"Now the long form and the strong form and reform alltogether!"

(522.24-524.22)  As one would expect, the old man continues to grow more frustrated with Shaun's laughter during the examination.  Shaun suggests that he doesn't mean any offense.  "Are you to have all the pleasure quizzing on me?" he asks.  "I didn't say it aloud, sir.  I have something inside of me talking to myself."  The old man isn't buying it, though.  "You're a nice third degree witness, faith!" he responds.  "But this is no laughing matter."  He suggests that Shaun should be psychoanalyzed, but Shaun wants none of this "expert nursis sympathy" and says that he "can psoakoonaloose myself any time I want (the fog follow you all!) without your interferences or any other pigeonstealer."

"Sample!  Sample!" someone responds, perhaps encouraging Shaun to psychoanalyze himself.  At this point in the proceedings, the structure of the old man-Shaun dialogue breaks down.  The voice of Sylvia Silence, the girl detective, suggests the possibility that the evil of HCE's sin might ultimately result in general good ("might nevewtheless lead somehow on to good towawd the genewality").   Another, more "judicial"-sounding voice, proposes that HCE/Shaun "may be been as much sinned against as sinning" before calling for "the long form and the strong form and reform alltogether!"  A third voice paints HCE ("Hotchkiss Culthur's Everready") as a racehorse who is present at Dublin Bay and ready to perform as a stud.

These various voices prompt a long, digression-filled monologue from an unnamed voice, which must be that of Treacle Tom, for he speaks frequently of his "inmate friend," Frisky Shorty.  The two were engaged in a friendly argument at the "Doddercan Easehouse" and having a chat with their "hosty" (the pub host, but also Hosty, the composer of "The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly") about diseases.  Tom and Frisky wanted to get to the bottom of HCE's story, so they "approached a reverend gentlman of the name of Mr Coppinger with reference to a piece of fire fittings."  Coppinger consulted a piece of writing by "Mr J. P. Cockshott."  It's not clear yet what they all discovered.  Perhaps it will be revealed in tomorrow's reading.