She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a recess. On the duke's lawn entreated by an English visitor,
she declined to permit him to make and take away her photographic image (objection not stated). On
the South Circular road in the company of Elsa Potter, followed by an individual of sinister aspect, she
went half way down Stamer street and turned abruptly back (reason of change not stated). On the vigil
of the 15th anniversary of her birth she wrote a letter from Mullingar, county Westmeath, making a brief
allusion to a local student (faculty and year not stated).
Did that first division, portending a second division, afflict him?
Less than he had imagined, more than he had hoped.
What second departure was contemporaneously perceived by him similarly if differently?
A temporary departure of his cat.
Why similarly, why differently?
Similarly, because actuated by a secret purpose the quest of a new male (Mullingar student) or of a
healing herb (valerian). Differently, because of different possible returns to the inhabitants or to the habitation.
In other respects were their differences similar?
In passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness.
As?
Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him to ribbon it for her (cf. neckarching cat). Moreover,
on the free surface of the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented
spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy of its permanence the locus
of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf. mousewatching cat). Again, in order to remember the date, combatants,
issue and consequences of a famous military engagement she pulled a plait of her hair (cf. earwashing
cat). Furthermore, silly Milly, she dreamed of having had an unspoken unremembered conversation
with a horse whose name had been Joseph to whom (which) she had offered a tumblerful of lemonade
which it (he) had appeared to have accepted (cf. hearthdreaming cat). Hence in passivity, in economy,
in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness, their differences were similar.
In what way had he utilised gifts 1) an owl, 2) a clock, given as matrimonial auguries, to interest and to
instruct her?
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?