The Annotated "Ulysses"/Page 058
His hand accepted the moist tender gland and slid it into a sidepocket.
Then it fetched up three coins from his trousers’ pocket and laid them on the
rubber prickles. They lay, were read quickly and quickly slid, disc by disc, into
the till.
— Thank you, sir. Another time.
A speck of eager fire from foxeyes thanked him. He withdrew his gaze
after an instant. No : better not : another time.
— Good morning, he said, moving away.
— Good morning, sir.
No sign. Gone. What matter?
He walked back along Dorset street, reading gravely. Agendath Netaim :
planters’ company. To purchase waste sandy tracts from Turkish government
and plant with eucalyptus trees. Excellent for shade, fuel and construction.
Orangegroves and immense melonfields north of Jaffa. You pay eight marks and
they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.
Olives cheaper : oranges need artificial irrigation. Every year you get a
sending of the crop. Your name entered for life as owner in the book of the
union. Can pay ten down and the balance in yearly instalments. Bleibtreu-
strasse 34, Berlin, W, I5.
Nothing doing. Still an idea behind it.
He looked at the cattle, blurred in silver heat. Silvered powdered olive-
trees. Quiet long days : pruning ripening. Olives are packed in jars, eh? I have a
few left from Andrews. Molly spitting them out. Knows the taste of them now.
Oranges in tissue paper packed in crates. Citrons too. Wonder is poor Citron
still alive in Saint Kevin’s parade. And Mastiansky with the old cither. Pleasant
evenings we had then. Molly in Citron’s basketchair. Nice to hold, cool waxen
fruit, hold in the hand, lift it to the nostrils and smell the perfume. Like
that, heavy, sweet, wild perfume. Always the same, year after year. They
fetched high prices too Moisel told me. Arbutus place : Pleasants street : pleasant
old times. Must be without a flaw, he said. Coming all that way : Spain,
Gibraltar, Mediterranean, the Levant. Crates lined up on the quayside at Jaffa,
chap ticking them off in a book, navvies handling them in soiled dungarees.
There’s whatdoyoucallhim out of. How do you? Doesn’t see. Chap you know
just to salute bit of a bore. His back is like that Norwegian captain’s. Wonder
if I’ll meet him today. Watering cart. To provoke the rain. On earth as it is
in heaven.
A cloud began to cover the sun wholly slowly wholly. Grey. Far.