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Ulysses

He saw in a quick young male familiar form the
predestination of a future.
What were Stephen’s and Bloom’s quasisimultaneous
volitional quasisensations of concealed identities?

Visually, Stephen’s: The traditional figure of hypostasis,
depicted by Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and
Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic, sesquipedalian with
winedark hair. Auditively, Bloom’s: The traditional accent
of the ecstasy of catastrophe.
What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the
past and with what exemplars?
In the church, Roman, Anglican or Nonconformist:
exemplars, the very reverend John Conmee S. J., the
reverend T. Salmon, D. D., provost of Trinity college, Dr
Alexander J. Dowie. At the bar, English or Irish:
exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K. C., Rufus Isaacs, K. C. On
the stage modern or Shakespearean: exemplars, Charles
Wyndham, high comedian Osmond Tearle (died 1901),
exponent of Shakespeare.
Did the host encourage his guest to chant in a
modulated voice a strange legend on an allied theme?
Reassuringly, their place, where none could hear them
talk, being secluded, reassured, the decocted beverages,
allowing for subsolid residual sediment of a mechanical

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