promontories:  its alluvial deposits:  its weight and volume and density:  its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns:  its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones:  its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses:  its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts:  its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve:  its secrecy in springs and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic 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 composition, 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 shipboard:  its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation:  its infallibility as paradigm and paragon:  its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail:  its strength in rigid hydrants:  its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea:  its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes:  its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills:  its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks:  its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses 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 percent of the human body:  the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.

Having set the halffilled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he return to the stillflowing tap?

To wash his soiled hands with a partially consumed tablet of Barrington’s lemonflavoured soap, to which paper still adhered, (bought thirteen hours previously for fourpence and still unpaid for), in fresh cold neverchanging everchanging water and dry them, face and hands, in a long redbordered 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 by 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 aquacities of thought and language.