Virag:  (Prompts in A pig’s whisper) Insects of the day spend their brief existence in reiterated coition, lured by the smell of the inferiorly pulchritudinous fumale possessing extendified pudendal nerve in dorsal region.  Pretty Poll! (His yellow PARROTBEAK gabbles nasally) They had a proverb in the Carpathians in or about the year five thousand five hundred and fifty of our era.  One tablespoonful of honey will attract friend Bruin more than half a dozen barrels of first choice malt vinegar.  Bear’s buzz bothers bees.  But of this apart.  At another time we may resume.  We were very pleased, we others. (He coughs and, bending his brow, rubs his nose thoughtfully with A scooping hand) You shall find that these night insects follow the light.  An illusion for remember their complex unadjustable eye.  For all these knotty points see the seventeenth book of my Fundamentals of Sexology or the Love Passion which Doctor L.B. says is the book sensation of the year.  Some, to example, there are again whose movements are automatic.  Perceive.  That is his appropriate sun.  Nightbird nightsun nighttown.  Chase me, Charley! (he blows into Bloom’s ear) Buzz!

Bloom:  Bee or bluebottle too other day butting shadow on wall dazed self then me wandered dazed down shirt good job I ...

Virag:  (His face impassive, laughs in A rich feminine key) Splendid!  Spanish fly in his fly or mustard plaster on his dibble. (He gobbles gluttonously with turkey wattles) Bubbly jock!  Bubbly jock!  Where are we?  Open Sesame!  Cometh forth! (He unrolls his parchment rapidly and reads, his glowworm’s nose running backwards over the letters which he claws) Stay, good friend.  I bring thee thy answer.  Redbank oysters will shortly be upon us.  I’m the best o’cook.  Those succulent bivalves may help us and the truffles of Perigord, tubers dislodged through mister omnivorous porker, were unsurpassed in cases of nervous debility or viragitis.  Though they stink yet they sting. (He wags his head with cackling raillery) Jocular.  With my eyeglass in my ocular. (He sneezes) Amen!

Bloom:  (Absently) Ocularly woman’s bivalve case is worse.  Always open sesame.  The cloven sex.  Why they fear vermin, creeping things.  Yet Eve and the serpent contradicts.  Not a historical fact.  Obvious analogy to my idea.  Serpents too are gluttons for woman’s milk.  Wind their way through miles of omnivorous forest to sucksucculent her breast dry.  Like those bubblyjocular Roman matrons one reads of in Elephantuliasis.