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Ulysses

economy of mangling done on the premises in the case of
trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between
the spring mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress
(biscuit section).

What past consecutive causes, before rising
preapprehended, of accumulated fatigue did Bloom,
before rising, silently recapitulate?
The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal
congestion and premeditative defecation (holy of holies):
the bath (rite of John): the funeral (rite of Samuel): the
advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and Thummim):
the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchisedek): the visit to
museum and national library (holy place): the bookhunt
along Bedford row, Merchants’ Arch, Wellington Quay
(Simchath Torah): the music in the Ormond Hotel (Shira
Shirim): the altercation with a truculent troglodyte in
Bernard Kiernan’s premises (holocaust): a blank period of
time including a cardrive, a visit to a house of mourning, a
leavetaking (wilderness): the eroticism produced by
feminine exhibitionism (rite of Onan): the prolonged
delivery of Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering): the visit to
the disorderly house of Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone
street, lower and subsequent brawl and chance medley in

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