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