Ulysses

(Barry) #1

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To make the blind see I throw dust in their eyes.

STEPHEN: Kings and unicorns! (He fills back a pace)
Come somewhere and we’ll ... What was that girl saying?
...
PRIVATE COMPTON: Eh, Harry, give him a kick in the
knackers. Stick one into Jerry.
BLOOM: (To the privates, softly) He doesn’t know what
he’s saying. Taken a little more than is good for him. Ab-
sinthe. Greeneyed monster. I know him. He’s a gentleman,
a poet. It’s all right.
STEPHEN: (Nods, smiling and laughing) Gentleman, pa-
triot, scholar and judge of impostors.
PRIVATE CARR: I don’t give a bugger who he is.
PRIVATE COMPTON: We don’t give a bugger who he
is.
STEPHEN: I seem to annoy them. Green rag to a bull.
(Kevin Egan of Paris in black Spanish tasselled shirt and
peep-o’-day boy’s hat signs to Stephen.)
KEVIN EGAN: H’lo! Bonjour! The vieille ogresse with
the dents jaunes.
(Patrice Egan peeps from behind, his rabbitface nibbling
a quince leaf.)
PATRICE: Socialiste!
DON EMILE PATRIZ1O FRANZ RUPERT POPE HEN-
NESSY: (In medieval hauberk, two wild geese volant on his
helm, with noble indignation points a mailed hand against
the privates) Werf those eykes to footboden, big grand por-
cos of johnyellows todos covered of gravy!

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