<p>What did the 2nd drawer contain?</p>
<p>Documents: the birth certificate of Leopold Paula Bloom: an endowment
assurance policy of 500 pounds in the Scottish Widows' Assurance Society,
intestated Millicent (Milly) Bloom, coming into force at 25 years as with
profit policy of 430 pounds, 462/10/0 and 500 pounds at 60 years or death,
65 years or death and death, respectively, or with profit policy (paidup)
of 299/10/0 together with cash payment of 133/10/0, at option: a bank
passbook issued by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch showing statement
of a/c for halfyear ending 31 December 1903, balance in depositor's
favour: 18/14/6 (eighteen pounds, fourteen shillings and sixpence,
sterling), net personalty: certificate of possession of 900 pounds,
Canadian 4 percent (inscribed) government stock (free of stamp duty):
dockets of the Catholic Cemeteries' (Glasnevin) Committee, relative to a
graveplot purchased: a local press cutting concerning change of name by
deedpoll.</p>
<p>Quote the textual terms of this notice.</p>
<p>I, Rudolph Virag, now resident at no 52 Clanbrassil street, Dublin,
formerly of Szombathely in the kingdom of Hungary, hereby give notice that
I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times
to be known by the name of Rudolph Bloom.</p>
<p>What other objects relative to Rudolph Bloom (born Virag) were in the 2nd
drawer?</p>
<p>An indistinct daguerreotype of Rudolf Virag and his father Leopold Virag
executed in the year 1852 in the portrait atelier of their (respectively)
1st and 2nd cousin, Stefan Virag of Szesfehervar, Hungary. An ancient
haggadah book in which a pair of hornrimmed convex spectacles inserted
marked the passage of thanksgiving in the ritual prayers for Pessach
(Passover): a photocard of the Queen's Hotel, Ennis, proprietor, Rudolph
Bloom: an envelope addressed: <i>To My Dear Son Leopold</i>.</p>
<p>What fractions of phrases did the lecture of those five whole words evoke?</p>
<p>Tomorrow will be a week that I received... it is no use Leopold to be ...
with your dear mother... that is not more to stand... to her... all for me
is out... be kind to Athos, Leopold... my dear son... always... of me...
<i>das Herz... Gott... dein</i>...</p>
<p>What reminiscences of a human subject suffering from progressive
melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom?</p>
<p>An old man, widower, unkempt of hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing:
an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains
and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death
of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison.</p>
<p>Why did Bloom experience a sentiment of remorse?</p>
<p>Because in immature impatience he had treated with disrespect certain
beliefs and practices.</p>
<p>As?</p>
<p>The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the
hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete
mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male
infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability
of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath.</p>
<p>How did these beliefs and practices now appear to him?</p>
<p>Not more rational than they had then appeared, not less rational than
other beliefs and practices now appeared.</p>
<p>What first reminiscence had he of Rudolph Bloom (deceased)?</p>
<p>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 accompanied 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.</p>
<p>Had time equally but differently obliterated the memory of these
migrations in narrator and listener?</p>
<p>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 vicarious experiences.</p>
<p>What idiosyncracies of the narrator were concomitant products of amnesia?</p>
<p>Occasionally he ate without having previously removed his hat.
Occasionally he drank voraciously the juice of gooseberry fool from an
inclined plate. Occasionally he removed from his lips the traces of food
by means of a lacerated envelope or other accessible fragment of paper.</p>
<p>What two phenomena of senescence were more frequent?</p>
<p>The myopic digital calculation of coins, eructation consequent upon
repletion.</p>
<p>What object offered partial consolation for these reminiscences?</p>
<p>The endowment policy, the bank passbook, the certificate of the possession
of scrip.</p>
<p>Reduce Bloom by cross multiplication of reverses of fortune, from which
these supports protected him, and by elimination of all positive values to
a negligible negative irrational unreal quantity.</p>
<p>Successively, in descending helotic order: Poverty: that of the outdoor
hawker of imitation jewellery, the dun for the recovery of bad and
doubtful debts, the poor rate and deputy cess collector. Mendicancy: that
of the fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1s. 4d. in the
pound, sandwichman, distributor of throwaways, nocturnal vagrant,
insinuating sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling, superannuated
bailiffs man, marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric public
laughingstock seated on bench of public park under discarded perforated
umbrella. Destitution: the inmate of Old Man's House (Royal Hospital)
Kilmainham, the inmate of Simpson's Hospital for reduced but respectable
men permanently disabled by gout or want of sight. Nadir of misery: the
aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.</p>
<p>With which attendant indignities?</p>
<p>The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the contempt
of muscular males, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the simulated
ignorance of casual acquaintances, the latration of illegitimate
unlicensed vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable
missiles, worth little or nothing, nothing or less than nothing.</p>
<p>By what could such a situation be precluded?</p>
<p>By decease (change of state): by departure (change of place).</p>
<p>Which preferably?</p>
<p>The latter, by the line of least resistance.</p>
<p>What considerations rendered departure not entirely undesirable?</p>
<p>Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration of personal defects. The
habit of independent purchase increasingly cultivated. The necessity to
counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest.</p>
<p>What considerations rendered departure not irrational?</p>
<p>The parties concerned, uniting, had increased and multiplied, which being
done, offspring produced and educed to maturity, the parties, if not
disunited were obliged to reunite for increase and multiplication, which
was absurd, to form by reunion the original couple of uniting parties,
which was impossible.</p>
<p>What considerations rendered departure desirable?</p>
<p>The attractive character of certain localities in Ireland and abroad, as
represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in
special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and
hachures.</p>
<p>In Ireland?</p>
<p>The cliffs of Moher, the windy wilds of Connemara, lough Neagh with
submerged petrified city, the Giant's Causeway, Fort Camden and Fort
Carlisle, the Golden Vale of Tipperary, the islands of Aran, the pastures
of royal Meath, Brigid's elm in Kildare, the Queen's Island shipyard in
Belfast, the Salmon Leap, the lakes of Killarney.</p>
<p>Abroad?</p>
<p>Ceylon (with spicegardens supplying tea to Thomas Kernan, agent for
Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 2 Mincing Lane, London, E. C., 5 Dame street,
Dublin), Jerusalem, the holy city (with mosque of Omar and gate of
Damascus, goal of aspiration), the straits of Gibraltar (the unique
birthplace of Marion Tweedy), the Parthenon (containing statues of nude
Grecian divinities), the Wall street money market (which controlled
international finance), the Plaza de Toros at La Linea, Spain (where
O'Hara of the Camerons had slain the bull), Niagara (over which no human
being had passed with impunity), the land of the Eskimos (eaters of soap),
the forbidden country of Thibet (from which no traveller returns), the bay
of Naples (to see which was to die), the Dead Sea.</p>
<p>Under what guidance, following what signs?</p>
<p>At sea, septentrional, by night the polestar, located at the point of
intersection of the right line from beta to alpha in Ursa Maior produced
and divided externally at omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled
triangle formed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha
delta of Ursa Maior. On land, meridional, a bispherical moon, revealed in
imperfect varying phases of lunation through the posterior interstice of
the imperfectly occluded skirt of a carnose negligent perambulating
female, a pillar of the cloud by day.</p>
<p>What public advertisement would divulge the occultation of the departed?</p>
<p>5 pounds reward, lost, stolen or strayed from his residence 7 Eccles
street, missing gent about 40, answering to the name of Bloom, Leopold
(Poldy), height 5 ft 9 1/2 inches, full build, olive complexion, may have
since grown a beard, when last seen was wearing a black suit. Above sum
will be paid for information leading to his discovery.</p>
<p>What universal binomial denominations would be his as entity and
nonentity?</p>
<p>Assumed by any or known to none. Everyman or Noman.</p>
<p>What tributes his?</p>
<p>Honour and gifts of strangers, the friends of Everyman. A nymph immortal,
beauty, the bride of Noman.</p>
<p>Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear?</p>
<p>Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary
orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets,
astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space, passing
from land to land, among peoples, amid events. Somewhere imperceptibly he
would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons of
recall. Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown
he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of
Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an
estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a
sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing
those of Rothschild or the silver king.</p>
<p>What would render such return irrational?</p>
<p>An unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through
reversible space and an exodus and return in space through irreversible
time.</p>
<p>What play of forces, inducing inertia, rendered departure undesirable?</p>
<p>The lateness of the hour, rendering procrastinatory: the obscurity of the
night, rendering invisible: the uncertainty of thoroughfares, rendering
perilous: the necessity for repose, obviating movement: the proximity of
an occupied bed, obviating research: the anticipation of warmth (human)
tempered with coolness (linen), obviating desire and rendering desirable:
the statue of Narcissus, sound without echo, desired desire.</p>
<p>What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an
unoccupied bed?</p>
<p>The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human (mature
female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of matutinal
contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case of
trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring
mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section).</p>
<p>What past consecutive causes, before rising preapprehended, of accumulated
fatigue did Bloom, before rising, silently recapitulate?</p>
<p>The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion and
premeditative defecation (holy of holies): the bath (rite of John): the
funeral (rite of Samuel): the advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and
Thummim): the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchisedek): the visit to
museum and national library (holy place): the bookhunt along Bedford row,
Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay (Simchath Torah): the music in the Ormond
Hotel (Shira Shirim): the altercation with a truculent troglodyte in
Bernard Kiernan's premises (holocaust): a blank period of time including a
cardrive, a visit to a house of mourning, a leavetaking (wilderness): the
eroticism produced by feminine exhibitionism (rite of Onan): the prolonged
delivery of Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering): the visit to the disorderly
house of Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street, lower and subsequent brawl and
chance medley in Beaver street (Armageddon)—nocturnal perambulation
