section 51 of Ulysses. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Maggie Russell. Ulysses by James Joyce. Part 3, The Nostos. Episode 16, Yumees. Part 6.  In the nature of single-blessedness, he would one day take unto himself a wife when mis-right came on the scene, but in the interim, ladies' society was a condition of sine qua non, though he had the gravest possible doubts. Not that he wanted in the smallest to pump Stephen about Miss Ferguson, who was very possibly the particular lodestar who brought him down to Irishtown so early in the morning, as to whether he would find much satisfaction basking in the boy and girl courtship idea, and the company of smirking misses, without a penny to their names, buy or try weekly, with the orthodox preliminary canter of compliment playing and walking out leading up to fond lovers' ways and flowers and chocks. To think of him house and homeless, rooked by some landlady worse than any stepmother, was really too bad at his age. The queer suddenly things he popped out with attracted the elder man, who was several years the other senior, or like his father, but something substantial he certainly ought to eat, even were it only an egg-flip made on unadulterated maternal nutriments, or, failing that, the homely Humpty Dumpty boiled. At what o'clock did you dine, he questioned, of the slim form and tired though unwrinkled's face. Sometime yesterday, Stephen said, yesterday exclaimed Bloom till he remembered it was already tomorrow, Friday. Ah, you mean it's after twelve. The day before yesterday, Stephen said, improving on himself. Literally astounded at this piece of intelligence, Bloom reflected. Though they didn't see eye to eye in everything, a certain analogy there somehow was, as if both their minds were travelling, so to speak, in the one train of thought. At his age, when dabbling in politics roughly some score of years previously, when he had been a quasi-aspirant to parliamentary honours in the Buckshot foster days, he too recollected, in retrospect, which was a source of keen satisfaction in itself, he had a snaking regard for those same ultra-ideas. For instance, when the evicted tenants question, then at its first inception, bulked largely in people's minds, though it goes without saying, not contributing a copper, or pinning his faith absolutely to its dictums, some of which wouldn't exactly hold water, he, at the outset in principle at all events, was in thorough sympathy with peasant possession as voicing the trend of modern opinion. A partiality, however, which, realizing his mistake, he was subsequently partially cured of. And even was twitted with going a step farther than Michael Davit, in the striking views he at one time inculcated as a back-to-the-lander, which was one reason he strongly resented the innuendo put upon him, in so bare-faced a fashion by our friend, at the gathering of the clans in Barney Kiernitz, so that he, though often considerably misunderstood, and the least pugnacious of mortals, be it repeated, departed from his customary habit to give him, metaphorically, one in the gizzard. Though so far as politics themselves were concerned, he was only too conscious of the casualties invariably resulting from propaganda and displays of mutual animosity and the misery and suffering it entailed as a foregone conclusion on fine young fellows. Chiefly, destruction of the fittest in a word. Anyhow, upon weighing up the pros and cons, getting on for one as it was, it was high time to be retiring for the night. The crux was it was a bit risky to bring him home, as eventualities might possibly ensue, somebody having a temper of her own sometimes, and spoil the hash altogether, as on the night he misguidedly brought home a dog, breed unknown, with a lame paw. Not that the cases were either identical or the reverse, though he had hurt his hand too, to Ontario Terrace, as he very distinctly remembered, having been there, so to speak. On the other hand, it was altogether far and away too late for the Sandy Mount or Sandy Cove suggestion, so that he was in some perplexity as to which of the two alternatives everything pointed to the fact that it behooved him to avail himself to the full of the opportunity, all things considered. His initial impression was he was a shade standoffish, or not over-refusive, but it grew on him some way. For one thing, he might not wish to call jump at the idea if approached, and what mostly worried him was he didn't know how to lead up to him, or worded exactly, supposing he did entertain the proposal, as it would afford him very great personal pleasure if he would allow him to help to put coin in his way, or some wardrobe if found suitable. At all events he wound up by concluding, eschewing for the non-sidebound precedent a cup of Epps Coakle and a shakedown for the night, plus the use of a rug or two, and overcoat doubled into a pillow. At least he would be in safe hands and as warm as a toast on a trivet. He failed to perceive any very vast amount of harm in that. Always with a proviso, no rumpus of any sort was kicked up. A move had to be made because that merry old soul, the grass would wear in question, who appeared to be glued to the spot, didn't appear in any particular hurry to went his way home to his dearly beloved Queenstown, and it was highly likely some sponger's body-house of retired beauties where age was no-bar, off Sheriff's Street lower, would be the best clue to that equivocal character's whereabouts for a few days to come, alternately wracking their feelings, the mermaids, with six chamber revolver anecdotes, verging on the tropical, calculated to freeze the marrow of anybody's bones, and mauling their large-sized charms between wells, with rough and tumble gusto, to the accompaniment of large petitions of protein and the usual blarney about himself. For as to who he in reality was, let X equal my right name and address, as Mr. Algebra remarks, Pasim. At the same time he inwardly chuckled over his gentle repartee to the Blood and Oons champion about his God being a Jew. People could put up with being bitten by a wolf, but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep. The most vulnerable point, too, of Tender Achilles. Here God was a Jew. Because mostly they appeared to imagine he came from Caragon Shannon, who are somewhere abouts in the county's lago. I propose, our hero eventually suggested, after a mature reflection, while prudently pocketing her photo. As it's rather stuffy here, you just come home with me and talk things over. My statements are quite close in the vicinity. You can't drink that stuff. Do you like cocoa? Wait, I'll just pay this lot. The best plan clearly being to clear out. The remains are being plain sailing. He beckoned, while prudently pocketing the photo, to the keeper of the shanty, who didn't seem to... Yes, that's the best, he assured Stephen, to whom for the matter of that brazen head, or him, or anywhere else, was all more or less... All kinds of utopian plans were flashing through his, bee's, busy brain. Education, the genuine article. Literature, journalism, prized tidbits, up-to-date billing, concert tours in English watering resorts, packed with hydros and seaside theaters, turning money away, duets in Italian with the accent perfectly true to nature, and a quantity of other things. No necessity, of course, to tell the world and to the wife from the house tops about it, and a slice of luck. An opening was always wanted, because he more than suspected was the father's voice to bank his hopes on, which it was quite on the cards he had. So it would be just as well, by the way no harm, to trail the conversation in the direction of that particular red herring, just to... The cabbie read out of the paper he had got hold of, that the former viceroy, Earl Cadigan, had presided the cab-driver's association dinner in London somewhere. Silence, with a yawn or two, accompanied this thrilling announcement. Then the old specimen in the corner, who appeared to have some spark of vitality left, read out that Sir Anthony McDonald had left Euston for the Chief Secretary's Lodge. Or words to that effect. To which absorbing piece of intelligence Echo answered why. Give us a squint at that literature, grandfather. The ancient mariner put in, manifesting some natural impatience. And welcome, answered the elderly party, thus addressed. The sailor lugged out from a case he had, a pair of greenish goggles, which he very slowly hooked over his nose and both ears. Are you bad in the eyes? The sympathetic personage like the town clerk queried. Why, answered the seafarer with a tartan beard, who seemingly was a bit of a literary cove in his own small way, staring out of sea-green portholes, as you might well describe them as. I use this goggles reading. Sand in the red seed on that. One time I could read a book in the dark, men are speaking. The Arabian knight's entertainment was my favorite, and red as a rose as she. Hereupon he pod the journal open and poured upon, Lord only knows what, found round, or the exploits of King Willow, ironmonger, having made a hundred and something second wicket, not out for knots. During which time, completely regardless of iron, the keeper was intensely occupied, loosening an apparently new or second-hand boot, which manifestly pinched him, as he muttered against whoever it was sold it. All of them, who were sufficiently awake enough to be picked out by their facial expressions, that is to say, either simply looking on, glumly, or passing a trivial remark. To cut a long story short, Bloom grasping the situation was the first to rise from his seat, so as not to outstay their welcome. Having first and foremost, being as good as his word, that he would foot the bill for the occasion, taken the wise precaution to unobtrusively motion to mine-host, as a parting shot, a scarcely perceptible sign, when the others were not looking, to the effects that the amount to do was forthcoming, making a grand total of four pence. The amount he deposited unobtrusively in four coppers, literally the last of the Mohicans. He having previously spotted on the printed price list, for all who ran to read opposite him, and unmistakable figures, coffee, 2D, confectionery, deal, and honestly, well worth twice the money, once in a way, as weather abuse remark. Come, he counseled, to close the sands. Seeing that the ruse worked, and the coast was clear, they left the shelter, or shanty, together, and the elite society of oil-skin and company, whom nothing short of an earthquake would move out of their doce far niente. Stephen, who confessed to still feeling poorly and fagged out, paused at the—from moment—the door. One thing I never understood, he said, to be original on the spur of the moment. Why they put tables upside down at night? I mean, chairs upside down on the tables, in cafes. The switch impromptu, the never-failing gloom, replied, without a moment's hesitation, saying straight off, to sweep the floor in the morning, so saying he skipped around, nimbly considering, frankly at the same time apologetic to get on his companion's right, a habit of his, by the by, his right side being, in classical idiom, his tender achilles. The night air was certainly now a treat to breathe, though Stephen was a bit weak on his pins. It will, there, do you good? Bloom said, meaning also the walk. In a moment, the only thing is to walk and then you'll feel a different man. Come, it's not far. Lean on me. Accordingly, he passed his left arm in Stephen's right and let him on accordingly. Yes, Stephen said, uncertainly, because he thought he felt a strange kind of flesh of a different man approach him, sinulous and wobbly and all that. Anyhow, they passed the sentry box with stones, braziers, et cetera, where the municipal supernumery, ex-gumny, was