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Ulysses

Song (words by G. Clifton Bingham, composed by J. L.
Molloy, sung by Madam Antoinette Sterling) open at the
last page with the final indications ad libitum, forte, pedal,

animato, sustained pedal, ritirando, close.
With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in
rotation these objects?
With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling
on his right temple a contused tumescence: with attention,
focussing his gaze on a large dull passive and a slender
bright active: with solicitation, bending and downturning
the upturned rugfringe: with amusement, remembering Dr
Malachi Mulligan’s scheme of colour containing the
gradation of green: with pleasure, repeating the words and
antecedent act and perceiving through various channels of
internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant tepid
pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration.
His next proceeding?
From an open box on the majolicatopped table he
extracted a black diminutive cone, one inch in height,
placed it on its circular base on a small tin plate, placed his
candlestick on the right corner of the mantelpiece,
produced from his waistcoat a folded page of prospectus
(illustrated) entitled Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same,
examined it superficially, rolled it into a thin cylinder,

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