"All ends vanishing!"

(447.21-449.26)  We pick up today with Shaun offering more subjects for the girls to research.  "Explain why there is such a number of orders of religion in Asea!" he says, for instance.  "Why such an order number in preference to any other number?  Why any number in any order at all?"  Referencing the legend (noted by McHugh) that on a particular day of the year Ireland is visible from Spain, Shaun asks, "Where is the greenest island off the black coats of Spaign?" 

Soon, Shaun returns to the topic of dear dirty Dublin's problems, and he suggests an experiment to the girls.  He asks them to head to Aston Quay in central Dublin and "take a good onging gaze into any nearby shopswindow you may select at."  After looking in the window for 32 minutes, he tells them to "proceed to turn aroundabout on your heehills toward the previous causeway."  If they do, he says, "I shall be very cruelly mistaken indeed if you will not be jushed astunshed to see how you will be meanwhile durn weel topcoated with kakes of slush occasioned by the mush jam of the cross and blackwalls traffic in transit."  Fixed on this subject and looking at a complaint book, he asks, "Where's Cowtends Kateclean, the woman with the muckrake?"  He also wonders when "the W.D. face of our sow muckloved d'lin" will get "its wellbelavered white like l'pool and m'chester."  When will the city get hospitals, he asks, and who will advocate on its behalf?  "The royal commissioners!" he suggests mockingly.  "'Tis an ill weed blows no poppy good."  The job should fall to Shaun:  "If I hope not charity what profiteers me?  Nothing!"  But, he tells the "liddle giddles" (the little girls, who are like Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll's model for the title heroine in Alice in Wonderland), he has been advised by "the smiling voteseeker who's now snoring elued" (HCE) to leave the country until he can get a government order granting him a car, new shoes, and time to recover at a spa.

With this thought concluded for the moment, Shaun once again addresses Isabel, "Sis dearest."  "O, the vanity of Vanissy!" Shaun says.  "All ends vanishing!  Pursonally, Grog help me, I am in no violent hurry."  He doesn't want to leave Ireland, and he says he would turn back on his journey "if I could only spoonfind the nippy girl of my heart's appointment, Mona Vera Toutou Ipostila, my lady of Lyons, to guide me by gastronomy under her safe conduct" (McHugh notes that Joyce collaborated with Stuart Gilbert on his essay, Prolegomena to Work in Progress, in which Gilbert explains this passage by saying that it means that Shaun would like to find a girl who has a job to support him).  He'd like to stay where he is, like a bird happily living in a bush, but it's too late, for the "owledclock . . .  has just gone twoohoo the hour."