still to all intents and purposes wrapped in the arms of Murphy, as the adit has it, dreaming of fresh fields and pastures new. And apropos of coffin of stones, the analogy was not at all bad, as it was in fact a stoning to death on the part of 72 out of 80 odd constituencies that ratted at the time of the split, and chiefly the bull-outed peasant class, probably the self-same evicted tenants he had put in their holdings. So they turned on to chatting about music, a form of art for which Bloom, as a pure amateur possessed the greatest love, as they made tracks arm in arm across Beresford Place. Wagnerian music, though confessedly grand in its way, was a bit too heavy for Bloom and hard to follow with the first go-off, but the music of Mercadantes Huguenots, Meyerbeer's seven last words on the cross, and Mozart's twelfth mass he simply reveled in, the gloria in that being to his mind, the acme of first-class music as such, literally knocking everything else into a cocktail. He infinitely preferred the sacred music of the Catholic Church to anything the opposite shop could offer in that line, such as those moody and sanky hymns, or bid me to live and I will live thy Protestant to be. He also yielded to none in his admiration of Rossini's Tabar Mater, a work simply abounding in immortal numbers, in which his wife, Madam Marian Tweedie Miraher, a veritable sensation, he might safely say, greatly adding to her other laurels and putting the others totally in the shade in the Jesuit Father's Church in Upper Gardener Street. The sacred edifice being thronged to the doors to hear her with virtuosos, or virtuosi rather. There was the unanimous opinion that there was none to come up to her. And suffice it to say, in a place of worship for music of a sacred character, there was a generally voiced desire for an encore. On the whole, though favoring preferably light opera of the Don Giovanni description, and Martha, a gem in its line, he had a penchant, though with only a surface knowledge, for the severe classical school, such as Mendelssohn. And talking of that, taking it for granted, as he knew all about the Old Favorites, he mentioned Par excellence, Lionel's air, and Martha, Mapadi, which curiously enough, he had heard, or overheard, to be more accurate, on yesterday, a privilege he keenly appreciated from the lips of Stephen's respected father, sung to perfection, a study of the number, in fact, which made all the others take a back seat. Stephen, in reply to a politely put query, said he didn't sing it, and launched out into praises of Shakespeare's songs, at least of Inor about that period. The Lutonist, Dowland, who lived in Federlein, near Gerard the Herbalist, who Anoludendohausi, Dulandus, an instrument he was contemplating purchasing for Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch, whom he did not quite recall, though the name certainly sounded familiar, for sixty-five guineas, and Farnaby and Son, with their dukes and calm conceits, and William, who played the virginals, he said, in the Queen's Chapel, or anywhere else he found them, and one Tompkins, who made toys or airs, and John Bull. On the roadway, which they were approaching, whilst still speaking, beyond the swing-chains a horse dragging a sweeper, paced on the pavement grounds, brushing a long swath of mire up, so that with the noise, Bloom was not perfectly certain, whether he had caught a right, and on bull. He inquired if it was John Bull the political celebrity of that ilk, as it struck him, the two identical names, as a striking coincidence.  They thereupon stopped. Bloom looked at the head of a horse, not worth anything like sixty-five guineas, suddenly in evidence, in the dark, quite near, so that it seemed new, a different grouping of bones, and even flesh, because, palpably, it was a four-walker, a hip-shaker, a black butcher, a tailed angler, a head-hanger, putting his hind foot foremost, the while the lord of his creation sat on the perch, busy with his thoughts. But such a good poor brute, he was sorry he hadn't a lump of sugar, but, as he wisely reflected, you could scarcely be prepared for every emergency that might crop up. He was just a big, nervous, foolish, noodly kind of a horse, without a second care in the world, but even a dog he reflected, take that mongrel, in Barney Kiernan's of the same size, would be a holy horror to face. But it was no animal's fault in particular, if he was spilt that way, like the camel, ship of the desert, distilling grapes into protein in his hump. Nine-tenths of them all could be caged or trained, nothing beyond the art of man barring the bees. Whale with a harpoon, hairpin, alligator tickle the small of his back, and he sees the joke. Chock a circle for a rooster, tiger my eagle eye. These timely reflections and the roots of the fields occupied his mind, somewhat distracted from Stephen's words, while the ship of the street was maneuvering. And Stephen went on, about the highly interesting old What's this I was saying? Ah yes, my wife, he intimated, plunging in, would have the greatest of pleasure in making her acquaintance as she's passionately attached to music of any kind. He looked sideways in a friendly fashion, at the side-face of Stephen, image of his mother, which was not quite the same as the usual handsome blackguard type they unquestionably had an insatiable hangering after, as he was perhaps not that way built. Still, supposing he had his father's gift, as he more than suspected, it opened up new vistas in his mind, such as Lady Fingal's Irish Industries concert on the preceding Monday and aristocracy in general. In the quizid variations he was now describing, on an air, Youth Here Has End, by Jans-Peters Wilnik, a Dutchman of Amsterdam, where the frows come from. Even more, he liked an old German song of Johannes Yeap, about the clear sea and the voices of sirens, sweet murderers of men, which boggled bloom a bit. Wonder, see, then, and is the kite these opening bars he sang in translated extempore bloom nodding said he perfectly understood and begged him to go on by all means, which he did. A phenomenally beautiful tenor voice like that, the rarest of boons, which bloom appreciated at the very first note he got out, could easily, if properly handled, by some recognized authority on voice production, such as Baraklau, and being able to read music into the bargain, command its own price, where baritones were ten a penny, and procure for its fortunate possessor in the near future, an entree into fashionable houses in the best residential quarters of financial magnets in a large way of business and titled people, where with his university degree of BA, a huge ad in its way, and gentlemanly bearing to all the more influence the good impression he would infallibly score a distinct success, being blessed with brains, which also could be utilized for the purpose and other requisites. If his clothes were properly attended to so as to better worm his way into their good graces, as he, a youthful tyro in society's sartorial niceties, hardly understood how a little thing like that could militate against you. It was in fact only a matter of months, and he could easily foresee him participating in their musical and artistic conversaciones during the festivities of the Christmas season, for choice, causing a slight flutter in the dove coats of the fair sex, and being made a lot of by ladies out for sensation. Cases of which, as he happened to know, were on record, in fact, without giving the show away, he himself, once upon a time, if he cared to, could easily have added to which, of course, would be the pecuniary emolument by no means to be sneezed at, going hand-in-hand with his tuition fees. Not he parenthesized that for the sake of filthy lucre he'd ne'ed necessarily embrace the lyric platform as a walk in life for any lengthy space of time, but a step in the required direction, it was, beyond yea or nay, and both monetarily and mentally, it contained no reflection on his dignity in the smallest, and it often turned in uncommonly handy to be handed a check at a much needed moment, when every little helped. Besides, though taste latterly had deteriorated to a degree, original music like that, different from the conventional rut, would rapidly have a great vogue, as it would be a decided novelty for Dublin's musical world, after the usual hackneyed run of catchy tenor solos foisted on a confiding public by Ivan St. Austel and Hilton St. Just, in their genus omni. Yes, beyond a shadow of a doubt, he could, with all the cards in his hands, and he had a capital opening to make a name for himself, and win a high place in the city's esteem, where he could command a stiff figure and, booking ahead, give a grand concert for the patrons of the King Street House, given a backer-up, if one were forthcoming, to kick him upstairs, so to speak, a big if, however, with some impetus of the go-aheads-sort to aviate the inevitable procrastination, which often tripped up a too much-fetted prince of good fellows. And it need not detract from the other by one Iota, as, being his own master, he would have heaps of time practice literature in his bare moments, when desires of doing so, without its clashing with his vocal career or containing anything derogatory whatsoever, as it was a matter for himself alone. In fact, he had the ball at his feet, and that was the very reason why the other possessed of a remarkably sharp nose for smelling a rat, of any sort, hung on to him at all. The horse was just then, and later on, at a propitious opportunity he purposed, loomed in, without any way prying into his private affairs on the full step-in where Angel's principal, advising him to sever his connection with a certain budding practitioner, who, he noticed, was prone to disparage and even to a slight extent with some hilarious pretext when not present, deprecate him, or whatever you like to call it, which in Bloom's humble opinion threw a nasty sidelight on that side of a person's character, no pun intended. The horse, having reached the end of his tether, so to speak, halted, and, rearing high, a proud feathering tail, added his quota, by letting fall on the floor, which the brush would soon brush up and polish, three smoking globes of turds, slowly, three times, one after another, from a full cropper he mired, and he mainly his driver waited till he, or she, had ended, patient in his sithed car. Side by side Bloom, profiting by the contra-toms, with Stephen pass through the gap of the chains divided by the upright, and stepping over a strand of mire went across toward Gardiner Street lower, Stephen singing, more boldly, but not loudly, the end of the ballad. The driver never said a word, good, bad, or indifferent, but merely watched the two figures, as he sat on his low-backed car, both black, one full, one lean, walked toward the railway bridge to be married by Father Mare. As they walked, they at times stopped and walked again, continuing their tete-a-tete, which of course he was utterly out of, about sirens, enemies of man's reason, mingled with a number of other topics of the same category. Usurpers, historical cases of the kind, while the man in the sweeper-car, or you might as well call it in the sleeper-car, who in any case couldn't possibly hear because they were too far, simply sat in his seat near the end of Lower Gardiner Street and looked after their low-backed car. End of Section 51 Section 52 of Ulysses. