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Ulysses

fascination: the name. All a bit touched. Mad Fanny and
his other sister Mrs Dickinson driving about with scarlet
harness. Bolt upright lik surgeon M’Ardle. Still David
Sheehy beat him for south Meath. Apply for the Chiltern

Hundreds and retire into public life. The patriot’s banquet.
Eating orangepeels in the park. Simon Dedalus said when
they put him in parliament that Parnell would come back
from the grave and lead him out of the house of commons
by the arm.
—Of the twoheaded octopus, one of whose heads is
the head upon which the ends of the world have forgotten
to come while the other speaks with a Scotch accent. The
tentacles ...
They passed from behind Mr Bloom along the
curbstone. Beard and bicycle. Young woman.
And there he is too. Now that’s really a coincidence:
second time. Coming events cast their shadows before.
With the approval of the eminent poet, Mr Geo. Russell.
That might be Lizzie Twigg with him. A. E.: what does
that mean? Initials perhaps. Albert Edward, Arthur
Edmund, Alphonsus Eb Ed El Esquire. What was he
saying? The ends of the world with a Scotch accent.
Tentacles: octopus. Something occult: symbolism.

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