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Ulysses
by
Ballocky Mulligan
He turned a happy patch’s smirk to Stephen, saying:
—The disguise, I fear, is thin. But listen.
He read, marcato:
—Characters:
TODY TOSTOFF (a ruined Pole)
CRAB (a bushranger)
MEDICAL DICK )
and ) (two birds with one stone)
MEDICAL DAVY )
MOTHER GROGAN (a watercarrier)
FRESH NELLY
and
ROSALIE (the coalquay whore).
He laughed, lolling a to and fro head, walking on,
followed by Stephen: and mirthfully he told the shadows,
souls of men:
—O, the night in the Camden hall when the daughters
of Erin had to lift their skirts to step over you as you lay in
your mulberrycoloured, multicoloured, multitudinous
vomit!
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