blind tooled green goatskin token/charm/amulet/talisman/touch piece with knotted hemp cord.
found in a place of mysteries. well-worn centre. rubbed between fingers. awkwardly cut into bottom heavy circle. meaning: unknown: error: function unknown: correlate.
best guess?
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What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?
Starting united both at normal walking pace from Beresford place they followed in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner streets and Mountjoy square, west: then, at reduced pace, each bearing left, Gardiner’s place by an inadvertence as far as the farther corner of Temple street: then, at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing right, Temple street, north, as far as Hardwicke place. Approaching, disparate, at relaxed walking pace they crossed both the circus before George’s church diametrically, the chord in any circle being less than the arc which it subtends.
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Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him to ribbon it for her (cf neckarching cat). Moreover, on the free surface of the lake in Stephen’s green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy of its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf mousewatching cat).
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What moved visibly above the listener’s and the narrator’s invisible thoughts?
The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.
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From left to right: The that’s right people, I’m an artist, but I do science-y art and it’s cool badge. The I could tell you about my research, but then I’d have to kill you badge. The I use twitter to spread science badge. The astronaut badge (LEVEL I). Whereby the recipient has used a spacecraft simulator. The astronaut badge (LEVEL II). Whereby the recipient has actually been aboard a spacecraft. The non-explainer badge (LEVEL I). Where the recipient can no longer explain what they do to their parents. The I’ve set fire to stuff badge (LEVEL I). In which the recipient has set fire to stuff, all in the name of general scientific curiosity. The science has forced me to seek medical attention badge. The have used a dental drill and I’ve never been a dentist badge. The world’s foremost expert on an obscure subject badge. The I’m into telescopes astro badge (LEVEL I). The I can say ‘Danger: High Voltage!’ (or something to that effect) in more than one language badge.
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CHRISTINE MCNAIR 