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Ulysses

By Stephen: suil, suil, suil arun, suil go siocair agus suil go
cuin (walk, walk, walk your way, walk in safety, walk with
care).

By Bloom: Kkifeloch, harimon rakatejch m’baad l’zamatejch
(thy temple amid thy hair is as a slice of pomegranate).
How was a glyphic comparison of the phonic symbols
of both languages made in substantiation of the oral
comparison?
By juxtaposition. On the penultimate blank page of a
book of inferior literary style, entituled Sweets of Sin
(produced by Bloom and so manipulated that its front
cover carne in contact with the surface of the table) with a
pencil (supplied by Stephen) Stephen wrote the Irish
characters for gee, eh, dee, em, simple and modified, and
Bloom in turn wrote the Hebrew characters ghimel, aleph,
daleth and (in the absence of mem) a substituted qoph,
explaining their arithmetical values as ordinal and cardinal
numbers, videlicet 3, 1, 4, and 100.
Was the knowledge possessed by both of each of these
languages, the extinct and the revived, theoretical or
practical?
Theoretical, being confined to certain grammatical
rules of accidence and syntax and practically excluding
vocabulary.

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