The alphabet is mine!
The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the
Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of modern stenography and telegraphic
code in the cuneiform inscriptions (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing
(Celtic).
Did the guest comply with his host's request?
Doubly, by appending his signature in Irish and Roman characters.
What was Stephen's auditive sensation?
He heard in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation of the past.
What was Bloom's visual sensation?
He saw in a quick young male familiar form the predestination of a future.
What were Stephen's and Bloom's quasisimultaneous volitional quasisensations of
concealed identities?
Visually, Stephen's: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted by Johannes
Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic, sesquipedalian
with winedark hair.
Auditively, Bloom's: The traditional accent of the ecstasy of catastrophe.
Yours too, needless to say, if
you're reading this. Thanks, Phoenicians and Semites of Syria (1000 BCE), Greeks (900 BCE),
Romans, Mediaeval copyists!
A line of Vergil from an ancient manuscript:
A fragment of the Koran on papyrus:
In what common study did their mutual reflections merge?
—James Joyce, Ulysses
