4 cups strawberries

2 cups heavy whipping cream

Sugar to taste

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What figure appeared next?

That of little Rudy, dressed in a waist-length single-breasted jacket, silver spoon in hand.

 

In what setting did Bloom imagine Rudy?

In Bekynton’s candlelit great hall, finishing his supper of roast duck and gooseberry jam.

 

How did he comport himself?

In perfect accordance with the refined mannerisms of his fellow peers, all of whom respected his scrupulous conduct. Never did he eat without having previously removed his hat. Always meticulous in the consumption of his meals, he rarely had to remove from his lips traces of food with the hall’s linen napkins.

 

What scions of industry sat alongside him in the mess hall?

William Ward III, heir to over a hundred coal mines in Northumberland and the Earldom of Dudley,
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, heir to several thousand acres of timber fields in Canada, and Kenelm Lee Guinness, heir to Ireland’s largest brewing company.

 

What dessert concluded the meal?

A sumptuous parfait of freshly whipped Berkshire cream and macerated summer strawberries, passed around in large glass bowls covered in varying shades of scarlet and pink.

 

What considerations rendered Bloom’s departure from this vision not entirely undesirable?

The impossibility of such a scene, given Rudy’s decomposing skeleton only a few short miles from Eccles Street.