Ulysses
in question?
Firstly, in order to exercise mnemotechnic: secondly,
because after an interval of amnesia, when, seated at the
central table, about to consult the work in question, he re-
membered by mnemotechnic the name of the military
engagement, Plevna.
What caused him consolation in his sitting posture?
The candour, nudity, pose, tranquility, youth, grace, sex,
counsel of a statue erect in the centre of the table, an im-
age of Narcissus purchased by auction from P. A. Wren, 9
Bachelor’s Walk.
What caused him irritation in his sitting posture? Inhib-
itory pressure of collar (size 17) and waistcoat (5 buttons),
two articles of clothing superfluous in the costume of
mature males and inelastic to alterations of mass by expan-
sion.
How was the irritation allayed?
He removed his collar, with contained black necktie and
collapsible stud, from his neck to a position on the left of
the table. He unbuttoned successively in reversed direction
waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the medial line of
irregular incrispated black hairs extending in triangular
convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of
the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the medial line
of nodes to the intersection of the sixth pectoral vertebrae,
thence produced both ways at right angles and terminat-
ing in circles described about two equidistant points, right
and left, on the summits of the mammary prominences. He
unbraced successively each of six minus one braced trouser