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Ulysses

with all sorts and conditions of men especially in the
spring when young men’s fancy, though it had its own toll
of deaths by falling off the cliffs by design or accidentally,
usually, by the way, on their left leg, it being only about

three quarters of an hour’s run from the pillar. Because of
course uptodate tourist travelling was as yet merely in its
infancy, so to speak, and the accommodation left much to
be desired. Interesting to fathom it seemed to him from a
motive of curiosity, pure and simple, was whether it was
the traffic that created the route or viceversa or the two
sides in fact. He turned back the other side of the card,
picture, and passed it along to Stephen.
—I seen a Chinese one time, related the doughty
narrator, that had little pills like putty and he put them in
the water and they opened and every pill was something
different. One was a ship, another was a house, another
was a flower. Cooks rats in your soup, he appetisingly
added, the chinks does.
Possibly perceiving an expression of dubiosity on their
faces the globetrotter went on, adhering to his adventures.
—And I seen a man killed in Trieste by an Italian chap.
Knife in his back. Knife like that.

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