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Ulysses

crowns. Joybells ring in Christ church, Saint Patrick’s, George’s
and gay Malahide. Mirus bazaar fireworks go up from all sides
with symbolical phallopyrotechnic designs. The peers do homage,

one by one, approaching and genuflecting.)
THE PEERS: I do become your liege man of life and
limb to earthly worship.
(Bloom holds up his right hand on which sparkles the Koh-i-
Noor diamond. His palfrey neighs. Immediate silence. Wireless
intercontinental and interplanetary transmitters are set for
reception of message.)
BLOOM: My subjects! We hereby nominate our
faithful charger Copula Felix hereditary Grand Vizier and
announce that we have this day repudiated our former
spouse and have bestowed our royal hand upon the
princess Selene, the splendour of night.
(The former morganatic spouse of Bloom is hastily removed in
the Black Maria. The princess Selene, in moonblue robes, a silver
crescent on her head, descends from a Sedan chair, borne by two
giants. An outburst of cheering.)
JOHN HOWARD PARNELL: (Raises the royal
standard) Illustrious Bloom! Successor to my famous
brother!

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