Ulysses
with Bloom that day at the bidding of that peal had travelled
from Sandymount in the south to Glasnevin in the north?
Martin Cunningham (in bed), Jack Power (in bed), Si-
mon Dedalus (in bed), Ned Lambert (in bed), Tom Kernan
(in bed), Joe Hynes (in bed), John Henry Menton (in bed),
Bernard Corrigan (in bed), Patsy Dignam (in bed), Paddy
Dignam (in the grave).
Alone, what did Bloom hear?
The double reverberation of retreating feet on the heav-
enborn earth, the double vibration of a jew’s harp in the
resonant lane.
Alone, what did Bloom feel?
The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below
freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centi-
grade or Reaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate
dawn.
Of what did bellchime and handtouch and footstep and
lonechill remind him?
Of companions now in various manners in different
places defunct: Percy Apjohn (killed in action, Modder
River), Philip Gilligan (phthisis, Jervis Street hospital),
Matthew F. Kane (accidental drowning, Dublin Bay), Philip
Moisel (pyemia, Heytesbury street), Michael Hart (phthisis,
Mater Misericordiae hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy,
Sandymount).
What prospect of what phenomena inclined him to re-
main?
The disparition of three final stars, the diffusion of day-
break, the apparition of a new solar disk.