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Ulysses

or protest or vindication: the inanity of extolled virtue: the
lethargy of nescient matter: the apathy of the stars.
In what final satisfaction did these antagonistic
sentiments and reflections, reduced to their simplest forms,

converge?
Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western
terrestrial hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands
explored or unexplored (the land of the midnight sun, the
islands of the blessed, the isles of Greece, the land of
promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female
hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory
sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular
families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of
impression or of contrarieties of expression, expressive of
mute immutable mature animality.
The visible signs of antesatisfaction?
An approximate erection: a solicitous adversion: a
gradual elevation: a tentative revelation: a silent
contemplation.
Then?
He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of
her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their
mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged
provocative melonsmellonous osculation.

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