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Ulysses

Of companions now in various manners in different
places defunct: Percy Apjohn (killed in action, Modder
River), Philip Gilligan (phthisis, Jervis Street hospital),
Matthew F. Kane (accidental drowning, Dublin Bay),

Philip Moisel (pyemia, Heytesbury street), Michael Hart
(phthisis, Mater Misericordiae hospital), Patrick Dignam
(apoplexy, Sandymount).
What prospect of what phenomena inclined him to
remain?
The disparition of three final stars, the diffusion of
daybreak, the apparition of a new solar disk.
Had he ever been a spectator of those phenomena?
Once, in 1887, after a protracted performance of
charades in the house of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had
awaited with patience the apparition of the diurnal
phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the
direction of Mizrach, the east.
He remembered the initial paraphenomena?
More active air, a matutinal distant cock, ecclesiastical
clocks at various points, avine music, the isolated tread of
an early wayfarer, the visible diffusion of the light of an
invisible luminous body, the first golden limb of the
resurgent sun perceptible low on the horizon.
Did he remain?

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