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Ulysses

STEPHEN: (Devoutly) And sovereign Lord of all
things.
FLORRY: (To Stephen) I’m sure you’re a spoiled

priest. Or a monk.
LYNCH: He is. A cardinal’s son.
STEPHEN: Cardinal sin. Monks of the screw.
(His Eminence Simon Stephen Cardinal Dedalus, Primate of
all Ireland, appears in the doorway, dressed in red soutane,
sandals and socks. Seven dwarf simian acolytes, also in red,
cardinal sins, uphold his train, peeping under it. He wears a
battered silk hat sideways on his head. His thumbs are stuck in
his armpits and his palms outspread. Round his neck hangs a
rosary of corks ending on his breast in a corkscrew cross. Releasing
his thumbs, he invokes grace from on high with large wave
gestures and proclaims with bloated pomp:)
THE CARDINAL:

Conservio lies captured
He lies in the lowest dungeon
With manacles and chains around his limbs
Weighing upwards of three tons.

(He looks at all for a moment, his right eye closed tight, his
left cheek puffed out. Then, unable to repress his merriment, he

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