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Ulysses

rape that Mrs Miriam Dandrade sold you from the
Shelbourne hotel, eh?
BLOOM: Miriam. Black. Demimondaine.
BELLO: (Guffaws) Christ Almighty it’s too tickling,

this! You were a nicelooking Miriam when you clipped
off your backgate hairs and lay swooning in the thing
across the bed as Mrs Dandrade about to be violated by
lieutenant Smythe-Smythe, Mr Philip Augustus Blockwell
M. P., signor Laci Daremo, the robust tenor, blueeyed
Bert, the liftboy, Henri Fleury of Gordon Bennett fame,
Sheridan, the quadroon Croesus, the varsity wetbob eight
from old Trinity, Ponto, her splendid Newfoundland and
Bobs, dowager duchess of Manorhamilton. (He guffaws
again) Christ, wouldn’t it make a Siamese cat laugh?
BLOOM: (Her hands and features working) It was Gerald
converted me to be a true corsetlover when I was female
impersonator in the High School play Vice Versa. It was
dear Gerald. He got that kink, fascinated by sister’s stays.
Now dearest Gerald uses pinky greasepaint and gilds his
eyelids. Cult of the beautiful.
BELLO: (With wicked glee) Beautiful! Give us a
breather! When you took your seat with womanish care,
lifting your billowy flounces, on the smoothworn throne.

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