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by John K. Thomas. Ulysses by James Joyce. Part 3, The Nostos. Episode 17, Ithaca. Part 1. What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning? Starting United, both at normal walking pace from Barrisford Place, they followed in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner Streets and Mount Joy Square West. Then, at reduced pace, each bearing left Gardiner's Place by an Inadventence as the farther corner of Temple Street. Then, at reduced pace, with interruptions of halt bearing right, Temple Street north as far as Hardwood Place. Approaching Disparate at relaxed walking pace, they crossed both the Circus before Georgia's Church diametrically. Accord in any circle being less than the Ark, which it subtends. Of what did the Dumvrate deliberate during their itinerary? Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of Ark and glow lamps on the growth of adjoining heliotropic trees, exposed corporation emergency dust buckets, the Roman Catholic Church, ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish nation, Jesuit education, careers, the study of medicine, the past day, the maleficent influence of the presbyth, Stevens Collapse. Did Bloom discover common factors of similarity between their respective like reactions to experience? Both were sensitive to artistic impressions, musical in preference to plastic or pictorial. Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of life, a sysatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence. Both, by early domestic training and an inherited tenacity of heterodox resistance, professed their disbelief to many orthodox, religious, national, social and ethical doctrines. Both admitted the alternately stimulating and uptounding influence of heterosexual magnetism. Were their views on some points divergent? Steven descended openly from Bloom's views on the importance of dietary and civic self-help, while Bloom descended tacitly from Stevens views on the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man and literature. Bloom assented covertly to Stevens' rectification of the anachronism involved in assigning the date of the conversion of the Irish nation to Christianity from Judaism by Patrick, son of Calpranus, son of Potitus, son of Odysseus. Sent by Pope Celestine the first in the year 432 in the reign of Leary to the year 260, or their abouts in the reign of Cormac McCart died 266 AD, suffocated by imperfect deglutition of aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnery. The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inination and certain chemical compounds of varying degrees of adulteration and alcoholic strength accelerated by mental exertion and velocity of rapid circular motion in a relaxing atmosphere, Steven attributed to the re-apparition of a matutinal cloud perceived by both from two different point of observation, Sandy Cove and Dublin at first no bigger than a woman's hand. Was there one point on which their views were equal and negative? The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of adjoining periheliotropic trees had Bloom discussed similar subjects during nocturnal perambulations in the past in 1884 with Owen Goldberg and Cecil Turnbull at night on public thoroughfares between Longwood Avenue and Leonard's Corner and Leonard's Corner and St. St. and St. Street and Bloomfield Avenue. In 1885 with Percy Apjohn in the evenings reclined against the wall between Gibraltar Villa and Bloomfield House in Kremlin Barony of Upper Cross. In 1886 occasionally with casual acquaintances and prospective purchasers on doorsteps in front parlours in third class railway carriages of suburban lines. In 1888 frequently with Major Brian Tweedy and his daughter Miss Marion Tweedy together and separately on the lounge in Matthew Dillon's House in Roundtown once in 1892 and once in 1893 with Julius Giuda Mastianski on both occasions in the parlour of his Bloom's House on Lombard Street West a reflection concerning the irregular sequence of dates 1884, 1885 1886, 1888 1892, 1893, 1904 did Bloom make before their arrival at their destination? He reflected that the progressive extension of the field of individual development and experience was regressively accompanied by a restriction of the converse domain of inter-individual relations as in what ways? From inexistence to existence he came to many and was as one received existence with existence he was with any as any with any from existence to non-existence gone he would be by all as none perceived. What act did Bloom make on their arrival at their destination? At the house steps of the fourth of the equidifferent uneven numbers number seven Eclos Street he inserted his hand mechanically into the back pocket of his trousers to obtain his latch key. Was it there? It was in the corresponding pocket of the trousers which he had worn on the day but one proceeding. Why was he doubly irritated? Because he had forgotten as he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget. What were then the alternatives before the premeditatedly respectively and inadvertently keyless couple? To enter or not to enter to knock or not to knock? Bloom's decision? A stratagem resting his feet on the dwarf wall he climbed over the area railings that on his head grasped two points at the lower union of rails and styles, lowered his body gradually by its length of five feet nine inches and a half to within two feet ten inches of the area pavement and allowed his body to move freely in space by separating himself from the railings and crouching in preparation for the impact of the fall. Did he fall? By his body's own weight of eleven stone and four pounds in Avoir du Poit measure certified by the graduated machine for periodical self-waying in the premises of Francis Froedman, pharmaceutical chemist of 19 Frederick Street north at the last feast of the ascension to Witt the twelfth day of May of the Bissextile year 1904 of the Christian era Jewish era 5664 Mohamedan era 1322 Golden number five E.Pact 13, solar cycle nine Domenical letter C.B. Roman Indiction 2, Julian period 6617 MCM IV Did he rise uninjured by concussion? Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by the impact raised the latch of the aeridor by the exertion of force at its freely moving flange and leverage of the first kind applied at its fulcrum gained retarded access to the kitchen through the sub adjacent scullery ignited a lucifer match by friction set free, inflammable coal gas by turning on the vent cock lit a high flame which by regulating he reduced to kieshant kendescence and lit finally a portable candle What discrete succession of images did Stephen meanwhile perceive? Reclined against the area railings he perceived through the transparent kitchen panes a man regulating a gas flame of 14 C.P. a man lighting a candle of one C.P. a man removing in turn each of his two boots a man leaving the kitchen holding a candle Did the man reappear elsewhere? After a lapse of four minutes the glimmer of his candle was discernible through the semi-transparent semi-circular glass fan light over the hall door the hall door turned gradually on its hinges in the open space of the doorway and reappeared without his hat with his candle Did Stephen obey his sign? Yes, entering softly he helped to close and change the door and followed softly along the hallway the man's back and listed feet and lighted candle passed a lighted crevice of doorway on the left and carefully down a turning staircase of more than five steps into the kitchen of Bloom's house What did Bloom do? He extinguished the candle by a sharp expiration of breath upon its flame drew two spoon-seat deal chairs to the hearthstone one for Stephen with its back to the area window the other for himself, when necessary knelt on one knee composed in the grate a pyre of cross-laid resin-tipped sticks and various colored papers and ray-gons and best Abram Coal at 21 shillings a ton from the yard of Messer's flower and Middonald of 14 Dullier Street kindled it at three projecting points of paper with one ignited Lucifer match thereby releasing the potential energy contained in the fuel by allowing its carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union of the air. Of what similar apparitions did Stephen think? Of others elsewhere and other times who kneeling on one knee or on two had kindled fires for him of Brother Michael in the infirmary of the College of the Society of Jesus at Clongoes Wood Salins in the County of Kildare of his father Simon Dedalus in an unfurnished room of his first residence in Dublin number 13 Fitzgibbon Street of his godmother Miss Kate Morkan in the house of her dying sister Miss Julia Morkan at 15 Usher's Island of his aunt Sarah wife of Richie Richard Goulding in the kitchen of their lodgings at 62 Clan Brassel Street of his mother Mary wife of Simon Dedalus in the kitchen of number 12 North Richmond Street in the morning of the Feast of St. Francis Xavier 1898 of the Dean of Studies Father Butt in the Physics Theatre of University College 16 Stevens Green North of his sister Dilly in his father's house in Cabra What did Stevens see on raising his gaze at the sight of a yard from the fire towards the opposite wall? Under row a five coiled spring housebells a curvilinear rope stretched between two holdfasts a thwart across the recess beside the chimney pier from which hung four small-sized square handkerchiefs folded unattached consecutively in adjacent rectangles and one pair with his grey hose with lial suspender tops and feet in their habitual position clamped by three erect wooden pegs two at their outer extremities and a third at their point of junction What did Bloom see on the range? On the right smaller hob a blue enameled saucepan on the left larger hob a black iron kettle What did Bloom do at the range? He removed the saucepan to the left hob rose and carried the iron kettle to the sink in order to tap the current by turning the faucet to let it flow. Did it flow? Yes, from Roundwood Reservoir and County Wicklow of a cubic capacity of 2400 million gallons percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of filter mains and double pipage constructed at initial plant cost of 5 pounds per linear yard by way of the Dargle Rathdown Glen of the Downs and Callow Hill to the 26 acre reservoir at Still Organ a distance of 22 statute miles and then through a system of relieving tanks by gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at Eustis Bridge Upper Leeson Street though from prolonged summer drought and daily supply of 12 and a half million gallons the water had fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the Borough Surveyor and Water Works Engineer Mr. Spencey Hart ECE on the instructions of the Water Works Committee had prohibited the use of municipal water for purposes other than those of consumption envisaging the possibility of recourse being had to the impotable water of the Grand and Royal Canals as in 1893 particularly as the South Dublin Guardians notwithstanding the ration of 15 gallons per day per popper supplied through a 6 inch meter had been convicted of a wastage of 20,000 gallons per night by a reading of their meter on the affirmation of the law agent of the corporation Mr. Ignatius Rice Solicitor thereby acting to the detriment of another section of the public self-supporting taxpayers' solvent sound what in water did Bloom water lover, drawer of water water carrier return to the range admire versality its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's projection its unplumbed profundity in the sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8,000 fathoms the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard the independence of its units of sea its hydrostatic kieshants in calm its hydrokinetic tergidity in neap and spring tides its subsidence after devastation its sterility in the circumpolar ice caps arctic and Antarctic its climatic and commercial significance its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe its indisputable hegemony its square leagues over all the region