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Ulysses

Had any special agility been his in earlier youth?
Though ringweight lifting had been beyond his
strength and the full circle gyration beyond his courage yet
as a High school scholar he had excelled in his stable and

protracted execution of the half lever movement on the
parallel bars in consequence of his abnormally developed
abdominal muscles.
Did either openly allude to their racial difference?
Neither.
What, reduced to their simplest reciprocal form, were
Bloom’s thoughts about Stephen’s thoughts about Bloom
and about Stephen’s thoughts about Bloom’s thoughts
about Stephen?
He thought that he thought that he was a jew whereas
he knew that he knew that he knew that he was not.
What, the enclosures of reticence removed, were their
respective parentages?
Bloom, only born male transubstantial heir of Rudolf
Virag (subsequently Rudolph Bloom) of Szombathely,
Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London and Dublin and of Ellen
Higgins, second daughter of Julius Higgins (born Karoly)
and Fanny Higgins (born Hegarty). Stephen, eldest
surviving male consubstantial heir of Simon Dedalus of

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