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Ulysses

What impeded Bloom from giving Stephen counsels of
hygiene and prophylactic to which should be added
suggestions concerning a preliminary wetting of the head
and contraction of the muscles with rapid splashing of the

face and neck and thoracic and epigastric region in case of
sea or river bathing, the parts of the human anatomy most
sensitive to cold being the nape, stomach and thenar or
sole of foot?
The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic
originality of genius.
What additional didactic counsels did he similarly
repress?
Dietary: concerning the respective percentage of
protein and caloric energy in bacon, salt ling and butter,
the absence of the former in the lastnamed and the
abundance of the latter in the firstnamed.
Which seemed to the host to be the predominant
qualities of his guest?
Confidence in himself, an equal and opposite power of
abandonment and recuperation.
What concomitant phenomenon took place in the
vessel of liquid by the agency of fire?
The phenomenon of ebullition. Fanned by a constant
updraught of ventilation between the kitchen and the

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