below the sub equatorial tropic of Capricorn the multi-secular stability of its primval basin its lutefulvis bed its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the most precious metals its slow erosions of peninsulas and islands its persistent formation homothetic islands peninsulas and downward tending promontaries its alluvial deposits its weight and volume and density its impertability in lagoons in highland tarnes its gradation of colors in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones its vehicular ramifications in continental lake-contained streams and confluent ocean-flowing rivers with their tributaries and trans-oceanic currents Gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses its violence in sea quakes waterspouts, artesian wells eruptions, torrents eddies, freshets spates, groundswells watersheds, water partings, geysers cataracts, whirlpools maelstroms, inundations deluges cloudbursts its vast circumterrestrial a-horizontal curve its secrecy in springs and latent humidity revealed by rabba-domantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at ashtown gate saturation of air distillation of dew the simplicity of its consumption two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen its healing virtues its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies inadequate dams leaks on ship-board its properties for cleansing quenching thirst and fire nourishing vegetation its invalibility as paradigm and paragon its metamorphoses as vapor, mist cloud, rain, sleet snow, hail its strength in rigid hydrants its variety of forms in lofts and bays and gulfs and bites and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of the sea its solidity in glaciers, icebergs ice flows in working hydraulic mill wheels turbines dynamoes electric power stations bleach works tanneries scotch mills its utility in canals, rivers if navigable, floating and graving docks its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or water courses falling from level to level its submarine fauna and flora anacoustic photophobe numerically, if not literally the inhabitants of the globe its ubiquity as constituting 90% of the human body the noxiousness of its effluvia in lecustrine marshes pestilential fens faded flower water stagnant pools in the waning moon having set the half-filled kettle on the now-burning coals why did he return to the still-flowing tap? to wash his soiled hands with a partially consumed tablet of Barrington's lemon-flavored soap two which, paper, still adhered bought 13 hours previously for four pence and still unpaid for in fresh could never-changing ever-changing water and dry them face and hands in a long red-bordered holland cloth passed over a wooden revolving roller what reason did Stephen give for declining Bloom's offer? that he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact, by immersion or total submersion in cold water his last bath having taken place in the month of October of the preceding year disliking the aqueous substances of glass and crystal, distrusting aqueosities of thought and language what impeded Bloom from giving Stephen councils of hygiene and prophylactic to which should be added suggestions concerning a preliminary wedding of the head and contraction of the muscles with rapid splashing of the face and neck and thoracic an epigastric region in case of sea or river bathing the parts of the human anatomy most sensitive to cold being the nape, stomach and thenar or solar foot the incompatibility of aqueosity with the erratic originality of genius what additional didactic councils did he similarly repress? dietary, concerning the respective percentage of protein and caloric energy in bacon, saltling and butter, the absence of the former in the last named and the abundance of the latter in the first named which seemed to the host to be the predominant qualities of his guest confidence in himself and equal and opposite power of abandonment and recuperation what concomitant phenomenon took place in the vessel of liquid by the agency of fire the phenomenon of evolution fanned by a constant updraft of ventilation between the kitchen and the chimney flew, ignition was communicated from the faggots of pre combustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal containing in compressed mineral form the foliated fossilized decidua of primval forests which had in turn derived their vegetative existence from the sun, primal source of heat, radiant, transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diatherminous ether, heat emitted, a mode of motion developed by such combustion was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the source of colorification to the liquid contained in the vessel being radiated through the uneven unpolished dark surface of the metal iron in part reflected, in part absorbed in part transmitted gradually raising the temperature of the water from normal to boiling point of temperature, expressible as the result of an expenditure of 72 thermal units needed to raise one pound of water from 50 degrees to 212 degrees Fahrenheit what announced the accomplishment of this rise in temperature a double falsiform ejection of water vapor from under the kettle lid at both sides simultaneously for what personal purpose could bloom have applied the water so boiled to shave himself what advantages attended shaving by night a softer beard, a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from shave to shave in its agglutinated lather a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at in customary hours quiet reflections upon the course of the day a cleaner sensation when waking after a fresh or sleep since met two tonal noises premonitions and perturbations a clattered milk can a postman's double knock a paper read, reread while lathering relathering the same spot a shock, a shoot with thought of ought he sought from fraught with not might cause a faster rate of shaving and a nick on which incision plaster with precision cut and humectant and applied adhered which was to be done why did absence of light disturb him less than presence of noise because the surety of the sense of touch in his firm full masculine feminine passive active hand what quality did it his hand possess but with what counteracting influence the operative surgical quality but that he was reluctant to shed human blood even when the end justified the means preferring in the natural order psychotherapy psychophysicotherapeutics osteopathic surgery what lay under exposure on the lower middle and upper shelves of the kitchen dresser open by bloom on the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates six horizontal breakfast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups a mustache cup uninverted and saucer of crown derby four white gold rimmed egg cups an open shammy purse displaying coins mostly copper and a file of aromatic violet comfits on the middle shelf a chipped egg cup containing pepper a drum of table salt four conglomerated black olives in oleaginous paper an empty pot of plum trees potted meat an oval wicker basket bedded with fiber and containing one jersey pair a half empty bottle of William Gillby and Co's white invalid port half disrobed of its swathe of coral pink tissue a packet of Epps sullable cocoa five ounces of Anne Lynch's choice tea at two per pound in a crinkled lead paper bag a cylindrical canister containing the best crystallized lump sugar two onions one larger, Spanish, entire the other smaller Irish bisected with augmented surface and more redolent a jar of Irish model dairy's cream a jug of brown crockery containing a naggin and a quarter of a soured adulterated milk converted by heat into water a sigilous serum and semi-solidified curds which added to the quantity attracted for Mr. Bloom's and Mrs. Fleming's breakfasts made one imperial pint the total quantity originally delivered two cloves a half penny and the small dish containing a slice of fresh rib steak on the upper shelf a battery of jam jars empty of various sizes and proveniences what attracted his attention lying on the apron of the dresser four polygonal fragments of two lacerated scarlet betting tickets numbered 887-886 what reminiscences temporarily corrugated his brow reminiscences of coincidences truth, stranger than fiction pre-indicative on the result of the gold cup flat handicap the official and definitive result of which he had read in the evening telegraph, late pink edition in the cab men's shelter at butt bridge where had previous intimations of the result affected or projected been received by him in Bernard Kiernan's licensed premises eight nine and ten little britain street in david bern's licensed premises fourteen duke street in o'connell street lower outside gram lemons the duke man had placed in his hand a throwaway, subsequently thrown away advertising elysia restorer of the church and zion in lincoln place outside the premises of fw swinian co-limited dispensing chemists when when fredrick m bantem lions had rapidly and successively requested perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the freeman's journal and national press the man about to throw away subsequently thrown away he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the turkish and warm baths eleven leinster street with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and the bearing in his arms the secret of the race graven in the language of prediction what qualifying considerations laid his perturbations the difficulties of interpretation since the significance of any event followed its occurrence as variably as the acoustic report followed the electrical discharge and of counterestimating against an actual loss by failure to interpret the total sum of possible losses proceeding originally from a successful interpretation his mood he had not risked he did not expect he had not been disappointed he was satisfied what satisfied him to have sustained no positive loss to have brought a positive gain to others light to the gentiles how did bloom prepare a collation for a gentile he poured into two teacups two level spoonfuls four and all of eps soluble cocoa and proceeded according to the directions for use printed on the label to each adding after sufficient time the prescribed ingredients for diffusion in the manner and in the quantity prescribed what superrogatory marks of special hospitality did the host show his guests relinquishing his symposium right to the mustache cup of imitation crown derby presented to him by his only daughter millison milley he substituted a cup identical with that of his guest and served extraordinarily to his guest and in reduced measure to himself the viscous cream ordinarily reserved for the breakfast of his wife maryon molly was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge these marks of hospitality his attention was directed to them by his host yoko sleigh and he accepted them seriously as they drank in yoko serious silence eps mass product the creature koko were their marks of hospitality which he contemplated but suppressed reserving them for another and for himself on future occasions to complete the act begun the reparation of a fissure of the length of one and a half inches in the right side of his guest's jacket a gift to his guest of one of the four ladies the drinker shifts if and when ascertained to be in a presentable condition who drank more quickly bloom having advantage of ten seconds at the initiation and taking from the concave surface of a spoon along the handle of which a steady flow of heat was conducted three sips to his opponents one six to two nine to three what celebration accompanied his frequentative act concluding by inspection but erroneously that his silent companion was engaged in mental composition