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Did the guest comply with his host's request?

Doubly, by appending his signature in Irish and Roman characters.


What was Stephen's auditive sensation?

He heard in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation of the past.


What was Bloom's visual sensation?

He saw in a quick young male familiar form the predestination of a future.


What were Stephen's and Bloom's quasisimultaneous volitional quasisensations of concealed identities?

Visually, Stephen's: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted by Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic, sesquipedalian with winedark hair.

Auditively, Bloom's: The Traditionnal accent af the ecstasy of catastrophe.


What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the past and with what exemplars?

In the church, Roman, Anglican, or Nonconformist: exemplars, the very reverend John Conmee S.J., the reverend T. Salmon, D.D , provost of Trinity college, Dr Alexander J. Dowie. At the bar, English or Irish: exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K. C., Rufus Isaacs, K. C. On the stage, modern or Shakespearean: examplars Charles Wyndham, high comedian, Osmond Tearle († 1901), exponent of Shakespeare.


Did the host encourage his guest to chant in a modulated voice a strange legend on an allied theme?

Reassuringly, their place where none could hear them talk being secluded, reassured, the decocted beverages, allowing for subsolid residual sediment of a mechianacal mixture, water plus sugar plus cream plus cocoa, having been consumed.