In 1936 when bloom would be 70 and stephen 54 their ages initially in the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17 1 2 to 13 1 2 , the proportion increasing and the disparity diminishing according as arbitrary future years were added , for if the proportion existing in 1883 had continued immutable , conceiving that to be possible , till then 1904 when stephen was 22 bloom would be 374 and in 1920 when stephen would be 38 , as bloom then was , bloom would be 646 while in 1952 when stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 bloom , being 1190 years alive having been born in the year 714 , would have surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age , that of methusalah , 969 years , while , if stephen would continue to live until he would attain that age in the year 3072 a . d . , bloom would have been obliged to have been alive 83 , 300 years , having been obliged to have been born in the year 81 , 396 b . c 将来随着彼此年的任意增长，比率会越来越大，差距则越来越小。因为倘若一八八三年存在的那个比率有可能一成不变地延续下去，那么一九0四年，当斯蒂芬二十二岁时，布卢姆就应该是三百七十四岁了而到了一九二0年，当斯蒂芬三十八岁也就是布卢姆现在这个年时，布卢姆就应该是六百四十六岁了而一九五二年，当斯蒂芬活到大洪水之后的最高年七十岁61时，布卢姆就已交一千一百九十岁，生年为七一四年62比大洪水之前的最长寿者，也就是活到九百六十九岁的玛土撒拉63还要多二百二十一岁。
