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Ulysses

more sibilant, who in the ultimate hours of the previous
day had augmented by diuretic consumption an insistent
vesical pressure.
What different problems presented themselves to each

concerning the invisible audible collateral organ of the
other?
To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence,
rigidity, reactivity, dimension, sanitariness, pilosity.
To Stephen: the problem of the sacerdotal integrity of
Jesus circumcised (I January, holiday of obligation to hear
mass and abstain from unnecessary servile work) and the
problem as to whether the divine prepuce, the carnal
bridal ring of the holy Roman catholic apostolic church,
conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly
or of the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission
of such divine excrescences as hair and toenails.
What celestial sign was by both simultaneously
observed?
A star precipitated with great apparent velocity across
the firmament from Vega in the Lyre above the zenith
beyond the stargroup of the Tress of Berenice towards the
zodiacal sign of Leo.
How did the centripetal remainer afford egress to the
centrifugal departer?

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