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(Corny Kelleher returns to the outside car and mounts it. The
horse harness jingles.)
CORNY KELLEHER: (From the car, standing) Night.
BLOOM: Night.
(The jarvey chucks the reins and raises his whip
encouragingly. The car and horse back slowly, awkwardly, and
turn. Corny Kelleher on the sideseat sways his head to and fro in
sign of mirth at Bloom’s plight. The jarvey joins in the mute
pantomimic merriment nodding from the farther seat. Bloom
shakes his head in mute mirthful reply. With thumb and palm
Corny Kelleher reassures that the two bobbies will allow the sleep
to continue for what else is to be done. With a slow nod Bloom
conveys his gratitude as that is exactly what Stephen needs. The
car jingles tooraloom round the corner of the tooraloom lane.
Corny Kelleher again reassuralooms with his hand. Bloom with
his hand assuralooms Corny Kelleher that he is reassuraloomtay.
The tinkling hoofs and jingling harness grow fainter with their
tooralooloo looloo lay. Bloom, holding in his hand Stephen’s hat,
festooned with shavings, and ashplant, stands irresolute. Then he
bends to him and shakes him by the shoulder.)
BLOOM: Eh! Ho! (There is no answer; he bends again)
Mr Dedalus! (There is no answer) The name if you call.
Somnambulist. (He bends again and hesitating, brings his
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mouth near the face of the prostrate form) Stephen! (There is no
answer. He calls again.) Stephen!
STEPHEN: (Groans) Who? Black panther. Vampire.
(He sighs and stretches himself, then murmurs thickly with
prolonged vowels)
Who ... drive... Fergus now
And pierce ... wood’s woven shade? ...
(He turns on his left side, sighing, doubling himself together.)
BLOOM: Poetry. Well educated. Pity. (He bends again
and undoes the buttons of Stephen’s waistcoat) To breathe. (He
brushes the woodshavings from Stephen’s clothes with light hand
and fingers) One pound seven. Not hurt anyhow. (He
listens) What?
STEPHEN: (Murmurs)
... shadows ... the woods
... white breast... dim sea.
(He stretches out his arms, sighs again and curls his body.
Bloom, holding the hat and ashplant, stands erect. A dog barks
in the distance. Bloom tightens and loosens his grip on the
ashplant. He looks down on Stephen’s face and form.)
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BLOOM: (Communes with the night) Face reminds me
of his poor mother. In the shady wood. The deep white
breast. Ferguson, I think I caught. A girl. Some girl. Best
thing could happen him. (He murmurs) ... swear that I will
always hail, ever conceal, never reveal, any part or parts,
art or arts ... (He murmurs) ... in the rough sands of the sea
... a cabletow’s length from the shore ... where the tide
ebbs ... and flows ...
(Silent, thoughtful, alert he stands on guard, his fingers at his
lips in the attitude of secret master. Against the dark wall a figure
appears slowly, a fairy boy of eleven, a changeling, kidnapped,
dressed in an eton suit with glass shoes and a little bronze helmet,
holding a book in his hand. He reads from right to left inaudibly,
smiling, kissing the page.)
BLOOM: (Wonderstruck, calls inaudibly) Rudy!
RUDY: (Gazes, unseeing, into Bloom’s eyes and goes on
reading, kissing, smiling. He has a delicate mauve face. On his
suit he has diamond and ruby buttons. In his free left hand he
holds a slim ivory cane with a violet bowknot. A white lambkin
peeps out of his waistcoat pocket.)
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III
Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the
greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat
and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox
Samaritan fashion which he very badly needed. His
(Stephen’s) mind was not exactly what you would call
wandering but a bit unsteady and on his expressed desire
for some beverage to drink Mr Bloom in view of the hour
it was and there being no pump of Vartry water available
for their ablutions let alone drinking purposes hit upon an
expedient by suggesting, off the reel, the propriety of the
cabman’s shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow
away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some
drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral.
But how to get there was the rub. For the nonce he was
rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly
devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject
he pondered suitable ways and means during which
Stephen repeatedly yawned. So far as he could see he was
rather pale in the face so that it occurred to him as highly
advisable to get a conveyance of some description which
would answer in their then condition, both of them being
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e.d.ed, particularly Stephen, always assuming that there
was such a thing to be found. Accordingly after a few such
preliminaries as brushing, in spite of his having forgotten
to take up his rather soapsuddy handkerchief after it had
done yeoman service in the shaving line, they both walked
together along Beaver street or, more properly, lane as far
as the farrier’s and the distinctly fetid atmosphere of the
livery stables at the corner of Montgomery street where
they made tracks to the left from thence debouching into
Amiens street round by the corner of Dan Bergin’s. But as
he confidently anticipated there was not a sign of a Jehu
plying for hire anywhere to be seen except a fourwheeler,
probably engaged by some fellows inside on the spree,
outside the North Star hotel and there was no symptom of
its budging a quarter of an inch when Mr Bloom, who
was anything but a professional whistler, endeavoured to
hail it by emitting a kind of a whistle, holding his arms
arched over his head, twice.
