Cast 98. Page 549, line 205.
its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts:
Episode 17. This chapter is written entirely in a question-and-answer format. Shortly after 2 a.m., Bloom brings Stephen back to his house and, in the kitchen, turns on the tap to prepare cocoa for him.
“What in water did Bloom … admire?” In response to this question about Bloom’s perception of the properties of water, forty-three items are listed at great length.
The passage quoted in Cast 66 comes from the middle of that list. This Cast falls in the middle of the list and describes four of the properties.
- Imperturbability
- Gradation of colours
- Vehicular ramifications
- Violence
The word “maelstroms,” one of the last items in the list, appears in a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, A Descent into the Maelström (1841). The maelstrom refers to a powerful tidal current and the whirlpools it creates in the waters around Mosken Island in the Lofoten archipelago of Norway.
Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's story "Descent into the Maelstrom" by Harry Clarke (1919)
File:Maelstrom-Clarke rotated.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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