On the penultimate blank page of a book of inferior literary style , entitled sweets of sin produced by bloom and so manipulated that its front cover came in contact with the surface of the table with a pencil supplied by stephen stephen wrote the irish characters for gee , eh , dee , em , simple and modified , and bloom in turn wrote the hebrew characters ghimel , aleph , daleth and in the absence of mem a substituted goph , explaining their arithmetical values as ordinal and cardinal numbers , videlicet 3 , 1 , 4 and 100 在用低俗文学体裁写的一本题名偷情的快乐的书是布卢姆掏出来的，他摆得很巧妙，使封面和桌面接触那底封前倒数第二张空白衬页上，斯蒂芬用一管铅笔斯蒂芬提供的以简略体与装饰体写下相当于g a d m的爱尔兰语字母117 。布卢姆则写下希伯来字母ghimel aleph daleth和qoph这是用来代替所缺的mem的。他还说明，这些字母作为序数及基数的算数值，各自代表三一四及一百118 。
