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lit. In dark corner young man seated. Young woman enters.
Restless. Solitary. She sits. She goes to window. She stands.
She sits. Twilight. She thinks. On solitary hotel paper she
writes. She thinks. She writes. She sighs. Wheels and hoofs.
She hurries out. He comes from his dark corner. He seizes
solitary paper. He holds it towards fire. Twilight. He reads.
Solitary.
What?
In sloping, upright and backhands: Queen’s Hotel,
Queen’s Hotel, Queen’s Hotel. Queen’s Ho ...
What suggested scene was then reconstructed by
Bloom?
The Queen’s Hotel, Ennis, county Clare, where Rudolph
Bloom (Rudolf Virag) died on the evening of the 27 June
1886, at some hour unstated, in consequence of an overdose
of monkshood (aconite) selfadministered in the form of a
neuralgic liniment composed of 2 parts of aconite liniment
to I of chloroform liniment (purchased by him at 10.20 a.m.
on the morning of 27 June 1886 at the medical hall of Fran-
cis Dennehy, 17 Church street, Ennis) after having, though
not in consequence of having, purchased at 3.15 p.m. on
the afternoon of 27 June 1886 a new boater straw hat, extra
smart (after having, though not in consequence of having,
purchased at the hour and in the place aforesaid, the toxin
aforesaid), at the general drapery store of James Cullen, 4
Main street, Ennis.
Did he attribute this homonymity to information or co-
incidence or intuition?
Coincidence.