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Ulysses

She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a recess.
On the duke’s lawn, entreated by an English visitor, she
declined to permit him to make and take away her
photographic image (objection not stated). On the South

Circular road in the company of Elsa Potter, followed by
an individual of sinister aspect, she went half way down
Stamer street and turned abruptly back (reason of change
not stated). On the vigil of the 15th anniversary of her
birth she wrote a letter from Mullingar, county
Westmeath, making a brief allusion to a local student
(faculty and year not stated).
Did that first division, portending a second division,
afflict him?
Less than he had imagined, more than he had hoped.
What second departure was contemporaneously
perceived by him similarly, if differently?
A temporary departure of his cat.
Why similarly, why differently?
Similarly, because actuated by a secret purpose the
quest of a new male
(Mullingar student) or of a healing herb (valerian).
Differently, because of different possible returns to the
inhabitants or to the habitation.
In other respects were their differences similar?

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