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           )Bitlightinthehead.Monthlyoreffectoftheother.Brainfogfag.Thattiredfeeling.Toomuchformenow.Ow!

           (AsinisterfigureleansonplaitedlegsagainstO’Beirne’swall,avisageunknown,injectedwithdarkmercury.Fromunderawideleavedsombrerothefigureregardshimwithevileye.)

           BLOOM:Buenasnoches,señoritaBlanca,quecalleesesta?

           THEFIGURE:(Impassive,raisesasignalarm.)Password.SraidMabbot.

           BLOOM:Haha.Merci.Esperanto.Slanleath.(Hemutters.)Gaelicleaguespy,sentbythatfireeater.

           (Hestepsforward.Asackshoulderedragmanbarshispath.Hestepsleft,ragsackmanleft.)

           BLOOM:Ibeg.

           (Heleapsright,sackragmanright.)

           BLOOM:Ibeg.

           (Heswerves,sidles,stepaside,slipspastandon.)

           BLOOM:Keeptotheright,right,right.IfthereisasignpostplantedbytheTouringClubatStepasidewhoprocuredthatpublicboon?IwholostmywayandcontributedtothecolumnsoftheIrishCyclisttheletterheadedIndarkestStepaside.Keep,keep,keeptotheright.Ragsandbonesatmidnight.Afencemorelikely.Firstplacemurderermakesfor.Washoffhissinsoftheworld.

           (JackyCaffrey,huntedbyTommyCaffrey,runsfulltiltagainstBloom.)

           BLOOM:O.

           (Shocked,onweakhams,hehalts.TommyandJackyvanishthere,there.Bloompatswithparcelledhandswatch,fobpocket,bookpocket,pursepoke,sweetsofsin,potatosoap.)

           BLOOM:Bewareofpickpockets.Oldthieves’dodge.Collide.Thensnatchyourpurse.

           (Theretrieverapproachessniffing,nosetotheground.Asprawledformsneezes.