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Ulysses

Why did he desist from speculation?
Because it was a task for a superior intelligence to
substitute other more acceptable phenomena in the place
of the less acceptable phenomena to be removed.

Did Stephen participate in his dejection?
He affirmed his significance as a conscious rational
animal proceeding syllogistically from the known to the
unknown and a conscious rational reagent between a
micro and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the
incertitude of the void.
Was this affirmation apprehended by Bloom?
Not verbally. Substantially.
What comforted his misapprehension?
That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded
energetically from the unknown to the known through
the incertitude of the void.
In what order of precedence, with what attendant
ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to
the wilderness of inhabitation effected?
Lighted Candle in Stick borne by
BLOOM
Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by
STEPHEN:

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