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Ulysses

aerated mineral water floats with rattling crates of bottles,
rattled, rolled, horsedrawn, rapidly.

WHAT?—AND LIKEWISE—WHERE?

—But what do you call it? Myles Crawford asked.
Where did they get the plums?

VIRGILIAN, SAYS PEDAGOGUE.
SOPHOMORE PLUMPS FOR OLD
MAN MOSES.

—Call it, wait, the professor said, opening his long lips
wide to reflect. Call it, let me see. Call it: deus nobis haec
otia fecit.
—No, Stephen said. I call it A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or
the Parable of The Plums.
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—I see, the professor said.
He laughed richly.
—I see, he said again with new pleasure. Moses and the
promised land. We gave him that idea, he added to J. J.
O’Molloy.

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