EUMAEUS

"Different ways of bringing off a coup. Lovemaking damages. Though that halfbaked Lyons ran off at a tangent in his impetuosity to get left. Of course gambling eminently lent itself to that sort of thing though as the event turned out the poor fool hadn't much reason to congratulate himself on his pick, the forlorn hope. Guesswork it reduced itself to eventually.
— There was every indication they would arrive at that, he, Bloom, said.
— Who? the other, whose hand by the way was hurt, said." (U16.1289)