"tastefully taut guranium satin"

(349.6-351.5)  The Butt-Taff dialogue is interrupted at the start of today's reading with the third televised diversion.  In fact, this bit is even more explicitly televised, for McHugh notes that Joyce includes lots of language about the workings of early TV's (e.g., "scanning firespot" references the "scanning spot" of early models, which, McHugh explains in Joycean language, traversed "the picture in parallel lines slightly sloped").  The story "teleframe[d]" on the "bairboard bombardment screen" is the "charge of a light barricade," or the Charge of the Light Brigade.  

Of note, this broadcast appears "following a fade of transformed Tuff and . . . a metenergic reglow of beaming Batt," indicating that the Butt-Taff dialogue could actually be televised (and that this is an interruption of that television program).  For the moment, however, I'm reading it as a televised program that's interrupting the live action Butt-Taff play, which has been reflected up to this moment on the previously blank television screen that had displayed the mirrored images of Butt and Taff.  We know that the images were mirrored because their names are types of mirrored (or distorted) images of themselves.

Amid the images depicting the Charge of the Light Brigade, we eventually see one figure who assumes prominence on the screen:  "Popey O'Donoshough, the jesuneral of the russuates," or the Russian General.  The Russian General, depicted with all the seals or medals of his uniform, makes a confession, which Campbell and Robinson and McHugh note corresponds with the Catholic sacrament of Last Rights (featuring the anointing of the eyes, nose, mouth, hands, and feet).  Campbell and Robinson write that this indicates the Russian General's imminent death, and we learn that "[t]here will be a hen collection of him after avensung on the field of Hanar."

The narrative shifts back to the Butt-Taff dialogue, and all of my secondary sources point out that Butt now appears as an Oscar Wilde figure ("Mr Lhugewhite Cadderpollard with sunflawered beautonhole pulled up point blanck by mailbag mundaynism at Oldbally Court").  Butt announces to the courtroom crowd that he will now make a defense "in every circumstancias" of his "deboutcheries."  He begins this defense by acknowledging that he's "had my billyfell" of the soldier's spoils of war.  He and his fellow soldiers fought for "Father Petrie Spence of Parishmoslattary" and routed the heretical "huguenottes" and "allbegeneses."  Overall, he enjoyed these campaigns, and he recalls "all the fun I had in that fanagan's week."  

Butt's defense (which appears to take up more than two full pages of text) will continue tomorrow.