as object lessons to explain: 1) the nature and habits of oviparous animals, the possibility of aerial flight, certain abnormalities of vision, the secular process of imbalsamation: 2) the principle of the pendulum, exemplified in bob, wheelgear and regulator, the translation in terms of human or social regulation of the various positions clockwise of movable indicators on an unmoving dial, the exactitude of the recurrence per hour of an instant in each hour, when the longer and the shorter indicator were at the same angle of inclination, videlicet, 5 5/11 minutes past each hour per hour in arithmetical progression.
in what manners did she reciprocate?
she remembered: on the 27th anniversary of his birth she presented to him a breakfast moustachecup of imitation crown derby porcelain ware. she provided: at quarter day or thereabouts if or when purchases had been made by him not for her she ed herself attentive to his necessities, anticipating his desires. she admired: a natural phenomenon having been explained by him not for her she expressed the immediate desire to possess without gradual acquisition a fraction of his science, the moiety, the quarter, a thousandth part.
what proposal did bloom, diambulist, father of milly, somnambulist, make to stephen, noctambulist?
to pass in repose the hours intervening between thursday (proper) and friday (normal) on an extemporised cubicle in the apartment immediately above the kitchen and immediately adjacent to the sleeping apartment of his host and hostess.
what various advantages would or might have resulted from a prolongation of such extemporisation?
for the guest: security of domicile and seclusion of study. for the host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction. for the hostess: disintegration of obsession, acquisition of correct italian pronunciation.