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Ulysses

Damp night reeking of hungry dough. Against the wall.
Face glistering tallow under her fustian shawl. Frantic
hearts. Akasic records. Quicker, darlint!
On now. Dare it. Let there be life.

—They want to see the views of Dublin from the top
of Nelson’s pillar. They save up three and tenpence in a
red tin letterbox moneybox. They shake out the
threepenny bits and sixpences and coax out the pennies
with the blade of a knife. Two and three in silver and one
and seven in coppers. They put on their bonnets and best
clothes and take their umbrellas for fear it may come on to
rain.
—Wise virgins, professor MacHugh said.

LIFE ON THE RAW

—They buy one and fourpenceworth of brawn and
four slices of panloaf at the north city diningrooms in
Marlborough street from Miss Kate Collins, proprietress ...
They purchase four and twenty ripe plums from a girl at
the foot of Nelson’s pillar to take off the thirst of the
brawn. They give two threepenny bits to the gentleman at
the turnstile and begin to waddle slowly up the winding
staircase, grunting, encouraging each other, afraid of the

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