NPPF: CANTO ONE NOTES on behalf of Charles

[David Morris]

> Shade contrasts himself with the "vulgarian" who only sees the stars when
micturating.

You saw the reference too (it is very obvious).  It's really funny that he
should call our heros of Ulysses "vulgarians."

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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.

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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.

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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 (1st January, holiday of obligation to hear mass
and abstain from unnecessary servile work) and the problem as to whether the
divine prepuce, the carnal bridal ring of the holy Roman catholic apostolic
church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of the
fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine excrescences
as hair and toenails.

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What celestial sign was by both simultaneously observed?

A star precipitated with great apparent velocity across the firmament from Vega
in the Lyre above the zenith beyond the stargroup of the Tress of Berenice
towards the zodiacal sign of Leo.



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