he reflected on the pleasures derived from literature and instruction rather than of amusement as he himself had applied the works of William Shakespeare more than once for the solution of difficult problems in imaginary or real life had he found their solution in spite of careful and repeated learning of certain classical passages aided by a glossary he had derived imperfect conviction from the text the answers not bearing in all points what lines concluded his first piece of original verse written by him potential poet at the age of eleven in 1877 on the occasion of the offering of three prizes of ten, five and two, six respectively for competition by the shamrock a weekly newspaper an ambition to squint at my verses in print makes me hope that for these you'll find room if you so condescend then please place at the end the name of yours truly L. Bloom did he find four separating forces between his temporary guest and him name, age, race, creed what anagrams had he made on his name in youth Leopold Bloom L. Podd Balmoul Mole Dope Lube Bolo Pidume Old Olibo M.P. what a crostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he, kinetic poet sent to Miss Marion Molly Tweedy on the 14th February 1888 poets often have sung in rhyme of music sweet their praise divine let them hymn at nine times nine dearer far than song or wine you are mine the world is mine what had prevented him from completing a topical song music by R.G. Johnston on the events of the past or fixtures for the actual years entitled if Brian Borough could but come back and see Old Dublin now commissioned by Michael Gunn Lassie of the Gayley Theatre 46, 47, 48, 49 South King Street and to be introduced into the sixth scene the Valley of Diamonds of the second edition 30 January 1893 of the grand annual Christmas pantomime Sinbad the Sailor produced by R. Shelton 26 December 1892 written by Greenleaf Whittier scenery by George A. Jackson and Cecil Hicks costumes by Misses and Miss Wheatland under the personal supervision of Mrs. Michael Gunn Ballets by Jesse Noir Harlequinade by Thomas Otto and Song by Nelly Buvarist Principal Girl Firstly, oscillation between events of Imperial and of local interest the anticipated diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria born 1820 exceeded 1837 and the post-dissipated opening of the new municipal fish market Secondly, apprehension of opposition from extreme circles on the questions of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York of his Majesty King Brian Boru imaginary Thirdly, a conflict between professional etiquette and professional emulation concerning the recent erections of the Grand Lyric Hall and Burg Quay and the Theatre Royal in Hawken Street Fourthly, distraction resultant from compassion for Nelly Buvarist's intellectual, non-political non-topical expression of countenance and concupiscence caused by Nelly Buvarist's revelations of white articles of non-intellectual, non-political non-topical underclothing while she, Nelly Buvarist was in the articles Fifthly, the difficulties of the selection of appropriate music and humor solutions from everybody's book of jokes and a laugh in every one Sixthly, the rhymes homophonous and cacophonous associated with the names of the new Lord Mayor Daniel Tellen the new High Sheriff Thomas Pyle and the new Solicitor General Dunbar Plunkett Barton What relation existed between their ages? Sixteen years before in 1888 when Bloom was of Stephen's present age Stephen was six Sixteen years after in 1920 when Stephen would be of Bloom's present age, Bloom would be 54. In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54, their ages initially, in the ratio of 16 to 0, would be as 17.5 to 13.5 the proportion increasing and the disparity diminishing according as arbitrary future years were added. Four if the proportion existing in 1883 had continued immutable conceiving that to be possible till then 1904 when Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in 1920 when Stephen would be 38 as Bloom then was Bloom would be 646 well in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum post-deluvin age of 70 being 1190 years alive having been born in the year 714 would have surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age that of Methusala 1969 years while if Stephen would continue to live until he would attain that age in the year 3072 AD Bloom would have obliged to have been alive 83300 years having been obliged to have been born in the year 81396 BC what events might nullify these calculations the cessation of existence of both or either the inauguration of a new era or calendar the annihilation of the world and consequent extermination of the human species inevitable but how many previous encounters proved their pre-existing acquaintance? 2 the first in the lilac garden of Matthew Dillon's house Medina Villa, Kimmage Road, Roundtown in 1887 in the company of Stephen's mother Stephen being then of the age of 5 and reluctant to give his hand in salutation the second in the coffee room of Breslin's hotel on a rainy Sunday in the January of 1892 in the company of Stephen's father and Stephen's grand-uncle Stephen being then 5 years older did Bloom accept the invitation to dinner given then by the son and afterwards seconded by the father very gratefully with grateful appreciation with sincere appreciative gratitude in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret he declined did their conversation on the subjects of these reminiscences reveal a third connecting link between them Mrs. Riordan Dante a widow of independent means had resided in the house of Stephen's parents from 1 September 1888 to 29 December 1891 and had also resided during the years 1892 1893 and 1894 in the city arms hotel owned by Elizabeth O'Dowd of 54 Prussia street where during parts of the years 1893 and 1894 she had been a constant informant of Bloom who resided also in the same hotel being at that time a clerk in the employment of Joseph Cough of 5 Smithfield for the superintendents of sales in the adjacent Dublin cattle market on the north circular road had he performed any special corporal work of mercy for her he had sometimes propelled her on warm summer evenings an infirm widow of independent if limited means in her convalescent bath chair with slow revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the north circular road opposite Mr. Gavin's low place of business where she had remained for a certain time scathing through his one lensed binocular field glasses recognisable citizens on tram cars roadster bicycles equipped with inflated pneumatic tires hackney carriages tandems private and hired Landau's dog carts, pony traps and brakes passing from the city to the Phoenix park and vice versa why could he then support at his vigil with the greater equanimity because in middle youth he had often sat observing a rondelle of bossed glass of a multi-coloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of the thoroughfare without pedestrians, quadrupeds the loss of peds, vehicles passing slowly quickly, evenly round and round and round the rim of a round and round precipitous globe what distinct different memories had each of her eight years deceased the older her bazik cars and counters her sky terrier her suppositious wealth her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarole deafness the younger her lamp of kulza oil before the statue of the immaculate conception her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stuart Parnell and for Michael David were there no means remaining to him to achieve the rejuvenation which these reminiscences devolved to a younger companion rendered the more desirable the indoor exercises formally, intermittently practiced subsequently abandoned prescribed in Eugen Sandow's physical strength and how to obtain it which designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity a more pleasant relaxation and the more pleasant repristination of juvenile agility had any special agility than his in earlier youth though ringweight lifting had been beyond his strength and the full circle gyration beyond his courage yet as a high school scholar he had excelled in his stable and protracted execution of the half lever movement on the parallel bars in consequence of his abnormally developed abdominal muscles did either openly allude to their racial difference neither what reduced to their simplest reciprocal form were Bloom's thoughts about Stephen's thoughts about Bloom and about Stephen's thoughts and Bloom's thoughts about Stephen he thought that he thought that he was a Jew whereas he knew that he knew that he was not what the enclosures of reticence removed were their respective parentages Bloom only born male transubstantial air of Rudolph Virag subsequently Rudolph Bloom of Psalm Bathley, Vienna, Budapest Milan, London and Dublin and of Ellen Higgins second daughter of Julius Higgins born Carolee and Fanny Higgins born Haggerty Stephen eldest surviving male consubstantial air of Simon Dedalus of Cork and Dublin and of Mary, daughter of Richard and Christina Goulding born Greer had Bloom and Stephen been baptized and where and by whom cleric or layman Bloom three times by the Reverend Mr. Gilmer Johnson M.A. alone in the Protestant Church of St. Nicholas without Coomb by James O'Connor Philip Gilligan and James Fitzpatrick together under a pump in the village of and by the Reverend Charles Malone C.C. in the church of the three patrons Rathgar Stephen once by the Reverend Charles Malone C.C. alone in the church of the three patrons Rathgar did they find their educational career similar substituting Stephen for Bloom Stoom would have passed successively through a Dame school and high school substituting Bloom for Stephen Bluffin would have passed successfully through the preparatory junior middle and senior grades of the intermediate and through the matriculation first art second arts and art degree courses of the Royal University why did Bloom refrain from stating that he had frequented the University of life because of his fluctuating incertitude as to whether this observation had or had not been already made by him to Stephen or by Stephen to him what two temperaments did they individually represent the scientific the artistic what proofs did Bloom adduce to prove that his tendency was towards applied rather than towards pure science certain possible inventions of which he had cogitated when reclining in a state of supine repletion to a digestion stimulated by his appreciation of the importance of inventions now common but once revolutionary for example the aeronautic parachute reflecting telescope the spiral corkscrew the safety pin the mineral water siphon the canal lock with winch and sluice the suction pump were these inventions principally intended for an improved scheme of kindergarten yes, rendering obsolete pop guns elastic air bladders games of hazard catapults they comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the 12 constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces miniature mechanical aurories, arithmetical gelatin lozenges geometrical to correspond with zoological biscuits globe map playing balls, historically named dolls end of section 52 recording by john thomas coups www.validateyourlife.com


