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She climbed their crooked tree and I ... A saint couldn’t re-
sist it. The demon possessed me. Besides, who saw?
(Staggering Bob, a whitepolled calf, thrusts a ruminating
head with humid nostrils through the foliage.)
STAGGERING BOB: (LARGE TEARDROPS ROLLING
FROM HIS PROMINENT EYES, SNIVELS) Me. Me see.
BLOOM: Simply satisfying a need I ... (With pathos) No
girl would when I went girling. Too ugly. They wouldn’t play
...
(High on Ben Howth through rhododendrons a nannygoat
passes, plumpuddered, buttytailed, dropping currants.)
THE NANNYGOAT: (Bleats) Megeggaggegg! Nannan-
nanny!
BLOOM: (Hatless, flushed, covered with burrs of thistle-
down and gorsespine) Regularly engaged. Circumstances
alter cases. (He gazes intently downwards on the water) Thir-
tytwo head over heels per second. Press nightmare. Giddy
Elijah. Fall from cliff. Sad end of government printer’s clerk.
(Through silversilent summer air the dummy of Bloom, rolled
in a mummy, rolls roteatingly from the Lion’s Head cliff into
the purple waiting waters.)
THE DUMMYMUMMY: Bbbbblllllblblblblobschbg!
(Far out in the bay between bailey and kish lights the Er-
in’s King sails, sending a broadening plume of coalsmoke
from her funnel towards the land.)
COUNCILLOR NANNETII: (Alone on deck, in dark
alpaca, yellowkitefaced, his hand in his waistcoat opening,
declaims) When my country takes her place among the na-
tions of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be