尤利西斯-第152章
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much fear he shall be most badly burned。 Will some pleashe pershon not now impediment so catastrophics mit agitation of firstclass tablenumpkin? (He mews。) Luss puss puss puss! (He sighs; draws back and stares sideways down with dropping underjaw。) Well; well。 He doth rest anon。
I'm a tiny tiny thing
Ever flying in the spring
Round and round a ringaring。
Long ago I was a king;
Now I do this kind of thing
On the wing; on the wing!
Bing!
(He rushes against the mauve shade flapping noisily。) Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty petticoats。
(From left upper entrance with two sliding steps Henry Flower es forward to left front centre。 He wears a dark mantle and drooping plumed sombrero。 He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer and a longstemmed bamboo Jacobs pipe; its clay bowl fashioned as a female head。 He wears dark velvet hose and silverbuckled pumps。 He has the romantic Saviour's face with flowing locks; thin beard and moustache。 His spindlelegs and sparrow feet are those of the tenor Mario; prince of Candia。 He settles down his goffered ruffs and moistens his lips with a passage of his amorous tongue。)
HENRY (In a low dulcet voice; touching the strings of his guitar。) There is a flower that bloometh。
(Virag truculent; his jowl set; stares at the lamp。 Grave Bloom regards Zoe's neck。 Henry gallant turns with pendent dewlap to the piano。)
STEPHEN (To himself。) Play with your eyes shut。 Imitate pa。 Filling my belly with husks of swine。 Too much of this。 I will arise and go to my。 Expect this is the。 Steve; thou art in a parlous way。 Must visit old Deasy or telegraph。 Our interview of this morning has left on me a deep impression。 Though our ages。 Will write fully tomorrow。 I'm partially drunk; by the way。 (He touches the keys again。) Minor chord es now。 Yes。 Not much however。
(Almidano Artifoni holds out a batonroll of music with vigorous moustachework。)
ARTIFONI Ci rifletta。 Lei rovina tutto。
FLORRY Sing us something。 Love's old sweet song。
STEPHEN No voice。 I am a most finished artist。 Lynch; did I show you the letter about the lute?
FLORRY (Smirking。) The bird that can sing and won't sing。
(The Siamese twins; Philip Drunk and Philip Sober two Oxford dons with lawnmowers; appear in the window embrasure。 Both are masked with Matthew Arnold's face。)
PHILIP SOBER Take a fool's advice。 All is not well。 Work it out with the buttend of a pencil; like a good young idiot。 Three pounds twelve you got; two notes; one sovereign; two crowns; if youth but knew。 Mooney's en ville; Mooney's sur mer; the Moira; Larchet's; Holles street hospital; Burke's。 Eh? I am watching you。
PHILIP DRUNK (Impatiently。) Ah; bosh; man。 Go to hell! I paid my way。 If I could only find out about octaves。 Reduplication of personality。 Who was it told me his name?
(His lawnmower begins to purr。) Aha; yes。 Zoe mou sas agapo。 Have a notion I was here before。 When was it not Atkinson his card I have somewhere? Mac somebody。 Unmack I have it。 He told me about; hold on; Swinburne; was it; no?
FLORRY And the song?
STEPHEN Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak。
FLORRY Are you out of Maynooth? You're like someone I knew once。
STEPHEN Out of it now。 (To himself。) Clever。
PHILIP DRUNK AND PHILIP SOBER (Their lawnmowers purring with a rigadoon of grasshalms。) Clever ever。 Out of it。 Out of it。 By the by have you the book; the thing; the ashplant? Yes; there it; yes。 Cleverever outofitnow。 Keep in condition。 Do like us。
ZOE There was a priest down here two nights ago to do his bit of business with his coat buttoned up。 You needn't try to hide; I says to him。 I know you've a Roman collar。
VIRAG Perfectly logical from his standpoint。 Fall of man。 (Harshly; his pupils waxing。) To hell with the pope! Nothing new under the sun。 I am the Virag who disclosed the sex secrets of monks and maidens。 Why I left the Church of Rome。 Read the Priest; the Woman and the Confessional。 Penrose。 Flipperty Jippert。 (He wriggles。) Woman; undoing with sweet pudor her belt of rushrope; offers her allmoist yoni to man's lingam。 Short time after man presents woman with pieces of jungle meat。 Woman shows joy and covers herself with featherskins。 Man loves her yoni fiercely with big lingam; the stiff one。 (He cries。) Coactus volui。 Then giddy woman will run about。 Strong man grasps woman's wrist。 Woman squeals; bites; spucks。 Man; now fierce angry; strikes woman's fat yadgana。 (He chases his tail。) Piffpaff! Popo! (He stops; sneezes。) Pchp! (He worries his butt。) Prrrrrht!
