Ulysses
THE TIMEPIECE: (Unportalling)Cuckoo.
Cuckoo.
Cuckoo.(The brass quoits of a bed are heard to jingle.)
THE QUOITS: Jigjag. Jigajiga. Jigjag.
(A panel of fog rolls back rapidly, revealing rapidly in the
jurybox the faces of Martin Cunningham, foreman, silkhat-
ted, Jack Power, Simon Dedalus, Tom Kernan, Ned Lambert,
John Henry Menton Myles Crawford, Lenehan, Paddy
Leonard, Nosey Flynn, M’Coy and the featureless face of a
Nameless One.)
THE NAMELESS ONE: Bareback riding. Weight for
age. Gob, he organised her.
THE JURORS: (All their heads turned to his voice) Re-
ally?
THE NAMELESS ONE: (Snarls) Arse over tip. Hundred
shillings to five.
THE JURORS: (All their heads lowered in assent) Most of
us thought as much.
FIRST WATCH: He is a marked man. Another girl’s plait
cut. Wanted: Jack the Ripper. A thousand pounds reward.
SECOND WATCH: (Awed, whispers) And in black. A
mormon. Anarchist.
THE CRIER: (Loudly) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no
fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist,
bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of