Zoe: (Her head perched aside
in mock pride) Is that the way to hand
the
pot to a lady? (She stretches up
to light the cigarette over
the flame,
twirling it slowly, showing the
brown Tufts of her armpits.
Lynch with
his poker lifts boldly A side
of her slip. Bare from
her garters up her
flesh appears under the sapphire
A NIXIE’S green. She puffs
calmly at her
cigarette.) Can you see the beautyspot of my
behind?
Lynch: I’m not looking
Zoe: (Makes sheep’s eyes) No? You wouldn’t do a less thing. Would you suck a lemon?
(Squinting in mock shame she
glances with sidelong meaning at
bloom, then
twists round towards him, pulling
her slip free of the poker.
Blue fluid
again flows over her flesh.
Bloom stands, smiling desirously,
twirling
his thumbs. Kitty Ricketts
licks her middle finger with
her spittle and,
gazing in the mirror, smooths
both eyebrows. Lipoti Virag,
BASILICOGRAMMATE, Chutes rapidly down
through the chimneyflue and struts
two steps to the left on
gawky pink Stilts. He is
SAUSAGED into several
overcoats and wears A brown macintosh
under which he holds A roll
of
parchment. In his left eye
flashes the monocle of Cashel
Boyle O’CONNOR
Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell. On
his head is perched an Egyptian
PSHENT.
Two quills project over his
ears.)
Virag: (Heels together, bows) My name is Virag Lipoti, of Szombathely. (He coughs thoughtfully, drily) Promiscuous nakedness is much in evidence hereabouts, eh? Inadvertently her backview revealed the fact that she is not wearing those rather intimate garments of which you are a particular devotee. The injection mark on the thigh I hope you perceived? Good.