Ulysses

• Buck Mulligan performs a mock-religious ceremony with his shaving gear atop a Martello tower.
• Stephen Dedalus observes Mulligan's irreverent antics with cold, weary detachment.
• The dialogue reveals a tension between the 'Hellenic' spirit Mulligan claims and Stephen's somber Jesuit education.
• The presence of an Englishman named Haines creates friction, as he spent the night raving about a black panther.
• Stephen expresses genuine fear and a desire to leave the tower if the unstable Haines remains.
• Mulligan's character is established as a playful yet mocking figure who balances medical realism with aesthetic pretension.

He held the bowl aloft and intoned: —Introibo ad altare Dei.

• Buck Mulligan uses Stephen Dedalus's dirty handkerchief to clean his razor, mockingly dubbing the color 'snotgreen' and applying the term to the Irish Sea.
• Mulligan juxtaposes classical Greek reverence for the sea as a 'great sweet mother' with the grim reality of Stephen's own mother's recent death.
• Stephen is haunted by the memory of his mother's deathbed, specifically his refusal to kneel and pray for her as she requested.
• The physical reality of death is contrasted with Mulligan's flippant aestheticism, as Stephen recalls the 'green sluggish bile' his mother vomited.
• Mulligan offers Stephen secondhand clothes while simultaneously mocking his moral scruples, noting the irony of a man who 'kills his mother' but refuses to wear grey trousers.
• The interaction highlights the tension between Stephen's internal guilt and Mulligan's boisterous, cynical vitality.

Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes.

• Stephen Dedalus contemplates his reflection in a cracked mirror, leading to his famous definition of Irish art as 'the cracked looking-glass of a servant.'
• Buck Mulligan attempts to charm Stephen into a partnership to 'Hellenise' Ireland, despite Stephen's deep-seated resentment toward him.
• The narrative shifts into a vivid, chaotic memory of a 'ragging' at Oxford, contrasting the cruelty of wealthy students with Stephen's current poverty.
• Stephen remains emotionally distant from Mulligan, privately viewing their relationship as a duel between the 'lancet' of medical science and the 'steelpen' of art.
• The tension culminates when Stephen confronts Mulligan about a callous remark made shortly after the death of Stephen's mother.
• Mulligan's defense of his past behavior reveals a temperament that prioritizes fleeting 'ideas and sensations' over the weight of personal grief.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

• Buck Mulligan dismisses the sanctity of death, viewing it as a purely biological and 'beastly' process based on his medical training.
• Stephen Dedalus reveals that his resentment stems not from an insult to his dead mother, but from the personal offense Mulligan’s callousness caused him.
• Mulligan mocks Stephen's 'Jesuit strain' and his refusal to pray at his mother's deathbed, contrasting Stephen's rigid principles with his own flippant nihilism.
• The narrative shifts into Stephen’s internal monologue, where he recalls intimate, tactile memories of his mother and her meager possessions.
• Stephen is haunted by the memory of singing Fergus’ song to his dying mother, a moment of shared grief that now fuels his 'moody brooding.'
• The imagery of the sea and the darkening sky reflects Stephen's deepening melancholy and the 'bitter waters' of his conscience.

Her shapely fingernails reddened by the blood of squashed lice from the children’s shirts.

• Stephen Dedalus is haunted by a visceral, macabre vision of his dying mother and the religious guilt surrounding her death.
• Buck Mulligan interrupts Stephen's morbid introspection with boisterous calls for breakfast and news of Haines's apology.
• The financial disparity and transactional nature of their friendship are highlighted as Mulligan asks to borrow Stephen's upcoming wages.
• Stephen reflects on his identity and past, feeling like a 'server of a servant' while handling a shaving bowl that reminds him of a religious incense boat.
• The domestic scene in the Martello tower transitions from gloomy smoke and grease to 'welcome light' as the heavy door is finally opened.
• Mulligan's irreverent attitude clashes with Stephen's somber mood, particularly regarding Stephen's 'Paris fads' and the lack of milk for breakfast.

Ghoul! Chewer of corpses! No, mother! Let me be and let me live.

• Buck Mulligan serves breakfast to Haines and Stephen, performing a mock-religious ritual over the food while mimicking local folklore.
• Mulligan satirizes Haines's academic interest in Irish culture, suggesting the Englishman's 'book' will be bloated with excessive footnotes on trivial folk tales.
• An old milkwoman arrives, serving as a living symbol of Ireland—the 'Silk of the kine' and the 'poor old woman'—to the three men.
• Stephen views the woman with a mix of reverence and pity, seeing her as a lowly immortal serving her 'conqueror' (Haines) and her 'gay betrayer' (Mulligan).
• Mulligan adopts a patronizing tone with the woman, blaming the country's physical decay on poor diet and living conditions while drinking her milk.

A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean, a messenger from the secret morning.

• An elderly milkwoman visits the tower, deferring to Buck Mulligan's medical persona while ignoring Stephen's silent presence.
• The interaction highlights a cultural irony as Haines, an Englishman, speaks Irish to the woman, who cannot understand her own native tongue.
• Stephen reflects bitterly on the woman's subservience to religious and medical authority, viewing her as a symbol of a subjugated Ireland.
• Financial tensions surface as Mulligan struggles to pay the milk bill, eventually prompting him to pressure Stephen to bring back money from his teaching job.
• Haines expresses interest in documenting Stephen's wit, specifically citing his metaphor of Irish art being a 'cracked lookingglass of a servant.'
• The scene concludes with Mulligan mocking Stephen's hygiene and the group preparing for a morning swim.

She bows her old head to a voice that speaks to her loudly, her bonesetter, her medicineman: me she slights.

• Buck Mulligan rebukes Stephen Dedalus for his 'Jesuit jibes' which threaten their ability to secure money from their guest, Haines.
• Mulligan adopts a mercurial persona, quoting Walt Whitman and dressing with theatrical flair while mocking their impoverished circumstances.
• The trio departs the Martello tower, which Stephen reveals they rent from the Secretary of State for War for twelve pounds.
• Mulligan describes the tower as the 'omphalos' or navel of the world, grounding their local setting in a grand, mythological context.
• Haines inquires about Stephen’s idiosyncratic theory of Hamlet, which Mulligan dismisses as a complex algebraic paradox involving ancestral identity.
• Stephen remains listless and aloof, suggesting that his intellectual explanations require the lubrication of alcohol to be shared.

He proves by algebra that Hamlet’s grandson is Shakespeare’s grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father.

• Haines compares the Martello tower and surrounding cliffs to the setting of Elsinore in Hamlet.
• Stephen perceives a sharp contrast between his own somber mourning clothes and the vibrant attire of his companions.
• Buck Mulligan performs a blasphemous, mocking song about the divinity of Christ and the nature of miracles.
• Haines expresses a secular, intellectualized view of religion while remaining fascinated by Mulligan's irreverent energy.
• Stephen identifies himself with 'grim displeasure' as a 'horrible example of free thought' when questioned about his faith.
• The interaction highlights the tension between Mulligan's performative mockery and Stephen's internal, heavy spiritual struggle.

In the bright silent instant Stephen saw his own image in cheap dusty mourning between their gay attires.

• Stephen Dedalus expresses his internal conflict, identifying as a servant to both the British Empire and the Roman Catholic Church.
• Haines, an Englishman, dismisses historical colonial tensions by vaguely suggesting that 'history is to blame' for the treatment of Ireland.
• Stephen reflects on the grand, rhythmic power of Church dogma and the various heresies that have challenged its authority throughout history.
• The conversation shifts to Haines's own nationalist anxieties, including casual anti-Semitism regarding the 'national problem' in England.
• The narrative transitions to the coast where characters observe the sea, waiting for the body of a drowned man to surface after nine days.
• Buck Mulligan maintains his irreverent persona, mocking religious gestures while preparing to swim near the cliffs.

The void awaits surely all them that weave the wind: a menace, a disarming and a worsting from those embattled angels of the church, Michael’s host, who defend her ever in the hour of conflict with their lances and their shields.

• Buck Mulligan mocks the social and military ambitions of his peers while bathing, adopting a Nietzschean persona of the 'Uebermensch'.
• Stephen Dedalus experiences a growing sense of alienation, surrendering his key and money to Mulligan and vowing not to return to the tower.
• The narrative shifts to a classroom setting where Stephen teaches history to a group of disinterested, wealthy schoolboys.
• Stephen reflects on the nature of history and memory, viewing historical events as 'fabled' narratives rather than absolute truths.
• The interaction with the student Armstrong highlights the class divide and the lack of intellectual discipline in the schoolroom environment.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and time one livid final flame.

• Stephen Dedalus reflects on the nature of history, viewing it as a series of fixed events that have ousted all other infinite possibilities.
• The classroom setting reveals a disconnect between the students' casual indifference to history and Stephen's deep philosophical burden.
• While a student recites Milton's Lycidas, Stephen's mind wanders to Aristotelian definitions of actuality and his studious nights in Paris.
• The narrative explores the weight of religious and imperial shadows—the 'coin of the tribute'—on the hearts of the young and the cynical alike.
• Stephen transitions from formal instruction to the enigmatic world of riddles, challenging the students' literal minds with poetic mystery.

Time has branded them and fettered they are lodged in the room of the infinite possibilities they have ousted.

• Stephen Dedalus finishes a lesson with his students, leaving him alone with the struggling and physically awkward Cyril Sargent.
• Observing Sargent's frailty and ink-stained face, Stephen reflects on the protective power of maternal love that saves the weak from being trampled.
• Stephen experiences a moment of self-recognition, seeing his own past gracelessness and childhood reflected in the boy's posture.
• The act of solving an algebraic sum becomes a meditative process, linking mathematical symbols to historical figures like Averroes and Maimonides.
• Stephen contemplates the 'secrets' locked within the human heart, describing them as weary tyrants that govern the soul's inner palace.

She had loved his weak watery blood drained from her own. Was that then real? The only true thing in life?

• Stephen Dedalus observes the chaotic schoolyard as Mr. Deasy attempts to mediate a dispute among the students.
• The setting of Deasy's study is described through sensory details of stale air, abraded leather, and religious and historical artifacts.
• Mr. Deasy settles his financial debt with Stephen, meticulously counting out three pounds and twelve shillings using a mechanical coin dispenser.
• Stephen reflects on the nature of money, viewing it as a symbol of greed and misery compared to the natural beauty of the shells on the table.
• Deasy lectures Stephen on the importance of saving, quoting Iago from Othello to equate money with power and English identity.
• The interaction highlights the generational and philosophical divide between the cynical, pragmatic headmaster and the contemplative, detached teacher.

A lump in my pocket: symbols soiled by greed and misery.

• Mr. Deasy boasts of his financial independence and moral rectitude, contrasting his lack of debt with Stephen Dedalus's internal list of numerous creditors.
• The conversation shifts to Irish history and identity, where Deasy claims a lineage that supported the Union while asserting that 'we are all Irish.'
• Stephen expresses a profound skepticism toward grand historical narratives and nationalistic rhetoric, famously stating his fear of 'big words.'
• Deasy recounts his memories of political shifts and the Great Famine, positioning himself as a witness to three generations of Irish struggle.
• The scene transitions as Deasy prepares a letter for the press, while Stephen observes the room's decor, including images of famous racehorses.
• The dialogue highlights the generational and ideological divide between Deasy's pragmatic Toryism and Stephen's detached, artistic melancholy.

—I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

• Stephen Dedalus listens as Mr. Deasy presents a formal letter intended for the press regarding the foot and mouth disease affecting Irish cattle.
• Mr. Deasy advocates for an Austrian veterinary cure, blaming bureaucratic 'intrigues' and 'backstairs influence' for the Department of Agriculture's inaction.
• The conversation shifts from agricultural policy to a virulent antisemitic tirade, with Deasy claiming that Jewish influence is causing the decay of England.
• Stephen offers a brief, cynical rebuttal by defining a merchant simply as one who 'buys cheap and sells dear,' regardless of religion.
• Deasy justifies his prejudice through a religious lens, asserting that Jewish people are 'wanderers on the earth' because they 'sinned against the light.'
• The narrative reflects Stephen's internal observations of the 'goldskinned men' of the exchange, noting their perceived status as outsiders in a hostile world.

Jousts, slush and uproar of battles, the frozen deathspew of the slain, a shout of spearspikes baited with men’s bloodied guts.

• Stephen Dedalus famously defines history as a nightmare from which he is attempting to escape, contrasting his view with Mr. Deasy's teleological belief in history as a movement toward God.
• Mr. Deasy attributes historical failures and wars to the influence of women, citing figures like Helen of Troy and the wife of MacMurrough.
• The conversation highlights the generational and ideological divide between the cynical, artistic Stephen and the moralistic, Ulster-loyalist Deasy.
• Deasy tasks Stephen with getting a letter regarding cattle disease published in local newspapers, leading Stephen to anticipate being mocked as a 'bullockbefriending bard.'
• The encounter concludes with Deasy delivering a bigoted joke about Ireland never persecuting Jews because the country 'never let them in.'
• Stephen reflects on his unsuitability for teaching, viewing himself instead as a perpetual learner amidst the 'toothless terrors' of authority.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

• Stephen Dedalus engages in a philosophical meditation on the nature of perception, distinguishing between the 'visible' (nebeneinander) and the 'audible' (nacheinander).
• Walking along Sandymount Strand with eyes closed, he tests the reality of the physical world through the rhythmic sound of his boots crushing shells.
• The narrative shifts to a contemplation of birth and lineage as Stephen observes two midwives, imagining the 'strandentwining cable' of navel cords linking all humanity back to Eve.
• Stephen reflects on his own origins, viewing his parents as agents of a 'coupler’s will' and himself as a being 'made not begotten' within a theological framework.
• The text explores the tension between the eternal and the temporal, referencing the heresiarch Arius and the complexity of consubstantiality.
• The internal monologue blends high scholastic philosophy with visceral, earthy imagery of the sea, decay, and the human body.

The cords of all link back, strandentwining cable of all flesh.

• Stephen Dedalus reflects on his family's social decline while visiting his uncle Richie Goulding's cramped and shuttered cottage.
• The narrative captures the tension between Stephen's intellectual aspirations and the gritty, often drunken reality of his relatives.
• Richie Goulding is depicted as a robust but decaying figure, drafting legal bills in bed while demanding whiskey over lithia water.
• Stephen experiences a sense of shame regarding his past pretensions, recalling how he lied to schoolmates about his family's status.
• The text transitions into a feverish meditation on madness, religious ritual, and the 'equine' faces of his peers, linking them to the prophecies of Joachim Abbas.

A hater of his kind ran from them to the wood of madness, his mane foaming in the moon, his eyeballs stars.

• Stephen Dedalus reflects on the synchronized rituals of the Catholic Mass, imagining bells ringing across the city in a 'diphthong' of devotion.
• He mocks his own past religious fervor and youthful vanity, recalling prayers to avoid a red nose and his secret lustful outbursts.
• The narrative shifts to his failed literary ambitions, specifically his 'epiphanies' written on green leaves intended for the great libraries of the world.
• Stephen navigates the physical landscape of the Dublin shore, observing the 'sewage breath' of the sandflats and the 'crucified shirts' on a drying line.
• He recalls his time in Paris with Patrice, the son of a Fenian exile, discussing socialism, atheism, and the 'fleshpots of Egypt' over warm milk.

Remember your epiphanies written on green oval leaves, deeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria?

• Stephen Dedalus reflects on his time in Paris, recalling the bohemian lifestyle and the use of train tickets as alibis.
• The narrative shifts to the harsh reality of poverty, including the memory of a closed post office and the desperation of hunger.
• Stephen confronts his failed ambitions of being a 'missionary to Europe,' returning home instead with trivial French magazines and a telegram announcing his mother's death.
• The text vividly recreates the sensory atmosphere of Paris, from the 'lemon streets' and 'wormwood' to the yellowed mouths of women eating pastry.
• Stephen recalls encounters with Kevin Egan, an exiled Fenian, amidst the 'green fairy' of absinthe and political conspiracies.
• The internal monologue explores themes of guilt and family, specifically the accusation that Stephen's lifestyle contributed to his mother's demise.

Paris rawly waking, crude sunlight on her lemon streets.

• Stephen Dedalus reflects on the life of Kevin Egan, a Fenian exile living in Paris, who exists in a state of loveless and landless isolation.
• The narrative recounts tales of Irish rebellion, including wild escapes in disguise and the Clerkenwell prison bombing.
• Egan is depicted as a forgotten man, haunting dingy printing houses and taverns while his wife lives comfortably without him.
• Stephen experiences a physical and existential sinking as he walks along the treacherous, shifting sands of the Dublin shore.
• The tower at Sandycove is reimagined as a tomb for his companions, leading Stephen to resolve not to return there that night.
• The landscape is personified as a heavy accumulation of history and language, where the tide and debris represent the 'silted' past of Ireland.

The cold domed room of the tower waits. Through the barbicans the shafts of light are moving ever, slowly ever as my feet are sinking, creeping duskward over the dial floor.

• Stephen Dedalus observes a dog and its owners on the beach, triggering a defensive internal monologue about mastery and slavery.
• The landscape evokes historical visions of Viking invasions and a medieval Dublin plagued by famine and slaughter.
• Stephen reflects on his own cowardice and the 'paradise of pretenders,' comparing himself to historical usurpers and failed figures.
• The memory of a recently drowned man forces Stephen to confront his physical fear of water and his inability to save others.
• He experiences a moment of guilt and paralysis, linking the 'bitter death' of the sea to his inability to save his dying mother.
• The dog’s frantic movements across the sand serve as a kinetic counterpoint to Stephen’s static, heavy meditations on the past.

Galleys of the Lochlanns ran here to beach, in quest of prey, their bloodbeaked prows riding low on a molten pewter surf.

• A dog explores the shoreline, sniffing a carcass and engaging in primal behaviors that mirror the cycle of life and decay.
• Stephen Dedalus observes a pair of gypsies or 'red Egyptians' trudging across the sand, sparking a stream of consciousness about their rough lifestyle and canting language.
• The narrative shifts into a dreamlike recollection of a street of harlots and a mysterious encounter involving a melon and a red carpet.
• Stephen reflects on the nature of sin and desire, referencing Aquinas and the concept of 'morose delectation' or dwelling on forbidden pleasures.
• The passage concludes with a poetic meditation on the moon, the tides, and the inevitable progression from the 'bridebed' to the 'allwombing tomb.'
• Language fluctuates between high theological Latin and low 'rogues' rum lingo,' illustrating the tension between Stephen's intellectualism and the physical world.

His lips lipped and mouthed fleshless lips of air: mouth to her moomb. Oomb, allwombing tomb.

• Stephen Dedalus pauses on the rocks to scribble poetic fragments on a scrap of paper torn from Mr. Deasy's letter.
• He contemplates the nature of perception, invoking Bishop Berkeley's theories on the visual field and the 'ineluctable modality' of sight.
• His thoughts drift to a woman glimpsed at a bookstore, oscillating between romanticized longing and cynical, earthy details of her attire.
• Stephen reflects on his own isolation and the 'shamewounded' state of the soul, yearning for a human touch to break his solitude.
• He recognizes his own physical presence through borrowed items, noting his 'buck's castoffs' boots and the memory of friends like Cranly.

Darkly they are there behind this light, darkness shining in the brightness, delta of Cassiopeia, worlds.

• Stephen Dedalus observes the rhythmic, onomatopoeic language of the rising tide, personifying the sea as a weary, lunar-driven force.
• The narrative shifts to a visceral meditation on a drowned corpse, imagining the biological cycle of decay where man becomes fish and barnacle.
• Stephen reflects on his own physical decay, specifically his rotting teeth, and mockingly dubs himself 'Toothless Kinch, the superman.'
• The section concludes with a sharp transition to Mr. Leopold Bloom, introducing his specific culinary preference for the 'inner organs of beasts.'
• Bloom's character is established through his sensory appreciation for mutton kidneys and their 'faintly scented urine' tang.

God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.

• Leopold Bloom prepares a light breakfast in his kitchen while observing the behavior and physical traits of his cat.
• Bloom reflects on the nature of cats, considering their intelligence, their predatory instincts, and how they might perceive humans.
• He feeds the cat milk from a saucer, noting the animal's greed and the physical mechanics of its rough tongue.
• Bloom checks on his sleeping wife, Molly, who provides a sleepy grunt indicating she does not want a heavy breakfast.
• The sound of the jingling bedstead prompts a brief memory of Molly's father, Major Tweedy, and his military background in Gibraltar and Plevna.
• Bloom prepares to leave the house for a pork kidney, gathering his hat and coat while contemplating the business of postage stamps.

He watched the dark eyeslits narrowing with greed till her eyes were green stones.

• Leopold Bloom leaves his home for the morning, realizing he has forgotten his latchkey but deciding not to disturb his sleeping wife.
• Walking in the heat of his black funeral clothes, he contemplates the physics of heat absorption and the sensory details of the Dublin morning.
• He indulges in an exotic orientalist fantasy of traveling east, imagining turbaned faces, carpet shops, and the scent of fennel-water.
• Bloom reflects on Irish politics and the 'homerule sun,' noting the irony of a sun rising in the northwest in a local newspaper illustration.
• He assesses the commercial viability of local businesses like Larry O'Rourke’s pub, considering how a new tramline might affect property values.
• The narrative captures Bloom's internal monologue as he prepares to offer condolences for the upcoming funeral of Paddy Dignam.

He pulled the halldoor after him very quietly, more, till the footleaf dropped gently over the threshold, a limp lid.

• Leopold Bloom reflects on the rapid financial rise of publicans and the pervasive nature of Dublin's drinking culture.
• While passing a schoolhouse, the sounds of children reciting the alphabet and geography trigger a brief, nostalgic internal monologue.
• At Dlugacz’s butcher shop, Bloom is captivated by the sight of sausages and a raw kidney, while simultaneously observing a neighbor's servant girl.
• Bloom experiences a mix of voyeuristic attraction and critical judgment toward the girl, admiring her physical vigor while noting her chapped hands.
• A flyer for a model farm in Palestine sparks a momentary interest in Zionist agricultural projects and pastoral imagery.
• The encounter ends with a sense of missed opportunity as the girl walks away, leaving Bloom with a 'sting of disregard' as he waits for his purchase.

