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Ulysses

Chronicle I was a bit wild after when I blew out the old
bag the biscuits were in from Benady Bros and exploded it
Lord what a bang all the woodcocks and pigeons
screaming coming back the same way that we went over

middle hill round by the old guardhouse and the jews
burialplace pretending to read out the Hebrew on them I
wanted to fire his pistol he said he hadnt one he didnt
know what to make of me with his peak cap on that he
always wore crooked as often as I settled it straight H M S
Calypso swinging my hat that old Bishop that spoke off
the altar his long preach about womans higher functions
about girls now riding the bicycle and wearing peak caps
and the new woman bloomers God send him sense and
me more money I suppose theyre called after him I never
thought that would be my name Bloom when I used to
write it in print to see how it looked on a visiting card or
practising for the butcher and oblige M Bloom youre
looking blooming Josie used to say after I married him
well its better than Breen or Briggs does brig or those
awful names with bottom in them Mrs Ramsbottom or
some other kind of a bottom Mulvey I wouldnt go mad
about either or suppose I divorced him Mrs Boylan my
mother whoever she was might have given me a nicer
name the Lord knows after the lovely one she had Lunita

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