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Chapter 2
Boththenweresilent?
Silent,eachcontemplatingtheotherinbothmirrorsofthereciprocalfleshoftheirhisnothisfellowfaces.
Weretheyindefinitelyinactive?
AtStephen’ssuggestion,atBloom’sinstigationboth,firstStephen,thenBloom,inpenumbraurinated,theirsidescontiguous,theirorgansofmicturitionreciprocallyrenderedinvisiblebymanualcircumposition,theirgazes,firstBloom’s,thenStephen’s,elevatedtotheprojectedluminousandsemiluminousshadow.
Similarly?
Thetrajectoriesoftheir,firstsequent,thensimultaneous,urinationsweredissimilar:Bloom’slonger,lessirruent,intheincompleteformofthebifurcatedpenultimatealphabeticalletter,whoinhisultimateyearatHighSchool(1880)hadbeencapableofattainingthepointofgreatestaltitudeagainstthewholeconcurrentstrengthoftheinstitution,210scholars:Stephen’shigher,moresibilant,whointheultimatehoursofthepreviousdayhadaugmentedbydiureticconsumptionaninsistentvesicalpressure.
Whatdifferentproblemspresentedthemselvestoeachconcerningtheinvisibleaudiblecollateralorganoftheother?
ToBloom:theproblemsofirritability,tumescence,rigidity,reactivity,dimension,sanitariness,pilosity.