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Ulysses

THE NAMELESS ONE: Bareback riding. Weight for
age. Gob, he organised her.
THE JURORS: (All their heads turned to his voice)
Really?

THE NAMELESS ONE: (Snarls) Arse over tip.
Hundred shillings to five.
THE JURORS: (All their heads lowered in assent) Most
of us thought as much.
FIRST WATCH: He is a marked man. Another girl’s
plait cut. Wanted: Jack the Ripper. A thousand pounds
reward.
SECOND WATCH: (Awed, whispers) And in black. A
mormon. Anarchist.
THE CRIER: (Loudly) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no
fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist,
bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of
Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most
honourable ...
(His Honour, sir Frederick Falkiner, recorder of Dublin, in
judicial garb of grey stone rises from the bench, stonebearded. He
bears in his arms an umbrella sceptre. From his forehead arise
starkly the Mosaic ramshorns.)
THE RECORDER: I will put an end to this white
slave traffic and rid Dublin of this odious pest. Scandalous!

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