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Ulysses

By inserting the barrel of an arruginated male key in
the hole of an unstable female lock, obtaining a purchase
on the bow of the key and turning its wards from right to
left, withdrawing a bolt from its staple, pulling inward

spasmodically an obsolescent unhinged door and revealing
an aperture for free egress and free ingress.
How did they take leave, one of the other, in
separation?
Standing perpendicular at the same door and on
different sides of its base, the lines of their valedictory
arms, meeting at any point and forming any angle less than
the sum of two right angles.
What sound accompanied the union of their tangent,
the disunion of their (respectively) centrifugal and
centripetal hands?
The sound of the peal of the hour of the night by the
chime of the bells in the church of Saint George.
What echoes of that sound were by both and each
heard?
By Stephen:
Liliata rutilantium. Turma circumdet.
Iubilantium te virginum. Chorus excipiat.
By Bloom:

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