All right, hey folks Happy Thursday. I hope you all have had an incredible week. I hope it's been very Eventful and fun and then we've all had a successful Drupal con. I Am so glad to have you folks here today. I appreciate all of your time We are today gonna have a little conversation And I'm mostly just gonna make a case for the use of compassion and empathy in the workplace, so I'm just gonna start by introducing myself as most people do Who am I? My name is Valerie Genzano. I am currently an account manager Have recently transitioned out of my role as a software trainer But my background is actually in the arts and museums and education, so Over the past three years my life has gone a lot from this and this To a lot of this as I'm sure is Expected when you make that kind of transition during a virtual world, so I started it like I said my career in the arts and I Worked with kids and I use all of the tools that I acquired working with children to also work with adults That might sound diminutive, but I promise it's not When I started to shift from teaching children in a museum to teaching adults software I Realized that adult people when they are faced with a new concept or a problem or something That is has never crossed their path before It's oftentimes received the same way that a child would receive it Sometimes with a little bit of hesitance and resistance and fear But when I realized that a lot of stuff ended up clicking for me when it came to people There is no clear example of humanity Then a child right and at the at the core of us all we are still the kids that we were when we were Three and learning, you know our letters for the first time Children are not yet subscribed to a ton of the social norms and concepts and while that can be gross and Sticky sometimes and sometimes they cough all over you sometimes it's really beautiful because they also don't know to not Trust and believe in people in a really in a really wonderful way They also haven't been burned or you know shunned by other folks Quite yet in their lives. So I always in my job and in my life think back to the experiences that I've had with children and I Approach my conversations with adults not with the same tone that I would as I would with a child but With the same again level of compassion And so that is where I am coming from with my little conversation today So what we're going to talk about? We're going to talk about understanding empathy and compassion We're going to talk about compassion beyond a screen, right? Because it's been incredibly difficult I'm sure for all of us to find that same level of compassion for people since everything has been pretty virtual I'm gonna spend a little time breaking down some fears that come with compassion that I See a lot and I talked to a lot of people about Then we're going to talk a little bit about how to practice compassion at work with your loved ones and Almost more importantly than anything with yourself So starting out with why we should care about compassion get to the root of it. We are all human Compassion and empathy are part of who we are at our core and in the science, right? So a study came out from Harvard that says advances in neuroscience has shown us that the brain Has neural networks that are hardwired with the ability to share the experiences of others Including emotions and sensations. So this is hardwired into us The past two years have been Stressful distant difficult unstable I'm not gonna sit here and talk about how horrible this has been to be in a pandemic but we all know and Because of these past couple years I think it's important to regroup and re-center with how we talk to each other Through times of loss and desperation. We only have ourselves and our shared humanity We've seen it in about every apocalypse movie that there is that at the end what saves everyone is people in your lives and while that is more of a Nuclear situation no pun intended It applies to everyday life as well Compassion overall is something we can practice if you are sitting here today thinking I am not innately a compassionate person First of all, I would tend to disagree But second of all it is something that you can practice and get better at and put into your everyday life Which is what I do in my job and with the people around me At the end of the day, it's important to remember that everybody wants to be happy and at peace That is our core mission is people So if you come into a compassionate conversation with that in mind it gets a lot easier Here I have a quote by Victor Frankel who's a philosopher that says everything can be taken from a man But one thing the last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of Circumstances and to choose one's own way. I do keep this in mind as well when having conversations It's pretty easy to say, you know, the only thing you can control is your attitude and we've all heard it a million times But if you put a different lens on it, it's really it can drive a conversation into a different direction that ends up being Very productive for all parties involved So there's a lot of confusion when researching because I did a lot of reading on this obviously to prepare and Trying to figure out how people understand empathy versus compassion is huge Empathy and compassion are not interchangeable, but they are dependent on each other Empathy is the ability to take perspective and adopt the emotions of another person It can manifest in two different ways prosocial behavior, which is what we're going to be talking about When we're talking about compassion and compassionate action or it can result in personal distress We might hear this as empathy burnout or compassion fatigue So it's important to remember that this empathy breaks down into two different ways And you can choose sort of how to channel it through practice Compassion is the desire to alleviate painful emotions of another person Which means that compassion grows from the pro-social behavior branch of empathy Empathy is always there when there is compassion, but there's not always compassion if there's empathy Compassion is then broken down further cognitive emotional motivational and behavioral But I have a little graphic here that I made that reminds us how We should be thinking about this process. We are rooted in empathy at the core of all of us. We have that empathy. We have that Neurological Ability to process other people's emotions and feel them But we bloom and we grow with compassion and that's what we have to aim for that growth At the end of every a passionate conversation that we have Compassion is not Timidness it is not sentimental love. You don't have to feel embarrassed to have compassion for other people It's not attachment You can have compassion with a stranger that you'll meet once you can have compassion with somebody who checks you out at the gas station And it's not pity. You don't have to feel pity to feel compassionate It is however the appreciation of Humanity and the willingness and want to see others successful and happy in their endeavors The end of the day this compassion is that shared want for happiness not only for yourself But for your colleagues for your family for you know your clients whoever it may be There are some measurable Benefits when it comes to compassion and compassionate conversation There are about a million studies that I'm not going to go into about the science behind Health and positive social relationships if you're interested in the science I do recommend looking up those studies because it's interesting but There's data to back up the fact that you are positive and compassionate Social relationships with the people in your life the people that you work with The people that you come into contact with on the street Benefit not only your but their physical health longer life Less illness somehow, so it's really it's global health when we're talking about compassion You also have this quote here from the Association for Psychological Science Witnessing another person's altruistic behavior elicits elevation Which is a discreet emotion that in turn leads to tangible increases in altruism Elevation in this study is defined as the feeling that you get when you watch something good happen for another person like the opposite of Scheidenfreude Which is when you think it's hilarious when bad things happen other people Elevation is the good feeling that comes out of good things happening for other people And that leads directly to increases in altruistic behavior Compassion and leadership creates stronger connections between people it improves Collaboration raises levels of trust and enhances loyalty. In addition studies that find compassionate leaders Studies find that compassionate leaders are perceived as stronger and more competent and that's from the Harvard Business Review So let's talk a little bit about roadblocks to compassion in a virtual world because That's sort of what we're dealing with from for now and and from the past two years Physical distance naturally fosters emotional distance we are not Having those same connections with people in the same room that we would be having in person And we are grateful for these times that we do get in person But the majority of our interactions right now are virtual and while we might get better at them And it is easier to have better connections through a virtual world now than it would have been a couple years ago There is still something that lacks in your want and need to be close with other people When we are in a virtual system I've got to look out for myself mentality I think a lot of us have Experienced this at some point over the past couple years of no one's gonna look out for me But me and I got to worry about myself which is Useful in a lot of ways But does provide a little bit of a roadblock when we want to get down to that vulnerability and empathy I Am exhausted from feeling so much This is something that I personally ran into Very hard over the past couple years, especially the beginning of 2020. I remember feeling that emotional Compassion burnout for months. I was just so tired of feeling so many things all the time That it was hard for me to make room for feeling any other way That is called that compassion fatigue I Don't feel understood right now So why should I have to understand anyone else and this is a big one that I see actually a lot of the time from my clients they don't feel like they're being understood or listened to and They don't feel like they need to understand or listen to anyone else and that's when we're gonna start to talk about and later on We're gonna touch a little bit on Starting from the top when it comes to setting a compassionate expectation in the workplace But these are all incredibly valid things to be feeling Especially in the world as it is today and this is where compassionate leadership will come in So show of hands who here sometimes struggles with finding compassion today in the world Yeah, I know right so with the big things politics health the environment business and also the little stuff somebody Got in a fender bender with my car somebody missed a meeting It all compiles and it's natural to feel less compassionate when the world is less and less of a gentle space Right, it's it's getting harder and harder to be a compassionate person and that's where this practice comes in but When I talk to people about the issues that they have with using compassion in a workplace using compassion in a professional environment I heard a lot of this so if I show compassion people will assume I'm weak The world is a tough place and I need to exude toughness to succeed People take advantage of others who are empathetic or compassionate People will assume I have a hidden agenda People don't do anything that doesn't directly serve them. I Can't have critical judgment skills while also being compassionate and empathetic These are really really common sort of concerns that I have heard talking to people about I mean It's different a little bit when you're at home. You're compassionate with your Significant other you're compassionate with your kids, but a lot of these still apply They don't you don't want your kids to take advantage of you if you show them a little too much, you know compassion or