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"MRS YELVERTON BARRY
(In lowcorsaged opal balldress and elbowlength ivory gloves, wearing a sabletrimmed brick quilted dolman, a comb of brilliants and panache of osprey in her hair.)" (U15.1013) |
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"Arrest him, constable. He wrote me an anonymous letter in prentice backhand when my husband was in the North Riding of Tipperary on the Munster circuit, signed James Lovebirch. He said that he had seen from the gods my peerless globes as I sat in a box of the Theatre Royal at a command performance of La Cigale. I deeply inflamed him, he said. He made improper overtures to me to misconduct myself at half past four p.m. on the following Thursday, Dunsink time." (U15.1016) |
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"MRS BELLINGHAM
(In cap and seal coney mantle, wrapped up to the nose, steps out of her brougham and scans through tortoiseshell quizzing-glasses which she takes from inside her huge opossum muff.) Also to me. Yes, I believe it is the same objectionable person. Because he closed my carriage door outside sir Thornley Stoker's one sleety day during the cold snap of February ninetythree when even the grid of the wastepipe and ballstop in my bath cistern were frozen." (U15.1025) |
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"MRS BELLINGHAM
He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs" (U15.1044) |
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"He urged me (stating that he felt it his mission in life to urge me) to defile the marriage bed, to commit adultery at the earliest possible opportunity." (U15.1054) |
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"and sent me in double envelopes an obscene photograph, such as are sold after dark on Paris boulevards, insulting to any lady." (U15.1065) |
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"I have it still. It represents a partially nude señorita, frail and lovely (his wife, as he solemnly assured me, taken by him from nature), practising illicit intercourse with a muscular torero, evidently a blackguard. He urged me to do likewise, to misbehave, to sin with officers of the garrison. He implored me to soil his letter in an unspeakable manner, to chastise him as he richly deserves, to bestride and ride him, to give him a most vicious horsewhipping." (U15.1066)
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"MRS BELLINGHAM
Me too. MRS YELVERTON BARRY Me too. (Several highly respectable Dublin ladies hold up improper letters received from Bloom.)" (U15.1074) |
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"BLOOM
All these people. I meant only the spanking idea. A warm tingling glow without effusion. Refined birching to stimulate the circulation." (U15.1094) |
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"THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS
(Unbuttoning her gauntlet violently.) I'll do no such thing. Pig dog and always was ever since he was pupped! To dare address me! I'll flog him black and blue in the public streets. I'll dig my spurs in him up to the rowel. He is a wellknown cuckold. (She swishes her huntingcrop savagely in the air.) Take down his trousers without loss of time. Come here, sir! Quick! Ready? BLOOM (Trembling, beginning to obey.) The weather has been so warm." (U15.1113) |
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"(Davy Stephens, ringletted, passes with a bevy of barefoot newsboys.)
DAVY STEPHENS Messenger of the Sacred Heart and Evening Telegraph with Saint Patrick's Day supplement. Containing the new addresses of all the cuckolds in Dublin." (U15.1122) |
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"and the featureless face of a Nameless One.)
THE NAMELESS ONE Bareback riding. Weight for age. Gob, he organised her. THE JURORS (All their heads turned to his voice.) Really? THE NAMELESS ONE (Snarls.) Arse over tip. Hundred shillings to five." (U15.1143) |
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"THE JURORS
(All their heads lowered in assent.) Most of us thought as much. FIRST WATCH He is a marked man. Another girl's plait cut. Wanted: Jack the Ripper. A thousand pounds reward." (U15.1150) |
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"Girl in the monkeyhouse. Zoo. Lewd chimpanzee." (U15.1188) |
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"JOHN O'CONNELL
(Foghorns stormily through his megaphone.) Dignam, Patrick T, deceased. PADDY DIGNAM (With pricked up ears, winces.) Overtones. (He wriggles forward and places an ear to the ground.) My masters' voice!" (U15.1243) |