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Ulysses

With what intonation secreto of what commemorative
psalm?
The 113th, modus peregrinus: In exitu Israel de Egypto:

domus Jacob de populo barbaro.
What did each do at the door of egress?
Bloom set the candlestick on the floor. Stephen put the
hat on his head.
For what creature was the door of egress a door of
ingress?
For a cat.
What spectacle confronted them when they, first the
host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from
obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the
penumbra of the garden?
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue
fruit.
With what meditations did Bloom accompany his
demonstration to his companion of various constellations?
Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the
moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee:
of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky
way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the
lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk
from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius

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