I suppose there isnt in all creation another man with
the habits he has look at the way
hes sleeping at the foot of
the bed how can he without a hard bolster its
well
1200 he doesnt kick or he might knock out all my teeth
breathing with his hand
on his nose like that Indian god
he took me to show one wet Sunday in the
museum in Kildare street all
yellow in a pinafore lying on his side on his
hand with his ten toes sticking out that he said was
a bigger religion than
the jews and Our Lords both put together all over Asia
imitating
him as hes
always imitating everybody
I suppose he used to sleep at the foot of the bed
too with his big square feet up in his wifes mouth damn
this stinking thing
anyway wheres this hose napkins are ah yes I know I
hope the old press
doesnt creak ah I knew it
would hes sleeping hard had a good time
somewhere still she must have given him great value for
his money of course
he has to pay for it from
her O this nuisance of a thing I hope theyll
have
1210 something better for us in the other world tying
ourselves up God help us
thats all right for tonight now the lumpy old jingly
bed always reminds me
of old Cohen I suppose he scratched himself in it often
enough and he thinks
father bought it from Lord Napier
that I used to admire when I was a little girl
because I told him easy piano O I like my bed God here
we are
as bad as ever after 16 yearshow
many houses were we in at all Raymond
Terrace and Ontario terrace and
Lombard street and Holles street and he
goes about whistling every time
were on the run again his huguenots or the
frogs march pretending to help the men with our 4 sticks
of furniture and
then the City Arms hotel worse and worse says Warden
Daly that charming
1220 place on the landing always somebody inside praying
then leaving all their
stinks after them always know who was in there last every
time were just
getting on right something happens
or he puts his big foot in it Thoms and
Helys and Mr Cuffes and Drimmies either hes going to
be run into prison
over his old lottery tickets
that was to be all our salvations or he goes and
gives impudence well have him coming
home with the sack soon out of the
Freeman too like the rest on account of those Sinner
Fein or the Freemasons
Commentary:
In this Passage Molly is sitting on the Chamberpot thinking
about Bloom and his various quirks and oddities. She thinks about
what he has been doing today, suspecting him of going to a prostitute and
seems to suggest he is not a creative and able man. She then thinks
back to all the places they have had to live throughout their marriage
after Blooms various jobs have been lost. She is extrelmely concerned
with earthly possessions and comforts. She doesn't put much stock
in more high pursuits, making light of the art museum and Bloom's interest
in history.