The way her crooked skirt swings at each whack.

• Leopold Bloom completes a purchase at the butcher and begins reading a prospectus for a Zionist plantation scheme in Palestine.
• He contemplates the agricultural potential of the Levant, imagining the cultivation of olives, oranges, and citrons in sandy tracts.
• The sensory details of the fruit trigger nostalgic memories of past evenings with Molly and old friends like Citron and Mastiansky.
• His mood shifts abruptly as a cloud obscures the sun, transforming his vision of a lush orchard into a desolate, volcanic wasteland.
• He reflects on the Jewish diaspora as a 'first race' wandering through history from captivity to captivity.
• Overwhelmed by a sense of physical and spiritual decay, he hurries home to escape the 'grey horror' of his own thoughts.

A dead sea in a dead land, grey and old. Old now. It bore the oldest, the first race.

• Leopold Bloom observes the neighborhood houses and sensory details of his home while preparing breakfast.
• Bloom delivers mail to his wife, Molly, noticing her secretive reaction as she hides a letter under her pillow.
• The domestic scene shifts to the kitchen where Bloom prepares tea and fries a kidney for his breakfast.
• Bloom feeds his cat and reflects on the feline's hunting instincts and dietary habits.
• Reading a letter from his daughter Milly, Bloom reminisces about her childhood and her developing personality.
• The narrative captures Bloom's internal monologue, blending mundane tasks with nostalgic memories and subtle marital tension.

Quick warm sunlight came running from Berkeley road, swiftly, in slim sandals, along the brightening footpath.

• Leopold Bloom serves breakfast to his wife, Molly, in their bedroom, observing her physical presence and the domestic clutter.
• Molly mentions an upcoming musical performance with Blazes Boylan, introducing a subtle tension regarding her social and romantic life.
• The couple struggles to define the word 'metempsychosis' found in Molly's book, leading to a discussion on the transmigration of souls.
• Bloom attempts to explain complex philosophical concepts in 'plain words' while Molly remains dismissive of academic jargon.
• The narrative weaves between their dialogue and Bloom's internal stream of consciousness regarding death, reincarnation, and cheap literature.

The book, fallen, sprawled against the bulge of the orangekeyed chamberpot.

• Leopold Bloom attempts to explain the concept of metempsychosis to Molly before being interrupted by the smell of burning meat.
• Bloom rescues his breakfast kidney from the fire, finding it only slightly charred and proceeding to eat it with discernment.
• He reads a birthday letter from his daughter Milly, who is fifteen and working in a photography business in Mullingar.
• The letter mentions a young student named Bannon and a song by Blazes Boylan, sparking a mix of pride and paternal anxiety in Bloom.
• Bloom reflects on Milly's childhood, her growing independence, and the somber memory of his deceased son, Rudy.
• Despite his worries about Milly's vanity and the risks of her new environment, he resolves to wait and see how her destiny unfolds.

Pungent smoke shot up in an angry jet from a side of the pan.

• Bloom experiences a wave of nostalgia and regret while thinking of his wife Molly and daughter Milly, contemplating the inevitability of change and infidelity.
• The domestic environment is characterized by the presence of the cat, whose restless behavior Bloom interprets as a sign of approaching thunder.
• Bloom considers the practicalities of gardening, noting the poor quality of his soil and the necessity of manure and household waste for reclamation.
• The narrative follows Bloom's physical movements through the house and garden as he prepares for a bowel movement, choosing an old magazine for reading material.
• The passage highlights Bloom's stream of consciousness, blending mundane tasks with memories of seaside girls and preparations for an upcoming funeral.

A soft qualm, regret, flowed down his backbone, increasing. Will happen, yes. Prevent. Useless: can’t move.

• Leopold Bloom reads a prize-winning story by Philip Beaufoy while attending to his morning bowel movement in the outhouse.
• He calculates the author's earnings and considers writing his own sketch based on his wife Molly's idiosyncratic remarks.
• Bloom recalls intimate details of Molly dressing and her questions about Blazes Boylan, hinting at his underlying anxieties.
• He conceptualizes a poetic idea for a story based on the 'Dance of the Hours,' transitioning from morning light to night.
• After finishing his business and using the story as toilet paper, he emerges to the sound of church bells tolling for a funeral.
• Bloom begins his walk through the city streets, passing industrial sites and observing the gritty reality of Dublin's working class.

He read on, seated calm above his own rising smell.

• Bloom navigates the streets of Dublin, passing landmarks like the undertaker's and the Belfast and Oriental Tea Company.
• He engages in a sensory and scientific internal monologue, contemplating the physics of gravity and the 'law of falling bodies.'
• A daydream of the 'Far East' reveals Bloom's longing for a lethargic, exotic paradise as an escape from his mundane reality.
• He surreptitiously retrieves a hidden business card from his hatband to use at the post office.
• Bloom visits the Westland Row post office to collect a clandestine letter addressed to his pseudonym, Henry Flower.

Those Cinghalese lobbing about in the sun in dolce far niente, not doing a hand’s turn all day.

• Bloom observes the Dublin Fusiliers, reflecting on the allure of uniforms and the political criticisms of the British army's presence.
• While opening a secret letter in his pocket, Bloom is interrupted by M'Coy, leading to a conversation about the death of Paddy Dignam.
• Bloom attempts to balance the social obligation of the conversation with his desire to maintain his privacy and inspect the contents of his letter.
• Distracted by a stylish woman across the road, Bloom analyzes her social status and physical appearance with a mix of cynicism and desire.
• The dialogue reveals the casual nature of Dublin gossip as M'Coy recounts how he learned of Dignam's sudden passing.

Possess her once take the starch out of her.

• Mr. Bloom and M’Coy exchange news about their wives' singing careers, though Bloom maintains a sense of private superiority regarding his wife's talent.
• Bloom reflects on the transience of life and the suddenness of death after learning of an acquaintance's passing.
• M’Coy asks Bloom to forge his signature on a funeral attendance list, revealing a lack of genuine social commitment.
• Bloom internally critiques M’Coy’s character, suspecting him of being a 'soft mark' who borrows items like valises without returning them.
• The narrative captures Bloom's wandering attention, shifting from advertisements for potted meat to voyeuristic glimpses of women in the street.
• Bloom experiences a moment of social wariness, wondering if M’Coy is following him before confirming they are heading in different directions.

Watch! Silk flash rich stockings white. Watch! A heavy tramcar honking its gong slewed between. Lost it. Curse your noisy pugnose.

• Leopold Bloom reflects on his father's grief and theatrical memories, specifically a scene of a blind father recognizing a wayward son.
• Bloom observes the simple, sensory existence of carriage horses, noting their lack of agency and their contentment with basic needs.
• The narrative shifts to Bloom's clandestine correspondence as he cautiously finds a private spot to open a hidden letter.
• Bloom receives a letter from Martha, who adopts a playful yet demanding tone, calling him a 'naughty boy' and asking for the meaning of a specific word.
• Martha expresses a deep, almost desperate attraction to Bloom while inquiring about the perfume his wife uses.
• The scene highlights Bloom's internal isolation and his reliance on secret emotional outlets to escape his domestic reality.

A wise tabby, a blinking sphinx, watched from her warm sill. Pity to disturb them. Mohammed cut a piece out of his mantle not to wake her.

• Leopold Bloom reads a clandestine letter from Martha, interpreting her coded 'language of flowers' and flirtatious threats of punishment.
• He reflects on the physical nature of women's clothing and the ubiquitous presence of pins, triggered by a pin found in the envelope.
• Bloom contemplates the biblical figures Martha and Mary, contrasting domestic service with the quiet intimacy of listening.
• The narrative shifts to a calculation of the Guinness family's wealth, translating a million-pound cheque into millions of gallons of porter.
• The sound of a passing train transforms into a surreal vision of a vast, dull flood of beer overflowing across the landscape.
• Bloom arrives at All Hallows church, transitioning from his private romantic fantasies back to the public sphere of religious observation.

Barrels bumped in his head: dull porter slopped and churned inside. The bungholes sprang open and a huge dull flood leaked out, flowing together, winding through mudflats all over the level land, a lazy pooling swirl of liquor bearing along wideleaved flowers of its froth.

• Bloom observes the Catholic Mass with a detached, skeptical curiosity, comparing the missionary efforts in China and Africa to local religious fervor.
• The act of receiving the Eucharist is viewed through a visceral lens, with Bloom likening the consumption of the host to eating bits of a corpse or a 'lollipop'.
• He notes the psychological comfort of religion, suggesting that the 'bread of angels' provides a sense of belonging and lulls the pain of existence through blind faith.
• The use of Latin is interpreted as a tool to stupefy the congregation, creating a hypnotic atmosphere that facilitates spiritual submission.
• Bloom reflects on the physical reality of the clergy, noticing the priest's worn bootsole and bald spot, which grounds the divine ceremony in the mundane.
• The narrative highlights the communal aspect of the church, where the 'kingdom of God' feeling serves to make the practitioners feel less lonely, like a family party.

Shut your eyes and open your mouth. What? Corpus: body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupefies them first.

• Bloom reflects on the hypocrisy of religious devotion, citing a murderer who took communion daily.
• He observes the priest drinking the sacramental wine, viewing the exclusion of the laity as a practical measure to prevent drunkenness.
• The silence of the church reminds Bloom of Molly's past performance of Rossini's Stabat Mater and the power of her voice.
• He considers the historical patronage of the arts by popes, including their appreciation for music and liqueurs.
• Bloom muses on the physical and vocal nature of eunuchs in church choirs, wondering about their placid existence.
• He admires the clockwork efficiency and organization of the Catholic Church despite his personal detachment from the faith.

Old Glynn he knew how to make that instrument talk, the vibrato: fifty pounds a year they say he had in Gardiner street.

• Bloom observes the rituals of the Catholic Church, noting the psychological power priests hold over women through the secrecy of the confessional.
• He reflects on the financial and political influence of the Church, viewing it as a well-organized 'show' that secures wealth through bequests and theology.
• A moment of personal embarrassment occurs as Bloom realizes his waistcoat buttons were open, leading to a brief internal monologue on female vanity and social decorum.
• Leaving the church, Bloom transitions from the spiritual atmosphere to the practical world of commerce, heading toward a chemist to fulfill a prescription.
• He contemplates the physical and mental toll of the pharmaceutical trade, imagining the chemist as a shrivelled alchemist living among herbs and poisons.
• Bloom's stream of consciousness links the smell of the pharmacy to the history of medicine, from ancient 'simples' to modern anesthetics like chloroform.

The chemist turned back page after page. Sandy shrivelled smell he seems to have. Shrunken skull.

• Leopold Bloom visits a chemist to order a custom skin lotion for Molly, reflecting on the efficacy of homely recipes and the sensory qualities of drugs and soaps.
• Bloom contemplates the physical body, considering the layers of skin, the accumulation of dirt, and the therapeutic potential of a Turkish bath.
• While purchasing a cake of lemon soap, Bloom encounters Bantam Lyons, who is searching the newspaper for horse racing tips for the Ascot Gold Cup.
• A misunderstanding occurs when Bloom tells Lyons he was going to 'throw away' the paper, which Lyons interprets as a tip for the horse 'Throwaway'.
• Bloom reflects on the destructive nature of gambling and embezzlement in Dublin society as he heads toward the public baths.

Mr Bloom raised a cake to his nostrils. Sweet lemony wax.

• Leopold Bloom reflects on the aesthetics of advertising and the fleeting nature of pleasant weather while observing the streets of Dublin.
• Bloom indulges in a sensual, quasi-religious meditation on the ritual of bathing, envisioning his body as a 'languid floating flower' in a womb of warmth.
• The narrative shifts to a funeral procession as Bloom joins Martin Cunningham, Mr. Power, and Simon Dedalus in a horse-drawn carriage.
• Bloom observes the morbid curiosity of the living toward the dead, noting how neighbors watch the hearse pass with a sense of relief that they were 'passed over.'
• The physical discomfort of the carriage ride is punctuated by Bloom's realization that he is sitting on a bar of soap he purchased earlier.
• The group travels through Dublin, noting the public displays of respect as passersby lift their hats to the passing funeral cortege.

He saw his trunk and limbs riprippled over and sustained, buoyed lightly upward, lemonyellow: his navel, bud of flesh: and saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid floating flower.

• Mr. Dedalus expresses vitriolic disdain for his son Stephen's association with Buck Mulligan, whom he views as a corrupting influence.
• The carriage ride through Dublin triggers a bitter rant from Dedalus against his in-laws, the Goulding family, revealing deep-seated class and personal animosities.
• Leopold Bloom reflects privately on the physical decline of Richie Goulding, noting the futility of his backache 'cures' and his past antics.
• Bloom experiences a poignant moment of grief for his deceased son, Rudy, imagining the life and legacy they might have shared together.
• The narrative shifts to Bloom's memories of Molly's pregnancy and the domestic origins of life, contrasted with his thoughts on his daughter Milly's maturation.
• The passengers' focus returns to the physical discomfort of their carriage, complaining about its cleanliness and the 'mildewed' state of the upholstery.

My son. Me in his eyes. Strange feeling it would be. From me. Just a chance.

• The funeral carriage halts near the Grand Canal gasworks, prompting Bloom to reflect on childhood illnesses and the 'canvassing for death' inherent in life.
• Bloom recalls his father's dying wish regarding his dog, Athos, noting how the animal pined away in a display of loyalty that transcends the grave.
• The men in the carriage discuss the social performances of their peers, specifically Tom Kernan’s pompous vocabulary and Ben Dollard’s singing.
• Bloom scans the obituary columns in the newspaper, observing the 'inked characters fast fading' and the repetitive, sentimental language of grief.
• The narrative shifts between the external dialogue of the mourners and Bloom’s internal anxieties regarding a secret letter and his domestic errands.
• Bloom observes a manual laborer and briefly contemplates the economic cycle of automation, weighing the loss of old jobs against the creation of new ones.

Inked characters fast fading on the frayed breaking paper. Thanks to the Little Flower. Sadly missed. To the inexpressible grief of his.

• The group travels through Dublin, passing landmarks and theater advertisements that trigger Bloom's internal monologue about upcoming performances.
• The appearance of Blazes Boylan, Molly's manager and potential lover, creates a moment of tension and scrutiny among the men in the carriage.
• Bloom distracts himself by obsessively inspecting his fingernails and contemplating the physical aging of the human body.
• The conversation shifts to Molly’s upcoming concert tour, forcing Bloom to navigate social inquiries about her professional and personal associations.
• Bloom observes a destitute man selling bootlaces, reflecting on the fragility of social status and the 'relics of old decency.'
• The mention of 'Madame' (Molly) leads Bloom into a private musical reverie, analyzing her vocal technique and the beauty of her singing voice.

From the door of the Red Bank the white disc of a straw hat flashed reply: spruce figure: passed.

• The men in the carriage observe a passing figure, prompting Martin Cunningham to mockingly identify him as being 'of the tribe of Reuben.'
• Leopold Bloom attempts to tell a humorous anecdote about Reuben J. Dodd and his son, but he is repeatedly interrupted and eventually eclipsed by Martin Cunningham.
• The story involves a son jumping into the Liffey to escape his father, only to be rescued by a boatman who is rewarded with a mere two-shilling coin.
• Mr. Dedalus provides a cynical punchline, suggesting the rescue was overpriced by one and eightpence, highlighting the group's shared anti-Semitic prejudices.
• The mood shifts abruptly from cruel laughter to somber reflection as the men remember the deceased Paddy Dignam, for whom they are currently traveling in a funeral procession.
• The group attributes Dignam's sudden death to a heart breakdown caused by excessive drinking, personified as 'John Barleycorn.'

A boatman got a pole and fished him out by the slack of the breeches and he was landed up to the father on the quay more dead than alive.

• Mr. Bloom and his companions observe a child's funeral procession, prompting reflections on the fragility of life and the cruelty of nature.
• The group discusses the social and religious stigma of suicide, which is labeled a disgrace and a cowardly act by some.
• Martin Cunningham attempts to offer a charitable perspective on self-destruction, attributing it to temporary insanity to avoid harsh judgment.
• Bloom privately recalls the traumatic details of his own father's suicide, including the inquest, the red-labeled bottle, and the final letter addressed to him.
• The conversation shifts abruptly from the solemnity of death to the excitement of an upcoming auto race in Germany, highlighting the fleeting nature of grief.

They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn’t broken already.

• The carriage journey is interrupted by a drove of cattle and sheep being herded toward the docks for export to England.
• Bloom reflects on the economic loss of the 'fifth quarter'—the hides and byproducts—and suggests a tramline for livestock to clear the streets.
• Bloom proposes municipal funeral trams to improve efficiency and dignity, an idea met with skepticism and mockery by his companions.
• The men recount a gruesome local legend of a hearse capsizing at Dunphy’s corner, spilling a coffin and its occupant onto the road.
• Bloom contemplates the physical realities of death, including the decomposition of the body and the practicalities of sealing orifices with wax.
• The group passes Dunphy’s pub and the Royal Canal, observing the quiet, industrial landscape of Dublin's outskirts.

A coffin bumped out on to the road. Burst open. Paddy Dignam shot out and rolling over stiff in the dust in a brown habit too large for him.

• Leopold Bloom contemplates traveling the canal waterways to visit his daughter Milly, musing on houseboats and the transport of turf.
• The funeral carriage passes the site of the Childs murder, prompting a discussion on legal maxims and the public's morbid fascination with crime.
• The group arrives at Prospect Cemetery, passing a stonecutter's yard filled with white, sorrowful monuments and fragments of hewn shapes.
• Bloom reflects on the 'pomp of death' and the equality of the grave, noting that whether a funeral is paltry or grand, the end result is the same.
• As they disembark, Bloom discreetly moves a cake of soap between his pockets, maintaining his personal routine amidst the funereal atmosphere.

An old tramp sat, grumbling, emptying the dirt and stones out of his huge dustbrown yawning boot. After life’s journey.

• Bloom reflects on the relentless frequency of death, noting the constant stream of funerals and the sheer volume of people being buried daily.
• A tense social moment occurs when Martin Cunningham reveals to Mr. Power that Bloom's father committed suicide, explaining his earlier discomfort with the topic.
• The mourners discuss the financial ruin of the deceased, Paddy Dignam, including his mortgaged insurance policy and the need for a collection to support his five children.
• Bloom muses on the nature of widowhood and the inevitability of one partner outliving the other, drawing parallels to Queen Victoria's long mourning.
• The men engage in hushed, casual conversation about mutual acquaintances and the physical decline of old friends while waiting at the mortuary chapel.
• The narrative highlights the contrast between the solemnity of the funeral and the practical, often blunt, concerns of the living regarding money and social standing.

One must go first: alone, under the ground: and lie no more in her warm bed.

• Leopold Bloom observes the funeral rites for Paddy Dignam, focusing on the physical presence of the deceased's son and the mechanics of the chapel service.
• Bloom offers a cynical and irreverent internal monologue regarding Father Coffey, comparing the priest's physical appearance to a 'poisoned pup' and a toad.
• The narrative highlights the performative nature of the Latin liturgy, which Bloom suggests is designed to make the mourners feel more important despite the repetitive nature of the task.
• Bloom's thoughts drift toward the macabre biological realities of death, specifically the accumulation of 'bad gas' in coffins and the necessity of venting it.
• The scene underscores the mechanical indifference of the clergy, who perform the same blessings over a 'fresh batch' of corpses every day regardless of their identity.
• The transition from the spiritual service to the physical labor of the gravediggers emphasizes the functional, almost industrial process of disposing of the dead.

Down in the vaults of saint Werburgh’s lovely old organ hundred and fifty they have to bore a hole in the coffins sometimes to let out the bad gas and burn it.

• The funeral procession moves through Glasnevin Cemetery, passing the monument of Daniel O'Connell as Simon Dedalus breaks down in grief over his late wife.
• Mr. Kernan critiques the Catholic funeral service, comparing it unfavorably to the Protestant rites at Mount Jerome.
• Leopold Bloom privately rejects the religious concept of resurrection, viewing the human heart as a mere mechanical pump that eventually fails.
• Bloom reflects on the absurdity of the afterlife, imagining the chaos of souls searching for their decomposed organs on Judgment Day.
• John Henry Menton inquires about Bloom's identity, remembering his wife Molly as a 'finelooking woman' and recalling a past social slight.

The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead. That last day idea. Knocking them all up out of their graves. Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.

• The funeral party arrives at the cemetery and is greeted by the caretaker, John O’Connell, a man of professional poise and social standing.
• O’Connell shares a humorous anecdote about two drunks misidentifying a statue of Christ as their deceased friend Mulcahy.
• Martin Cunningham explains that the caretaker’s levity is a deliberate act of kindness intended to cheer up the bereaved.
• Leopold Bloom reflects on the caretaker’s domestic life, wondering what kind of woman would agree to live in a graveyard.
• Bloom’s internal monologue shifts from the logistics of advertising to morbidly erotic thoughts about 'love among the tombstones.'
• The narrative explores the proximity of life and death, noting how the living find ways to maintain desire and humor even in the presence of the 'holy fields.'

And, after blinking up at the sacred figure, Not a bloody bit like the man, says he. That’s not Mulcahy, says he, whoever done it.

• Bloom contemplates the physical reality of decomposition, imagining the soil enriched by 'corpsemanure' and the biological cycles of decay.
• The narrative explores the psychological defense of humor in the face of death, referencing the gravediggers in Hamlet and the necessity of joking to endure grief.
• Bloom observes the professional detachment of the cemetery caretaker and the logistical business of scheduling funerals.
• The appearance of a mysterious figure in a macintosh sparks Bloom's curiosity about the social rituals of mourning and the presence of strangers at burials.
• The text reflects on the human instinct to bury the dead, comparing it to the behavior of ants and the literary isolation of Robinson Crusoe.
• Bloom critiques the wastefulness of coffins and suggests more efficient burial methods, while acknowledging the sentimental desire for 'native earth'.

Then begin to get black, black treacle oozing out of them. Then dried up. Deathmoths.