This was a quandary but, bringing common sense to
bear on it, evidently there was nothing for it but.put a
good face on the matter and foot it which they
accordingly did. So, bevelling around by Mullett’s and the
Signal House which they shortly reached, they proceeded
perforce in the direction of Amiens street railway
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terminus, Mr Bloom being handicapped by the
circumstance that one of the back buttons of his trousers
had, to vary the timehonoured adage, gone the way of all
buttons though, entering thoroughly into the spirit of the
thing, he heroically made light of the mischance. So as
neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it
happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared
up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they
dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was
waiting without a fare or a jarvey. As it so happened a
Dublin United Tramways Company’s sandstrewer
happened to be returning and the elder man recounted to
his companion à propos of the incident his own truly
miraculous escape of some little while back. They passed
the main entrance of the Great Northern railway station,
the starting point for Belfast, where of course all traffic was
suspended at that late hour and passing the backdoor of
the morgue (a not very enticing locality, not to say
gruesome to a degree, more especially at night) ultimately
gained the Dock Tavern and in due course turned into
Store street, famous for its C division police station.
Between this point and the high at present unlit
warehouses of Beresford place Stephen thought to think of
Ibsen, associated with Baird’s the stonecutter’s in his mind
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somehow in Talbot place, first turning on the right, while
the other who was acting as his fidus Achates inhaled with
internal satisfaction the smell of James Rourke’s city
bakery, situated quite close to where they were, the very
palatable odour indeed of our daily bread, of all
commodities of the public the primary and most
indispensable. Bread, the staff of life, earn your bread, O
tell me where is fancy bread, at Rourke’s the baker’s it is
said.
En route to his taciturn and, not to put too fine a point
on it, not yet perfectly sober companion Mr Bloom who
at all events was in complete possession of his faculties,
never more so, in fact disgustingly sober, spoke a word of
caution re the dangers of nighttown, women of ill fame
and swell mobsmen, which, barely permissible once in a
while though not as a habitual practice, was of the nature
of a regular deathtrap for young fellows of his age
particularly if they had acquired drinking habits under the
influence of liquor unless you knew a little jiujitsu for
every contingency as even a fellow on the broad of his
back could administer a nasty kick if you didn’t look out.
Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of
Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious
but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh
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hour the finis might have been that he might have been a
candidate for the accident ward or, failing that, the
bridewell and an appearance in the court next day before
Mr Tobias or, he being the solicitor rather, old Wall, he
meant to say, or Mahony which simply spelt ruin for a
chap when it got bruited about. The reason he mentioned
the fact was that a lot of those policemen, whom he
cordially disliked, were admittedly unscrupulous in the
service of the Crown and, as Mr Bloom put it, recalling a
case or two in the A division in Clanbrassil street, prepared
to swear a hole through a ten gallon pot. Never on the
spot when wanted but in quiet parts of the city, Pembroke
road for example, the
guardians of the law were well in evidence, the obvious
reason being they were paid to protect the upper classes.
Another thing he commented on was equipping soldiers
with firearms or sidearms of any description liable to go off
at any time which was tantamount to inciting them against
civilians should by any chance they fall out over anything.
You frittered away your time, he very sensibly maintained,
and health and also character besides which, the
squandermania of the thing, fast women of the demimonde
ran away with a lot of l s. d. into the bargain and the
greatest danger of all was who you got drunk with though,
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touching the much vexed question of stimulants, he
relished a glass of choice old wine in season as both
nourishing and bloodmaking and possessing aperient
virtues (notably a good burgundy which he was a staunch
believer in) still never beyond a certain point where he
invariably drew the line as it simply led to trouble all
round to say nothing of your being at the tender mercy of
others practically. Most of all he commented adversely on
the desertion of Stephen by all his pubhunting confreres but
one, a most glaring piece of ratting on the part of his
brother medicos under all the circs.
—And that one was Judas, Stephen said, who up to
then had said nothing whatsoever of any kind.
Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline
across the back of the Customhouse and passed under the
Loop Line bridge where a brazier of coke burning in front
of a sentrybox or something like one attracted their rather
lagging footsteps. Stephen of his own accord stopped for
no special reason to look at the heap of barren
cobblestones and by the light emanating from the brazier
he could just make out the darker figure of the
corporation watchman inside the gloom of the sentrybox.
He began to remember that this had happened or had
been mentioned as having happened before but it cost him
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no small effort before he remembered that he recognised
in the sentry a quondam friend of his father’s, Gumley. To
avoid a meeting he drew nearer to the pillars of the
railway bridge.
—Someone saluted you, Mr Bloom said.
