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bloom
No, no. Pig’s feet. I was at a funeral.
first watch
(Draws his truncheon.) Liar!
(The beagle lift his snout, showing the grey scorbutic face of Paddy Dignam. He has gnawed all. He exhales a putrid carcasefed breath. He grows to human size and shape. His dachshund coat becomes a brown mortuary habit. His green eye flashes bloodshot. Half of one ear, all the nose and both thumbs are ghouleaten.)
paddy dignam
(In a hollow voice.) It is true. it was my funeral. Doctor Finucane pronounced life extinct when I succumbed to the disease from natural causes.
(He lifts his mutilated ashen face moonwards and bays lugubriously.)
bloom
(In triumph.) You hear?
paddy dignam
Bloom, I am Paddy Dignam’s spirit. List, list, O list!
bloom
The voice is the voice of Esau.
second watch
(Blesses himself.) How is that possible?
first watch
It is not in the penny catechism.
paddy dignam
By metempsychosis. Spooks.
a voice
O rocks.
