Ulysses
What selfinvolved enigma did Bloom risen, going, gath-
ering multicoloured multiform multitudinous garments,
voluntarily apprehending, not comprehend?
Who was M’Intosh?
What selfevident enigma pondered with desultory con-
stancy during 30 years did Bloom now, having effected
natural obscurity by the extinction of artificial light, silent-
ly suddenly comprehend?
Where was Moses when the candle went out?
What imperfections in a perfect day did Bloom, walking,
charged with collected articles of recently disvested male
wearing apparel, silently, successively, enumerate?
A provisional failure to obtain renewal of an adver-
tisement: to obtain a certain quantity of tea from Thomas
Kernan (agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 5 Dame
Street, Dublin, and 2 Mincing Lane, London E. C.): to cer-
tify the presence or absence of posterior rectal orifice in
the case of Hellenic female divinities: to obtain admission
(gratuitous or paid) to the performance of Leah by Mrs
Bandmann Palmer at the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49
South King street.
What impression of an absent face did Bloom, arrested,
silently recall?
The face of her father, the late Major Brian Cooper
Tweedy, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, of Gibraltar and Rehoboth,
Dolphin’s Barn.
What recurrent impressions of the same were possible
by hypothesis?
Retreating, at the terminus of the Great Northern Rail-