to and from the cabman's shelter, Butt Bridge (atonement).</p>
<p>What selfimposed enigma did Bloom about to rise in order to go so as to
conclude lest he should not conclude involuntarily apprehend?</p>
<p>The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by the
insentient material of a strainveined timber table.</p>
<p>What selfinvolved enigma did Bloom risen, going, gathering multicoloured
multiform multitudinous garments, voluntarily apprehending, not
comprehend?</p>
<p>Who was M'Intosh?</p>
<p>What selfevident enigma pondered with desultory constancy during 30 years
did Bloom now, having effected natural obscurity by the extinction of
artificial light, silently suddenly comprehend?</p>
<p>Where was Moses when the candle went out?</p>
<p>What imperfections in a perfect day did Bloom, walking, charged with
collected articles of recently disvested male wearing apparel, silently,
successively, enumerate?</p>
<p>A provisional failure to obtain renewal of an advertisement: 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
certify 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.</p>
<p>What impression of an absent face did Bloom, arrested, silently recall?</p>
<p>The face of her father, the late Major Brian Cooper Tweedy, Royal Dublin
Fusiliers, of Gibraltar and Rehoboth, Dolphin's Barn.</p>
<p>What recurrent impressions of the same were possible by hypothesis?</p>
<p>Retreating, at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, Amiens street,
with constant uniform acceleration, along parallel lines meeting at
infinity, if produced: along parallel lines, reproduced from infinity,
with constant uniform retardation, at the terminus of the Great Northern
Railway, Amiens street, returning.</p>
<p>What miscellaneous effects of female personal wearing apparel were
perceived by him?</p>
<p>A pair of new inodorous halfsilk black ladies' hose, a pair of new violet
garters, a pair of outsize ladies' drawers of India mull, cut on generous
lines, redolent of opoponax, jessamine and Muratti's Turkish cigarettes
and containing a long bright steel safety pin, folded curvilinear, a
camisole of batiste with thin lace border, an accordion underskirt of blue
silk moirette, all these objects being disposed irregularly on the top of
a rectangular trunk, quadruple battened, having capped corners, with
multicoloured labels, initialled on its fore side in white lettering B. C.
T. (Brian Cooper Tweedy).</p>
<p>What impersonal objects were perceived?</p>
<p>A commode, one leg fractured, totally covered by square cretonne cutting,
apple design, on which rested a lady's black straw hat. Orangekeyed ware,
bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware and ironmongery
manufacturer, 21, 22, 23 Moore street, disposed irregularly on the
washstand and floor and consisting of basin, soapdish and brushtray (on
the washstand, together), pitcher and night article (on the floor,
separate).</p>
<p>Bloom's acts?</p>
<p>He deposited the articles of clothing on a chair, removed his remaining
articles of clothing, took from beneath the bolster at the head of the bed
a folded long white nightshirt, inserted his head and arms into the proper
apertures of the nightshirt, removed a pillow from the head to the foot of
the bed, prepared the bedlinen accordingly and entered the bed.</p>
<p>How?</p>
<p>With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode (his own or not
his own): with solicitude, the snakespiral springs of the mattress being
old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous under
stress and strain: prudently, as entering a lair or ambush of lust or
adders: lightly, the less to disturb: reverently, the bed of conception
and of birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of marriage, of
sleep and of death.</p>
<p>What did his limbs, when gradually extended, encounter?</p>
<p>New clean bedlinen, additional odours, the presence of a human form,
female, hers, the imprint of a human form, male, not his, some crumbs,
some flakes of potted meat, recooked, which he removed.</p>
<p>If he had smiled why would he have smiled?</p>
<p>To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to
enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the
first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last,
only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in
a series originating in and repeated to infinity.</p>
<p>What preceding series?</p>
<p>Assuming Mulvey to be the first term of his series, Penrose, Bartell
d'Arcy, professor Goodwin, Julius Mastiansky, John Henry Menton, Father
Bernard Corrigan, a farmer at the Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show,
Maggot O'Reilly, Matthew Dillon, Valentine Blake Dillon (Lord Mayor of
Dublin), Christopher Callinan, Lenehan, an Italian organgrinder, an
unknown gentleman in the Gaiety Theatre, Benjamin Dollard, Simon Dedalus,
Andrew (Pisser) Burke, Joseph Cuffe, Wisdom Hely, Alderman John Hooper, Dr
Francis Brady, Father Sebastian of Mount Argus, a bootblack at the General
Post Office, Hugh E. (Blazes) Boylan and so each and so on to no last
term.</p>
<p>What were his reflections concerning the last member of this series and
late occupant of the bed?</p>
<p>Reflections on his vigour (a bounder), corporal proportion (a
billsticker), commercial ability (a bester), impressionability (a
boaster).</p>
<p>Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigour, corporal
proportion and commercial ability?</p>
<p>Because he had observed with augmenting frequency in the preceding members
of the same series the same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted, first
with alarm, then with understanding, then with desire, finally with
fatigue, with alternating symptoms of epicene comprehension and
apprehension.</p>
<p>With what antagonistic sentiments were his subsequent reflections
affected?</p>
<p>Envy, jealousy, abnegation, equanimity.</p>
<p>Envy?</p>
<p>Of a bodily and mental male organism specially adapted for the
superincumbent posture of energetic human copulation and energetic piston
and cylinder movement necessary for the complete satisfaction of a
constant but not acute concupiscence resident in a bodily and mental
