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Ulysses

velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly,
round and round and round the rim of a round and round
precipitous globe.
What distinct different memories had each of her now

eight years deceased?
The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye
terrier, her suppositious wealth, her lapses of
responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the
younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the
Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes
for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her
tissue papers.
Were there no means still remaining to him to achieve
the rejuvenation which these reminiscences divulged to a
younger companion rendered the more desirable?
The indoor exercises, formerly intermittently practised,
subsequently abandoned, prescribed in Eugen Sandow’s
Physical Strength and How to Obtain It which, designed
particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary
occupations, were to be made with mental concentration
in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various
families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant
rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant
repristination of juvenile agility.

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