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What visible luminous sign attracted Bloom's, who attracted Stephen's, gaze?



In the second storey (rere) of his (Bloom's) house the light of a paraffin oil lamp with oblique shade projected on a screen of roller blind supplied by Frank O'Hara, window blind, curtain pole and revolving shutter manufacturer, 16 Aungier street.



How did he elucidate the mystery of an invisible attractive person, his wife Marion (Molly) Bloom, denoted by a visible splendid sign, a lamp?



With indirect and direct verbal allusions or affirmations: with subdued affection and admiration: with description: with impediment: with suggestion.



Both then were silent?



Silent, each contemplating the other in both mirrors of the reciprocal flesh of theirhisnothis fellowfaces.



Were they indefinitely inactive?



At Stephen's suggestion, at Bloom's instigation both, first Stephen, then Bloom, in penumbra urinated, their sides contiguous, their organs of micturition reciprocally rendered invisible by manual circumposition, their gazes, first Bloom's, then Stephen's, elevated to the projected luminous and semiluminous shadow.



Similarly?



The trajectories of their, first sequent, then simultaneous, urinations were dissimilar: Bloom's longer, less irruent, in the incomplete form of the bifurcated penultimate alphabetical letter, who in his ultimate year at High School (1880) had been capable of attaining the point of greatest altitude against the whole concurrent strength of the institution, 210 scholars: Stephen's higher, more sibilant, who in the ultimate hours of the previous day had augmented by diuretic consumption an insistent vesical pressure.



What different problems presented themselves to each concerning the invisible audible collateral organ of the other?



To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence, rigidity, reactivity, dimension, sanitariness, pelosity.
To Stephen: the problem of the sacerdotal integrity of Jesus circumcised (1 January, holiday of obligation to hear mass

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