What did each do at the door of egress?

 

Bloom set the candlestick on the floor. Stephen put the hat on his head.

 

 

For what creature was the door of egress a door of ingress?

 

For a cat.

 

 

What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest,

emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere

of the house into the penumbra of the garden?

 

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

 

With what meditations did Bloom accompany his demonstration to his

companion of various constellations?

 

Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in

incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous

scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an

observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft

deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius

(alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant

and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the

precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and

nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund

and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging

towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic

drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from

immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with

which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a

parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.