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Ulysses

the best approved tradition of medical science, be
calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a
violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the
genital apparatus, thereby causing the elastic pores of the

corpora cavernosa to rapidly dilate in such a way as to
instantaneously facilitate the flow of blood to that part of
the human anatomy known as the penis or male organ
resulting in the phenomenon which has been
denominated by the faculty a morbid upwards and
outwards philoprogenitive erection in articulo mortis per
diminutionem capitis.
So of course the citizen was only waiting for the wink
of the word and he starts gassing out of him about the
invincibles and the old guard and the men of sixtyseven
and who fears to speak of ninetyeight and Joe with him
about all the fellows that were hanged, drawn and
transported for the cause by drumhead courtmartial and a
new Ireland and new this, that and the other. Talking
about new Ireland he ought to go and get a new dog so he
ought. Mangy ravenous brute sniffing and sneezing all
round the place and scratching his scabs. And round he
goes to Bob Doran that was standing Alf a half one
sucking up for what he could get. So of course Bob Doran
starts doing the bloody fool with him:

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