the cap (with saturnine spleen.) bah! it is because it is. woman's reason. jewgreek is greekjew. extremes meet. death is the highest form of life. bah!
stephen you remember fairly accurately all my errors, boasts, mistakes. how long shall i continue to close my eyes to disloyalty? whetstone!
the cap bah!
stephen here's another for you. (he frowns.) the reason is because the fundamental and the dominant are separated by the greatest possible interval which .
the cap which? finish. you can't.
stephen (with on effort.) interval which. is the greatest possible ellipse. consistent with. the ultimate return. the octave. which.
the cap which? (outside the gramophone begins to blare the holy city.)stephen (abruptly.) what went forth to the ends of the world to traverse not itself. god, the sun, shakespeare, a commercial traveller, having itself traversed in reality itself, becomes that self. wait a moment. wait a second. damn that fellow's noise in the street. self which it itself was ineluctably preconditioned to become. ecco!
lynch (with a mocking whinny of laughter grins at bloom and zoe higgins.) what a learned speech, eh?
zoe (briskly.) god help your head, he knows more than you have forgotten.
(with obese stupidity florry talbot regards stephen.)florry they say the last day is coming this summer.
kitty no!
zoe (explodes in laughter.) great unjust god!
florry (offended.) well, it was in the papers about anti christ. o, my foot's tickling.
(ragged barefoot newsboys, jogging a wagtail kite, patterpast, yelling.)the newsboys stop press edition. result of the rockinghorse races. sea serpent in the royal canal. safe arrival of antichrist.
(stephen turns and sees bloom.)
stephen a time, times and half a time.
(reuben j. antichrist, wanderingjew, a clutching hand open on his spine, stumps forward. across his loins is slung a pilgrims wallet from which protrude promissory notes and dishonoured bills. aloft over his shoulder he bears a long boatpole from the hook of which the sodden huddled mass of his only son, saved from liffey waters, hangs from the slack of its breeches. a hobgoblin in the image of punch costello, hipshot, crookbacked, hydrocephalic, prognathic with receding forehead and ally sloper nose, tumbles in somersaults through the gathering darkness.)all what?