...antelucan hour, shod in sandals of bright gold, coifed with a veil of what do you call it gossamer I It floats, it flows about her starborn flesh and loose...wine-fizzling, gin-sizzling, boose-guzzling existences l Come on you dog-gone, bull-necked, beetle-browed, hog-jowled, peanut-brained, weasel-eyed, four-flushers,...

...bride, ever virgin. It is she, Martha, thou lost one, Millicent, the young, the dear, the radiant. How serene does she now arise, a queen among the Pleiades,...ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus. (414:29-41) Cf. "M'appari" "Seaside Girls" REMARKS: In one of the most obvious of all the consubstantialiry...

...the house of Virgo . . . the everlasting bride, harbinger of the daystar, the bride, ever virgin. ... It floats, it flows about her starborn flesh and loose...Alpha, a ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus.4 Or: The same man dreams of the highest worldly dignity, he becomes emperor of the earth, and,...

...the skin, fine like what do you call it gossamer" (U, 374.4041). Her gossamer veil winds and coils, "writhing in the skies a mysterious writing till after...ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus" (U, 414.38-41), portending a new beginning. The entire passage recalls Bloom's first reading of the...

...plank. The red triangle on the label of a bottle of Bass gets mock-anagogical exegesis in Ulysses, "writhing in the skies a mysterious writing till after...ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus ", 0407/396, and two pages later fixes Bloom's attention in a way that causes Mulligan to remark on...

...coiling, simply swirling, writhing in the skies a mysterious writing till, after a myriad metamorphosis of symbol, it blazes, Alpha, a ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus. (414/14.1101-9) As the focal point of the gaze, the veiled bride Bloom envisions here is the "lost...

...bride, ever virgin. It is she, Martha, thou lost one, Millicent, the young, the dear, the radiant. How serene does she now arise, a queen among the Pleiades,...ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus. Francis was reminding Stephen of years before when they had been at school together in Conmee's time....

...interstellar wind, winding, coiling, simply swirling, writhing in the skies a mysterious writing lill, after a myriad metamorphoses of symbol, it blazes, Alpha, a ruby and 97 Vgl. Salvadori und Schwartzman: 349 f. 198 Vgl. UA 399. triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus....

...lunar chain" in "the rubycoloured egos from the second constellation" become Bloom's closing image: "it blazes, Alpha, a ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus." Taurus— CC— is the second constellation of the Zodiac. Finally, although I do not feel confident...

...starborn flesh and loose it streams, emerald, sapphire, mauve and heliotrope, sustained on currents of the cold interstellar wind, winding, coiling, simply swirling,...ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus. (14.1 102-9) An earthlier version of this "mysterious writing" has already signed Bloom into the strand,...