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arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her at-
traction, when invisible.
What visible luminous sign attracted Bloom’s, who at-
tracted Stephen’s, gaze?
In the second storey (rere) of his (Bloom’s) house the
light of a paraffin oil lamp with oblique shade projected on
a screen of roller blind supplied by Frank O’Hara, window
blind, curtain pole and revolving shutter manufacturer, 16
Aungier street.
How did he elucidate the mystery of an invisible attrac-
tive person, his wife Marion (Molly) Bloom, denoted by a
visible splendid sign, a lamp?
With indirect and direct verbal allusions or affirmations:
with subdued affection and admiration: with description:
with impediment: with suggestion.
Both then were silent?
Silent, each contemplating the other in both mirrors of
the reciprocal flesh of theirhisnothis fellowfaces.
Were they indefinitely inactive?
At Stephen’s suggestion, at Bloom’s instigation both, first
Stephen, then Bloom, in penumbra urinated, their sides
contiguous, their organs of micturition reciprocally ren-
dered invisible by manual circumposition, their gazes, first
Bloom’s, then Stephen’s, elevated to the projected luminous
and semiluminous shadow.
Similarly?
The trajectories of their, first sequent, then simultane-
ous, urinations were dissimilar: Bloom’s longer, less irruent,
in the incomplete form of the bifurcated penultimate alpha-