female organism, passive but not obtuse.</p>
<p>Jealousy?</p>
<p>Because a nature full and volatile in its free state, was alternately the
agent and reagent of attraction. Because attraction between agent(s) and
reagent(s) at all instants varied, with inverse proportion of increase and
decrease, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance. Because
the controlled contemplation of the fluctuation of attraction produced, if
desired, a fluctuation of pleasure.</p>
<p>Abnegation?</p>
<p>In virtue of a) acquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the
establishment of George Mesias, merchant tailor and outfitter, 5 Eden
Quay, b) hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and
reappropriated in person, c) comparative youth subject to impulses of
ambition and magnanimity, colleagual altruism and amorous egoism, d)
extraracial attraction, intraracial inhibition, supraracial prerogative,
e) an imminent provincial musical tour, common current expenses, net
proceeds divided.</p>
<p>Equanimity?</p>
<p>As as natural as any and every natural act of a nature expressed or
understood executed in natured nature by natural creatures in accordance
with his, her and their natured natures, of dissimilar similarity. As not
so calamitous as a cataclysmic annihilation of the planet in consequence
of a collision with a dark sun. As less reprehensible than theft, highway
robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false
pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money,
betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors,
criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony,
mutiny on the high seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of
unnatural vice, desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury,
poaching, usury, intelligence with the king's enemies, impersonation,
criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and premeditated murder. As not
more abnormal than all other parallel processes of adaptation to altered
conditions of existence, resulting in a reciprocal equilibrium between the
bodily organism and its attendant circumstances, foods, beverages,
acquired habits, indulged inclinations, significant disease. As more than
inevitable, irreparable.</p>
<p>Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimity?</p>
<p>From outrage (matrimony) to outrage (adultery) there arose nought but
outrage (copulation) yet the matrimonial violator of the matrimonially
violated had not been outraged by the adulterous violator of the
adulterously violated.</p>
<p>What retribution, if any?</p>
<p>Assassination, never, as two wrongs did not make one right. Duel by
combat, no. Divorce, not now. Exposure by mechanical artifice (automatic
bed) or individual testimony (concealed ocular witnesses), not yet. Suit
for damages by legal influence or simulation of assault with evidence of
injuries sustained (selfinflicted), not impossibly. Hushmoney by moral
influence possibly. If any, positively, connivance, introduction of
emulation (material, a prosperous rival agency of publicity: moral, a
successful rival agent of intimacy), depreciation, alienation,
humiliation, separation protecting the one separated from the other,
protecting the separator from both.</p>
<p>By what reflections did he, a conscious reactor against the void of
incertitude, justify to himself his sentiments?</p>
<p>The preordained frangibility of the hymen: the presupposed intangibility
of the thing in itself: the incongruity and disproportion between the
selfprolonging tension of the thing proposed to be done and the
selfabbreviating relaxation of the thing done; the fallaciously inferred
debility of the female: the muscularity of the male: the variations of
ethical codes: the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving
no alteration of sense of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as
masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct
feminine object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist
preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and
quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary
masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of seminators
by generation: the continual production of semen by distillation: the
futility of triumph or protest or vindication: the inanity of extolled
virtue: the lethargy of nescient matter: the apathy of the stars.</p>
<p>In what final satisfaction did these antagonistic sentiments and
reflections, reduced to their simplest forms, converge?</p>
<p>Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial
hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored
(the land of the midnight sun, the islands of the blessed, the isles of
Greece, the land of promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female
hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and
seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of curves of amplitude,
insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarieties of expression,
expressive of mute immutable mature animality.</p>
<p>The visible signs of antesatisfaction?</p>
<p>An approximate erection: a solicitous adversion: a gradual elevation: a
tentative revelation: a silent contemplation.</p>
<p>Then?</p>
<p>He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each
plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure
prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.</p>
<p>The visible signs of postsatisfaction?</p>
<p>A silent contemplation: a tentative velation: a gradual abasement: a
solicitous aversion: a proximate erection.</p>
<p>What followed this silent action?</p>
<p>Somnolent invocation, less somnolent recognition, incipient excitation,
catechetical interrogation.</p>
<p>With what modifications did the narrator reply to this interrogation?</p>
<p>Negative: he omitted to mention the clandestine correspondence between
Martha Clifford and Henry Flower, the public altercation at, in and in the
vicinity of the licensed premises of Bernard Kiernan and Co, Limited, 8, 9
and 10 Little Britain street, the erotic provocation and response thereto
caused by the exhibitionism of Gertrude (Gerty), surname unknown.
