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Ulysses


                                  Beaver street (Armageddon)- nocturnal perambulation to
                                  and from the cabman’s shelter, Butt Bridge (atonement).
                                     What selfimposed enigma did Bloom about to rise in
                                  order to go so as to conclude lest he should not conclude

                                  involuntarily apprehend?
                                     The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone
                                  crack emitted by the insentient material of a strainveined
                                  timber table.
                                     What selfinvolved enigma did Bloom risen, going,
                                  gathering    multicoloured    multiform    multitudinous
                                  garments, voluntarily apprehending, not comprehend?
                                     Who was M’Intosh?
                                     What selfevident enigma pondered with desultory
                                  constancy during 30 years did Bloom now, having effected
                                  natural obscurity by the extinction of artificial light,
                                  silently suddenly comprehend?
                                     Where was Moses when the candle went out?
                                     What imperfections in a perfect day did Bloom,
                                  walking, charged with collected articles of recently
                                  disvested male wearing apparel, silently, successively,
                                  enumerate?
                                     A provisional failure to obtain renewal of an
                                  advertisement: to obtain a certain quantity of tea from
                                  Thomas Kernan (agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co,



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