• Mr. Bloom observes the funeral proceedings, counting the mourners and noting a mysterious thirteenth man in a macintosh.
• The narrative follows Bloom's stream of consciousness as he shifts from mundane observations about clothing to visceral anxieties about the physical reality of death.
• Bloom reflects on the grim details of the death struggle, including the signs of bodily decay and the psychological terror of being buried alive.
• The ritual of burial prompts memories of Bloom's own lost family members, specifically his father, mother, and his infant son, Rudy.
• As the coffin is covered with clay, Bloom considers the inevitability of being forgotten and the practical, almost clinical, indifference of the cemetery caretaker.
• The scene concludes with the social formalities of the funeral as Hynes collects names for the newspaper report, including a favor for the absent M'Coy.

Out of the fryingpan of life into the fire of purgatory. Does he ever think of the hole waiting for himself?

• The burial concludes as gravediggers fill the hole with damp clay and clean their tools with a practiced, mechanical indifference.
• A misunderstanding occurs between Hynes and Bloom regarding a mysterious figure in a mackintosh, leading Hynes to record the name 'M'Intosh' incorrectly.
• The mourners discuss the myth of Parnell, with some suggesting his grave is empty and he will return, while others insist on his finality.
• Bloom critiques the wastefulness of expensive funerals, suggesting the money would be better spent on the living rather than on 'stone hopes' and weeds.
• Bloom muses on the euphemisms of death, preferring honest epitaphs that describe a person's actual life and trade over religious platitudes.
• The scene captures the transition from the solemnity of the ritual to the mundane reality of the survivors moving on with their day.

Some say he is not in that grave at all. That the coffin was filled with stones. That one day he will come again.

• The narrator contemplates the physical reality of death, contrasting the sentimentality of memorials with the visceral decay of the body.
• A proposal is made for gramophones in graves to preserve the voices of the deceased, noting how quickly faces and identities are forgotten over time.
• The sight of a rat in the cemetery prompts a grim meditation on the cycle of consumption, where corpses are viewed as 'meat gone bad' and cheese as the 'corpse of milk.'
• Different methods of disposal—cremation, burial at sea, and towers of silence—are weighed against the traditional burial favored by the church.
• The narrator rejects the morbid fascination with the 'other world' of the dead, choosing instead to embrace the warmth and vitality of the living.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk.

• Mr. Bloom attempts a polite gesture toward John Henry Menton, who responds with cold, dismissive arrogance.
• The narrative shifts to the bustling center of Dublin, detailing the rhythmic movements of the city's extensive tram system.
• The General Post Office serves as a hub of imperial communication, processing mail for local and international delivery.
• Bloom visits a newspaper office to handle an advertisement for Alexander Keyes, navigating the professional hierarchy of the press.
• The sensory environment is defined by the 'dullthudding' of Guinness barrels and the mechanical sounds of the printing works.
• The appearance of William Brayden, a figure of local importance, commands immediate silent respect from the office staff.

John Henry Menton stared at him for an instant without moving.

• Mr. Bloom navigates the bustling, mechanical environment of a Dublin newspaper office, observing the physical presence of his colleagues and the hierarchy of the press.
• A comparison is drawn between a passing figure and religious iconography, specifically 'Our Saviour,' which Bloom playfully conflates with the opera tenor Mario.
• The narrative highlights the overwhelming power of industrial machinery, which Bloom reflects could 'smash a man to atoms' or continue 'monkeydoodle' indefinitely if left unchecked.
• Bloom muses on the commercial nature of journalism, noting that advertisements, gossip, and 'the personal note' are what truly drive circulation rather than official news.
• The interaction between Bloom, Hynes, and the foreman illustrates the mundane professional transactions and social posturing within the Irish political and media landscape.

Machines. Smash a man to atoms if they got him caught. Rule the world today.

• Leopold Bloom negotiates an advertisement layout with the foreman and councillor, Mr. Nannetti, in the noisy newspaper office.
• Bloom proposes a visual pun for Alexander Keyes’s business using crossed keys, referencing the Manx parliament to hint at 'home rule.'
• The rhythmic, industrial clanking of the printing presses dominates the sensory environment, which Bloom interprets as a form of speech.
• Bloom reflects on the ephemeral nature of the press, wondering about the fate of the miles of paper used for news and wrapping.
• The narrative captures Bloom's internal social anxieties, such as his hesitation to correct Nannetti's pronunciation or his missed opportunities for witty banter.
• The scene shifts to the technical precision of the printing floor, highlighting the 'proof fever' and orthographical challenges of the typesetters.

Everything speaks in its own way. Sllt.

• Leopold Bloom observes the aging 'dayfather' Monks, reflecting on the lifetime of mundane and tragic news the old man has processed.
• Watching a typesetter work backward triggers a memory of Bloom’s father reading the Haggadah, linking the printing process to Jewish ritual and heritage.
• Bloom muses on the Passover song 'Chad Gadya,' interpreting its cycle of violence as a metaphor for the universal struggle of life where 'everybody is eating everyone else.'
• While navigating the newspaper office, Bloom manages his personal belongings, specifically relocating a bar of lemon soap to his hip pocket.
• Bloom encounters Simon Dedalus and Ned Lambert, who are mockingly reciting overly florid, sentimental prose from a newspaper.
• The atmosphere shifts from the mechanical clatter of the press to the cynical, witty banter of Dublin's literary and journalistic circles.

Justice it means but it’s everybody eating everyone else. That’s what life is after all.

• Professor MacHugh and Simon Dedalus mock the flowery, nationalistic rhetoric of Dan Dawson’s speech, dismissing it as 'bladderbags' and 'inflated windbag' stuff.
• The group discusses the aging Vice-Chancellor Chatterton, noting the irony of journalists waiting for him to die so they can publish long-prepared obituaries.
• J. J. O’Molloy enters the office, appearing physically and professionally diminished; Bloom reflects on O'Molloy's decline from a clever lawyer to a man plagued by debt and ill health.
• Bloom observes the fickle nature of the newspaper business, where journalists publicly attack one another only to be 'hail fellow well met' in private.
• Ned Lambert persists in reading Dawson's purple prose aloud, describing Ireland's 'vernal green' and 'mysterious Irish twilight' to the increasing irritation of his audience.
• The scene highlights the contrast between the romanticized, 'translucent' image of Ireland in political speeches and the gritty, cynical reality of the men in the newspaper office.

O! Mr Dedalus cried, giving vent to a hopeless groan. Shite and onions! That’ll do, Ned. Life is too short.

• Professor MacHugh and Ned Lambert mock the success of a local figure nicknamed 'Doughy Daw' who rose from the bakery business.
• The editor, Myles Crawford, bursts into the room with a scarlet face and aggressive energy, trading insults with the professor.
• Mr. Dedalus and Ned Lambert depart for a drink, leaving the editor to reminisce loudly about the North Cork militia in Ohio.
• Mr. Bloom attempts to navigate the office's frantic atmosphere to handle a phone call regarding an advertisement.
• Lenehan enters with racing tips for the Gold Cup while newsboys cause a disturbance at the door.
• Professor MacHugh forcibly ejects a cringing newsboy to shut out the 'hurricane' of noise and wind from the hallway.

The inner door was opened violently and a scarlet beaked face, crested by a comb of feathery hair, thrust itself in.

• Leopold Bloom departs the newspaper office in a hurry to track down an advertiser at an auction room.
• A group of mocking newsboys follows Bloom into the street, mimicking his distinctive gait and physical appearance.
• Lenehan performs a cruel caricature of Bloom's walk for the amusement of the men remaining in the office.
• The editor, Myles Crawford, prepares to leave for a drink while displaying signs of intoxication and erratic behavior.
• The conversation shifts toward historical themes as the men compare the British Empire to the 'Imperium Romanum'.
• Lenehan attempts to command the room's attention with a 'brandnew riddle' as the group shares cigarettes.

Both smiled over the crossblind at the file of capering newsboys in Mr Bloom’s wake, the last zigzagging white on the breeze a mocking kite, a tail of white bowknots.

• Professor MacHugh critiques Roman civilization as a 'vile' culture obsessed with infrastructure and sewers rather than spiritual altars.
• The professor draws a direct parallel between the imperial Roman mindset and the contemporary British occupation of Ireland.
• Stephen Dedalus arrives at the newspaper office to deliver Garrett Deasy's letter regarding the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
• Editor Myles Crawford dismisses Deasy as an 'old pelters' and recounts a scandalous anecdote about Deasy's volatile wife.
• The conversation shifts to Irish loyalty toward 'lost causes,' suggesting that material success is the death of the intellect.
• The group discusses the historical 'Wild Geese' and Irishmen who served foreign empires, such as the Habsburgs in Vienna.

The Roman, like the Englishman who follows in his footsteps, brought to every new shore on which he set his foot only his cloacal obsession.

• Professor MacHugh contrasts the material domination of the British Empire with the intellectual radiance of the Greek language and spirit.
• The group discusses the tragic history of lost causes, from the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami to the fallen chivalry of Europe.
• Lenehan provides a comedic counterpoint to the high-minded discourse with puns, limericks, and riddles about 'The Rose of Castile'.
• The conversation shifts to the diverse talents present in the room, ranging from law and the classics to the 'gentle art of advertisement' associated with Bloom.
• Editor Myles Crawford aggressively encourages Stephen to write for the press, demanding something 'with a bite in it' to challenge the public.
• The scene captures the chaotic, intellectual atmosphere of a Dublin newspaper office where high culture and low humor constantly collide.

The Greek! he said again. Kyrios! Shining word! The vowels the Semite and the Saxon know not. Kyrie! The radiance of the intellect.

• Editor Myles Crawford recounts the legendary journalistic feat of Ignatius Gallaher during the 1881 Phoenix Park murders.
• Gallaher bypassed censorship by cabling a coded map of the assassins' route to the New York World using a common newspaper advertisement as a grid.
• The narrative highlights the gritty, interconnected world of Dublin's press, mentioning figures like 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris and the decline of former associates.
• The scene illustrates the high-energy, chaotic environment of a newspaper office, punctuated by ringing telephones and the dismissive treatment of Leopold Bloom.
• The characters reflect on the evolution of 'scare journalism' and the rare talent required to turn a national tragedy into a global scoop.

The loose flesh of his neck shook like a cock’s wattles.

• Myles Crawford dismisses the modern press and bar as inferior to the 'silvertongued' Irish orators of the past.
• Stephen Dedalus drifts into a private linguistic reverie, rhyming 'mouth' with 'south' and 'tomb' with 'womb' while recalling Dante's Italian verses.
• J.J. O’Molloy defends the legal profession by citing the sophisticated rhetoric of Seymour Bushe during a famous fratricide trial.
• The conversation contrasts the 'lex talionis' of Mosaic law with the perceived justice of the Roman code.
• The group discusses Michelangelo’s statue of Moses, described as a 'stony effigy in frozen music' and a symbol of divine prophecy.
• The narrative style shifts through various headlines, mimicking the structure of a newspaper while blending high art with gritty Dublin reality.

He said of it: that stony effigy in frozen music, horned and terrible, of the human form divine, that eternal symbol of wisdom and of prophecy.

• Stephen Dedalus reacts with a physical blush to the 'grace of language' and the performative nature of the Dublin literati.
• The conversation shifts to the Dublin mystical scene, mocking 'the opal hush poets' and the influence of Madame Blavatsky.
• Professor MacHugh introduces a legendary display of oratory by John F. Taylor regarding the revival of the Irish language.
• Taylor's speech is framed as a rebuttal to the 'courteous haughtiness' of the establishment, represented by Justice Fitzgibbon.
• The professor describes Taylor as a sickly, prophetic figure whose presence commanded the room despite his physical frailty.
• The narrative transitions into a formal recreation of Taylor's speech, using an Egyptian allegory to parallel the Irish struggle.

His dark lean face had a growth of shaggy beard round it. He wore a loose white silk neckcloth and altogether he looked (though he was not) a dying man.

• An oratorical performance reimagines the haughty confrontation between an Egyptian high priest and the Israelites, contrasting imperial might with nomadic poverty.
• The speech highlights the tension between established civilization—with its literature, wealth, and monuments—and the 'primitive' conditions of a wandering people.
• The figure of Moses is invoked as a hero who rejected the 'arrogant admonition' of empire to lead his people toward spiritual and political liberation.
• The narrative shifts from the high-flown rhetoric of the 'tables of the law' to the cynical, witty banter of Dubliners in a newspaper office.
• The group ultimately adjourns their intellectual and professional business in favor of heading to a local pub, Mooney's, for drinks.

He would never have spoken with the Eternal amid lightnings on Sinai’s mountaintop nor ever have come down with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in his arms the tables of the law, graven in the language of the outlaw.

• Stephen Dedalus begins narrating a 'vision' to Professor MacHugh involving two elderly Dublin women.
• The narrative details the mundane lives and meager savings of Anne Kearns and Florence MacCabe as they prepare for an outing.
• Professor MacHugh provides a scholarly commentary on Stephen's story, framing the women as 'vestal virgins' and 'wise virgins.'
• The group's progress through the streets is punctuated by the chaotic energy of newsboys shouting headlines about racing and tragedies.
• Leopold Bloom reappears, breathless and frantic, attempting to secure an advertising deal with the editor, Myles Crawford.
• The scene contrasts high-minded historical and prophetic talk with the gritty, 'raw' reality of working-class Dublin life.

Damp night reeking of hungry dough. Against the wall. Face glistering tallow under her fustian shawl.

• Myles Crawford aggressively rejects a business proposal from Mr. Bloom, using crude language to dismiss the potential advertisement renewal.
• The group observes Stephen Dedalus, noting his improved appearance and questioning his recent whereabouts in Dublin.
• Stephen narrates a vivid, slightly irreverent story about two elderly Dublin women visiting the top of Nelson's Pillar.
• The narrative highlights the physical discomfort and giddy perspective of the women as they peer at the statue of Lord Nelson.
• The professor compares Stephen's cynical storytelling style to the Greek sophist Antisthenes, noting a shared bitterness toward beauty.
• The scene concludes with the group moving through the busy Dublin streets toward a pub, amidst the backdrop of stationary tramcars.

And settle down on their striped petticoats, peering up at the statue of the onehandled adulterer.

• Stephen Dedalus presents his story title, 'A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or the Parable of The Plums,' evoking biblical imagery of Moses and the promised land.
• The group reflects on the statue of Nelson, whom the professor mockingly labels a 'onehandled adulterer' while standing on Sir John Gray’s pavement.
• Mr. Bloom wanders through the city, observing the sweet shops and receiving a religious handbill asking 'Are you saved?'
• Bloom contemplates the nature of religious sacrifice and the commercialization of faith, from 'blood victims' to 'luminous crucifixes.'
• The sight of Dedalus’ daughter prompts Bloom to reflect on the poverty and domestic decay caused by large families and the Catholic Church's mandates on procreation.
• Bloom contrasts the priests' comfortable lifestyles and dietary rules with the rigors of Jewish traditions like the Yom Kippur fast.

Home always breaks up when the mother goes. Fifteen children he had. Birth every year almost.

• Leopold Bloom observes the poverty of a young girl, noting the physical toll of a diet consisting only of potatoes and margarine.
• While crossing O'Connell Bridge, Bloom imagines the inner workings of the Guinness brewery, including gruesome imagery of rats drowning in vats of porter.
• Bloom experiments with feeding the gulls, first tossing a crumpled advertisement and then purchasing Banbury cakes to watch their predatory feeding frenzy.
• The narrative shifts into literary criticism as Bloom contemplates the mechanics of rhyme versus the solemnity of Shakespearean blank verse.
• The sight of a floating advertisement for trousers prompts a philosophical meditation on the impossibility of owning flowing water and the nature of life as a stream.
• Bloom recalls various forms of urban advertising, from dance masters to clandestine notices for venereal disease treatments in public toilets.

Rats get in too. Drink themselves bloated as big as a collie floating. Dead drunk on the porter. Drink till they puke again like christians.

• Mr. Bloom wanders through Dublin, contemplating scientific concepts like parallax and the linguistic misunderstandings of his wife, Molly.
• He observes a line of sandwichmen advertising Hely’s, reflecting on his own past employment there and his rejected marketing ideas.
• Bloom analyzes the nature of advertising, suggesting that curiosity and 'smart girls' are more effective than traditional methods.
• He recalls his interactions with a nun at Tranquilla convent, musing on her beauty and the hidden lives of those in religious orders.
• The passage tracks Bloom's internal timeline, anchoring his memories to specific Dublin landmarks and historical events like the fire at Arnott's.

A procession of whitesmocked sandwichmen marched slowly towards him along the gutter, scarlet sashes across their boards.

• Leopold Bloom indulges in a sensory-rich stream of consciousness, recalling domestic scenes of his wife Molly and daughter Milly from years past.
• He remembers specific details of Molly's clothing, the smell of elderflower soap, and a windy night after a concert that highlighted her youthful vitality.
• The narrative shifts from internal nostalgia to a chance social encounter on the street with an old acquaintance, Mrs. Breen.
• Bloom masks his internal melancholy with a gay demeanor, updating Mrs. Breen on Milly's new job in a photography studio.
• The conversation turns to the funeral of Paddy Dignam, forcing Bloom to navigate the social rituals of mourning and sympathy.
• Bloom's private thoughts reveal a weariness with the repetitive nature of death and the inevitable questions that follow a funeral.

Swish and soft flop her stays made on the bed. Always warm from her.

• Mr. Bloom encounters Mrs. Breen, formerly Josie Powell, noting her faded appearance and the 'shabby genteel' state of her clothing.
• Mrs. Breen describes her husband's eccentric and paranoid behavior, including a nightmare about the ace of spades and his obsession with a libelous postcard.
• The mysterious postcard contains only the message 'U.P.', which has provoked Mr. Breen to seek legal action for ten thousand pounds.
• The conversation shifts to Mina Purefoy, who has been in difficult labor for three days at the Holles Street lying-in hospital.
• Bloom observes the sensory details of the Dublin streets, from the smell of mockturtle soup to the peculiar walking habits of a passing eccentric.

He’s in there now with his lawbooks finding out the law of libel. He has me heartscalded.

• Mr. Bloom observes the eccentric Denis Breen and his long-suffering wife, noting Breen's mental instability and odd attire.
• Bloom reflects on a mysterious postcard labeled 'U.P.' and suspects it was a prank played by local acquaintances like Alf Bergan.
• The narrative shifts to Bloom's management of his secret correspondence, recalling the strange and intimate questions asked by female respondents to his advertisement.
• Bloom analyzes the effectiveness of the Irish Times for advertising and the financial success of its management.
• A news item about Lady Mountcashel leads Bloom into a reverie about 'horsey' women and a sensual memory of Mrs. Miriam Dandrade.
• The passage concludes with a brief, sympathetic thought for Mrs. Purefoy and her difficult domestic situation.

I called you naughty darling because I do not like that other world.

• Bloom observes the eccentricities of Dubliners, including a man obsessed with health and a cousin in Dublin Castle.
• The narrative shifts to the physical and emotional toll of childbirth, contrasting Molly's experience with the agony of difficult labors.
• Bloom critiques the lack of medical progress in pain management for women, dismissing poetic sentimentality as 'flapdoodle.'
• He proposes a pragmatic economic scheme to provide every newborn with a government-funded savings account at compound interest.
• The scene transitions to the streets of Dublin, where Bloom watches a squad of well-fed constables marching to their beats after lunch.
• Bloom reflects on the lack of public facilities for women, noting the irony of a poet's statue placed above a urinal.

Doubled up inside her trying to butt its way out blindly, groping for the way out.

• Bloom recalls a chaotic protest at Trinity College involving horse police and his narrow escape from injury.
• The narrative reflects on the hypocrisy of youth, noting that many radical students eventually become conservative magistrates or soldiers.
• The text explores the paranoia of surveillance, describing how plainclothes detectives use domestic servants to spy on households.
• Bloom considers the structure of revolutionary movements, specifically James Stephens's 'circles of ten' designed to prevent mass betrayal.
• The section critiques the effectiveness of Irish political leaders, contrasting Parnell's charisma with Arthur Griffith's lack of public appeal.
• The internal monologue ends with a cynical view of political idealism, dismissing lofty debates as 'gammon and spinach' fueled by free meals.

Why those plainclothes men are always courting slaveys. Easily twig a man used to uniform. Squarepushing up against a backdoor.

• Bloom reflects on the relentless cycle of birth and death, noting that hundreds are born and die in the mere minutes since he fed the birds.
• The urban landscape is viewed as a transient collection of bricks and stones that outlast their owners, who are merely temporary tenants.
• Bloom experiences a midday slump in vitality, describing a feeling of being 'eaten and spewed' while observing the gloomy atmosphere of the Provost's house.
• A chance sighting of John Howard Parnell, brother of the late political leader, prompts reflections on the family's eccentricities and fallen status.
• The appearance of George Russell (A.E.) and a female companion sparks Bloom's curiosity about occult symbolism and literary pretensions.

Cityful passing away, other cityful coming, passing away too: other coming on, passing on.

• Bloom reflects on the physical and mental effects of vegetarianism, associating 'nutarians' and 'fruitarians' with a dreamy, aesthetic temperament.
• He observes the commercial dominance of German optics and considers the strange human tendency to leave personal belongings behind in trains.
• A series of optical experiments leads Bloom to contemplate the scale of the universe, from blotting out the sun with a finger to the nature of sunspots.
• Bloom considers the social utility of flattery and the difficulty of understanding complex scientific concepts like parallax.
• The narrative shifts into a poignant memory of a moonlit walk, triggered by the lunar cycle and a shared song with a companion.
• The internal monologue transitions from cosmic 'gasballs' back to the immediate reality of the Dublin streets and the sight of Bob Doran.

Gas: then solid: then world: then cold: then dead shell drifting around, frozen rock, like that pineapple rock.

• Bloom wanders through Dublin, reflecting on the cyclical nature of alcoholism and the decline of local theatrical figures like Pat Kinsella.
• A profound sense of nostalgia and existential questioning haunts Bloom as he recalls his younger years and the shift in his marriage following the death of his son, Rudy.
• The vibrant commerce of Grafton Street, filled with silks and luxury goods, triggers a sensory overload of desire and historical associations with the Huguenots.
• Bloom contemplates the domestic habits of women and his own physical decay while planning a future gift for Molly's birthday.
• The narrative shifts from the romanticized 'perfume of embraces' to the visceral, repulsive reality of men eating like animals in the Burton restaurant.

