0 Ulysses
THE SIGHTSEERS: (Dying) Morituri te salutant. (They
die)
(A man in a brown macintosh springs up through a trap-
door. He points an elongated finger at Bloom.)
THE MAN IN THE MACINTOSH: Don’t you believe a
word he says. That man is Leopold M’Intosh, the notorious
fireraiser. His real name is Higgins.
BLOOM: Shoot him! Dog of a christian! So much for
M’Intosh!
(A cannonshot. The man in the macintosh disappears.
Bloom with his sceptre strikes down poppies. The instanta-
neous deaths of many powerful enemies, graziers, members
of parliament, members of standing committees, are reported.
Bloom’s bodyguard distribute Maundy money, commemora-
tion medals, loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive
Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preserva-
tives in sealed envelopes tied with gold thread, butter scotch,
pineapple rock, billets doux in the form of cocked hats, read-
ymade suits, porringers of toad in the hole, bottles of Jeyes’
Fluid, purchase stamps, 40 days’ indulgences, spurious coins,
dairyfed pork sausages, theatre passes, season tickets avail-
able for all tramlines, coupons of the royal and privileged
Hungarian lottery, penny dinner counters, cheap reprints of
the World’s Twelve Worst Books: Froggy And Fritz (politic),
Care of the Baby (infantilic), 50 Meals for 7/6 (culinic), Was
Jesus a Sun Myth? (historic), Expel that Pain (medic), Infant’s
Compendium of the Universe (cosmic), Let’s All Chortle (hi-
laric), Canvasser’s Vade Mecum (journalic), Loveletters
of Mother Assistant (erotic), Who’s Who in Space (astric),