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Ulysses

when, when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and
successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of
the current issue of the Freeman’s Journal and National Press
which he had been about to throw away (subsequently

thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental
edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths, 11 Leinster street,
with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance
and bearing in his arms the secret of the race, graven in
the language of prediction.

What qualifying considerations allayed his perturbations?
The difficulties of interpretation since the significance
of any event followed its occurrence as variably as the
acoustic report followed the electrical discharge and of
counterestimating against an actual loss by failure to
interpret the total sum of possible losses proceeding
originally from a successful interpretation.
His mood?
He had not risked, he did not expect, he had not been
disappointed, he was satisfied.
What satisfied him?
To have sustained no positive loss. To have brought a
positive gain to others. Light to the gentiles.
How did Bloom prepare a collation for a gentile?

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