Ulysses
betical letter, who in his ultimate year at High School (1880)
had been capable of attaining the point of greatest altitude
against the whole concurrent strength of the institution,
210 scholars: Stephen’s higher, more sibilant, who in the ul-
timate hours of the previous day had augmented by diuretic
consumption an insistent vesical pressure.
What different problems presented themselves to each
concerning the invisible audible collateral organ of the oth-
er?
To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence, ri-
gidity, reactivity, dimension, sanitariness, pilosity.
To Stephen: the problem of the sacerdotal integrity of
Jesus circumcised (I January, holiday of obligation to hear
mass and abstain from unnecessary servile work) and the
problem as to whether the divine prepuce, the carnal bridal
ring of the holy Roman catholic apostolic church, conserved
in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of the
fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such
divine excrescences as hair and toenails.
What celestial sign was by both simultaneously ob-
served?
A star precipitated with great apparent velocity across
the firmament from Vega in the Lyre above the zenith be-
yond the stargroup of the Tress of Berenice towards the
zodiacal sign of Leo.
How did the centripetal remainer afford egress to the
centrifugal departer?
By inserting the barrel of an arruginated male key in
the hole of an unstable female lock, obtaining a purchase