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1. - Обязательно надо идти? - недоверчиво осведомился поэт.
- Ведь я все равно уже ничего не помню. Ночью я был
немного...
- Под мухой, - понимающе сказал полицейский. - Я знаю
многих поэтов. Прошу вас одеться. Я подожду.
По дороге они разговаривали о кабаках, о жизни вообще, о
небесных знамениях и о многих других вещах; только политике
были чужды оба. Так, в дружеской и поучительной беседе они
дошли до полиции.

2. Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary?
Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman,
prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and
glow-lamps on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees, exposed
corporation emergency dustbuckets, the Roman catholic church, ecclesiastical
celibacy, the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers, the study of
medicine, the past day, the male-cent influence of the presabbath, Stephen's
collapse.

Did Bloom discover common factors of similarity between their
respective like and unlike reactions to experience?
Both were sensitive to artistic impressions musical in preference to
plastic or pictorial. Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of
life, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence. Both indurated by
early domestic training and an inherited tenacity of heterodox resistance
professed their disbelief in many orthodox religious, national, social and
ethical doctrines. Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding
influence of heterosexual magnetism.