0 Ulysses
and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).
Did the guest comply with his host’s request?
Doubly, by appending his signature in Irish and Roman
characters.
What was Stephen’s auditive sensation?
He heard in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody
the accumulation of the past.
What was Bloom’s visual sensation?
He saw in a quick young male familiar form the predes-
tination of a future.
What were Stephen’s and Bloom’s quasisimultaneous vo-
litional quasisensations of concealed identities?
Visually, Stephen’s: The traditional figure of hypostasis,
depicted by Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and
Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic, sesquipedalian with
winedark hair. Auditively, Bloom’s: The traditional accent
of the ecstasy of catastrophe.
What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the
past and with what exemplars?
In the church, Roman, Anglican or Nonconformist: ex-
emplars, the very reverend John Conmee S. J., the reverend
T. Salmon, D. D., provost of Trinity college, Dr Alexander
J. Dowie. At the bar, English or Irish: exemplars, Seymour
Bushe, K. C., Rufus Isaacs, K. C. On the stage modern or
Shakespearean: exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high come-
dian Osmond Tearle (died 1901), exponent of Shakespeare.
Did the host encourage his guest to chant in a modulated
voice a strange legend on an allied theme?
Reassuringly, their place, where none could hear them