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Ulysses
regarded Bloom while Bloom with obscure tranquil
profound motionless compassionated gaze regarded the
matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle.
What composite asymmetrical image in the mirror then
attracted his attention?
The image of a solitary (ipsorelative) mutable
(aliorelative) man.
Why solitary (ipsorelative)?
Brothers and sisters had he none.
Yet that man’s father was his grandfather’s son.
Why mutable (aliorelative)?
From infancy to maturity he had resembled his
maternal procreatrix. From maturity to senility he would
increasingly resemble his paternal procreator.
What final visual impression was communicated to him
by the mirror?
The optical reflection of several inverted volumes
improperly arranged and not in the order of their common
letters with scintillating titles on the two bookshelves
opposite.
Catalogue these books.
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