Can’t bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

• Leopold Bloom experiences intense physical disgust while observing the animalistic eating habits of men in a crowded Dublin eatery.
• The narrative captures the sensory overload of the pub atmosphere, blending smells of stale beer, sweat, and heavy food with the sounds of 'gobstuff' and 'gulping.'
• Bloom reflects on the Darwinian nature of consumption, viewing the act of eating as a violent, competitive struggle of 'tooth and nail.'
• He contemplates a future communal kitchen where social hierarchies dissolve into a single mass of people fighting for scraps from a giant soup pot.
• The section concludes with Bloom retreating from the 'dirty eaters' toward a lighter, cleaner vegetarian ideal or a simple snack at Davy Byrne’s.

Every fellow for his own, tooth and nail. Gulp. Grub. Gulp. Gobstuff.

• Bloom observes the visceral and bloody reality of the meat market, reflecting on the cycle of slaughter and consumption.
• He enters Davy Byrne’s pub, navigating the social etiquette of the establishment while contemplating his lunch options.
• The narrative shifts into dark humor regarding cannibalism and the questionable ingredients found in commercial potted meats.
• Bloom reflects on the intersection of religion, hygiene, and dietary laws, noting how 'peace and war depend on some fellow’s digestion.'
• A conversation with Nosey Flynn about Molly’s singing tour is interrupted by the mention of Blazes Boylan, causing Bloom physical distress.
• The passage concludes with Bloom attempting to soothe his sudden anxiety with the sensory experience of burgundy and a cheese sandwich.

Flayed glasseyed sheep hung from their haunches, sheepsnouts bloodypapered snivelling nosejam on sawdust.

• Nosey Flynn discusses Blazes Boylan’s role as a successful boxing organizer and his recent financial luck.
• Davy Byrne, the pub owner, maintains a professional distance from gambling, claiming he never bets on horses.
• The conversation shifts to the Gold Cup race, highlighting the pervasive culture of betting and 'inside' tips in Dublin.
• Leopold Bloom quietly enjoys his cheese sandwich and wine, reflecting on the sensory qualities of the food and the bar's woodwork.
• Bloom observes Nosey Flynn with mild disdain, contemplating the futility of gambling and the nature of those who lose money.
• The wine provides Bloom with a much-needed physical and emotional lift, though his thoughts remain anchored to the approaching hour of four o'clock.

Mr Bloom, champing, standing, looked upon his sigh. Nosey numbskull.

• The narrative explores the sensory and psychological nature of food, from the danger of poisonous berries to the acquired taste for 'high' or decaying delicacies like aged eggs and oysters.
• Bloom reflects on the social performance of dining, noting how the elite use expensive, exotic dishes and French terminology to maintain a sense of exclusivity and status.
• The text highlights the cruelty and artifice of gourmet cuisine, mentioning geese being force-fed and lobsters boiled alive to satisfy wealthy palates.
• A contrast is drawn between the illiterate but wealthy fishmonger and the refined atmosphere of high-end hotels where waiters serve 'half-naked ladies.'
• The sensory experience of drinking wine triggers a vivid, erotic memory of a day on Howth Head, shifting the tone from cynical observation to romantic nostalgia.
• The passage culminates in a visceral recollection of intimacy, specifically the sharing of chewed seedcake, symbolizing a raw and joyful connection to 'young life.'

Ravished over her I lay, full lips full open, kissed her mouth. Yum. Softly she gave me in my mouth the seedcake warm and chewed.

• Bloom reflects on the aesthetic perfection of classical statues, contrasting the divine nectar of gods with the crude biological reality of human digestion.
• A physical urge prompts Bloom to leave the bar, leading him to contemplate the anatomy of museum goddesses and his plan to inspect them more closely.
• Davy Byrne and Nosey Flynn discuss Bloom’s current employment as a canvasser for the Freeman and his recent appearance in mourning clothes.
• Flynn reveals that Bloom is a member of the Freemasons, suggesting the 'ancient free and accepted order' provides him with social and financial support.
• The conversation shifts to the exclusivity of the Masons, including a legend about a woman who was forcibly initiated after being caught spying on their rituals.
• Flynn praises Bloom’s sobriety and disciplined nature, noting his habit of checking his watch to regulate his drinking.

And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.

• Patrons at Davy Byrne’s pub discuss Leopold Bloom’s character, noting his cautious nature and refusal to commit anything to writing.
• Bantam Lyons hints at a secret horse racing tip for the Gold Cup, mistakenly believing Bloom gave him a 'dead snip' for the race.
• The men’s drinking habits are mocked by Paddy Leonard, who is frustrated by their requests for ginger pop and water instead of whiskey.
• Bloom departs the pub and experiences a sensory shift, contemplating the digestion of a dog on the street and the mechanics of the human body.
• Bloom’s internal monologue wanders from the potential of scientific inventions to the lyrics of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
• The narrative explores the intersection of physical health and scientific curiosity, as Bloom imagines a transparent view of the human digestive system.

A ravenous terrier choked up a sick knuckly cud on the cobblestones and lapped it with new zest.

• Mr. Bloom calculates his meager finances and potential advertising commissions while contemplating a gift for Molly.
• Bloom encounters a blind young man attempting to cross a busy Dublin street and offers his assistance.
• The interaction prompts Bloom to reflect on the heightened sensory experiences of the blind, such as their perception of volume and smell.
• Bloom considers the social stigma and patronizing attitudes often directed toward those with disabilities.
• The passage explores the mechanics of memory and association, linking the blind boy's hand to Bloom's daughter, Milly.
• Bloom muses on the nature of pleasure and whether senses like taste or sexual attraction function differently in the dark.

Poor young fellow! How on earth did he know that van was there? Must have felt it. See things in their forehead perhaps: kind of sense of volume.

• Bloom contemplates the sensory world of a blind youth, imagining how touch and sound substitute for visual perception of color and form.
• The narrative shifts to Bloom's physical self-consciousness as he examines his own skin and clothing while navigating the Dublin streets.
• Bloom reflects on the nature of justice and tragedy, juxtaposing a recent maritime disaster with the local legal authority of Sir Frederick Falkiner.
• The sight of a specific individual triggers a sudden state of panic and physical agitation in Bloom, forcing him to change his route.
• Seeking refuge from a perceived social encounter, Bloom ducks toward the museum, using the study of architecture and statues as a mental shield.
• The passage concludes with Bloom's frantic internal search for misplaced items as his heart races from the tension of the near-encounter.

With a gentle finger he felt ever so slowly the hair combed back above his ears. Again. Fibres of fine fine straw.

• A quaker librarian discusses Goethe's interpretation of Hamlet as a 'beautiful ineffectual dreamer' struggling against hard facts.
• Stephen Dedalus engages in a sharp-witted intellectual skirmish with John Eglinton and the mystic poet A.E. (George Russell).
• A.E. dismisses historical and biographical inquiries into Shakespeare, arguing that art should instead reveal 'formless spiritual essences.'
• The conversation shifts between high literary criticism, Irish nationalism, and the esoteric theories of the Theosophical 'Great White Lodge.'
• Stephen privately reflects on his personal debts and the influence of his peer Cranly while maintaining a 'superpolite' facade during the debate.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

• Stephen Dedalus engages in a dense intellectual debate within a library setting, contrasting the philosophical weight of Plato and Aristotle.
• The conversation shifts between esoteric occultism, Irish nationalism, and the aesthetic value of peasant 'lovesongs' versus academic literature.
• Stephen critiques the violent resolution of Hamlet, characterizing the play as a 'sumptuous and stagnant exaggeration of murder.'
• The group discusses Mallarmé’s French interpretation of Hamlet as 'Le Distrait,' or the absentminded man, reading the 'book of himself.'
• Stephen links Shakespeare’s bloody dramatic conclusions to modern warfare and the concept of the 'concentration camp.'
• The dialogue highlights the tension between the 'rarefied air' of the academy and the 'living mother' of the earth found in folk traditions.

He says: il se promène, lisant au livre de lui-même, don’t you know, reading the book of himself.

• Stephen Dedalus presents a provocative theory that Shakespeare played the ghost of King Hamlet in his own play.
• He argues that the play is a psychic bridge between the living author and his deceased son, Hamnet, and his estranged wife, Ann Hathaway.
• Stephen defines a ghost not just as the dead, but as one who has faded through absence or change of manners.
• The literary establishment, represented by Russell and Eglinton, dismisses this biographical 'prying' in favor of the pure immortality of the art.
• Stephen's internal monologue reveals a struggle with his own identity and debts, questioning if he is the same person who borrowed money months ago.
• The narrative blends historical 'composition of place' with Stephen's psychological 'agenbite of inwit' or remorse of conscience.

To a son he speaks, the son of his soul, the prince, young Hamlet and to the son of his body, Hamnet Shakespeare, who has died in Stratford that his namesake may live for ever.

• Stephen Dedalus argues that a man of genius makes no mistakes, asserting that errors are actually 'volitional' and serve as 'portals of discovery.'
• The conversation shifts to the domestic life of Shakespeare, specifically his marriage to Ann Hathaway and the influence of women on great thinkers.
• Stephen suggests that Socrates learned dialectic from his shrewish wife and the art of bringing thoughts into the world from his mother.
• The group debates whether Shakespeare's choice of a wife was a mistake or if he was 'chosen' and seduced by a 'boldfaced Stratford wench' older than himself.
• Stephen posits that Shakespeare's female characters are 'boywomen' whose life and speech are merely lent to them by their male creator.
• The intellectual sparring is interrupted by the mundane realities of appointments and social invitations among the Dublin literati.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

• Stephen Dedalus navigates a Dublin library setting filled with theosophical musings and literary gossip.
• The librarian and others discuss an upcoming anthology of young poets being gathered by George Russell (AE).
• The conversation shifts to the state of Irish literature, mentioning figures like Yeats, Colum, and the search for a national epic.
• Stephen uses Aristotelian logic and sensory experiments to ground himself amidst the high-flown intellectual chatter.
• The librarian privately questions Stephen on his provocative theory regarding Shakespeare’s marital infidelity.
• Stephen posits that any reconciliation in Shakespeare's life and work necessitates a prior 'sundering' or betrayal.

Where there is a reconciliation, Stephen said, there must have been first a sundering.

• Stephen Dedalus engages in a scholarly debate within the library regarding the biographical identity of Shakespeare and his characters.
• The discussion explores the paradox of personal identity, comparing the physical regeneration of the body's molecules to the persistence of the self.
• Stephen posits that the artist 'weaves and unweaves' his own image into his work, bridging the gap between the past self and the future reflection.
• The group debates whether Hamlet represents the son or the father, and whether Shakespeare's later plays signal a spirit of reconciliation.
• Stephen argues that reconciliation is impossible without a prior 'sundering,' linking the creator's life trauma to the shadows cast over his tragedies.

As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image.

• Stephen Dedalus explores the theme of restoration in Shakespeare's late plays, where lost daughters like Marina and Perdita represent a return of what was once taken.
• The dialogue examines the 'art of being a grandfather' and how a man of genius views his offspring as a reflection of his own image and moral experience.
• The scholars discuss various contemporary critics of Shakespeare, including Frank Harris and George Bernard Shaw, touching on the identity of the 'dark lady' of the sonnets.
• Stephen posits that Shakespeare's creative drive was fueled by an early, 'untimely killed' belief in himself following a formative sexual defeat in a rye field.
• The narrative suggests that no later success or 'don giovannism' can undo the original psychic wound inflicted by a dominant woman.
• The discourse links the act of literary creation to the poisoning of King Hamlet, suggesting the creator endows the character with knowledge the living man could not possess.

The tusk of the boar has wounded him there where love lies ableeding.

• Stephen Dedalus concludes his metaphysical theory of Shakespeare as a ghost-like creator who remains unchanged by his own artistic laws.
• Buck Mulligan interrupts the scholarly atmosphere with ribaldry, mocking the theological complexities of the Trinity as a 'gaseous vertebrate.'
• The group discusses various eccentric interpretations of Hamlet, including the theory that the prince was actually a woman.
• The conversation shifts to Oscar Wilde’s 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,' highlighting the aesthetic preference for paradox and wordplay over historical fact.
• Mulligan’s presence introduces a tension between Stephen's earnest intellectual labor and the performative, cynical wit of the Dublin elite.

He Who Himself begot middler the Holy Ghost and Himself sent Himself, Agenbuyer, between Himself and others, Who, put upon by His fiends, stripped and whipped, was nailed like bat to barndoor.

• Buck Mulligan mockingly reads a telegram from Stephen Dedalus that defines a sentimentalist as one who enjoys without paying the 'immense debtorship' of action.
• Mulligan recounts his and Haines's long wait for drinks, lamenting Stephen's absence and his cryptic messaging in a parody of Irish brogue.
• A humorous conflict arises over a rumor that Synge is seeking to murder Stephen for an alleged insult, which Stephen attributes to Mulligan's own fabrication.
• The librarian, Mr. Lyster, is interrupted by an attendant announcing a visitor from the Freeman's Journal seeking old newspaper files.
• Leopold Bloom is identified as the visitor, prompting Mulligan to mock his Jewish heritage and describe a previous encounter with him at the museum.
• Mulligan characterizes Bloom as a 'Greeker than the Greeks' figure with 'pale Galilean eyes,' further establishing the tension between the characters.

The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done.

• Stephen Dedalus contrasts the idealized Penelope with the historical reality of Shakespeare's wife, Ann Hathaway, and his life in London.
• The narrative explores the excess of the Elizabethan era, citing the luxury of Sir Walter Raleigh and the sexual scandals of the court.
• A famous anecdote is recounted involving Shakespeare preempting Richard Burbage in the bed of a burger's wife, claiming 'William the Conqueror came before Richard III.'
• Stephen suggests that while Shakespeare dallied with 'court wantons' and 'punks of the bankside,' his wife in Stratford was likely unfaithful as well.
• The argument posits that the 'broken vow' and the betrayal by a brother-in-law are central themes reflected in the ghost's mind in Hamlet.
• Stephen challenges his listeners to explain why Shakespeare's wife is omitted from his records for thirty-four years if she were not 'branded with infamy.'

William the conqueror came before Richard III.

• Stephen Dedalus and his companions debate the domestic life and character of William Shakespeare, focusing on his treatment of his wife.
• The discussion highlights the famous legal slight in Shakespeare's will, where he famously bequeathed his wife only his 'secondbest bed.'
• Stephen portrays Shakespeare not as a romantic figure, but as a shrewd, litigious capitalist and moneylender who hoarded grain during famines.
• The group contrasts Shakespeare's domestic coldness with the deathbed generosity of classical philosophers like Aristotle.
• The dialogue explores the tension between Shakespeare's high art and his mundane, often ruthless pursuit of property and social status.

He drew Shylock out of his own long pocket.

• Stephen Dedalus links Shakespeare's creative output to the political and social climate of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, including the influence of James I's obsession with witchcraft.
• The discussion shifts to the nature of incest, which Stephen, citing Saint Thomas Aquinas, defines as an 'avarice of the emotions' where love is withheld from strangers.
• Stephen argues that the historical persecution of Jews forced a tightening of both their financial hoards and their familial affections as a means of survival.
• The dialogue explores the domestic life of Shakespeare, specifically the 'secondbest bed' left to his wife, Ann Hathaway, and her supposed late-life turn to religious piety.
• The section concludes with a cynical view of aging and history, describing the transition from youthful passion to 'exhausted whoredom' seeking religious redemption.

Venus has twisted her lips in prayer. Agenbite of inwit: remorse of conscience. It is an age of exhausted whoredom groping for its god.

• Stephen Dedalus argues that fatherhood is a 'mystical estate' rather than a biological certainty, describing it as a legal fiction built upon the void.
• The text contrasts the physical reality of a mother's love with the intellectual uncertainty and 'blind rut' that defines the paternal link.
• Stephen posits that Shakespeare, in writing Hamlet, transitioned from being a son to becoming the symbolic father of his entire race.
• The relationship between father and son is depicted as inherently adversarial, where the son's growth necessitates the father's decline and envy.
• The narrative explores the theological implications of paternity, linking the structure of the Church to the 'incertitude' of the father-son bond.

Fatherhood, in the sense of conscious begetting, is unknown to man. It is a mystical estate, an apostolic succession, from only begetter to only begotten.

• Stephen Dedalus presents a biographical theory of Shakespeare’s works, linking family deaths to specific characters like Hamnet to Hamlet.
• The discussion explores the significance of names, noting that Shakespeare used his brothers' names, Edmund and Richard, for his most notorious villains.
• Stephen argues that Shakespeare hid his own identity within his plays like a painter's self-portrait in a dark corner of a canvas.
• The narrative weaves in the appearance of a 'daystar' or supernova in Cassiopeia that coincided with Shakespeare's life, serving as a celestial signature.
• The dialogue is punctuated by the arrival of the 'quaking' librarian and the playful, mocking interjections of Buck Mulligan and others.
• Stephen reflects on his own name and identity, connecting his personal history to the grander astronomical and literary patterns he describes.

He has hidden his own name, a fair name, William, in the plays, a super here, a clown there, as a painter of old Italy set his face in a dark corner of his canvas.

• Stephen Dedalus explores the recurring motif of the 'usurping' or 'adulterous' brother throughout Shakespeare's entire body of work.
• The discussion links Shakespearean plots to Irish myths and Grimm's fairytales, focusing on the significance of the third brother.
• Stephen argues that Shakespeare's choice of names like Richard and Edmund was a deliberate reflection of personal obsession rather than mere historical borrowing.
• The theme of banishment from heart and home is identified as a constant note from Shakespeare's earliest plays to his final retirement.
• Stephen suggests that Shakespeare's preoccupation with betrayal stems from an 'original sin' committed by another, which the poet then inhabited and repeated.
• The dialogue highlights the tension between artistic creation and the messy, often scandalous realities of Shakespeare's family life.

A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella.

• Stephen Dedalus argues that Shakespeare is 'all in all' within his plays, embodying every character from the victim to the villain.
• The discussion posits that an artist's external creations are merely reflections of their internal world and personal history.
• Stephen suggests that life is a journey of 'meeting ourselves' through various archetypes and encounters.
• The concept of a 'hangman god' is introduced to describe a creator who is present in all aspects of a flawed world.
• In a surprising turn, Stephen admits he does not actually believe the complex literary theory he has just spent time defending.
• The group critiques Stephen's intellectual performance, comparing his style to the Platonic dialogues of Oscar Wilde.

We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.

• Stephen Dedalus seeks payment for his literary contributions while navigating the intellectual and social dynamics of the National Library.
• Buck Mulligan mocks Stephen’s lifestyle and scholarly pursuits, recounting a fictionalized visit to Stephen in the company of prostitutes.
• The group discusses the Abbey Theatre and contemporary Irish literary figures with a mixture of cynicism and ribald humor.
• Stephen reflects on his own identity and the influence of his peers as he follows the 'lubber jester' Mulligan out of the library.
• Mulligan composes and recites irreverent verses targeting John Eglinton and other members of the Dublin literary circle.
• The narrative captures the tension between Stephen's internal philosophical struggles and the performative, often cruel wit of his companions.

Stephen, greeting, then all amort, followed a lubber jester, a wellkempt head, newbarbered, out of the vaulted cell into a shattering daylight of no thought.

• Buck Mulligan mocks Stephen for his harsh literary review of Lady Gregory, contrasting it with Yeats's sycophantic praise.
• Mulligan presents a lewd and satirical play title, 'Everyman His Own Wife,' parodying Irish national identity and morality.
• Stephen reflects on destiny and the ineluctable nature of time as he encounters a mysterious figure Mulligan calls the 'wandering jew.'
• The narrative shifts focus to Father John Conmee S.J. as he begins a journey to Artane to assist the family of the deceased Dignam.
• Father Conmee encounters a one-legged sailor seeking alms, offering a blessing instead of money to preserve his single silver crown.

O, the night in the Camden hall when the daughters of Erin had to lift their skirts to step over you as you lay in your mulberrycoloured, multicoloured, multitudinous vomit!

• Father Conmee navigates the streets of Dublin, engaging in polite, superficial social exchanges with parishioners like Mrs. David Sheehy.
• The narrative highlights the priest's preoccupation with social status, noting the 'good family' of fellow clergy and the 'queenly mien' of a local pawnbroker.
• Conmee interacts with schoolboys from Belvedere, using a playful but patronizing tone to task them with mailing a letter to the father provincial.
• The text reflects the religious tensions and hierarchies of the time, as Conmee muses on 'invincible ignorance' regarding a closed Protestant church.
• Conmee’s internal monologue reveals a blend of genuine clerical duty and a self-satisfied concern for his own appearance and social standing.

Father Conmee doffed his silk hat and smiled, as he took leave, at the jet beads of her mantilla inkshining in the sun.

• Father Conmee traverses the streets of Dublin, observing the local commerce of porkbutchers, tobacconists, and public houses.
• The priest reflects on a 'dreadful catastrophe' in New York, musing on the spiritual state of those who die suddenly without preparation.
• While observing a turfbarge, Conmee finds an 'idyllic' proof of divine providence in the natural cycle of fuel provided for the poor.
• Boarding a tram to avoid walking through the 'dingy' area of Mud Island, he meticulously manages his small change and travel ticket.
• Conmee observes his fellow passengers with a critical but polite eye, noting their excessive solemnity and the delicate manners of a yawning woman.
• The narrative highlights the priest's internal paternalism as he equates a forgetful elderly passenger with the 'good souls' who struggle to follow liturgical instructions.

Father Conmee reflected on the providence of the Creator who had made turf to be in bogs whence men might dig it out and bring it to town and hamlet to make fires in the houses of poor people.

• Father Conmee reflects on the theological fate of unbaptized souls, finding it a 'pity' and a 'waste' that millions might be lost.
• The priest drifts into historical reveries of the Malahide nobility and the scandalous mystery of Mary Rochfort, the first countess of Belvedere.
• Conmee contemplates the 'tyrannous incontinence' of human nature, viewing it as a necessary but messy element of God's design for the race.
• While walking and reading his office, Conmee experiences a nostalgic sensory connection to his past tenure as rector at Clongowes.
• The narrative juxtaposes the priest's formal religious duties with the sudden appearance of a flushed young couple emerging from a hedge.

