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Ulysses

circulation and solvency or employed verbally as
intellectual stimulation for sympathetic auditors, tacitly
appreciative of successful narrative and confidently
augurative of successful achievement, during the

increasingly longer nights gradually following the summer
solstice on the day but three following, videlicet, Tuesday,
21 June (S. Aloysius Gonzaga), sunrise 3.33 a.m., sunset
8.29 p.m.
Which domestic problem as much as, if not more than,
any other frequently engaged his mind?
What to do with our wives.
What had been his hypothetical singular solutions?
Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks,
spilikins, cup and ball, nap, spoil five, bezique, twentyfive,
beggar my neighbour, draughts, chess or backgammon):
embroidery, darning or knitting for the policeaided
clothing society: musical duets, mandoline and guitar,
piano and flute, guitar and piano: legal scrivenery or
envelope addressing: biweekly visits to variety
entertainments: commercial activity as pleasantly
commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress in
a cool dairy shop or warm cigar divan: the clandestine
satisfaction of erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state
inspected and medically controlled: social visits, at regular

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