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enters. Restless. Solitary. She sits. She goes to window.
She stands. She sits. Twilight. She thinks. On solitary hotel
paper she writes. She thinks. She writes. She sighs. Wheels
and hoofs. She hurries out. He comes from his dark

corner. He seizes solitary paper. He holds it towards fire.
Twilight. He reads. Solitary.
What?
In sloping, upright and backhands: Queen’s Hotel,
Queen’s Hotel, Queen’s Hotel. Queen’s Ho...
What suggested scene was then reconstructed by
Bloom?
The Queen’s Hotel, Ennis, county Clare, where
Rudolph Bloom (Rudolf Virag) died on the evening of
the 27 June 1886, at some hour unstated, in consequence
of an overdose of monkshood (aconite) selfadministered in
the form of a neuralgic liniment composed of 2 parts of
aconite liniment to I of chloroform liniment (purchased by
him at 10.20 a.m. on the morning of 27 June 1886 at the
medical hall of Francis Dennehy, 17 Church street, Ennis)
after having, though not in consequence of having,
purchased at 3.15 p.m. on the afternoon of 27 June 1886 a
new boater straw hat, extra smart (after having, though not
in consequence of having, purchased at the hour and in

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