The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves.

• Corny Kelleher idly inspects a coffin and converses with a constable about a mysterious 'particular party.'
• A one-legged sailor navigates the streets, growling patriotic slogans while begging for coins from passersby.
• Molly Bloom's 'generous white arm' appears from a window to toss a coin to the begging sailor.
• The Dedalus sisters return to a destitute home where their sister Maggy is boiling shirts in a pot.
• The family's poverty is highlighted as they eat donated pea soup while their father remains absent.
• Boody Dedalus offers a cynical, blasphemous twist on the Lord's Prayer, reflecting the family's resentment toward their father.

Boody, breaking big chunks of bread into the yellow soup, added: —Our father who art not in heaven.

• Blazes Boylan visits Thornton’s fruit shop to assemble a gift basket of pears, peaches, and spirits for an 'invalid.'
• Boylan exhibits his predatory charm, flirting overtly with the shopgirl by staring down her blouse and taking a carnation for himself.
• The narrative shifts to Almidano Artifoni advising Stephen Dedalus to pursue a professional singing career rather than sacrificing his talent.
• Artifoni warns Stephen that the world is a 'beast' and that his voice could be a significant source of income.
• The scene concludes with Artifoni unsuccessfully chasing a tram while Stephen remains detached and reflective.
• The passage captures the bustling, fragmented energy of Dublin life through simultaneous movements of characters and public transport.

Blazes Boylan looked in her blouse with more favour, the stalk of the red flower between his smiling teeth.

• Miss Dunne manages clerical tasks and phone calls for Blazes Boylan while daydreaming about fashion and social encounters.
• The narrative shifts to Ned Lambert giving a tour of the historic Saint Mary’s Abbey to a clergyman and a man named Jack.
• Lambert highlights the site's significance as the location where 'Silken Thomas' rebelled in 1534.
• The abbey's layers of history are revealed, including its past uses as a bank and a Jewish synagogue.
• The clergyman expresses interest in returning to photograph the site, noting its architectural and historical importance.

The vesta in the clergyman’s uplifted hand consumed itself in a long soft flame and was let fall. At their feet its red speck died: and mouldy air closed round them.

• Ned Lambert discusses the historical research of Hugh C. Love regarding the Fitzgerald family and recounts a humorous anecdote about the Earl of Kildare.
• Lambert suffers from a violent sneezing fit, which he attributes to a cold caught at a funeral in Glasnevin rather than the dust from nearby grain sacks.
• Tom Rochford demonstrates a mechanical disk-based display system designed to track the progress of turns or acts for latecomers.
• Lenehan and M'Coy discuss Rochford's bravery, recounting a heroic incident where he descended into a manhole to save someone from sewer gas.
• The narrative captures the sensory details of Dublin life, from the smell of carob meal to the visual clutter of music hall posters.

I’m bloody sorry I did it, says he, but I declare to God I thought the archbishop was inside.

• Lenehan and M’Coy wander through Dublin, checking horse racing odds and observing Leopold Bloom browsing a bookstall.
• M’Coy recalls Bloom’s interest in astronomy and his penchant for finding valuable books at bargain prices.
• Lenehan recounts a rowdy, alcohol-fueled trip back from a dinner at Glencree reformatory involving Bloom and his wife, Molly.
• The narrative highlights the contrast between Bloom’s intellectual focus on the stars and Lenehan’s physical attraction to Molly.
• The passage captures the social dynamics of Dublin, blending mundane errands with ribald anecdotes and local reputations.

Bloom was pointing out all the stars and the comets in the heavens to Chris Callinan and the jarvey: the great bear and Hercules

• Lenehan and M’Coy discuss Leopold Bloom’s character, with Lenehan praising him as a 'cultured allroundman' with the 'touch of the artist.'
• Bloom browses a bookshop, examining medical illustrations of fetal development and reflecting on the constant cycle of birth.
• The shopkeeper, characterized by his 'ruined mouth' and onion breath, offers Bloom various titles from behind a dingy curtain.
• Bloom sifts through erotic and sensationalist literature, searching for a book that would suit his wife Molly's specific tastes.
• While reading a passage from 'Sweets of Sin,' Bloom experiences a visceral, sensory reaction to the purple prose and its descriptions of infidelity.
• The scene shifts abruptly from Bloom’s internal arousal to the mundane legal proceedings of Dublin and the shopkeeper’s crude physical ailments.

Her mouth glued on his in a luscious voluptuous kiss while his hands felt for the opulent curves inside her deshabillé.

• Mr. Bloom selects a suggestive book titled 'Sweets of Sin' from a shopkeeper.
• Dilly Dedalus lingers outside an auction room, listening to the cheap sale of household goods she cannot afford.
• Simon Dedalus encounters his daughter Dilly and mocks her posture with a cruel, physical imitation.
• Dilly confronts her father about his hidden money, suspecting he has spent it on drink while the family starves.
• Mr. Dedalus expresses bitter resentment toward his children, calling them an 'insolent pack' and threatening to abandon them.
• After a tense negotiation, Simon gives Dilly a shilling and two pennies, telling her to buy a bun while he keeps the rest.

—Curse your bloody blatant soul, Mr Dedalus cried, turning on him.

• Mr Dedalus dismisses his daughter Dilly's plea for money with mocking remarks about nuns.
• Mr Kernan celebrates a successful business order by drinking gin and discussing the General Slocum disaster with Mr Crimmins.
• The conversation shifts to political corruption, with Kernan critiquing American graft and the 'sweepings' of various nations.
• Kernan takes great pride in his second-hand frockcoat, believing a 'dressy appearance' is essential for maintaining his social status.
• The narrative reflects on Dublin's violent history, specifically the execution of Robert Emmet and the grim imagery of the past.
• Kernan's internal monologue connects the recent death of Dignam to the historical burials of Irish revolutionaries.

Bravely he bore his stumpy body forward on spatted feet, squaring his shoulders.

• Mr. Kernan wanders through Dublin, reflecting on Irish history, the 1798 rebellion, and the romanticized 'gentlemen' of the past.
• The narrative captures the missed encounter with the Viceregal cavalcade, highlighting the social hierarchy and Kernan's desire for status.
• Stephen Dedalus observes a lapidary at work, viewing the gems as 'cold specks of fire' born from the dark, wormy earth.
• Stephen's internal monologue shifts into a philosophical meditation on existence, being caught between 'two roaring worlds' of internal and external reality.
• The scene transitions through various urban vignettes, including two old women carrying cockles and a faded print of a historic boxing match.
• The passage concludes with Stephen browsing a tattered bookcart, emphasizing the decay and fragmentation of knowledge and history.

Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails.

• Stephen Dedalus encounters his sister Dilly at a bookstall, where she has purchased a French primer for a penny.
• The interaction highlights the family's extreme poverty, as Dilly admits to pawning Stephen's old books to survive.
• Stephen experiences a profound sense of guilt and 'agenbite of inwit' (remorse of conscience), feeling that his sister's drowning misery will pull him down too.
• The narrative shifts to Simon Dedalus and Father Cowley, who are evading creditors and 'gombeen men' in the streets of Dublin.
• The group waits for Ben Dollard, a local character known for his help and his ill-fitting, oversized clothes.
• The scene juxtaposes the internal psychological torment of the Dedalus children with the performative, cynical camaraderie of their father.

She is drowning. Agenbite. Save her. Agenbite. All against us. She will drown me with her, eyes and hair.

• Ben Dollard provides boisterous legal reassurance to Father Cowley regarding a landlord's prior claim over a debt writ.
• The group discusses the physical appearance of a new bailiff, described colorfully as a cross between Lobengula and Lynchehaun.
• Martin Cunningham and his companions review a subscription list for a charitable cause, noting Leopold Bloom's contribution.
• The men acknowledge Bloom's unexpected generosity, with John Wyse Nolan quoting Shakespeare to remark on the 'kindness in the jew.'
• The narrative shifts through the Dublin streets, capturing brief glimpses of local figures like Blazes Boylan and the barmaids at the Ormond hotel.

Ben Dollard halted and stared, his loud orifice open, a dangling button of his coat wagging brightbacked from its thread as he wiped away the heavy shraums that clogged his eyes to hear aright.

• A group of Dublin officials and citizens, including Martin Cunningham and John Wyse Nolan, navigate the city streets while discussing local administrative chaos.
• Jimmy Henry, the assistant town clerk, complains bitterly about the lack of order in the council chamber and the 'damned' Irish language debates.
• The group encounters the imposing subsheriff, Long John Fanning, and discusses the late Paddy Dignam, whom Fanning cannot recall.
• The viceregal cavalcade of the Lord Lieutenant-General passes by, observed with 'cool unfriendly eyes' by John Wyse Nolan.
• Buck Mulligan and Haines enter a café and observe John Howard Parnell, brother of the famous political leader, lost in a game of chess.
• The scene highlights the contrast between the noisy, disorganized civic life of Dublin and the quiet, ghostly intensity of the city marshal's chess match.

An instant after, under its screen, his eyes looked quickly, ghostbright, at his foe and fell once more upon a working corner.

• Buck Mulligan and Haines discuss Stephen Dedalus's mental state over tea, mocking his obsession with Hamlet and theological visions of hell.
• Haines observes that Stephen possesses an 'idée fixe' regarding eternal punishment, a concept notably absent from ancient Irish mythology.
• Mulligan dismisses Stephen's poetic potential, claiming his wits were driven astray by religious trauma and that he lacks the 'Attic note' of true creation.
• The narrative shifts to a series of disjointed movements across Dublin, tracking various eccentric characters through the city streets.
• The eccentric Cashel Boyle O'Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell rudely collides with a blind stripling, prompting a bitter curse from the latter.
• Young Patrick Aloysius Dignam is introduced carrying porksteaks, grounding the high-minded literary talk in the mundane reality of domestic errands.

Shakespeare is the happy huntingground of all minds that have lost their balance.

• Young Master Dignam escapes the stifling atmosphere of his home, where his mother and neighbors mourn his father over sherry and cake.
• While wandering through Dublin, he is distracted by shop windows featuring boxing posters and images of popular actresses.
• He experiences a moment of self-consciousness regarding his mourning clothes, noticing his reflection and wondering if other schoolboys recognize his loss.
• The boy vividly recalls the physical details of his father's funeral, including the sound of screws entering the coffin and the difficulty of moving it downstairs.
• He reflects on his father's final drunken night and his dying struggle to speak, ultimately hoping his father is in purgatory rather than a worse fate.
• The narrative shifts abruptly from the boy's internal grief to the formal, public procession of the Earl and Lady Dudley through Dublin.

The scrunch that was when they were screwing the screws into the coffin: and the bumps when they were bringing it downstairs.

• The Earl of Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, travels through the streets of Dublin in a formal viceregal procession.
• The passage captures a diverse cross-section of Dublin society, from solicitors and pawnbrokers to socialites and beggars, as they react to the passing carriages.
• Reactions to the representative of the British Crown vary from obsequious salutes and hat-tipping to 'unseen coldness' and total indifference.
• The physical city itself seems to participate in the event, described through landmarks like the Four Courts and even the 'liquid sewage' of the Poddle river.
• The narrative weaves together numerous characters from the novel, showing their simultaneous existence and varying social status through their proximity to the cavalcade.

From its sluice in Wood quay wall under Tom Devan’s office Poddle river hung out in fealty a tongue of liquid sewage.

• The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland’s procession moves through the streets of Dublin, eliciting varied reactions from the city's diverse inhabitants.
• Prominent figures like Blazes Boylan display a rakish indifference, offering bold stares and a red flower rather than a formal salute.
• The urban landscape is populated by a mix of social classes, from the 'jaded' commercial workers to the elite athletes and loyalist officials.
• Young Patrick Dignam, mourning his father, offers a greasy-fingered salute to the cavalcade, highlighting the intersection of personal grief and civic ritual.
• The passage concludes with the procession heading toward a charity bazaar, passing unnoticed by a blind stripling and a mysterious man in a brown macintosh.

Blazes Boylan presented to the leaders’ skyblue frontlets and high action a skyblue tie, a widebrimmed straw hat at a rakish angle and a suit of indigo serge.

• The narrative shifts into a highly musical, onomatopoeic style known as the 'Sirens' episode, blending ambient sounds with internal monologue.
• Barmaids Miss Douce (bronze) and Miss Kennedy (gold) observe a viceregal procession passing outside the Ormond hotel bar.
• Leopold Bloom passes by the establishment, preoccupied by thoughts of 'the sweets of sin' and a letter from Martha.
• The text mimics musical forms through repetitive phrasing, rhythmic 'jingling' of coins, and the 'clack' of clocks to create a sensory soundscape.
• Social friction is depicted through the 'unmannerly' interruptions of the boots (Pat) against the haughty, performative dignity of the barmaids.
• Themes of loneliness and betrayal surface through fragments of the song 'The Last Rose of Summer' and Bloom's internal sadness.

Bronze by gold, miss Douce’s head by miss Kennedy’s head, over the crossblind of the Ormond bar heard the viceregal hoofs go by, ringing steel.

• Miss Douce and Miss Kennedy, the barmaids of the Ormond Hotel, share a private moment of tea and gossip behind the counter.
• The women discuss beauty regimens, including the use of borax, cherry laurel water, and glycerine to treat sunburn and skin texture.
• They mock a 'hideous old wretch' from a chemist shop, imitating his snorting mannerisms and 'goggle eye' with cruel delight.
• Leopold Bloom passes by their field of vision, his dark eyes observing the religious iconography and the 'sweets of sin' as he wanders.
• The barmaids dissolve into fits of hysterical laughter, specifically ridiculing the idea of being married to a man with a 'greasy nose' and 'bit of beard.'
• The narrative style mimics musicality, using repetition and onomatopoeia like 'hufa' and 'gigglegold' to reflect the rhythmic atmosphere of the scene.

Miss Douce huffed and snorted down her nostrils that quivered imperthnthn like a snout in quest.

• The barmaids Miss Douce and Miss Kennedy recover from a fit of hysterical laughter as Bloom wanders nearby, preoccupied by financial ads and the 'sweets of sin'.
• Mr. Dedalus enters the bar, engaging in flirtatious, suggestive banter with Miss Douce about her recent holiday and sun-bronzed skin.
• The narrative style mimics musicality and repetition, using wordplay like 'Greaseabloom' and 'bridge of Yessex' to reflect Bloom's internal state.
• Lenehan arrives searching for Blazes Boylan, adding a layer of tension regarding the upcoming meeting between Boylan and Bloom's wife.
• Miss Kennedy remains aloof and absorbed in her reading, ignoring Lenehan's attempts at humor and attention.
• The scene establishes a rhythmic atmosphere of 'jingle' and 'chips', blending the mundane actions of the pub with the characters' private desires.

Married to Bloom, to greaseabloom. —O saints above! miss Douce said, sighed above her jumping rose.

• Lenehan attempts to flatter Simon Dedalus by praising his son Stephen's poetic success and elite social circle.
• Simon Dedalus reacts with detached irony and skepticism toward his son's activities and the 'famous' reputation Lenehan describes.
• The barmaids, Miss Douce and Miss Kennedy, discuss a young, blind piano tuner whose talent deeply moved them earlier that day.
• Leopold Bloom observes the scene while preoccupied with his own secret correspondence and the symbolic 'language of flowers.'
• The narrative captures a sensory shift as a forgotten tuning fork is struck, creating a long, throbbing note that haunts the room.
• Blazes Boylan's arrival is anticipated with nervous energy, signaling the start of the afternoon's romantic and musical tensions.

A call again. That he now poised that it now throbbed. You hear? It throbbed, pure, purer, softly and softlier, its buzzing prongs.

• The scene unfolds in the Ormond Hotel bar, where the barmaids Miss Douce and Miss Kennedy flirt with patrons amidst a sensory backdrop of music and clinking glasses.
• Blazes Boylan, the flamboyant suitor of Molly Bloom, arrives with a confident air, ordering drinks and discussing a horse racing bet on Sceptre.
• Leopold Bloom, the 'unconquered hero,' cautiously observes Boylan from a distance, attempting to remain unseen while following Richie Goulding into the dining room.
• The narrative emphasizes the passage of time and the anticipation of four o'clock, a significant hour for Bloom regarding his wife's impending infidelity.
• Lenehan acts as a sycophantic companion to Boylan, encouraging the barmaids' displays and marveling at the physical presence of Miss Douce.
• The prose utilizes onomatopoeia and rhythmic repetition, such as the 'clack' of the clock and the 'jingle' of the car, to mirror the musical themes of the 'Sirens' episode.

Yes, gold from anear by bronze from afar. Lenehan heard and knew and hailed him: —See the conquering hero comes.

• Miss Douce performs a flirtatious 'sonnez la cloche' by snapping her garter for Lenehan and Boylan.
• Blazes Boylan departs the bar in a hurry, leaving a pensive Miss Douce to watch him go through the window.
• Simon Dedalus, Ben Dollard, and Father Cowley gather around the piano to reminisce and prepare for a song.
• Leopold Bloom observes the scene quietly, ordering a cider and feeling the heat of his black clothing.
• The atmosphere shifts from the vulgar energy of Boylan to a nostalgic, musical melancholy among the older men.

Smack. She set free sudden in rebound her nipped elastic garter smackwarm against her smackable a woman’s warmhosed thigh.

• Ben Dollard, Simon Dedalus, and Father Cowley reminisce about a past financial crisis where Bloom helped Dollard by lending him clothes.
• The men discuss Molly Bloom's history, her career as a singer, and her origins as the daughter of a major in Gibraltar.
• Leopold Bloom eats a meal of liver and bacon in silence with Richie Goulding while Blazes Boylan travels impatiently through the city.
• The atmosphere is thick with sensory details of food, tobacco smoke, and the booming bass vocals of Ben Dollard at the piano.
• The conversation shifts between bawdy humor regarding Dollard's physical size and the aesthetic qualities of the music being performed.

Roll of Bensoulbenjamin rolled to the quivery loveshivery roofpanes.

• Leopold Bloom dines on liver and mashed potatoes at a clean establishment, contrasting it with the gristle and grime of previous locations.
• The narrative weaves through Bloom's memories, specifically a humorous anecdote about Ben Dollard borrowing a tight dress suit that caused Molly to collapse in laughter.
• The atmosphere of the Ormond Hotel bar is established through the interactions of Miss Douce, George Lidwell, and the arrival of various Dublin characters.
• Father Cowley and Simon Dedalus prepare for a musical performance, debating the key and style of the aria 'M’appari' from the opera Martha.
• Bloom and Richie Goulding are described as 'princes at meat,' elevated by the high-culture surroundings of the music despite their modest meal.
• The text explores the sensory connection between music, memory, and physical sensation, from the 'toothache' of scraping fiddles to the 'cool hands' of a harpist.

Threw herself back across the bed, screaming, kicking. With all his belongings on show. O saints above, I’m drenched!

• Leopold Bloom and Richie Goulding share a moment of musical appreciation in a Dublin pub, reflecting on the power of song to evoke memory.
• Richie Goulding is characterized as a man of contradictions: a 'wonderful liar' who squanders money yet remains deeply moved by operatic airs.
• The narrative captures the performance of Simon Dedalus, whose voice is described as a fluid, transformative force that affects the listeners' physical and emotional states.
• Bloom observes the social dynamics of the bar, including the barmaids Lydia and Mina, while contemplating the inevitability of loss and the nature of women.
• The act of listening becomes a communal experience that temporarily alleviates the personal sorrows of the men gathered in the room.

Through the hush of air a voice sang to them, low, not rain, not leaves in murmur, like no voice of strings or reeds or whatdoyoucallthem dulcimers touching their still ears with words, still hearts of their each his remembered lives.

• Bloom experiences a visceral, physical reaction to the music, winding a piece of elastic around his fingers in a rhythmic, obsessive motion.
• The narrative explores the connection between vocal performance and sexual allure, noting how tenors attract women through 'creamy dreamy' tones.
• Bloom reflects on the technical requirements of singing, including the 'Jenny Lind soup' diet and the necessity of steady nerves.
• The performance of 'Martha' triggers a flood of memories for Bloom, specifically the first time he met Molly at Mat Dillon’s in Terenure.
• The music dissolves into a stream of sensory impressions, blending the 'language of love' with rhythmic, pulsing descriptions of desire.
• Bloom contemplates the 'fate' of his initial attraction to Molly, recalling her yellow dress and the tension of a game of musical chairs.

Flood of warm jamjam lickitup secretness flowed to flow in music out, in desire, dark to lick flow invading.

• Simon Dedalus finishes a powerful vocal performance that leaves the listeners in the bar mesmerized by the 'etherial' quality of his voice.
• Blazes Boylan grows increasingly impatient as his carriage moves slowly through Dublin toward his rendezvous with Molly Bloom.
• Richie Goulding reminisces to Leopold Bloom about a legendary past performance by Simon, highlighting the deep emotional impact of the human voice.
• Bloom reflects on the fragility of human connections and the inevitability of loss, symbolized by the 'rift in the lute' between brothers-in-law.
• The atmosphere in the pub shifts from the high tension of the music to a communal scene of drinking, smoking, and idle conversation.
• Bloom experiences a moment of morbid introspection, connecting the themes of the songs to the reality of death and the recent funeral of Paddy Dignam.

It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don’t spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the etherial bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, th e endlessnessnessness ...

• Leopold Bloom reflects on the mathematical nature of music, reducing ethereal sounds to vibrations, chords, and numerical juggling.
• The narrative captures the flirtatious banter between the barmaids, Miss Douce and Miss Kennedy, and their patrons in the Ormond Hotel.
• Bloom begins a clandestine letter to Martha under the pseudonym Henry, carefully disguising his handwriting with 'Greek ees'.
• Simon Dedalus reminisces about hearing Italian sailors singing barcaroles in Queenstown harbour during his youth.
• The text explores the subjectivity of music, noting how the emotional impact depends heavily on the listener's mood and the accompanying lyrics.

Two multiplied by two divided by half is twice one. Vibrations: chords those are. One plus two plus six is seven. Do anything you like with figures juggling.

