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(Coldly.) You have the advantage of me. Lady Bloom accepts no presents.

This is indeed a festivity.

(Solemnly.) You call it a festivity. I call it a sacrament.

When will we have our own house of keys?

I stand for the reform of municipal morals and the plain ten commandments. New worlds for old. Union of all, jew, moslem and gentile. Three acres and a cow for all children of nature. Saloon motor hearses. Compulsory manual labour for all. All parks open to the public day and night. Electric dishscrubbers. Tuberculosis, lunacy, war and mendicancy must now cease. General amnesty, weekly carnival, with masked licence, bonuses for all, esperanto the universal brotherhood. No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors. Free money, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state.

Free fox in a free henroost.

(Yawning.) Iiiiiiiiiaaaaaaach!

Mixed races and mixed marriage.

What about mixed bathing?

(Bloom explains to those near him his schemes for social regeneration. All agree with him. The keeper of the Kildare Street museum appears, dragging a lorry on which are the shaking statues of several naked