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cupations, were to be made with mental concentration in
front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families
of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a
more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristina-
tion of juvenile agility.
Had any special agility been his in earlier youth?
Though ringweight lifting had been beyond his strength
and the full circle gyration beyond his courage yet as a High
school scholar he had excelled in his stable and protracted
execution of the half lever movement on the parallel bars in
consequence of his abnormally developed abdominal mus-
cles.
Did either openly allude to their racial difference?
Neither.
What, reduced to their simplest reciprocal form, were
Bloom’s thoughts about Stephen’s thoughts about Bloom
and about Stephen’s thoughts about Bloom’s thoughts about
Stephen?
He thought that he thought that he was a jew whereas he
knew that he knew that he knew that he was not.
What, the enclosures of reticence removed, were their
respective parentages?
Bloom, only born male transubstantial heir of Rudolf Vi-
rag (subsequently Rudolph Bloom) of Szombathely, Vienna,
Budapest, Milan, London and Dublin and of Ellen Higgins,
second daughter of Julius Higgins (born Karoly) and Fan-
ny Higgins (born Hegarty). Stephen, eldest surviving male
consubstantial heir of Simon Dedalus of Cork and Dublin
and of Mary, daughter of Richard and Christina Goulding