• Leopold Bloom composes a clandestine letter to Martha Clifford under the pseudonym Henry, balancing desire with the mundane logistics of postal orders.
• The narrative explores the internal conflict of infidelity, as Bloom justifies his secrecy to avoid 'useless pain' while acknowledging the double standards of marriage.
• A detailed, catalog-like description of a passing carriage provides a sharp contrast between the external Dublin reality and Bloom's internal stream of consciousness.
• Bloom reflects on the power of music and poetry to influence mood, noting how a minor key shift in a nearby performance colors his own emotional state.
• The scene shifts to the bar where the barmaids, Lydia Douce and Miss Kennedy, interact with patrons through flirtation and the sharing of a seashell.
• The text concludes with a violent anecdote about a husband throttling a singer, reinforcing themes of jealousy and the consequences of romantic entanglement.

A waiter is he. Hee hee hee hee. He waits while you wait. While you wait if you wait he will wait while you wait.

• Characters in the Ormond bar listen to the 'silent roar' of the sea within a seashell, a phenomenon Bloom identifies as the sound of one's own blood.
• Leopold Bloom observes the flirtations between George Lidwell and the barmaids, Lydia Douce and Mina Kennedy, amidst the atmospheric music.
• The narrative explores the sensory connection between sound and memory, linking the shell's murmur to seaside girls and tanned skin.
• Bob Cowley plays a light, tinkling measure on the piano, prompting Bloom to reflect on the nature of joy, misery, and the technicalities of music.
• Bloom considers the differences between male and female voices and recalls Molly’s singing, specifically her performance of Mercadante.
• The passage concludes with the arrival of Blazes Boylan and Bloom's internal puns regarding 'chamber music' and the physics of acoustics.

The sea they think they hear. Singing. A roar. The blood it is. Souse in the ear sometimes. Well, it’s a sea. Corpuscle islands.

• Ben Dollard prepares to sing the patriotic ballad 'The Croppy Boy' in F sharp major, accompanied by Father Cowley on the piano.
• Bloom observes the scene while contemplating the financial ruin of Dollard, a former ship's chandler who lost ten thousand pounds.
• The music evokes a somber, 'lugugugubrious' atmosphere, described as the voice of earth's fatigue and ancient grief.
• The lyrics of the song detail a youth's confession to a priest who is actually a traitor in disguise.
• Bloom reflects on the power of religious ritual and Latin, comparing their hold on people to 'birdlime.'
• The barmaids and patrons of the Ormond bar are transfixed by the performance, lost in a collective moment of soulful listening.

The voice of dark age, of unlove, earth’s fatigue made grave approach and painful, come from afar, from hoary mountains, called on good men and true.

• Bloom observes the sensory environment of the bar, equating musical instruments to animal sounds and human anatomy.
• The narrative shifts into a somber reflection on lineage and loss, as Bloom mourns his dead son Rudy and his status as the last of his race.
• The text explores the voyeuristic nature of attraction, watching women listen to music and contemplating the power of performance to evoke sympathy.
• Bloom muses on the biological and emotional nature of women, linking their physical responses to the rhythm of music and the cycle of life.
• The scene concludes with a focus on the physical presence of the barmaids and the social atmosphere of the pub amidst the fading music.

I too. Last of my race. Milly young student. Well, my fault perhaps. No son. Rudy. Too late now.

• Leopold Bloom departs the Ormond Hotel as Ben Dollard finishes a moving rendition of 'The Croppy Boy.'
• The performance leaves the audience in a state of emotional resonance, with Simon Dedalus and others praising Dollard's powerful bass voice.
• Bloom experiences physical discomfort and internal restlessness, attributing his state to the music, the cider, and the sticky soap in his pocket.
• The narrative weaves together the sensory details of the bar—clinking glasses, tapping sounds, and the barmaids' reactions—with Bloom's stream-of-consciousness.
• Bloom continues his journey through Dublin, preoccupied by a secret letter and his complex domestic thoughts as he heads toward the quay.

By rose, by satiny bosom, by the fondling hand, by slops, by empties, by popped corks, greeting in going, past eyes and maidenhair, bronze and faint gold in deepseashadow, went Bloom, soft Bloom, I feel so lonely Bloom.

• The rhythmic tapping of a blind piano tuner's cane serves as a percussive backdrop to the internal and external dialogue.
• Bloom reflects on the nature of musical obsession, noting how enthusiasts become 'dotty' and lose themselves in the technicality of notes.
• The narrative explores the sensory world of the blind, contrasting their exquisite musical skill with their inability to see physical beauty.
• Bloom muses on the 'vocation' of noise-making, from the drummer's fate to the specific sounds associated with different trades.
• The scene shifts between the lively, drinking atmosphere of the bar and Bloom's isolated, wandering thoughts on mortality and Dignam's funeral.
• The passage concludes with a transition from the structured sounds of music and trade to the sudden appearance of a 'frowsy whore' in the street.

Under the sandwichbell lay on a bier of bread one last, one lonely, last sardine of summer.

• Leopold Bloom observes a woman on the street, reflecting on past acquaintances and the transactional nature of social encounters.
• Bloom lingers at an antique shop window, contemplating the value of objects and the persuasive power of a good salesman.
• A musical and rhythmic interlude at the Ormond hotel captures a group of men raising glasses amidst fragments of patriotic sentiment.
• Bloom experiences physical discomfort from his meal, timing his flatulence to the rhythmic noise of a passing tram.
• The narrative shifts to a gritty, colloquial dialogue between two men discussing local characters, debts, and a 'foxy thief' named Geraghty.

Near bronze from anear near gold from afar they chinked their clinking glasses all, brighteyed and gallant.

• The narrator recounts a dispute between a merchant named Moses Herzog and a customer, Geraghty, who refuses to pay for tea and sugar.
• A formal legalistic contract is presented detailing the terms of the debt and the ownership of the nonperishable goods.
• The narrator and Joe Hynes discuss an acquaintance suffering from 'whisky and water on the brain' before heading to Barney Kiernan’s pub.
• Joe mentions a meeting of cattle traders regarding an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, which he intends to discuss with 'the citizen.'
• The narrative shifts into a highly stylized, mock-heroic description of the land of Inisfail, characterized by its abundance of fish and trees.

Jesus, I had to laugh at the little jewy getting his shirt out. He drink me my teas. He eat me my sugars. Be cause he no pay me my moneys?

• The narrative employs a mock-heroic style, listing an exhaustive and fantastical catalog of Ireland's agricultural bounty, from exotic vegetables to pedigreed livestock.
• A shining, crystal-roofed palace serves as a symbolic hub where the 'firstfruits of the land' are collected as toll by a chieftain figure.
• The prose shifts abruptly from high-flown, rhythmic descriptions of nature and commerce to the gritty, colloquial atmosphere of Barney Kiernan’s pub.
• The 'citizen' is introduced as a nationalist figure holding court in a corner, accompanied by his intimidating and mangy dog, Garryowen.
• The dialogue captures a tense but familiar social exchange, blending political posturing with mundane talk of market prices and drink.

The bloody mongrel let a grouse out of him would give you the creeps.

• The scene opens in a pub where characters discuss foreign wars and Russian tyranny over pints of 'wine of the country.'
• The narrative shifts into a hyperbolic, mock-heroic description of 'the citizen,' depicted as a mythological giant seated at the foot of a round tower.
• The giant's physical features are described with extreme exaggeration, including nostrils large enough for a bird's nest and eyes the size of cauliflowers.
• His clothing is a primitive assembly of oxhide, deerskin, and buskins laced with the windpipes of beasts, emphasizing a raw, ancient Irish identity.
• A girdle of seastones hangs from his waist, engraved with an absurdly long and anachronistic list of Irish heroes, historical figures, and pop-culture icons.
• The passage satirizes extreme nationalism by inflating the 'Irish hero' to impossible, comical proportions while blending genuine myth with triviality.

The eyes in which a tear and a smile strove ever for the mastery were of the dimensions of a goodsized cauliflower.

• A sprawling list of historical and mythical figures introduces a scene of mock-heroic grandeur in a Dublin pub.
• Joe Hynes displays a gold sovereign, sparking curiosity about his sudden wealth and its origins.
• The 'citizen' rants against the Irish Independent, mocking its English-centric birth and death notices as a betrayal of Irish nationalism.
• The narrative shifts between gritty pub dialogue and high-flown, epic descriptions of mundane arrivals.
• Alf Bergan enters the pub in fits of laughter, mocking the eccentric Denis Breen who is seen wandering in slippers with his wife in pursuit.
• The atmosphere is defined by the physical relief of drinking and the sharp, cynical wit of the Dublin working class.

Declare to God I could hear it hit the pit of my stomach with a click.

• Alf Bergan regales the pub patrons with the story of Breen, who is obsessively seeking legal action over a mocking postcard containing the cryptic message 'U. p: up.'
• The narrative shifts into a mock-heroic, epic style to describe the simple act of Terence O’Ryan serving a glass of ale to Bergan.
• The conversation turns toward the macabre as Bergan produces a collection of letters written by hangmen, sparking curiosity and tension among the drinkers.
• A moment of supernatural confusion arises when Bergan claims to have seen Paddy Dignam walking the streets just minutes prior.
• The atmosphere shifts to shock and unease as the company informs Bergan that Dignam is actually dead, leading to talk of ghosts and divine protection.

—Sure I’m after seeing him not five minutes ago, says Alf, as plain as a pikestaff.

• The characters react with shock and disbelief to the news of Paddy Dignam's sudden death and burial.
• A satirical seance is described where Dignam's 'etheric double' communicates through mystical rays and tantras.
• The deceased reports that the afterlife is equipped with modern comforts and that he is currently navigating astral trials.
• Dignam's spirit expresses earthly concern over a missing boot located under a commode, insisting it only needs to be soled.
• The narrative shifts back to a Dublin pub where Bob Doran, in a drunken stupor, blasphemously laments the cruelty of Dignam's passing.
• The scene concludes with the characters observing Leopold Bloom pacing outside, contrasting the spiritual absurdity with mundane reality.

He requested that it should be told to his dear son Patsy that the other boot which he had been looking for was at present under the commode in the return room.

• Bob Doran drunkenly mourns Paddy Dignam, prompting a cynical narrator to disparage Doran's wife and her scandalous past.
• Leopold Bloom enters the pub looking for Martin Cunningham, cautiously avoiding the citizen's growling dog, Garryowen.
• The company reads a gruesome letter from H. Rumbold, a 'Master Barber' offering his professional services as a hangman for five guineas.
• The conversation shifts to the macabre details of executions, including the practice of selling pieces of the hanging rope as souvenirs.
• Bloom attempts to engage in a 'scientific' discussion about the deterrent effects of capital punishment, which the others dismiss as 'codology.'
• Alf Bergan shares a graphic anatomical detail about the physical state of a hanged man's body, which Bloom immediately tries to explain through science.

He told me when they cut him down after the drop it was standing up in their faces like a poker.

• Professor Blumenduft provides a pseudo-scientific medical explanation for the physiological phenomenon of a post-mortem erection during a hanging.
• The Citizen uses the discussion of execution to pivot into a nationalist rant about Irish martyrs and the revolutionary history of 1798 and 1867.
• The narrator expresses deep contempt for a mangy, scabby dog in the pub and the drunken antics of Bob Doran, who attempts to play with the beast.
• Bloom is mocked by the narrator for his perceived pretension, his 'lardy face,' and his habit of using intellectual language like 'phenomenon.'
• A humorous anecdote is shared regarding Bloom’s failed attempt to 'teach the evils of alcohol' to a widow's nephew by getting him 'drunk as a boiled owl.'
• The narrator dismisses Bloom’s cautious, balanced rhetorical style—characterized by phrases like 'but on the other hand'—as mere 'mollycoddle' behavior.

Phenomenon! The fat heap he married is a nice old phenomenon with a back on her like a ballalley.

• The scene depicts a massive public execution or funeral attended by over five hundred thousand people in Dublin.
• The atmosphere is heightened by supernatural elements, including torrential rain and thunder described as the 'artillery of heaven.'
• The event is treated as a bizarre social occasion, complete with special excursion trains, grandstands for the elite, and musical entertainment.
• Street singers provide comic relief with macabre songs, while orphans are brought to watch the event as an 'instructive treat.'
• A diverse and absurdly named international delegation, the 'Friends of the Emerald Isle,' attends to witness the proceedings.
• The narrative shifts between somber funereal descriptions and a satirical, hyperbolic list of foreign dignitaries.

The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.

• A violent dispute over the date of Saint Patrick's birth is settled by a nine-foot-tall policeman who suggests the seventeenth as a compromise.
• A chaotic brawl involving an absurd array of weapons and the theft of hundreds of watches ends in sudden, forced harmony.
• The world-renowned headsman, Rumbold, arrives at the scaffold dressed in formal morning attire and sporting a gladiolus.
• The international crowd reacts with a cacophony of multilingual cheers and religious fervor as the execution ritual begins.
• The executioner prepares his tools, including specialized disembowelling appliances, while testing his blade on a flock of sheep.

Hand by the block stood the grim figure of the executioner, his visage being concealed in a tengallon pot with two circular perforated apertures through which his eyes glowered furiously.

• The condemned man displays noble self-sacrifice by donating his final, lavish breakfast to a local charity for the sick and indigent.
• A highly emotional reunion occurs between the prisoner and his lover, Sheila, characterized by exaggerated romantic tropes and public displays of affection.
• The crowd and officials, including hardened military men and police, are moved to collective, performative weeping by the spectacle.
• In a surreal turn of events, a wealthy Oxford graduate proposes marriage to the prisoner's lover on the spot, and she accepts immediately.
• The authorities distribute macabre souvenirs in the form of skull and crossbones brooches to the ladies in the audience.
• The scene satirizes the sensationalism of public executions and the sentimentalism of popular romantic literature.

The hero folded her willowy form in a loving embrace murmuring fondly Sheila, my own.

• The narrator mockingly observes a gathering of Irish nationalists discussing the Gaelic League and the 'curse' of drink.
• A satirical contrast is drawn between the ideal of 'Ireland sober is Ireland free' and the reality of the drab temperance entertainment provided.
• The citizen interacts with his dog, Garryowen, in Irish, leading to a surreal description of their 'duet' of growls.
• The narrative shifts into a parodic journalistic style, elevating the dog's growling to a 'marvellous exhibition of cynanthropy.'
• The dog's vocalizations are humorously compared to the ancient ranns of Celtic bards and the works of famous Irish satirists.

Such growling you never heard as they let off between them.

• The narrative transitions from a mock-scholarly translation of a dog's 'curse' into a gritty, colloquial pub scene.
• Leopold Bloom attempts to explain the complex legal and insurance technicalities surrounding the late Mr. Dignam's policy.
• The narrator expresses deep skepticism and anti-Semitic prejudice toward Bloom, mocking his 'Hungarian' connections and legal jargon.
• Bob Doran, in a state of drunken sentimentality, accosts Bloom to offer clumsy condolences for the Dignam family.
• The prose shifts styles abruptly, parodying high-flown, formal Victorian sentimentality during a simple handshake between drunks.

The curse of my curses / Seven days every day And seven dry Thursdays On you, Barney Kiernan, Has no sup of water To cool my courage, And my guts red roaring After Lowry’s lights.

• The narrator recounts a scandalous anecdote about a man caught in a shebeen, pretending to be French while behaving sacrilegiously and being robbed by prostitutes.
• The dialogue shifts to local Dublin politics, mentioning figures like Nannetti and William Field who are heading to the House of Commons.
• The 'Citizen' and Joe mock Leopold Bloom, deriding him as 'Mister Knowall' for his unsolicited advice on livestock diseases and animal husbandry.
• Bloom's past employment in a knacker's yard is ridiculed, specifically his tendency to lecture experienced graziers on their own trade.
• The narrative includes a satirical, nursery-rhyme-style mockery of Bloom's 'humane methods' and his gentle disposition toward animals.
• Bloom enters the conversation urgently seeking Councillor Nannetti, only to find he is likely departing for London by the mailboat.

Blind to the world up in a shebeen in Bride street after closing time, fornicating with two shawls and a bully on guard, drinking porter out of teacups.

• A satirical parliamentary debate highlights the tension between British colonial authority and Irish cultural practices, specifically regarding the use of Phoenix Park.
• The 'citizen' is celebrated as a legendary figure in the Gaelic sports revival and a former champion of the sixteen-pound shot.
• The conversation shifts to the importance of traditional Irish sports like hurling and stone-putting as essential tools for nation-building.
• Leopold Bloom intervenes with a pedantic medical warning about 'rower's heart,' illustrating his tendency to over-explain any subject.
• The narrative adopts a mock-heroic journalistic style to describe a meeting of the Sluagh na h-Eireann, framing the sports revival in the context of ancient Greek and Roman physical culture.

I declare to my antimacassar if you took up a straw from the bloody floor and if you said to Bloom: Look at, Bloom. Do you see that straw? That’s a straw. Declare to my aunt he’d talk about it for an hour so he would and talk steady.

• A grand performance by a singer dubbed the Irish Caruso-Garibaldi concludes with a long list of distinguished clergy and laity in attendance.
• The conversation shifts to a recent boxing match between Keogh and Bennett, involving rumors of betting manipulation by Blazes Boylan.
• Bloom attempts to steer the discussion toward the health benefits of tennis and physical agility, but is largely ignored by the group.
• The narrative transitions into a highly stylized, hyperbolic account of the Keogh-Bennett fight, framing it as a nationalistic struggle.
• Myler Keogh, the smaller Irish fighter, overcomes the larger English sergeant-major through superior ringcraft and a punishing left hook.
• The account emphasizes the physical brutality of the match, describing the 'claret' drawn and the final moments of the 'fistic Eblanite's' triumph.

God, he gave him one last puck in the wind, Queensberry rules and all, made him puke what he never ate.

• A boxing match concludes with a sudden knockout, sparking a discussion about the victor's career and the nature of success.
• Bloom attempts to defend his wife's upcoming concert tour, while the narrator cynically notes the involvement of Blazes Boylan.
• The conversation shifts to the financial instability of local figures who maintain a high-class facade despite being buried in debt and legal writs.
• The group mocks the eccentric Denis Breen, who is obsessively seeking legal recourse for a libelous postcard reading 'U.p: up.'
• Legal experts in the pub debate the technicalities of libel law, noting that even a truthful statement can be considered an indictment.
• The dialogue captures the sharp, judgmental atmosphere of a Dublin pub where reputations are dissected with casual cruelty.

That explains the milk in the cocoanut and absence of hair on the animal’s chest.

• The citizen and Joe mock Bloom's concern for Mrs. Breen, using xenophobic and emasculating language to describe her husband as 'neither fish nor flesh.'
• J. J. O'Molloy provides a legal opinion on a libelous postcard, citing the case of Sadgrove v. Hole to argue that such a communication constitutes publication.
• The group observes the eccentric Cashel Boyle O'Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell passing by with his wife while Corny Kelleher attempts to sell him a coffin.
• A discussion ensues regarding a fraudulent emigration scheme to Canada orchestrated by a man with multiple aliases who swindled both locals and his own community.
• The men mock the leniency of Sir Frederick Falkiner, the Recorder, by imitating his sentimental reactions to sob stories in court.

Pity about her, says the citizen. Or any other woman marries a half and half.

• The narrative shifts into a mock-heroic legal register, describing the formal proceedings of judges and a jury of the twelve tribes of Iar in Dublin.
• A prisoner, described as a malefactor apprehended by 'sleuthhounds of justice,' is brought forth in shackles to face the court.
• In the pub, the citizen launches a xenophobic attack, accusing immigrants of 'filling the country with bugs' and swindling the Irish peasantry.
• Leopold Bloom attempts to ignore the citizen's provocations by focusing on a mundane business conversation with Joe Hynes regarding an advertisement.
• The citizen blames Ireland's historical misfortunes and the presence of 'Saxon robbers' on the infidelity of a 'dishonoured wife.'
• The atmosphere in the bar remains tense as Bloom feigns interest in a spider's web while the citizen scowls and his dog waits for a signal to attack.

And Bloom letting on to be awfully deeply interested in nothing, a spider’s web in the corner behind the barrel, and the citizen scowling after him and the old dog at his feet looking up to know who to bite and when.

• The narrative shifts between crude gossip about a cuckolded contractor and a high-stakes political debate in a Dublin pub.
• The 'citizen' expresses violent Irish nationalism, dismissing English culture as 'syphilisation' and advocating for the revival of the Gaelic language.
• Bloom attempts to interject with moderate views on civilization and universal law, only to be met with hostility and mockery from the nationalist group.
• Lenehan arrives with news of the Gold Cup horse race, revealing that the rank outsider 'Throwaway' won at twenty-to-one odds.
• The dialogue blends mock-heroic epic prose with gritty Dublin slang to highlight the tension between romanticized history and mundane reality.

Their syphilisation, you mean, says the citizen. To hell with them! The curse of a goodfornothing God light sideways on the bloody thicklugged sons of whores’ gets!

• A nationalist speaker laments the decline of Irish industry, citing lost potential in textiles, glass, and natural resources.
• The dialogue criticizes British economic policy for ruining Irish trade and failing to manage the landscape's bogs and marshes.
• A call to action is made for the reforestation of Ireland to preserve native trees like the Galway ash and Kildare elm.
• The narrative shifts into a satirical, mock-heroic description of a wedding between Jean Wyse de Neaulan and Miss Fir Conifer.
• The wedding guests and attire are described through elaborate botanical puns, transforming a social event into a forest allegory.

Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

• The Citizen expresses a fervent desire for the restoration of Irish maritime trade and the return of a sovereign Irish navy.
• A cynical narrator undercuts the Citizen's grandiosity, labeling him a hypocrite who fears local retribution for land-grabbing.
• The conversation shifts to the violence of the British Empire, specifically the brutal corporal punishment of young sailors on training ships.
• The group critiques the hypocrisy of British 'liberty,' describing the empire as a collection of 'drudges and whipped serfs.'
• The dialogue highlights the contrast between Ireland's historical European alliances and its current subjugation under the British crown.

A young lad brought out, howling for his ma, and they tie him down on the buttend of a gun.

