0 Ulysses
intended to execute): the blue and white checker inlaid ma-
jolicatopped table had been placed opposite the door in the
place vacated by the prune plush sofa: the walnut sideboard
(a projecting angle of which had momentarily arrested his
ingress) had been moved from its position beside the door
to a more advantageous but more perilous position in front
of the door: two chairs had been moved from right and left
of the ingleside to the position originally occupied by the
blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table.
Describe them.
One: a squat stuffed easychair, with stout arms extended
and back slanted to the rere, which, repelled in recoil, had
then upturned an irregular fringe of a rectangular rug and
now displayed on its amply upholstered seat a centralised
diffusing and diminishing discolouration. The other: a
slender splayfoot chair of glossy cane curves, placed direct-
ly opposite the former, its frame from top to seat and from
seat to base being varnished dark brown, its seat being a
bright circle of white plaited rush.
What significances attached to these two chairs?
Significances of similitude, of posture, of symbolism, of
circumstantial evidence, of testimonial supermanence.
What occupied the position originally occupied by the
sideboard?
A vertical piano (Cadby) with exposed keyboard, its
closed coffin supporting a pair of long yellow ladies’ gloves
and an emerald ashtray containing four consumed match-
es, a partly consumed cigarette and two discoloured ends
of cigarettes, its musicrest supporting the music in the key