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stake faggots and the caldron of boiling oil are for him.
Caliban!
THE MOB: Lynch him! Roast him! He’s as bad as
Parnell was. Mr Fox!

(Mother Grogan throws her boot at Bloom. Several
shopkeepers from upper and lower Dorset street throw objects of
little or no commercial value, hambones, condensed milk tins,
unsaleable cabbage, stale bread, sheep’s tails, odd pieces of fat.)
BLOOM: (Excitedly) This is midsummer madness, some
ghastly joke again. By heaven, I am guiltless as the
unsunned snow! It was my brother Henry. He is my
double. He lives in number 2 Dolphin’s Barn. Slander, the
viper, has wrongfully accused me. Fellowcountrymen,
sgenl inn ban bata coisde gan capall. I call on my old friend,
Dr Malachi Mulligan, sex specialist, to give medical
testimony on my behalf.
DR MULLIGAN: (In motor jerkin, green motorgoggles on
his brow) Dr Bloom is bisexually abnormal. He has recently
escaped from Dr Eustace’s private asylum for demented
gentlemen. Born out of bedlock hereditary epilepsy is
present, the consequence of unbridled lust. Traces of
elephantiasis have been discovered among his ascendants.
There are marked symptoms of chronic exhibitionism.
Ambidexterity is also latent. He is prematurely bald from

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