Whatever it may be But these are really common fears that we see with compassion and empathy and conversation and There is a lot to be said about them, but there is a lot that doesn't hold up Nothing in a conversation about compassion suggests weakness, especially when you combine it with wisdom it's related directly to strength and courage and I say that because who here can think of a Person that exemplifies compassion or a compassionate leader. Does anybody have an example of someone just shout it out Mr. Rogers Anyone else a compassionate leader Obama who Bob Ross maybe a compassionate leader. I Hear a lot of Martin Luther King, Jr. I hear a lot of Gandhi. I hear a lot of the Dalai Lama I hear a lot of Mother Teresa These are all people who are compassionate leaders and say what you will about them I don't think that any of them can be considered, you know Some a pushover right a really strong really influential people who Exemplified compassion and none of us are Martin Luther King or Mother Teresa But I think that it shows that you can be compassionate and you can have these feelings of empathy and and gentle Conversation without being a pushover without being weak The world being tough sure, but it's about changing that stigma of having compassion, right? So it starts with a big push towards this kind of conversation Compassion also promotes Expansiveness and a wider world view a ton of leaders lead with a compassionate leadership style Because it allows them to see situations in a more realistic way It can bring clarity in the way that if you remove compassion from a conversation from your analysis of a situation If you say well, I'm not gonna get let feelings get in the way and I'm gonna just look at the facts You're eliminating an entire half of that conversation. That is very much human I hear it a lot that I'm not gonna I'm not gonna let emotions get in the way But to remove emotion from it does end up taking a lot out of the actual possible outcomes We also default to truth as humans and the default to truth theory is by a the chair of communication studies at the University of Alabama Timothy R. Levine and the basic idea of the default to truth theory is that when we communicate with other people at Our core we not only tend to believe them, but the idea to not believe them doesn't immediately cross our minds If we strayed away from that, it's because probably we've been hurt. We've been burned, but our natural Reaction to people what I saw with kids It I mean they default to truth all the time I couldn't tell a kid I was 55 and they'd be like wow really and you're like no but they'll believe you and I mean not to use that to lie or be Not you know untruthful in a conversation But knowing that if you want to be vulnerable and open and compassionate people tend to not automatically think you're lying And people shouldn't assume you have bad intentions, especially when you prove that compassion time and time again it is a marathon Not a sprint with compassion and it does take a lot of practice as I've said Here I have a quote from the executive chairman of LinkedIn Who says when you understand others from their perspective? It enables you to ask the difficult questions and approach difficult situations differently You'll ask a different set of questions and it enables you to avoid unintended consequences Carry humility we are all individuals and when you treat people with that kind of respect It is incredibly powerful This is an insanely compassionate leadership strategy and and I think that that level of understanding that he's promoting really does Mean a lot when you have a compassionate workplace I mean in all the studies of LinkedIn from when Jeff Wiener was the CEO I mean there are really really great reviews of how that company is led So if we're going to talk about tools from for compassion Again at work at home or for yourself Um, I have a couple that I always like to share and they're not the law But they are guidelines that I use to remind myself to have compassionate conversation The first one i'm going to talk about is actually from a book called the four agreements Um, the four agreements is written by a man named Don Miguel Ruiz who was informed by ancient Mesoamerican called Toltec wisdom And this is a code of conduct to quote unquote Set yourself free from uh self limiting beliefs Um, and now I look at this a lot of the way that I look at something like astrology And before you roll your eyes and you're like, oh my god, this girl's going to start talking to me about astrology That is exactly something a capricorn would say Um, just kidding. I use it as a set of checkpoints or communication So here you can see the four be impeccable with your word don't take anything personally Don't make assumptions and always do your best and I use these i'm not exaggerating every single day um So while it's up to you how to interpret this i'm going to Choose to explain how I use them Be impeccable with your word. Uh, this is for me. I remind myself to not Have a have a situation where i'm gonna have to explain like I didn't mean that or I said something that I didn't mean Or I didn't mean it in that tone being super super conscious of the way that I talk to people And that's always step one because you want to eliminate any chance of you causing closed offness or Hesitance in conversation The rest of the three are the ones that made the absolute most impact on me sort of all used in conjunction Don't take anything personally and don't make assumptions Are huge for communicating You never know what is going on behind closed doors and at the end of the day While you can say that doesn't affect me or that doesn't matter it does I mean so many of us are working from home You don't know who has to go pick their kids up from school You don't know who is taking care of a family member. You don't know who is You know working super extra long hours because they're late on rent It's important to remember that you can't take anything in that moment personally or make assumptions about why someone is saying the thing that they are um the most I guess We'll say the most impactful thing that anyone has ever said to me is It sounds really Of course, but give me a second is that you don't matter and I don't mean that in a way of like You don't matter in the grand scheme of things. Obviously you matter, but when you're having a conversation with somebody They're not saying anything to hurt you. They're not thinking of you in any kind of way You don't matter to them in that moment.  They're not trying to make your life harder um And always do your best is always a good checkpoint, right? Did I handle that situation the best way I could have? Is there any reflection I can do about it? And if you combine all three of these things, um You can go into conversations thinking whatever happens as long as I do my best and I am kind I've done what I can So following those four pillars that I kind of use going into conversations I have my own four actionable steps for compassionate conversation and I again use these every day and I think my my co-workers can sort of anticipate how I'm going to explain this because I Am incredibly appreciative and it makes Compassionate conversations a thousand times easier Um, we start with that listen pillar. So I'm gonna it's going to zoom away and then zoom back. Don't worry um The listen pillar I always say to practice practice active listening and observation in your conversations Really listen and hear and look if you have the opportunity to To what people are saying and how they're acting I was watching a little you know animated short on compassion earlier And the woman was having a conversation with a friend and he said, you know, I go into my grocery store every day and I see the same checkout girl every day and I have never noticed anything about her and They made it an active, you know Experience to go in there and notice that person that they talk to every day really listened to what they're doing You have a predetermined notion about people sometimes Until you really observe them They said they always thought in the back of their minds that this checkout counter person at the grocery store was Always had a little bit of a of a scowl on and wasn't a very happy person And when they took the time to go in and really notice They noticed she was, you know, singing to herself before someone came up to the counter and she did have a smile on and The more that you take time to actively recognize people The easier those compassionate conversations are going to be Another important thing that someone told me once was that it is not you versus another person It is you and another person versus a problem or a hurdle or Something that you are acting to you know alleviate. It's not you versus another person It's you and them together versus a problem and use this in in any kind of conversations I have even at home even you know with my significant other it's never me versus you And again that breaks down that first barrier of the conversation of why you're talking to them This second pillar is to appreciate and this one for me has been absolutely life-changing Um this past year. I have made it a point to start Verbally appreciating the people around me in my workplace at home And you would not believe The reaction that it gets so Recently at work. I had an experience where Again, I'm an account manager one of my clients had a problem with a product And their project manager called me in the middle of the day and was like, oh my gosh, this thing broke I had no idea how it happened. I am so sorry like I will do anything I can to help fix it And you know, I'm listening to her and and I know the steps that it takes to fix something like this And before any of the rest of the conversation happened I said listen Thank you so much for reaching out to me and doing what you can I really appreciate the work that you have done on this problem. I know that it's Not super easy to fix on the fly. I know you're probably under a ton of pressure I just want you to know I appreciate the work that that you're doing And she took pause she stopped and she was like thank you so much for saying that It gets hard sometimes when people don't Know what you do when people don't understand or appreciate the work that you put in And all the appreciation that I give is is completely genuine. I never make it up I'm never like oh, I'm going to say I appreciate this person just to get through this conversation You can always find something to appreciate about a person and what they do And I think that if you sprinkle a little bit of appreciation into almost every conversation that you have Especially ones that you feel like are hard or difficult because it's not easy for other people either You will be shocked to see how people open up And are more willing to work with you because they feel appreciated and they're going to appreciate you back It's just that it's it opens a door So appreciation is is in my opinion the most important step in this process Then going on to reflection so you can reflect on the conversation problem or hurdle You can do it yourself alone. You can do it through conversation with that person But this point of reflection is what changes it from empathy to compassion Remember empathy is that feeling of of suffering for another person Compassion has the action attached to it So when you reflect and act on a conversation a compassionate conversation that you've had an empathetic conversation you've had You are going to be able to attack that situation With a new lens and a completely different set of tools to go forward You will be able to act in a way that will better reflect the situation at hand Um, and so those are my four sort of main pillars of