1 Ulysses
regions: the fact of vital growth, through convulsions of
metamorphosis, from infancy through maturity to decay.
Why did he desist from speculation?
Because it was a task for a superior intelligence to substi-
tute other more acceptable phenomena in the place of the
less acceptable phenomena to be removed.
Did Stephen participate in his dejection?
He affirmed his significance as a conscious rational
animal proceeding syllogistically from the known to the
unknown and a conscious rational reagent between a micro
and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the incer-
titude of the void.
Was this affirmation apprehended by Bloom?
Not verbally. Substantially.
What comforted his misapprehension?
That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded en-
ergetically from the unknown to the known through the
incertitude of the void.
In what order of precedence, with what attendant cer-
emony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the
wilderness of inhabitation effected?
Lighted Candle in Stick borne by
BLOOM
Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by
STEPHEN:
With what intonation secreto of what commemorative
psalm?
The 113th, modus peregrinus: In exitu Israel de Egypto:
domus Jacob de populo barbaro.