A pointsman’s back straightened itself upright suddenly
A pointsman’s back straightened itself upright suddenly against a tramway standard by Mr Bloom’s window. Couldn’t they invent something automatic so that the wheel itself much handier? Well but that fellow would lose his job then? Well but then another fellow would get a job making the new invention?
Episode 6. At about 11.00 am. Mr Bloom is
travelling by horse-drawn carriage across the city from the Dignam House in the
south-east of Dublin to Glasnevin Cemetery on the north-west edge of the city
to attend the funeral of his friend Mr Dignam. Ths passage is the thought of Mr
Bloom.
In the carriage are Stephen's father Simon
Dedalus, Jack Power, Martin Cunningham and Mr Bloom.
The four are seated facing each other.
Towards the direction of travel, Simon is thought to be sitting backwards at
the front left, Mr Cunningham next to him, Mr Power facing forwards opposite Mr
Power, and Mr Bloom next to Mr Power. It revises the ideas expressed in
the 35th issue of the blog, the reasons for which will be explained in a later
blog.
The carriage is travelling west on Great
Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street), which runs north of Westland Row Station
(now Pearse Station). The carriage is approaching the intersection with
Westland Row.
The tramway standards are thought to be the
ones shown on the postcard above. It stands in the middle of the road, so it
would be on the right from a carriage running on the left-hand side. It is
somewhat incongruous that it is visible from “Mr Bloom’s window”, who sits behind
the carriage on the left.
It is likely that at the junction, he
looked towards Westland Row, which runs to the left (south), and saw the standards
and pointsman on that row.
Mr Bloom loves inventing, and he comes up
with several inventions in this novel.
It is still often said that as artificial intelligence develops, people will lose their jobs, but people to create artificial intelligence will be needed instead. People have been thinking the same way for 100 years.
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