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