Having My Baby?

[David Morris]

I don't know about Dixon's baby, but the precedent has been set:

Ulysses: Circe, 1797

DR DIXON
(Reads a bill of health.) Professor Bloom is a finished example of the new 
womanly man. His moral nature is simple and lovable. Many have found him a 
dear man, a dear person. He is a rather quaint fellow on the whole, coy 
though not feebleminded in the medical sense. He has written a really 
beautiful letter, a poem in itself, to the court missionary of the Reformed 
Priests' Protection Society which clears up everything. He is practically a 
total abstainer and I can affirm that he sleeps on a straw litter and eats 
the most Spartan food, cold dried grocer's peas. He wears a hairshirt of 
pure Irish manufacture winter and summer and scourges himself every 
Saturday. He was, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in 
Glencree reformatory. Another report states that he was a very posthumous 
child. I appeal for clemency in the name of the most sacred word our vocal 
organs have ever been called upon to speak. He is about to have a baby.


(General commotion and compassion. Women faint. A wealthy American makes a 
street collection for Bloom. Gold and silver coins, blank cheques, 
banknotes, jewels, treasury bonds, maturing bills of exchange, I.O.U's, 
wedding rings, watchchains, lockets, necklaces and bracelets are rapidly 
collected.)

BLOOM
O, I so want to be a mother.


MRS THORNTON
(In nursetender's gown.) Embrace me tight, dear. You'll be soon over it. 
Tight, dear.


(Bloom embraces her tightly and bears eight male yellow and white children. 
They appear on a redcarpeted staircase adorned with expensive plants. All 
the octuplets are handsome, with valuable metallic faces, wellmade, 
respectably dressed and wellconducted, speaking five modern languages 
fluently and interested in various arts and sciences. Each has his name 
printed in legible letters on his shirtfront: Nasodoro, Goldfinger, 
Chrysostomos, Maindorée, Silversmile, Silberselber Vifargent, Panargyros. 
They are immediately appointed to positions of high public trust in several 
different countries as managing directors of banks, traffic managers of 
railways, chairmen of limited liability companies, vicechairmen of hotel 
syndicates.)



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