" ZOE

Go on. Make a stump speech out of it."

(U15.1352)
"BLOOM

(in workman's corduroy overalls, black gansy with red floating tie and apache cap) Mankind is incorrigible."

(U15.1354)
"Sir Walter Raleigh brought from the new world that potato and that weed, the one a killer of pestilence by absorption,"

(U15.1356)
"the other a poisoner of the ear, eye, heart, memory, will, understanding, all. That is to say he brought the poison a hundred years before another person whose name I forget brought the food. Suicide. Lies. All our habits. Why, look at our public life!"

(U15.1358)
"(Midnight chimes from distant steeples.)

THE CHIMES

Turn again, Leopold! Lord mayor of Dublin!

BLOOM

(in alderman's gown and chain) Electors of Arran Quay, Inns Quay, Rotunda, Mountjoy and North Dock, better run a tramline, I say, from the cattlemarket to the river. That's the music of the future. That's my programme. Cui bono?"

(U15.1362)
"But our buccaneering Vanderdeckens in their phantom ship of finance .....

AN ELECTOR

Three times three for our future chief magistrate!

(The aurora borealis of the torchlight procession leaps.)

THE TORCHBEARERS

Hooray!"

(U15.1369)
"(Several wellknown burgesses, city magnates and freemen of the city shake hands with Bloom and congratulate him. Timothy Harrington, late thrice Lord Mayor of Dublin, imposing in mayoral scarlet, gold chain and white silk tie, confers with councillor Lorcan Sherlock, locum tenens. They nod vigorously in agreement.)"

(U15.1376)
"LATE LORD MAYOR HARRINGTON
(in scarlet robe with mace, gold mayoral chain and large white silk scarf)

That alderman sir Leo Bloom's speech be printed at the expense of the ratepayers. That the house in which he was born be ornamented with a commemorative tablet and that the thoroughfare hitherto known as Cow Parlour off Cork street be henceforth designated Boulevard Bloom.

COUNCILLOR LORCAN SHERLOCK

Carried unanimously." (15.1381)
"BLOOM

(impassionedly) These flying Dutchmen or lying Dutchmen as they recline in their upholstered poop, casting dice, what reck they?"

(U15.1389)
"Machines is their cry, their chimera, their panacea. Laboursaving apparatuses, supplanters, bugbears, manufactured monsters for mutual murder, hideous hobgoblins produced by a horde of capitalistic lusts upon our prostituted labour."

(U15.1391)
"The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and phartridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power. But their reign is rover for rever and ever and ev ..." (U15.1394)
"Prolonged applause. Venetian masts, maypoles and festal arches spring up." (U15.1398)
"A streamer bearing the legends Cead Mile Failte and Mah Ttob Melek Israel spans the street."

(U15.1399)
"All the windows are thronged with sightseers, chiefly ladies. Along the route"

(U15.1400)

For comparison, the Royal Procession for King Georges V's ascension to the throne in 1911. The windows are thronged with sightseers. Along the route, the white poles designate various regiments (Scotland, India, Canada...)
"the regiments of the royal Dublin fusiliers, the King's own Scottish Borderers,"

(U15.1401)
"the Cameron Highlanders and the Welsh Fusiliers standing to attention, keep back the crowd. Boys from High school are perched on the lampposts, telegraph poles, windowsills, cornices, gutters, chimneypots, railings, rainspouts, whistling and cheering The pillar of the cloud appears. A fife and drum band is heard in the distance playing the Kol Nidre. The beaters approach with imperial eagles hoisted, trailing banners and waving oriental palms. The chryselephantine papal standard rises high, surrounded by pennons of the civic flag. The van of the procession appears headed by John Howard Parnell, city marshal, in a chessboard tabard," (U15.1403)
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