Page 508 (15.3172-3203) "BELLO Changed, eh? ...decency or grace"

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BELLO
Changed, eh? Our whatnot, our writingtable where we never wrote, Aunt Hegarty's armchair, our classic reprints of old masters. A man and his menfriends are living there in clover. The Cuckoos' Rest! Why not? How many women had you, eh, following them up dark streets, flatfoot, exciting them by your smothered grunts, what, you male prostitute? Blameless dames with parcels of groceries. Turn about. Sauce for the goose, my gander O.




BLOOM
They... I..




BELLO
(Cuttingly.) Their heelmarks will stamp the Brusselette carpet you bought at Wren's auction. In their horseplay with Moll the romp to find the buck flea in her breeches they will deface the little statue you carried home in the rain for art for art' sake. They will violate the secrets of your bottom drawer. Pages will be torn from your handbook of astronomy to make them pipespills. And they will spit in your ten shilling brass fender from Hampton Leedom's.




BLOOM
Ten and six. The act of low scoundrels. Let me go. I will return. I will prove...




A VOICE
Swear!

(Bloom clenches his fists and crawls forward, a bowieknife between his teeth.)

BELLO
As a paying guest or a kept man? Too late. You have made your secondbest bed and others must lie in it. Your epitaph is written. You are down and out and don't you forget it, old bean.




BLOOM
Justice! All Ireland versus one! Has nobody...? (He bites his thumb.)




BELLO
Die and be damned to you if you have any sense of decency or grace

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