"Luckluckluckluckluckluckluck!"

(341.18-343.12)  The bulk of today's reading consists of an interruption to the Butt and Taff play.  The interruption comes in the form of a broadcast reporting on horse racing results.  Once again, the form of the broadcast isn't entirely clear, but it has to come from either the radio or the television.  It's a "verbivocovisual presentement" (I'm following Joyce's use of the italics for the text of this broadcast), meaning that it includes words, voice, and visual elements.  That would make it seem like it's a television broadcast, but as was noted during the discussion of Monday's reading, the television hasn't apparently been turned on yet, so maybe this is just a very visually descriptive radio broadcast.

Anyway, the report is given by "The Irish Race and World," indicating that there's probably a broader significance to the results and descriptions given here.  "The huddled and aliven stablecrashers have shared fleetfooted enthusiasm . . . while the mews was combing ground," implying that both the race attendees and the patrons of the pub are particularly interested in these results.  In language recalling the Catholic sacrament of reconciliation or confession, we see a "Mr Twomass Noholan" recounting the results of the "worldrenownced Caerholme Event," (which McHugh notes references the Carholme race track) to "the Verily Roverend Father Epiphanes."  Apparently a horse named "Backlegs" won that event, and the priest guffaws at hearing of the horse's "absolutionally romptyhompty successfulness."  We see poor orphans moving about looking for spare change, as well as gamblers in various states.

A loud noise is heard ("Pamjab!  Gross Jumpiter, whud was thud?") signaling the coming results of another race, the "Lipperfull Slipver Cup" (the Liverpool Summer Cup, as noted by McHugh).  The gamblers/patrons are wishing for the best:  "Luckluckluckluckluckluckluck!"  In a surprising turn of events, the horse "Emancipator" (whose owner is "Major Hermyn C. Entwhistle") wins, beating three "buy geldings" as well as "Furstin II and The Other Girl . . . too early spring dabbles."  These last two horses "are showing a clean pairofhids to Immensipater."  The results of this second race thus recall, once again, the events in Phoenix Park.  Emancipator/Immensipater (HCE, the invading leader and father, or "pater") is ogling the legs of the two female horses (the two young women in the park) while the three male horses (the three soldiers) are present.  The results of this race leave the Lord Mayor ("lorkmakor") "proformly annuysed," meaning either annoyed or amused (or both).  A final word during the interruption informs us that this "eeriedreme" was brought to us by "Bett" and "Tipp," meaning either some big-shot bettors and tippers, or Butt and Taff.

The passage for today concludes with Taff resuming their vaudville act.  After this first report of the sporting events is corroborated by a second sports flash, Taff shifts the direction of the proceedings back toward the Russian General.  He suspects that Butt was in league with the three soldiers, for he had been marching with other soldiers through the nearby battlefields.  He demands that Butt "[t]ell the coldspell's terroth!"  The "forward movement" of Butt's story will continue tomorrow.