weirdlooking

— Redbearded W. B. Murphy, ablebodied seaman, met in the cabman's shelter at 1:00 A.M., is another unforgettable figure. We see him largely through Bloom's eyes. Suspicious of him from the first, Bloom tries in vain to warn Stephen not to give his name, for he feels that "it required no violent stretch of the imagination to associate such a weirdlooking specimen with the oakum and treadmill fraternity."