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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 the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead： of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies； themselves universes of void space constellated with other bodies； each； in continuity； its universe of divisible ponent bodies of which each was again divisible in divisions of redivisible ponent bodies； dividends and divisors ever diminishing without actual division till； if the progress were carried far enough； nought nowhere was never reached。
Why did he not elaborate these calculations to a more precise result？
Because some years previously in 1886 when occupied with the problem of the quadrature of the circle he had learned of the existence of a number puted to a relative degree of accuracy to be of such magnitude and of so many places； e。g。； the 9th power of the 9th power of 9； that； the result having been obtained； 33 closely printed volumes of 1000 pages each of i