James Joyce's ULYSSES
Book cover
Portada para Ulises, el clásico de la literatura universal de James Joyce. La premisa es un extracto del capítulo 17 del libro, el cuál describe el interior del primer cajón del escritorio de Leopoldo Bloom, el protagonista de la novela.
Cover for James Joyce’s Ulysses, a classic of the world literature. The illustration is based on an extract of the chapter 17 of the book. This fragment describes the objects inside a drawer of the Leopold Bloom’s study.



What did the first drawer unlocked contain?
A Vere Foster’s handwriting copybook, property of Milly (Millicent) Bloom, certain pages of which bore diagram drawings, marked Papli, which showed a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile, the trunk full front with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot (1); 2 fading photographs of queen Alexandra of England (2) and of Maud Branscombe, actress and professional beauty (3); a Yuletide card, bearing on it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend Mizpah, the date Xmas 1892, the name of the senders: from Mr + Mrs M. Comerford […](4); a butt of red partly liquefied sealing wax, obtained from the stores department of Messrs Hely’s, Ltd., […] (5); a box containing the remainder of a gross of gilt ‘J’ pennibs, obtained from same department of same firm (6); […] a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone’s Home Rule bill of 1886 […] (7); a bazaar ticket, no 2004, of S. Kevin’s Charity Fair, price 6d, 100 prizes (8); an infantile epistle, dated, small em monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph signature with flourishes capital em Milly no stop (9); a cameo brooch, property of Ellen Bloom (born Higgins), deceased (10); […] 3 typewritten letters, addressee, Henry Flower, c/o. P. O. Westland Row, addresser, Martha Clifford, c/o. P. O. Dolphin’s Barn […] (11); a press cutting from an English weekly periodical Modern Society, subject corporal chastisement in girls’ schools […] (12); a pink ribbon which had festooned an Easter egg in the year 1899 (13); two partly uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve pockets […] (14); 1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes (15) and feintruled notepaper, watermarked, now reduced by 3 (16); some assorted Austrian- Hungarian coins (17); […] a lowpower magnifying glass (18); 2 erotic photocards showing a) buccal coition between nude señorita […] and nude torero (19) […] b) anal violation by male religious […] of female religious (20) […]; a press cutting of recipe for renovation of old tan boots (21); a Id adhesive stamp, lavender, of the reign of Queen Victoria (22); a chart of the measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled before, during and after 2 months’ consecutive use of Sandow-Whiteley’s pulley exerciser (men’s 15/-, athlete’s 20/-) […] (23); 1 prospectus of The Wonderworker, the world’s greatest remedy for rectal complaints (24) […] with brief accompanying note commencing (25) […]
What object did Bloom add to this collection of objects?
A 4th typewritten letter received by Henry Flower (let H. F. be L. B.) from Martha Clifford (find M. C.). (26)
James Joyce Ulysses
Chapter 17
