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Ulysses

Damascus, goal of aspiration), the straits of Gibraltar (the
unique birthplace of Marion Tweedy), the Parthenon
(containing statues of nude Grecian divinities), the Wall
street money market (which controlled international

finance), the Plaza de Toros at La Linea, Spain (where
O’Hara of the Camerons had slain the bull), Niagara (over
which no human being had passed with impunity), the
land of the Eskimos (eaters of soap), the forbidden country
of Thibet (from which no traveller returns), the bay of
Naples (to see which was to die), the Dead Sea.
Under what guidance, following what signs?
At sea, septentrional, by night the polestar, located at
the point of intersection of the right line from beta to
alpha in Ursa Maior produced and divided externally at
omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle
formed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line
alpha delta of Ursa Maior. On land, meridional, a
bispherical moon, revealed in imperfect varying phases of
lunation through the posterior interstice of the imperfectly
occluded skirt of a carnose negligent perambulating
female, a pillar of the cloud by day.
What public advertisement would divulge the
occultation of the departed?

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