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Chapter 2
Bothadmittedthealternatelystimulatingandobtundinginfluenceofheterosexualmagnetism.
Weretheirviewsonsomepointsdivergent?
StephendissentedopenlyfromBloom’sviewsontheimportanceofdietaryandcivicselfhelpwhileBloomdissentedtacitlyfromStephen’sviewsontheeternalaffirmationofthespiritofmaninliterature.BloomassentedcovertlytoStephen’srectificationoftheanachronisminvolvedinassigningthedateoftheconversionoftheIrishnationtochristianityfromdruidismbyPatricksonofCalpornus,sonofPotitus,sonofOdyssus,sentbypopeCelestineIintheyear432inthereignofLearytotheyear260orthereaboutsinthereignofCormacMacArt(†266A.D.),suffocatedbyimperfectdeglutitionofalimentatSlettyandinterredatRossnaree.ThecollapsewhichBloomascribedtogastricinanitionandcertainchemicalcompoundsofvaryingdegreesofadulterationandalcoholicstrength,acceleratedbymentalexertionandthevelocityofrapidcircularmotioninarelaxingatmosphere,Stephenattributedtothereapparitionofamatutinalcloud(perceivedbybothfromtwodifferentpointsofobservationSandycoveandDublin)atfirstnobiggerthanawoman’shand.
Wasthereonepointonwhichtheirviewswereequalandnegative?
Theinfluenceofgaslightorelectriclightonthegrowthofadjoiningparaheliotropictrees.
