He s bringing the pro gramme. Molly, professionally known as Marion Tweedy, is a concert singer, and Boylan is to act as her impresario on a coming tour. She is to sing La ci darem , the duet from Don Giovanni, with J. C. Doyle, and Love s Old Sweet Song . Munching, Molly points silently but requestingly. Bloom picks up her underwear.
Bloom discovers the book under the bed.
Molly finds the place she wants. The word metempsychosis has baffled her. Molly, we learn later, pro nounces the word Met him pike hoses . Bloom looks farther in Molly s book, Ruby, the Pride of the Ring, a cheap erotic novel with a sadistic flavour. A lurid illustration of the monster Maffei , horsewhip in hand and naked circus-girl at his feet, reminds Bloom of circus cruelty to animals, of a sickening trapeze act, then of death, then of Dignam.