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Ulysses

toilet paper presented to him by a nasty harlot, stimulated
by gingerbread and a postal order?
BELLO: (Whistles loudly) Say! What was the most
revolting piece of obscenity in all your career of crime?

Go the whole hog. Puke it out! Be candid for once.
(Mute inhuman faces throng forward, leering, vanishing,
gibbering, Booloohoom. Poldy Kock, Bootlaces a penny
Cassidy’s hag, blind stripling, Larry Rhinoceros, the girl, the
woman, the whore, the other, the ...)
BLOOM: Don’t ask me! Our mutual faith. Pleasants
street. I only thought the half of the ... I swear on my
sacred oath ...
BELLO: (Peremptorily) Answer. Repugnant wretch! I
insist on knowing. Tell me something to amuse me, smut
or a bloody good ghoststory or a line of poetry, quick,
quick, quick! Where? How? What time? With how many?
I give you just three seconds. One! Two! Thr ...
BLOOM: (Docile, gurgles) I rererepugnosed in
rerererepugnant
BELLO: (Imperiously) O, get out, you skunk! Hold
your tongue! Speak when you’re spoken to.
BLOOM: (Bows) Master! Mistress! Mantamer!
(He lifts his arms. His bangle bracelets fill.)

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