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Ulysses

Heigho, heigho,
Heigho, heigho.

Where were the several members of the company
which with Bloom that day at the bidding of that peal had
travelled from Sandymount in the south to Glasnevin in
the north?
Martin Cunningham (in bed), Jack Power (in bed),
Simon Dedalus (in bed), Ned Lambert (in bed), Tom
Kernan (in bed), Joe Hynes (in bed), John Henry Menton
(in bed), Bernard Corrigan (in bed), Patsy Dignam (in
bed), Paddy Dignam (in the grave).
Alone, what did Bloom hear?
The double reverberation of retreating feet on the
heavenborn earth, the double vibration of a jew’s harp in
the resonant lane.
Alone, what did Bloom feel?
The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees
below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit,
Centigrade or Reaumur: the incipient intimations of
proximate dawn.
Of what did bellchime and handtouch and footstep and
lonechill remind him?

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