(He plodges through their sump towards the lighted street beyond.
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(He plodges through their sump towards the lighted street beyond. From a bulge of window curtains a gramophone rears a battered brazen trunk. In the shadow a shebeenkeeper haggles with the navvy and the two redcoats.)
THE NAVVY: (Belching.) Where’s the bloody house?
THE SHEBEENKEEPER: Purdon street. Shilling a bottle of stout. Respectable woman.
Episode 15. After midnight. Mr. Bloom
followed the two drunken men, Stephen and Lynch, to the brothel district.
Around the corner from Mabbot Street into Mecklenburg Street.
The two soldiers were probably Compton and
Carr, who would later conflict with Stephen. At the time, Dublin was a British
city and British soldiers wore red uniforms.
The gramophone also seems to be that appears later and plays The Holy City. (U413.2170)
I don't know what a trunk is, but I
understood it to be a trumpet because it is said to be brazen.
I don't understand "rear"
either.I understood it to mean something like "to stand up" or
"to lift up" in the dictionary.
The word "shebeen" is an Irish
term for a pub that serves liquor without a license.
In 1904, the regular pub closed at 11:00
p.m., but you could still drink in the shebeen . One shilling in those days was about
4 pounds. It may have been more expensive than the regular price, but it didn't
seem like an absurd rip-off.
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