Kanes

• John Maynard Keynes: economist and associate of Virginia Woolf and of the Bloomsbury Group. A practicing homosexual in his youth, later married and heterosexual. "Kanes nought" - suggest Keynes suffered nought for his homosexual past in contrast to Oscar Wilde. Bloom's bury is a pun in its own write that one would half expect in FW.

• Caine's nought: Caine is a cipher, nothing, lost or ruined.

• Kane: two Lord Mayor's of Dublin: Joseph (1725-6) and Nathaniel (1734-35)

• Canes not: not caning, striking, beating with a stick