Chapter 17

law): a bazaar ticket no 2004, of S. Kevin’s Charity Fair, price 6 d. 100 prizes: an infantile epistle, dated, small em monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph signature with flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a cameo brooch, property of Ellen Bloom (born Higgins), deceased: 3 typewritten letters, addressee, Henry Flower, ℅ P. O. Westland Row, addresser, Martha Clifford, ℅ P. O. Dolphin’s Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrephodontic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N.IGS./WI.UU.OX/W.OKS.MH/Y.IM: a press cutting from an English weekly periodical Modern Society , subject corporal chastisement in girls’ schools: a pink ribbon which had festooned an Easter egg in the year 1899 : two partly uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve pockets, purchased by post from Box 32, P. O. , Charing Cross, London, W. C. : 1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and feintruled notepaper, watermarked, now reduced by 3: some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins: 2 coupons of the Royal and Privileged Hungarian Lottery: a lowpower magnifying glass: 2 erotic photocards showing: a) buccal coition between nude senorita (rere presentation, superior position) and nude torero (fore presentation, inferior position). b) anal violation by male religious (fully clothed, eyes abject) of female religious (partly clothed, eyes direct), purchased by post from Box 32, P. O. , Charing Cross, London, W. C. : a press cutting of recipe for renovation of old tan boots: a 1 d. adhesive stamp, lavender, of the reign of Queen Victoria: a chart of measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled, before, during and after 2 months of consecutive use of Sandow-Whiteley’s pulley exerciser (men’s 15/‒, athlete’s 20/‒) viz. , chest 28 in and 29½ in , biceps 9 in and 10 in , forearm 8½ and 9 in , thigh 10 in and 12 in , calf, 11 in and 12 in : 1 prospectus of the Wonderworker, the world’s greatest remedy for rectal complaints, direct from Wonderworker, Coventry House, South Place, London E. C. , addressed to Mrs L. Bloom with brief accompanying note commencing: Dear Madam.