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Ulysses

our sisters dear. (He winks at his audience) Our Mr
President, he twig the whole lot and he aint saying
nothing.
KITTY-KATE: I forgot myself. In a weak moment I

erred and did what I did on Constitution hill. I was
confirmed by the bishop and enrolled in the brown
scapular. My mother’s sister married a Montmorency. It
was a working plumber was my ruination when I was
pure.
ZOE-FANNY: I let him larrup it into me for the fun
of it.
FLORRY-TERESA: It was in consequence of a
portwine beverage on top of Hennessy’s three star. I was
guilty with Whelan when he slipped into the bed.
STEPHEN: In the beginning was the word, in the end
the world without end. Blessed be the eight beatitudes.
(The beatitudes, Dixon, Madden, Crotthers, Costello,
Lenehan, Bannon, Mulligan and Lynch in white surgical
students’ gowns, four abreast, goosestepping, tramp fist past in
noisy marching)
THE BEATITUDES: (Incoherently) Beer beef battledog
buybull businum barnum buggerum bishop.

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