0 Ulysses
How was a glyphic comparison of the phonic symbols
of both languages made in substantiation of the oral com-
parison?
By juxtaposition. On the penultimate blank page of a
book of inferior literary style, entituled Sweets of Sin (pro-
duced by Bloom and so manipulated that its front cover
carne in contact with the surface of the table) with a pencil
(supplied by Stephen) Stephen wrote the Irish characters for
gee, eh, dee, em, simple and modified, and Bloom in turn
wrote the Hebrew characters ghimel, aleph, daleth and (in
the absence of mem) a substituted qoph, explaining their
arithmetical values as ordinal and cardinal numbers, vide-
licet 3, 1, 4, and 100.
Was the knowledge possessed by both of each of these
languages, the extinct and the revived, theoretical or prac-
tical?
Theoretical, being confined to certain grammatical rules
of accidence and syntax and practically excluding vocabu-
lary.
What points of contact existed between these languages
and between the peoples who spoke them?
The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations,
epenthetic and servile letters in both languages: their an-
tiquity, both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242
years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius
Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, progenitor of Israel, and as-
cendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their
archaeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical,
homiletic, toponomastic, historical and religious literatures