登陆注册
5572400000272

第272章

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 showed 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.

Why might these several provisional contingencies between a guest and a hostess not necessarily preclude or be precluded by a permanent eventuality of reconciliatory union between a schoolfellow and a jew's daughter?

Because the way to daughter led through mother, the way to mother through daughter.

To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of his host did the guest return a monosyllabic negative answer?

If he had known the late Mrs Emily Sinico, accidentally killed at Sydney Parade railway station, 14 October 1903.

What inchoate corollary statement was consequently suppressed by the host?

A statement explanatory of his absence on the occasion of the interment of Mrs Mary Dedalus, born Goulding, 26 June 1903, vigil of the anniversary of the decease of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag).

Was the proposal of asylum accepted?

Promptly, inexplicably, with amicability, gratefully it was declined.

What exchange of money took place between host and guest?

The former returned to the latter, without interest, a sum of money (?.7s.0.), one pound seven shillings, advanced by the latter to the former.

What counterproposals were alternately advanced, accepted, modified, declined, restated in other terms, reaccepted, ratified, reconfirmed?

To inaugurate a prearranged course of Italian instruction, place the residence of the instructed. To inaugurate a course of vocal instruction, place the residence of the instructress. To inaugurate a series of static, semistatic and peripatetic intellectual dialogues, places the residence of both speakers (if both speakers were resident in the same place), the Ship hotel and tavern, 6 Lower Abbey street (W. and E. Connery, proprietors), the National Library of Ireland, 10 Kildare street, the National Maternity Hospital, 29, 30 and 31 Holles street, a public garden, the vicinity of a place of worship, a conjunction of two or more public thoroughfares, the point of bisection of a right line drawn between their residences (if both speakers were resident in different places).

What rendered problematic for Bloom the realisation of these mutually selfexcluding propositions?

The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert Hengler's circus in the Rotunda, Rutland square, Dublin, an intuitive particoloured clown in quest of paternity had penetrated from the ring to a place in the auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was seated and had publicly declared to an exhilarated audience that he (Bloom) was his (the clown's) papa. The imprevidibility of the future: once in the summer of 1898 he (Bloom) had marked a florin (2s.) with three notches on the milled edge and tendered it in payment of an account due to and received by J. and T. Davy, family grocers, 1 Charlemont Mall, Grand Canal, for circulation on the waters of civic finance, for possible, circuitous or direct, return.

Was the clown Bloom's son?

No.

Had Bloom's coin returned?

Never.

Why would a recurrent frustration the more depress him?

Because at the critical turningpoint of human existence he desired to amend many social conditions, the product of inequality and avarice and international animosity.

He believed then that human life was infinitely perfectible, eliminating these conditions?

同类推荐
  • 翻开就能用 出国旅游英语

    翻开就能用 出国旅游英语

    本书收录了10个与本单元密切相关的单词。汇集了20个与对话相关的短语,包含上一部分的单词。经典、贴切、鲜活的两段对话。网罗了10到20个使用频率最高的句子,分门别类,增加读者的句式储备量。在英语学习的同时,增加一些与话题相关的小知识。活跃学习气氛。
  • 大学英语四级词汇词根词缀高效记忆:轻松背单词

    大学英语四级词汇词根词缀高效记忆:轻松背单词

    书中所收录的单词都是从历届大学英语4级考试题中提炼出来的。编者利用先进的电脑统计分析技术,对历年考试题中出现的单词进行系统的电脑分频,将历年考题中出现频率较高的单词甄选出来,标注为常考单词。考题中出现频率较低的,但是考试范围内的单词,标注为普通单词。极大地方便了考生有的放矢地去背单词。
  • 罗马帝国衰亡史

    罗马帝国衰亡史

    罗马帝国衰亡史(套装1—6册)》以堂皇宏阔的篇幅,叙述了罗马帝国从公元2世纪安东尼时代的赫赫盛极,到1453年君士坦丁堡陷落时黯然谢幕的1300多年的历史风貌。作者在近400万的洋洋文字中,既发怀古之幽思,悲怆叹惋千年帝国的无奈衰颓乃至烟灭;又阐思辨之深彻,诠释剖析盛衰兴替的永恒历史命题。
  • No Water Cleaner than Tears 没有比泪水更干净的水

