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I can't put this down, which is a problem, since each page takes me a hundred hours to read

Preparatory To Anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion, which he very badly needed. His (Stephen’s) mind was not exactly what you would call wandering but a bit unsteady and on his expressed desire for some beverage to drink Mr Bloom,..hit upon an expedient by suggesting,..the cabman’s shelter

Sobre la raza humana: “aquí como allí, permanecería inalterable e inalienablemente apegada a las vanidades, a las vanidades de vanidades y todo lo que es vanidad”