II - Chapter 5

Overall chapter impression:

Bloom just getting through the morning

Notes: (commentary and/or scribble I wrote to look at/up later)

There's that alphabet again

Tooraloom - tooralie-ay?

Her/him - his imagination is bi-polar. Also what was he touted for?

Ha. Ha ha

And we're off with the fairies again - to Ceylon (the far east, apparently). Then the fairies get all science-y

10 m/s/s. And it's mass

Taw cunnythumb - tom dextrous fingers

Women all for caste till you touch the spot - ROFL, he thinks he's being cynically insightful

Hello Martha!!!

What word?

Why use "wrote' when you know 'write'? Was it just for the joke later? Also, patients? :-)

And why did he send the stamps? She too poor to afford postage or coz they're new?

Ummm she didn't say 'punish your'. The joke doesn't count if you have to dodgy it to make it work. Also manflower is a type of orchid, but I can't find nightstalk.

Where is 'when we soon'? She didn't use the word soon

Is this relationship carried on from earlier books. If so do I need to read them?

What sort of relationship is it? 'Go further next time', 'brutal'?

Fingering. He can't help himself

Sluts in the Coombe. The immaturity and longing is palpable

What headache?

Oh. Porter is Guinness

Barrels leaking in his brain? Too much drinking? Or just confusion?

Mullingar

Buddha isn't god - he's just enlightened

More interesting if you understood what it was all about - do tell. Please.

Husband learn to his surprise - Joseph?

What did the salvos do wrong?

Who is Jack Fleming?

Definitely an ad man. Have I mentioned this yet?

Hornblower - Nelson?

Perving at ourself in our imagination in the bath? Why? ... thousands, ROFL. And 'flower', not 'missile', or 'sledgehammer'? Nb: cryptic clue

I remember damp eucharist, but there was something very distasteful about that passage

Not aristocratic - JC did it

Self arguing - love it

Easter duty - it's June

I always thought it would be better to have boy servants. Up to 15 or so. ???? Also : there's a sentence consisting of 'fifteen' next chapter

He gazed gravely at the ground

I'm on with necromancy, but necrophlilia makes no sense to me

Main talking gravely - gottit yet?

Stuff I don't get:

The skins?

And, in conclusion:

Is the book getting easier or was this chapter less head-messing?