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Ulysses

and settlements in and between Dublin, London,
Florence, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Szombathely with
statements of satisfaction (his grandfather having seen
Maria Theresia, empress of Austria, queen of Hungary),

with commercial advice (having taken care of pence, the
pounds having taken care of themselves). Leopold Bloom
(aged 6) had accompanied these narrations by constant
consultation of a geographical map of Europe (political)
and by suggestions for the establishment of affiliated
business premises in the various centres mentioned.
Had time equally but differently obliterated the
memory of these migrations in narrator and listener?
In narrator by the access of years and in consequence of
the use of narcotic toxin: in listener by the access of years
and in consequence of the action of distraction upon
vicarious experiences.
What idiosyncracies of the narrator were concomitant
products of amnesia?
Occasionally he ate without having previously removed
his hat. Occasionally he drank voraciously the juice of
gooseberry fool from an inclined plate. Occasionally he
removed from his lips the traces of food by means of a
lacerated envelope or other accessible fragment of paper.

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