A figure of middle height on the prowl evidently under
the arches saluted again, calling:
—Night!
Stephen of course started rather dizzily and stopped to
return the compliment. Mr Bloom actuated by motives of
inherent delicacy inasmuch as he always believed in
minding his own business moved off but nevertheless
remained on the qui vive with just a shade of anxiety
though not funkyish in the least. Though unusual in the
Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means
unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live
on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising
peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in
some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished
loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might
be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to
decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell
swoop at a moment’s notice, your money or your life,
leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.
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Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close
quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself
recognised Corley’s breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.
Lord John Corley some called him and his genealogy came
about in this wise. He was the eldest son of inspector
Corley of the G division, lately deceased, who had
married a certain Katherine Brophy, the daughter of a
Louth farmer. His grandfather Patrick Michael Corley of
New Ross had married the widow of a publican there
whose maiden name had been Katherine (also) Talbot.
Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended
from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide in whose
mansion, really an unquestionably fine residence of its
kind and well worth seeing, her mother or aunt or some
relative, a woman, as the tale went, of extreme beauty,
had enjoyed the distinction of being in service in the
washkitchen. This therefore was the reason why the still
comparatively young though dissolute man who now
addressed Stephen was spoken of by some with facetious
proclivities as Lord John Corley.
Taking Stephen on one side he had the customary
doleful ditty to tell. Not as much as a farthing to purchase
a night’s lodgings. His friends had all deserted him.
Furthermore he had a row with Lenehan and called him
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to Stephen a mean bloody swab with a sprinkling of a
number of other uncalledfor expressions. He was out of a
job and implored of Stephen to tell him where on God’s
earth he could get something, anything at all, to do. No, it
was the daughter of the mother in the washkitchen that
was fostersister to the heir of the house or else they were
connected through the mother in some way, both
occurrences happening at the same time if the whole thing
wasn’t a complete fabrication from start to finish. Anyhow
he was all in.
—I wouldn’t ask you only, pursued he, on my solemn
oath and God knows I’m on the rocks.
—There’ll be a job tomorrow or next day, Stephen
told him, in a boys’ school at Dalkey for a gentleman
usher. Mr Garrett Deasy. Try it. You may mention my
name.
—Ah, God, Corley replied, sure I couldn’t teach in a
school, man. I was never one of your bright ones, he
added with a half laugh. I got stuck twice in the junior at
the christian brothers.
—I have no place to sleep myself, Stephen informed
him.
Corley at the first go-off was inclined to suspect it was
something to do with Stephen being fired out of his digs
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for bringing in a bloody tart off the street. There was a
dosshouse in Marlborough street, Mrs Maloney’s, but it
was only a tanner touch and full of undesirables but
M’Conachie told him you got a decent enough do in the
Brazen Head over in Winetavern street (which was
distantly suggestive to the person addressed of friar Bacon)
for a bob. He was starving too though he hadn’t said a
word about it.
Though this sort of thing went on every other night or
very near it still Stephen’s feelings got the better of him in
a sense though he knew that Corley’s brandnew rigmarole
on a par with the others was hardly deserving of much
credence. However haud ignarus malorum miseris succurrere
disco etcetera as the Latin poet remarks especially as luck
would have it he got paid his screw after every middle of
the month on the sixteenth which was the date of the
month as a matter of fact though a good bit of the
wherewithal was demolished. But the cream of the joke
was nothing would get it out of Corley’s head that he was
living in affluence and hadn’t a thing to do but hand out
the needful. Whereas. He put his hand in a pocket
anyhow not with the idea of finding any food there but
thinking he might lend him anything up to a bob or so in
lieu so that he might endeavour at all events and get
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sufficient to eat but the result was in the negative for, to
his chagrin, he found his cash missing. A few broken
biscuits were all the result of his investigation. He tried his
hardest to recollect for the moment whether he had lost as
well he might have or left because in that contingency it
was not a pleasant lookout, very much the reverse in fact.
He was altogether too fagged out to institute a thorough
search though he tried to recollect. About biscuits he
dimly remembered. Who now exactly gave them he
wondered or where was or did he buy. However in
another pocket he came across what he surmised in the
dark were pennies, erroneously however, as it turned out.
—Those are halfcrowns, man, Corley corrected him.
And so in point of fact they turned out to be. Stephen
anyhow lent him one of them.
—Thanks, Corley answered, you’re a gentleman. I’ll
pay you back one time. Who’s that with you? I saw him a
few times in the Bleeding Horse in Camden street with
Boylan, the billsticker. You might put in a good word for
us to get me taken on there. I’d carry a sandwichboard
only the girl in the office told me they’re full up for the
next three weeks, man. God, you’ve to book ahead, man,
you’d think it was for the Carl Rosa. I don’t give a shite
anyway so long as I get a job, even as a crossing sweeper.
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