compassionate conversation when I'm working again at home But if compassion does not include yourself It is incomplete And this is where you're going to be able to really Change the way that you feel compassion is that you have to change it by starting with yourself Self-compassion the self-compassion method came out of harvard from to I believe psychologist chris germa and christin neff And self-compassion Is quoted as involving the capacity to comfort and soothe ourselves To motivate ourselves with encouragement when we suffer fail or feel inadequate Self-compassion is learned in part by connecting with our innate compassion for others And self-compassion also helps us grow and sustain our compassion for other people If you do not allow yourself that same kind of compassion that you would like to allow other people You won't be able to do it effectively Something I also found very interesting about this theory of self-compassion is they talk about something called back draft If you are not in the practice of showing yourself compassion If you want to start You might experience something called back draft, which is actually a firefighting term when you Open a door of a burning house and fire shoots out at you You have to get past that first hurdle of feeling Icky and gross about the compassion that you're showing yourself. You have to get over the idea that it is Selfish or self-indulgent And once you get past that hurdle You have those kind of conversations with yourself before you have them with anything else It'll become a million times easier So I have a little Slide next that is compassion in practice and you can do this alone or you could do it with your table But your activity for here and for now is to think of a time when you wish someone in your life would have shown you More compassion either in your personal life or professional life And I want you to use those four steps that I talked about listening Appreciating reflecting and acting Um, and I want you to allow yourself the compassion you needed at that time And again, this can be solely by yourself. You can talk about it with people at your table It's going to give you a minute or two to think through a time that you really could have used a little bit of compassionate Conversation or a little bit of compassionate action And the person wasn't equipped to give it to you at that time Then I want you to allow it for yourself appreciate yourself reflect on the situation and Remember the steps that you took to overcome the hardship And once you think about that for a minute, I do want you to think about a time that you could have had more compassion for someone else um, I think we've all Been a little bit high strung at points or a little bit less concerned with other people and just reflect on a time of Hey, I could have had a little bit more compassion. I could have listened a little harder. I could have appreciated that person So I'm going to give you guys just a minute to do that As you're thinking about this um, I'm going to talk about a couple ways that we can Practice self compassion in this way And avoid empathy burnout and compassion fatigue So to allow yourself this kind of compassion You're going to block out time for yourself It always starts with you um, I never did this before I have been sort of on a work hustle for the past couple years and Was really losing myself to it for a while And I would work from you know, eight to six and then I would make dinner and watch Selling sunset and go to bed. That was all I did in a day and I've started blocking out time for myself in the afternoon either to You know eat lunch and step away from my computer or to reflect on my day at the end of the day And it has made an entire difference in how I approach my days. It splits it up. It doesn't feel so overwhelming You need to remember your emotional boundaries And this is huge for not feeling that compassion and empathy burnout If you feel like you're getting to a point where you are not being productive with your empathy And you are getting overwhelmed and you're taking on too much Take a step back. Communicate that. Hey, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed right now. Give me an hour or so. I'll get back to you Give me a day to reset my brain and we'll talk about this again Taking your time and your emotional boundaries seriously and communicating them with other people Sets a precedent for all of the communication that you have Cultivate friendships I go into every conversation that I ever have as though this person's been my friend for five years, right? I immediately no boundaries Not no boundaries, but no no wall no boundaries. No walls are up. Um, no sort of nervousness and That cultivation of friendships makes every single conversation I have worth it. Um I think that it also helps people not feel so nervous to talk to to someone I can be loud and I can be boisterous But if the loud and boisterous person is your friend then it's a little it's a little bit easier to talk to them um, and those friendships while they might be Not supernatural at first will become natural with time And you you know water them and grow them into whatever kind of friendship or relationship you you need and those friendships will carry you through and help you avoid that empathy burnout and compassion fatigue by being genuine and sharing these emotions equally Having that time for self reflection, I know that a lot of research and studies that I've talked to about or I've read about um Emotional burnout, you know compassion empathy a lot of it has to do with meditation Reflection prayer or whatever you use um I'm not the best myself at setting time for meditation or or thoughtfulness in that way But I do it in other ways right I set aside time to take a walk And during that walk I might not listen to any music and I just reflect on my day And I reflect on conversations that I could have had or that I did have that went wrong or that went right It doesn't have to be so serious. It doesn't have to be you download the headspace app and sit for 30 minutes looking at a wall It can really be just like take a walk clear your head think about your day Get outside in that same notion We've been cooped a little bit over the past couple years getting out for a walk Does that oxygen does clean your brain somehow? It resets you and it it makes it easier to go back to work or go back to the computer screen And then we have some for the leaders Set workplace strategies and lead by example when it comes to compassionate conversation This is huge This can change the way your workplace functions If you as a leader show compassion Create spaces for open communication Something that I have implemented with my clients is I host a Monthly user led discussion series where my clients can come on to a zoom call and talk about problems that they're having Or find solutions together Creating those spaces for openness and communication is huge. Um, I oftentimes encourage leaders that I talk to to have Town halls or office hours even You set up a zoom room and 4 p.m. On a thursday and you know Have anybody who wants to come in and talk to you about something give them a chance and a town hall once a month Where people can submit anonymous concerns and you can genuinely listen and hear them out and make plans To fix things that might be bothering people that they might not feel heard about Those workplace strategies and those open dialogues result in incredible increase in productivity and satisfaction in your companies um, there are studies from u michigan that state in fact in 2020 76 of employees believe an empathetic organization Inspires more motivated employees compared to 65 percent who said the same in 2019 The need for empathy and compassion in your workplace is growing um Jane Dutton from u michigan said that we found that employees who'd experienced compassion at work Uh, saw themselves their co-workers and the organization in a more positive light Statistically they demonstrated more positive emotions such as joy and contentment and more commitment towards the organization So these practices these Open dialogues these spaces for conversation And that compassion that you can give your employees your clients your friends your co-workers Results in an overall increase in satisfaction in the workplace and at the end of the day I think that's what we would all be going for when running an office or running a workspace When an organization's capacity for capacity for compassion comes from the top It can result in a kind of compassion contagion that sweeps the whole organization So wrapping up I hope that I have made an appropriate case for finding compassion for yourself during your workday for your colleagues For your teams if you're a leader Again recommend Creating those spaces for open dialogue and communication. I hope you go forward in your conversations by listening appreciating Reflecting and acting And I hope that we can all sort of understand what's so funny about peace love and understanding. Thank you very much


Talking about dollar strength again going back into the FX space euro dollar You know there is a kind of a bullish scenario maybe for the euro depending on some decisions that has happened That's not really the case 1.06 seems to be the one testing now It's broke slightly below it that we have risk for main skew towards 1.05 or where are we going next in the short term? Yes, so we've clearly got a pretty decent range here to work You know broke down, you know late September 2021 Yeah, this one spot zero five area very very big area Got a hold here or you know below that, you know, you're probably looking at One spot zero two we can go back on these are some pretty big maybe something further along in here If we go back to 2016 Pretty big areas in here So, yeah, if we go all the way back, you're a dollar you would want to see it Bounce in here Somewhere obviously this failed breakout here above one spot 10 did not hold and As you know from failed moves come fast moves so quickly right back down to 1.05 Yeah, I mean what we probably build that level we start to see a narrative back to are we gonna reach parody or not? Such a big talk last year gosh, I remember that We'll see I guess it's coming back at the end of the year again You look at the the pound as well I mean obviously last week you had the Bank of England follow the roots of the Fed and pause Even though that was unexpected and some people have speculation that they've not done the right thing But again more weakness to the pound more strength of the dollar What do you think is gonna happen here? Do we also see consolidation or can we see a bounce back down? Yes, so clearly here. We've got a big multi-year level at one spot to Would have liked to see this hold Somewhere in these area again areas, you know, not not thin lines like I've got but we want to use these as areas Unfortunately, yeah broken and you've had a strong trend off the bottom like this so we does seem to be Rolling over is it just a retest? Who knows so yeah a rough last two months But not not a lot of severe damage yet Not nearly as bad as we were a last year. Got it Yeah, last one dollar yen probably heard a lot of it this year with the Fed hawkish pause but also the Bank of Japan rigorously holding on to its dovish stance no matter what the situation is We see it probably pack trucking to 150. Do you see that happening this week? Yeah, so back to multi-month highs as You said 150 kind of the the line in the sand I would be I would be surprised if we just zoom Right through this I When I'm talking about month weeks and months, but maybe over the next You know few weeks maybe next couple months a pause up here in this area and Then you know at some point an eventual move higher