    No Water Cleaner than Tears 没有比泪水更干净的水

    “在云南红土高原的西北,有绵延千里的小凉山,奔腾喧嚣的金沙江,直剌青天的玉龙雪山,还有美丽动人的泸沽湖。我就出生在那片神奇美丽的土地上。”诗人来自普米族,一个只有三万多人的民族,他的家在云南小凉山脉的斯布炯山下、泸沽湖边的一个叫果流的村庄里,他的父亲是茶马古道上的赶马人,他的母亲是果流村里的“女王”,“她会唱的民歌如星星一样多”。他说,他是那片土地上千万个孩子中最普通的一个。他还说,作为行吟在那片土地上的歌者,他是幸运的宠儿。他幸运,是因为他深深爱着的那片神奇美丽的土地给了他生命,也给了他诗篇。
  • 终极英语日常用语1980句

    终极英语日常用语1980句

    本书内容包括:用餐宴请;居家交流;职场办公;校园求学;旅游出行;逛街购物等基本交际口语。
热门推荐
  • 我被系统包养了

    我被系统包养了

    天降系统,包养主人,横行诸天万界与现实时空,开启神级屌丝人生。跟风建个群,二次元女装大佬交流群:433209489
  • 你离梦想有多远

    你离梦想有多远

    威廉·莎士比亚说:“世界只是一个舞台,所有的男男女女只不过是一些演员。”我喜欢这句诗,我们每个人都是一个演员。问题的关键是:我们是在扮演一个自己内心中所渴望的角色?还是在扮演一个虚伪的迎合他人的角色?毫无疑问,大多数人都在扮演后者。不仅如此,他们还会劝告那些少数人放弃扮演真实的自己。那么,何为真实的自己?
  • 末世之生死离别

    末世之生死离别

    当末世来临,秩序崩塌,人类该如何选择前进的道路。
  • 魔弓少年

    魔弓少年

    弓,是魔弓,人,是纯情少年,当魔弓和少年相遇,会擦出怎样的火花?一把弓,如何纵横五行大陆?一把弓,如何远攻近战皆可?曹苏告诉你,他可以做到!“只要一弓在手,天下我有!”一场阴谋,一个差错,请看少年如何由村长华丽逆袭,玩转世间!
  • 途次大梁雪中奉天平

    途次大梁雪中奉天平

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 穿越之撩人盛宠

    穿越之撩人盛宠

    睁眼醒来发现自己竟然穿越到了神秘的蛮荒,长得丑能被宠上天。尽管女主身怀异能,女汉子指数爆表,也抵挡不住丈夫帅气十足、温柔体贴。走开走开,再吵休了你!
  • 我穿成了黑化宿主的系统

    我穿成了黑化宿主的系统

    柠萌死后,不仅变成了系统,而且还契约了一个控制欲十分强,时不时就会黑化的蛇精病宿主!人家主角穿越都是附赠金手指,结果没有想到她自己居然穿成了金手指!柠萌怒:“凭什么其他系统的宿主,都是性格好脾气温柔的国民男神,她家宿主却是个一言不合,就对着自家系统各种花样玩不停的高冷大流氓!?举手抗议,我要换宿主!”某位姗姗来迟的宿主大人勾唇邪魅一笑:“小柠萌,你刚刚在说什么?过来,当着我的面儿再说一次。”【本书位面世界已经完结,本书Q群663872102】
  • 培养孩子财商的99个故事:埋下财富自由的小种子

    培养孩子财商的99个故事:埋下财富自由的小种子

    财商是亲子三维教育中的重要一维。本书用99个生动的小故事培养孩子对金钱的正确观念和管理能力,在教育孩子的过程中把财商教育渗透其中。本书为家长和教师在培养孩子的财商能力过程中提出了很好的建议和实施对策,以便家长在孩子的培养过程中更有针对性。
  • 思考的力量

    思考的力量

    人和人本质的区别是思考的区别。面对同样的事物,不同的人的思考大相径庭,从而导致他们的行动和结果也千差万别。乔布斯预料到了个人电脑的繁盛前景,从而创立了苹果公司;马云判断电子商务将成为不可阻挡的趋势,从而创立了阿里巴巴;马斯克预见了电动汽车的趋势,从而投资了特斯拉公司……
  • 中国古代戏曲艺术

    中国古代戏曲艺术

    “中国文化知识读本”丛书是由吉林文史出版社和吉林出版集团有限责任公司组织国内知名专家学者编写的一套旨在传播中华五千年优秀传统文化,提高全民文化修养的大型知识读本。 刘旭编著的《中国古代戏曲艺术》为丛书之一,生动介绍了先秦、秦汉时代的戏曲,宋金杂剧、宋元南戏、恢弘元曲、明代戏曲、清代戏曲等曲艺艺术。 《中国古代戏曲艺术》中优美生动的文字、简明通俗的语言、图文并茂 的形式,把中国文化中的物态文化、制度文化、行为文化、精神文化等知识要点全面展示给读者。