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sake! Inexpressible was my anguish when expiring with love, grief and agony on Mount Calvary.
stephen
Nothung!
(He lifts his ashplant high with both hands and smashes the chandelier. Time’s livid final flame leaps and, in the following darkness, ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry.)
the gasjet
Pwfungg!
bloom
Stop!
lynch
(Rushes forward and seizes Stephen’s hand.) Here! Hold on! Don’t run amok!
bella
Police!
(Stephen, abandoning his ashplant, his head and arms thrown back stark, beats the ground and flees from the room past the whores at the door.)
bella
(Screams.) After him!
(The two whores rush to the halldoors. Lynch and Kitty and Zoe stampede from the room. They talk excitedly. Bloom follows, returns.)
the whores
(Jammed in the doorway, pointing.) Down there.
zoe
(Pointing.) There. There’s something up.
bella
Who pays for the lamp? (She seizes Bloom’s coattail.) There. You were with him. The lamp’s broken.
