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Ulysses

What two phenomena of senescence were more
frequent?
The myopic digital calculation of coins, eructation
consequent upon repletion.

What object offered partial consolation for these
reminiscences?
The endowment policy, the bank passbook, the
certificate of the possession of scrip.
Reduce Bloom by cross multiplication of reverses of
fortune, from which these supports protected him, and by
elimination of all positive values to a negligible negative
irrational unreal quantity.
Successively, in descending helotic order: Poverty: that
of the outdoor hawker of imitation jewellery, the dun for
the recovery of bad and doubtful debts, the poor rate and
deputy cess collector. Mendicancy: that of the fraudulent
bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1s. 4d. in the
pound, sandwichman, distributor of throwaways,
nocturnal vagrant, insinuating sycophant, maimed sailor,
blind stripling, superannuated bailiffs man, marfeast,
lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric public
laughingstock seated on bench of public park under
discarded perforated umbrella. Destitution: the inmate of
Old Man’s House (Royal Hospital) Kilmainham, the

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