尤利西斯-第188章

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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？
There　remained　the　generic　conditions　imposed　by　natural；　as　distinct　from　human　law；　as　integral　parts　of　the　human　whole：　the　necessity　of　destruction　to　procure　alimentary　sustenance：　the　painful　character　of　the　ultimate　functions　of　separate　existence；　the　agonies　of　birth　and　death：　the　monotonous　menstruation　of　simian　and　（particularly）　human　females　extending　from　the　age　of　puberty　to　the　menopause：　inevitable　accidents　at　sea；　in　mines　and　factories：　certain　very　painful　maladies　and　their　resultant　surgical　operations；　innate　lunacy　and　congenital　criminality；　decimating　epidemics：　catastrophic　cataclysms　which　make　terror　the　basis　of　human　mentality：　seismic　upheavals　the　epicentres　of　which　are　located　in　densely　populated　regions：　the　fact　of　vital　growth；　through　convulsions　of　metamorphosis　from　infancy　through　maturity　to　decay。
Why　did　he　desist　from　speculation？
Because　it　was　a　task　for　a　superior　intelligence　to　substitute　other　more　acceptable　phenomena　in　place　of　the　less　acceptable　phenomena　to　be　removed。
Did　Stephen　participate　in　his　dejection？
He　affirmed　his　significance　as　a　conscious　rational　animal　proceeding　syllogistically　from　the　known　to　the　unknown　and　a　conscious　rational　reagent　between　a　micro…　and　a　macrocosm　ineluctably　constructed　upon　the　incertitude　of　the　void。
Was　this　affirmation　apprehended　by　Bloom？
Not　verbally。　Substantially。
What　forted　his　misapprehension？　
That　as　a　petent　keyless　citizen　he　had　proceeded　energetically　from　the　unknown　to　the　known　through　the　incertitude　of　the　void。
I　n　what　order　of　precedence；　with　what　attendant　ceremony　was　the　exodus　from　the　house　of　bondage　to　the　wilderness　of　inhabitation　effected？
Lighted　Candle　in　Stick　borne　by
BLOOM。
Diaconal　Hat　on　Ashplant　borne　by
STEPHEN。
With　what　intonation　secreto　of　what　memorative　psalm？　
The　113th；　modus　peregrinus：　In　exitu　Isra？l　de　Egypto：　domus　Jacob　de　populo　barbaro。　
What　did　each　do　at　the　door　of　egress？　
Bloom　set　the　candlestick　on　the　floor。　Stephen　put　the　hat　on　his　head。　
For　what　creature　was　the　door　of　egress　a　door　of　ingress？　
For　a　cat。　
What　spectacle　confronted　them　when　they；　first　the　host；　then　the　guest；　emerged　silently；　doubly　dark；　from　obscurity　by　a　passage　from　the　rere　of　the　house　into　the　penumbra　of　the　garden？　
The　heaventree　of　stars　hung　with　humid　nightblue　fruit。　
With　what　meditations　did　Bloom　acpany　his　demonstration　to　his　panion　of　various　constellations？　
Meditations　of　evolution　increasingly　vaster：　of　the　moon　invisible　in　incipent　lunation；　approaching　perigee：　of　the　infinite　lattiginous　scintillating　uncondensed　milky　way；　discernible　by　daylight　by　an　observer　placed　at　the　lower　end　of　a　cylindrical　vertical　shaft　5000　ft　deep　sunk　from　the　surface　towards　the　centre　of　the　earth：　of　Sirius　（alpha　in　Canis　Major）　10　lightyears　（57；000；000；000；000　miles）　distant　and　in　volume　900　times　the　dimension　of　our　planet：　of　Arcturus：　of　the　precession　of　equinoxes：　of　Orion　with　belt　and　sextuple　sun　theta　and　nebula　in　which　100　of　our　solar　systems　could　be　contained：　of　moribund　and　of　nascent　new　stars　such　as　Nova　in　1901：　of　our　system　plunging　towards　the　constellation　of　Hercules：　of　the　parallax　or　parallactic　drift　of　socalled　fixed　stars；　in　reality　evermoving　from　immeasurably　remote　eons　to　infinitely　remote　futures　in　parison　with　which　the　years；　threescore　and　ten；　of　allotted　human　life　formed　a　parenthesis　of　infinitesimal　brevity。　
Were　there　obverse　meditations　of　involution　increasingly　less　vast？　
Of　the　eons　of　geological　periods　recorded　in　the　stratifications　of　the　earth：　of　the　myriad　minute　entomological　organic　existences　concealed　in　cavities　of　the　earth；　beneath　removable　stones；　in　hives　and　mounds；　of　microbes；　germs；　bacteria；　bacilli；　spermatozoa：　of