• The Citizen recounts the historical trauma of the Great Famine and the forced emigration of the Irish people.
• A debate ensues regarding the efficacy of foreign alliances, with the characters dismissing the French as unreliable 'dancing masters.'
• The conversation turns to a scathing and vulgar critique of the British monarchy, specifically Queen Victoria and King Edward VII.
• The speakers highlight the irony of the Irish Catholic clergy honoring a British monarch with racing colors at Maynooth.
• The dialogue reflects a deep-seated resentment toward 'perfidious Albion' and a desire for vengeance from the Irish diaspora.

There’s a bloody sight more pox than pax about that boyo.

• Leopold Bloom attempts to define a nation as people living in the same place, which is met with mockery by his companions.
• Despite the skepticism of the nationalist 'citizen,' Bloom asserts his identity as an Irishman based on his birth in the country.
• The narrative shifts into a satirical, high-style description of a common handkerchief as a legendary Irish artifact.
• A long list of Irish landmarks, ranging from ancient ruins to commercial breweries and jails, is presented as a catalog of national identity.
• Bloom draws a parallel between the persecution of the Irish and the historical and current suffering of the Jewish people.
• The tension escalates as Bloom denounces injustice and the citizen challenges him to meet oppression with physical force.

The citizen said nothing only cleared the spit out of his gullet and, gob, he spat a Red bank oyster out of him right in the corner.

• Leopold Bloom argues that life is defined by love rather than the force, hatred, and history championed by nationalists.
• The citizen and other pub patrons mock Bloom’s sentimentality, labeling him a 'new apostle to the gentiles.'
• A satirical litany of mundane and absurd romances is recited to trivialize Bloom's universal definition of love.
• The citizen critiques the hypocrisy of British imperialism, citing Cromwell’s use of religious texts to justify slaughter.
• A satirical news report describes a Zulu chief being manipulated by British trade interests through the gift of a Bible.
• The group uses humor and cynicism to dismiss the moral authority of both Bloom and the British Empire.

What about sanctimonious Cromwell and his ironsides that put the women and children of Drogheda to the sword with the bible text God is love pasted round the mouth of his cannon?

• The conversation shifts from British colonial brutality in the Congo to local suspicions regarding Leopold Bloom's whereabouts.
• Lenehan spreads a rumor that Bloom has secretly won a large sum of money by betting on the long-shot horse, Throwaway.
• The citizen and others express deep-seated anti-Semitic prejudice, dismissing Bloom's character and questioning his loyalty to Ireland.
• John Wyse claims Bloom is the secret intellectual force behind Arthur Griffith and the Sinn Fein movement's economic policies.
• The narrator recounts Bloom's family history with hostility, mentioning his father's suicide and past business dealings as evidence of inherent dishonesty.
• The narrative style abruptly shifts into a parodic, medieval chivalric tone as Martin Cunningham and his party arrive at the pub.

Ireland my nation says he (hoik! phthook!) never be up to those bloody (there’s the last of it) Jerusalem (ah!) cuckoos.

• A group of men in a pub engage in a mock-archaic dialogue about a host's larder before shifting to a sharp, prejudiced discussion about Leopold Bloom.
• The men debate Bloom's national loyalty and religious identity, questioning whether a Jew can truly love Ireland.
• Martin Cunningham reveals Bloom's family history, noting his father was a Hungarian named Virag who committed suicide.
• The Citizen expresses violent antisemitic vitriol, labeling Bloom a 'perverted jew' and a 'wolf in sheep's clothing' who deserves to be thrown into the sea.
• The conversation highlights the intersection of Irish nationalism and xenophobia, as the men mock Bloom's masculinity and his supposed role in the 'Hungarian system' of political organization.
• The group prepares to leave for a 'brief libation' while continuing to disparage Bloom for his perceived lack of generosity and foreign roots.

It’d be an act of God to take a hold of a fellow the like of that and throw him in the bloody sea.

• The scene opens in a Dublin pub where the 'citizen' expresses xenophobic and nationalist sentiments regarding the contamination of Irish shores.
• The narrative shifts into a mock-heroic, liturgical parody, listing an exhaustive procession of religious orders and monastic figures.
• A massive, satirical catalog of saints follows, blending genuine historical figures with invented or absurd names like S. Anonymous and S. Pseudonymous.
• The saints are described carrying traditional icons alongside bizarre, anachronistic objects such as boxes of vaseline and watertight boots.
• The procession moves through the specific geography of Dublin streets, merging the mundane city landscape with a grand celestial vision.
• The passage utilizes the 'Cyclops' episode's technique of gigantism, inflating a simple pub conversation into a cosmic, religious spectacle.

And after came all saints and martyrs, virgins and confessors: S. Cyr and S. Isidore Arator and S. James the Less and S. Phocas of Sinope and S. Julian Hospitator and S. Felix de Cantalice and S. Simon Stylites and S. Stephen Protomartyr.

• A mock-heroic religious procession led by Father O’Flynn performs miracles and blesses a wholesale grocery and spirit shop.
• The narrative shifts between high liturgical Latin and the coarse, cynical dialogue of men in a Dublin pub.
• The 'citizen' and others express anti-Semitic resentment toward a character accused of being stingy and self-serving.
• Martin Cunningham hurriedly ushers the group out to a jaunting car to avoid a rising confrontation.
• The departure of the carriage is described through an elaborate, Homeric parody of a ship setting sail with nymphs.
• The narrator remains grounded in reality, focused on finishing his pint while the grand metaphors unfold.

The milkwhite dolphin tossed his mane and, rising in the golden poop the helmsman spread the bellying sail upon the wind and stood off forward with all sail set, the spinnaker to larboard.

• A chaotic confrontation erupts outside the pub as Bloom asserts that Christ and his family were Jews, directly challenging the Citizen's antisemitism.
• The Citizen, enraged by Bloom's claim and perceived blasphemy, threatens to 'crucify' him and searches for a projectile.
• The narrative shifts into a parodic, high-flown 'epic' style, describing Bloom's departure as a grand, state-sanctioned ceremony of international importance.
• This stylistic shift contrasts the gritty, vulgar reality of the street brawl with a mock-heroic celebration involving illuminated scrolls and bonfires across Ireland.
• The tension between the literal violence of the biscuit box being thrown and the flowery language of the 'departure' highlights the absurdity of the nationalist fervor.
• The scene concludes with the Citizen physically lunging back for a biscuit tin to use as a weapon against Bloom.

Your God was a jew. Christ was a jew like me.

• A chaotic confrontation erupts as the Citizen attempts to physically assault Bloom, who is fleeing on a horse-drawn car.
• The narrative shifts into a mock-heroic, pseudo-scientific style, describing the Citizen's thrown biscuit tin as a catastrophic seismic event.
• The 'earthquake' is reported to have registered eleven shocks on the Mercalli scale, supposedly leveling the Four Courts and surrounding residences.
• The text parodies official reports by detailing the absurd distances at which personal items, like a silk umbrella, were recovered across Ireland.
• The passage concludes with a satirical account of international condolences and the mobilization of recovery efforts by local contractors and the military.

The catastrophe was terrific and instantaneous in its effect.

• The chaotic confrontation between the citizen and Bloom concludes with a frantic escape by carriage.
• The narrative shifts into a mock-heroic biblical style, depicting Bloom's departure as a divine ascension into heaven.
• The scene transitions abruptly to a sentimental, lyrical description of a summer evening at Sandymount shore.
• A group of young women, Cissy Caffrey and Edy Boardman, are introduced relaxing by the sea with children.
• The prose style changes from aggressive vernacular and religious parody to a soft, romanticized domesticity.

And they beheld Him even Him, ben Bloom Elijah, amid clouds of angels ascend to the glory of the brightness at an angle of fortyfive degrees over Donohoe’s in Little Green street like a shot off a shovel.

• Cissy Caffrey manages her younger twin brothers, Tommy and Jacky, with a mix of maternal authority and playful persuasion.
• A childhood dispute over a sandcastle's architecture leads to a physical altercation between the twins, resulting in the castle's destruction.
• The narrative highlights the social dynamics between the young women, Cissy and Edy, as they tease the children about sweethearts.
• Gerty MacDowell is introduced as a figure of delicate, almost spiritual beauty, though her health is bolstered by patent medicines.
• The scene captures a specific middle-class Irish domesticity, blending sentimental descriptions with the gritty reality of sandy clothes and childhood tantrums.

The waxen pallor of her face was almost spiritual in its ivorylike purity though her rosebud mouth was a genuine Cupid’s bow, Greekly perfect.

• Gerty MacDowell possesses an innate refinement and 'queenly hauteur' that suggests she was destined for a higher social class than her current station.
• She meticulously maintains her appearance using advice from beauty columns, including the use of 'eyebrowleine' and cutting her hair according to the lunar cycle.
• Despite petty rumors spread by acquaintances like Bertha Supple, Gerty maintains a dignified and superior air in her social circle.
• Gerty experiences a romantic longing for a young man, a student and cyclist, whose family's Protestant faith presents a silent religious barrier.
• Her internal life is a blend of cinematic romanticism and the practical anxieties of courtship and social rivalry among her 'girl chums.'
• She masks her emotional pain and the 'aching void' in her heart with a performative, joyous laugh and a focus on her physical charms.

Had kind fate but willed her to be born a gentlewoman of high degree in her own right and had she only received the benefit of a good education Gerty MacDowell might easily have held her own beside any lady in the land.

• Gerty MacDowell meticulously prepares her outfit in hopes of a romantic encounter, following the latest trends from the Lady's Pictorial.
• She takes great pride in her fashion sense, having hand-crafted her hat from materials found at a summer sale to outshine her rivals.
• The narrative highlights a competitive social dynamic between Gerty and Edy Boardman regarding physical attributes and style.
• Gerty's attention to detail extends to her hidden garments and superstitious beliefs about luck and 'lovers' meetings.'
• Despite her outward focus on beauty and vanity, the passage concludes by hinting at a deep-seated, gnawing sorrow within her soul.

And when she put it on the waterjug to keep the shape she knew that that would take the shine out of some people she knew.

• Gerty MacDowell experiences a profound sense of melancholy and yearning as she reflects on her unfulfilled romantic aspirations.
• She dismisses her former crush, Reggy Wylie, as too young and lacking the strength of character required to be her ideal partner.
• Gerty dreams of a 'manly man' with a quiet face and grey-flecked hair who will offer her protection and deep, passionate affection.
• Her domestic fantasies involve a meticulously curated home life, featuring golden-brown griddlecakes and elegant furnishings from jumble sales.
• She envisions marriage as a sanctuary of 'hominess' where she can escape the petty judgments of her peers like Edy Boardman and Bertha Supple.
• The narrative highlights the contrast between Gerty's poetic, idealized vision of love and the mundane realities of her social environment.

He called her little one in a strangely husky voice and snatched a half kiss (the first!) but it was only the end of her nose and then he hastened from the room with a remark about refreshments.

• A domestic squabble unfolds on the beach as young Tommy Caffrey throws a tantrum over a ball, highlighting the gendered dynamics of childcare among the young women.
• Cissy Caffrey uses playful distraction and humor to resolve the conflict, contrasting with Edy Boardman’s stricter, more frustrated approach to discipline.
• Gerty MacDowell experiences a moment of Victorian modesty and social anxiety, blushing at Cissy's unladylike language and worrying about the nearby gentleman's perception.
• The narrative characterizes Cissy as a 'madcap' and sincere spirit, recalling her past tomboyish escapades and her refusal to conform to rigid social pretenses.
• The atmosphere shifts as the sound of a temperance retreat's organ music drifts over the shore, prompting Gerty to reflect on her family's decline due to her father's alcoholism.
• Gerty’s internal monologue reveals a deep-seated longing for a lost middle-class status, imagining a life of luxury that was thwarted by the 'demon drink'.

Gerty MacDowell bent down her head and crimsoned at the idea of Cissy saying an unladylike thing like that out loud she’d be ashamed of her life to say, flushing a deep rosy red.

• Gerty reflects on a childhood shadowed by her father’s alcoholism and the domestic violence she witnessed in her home.
• Despite her father's flaws and his physical decline, Gerty recalls nostalgic family moments of music and shared suppers.
• The narrative highlights the sudden death of Mr. Dignam, serving as a grim reminder of mortality within their social circle.
• Gerty is portrayed as a 'ministering angel' who manages the household, cares for her mother’s headaches, and maintains domestic order.
• Gerty finds romantic escape in a grocery store almanac, daydreaming of 'halcyon days' and aristocratic chivalry.
• The scene shifts back to the beach where a mysterious gentleman in black intervenes in the twins' rowdy play.

If there was one thing of all things that Gerty knew it was that the man who lifts his hand to a woman save in the way of kindness, deserves to be branded as the lowest of the low.

• A stray ball leads to a moment of self-conscious performance as Gerty MacDowell kicks it back to the twins to impress a mysterious gentleman.
• Gerty experiences a surge of physical awareness and 'pure jealousy,' using the interaction to draw the gaze of the man watching her from a distance.
• The narrative juxtaposes the secular, romantic tension on the beach with the solemn Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary drifting from a nearby church.
• The spiritual atmosphere of the 'mystical rose' and 'spiritual vessel' contrasts with the mundane, messy realities of childcare on the strand.
• Cissy Caffrey manages a fussy, 'possing wet' infant, highlighting the domestic chaos that Gerty finds irritating and disruptive to her romantic reverie.
• Gerty observes the gentleman's face in the twilight, perceiving it as the saddest she has ever seen, adding a layer of melancholic desire to the scene.

She felt the warm flush, a danger signal always with Gerty MacDowell, surging and flaming into her cheeks.

• Gerty MacDowell observes a mysterious, dark-eyed stranger on the beach, projecting onto him the image of a tragic, romantic hero.
• She interprets his intense gaze as a profound connection, imagining he can read her soul and find her uniquely 'womanly' compared to other girls.
• Despite his potential status as a foreigner or a sinner, Gerty feels a maternal and romantic urge to heal his 'haunting sorrow' through love.
• The narrative blends Gerty's eroticized daydreams of physical embrace with the religious imagery of the nearby church service.
• Gerty finds comfort in the rituals of the Catholic Church, viewing the Virgin Mary as a refuge while imagining her own potential life as a nun.

His eyes burned into her as though they would search her through and through, read her very soul.

• Gerty MacDowell reflects on the comforting words of a priest who validated her natural feminine desires as divinely instituted rather than sinful.
• The narrative captures the domestic tension and social performance of the young women as they mind unruly children on the beach.
• Cissy Caffrey’s tomboyish behavior and physical display are viewed with sharp, competitive judgment by Gerty, who finds her common and forward.
• A religious service occurring nearby provides a rhythmic, liturgical backdrop to the secular vanities and romantic longing of the characters.
• Gerty is acutely aware of a gentleman watching her, interpreting his gaze as a validation of her superior beauty and fashion choices over her companions.

She ran with long gandery strides it was a wonder she didn’t rip up her skirt at the side that was too tight on her because there was a lot of the tomboy about Cissy Caffrey and she was a forward piece whenever she thought she had a good opportunity to show.

• Gerty MacDowell revels in her own beauty, observing the intense and 'maddening' effect her appearance has on a nearby gentleman.
• The narrative highlights the tension between Gerty and her companions, Edy and Cissy, whom she views with a mix of irritation and social competition.
• A moment of direct interaction occurs when Cissy approaches the gentleman to ask the time, revealing his 'cultured' but slightly nervous demeanor.
• Gerty interprets the man's gaze as a form of worship, feeling a physical rush of sensation as he watches her movements.
• The scene is set against the backdrop of a religious service, contrasting the solemnity of the 'Tantum ergo' with the secular, eroticized tension on the beach.

He was eying her as a snake eyes its prey.

• Gerty MacDowell experiences a moment of intense emotional validation under the passionate gaze of a mysterious admirer on the strand.
• A sharp social exchange occurs between Gerty and Edy, who attempts to wound Gerty by mocking her recent romantic rejection.
• Gerty masks her internal pain and tears with a display of 'scathing politeness' and a proud, musical declaration of her own independence.
• The narrative highlights the petty jealousies and class distinctions felt between the young women as they prepare to leave the beach.
• The scene transitions from intense interpersonal drama to the domestic comedy of tending to a messy infant as the church bell signals the benediction.

A brief cold blaze shone from her eyes that spoke volumes of scorn immeasurable.

• Gerty MacDowell observes a religious benediction at twilight, blending the spiritual atmosphere with her own sentimental longings.
• She finds solace in Victorian literature and poetry, using these romanticized tropes to frame her own identity and aspirations.
• Gerty maintains a collection of feminine treasures and a confession album, reflecting her desire for a life of aesthetic neatness and poetic expression.
• She harbors a secret physical 'shortcoming' from an accident that fuels her insecurity despite her outward confidence in her beauty.
• Gerty projects a complex romantic fantasy onto a mysterious stranger, imagining a relationship that transcends social conventions and past tragedies.
• Her internal monologue reveals a strict moral code that distinguishes her 'finebred nature' from the 'fallen women' she views with disdain.

Art thou real, my ideal? it was called by Louis J Walsh, Magherafelt, and after there was something about twilight, wilt thou ever?

• The religious service concludes as the children and Cissy Caffrey rush toward the beach to watch the bazaar fireworks.
• Gerty MacDowell remains behind, choosing to stay seated in a moment of defiance and private intimacy.
• Gerty becomes hyper-aware of the intense, silent gaze of a man nearby, interpreting his look as one of steadfast, noble passion.
• She leans back to view the Roman candles, intentionally exposing her legs to the man while reflecting on the secret 'hotblooded' nature of men.
• Gerty justifies her provocative behavior through a lens of romantic fantasy and the comfort of religious absolution.
• The scene reaches a sensory peak as a Roman candle climbs higher into the sky, mirroring the rising tension between the two watchers.

Whitehot passion was in that face, passion silent as the grave, and it had made her his.

• Gerty MacDowell intentionally exposes herself to Leopold Bloom on the beach, creating a moment of shared, silent eroticism.
• The climax of their encounter is punctuated by the sensory explosion of a Roman candle firework, mirroring their internal states.
• Bloom experiences a wave of guilt and self-loathing, viewing himself as a 'wretch' and a 'cad' for his voyeuristic behavior.
• Gerty departs with a sense of romantic destiny, believing their souls have met in a profound, secret connection.
• The encounter ends with a jarring shift in Bloom's perspective when he realizes Gerty is lame as she limps away.
• Bloom's initial idealization of Gerty quickly turns to pity and a cold assessment of her physical 'defect' and social standing.

And then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind blank and O! then the Roman candle burst and it was like a sigh of O! and everyone cried O! O! in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of rain gold hair threads.

• Leopold Bloom reflects on the biological and psychological cycles of women, wondering why menstrual cycles do not align perfectly with the moon.
• He considers the performative nature of fashion and lingerie, suggesting that clothing is a vital component of sexual attraction and social 'sacrifice.'
• The narrative explores the complex dynamics of female friendships, characterized by intense intimacy in youth that often sours into competitive scrutiny.
• Bloom recalls voyeuristic experiences with mutoscope pictures and ponders the authenticity of erotic photography.
• He notes the physical and emotional shifts women experience during their periods, including heightened sensitivity and 'dark' moods.
• The passage highlights Bloom's own sensory empathy and his observations on the superstitious beliefs surrounding women's biology.

Sister souls. Showing their teeth at one another. How many have you left? Wouldn’t lend each other a pinch of salt.

• Leopold Bloom reflects on male vanity and the performative nature of courtship, comparing human grooming to the displays of lions and stags.
• He contemplates the transactional nature of beauty and sex, recalling selling Molly's hair combings and pondering the financial value of her favors.
• Bloom experiences a moment of post-climactic physical discomfort and psychological detachment after a secret encounter.
• He analyzes the necessity of 'stage settings' like costumes and music in maintaining the illusion of romance and attraction.
• The narrative explores Bloom's guilt and excitement regarding infidelity, specifically the thrill of 'taking a man from another woman.'
• He ruminates on past sexual encounters and the awkwardness of social interactions with women in the dark streets of Dublin.

See her as she is spoil all. Must have the stage setting, the rouge, costume, position, music.

• Bloom reflects on the inherent intuition and 'sharp as needles' perception of women, noting how they notice details men miss.
• He reminisces about Molly’s past, including her first kiss with Lieutenant Mulvey and the physical signs of her early maturity.
• The narrative shifts to observing young girls and children on the strand, contemplating their desire to grow up and their natural coquetry.
• Bloom considers the performative nature of female behavior, from the way a typist shows her legs to his daughter Milly’s clever domestic shortcuts.
• He concludes that these feminine traits and 'tricks' are 'bred in the bone,' passed down instinctively from mother to daughter.

Something inside them goes pop. Mushy like, tell by their eye, on the sly.

• Bloom reflects on a fleeting, silent encounter with Gerty, viewing it as a shared language of excitement and relief.
• The narrative shifts to the cyclical nature of domestic life, from raising children to the grim reality of washing corpses.
• Bloom compares the 'Moorish' vitality of Molly to other wives, noting how a man's weaknesses are often visible through his spouse.
• He muses on the strange pairings of couples, observing that destiny or 'magnetism' seems to match people regardless of physical logic.
• The passage concludes with a scientific curiosity about the influence of magnetism on time and human attraction.

Sad however because it lasts only a few years till they settle down to potwalloping and papa’s pants will soon fit Willy and fuller’s earth for the baby when they hold him out to do ah ah.

• Bloom reflects on the mechanical and magnetic nature of attraction, likening the interaction between men and women to the pull of steel and a fork.
• He contemplates the sensory power of Molly's perfume, musing on how scents like opoponax and jessamine linger on her clothing and skin.
• The narrative explores the scientific and mystical nature of smell, comparing human pheromones to the 'spice islands' and the musk of animals.
• Bloom considers the distinct 'mansmell' of priests and how it acts as a forbidden lure for women, likening it to flies drawn to treacle.
• The passage concludes with Bloom attempting to identify his own scent, only to be distracted by the lingering lemon aroma of his soap.

It’s like a fine fine veil or web they have all over the skin, fine like what do you call it gossamer, and they’re always spinning it out of them, fine as anything, like rainbow colours without knowing it.

