Ulysses
peers do homage, one by one, approaching and genuflect-
ing.)
THE PEERS: I do become your liege man of life and limb
to earthly worship.
(Bloom holds up his right hand on which sparkles the
Koh-i-Noor diamond. His palfrey neighs. Immediate silence.
Wireless intercontinental and interplanetary transmitters
are set for reception of message.)
BLOOM: My subjects! We hereby nominate our faith-
ful charger Copula Felix hereditary Grand Vizier and
announce that we have this day repudiated our former
spouse and have bestowed our royal hand upon the prin-
cess Selene, the splendour of night.
(The former morganatic spouse of Bloom is hastily re-
moved in the Black Maria. The princess Selene, in moonblue
robes, a silver crescent on her head, descends from a Sedan
chair, borne by two giants. An outburst of cheering.)
JOHN HOWARD PARNELL: (Raises the royal standard)
Illustrious Bloom! Successor to my famous brother!
BLOOM: (Embraces John Howard Parnell) We thank you
from our heart, John, for this right royal welcome to green
Erin, the promised land of our common ancestors.
(The freedom of the city is presented to him embodied in a
charter. The keys of Dublin, crossed on a crimson cushion, are
given to him. He shows all that he is wearing green socks.)
TOM KERNAN: You deserve it, your honour.
BLOOM: On this day twenty years ago we overcame the
hereditary enemy at Ladysmith. Our howitzers and camel
swivel guns played on his lines with telling effect. Half a