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Ulysses

the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons
of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of
justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened,
with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those

of Rothschild or the silver king.
What would render such return irrational?
An unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and
return in time through reversible space and an exodus and
return in space through irreversible time.
What play of forces, inducing inertia, rendered
departure undesirable?
The lateness of the hour, rendering procrastinatory: the
obscurity of the night, rendering invisible: the uncertainty
of thoroughfares, rendering perilous: the necessity for
repose, obviating movement: the proximity of an
occupied bed, obviating research: the anticipation of
warmth (human) tempered with coolness (linen),
obviating desire and rendering desirable: the statue of
Narcissus, sound without echo, desired desire.
What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as
distinct from an unoccupied bed?
The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality
of human (mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar)
calefaction, the stimulation of matutinal contact, the

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