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           Eglintoneyes,quickwithpleasure,lookedupshybrightly.Gladlyglancing,amerrypuritan,throughthetwistedeglantine.

           Flatter.Rarely.Butflatter.

           —Himselfhisownfather,Sonmulligantoldhimself.Wait.Iambigwithchild.Ihaveanunbornchildinmybrain.PallasAthena!Aplay!Theplay’sthething!Letmeparturiate!

           Heclaspedhispaunchbrowwithbothbirthaidinghands.

           —Asforhisfamily,Stephensaid,hismother’snamelivesintheforestofArden.HerdeathbroughtfromhimthescenewithVolumniainCoriolanus.Hisboyson’sdeathisthedeathsceneofyoungArthurinKingJohn.Hamlet,theblackprince,isHamnetShakespeare.WhothegirlsinTheTempest,inPericles,inWinter’sTaleareweknow.WhoCleopatra,fleshpotofEgypt,andCressidandVenusarewemayguess.Butthereisanothermemberofhisfamilywhoisrecorded.

           —Theplotthickens,JohnEglintonsaid.

           Thequakerlibrarian,quaking,tiptoedin,quake,hismask,quake,withhaste,quake,quack.

           Doorclosed.Cell.Day.

           Theylist.Three.They.

           Iyouhethey.

           Come,mess.

           STEPHEN:Hehadthreebrothers,Gilbert,Edmund,Richard.GilbertinhisoldagetoldsomecavaliershegotapassfornowtfromMaisterGathereronetimemasshedidandheseenhisbrudMaisterWulltheplaywriterupinLunnoninawrastlingplaywudamanon’sback.TheplayhousesausagefilledGilbert’ssoul.Heisnowhere:butanEdmundandaRichardarerecordedintheworksofsweetWilliam.

           MAGEEGLINJOHN:Names!What’sinaname?

           BEST:Thatismyname,Richard,don’tyouknow.