, for whom
they ever lifted them.
About to pass through the doorway, feeling one behind,
he stood aside.
Part. The moment is now. Where then? If Socrates leave
his house today, if Judas go forth tonight. Why? That lies in
space which I in time must come to, ineluctably.
My will: his will that fronts me. Seas between.
A man passed out between them, bowing, greeting.