coddoubled bicyclers Dilly with snowcake no fancy clothes. Then in last wiswitchback lumbering up and down bump mashtub sort of viceroy and reine relish for tublumber bumpshire rose. Baraabum!)
(The couples fall aside. Stephen whirls giddily. Room whirls back. Eyes closed, he totters. Red rails fly spacewards. Stars all around suns turn roundabout. Bright midges dance on wall. He stops dead.)
stephen
Ho!
the choir
Liliata rutilantium te confessorum…
Jubilantium te virginum…
buck mulligan
She’s beastly dead. The pity of it! Mulligan meets the afflicted mother. (He upturns his eyes.) Mercurial Malachi.
the mother
(With the subtle smile of death’s madness.) I was once the beautiful May Goulding. I am dead.
stephen
(Horrorstruck.) Lemur, who are you? What bogey man’s trick is this?
buck mulligan
(Shakes his curling capbell.) The mockery of it! Kinch killed her dogsbody