Page 529 (15.3832-3863) "ZOE Before you're twice... bloody awful demirep!"

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ZOE
Before you're twice married and once a widower.




BLOOM
Lapses are condoned. Even the great Napoleon when measurements were taken near the skin after his death...

(Mrs Dignam, widow woman, her snubnose and cheeks flushed with deathtalk, tears and Tunney's tawny sherry, hurries by in her weeds, her bonnet awry, rouging and powdering her cheeks, lips and nose, a pen chivvying her brood of cygnets. Beneath her skirt appear her late husband's everyday trousers and turnedup boots, large eights. She holds a Scottish Widows' insurance policy and a large marquee umbrella under which her brood run with her, Patsy hopping on one shod foot, his collar loose, a hank of porksteaks dangling, Freddy whimpering, Susy with a crying cod's mouth, Alice struggling with the baby. She cuffs them on, her streamers flaunting aloft.)

FREDDY
Ah, ma, you're dragging me along!




SUSY
Mamma, the beeftea is fizzing over!




SHAKESPEARE
(With paralytic rage.) Weda seca whokilla farst.

(The face of Martin Cunningham, bearded, refeatures Shakespeare's beardless face. The marquee umbrella sways drunkenly, the children run aside. Under the umbrella appears Mrs Cunningham in merry widow hat and kimono gown. She glides sidling and bowing, twirling japanesily.)

MRS CUNNINGHAM
(Sings.)

And they call me the jewel of Asia!

MARTIN CUNNINGHAM

(Gazes on her, impassive.) Immense! Most bloody awful demirep!

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