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excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the super-
natural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the
tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath.
How did these beliefs and practices now appear to him?
Not more rational than they had then appeared, not less
rational than other beliefs and practices now appeared.
What first reminiscence had he of Rudolph Bloom (de-
ceased)?
Rudolph Bloom (deceased) narrated to his son Leopold
Bloom (aged 6) a retrospective arrangement of migrations
and settlements in and between Dublin, London, Florence,
Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Szombathely with statements of
satisfaction (his grandfather having seen Maria Theresia,
empress of Austria, queen of Hungary), with commercial
advice (having taken care of pence, the pounds having
taken care of themselves). Leopold Bloom (aged 6) had ac-
companied these narrations by constant consultation of a
geographical map of Europe (political) and by suggestions
for the establishment of affiliated business premises in the
various centres mentioned.
Had time equally but differently obliterated the memory
of these migrations in narrator and listener?
In narrator by the access of years and in consequence of
the use of narcotic toxin: in listener by the access of years
and in consequence of the action of distraction upon vicari-
ous experiences.
What idiosyncracies of the narrator were concomitant
products of amnesia?
Occasionally he ate without having previously removed