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Ulysses

BLOOM: Science. To compare the various joys we
each enjoy. (Earnestly) And really it’s better the position ...
because often I used to wet ...

BELLO: (Sternly) No insubordination! The sawdust is
there in the corner for you. I gave you strict instructions,
didn’t I? Do it standing, sir! I’ll teach you to behave like a
jinkleman! If I catch a trace on your swaddles. Aha! By the
ass of the Dorans you’ll find I’m a martinet. The sins of
your past are rising against you. Many. Hundreds.
THE SINS OF THE PAST: (In a medley of voices) He
went through a form of clandestine marriage with at least
one woman in the shadow of the Black church.
Unspeakable messages he telephoned mentally to Miss
Dunn at an address in D’Olier street while he presented
himself indecently to the instrument in the callbox. By
word and deed he frankly encouraged a nocturnal
strumpet to deposit fecal and other matter in an unsanitary
outhouse attached to empty premises. In five public
conveniences he wrote pencilled messages offering his
nuptial partner to all strongmembered males. And by the
offensively smelling vitriol works did he not pass night
after night by loving courting couples to see if and what
and how much he could see? Did he not lie in bed, the
gross boar, gloating over a nauseous fragment of wellused

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