We completed episode 4, and started episode 5, stopping at "One of the best, M'Coy said." (5.137)
Summary of the beginning of episode 5:
After completing his business asquat on the cuckstool (4.500), while he read the story, Matcham's Masterstroke (4.502), by Mr Philip Beaufoy published in an old number of Titbits (4.467), and while he thought that he himself might manage (such) a sketch (4.518), Bloom [tears] away half the prize story sharply and [wipes] himself with it (4.537), pulls up his pants and [comes] forth from the gloom into the air (4.539) as the bells of George's church (4.544) toll Heigho! Heigho! (4.506) . . .
Mr Bloom leaves his house, and goes out. He is to attend Patty Dignam's funeral at quarter to (4.549) that morning which means that he has enough time to do other things before going to the funeral. He is no hurry. Sauntering along, he passes John Rogerson's quay, Windmill Lane, Lime street, Westland row etc. His mind is occupied by the things he sees, the shops such as the Belfast and Oriental Tea Company (5.19) he passes by, the people - for example, the boy and the girl near Brady's cottages (5.5) - he sees/meets on the way. He goes into a post office and produces a card on which his name is given as Henry Flower (5.62) - Bloom/Flower -, and gets a letter waiting for him. Obviously he is carrying on some kind of an affair with somebody. Before he could open the letter outside the post office, M'Coy hails him. Bloom has no interest in stopping and exchanging small talk with M'Coy but cannot get rid of him. As M'Coy stays on to chat, Bloom's attention is distracted by two people waiting near an outsider (a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage) drawn up before the door of the Grosvenor (5.98) hotel. While Bloom is busy observing and admiring the rich silk stockings (5.122) of the woman and wondering from which side she will get into the carriage, M'Coy continues to talk explaining how he heard of Dignam's passing away. If she would in fact get into the carriage from the side he can see, Bloom would get to see her ankles as she would have to lift her skirt up to get into the carriage! But that does not happen as a heavy tramcar (5.131) goes by blocking his view just as she gets into the carriage!
Summary of the beginning of episode 5:
After completing his business asquat on the cuckstool (4.500), while he read the story, Matcham's Masterstroke (4.502), by Mr Philip Beaufoy published in an old number of Titbits (4.467), and while he thought that he himself might manage (such) a sketch (4.518), Bloom [tears] away half the prize story sharply and [wipes] himself with it (4.537), pulls up his pants and [comes] forth from the gloom into the air (4.539) as the bells of George's church (4.544) toll Heigho! Heigho! (4.506) . . .
Mr Bloom leaves his house, and goes out. He is to attend Patty Dignam's funeral at quarter to (4.549) that morning which means that he has enough time to do other things before going to the funeral. He is no hurry. Sauntering along, he passes John Rogerson's quay, Windmill Lane, Lime street, Westland row etc. His mind is occupied by the things he sees, the shops such as the Belfast and Oriental Tea Company (5.19) he passes by, the people - for example, the boy and the girl near Brady's cottages (5.5) - he sees/meets on the way. He goes into a post office and produces a card on which his name is given as Henry Flower (5.62) - Bloom/Flower -, and gets a letter waiting for him. Obviously he is carrying on some kind of an affair with somebody. Before he could open the letter outside the post office, M'Coy hails him. Bloom has no interest in stopping and exchanging small talk with M'Coy but cannot get rid of him. As M'Coy stays on to chat, Bloom's attention is distracted by two people waiting near an outsider (a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage) drawn up before the door of the Grosvenor (5.98) hotel. While Bloom is busy observing and admiring the rich silk stockings (5.122) of the woman and wondering from which side she will get into the carriage, M'Coy continues to talk explaining how he heard of Dignam's passing away. If she would in fact get into the carriage from the side he can see, Bloom would get to see her ankles as she would have to lift her skirt up to get into the carriage! But that does not happen as a heavy tramcar (5.131) goes by blocking his view just as she gets into the carriage!
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