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Ulysses


                                  Uwantit (Combined pocket twoblade penknife with
                                  corkscrew, nailfile and pipecleaner).
                                     Such as never?
                                     What is home without Plumtree’s Potted Meat?

                                     Incomplete.
                                     With it an abode of bliss.
                                     Manufactured by George Plumtree, 23 Merchants’
                                  quay, Dublin, put up in 4  oz pots, and inserted by
                                  Councillor Joseph P. Nannetti, M. P., Rotunda Ward, 19
                                  Hardwicke street, under the obituary notices and
                                  anniversaries of deceases. The name on the label is
                                  Plumtree. A plumtree in a meatpot, registered trade mark.
                                  Beware of imitations. Peatmot. Trumplee. Moutpat.
                                  Plamtroo.
                                     Which example did he adduce to induce Stephen to
                                  deduce that originality, though producing its own reward,
                                  does not invariably conduce to success?
                                     His own ideated and rejected project of an illuminated
                                  showcart, drawn by a beast of burden, in which two
                                  smartly dressed girls were to be seated engaged in writing.
                                     What suggested scene was  then constructed by
                                  Stephen?
                                     Solitary hotel in mountain pass. Autumn. Twilight. Fire
                                  lit. In dark corner young man seated. Young woman



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