Fate. Tap. Tap. A stripling, blind, with a tapping cane arrived taptaptapping by Daly's window exactly where a mermaid hair all streaming (but he could not see) blew whiffs of a mermaid (blind could not), mermaid, coolest whiff of all. Bloom considered a gallant pictured hero in Lionel Marks's window. The circumstances of borrowing, and how it came to suggest "hero" in Slavic, continue being unclear. Pom. Wallop.