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THE BAWD
(Spits in their trail her jet of venom.) Trinity medicals. Fallopian tube. All prick and no pence.

the locus of fertilization, named after 16thC anatomist, Gabriele Falloppio
(did some medicals falsely claim they could avoid a pregnancy? tying tubes for birth control only dates to 1930)

'all talk and no action' is a common form
("All prick and no pence" sounds pretty complimentary?)

(Edy Boardman, sniffling, crouched with Bertha Supple, draws her shawl across her nostrils.)

draft: "A redhaired girl seated with a friend on a doorstep draws her shawl rapidly across her nostrils as she relates:
--And says the one: I seen you Faithful place with your squarepusher in the come-to-bed hat. That's not for you to say, says I. You never seen me in the mantrap with a highlander, says I. And her walking with two fellows the one time."

Bertha was mentioned on p333, 337, 347, and 349

(wipes nose with shawl?)


EDY BOARDMAN
(Bickering.) And says the one: I seen you up Faithful place with your squarepusher, the greaser off the railway, in his cometobed hat. Did you, says I. That's not for you to say, says I. You never seen me in the mantrap with a married highlander, says I. The likes of her! Stag that one is! Stubborn as a mule! And her walking with two fellows the one time, Kilbride the enginedriver and lancecorporal Oliphant.

1901 census for Faithful place

an unnamed gossip has accused Edy of spending time in a "mantrap" in Faithful place with a squarepusher/ greaser/ highlander

Dent finds nothing especially disreputable in "squarepusher" or "mantrap"; "Stag" is cold-hearted, unfeeling, selfish [more]

"greaser" was a real occupation


STEPHEN
(Triumphaliter.) Salvi facti sunt.

(He flourishes his ashplant shivering the lamp image, shattering light over the world. A liver and white spaniel on the prowl slinks after him, growling. Lynch scares it with a kick.)

LYNCH
So that?

draft: "Lynch: So that?
Stephen: So that the art of gesture renders visible not the lay sense but the first formal rhythm. Who wants a gesture to illustrate a loaf, a jug? This movement illustrates thou and the loaf and jug of bread, or wine, I mean, in Omar. Hold my stick.
Lynch: Damn your yellow stick.
Stephen gives the stick quickly and slowly holds out his hands, his head going back till both hands are a span or so from his breast, downturned in planes at an angle, the fingers about to open, the left hand being higher.
Lynch: Which is the jug of bread? Illustrate thou. Here take your stick.
They pass out of sight."


STEPHEN
(Looks behind.) So that gesture, not music, not odour, would be a universal language, the gift of tongues rendering visible not the lay sense but the first entelechy, the structural rhythm.

looks behind at dog, or seeing who else might be listening?

cf Stephen Hero p184:
"— There should be an art of gesture, said Stephen one night to Cranly.
— Yes?
— Of course I don't mean art of gesture in the sense that the elocution professor understands the word. For him a gesture is an emphasis. I mean a rhythm. You know the song 'Come unto those yellow sands'?
— No.
— This is it, said the youth making a graceful anapaestic gesture with each arm. That's the rhythm, do you see?
— Yes.
— I would like to go out into Grafton St some day and make gestures in the middle of the street.
— I'd like to see that..."


LYNCH
Pornosophical philotheology. Metaphysics in Mecklenburg street!




STEPHEN
We have shrewridden Shakespeare and henpecked Socrates. Even the allwisest Stagyrite was bitted, bridled and mounted by a light of love.

(how does this follow from the gesture business?)

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