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do you do, Mr Hornblower? How do you do, sir?
Heavenly weather really. If life was always like that.
Cricket weather. Sit around under sunshades. Over after
over. Out. They can’t play it here. Duck for six wickets. Still
Captain Culler broke a window in the Kildare street club
with a slog to square leg. Donnybrook fair more in their
line. And the skulls we were acracking when M’Carthy took
the floor. Heatwave. Won’t last. Always passing, the stream
of life, which in the stream of life we trace is dearer than
them all.
Enjoy a bath now: clean trough of water, cool enamel, the
gentle tepid stream. This is my body.
He foresaw his pale body reclined in it at full, naked, in
a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly
laved. He saw his trunk and limbs riprippled over and sus-
tained, buoyed lightly upward, lemonyellow: his navel, bud
of flesh: and saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating,
floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thou-
sands, a languid floating flower.
Martin Cunningham, first, poked his silkhatted head
into the creaking carriage and, entering deftly, seated him-
self. Mr Power stepped in after him, curving his height with
care.
—Come on, Simon.
—After you, Mr Bloom said.
Mr Dedalus covered himself quickly and got in, saying:
Yes, yes.