Positive: he included mention of a performance by Mrs Bandmann Palmer of
LEAH at the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street, an
invitation to supper at Wynn's (Murphy's) Hotel, 35, 36 and 37 Lower Abbey
street, a volume of peccaminous pornographical tendency entituled SWEETS
OF SIN, anonymous author a gentleman of fashion, a temporary concussion
caused by a falsely calculated movement in the course of a postcenal
gymnastic display, the victim (since completely recovered) being Stephen
Dedalus, professor and author, eldest surviving son of Simon Dedalus, of
no fixed occupation, an aeronautical feat executed by him (narrator) in
the presence of a witness, the professor and author aforesaid, with
promptitude of decision and gymnastic flexibility.</p>
<p>Was the narration otherwise unaltered by modifications?</p>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p>Which event or person emerged as the salient point of his narration?</p>
<p>Stephen Dedalus, professor and author.</p>
<p>What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were
perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the course
of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?</p>
<p>By the listener a limitation of fertility inasmuch as marriage had been
celebrated 1 calendar month after the 18th anniversary of her birth (8
September 1870), viz. 8 October, and consummated on the same date with
female issue born 15 June 1889, having been anticipatorily consummated on
the lo September of the same year and complete carnal intercourse, with
ejaculation of semen within the natural female organ, having last taken
place 5 weeks previous, viz. 27 November 1893, to the birth on 29 December
1893 of second (and only male) issue, deceased 9 January 1894, aged 11
days, there remained a period of 10 years, 5 months and 18 days during
which carnal intercourse had been incomplete, without ejaculation of semen
within the natural female organ. By the narrator a limitation of activity,
mental and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental intercourse between
himself and the listener had not taken place since the consummation of
puberty, indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, of the female issue of
narrator and listener, 15 September 1903, there remained a period of 9
months and 1 day during which, in consequence of a preestablished natural
comprehension in incomprehension between the consummated females (listener
and issue), complete corporal liberty of action had been circumscribed.</p>
<p>How?</p>
<p>By various reiterated feminine interrogation concerning the masculine
destination whither, the place where, the time at which, the duration for
which, the object with which in the case of temporary absences, projected
or effected.</p>
<p>What moved visibly above the listener's and the narrator's invisible
thoughts?</p>
<p>The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of
concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.</p>
<p>In what directions did listener and narrator lie?</p>
<p>Listener, S. E. by E.: Narrator, N. W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of
latitude, N., and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45 degrees
to the terrestrial equator.</p>
<p>In what state of rest or motion?</p>
<p>At rest relatively to themselves and to each other. In motion being each
and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the
proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of
neverchanging space.</p>
<p>In what posture?</p>
<p>Listener: reclined semilaterally, left, left hand under head, right leg
extended in a straight line and resting on left leg, flexed, in the
attitude of Gea-Tellus, fulfilled, recumbent, big with seed. Narrator:
reclined laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the index
finger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in
the attitude depicted in a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the
childman weary, the manchild in the womb.</p>
<p>Womb? Weary?</p>
<p>He rests. He has travelled.</p>
<p>With?</p>
<p>Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad
the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the
Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer
and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and
Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.</p>
<p>When?</p>
<p>Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's
egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the
Brightdayler.</p>
<p>Where?</p>
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