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           Whatprecedingseries?

           AssumingMulveytobethefirsttermofhisseries,Penrose,Bartelld’Arcy,professorGoodwin,JuliusMastiansky,JohnHenryMenton,FatherBernardCorrigan,afarmerattheRoyalDublinSociety’sHorseShow,MaggotO’Reilly,MatthewDillon,ValentineBlakeDillon(LordMayorofDublin),ChristopherCallinan,Lenehan,anItalianorgangrinder,anunknowngentlemanintheGaietyTheatre,BenjaminDollard,SimonDedalus,Andrew(Pisser)Burke,JosephCuffe,WisdomHely,AldermanJohnHooper,DrFrancisBrady,FatherSebastianofMountArgus,abootblackattheGeneralPostOffice,HughE.(Blazes)Boylanandsoeachandsoontonolastterm.

           Whatwerehisreflectionsconcerningthelastmemberofthisseriesandlateoccupantofthebed?

           Reflectionsonhisvigour(abounder),corporalproportion(abillsticker),commercialability(abester),impressionability(aboaster).

           Whyfortheobserverimpressionabilityinadditiontovigour,corporalproportionandcommercialability?

           Becausehehadobservedwithaugmentingfrequencyintheprecedingmembersofthesameseriesthesameconcupiscence,inflammablytransmitted,firstwithalarm,thenwithunderstanding,thenwithdesire,finallywithfatigue,withalternatingsymptomsofepicenecomprehensionandapprehension.

           Withwhatantagonisticsentimentswerehissubsequentreflectionsaffected?

           Envy,jealousy,abnegation,equanimity.