LYNCH I hope you gave the good father a penance。 Nine glorias for shooting a bishop。
ZOE (Spouts walrus smoke through her nostrils。) He couldn't get a connection。 Only; you know; sensation。 A dry rush。
BLOOM Poor man!
ZOE (Lightly。) Only for what happened him。
BLOOM How?
VIRAG (A diabolic rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage; cranes his scraggy neck forward。 He lifts a mooncalf nozzle and howls。) Verfluchte Goim! He had a father; forty fathers。 He never existed。 Pig God! He had two left feet。 He was Judas Iacchias; a Libyan eunuch; the pope's bastard。 (He leans out on tortured forepaws; elbows bent rigid; his eye agonising in his flat skullneck and yelps over the mute world。) A son of a whore。 Apocalypse。
KITTY And Mary Shortall that was in the lock with the pox she got from Jimmy Pidgeon in the blue caps had a child off him that couldn't swallow and was smothered with the convulsions in the mattress and we all subscribed for the funeral。
PHILIP DRUNK (Gravely。) Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position; Philippe?
PHILIP SOBER (Gaily。) C'était le sacré pigeon; Philippe。
(Kitty unpins her hat and sets it down calmly; patting her henna hair。 And a prettier; a daintier head of winsome curls was never seen on a whores shoulders。 Lynch puts on her hat。 She whips it off。)
LYNCH (Laughs。) And to such delights has Metchnikoff inoculated anthropoid apes。
FLORRY (Nods。) Lootor ataxy。
ZOE (Gaily。) O; my dictionary。
LYNCH Three wise virgins。
VIRAG (Agueshaken; profuse yellow spawn foaming over his bony epileptic lips。) She sold lovephiltres; whitewax; orange flower。 Panther; the Roman centurion; polluted her with his genitories。 (He sticks out a flickering phosphorescent scorpion tongue; his hand on his fork。) Messiah! He burst her tympanum。 (With gibbering baboon's cries he jerks his hips in the cynical spasm。) Hik! Hek! Hak! Hok! Huk! Kok! Kuk!
(Ben Jumbo Dollard; rubicund; musclebound; hairynostrilled; hugebearded; cabbageeared; shaggychested; shockmaned; fatpapped; stands forth; his loins and genitals tightened into a pair of black bathing bagslops。)
BEN POLLARD (Nakkering castanet bones in his huge padded paws; yodels jovially in base barreltone。) When love absorbs my ardent soul。
(The virgins; Nurse Callan and Nurse Quigley; burst through the ringkeepers and the ropes and mob him with open arms。)
THE VIRGINS (Gushingly。) Big Ben! Ben MacChree!
A VOICE Hold that fellow with the bad breeches。
BEN DOLLARD (Smites his thigh in abundant laughter。) Hold him now。
HENRY (Caressing on his breast a severed female head; murmurs。) Thine heart; mine love。 (He plucks his lutestrings。) When first I saw。
VIRAG (Sloughing his skins; his multitudinous plumage moulting。) Rats! (He yawns; showing a coalblack throat and closes his jaws by an upward push of his parchment roll。) After having said which I took my departure。 Farewell。 Fare thee well。 Dreck!
(Henry Flower bs his moustache and beard rapidly with a pocketb and gives a cows lick to his hair。 Steered by his rapier; he glides to the door his wild had slung behind him。 Virag reaches the door in two ungainly stilthops; his tail cocked; and deftly claps sideways on the wall a pusyellow flybill; butting it with his head。)
THE FLYBILL K。 11。 post no bills。 Strictly confidential。 Dr Hy Franks。
HENRY All is lost now。
(Virag unscrews his head in a trice and holds it under his arm。)
VIRAG'S HEAD Quack!
(Exeunt severally。)
STEPHEN (Over his shoulder to Zoe。) You would have preferred the fighting parson who founded the protestant error。 But beware Antisthenes; the dog sage; and the last end of Anus Heresiarchus。 The agony in the closet。
LYNCH All one and the same God to her。
STEPHEN