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A man passes a day in early twentieth-century Dublin, in a journey patterned on Homer’s Odyssey.

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Chapter 11

Jiggedy jingle jaunty jaunty.

Only the harp. Lovely gold glowering light. Girl touched it. Poop of a lovely. Gravy’s rather good fit for a. Golden ship. Erin. The harp that once or twice. Cool hands. Ben Howth, the rhododendrons. We are their harps. I. He. Old. Young.

―Ah, I couldn’t, man, Mr Dedalus said, shy, listless.

Strongly.

―Go on, blast you, Ben Dollard growled. Get it out in bits.

― M’appari , Simon, Father Cowley said.

Down stage he strode some paces, grave, tall in affliction, his long arms outheld. Hoarsely the apple of his throat hoarsed softly. Softly he sang to a dusty seascape there: A Last Farewell . A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland wind around her.

Cowley sang:

― M’appari tutt’amor: Il mio sguardo l’incontr⁠ ⁠…

She waved, unhearing Cowley, her veil to one departing, dear one, to wind, love, speeding sail, return.

―Go on, Simon.

―Ah, sure my dancing days are done, Ben⁠ ⁠… Well⁠ ⁠…

Mr Dedalus laid his pipe to rest beside the tuningfork and, sitting, touched the obedient keys.

―No, Simon, Father Cowley turned. Play it in the original. One flat.

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