Stopped at " . . . bee bit him . . ." (18.953)
Summary:
Apart from Molly's musings about Mulvey and how she used to entice him (her blouse was open for his last day), these pages contain multiple hints to Molly and Bloom's financial situation. For instance, while musing about her boyfriends, imagining what her last name would have been if she had married Mulvey and deciding that having Bloom as her last name is better than having Breen, Molly, feeling some wind insider her - just as Bloom did at the end of Sirens, episode 11 - wishes for even a bath itself of her own room, at least own bed so that she would not have to feel his cold feet on her. Releasing the wind in pianissimo, Molly wonders whether it was the pork chop that caused it and decides to buy a nice piece of cod in the morning. She does not like eels because of their bones and she is sick of that everlasting butchers meat from Buckleys.
There are also typical Molly-spellings on these pages: Vatican instead of viaticum, 18 carrot gold instead of 18 carat gold, consumption instead of consummation, place instead of plaice . . .
