bloom
(Cowed.) Exuberant female. Enormously I desiderate your domination. I am exhausted, abandoned, no more young. I stand, so to speak, with an unposted letter bearing the extra regulation fee before the too late box of the general postoffice of human life. The door and window open at a right angle cause a draught of thirtytwo feet per second according to the law of falling bodies. I have felt this instant a twinge of sciatica in my left glutear muscle. It runs in our family. Poor dear papa, a widower, was a regular barometer from it. He believed in animal heat. A skin of tabby lined his winter waistcoat. Near the end, remembering king David and the Sunamite, he shared his bed with Athos, faithful after death. A dog’s spittle, as you probably… (He winces.) Ah!
richie goulding
(Bagweighted, passes the door.) Mocking is catch. Best value in Dub. Fit for a prince’s liver and kidney.
the fan
(Tapping.) All things end. Be mine. Now.
bloom
(Undecided.) All now? I should not have parted with my talisman. Rain, exposure at dewfall on the sea rocks, a peccadillo at my time of life. Every phenomenon has a natural cause.
the fan
(Points downwards slowly.) You may.
bloom
(Looks downwards and perceives her unfastened bootlace.) We are observed.
the fan
(Points downwards quickly.) You must.
bloom
(With desire, with reluctance.) I can make a true black knot. Learned when