• Leopold Bloom ruminates on minor debts and social reputations, worrying about an unpaid soap bill and the etiquette of reminding others of money owed.
• He observes a passerby on the beach, contemplating the nature of identity and the possibility of writing a story titled 'The Mystery Man on the Beach'.
• Bloom analyzes atmospheric changes and the science of light, recalling the mnemonic 'Roygbiv' while watching the sunset and the first stars appear.
• The narrative shifts to sensual and nostalgic memories of Gerty MacDowell and his wife, Molly, blending past romantic encounters with present physical discomfort.
• He reflects on the cyclical nature of history and personal loss, concluding with a bittersweet realization of his own place in the world's social order.

Life, love, voyage round your own little world. And now? Sad about her lame of course but must be on your guard not to feel too much pity.

• Bloom reflects on the cyclical nature of time and the impossibility of returning to the past as the same person.
• He reminisces about social gatherings in 1887, recalling Molly and the Doyle family through the lens of a Rip Van Winkle performance.
• The sight of a bat prompts thoughts on metempsychosis and the ancient belief in humans transforming into trees out of grief.
• Bloom observes the repetitive nature of religious prayer, comparing its psychological efficacy to the persistence of modern advertising.
• Scientific curiosity leads him to ponder the mechanics of light, the causes of wildfires, and the survival instincts of animals.
• He contemplates the perilous lives of sailors and the vastness of the ocean, concluding that the world has no ends because it is round.

Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

• Bloom contemplates the dangers of the sea and the superstitions sailors use to ward off death.
• The narrative shifts to the peaceful Dublin evening, marked by the nine o'clock postman and the news of the Gold Cup race.
• Bloom recalls a family boat trip where he observed the varying reactions of passengers to the rough waters.
• He reflects on his daughter Milly's childhood fearlessness compared to the inherent vulnerability of children.
• The passage explores the transition from childhood innocence to the complexities of adult life and memory.

Do fish ever get seasick?

• Leopold Bloom reflects on the physical and emotional transitions of womanhood, recalling his wife Molly's girlhood in Gibraltar and her first menstruation.
• He mentally recounts the day's exhausting events, including a funeral, a visit to the museum, and a hostile confrontation with a 'drunken ranter' at Barney Kiernan’s.
• Bloom contemplates the nature of widowhood and mourning, noting the practical financial burdens and the social expectations placed on those left behind.
• His internal monologue shifts to domestic desires and anxieties, considering his relationship with Molly and his need to secure advertising work for Keyes.
• As night falls on the strand, Bloom experiences a sense of physical exhaustion and aging, questioning if he will return to this spot or if his vitality is fading.

Everyone to his taste as Morris said when he kissed the cow.

• Mr. Bloom attempts to write a message in the sand but ultimately effaces the letters, reflecting on the futility of leaving a mark in such an unstable medium.
• The narrative shifts into a stream of consciousness, blending Bloom's immediate sensory experiences with eroticized memories and fragments of past encounters.
• A cuckoo clock chimes in the distance, marking the time for both Bloom on the beach and the local priests at tea, signaling the end of his encounter with Gerty MacDowell.
• The prose style undergoes a radical transformation, shifting from internal monologue to a rhythmic, ritualistic invocation of fertility and 'wombfruit.'
• The section concludes with a dense, Latinate, and academic parody that discusses the prosperity of a nation in terms of its population growth and maternal care.

Hopeless thing sand. Nothing grows in it. All fades.

• The text reflects on the moral obligation to uphold ancestral customs regarding the sanctity of procreation and the preservation of the nation.
• It highlights the historical reverence for medicine among the Celts, specifically noting the contributions of great hereditary medical families like the O'Shiels and O'Lees.
• A sophisticated system of maternity care is described, ensuring that even the most impoverished women receive expert medical attention during childbirth.
• The narrative emphasizes that national prosperity is inextricably linked to the well-being of 'proliferent mothers' and the successful generation of offspring.
• The environment of the maternity home is meticulously prepared with swaddles, surgical tools, and inspiring imagery to facilitate a successful delivery.

Before born bliss babe had. Within womb won he worship.

• Leopold Bloom arrives at a maternity hospital, described in archaic, alliterative prose as the house where 'teeming mothers' endure the pains of childbirth.
• A nurse greets Bloom, fearing a coming storm as a sign of divine wrath, and invites him inside the hall of the hospital's master, A. Horne.
• Bloom inquires after a Doctor O'Hare, only to learn from the nurse that the young doctor died three years prior from 'bellycrab' (cancer) on Mona Island.
• The narrative reflects on the inevitability of death, reminding the reader that every man returns to the dust as naked as he came from the womb.
• The nurse describes a particularly agonizing labor currently underway, noting that the woman has been in throes for three full days.
• Bloom encounters a young medical student named Dixon, who previously treated Bloom for an injury at a house of mercy.

Full she drad that God the Wreaker all mankind would for do with water for his evil sins.

• Leopold and a 'learning knight' enter a marvelous castle filled with enchanted objects and strange, magical provisions.
• The text describes a feast featuring headless fish in oil, bread that swells like a mountain, and a brewage made from serpent scales.
• Leopold, ever cautious and subtle, avoids drinking the mead by secretly pouring it into his neighbor's glass.
• A sister of the house pleads for quiet as a woman upstairs is in the throes of a long and difficult labor.
• Leopold discusses the impending birth with a franklin named Lenehan, who drinks heartily to their health.

And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix then in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously.

• A group of medical scholars and travelers gather in a hall to drink heavily and engage in philosophical discourse.
• Leopold Bloom sits among them, characterized as a meek and kind knight-like figure who feels a paternal bond toward young Stephen.
• The company debates a moral dilemma regarding a woman who died in childbirth, questioning whether the mother or the child should be saved.
• Stephen Dedalus challenges the group by shifting the focus to the 'sin' of contraception, or 'impossibilising' potential souls.
• The atmosphere is one of ribaldry and intellectual tension, contrasting the gravity of life and death with the crude jests of the drunken Costello.

But, gramercy, what of those Godpossibled souls that we nightly impossibilise, which is the sin against the Holy Ghost, Very God, Lord and Giver of Life?

• Stephen Dedalus engages in a drunken, theological debate regarding the laws of the Church, the origins of life, and the nature of the soul.
• The group discusses the moral dilemma of prioritizing the life of the mother versus the unborn child according to canon law.
• Leopold Bloom dissembles his true feelings with a wary answer to avoid conflict, while privately mourning his own lost son, Rudy.
• Bloom observes Stephen with a mixture of paternal grief and concern, lamenting the young man's riotous living and wasted potential.
• Stephen boastfully displays his earnings from a song, treating the company to drinks while mocking religious rituals with blasphemous parodies.
• The narrative style mimics Middle English alliterative prose, reflecting the developmental theme of the 'Oxen of the Sun' episode.

And she was wondrous stricken of heart for that evil hap and for his burial did him on a fair corselet of lamb’s wool, the flower of the flock, lest he might perish utterly and lie akeled.

• Stephen Dedalus discourses on the theological paradoxes of the Virgin Mary, contrasting the 'second Eve' with the original grandmother of humanity.
• The narrative explores the 'postcreation' where the spirit of the maker transforms passing flesh into an eternal word.
• A ribald interruption by Punch Costello is met with a stern rebuke from Nurse Quigley, who demands silence and order in the house of Horne.
• The company mocks Stephen's asceticism and his 'curious rite of wedlock,' questioning his choice to avoid religious vows.
• Stephen defines his life through a triad of 'obedience in the womb, chastity in the tomb but involuntary poverty all his days.'
• The debate touches on the nature of the Trinity and the Incarnation, oscillating between high theology and bawdy humor.

In woman’s womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away.

• The narrative weaves together archaic marriage rituals and the literary history of Beaumont and Fletcher to explore themes of sexual communion.
• Stephen Dedalus offers a cynical subversion of scripture, suggesting that the ultimate act of friendship is the sharing of a wife.
• The text transitions into a prophetic lament for Ireland, personified as a faithless figure who has traded her heritage for foreign influence and material gain.
• A philosophical meditation on the 'tenebrosity of the interior' suggests that human existence is defined by a darkness that precedes birth and follows death.
• The passage concludes with a vision of the human life cycle as a 'retrogressive metamorphosis' from the cradle to the occulted sepulchre.
• The prose style mimics various historical registers, from liturgical Latin and Elizabethan drama to the prophetic tone of the Old Testament.

The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend.

• A sudden and violent thunderstorm erupts, terrifying the company and silencing their previous rowdy songs and jests.
• Stephen Dedalus, referred to as young Boasthard, is deeply shaken by the storm despite his earlier displays of bravado and paganry.
• Leopold Bloom, acting as Calmer, attempts to soothe Stephen by explaining the thunder as a mere natural phenomenon of fluid discharge.
• Stephen remains inconsolable because his internal bitterness and lack of religious grace prevent him from finding comfort in either science or faith.
• The narrative explores the tension between the physical 'land of Phenomenon' where death is certain and the promised 'land of Believe-on-Me.'
• Stephen's spiritual wandering is attributed to his distraction by the 'Bird-in-the-Hand,' representing immediate carnal temptations over eternal salvation.

And his pitch that was before so haught uplift was now of a sudden quite plucked down and his heart shook within the cage of his breast as he tasted the rumour of that storm.

• The narrative uses an allegorical, archaic style to describe the pursuit of carnal pleasure and the use of 'oxengut' shields to prevent disease and offspring.
• A group of men with symbolic names, such as Young Boasthard and Mr Cautious Calmer, are condemned for their 'abuses' and 'spillings' against the divine command to procreate.
• The scene shifts to the burial of Patrick Dignam and a severe drought that has left the Irish landscape parched and brown.
• The long-awaited rain finally arrives on the evening of June 16th, accompanied by a single massive stroke of thunder that sends people scurrying for cover.
• Characters like Buck Mulligan and Alec Bannon are spotted in the Dublin streets as the weather breaks, moving through the now-drenched city thoroughfares.

Wherein, O wretched company, were ye all deceived for that was the voice of the god that was in a very grievous rage that he would presently lift his arm up and spill their souls for their abuses and their spillings done by them contrariwise to his word which forth to bring brenningly biddeth.

• Leopold Bloom joins a group of medical students and wits at Andrew Horne's maternity hospital during a heavy rainstorm.
• The company discusses the difficult labor of Mrs. Purefoy, who has been struggling for two days to deliver her ninth child.
• Bloom reflects on a strange dream involving his wife, Molly, dressed in red slippers and Turkish trousers.
• Lenehan, a colorful character and gossip, arrives and entertains the group with talk of horse racing and local scandals.
• The narrative style mimics archaic English prose, blending medical concerns with superstitious prognostications about the weather and harvest.
• The atmosphere is one of rowdy camaraderie, contrasting the men's lighthearted banter with the physical ordeal of childbirth occurring nearby.

Mistress Purefoy there, that got in through pleading her belly, and now on the stools, poor body, two days past her term, the midwives sore put to it and can’t deliver.

• The narrative introduces Frank, a wayward son of a headborough who abandoned his university studies for a life of vagrancy and petty crime.
• Leopold Bloom expresses concern over the slaughter of livestock, drawing on his professional experience working for a cattle salesman.
• Stephen Dedalus counters with a satirical allegory involving 'Doctor Rinderpest' and an imperial 'tailtickler' sent to manage the cattle.
• The conversation shifts into a complex metaphor of an Irish bull sent to the island by 'farmer Nicholas' (Pope Adrian IV).
• The bull is described as a majestic yet gelded creature that charms the women of Ireland with its 'long holy tongue' and spiritual influence.
• The allegory serves as a sharp critique of the historical and religious subjugation of Ireland by the Church and the British crown.

He had horns galore, a coat of cloth of gold and a sweet smoky breath coming out of his nostrils so that the women of our island, leaving doughballs and rollingpins, followed after him hanging his bulliness in daisychains.

• A pampered bull is treated with excessive luxury by the women of the land, eventually growing too heavy to walk.
• The Lord Harry enforces a strict decree that only green grass may grow, violently uprooting any other crops planted by farmers.
• Lord Harry discovers a supposed ancestral connection to the Roman bull Bos Bovum and adopts a new identity.
• Despite studying the bull's language, the Lord can only master the first personal pronoun, which he chalks obsessively on every surface.
• The men of the island, disillusioned by the alliance between the Lord and the bull, eventually flee by sea toward America.
• Malachi Mulligan and a young acquaintance, Alec Bannon, arrive as the students conclude their allegorical tale.

In short, he and the bull of Ireland were soon as fast friends as an arse and a shirt.

• Malachi Mulligan presents a satirical proposal to combat sterility and the 'defrauding' of the nuptial couch.
• He plans to establish a 'national fertilising farm' named Omphalos on Lambay Island, complete with an Egyptian-style obelisk.
• Mulligan offers his personal services for the fecundation of any woman, regardless of social class, from kitchenwenches to ladies of fashion.
• The project is framed as a noble devotion to the bodily organism, contrasting with the idle pleasures of city fops.
• To maintain his potency, Mulligan describes a specific diet of fish and prolific rodents like coneys, seasoned with mace and chillies.
• While the company receives the plan with hearty eulogies, Mr. Dixon offers a skeptical retort regarding the necessity of such a service.

It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey to the vilest bonzes.

• The scene opens with a mock-Latin oration comparing the depravity of modern women to Roman centurions and animal instincts.
• Mr. Mulligan enters the company, inquiring about the food and offering professional assistance to a stranger waiting on a woman in labor.
• A medical jest ensues regarding Mulligan's own physical girth, questioning if it represents a 'male womb' or a parasitic 'wolf in the stomach.'
• Mulligan performs a bawdy mimicry of Mother Grogan, boasting of his belly's purity to the great delight of the assembled men.
• A blond Scottish student interrupts the revelry with a polite gesture, offering a flagon of cordial waters to the narrator.
• The narrator accepts the drink with dramatic piety and reveals a cherished locket containing the image of a beloved woman.

There’s a belly that never bore a bastard.

• A gentleman recounts a sentimental encounter with a lady, praising her artless disorder and melting tenderness.
• The narrative shifts into a philosophical reflection on the universal tyranny of love over all men, from swains to coxcombs.
• A debate ensues regarding the practicalities of protection against the rain, contrasting French cloaks with the utility of umbrellas.
• Monsieur Lynch shares a risqué anecdote from his 'pretty philosopher' Kitty regarding the two occasions where nudity is the only fit garment.
• The bawdy discourse is abruptly interrupted by the ringing of a bell and the entrance of the modest Miss Callan.
• The sudden appearance of a virtuous woman creates a sharp contrast against the backdrop of the 'party of debauchees'.

The first, said she (and here my pretty philosopher, as I handed her to her tilbury, to fix my attention, gently tipped with her tongue the outer chamber of my ear), the first is a bath ...

• The departure of a woman triggers a wave of crude and licentious jokes among the medical students and hangers-on.
• Costello and Lynch engage in ribald mockery of the nursing staff and the physical state of the pregnant woman.
• A young surgeon delivers a stern moral rebuke to the company, defending the sanctity of the medical profession and the dignity of motherhood.
• The announcement of a successful birth—a 'bouncing boy'—interrupts the revelry and prompts the surgeon's exit.
• Leopold Bloom observes the scene with quiet distaste, feeling alienated by the cruel and 'tumultuary' nature of the young men's conversation.
• Costello attempts to backtrack on his insults by claiming a sentimental devotion to his own mother and religious upbringing.

I shudder to think of the future of a race where the seeds of such malice have been sown and where no right reverence is rendered to mother and maid in house of Horne.

• A man of rare forecast and self-restraint reflects on the necessity of patience and the rejection of wit at the expense of feminine delicacy.
• The group receives news of a successful birth following a difficult labor, prompting reflections on divine mercy and the bounty of creation.
• Younger men in the company react with crude jests and skepticism regarding the child's paternity, contrasting with the protagonist's solemnity.
• The protagonist observes the jarring transition of medical students from frivolous 'votaries of levity' to serious practitioners of the noble healing arts.
• The narrative shifts to a critique of an 'alien' figure's lack of gratitude and loyalty to the state during times of conflict.

Singular, communed the guest with himself, the wonderfully unequal faculty of metempsychosis possessed by them, that the puerperal dormitory and the dissecting theatre should be the seminaries of such frivolity.

• A scathing character assassination targets a man accused of hypocrisy, moralizing, and neglecting his marital duties while pursuing illicit interests.
• The text contrasts the subject's public persona as a 'censor of morals' with his private failures and alleged attempts at seducing domestic staff.
• The long-awaited announcement of a male heir is delivered with high ceremonial gravity to a delegation of medical and state officials.
• Following the birth, the solemn atmosphere dissolves into a chaotic 'strife of tongues' among the exhausted delegates.
• The conversation shifts rapidly into a dense, clinical, and legalistic debate over various medical anomalies and reproductive tragedies.

Unhappy woman, she has been too long and too persistently denied her legitimate prerogative to listen to his objurgations with any other feeling than the derision of the desperate.

• A dense catalog of medical anomalies and obstetric complications is discussed, ranging from twilight sleep to the risks of sepsis during labor.
• The group examines the intersection of forensic medicine and folklore, such as the belief that stepping over a stile might strangle a fetus with the umbilical cord.
• Theories on birth defects are proposed, including 'plasmic memory' suggesting developmental arrest and more radical claims of interspecies copulation.
• A legal and theological dilemma is posed regarding the death of one Siamese twin while the other remains living.
• Mr. Bloom refers a moral question to Deacon Dedalus, who provides a perfunctory ecclesiastical ruling on the indissolubility of joined beings.
• The atmosphere shifts abruptly to the Gothic as Malachi Mulligan conjures a horrific vision of Haines appearing from a secret panel.

But Malachias’ tale began to freeze them with horror. He conjured up the scene before them. The secret panel beside the chimney slid back and in the recess appeared ... Haines! Which of us did not feel his flesh creep!

• A dramatic confession reveals a man haunted by the murder of Samuel Childs, seeking escape through drugs and distractions.
• The 'black panther' is identified as a psychological manifestation of guilt and the ghost of a murdered father.
• The narrative shifts to a philosophical meditation on the soul's ability to change its age and hue like a chameleon.
• Leopold Bloom experiences a 'retrospective arrangement,' seeing his younger self through a metaphorical mirror within a mirror.
• The text vividly recalls Bloom's early days as a traveling salesman, complete with his first hard hat and youthful charms.

A score of years are blown away. He is young Leopold. There, as in a retrospective arrangement, a mirror within a mirror (hey, presto!), he beholdeth himself.

• Leopold Bloom reflects on a formative sexual encounter with Bridie Kelly, a 'child of shame' met in the drizzling darkness of Hatch street.
• The narrative laments Bloom's lack of a male heir, noting that no son exists to provide for him what he once provided for his father, Rudolph.
• A surreal, cosmic procession of prehistoric and zodiacal beasts—mammoths, mastodons, and bulls—marches toward the 'Lacus Mortis' or Dead Sea.
• The prose shifts into a celestial vision where female figures from Bloom's life, including Martha and Milly, are transformed into astral deities.
• The sequence concludes with a 'metempsychosis' of symbols, where a gossamer veil transforms into a ruby 'Alpha' sign upon the constellation Taurus.

In terror the poor girl flees away through the murk. She is the bride of darkness, a daughter of night.

• Stephen Dedalus reflects on the ghosts of the past, positioning himself as a 'bullockbefriending bard' with the power to summon them to life.
• Vincent Lenehan offers a backhanded compliment to Stephen, suggesting his current light odes are insufficient to prove his rumored genius.
• A dark mood settles over Stephen when the conversation turns to his mother, highlighting his lingering grief and sense of failure.
• The group recounts the dramatic loss of the mare Sceptre at the races, where the dark horse Throwaway unexpectedly took the victory.
• Vincent describes a romantic encounter in the sun-drenched outdoors, characterized by sensory details of blooming chestnuts and muslin frocks.
• The narrative blends classical allusions with mundane Dublin life, featuring a brief, ironic encounter with Father Conmee.

I, Bous Stephanoumenos, bullockbefriending bard, am lord and giver of their life.

• Malachi cautions against waking the stranger from his apparent trance, suggesting that intense focus can serve as a gateway to the divine.
• Stephen responds with esoteric theories from 'Theosophos' regarding lunar lords, etheric doubles, and karmic law.
• The narrative reveals the stranger was not in a mystical doldrum but was actually preoccupied with private memories triggered by a bottle of Bass ale.
• The stranger eventually assists the others by pouring the beer with meticulous care to avoid any waste or mess.
• The scene transitions into a grand, encyclopedic debate among a diverse group of men gathered at Horne’s house.
• The assembly includes various characters like the Highland-clad Crotthers and the cynical Lynch, representing a microcosm of life's intellectual pursuits.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

• The text contrasts Stephen Dedalus's perverted transcendentalism with the hardheaded, tangible focus of scientific inquiry.
• A debate ensues regarding the biological determination of sex, weighing the theories of Empedocles against modern embryology and the 'nisus formativus' of spermatozoa.
• Leopold Bloom raises the vital issue of infant mortality, noting that while birth is universal, the methods of death are infinitely varied.
• Buck Mulligan attributes the decline of the human race to poor sanitary conditions and the 'revolting spectacles' of urban life, such as mutilated soldiers and public advertisements.
• Mulligan proposes 'Kalipedia' as a solution, suggesting that exposure to classical art and good music will improve the condition of expectant mothers.
• The discussion touches on the tragic causes of infant death, ranging from industrial trauma and domestic discipline to the 'atrocious crime' of infanticide.

The man of science like the man in the street has to face hardheaded facts that cannot be blinked and explain them as best he can.

• The narrative explores the hypothesis that all natural phenomena, from celestial movements to human mortality, are governed by an undiscovered universal law of numeration.
• A pseudo-scientific theory is proposed to explain infant mortality as a 'law of anticipation' where organisms with 'morbous germs' are removed early to ensure the survival of the fittest.
• Stephen Dedalus offers a cynical, macabre interruption regarding the 'omnivorous' nature of existence and the consumption of 'staggering bob'—the flesh of a newborn calf.
• A debate between Dedalus and Leopold Bloom at the National Maternity Hospital touches on the biological and moral imperatives of childbirth and the risks to the mother.
• The passage concludes with the successful, albeit exhausting, delivery of a child, shifting into a sentimental and reverent tone regarding the new mother's 'motherlight.'

Nature, we may rest assured, has her own good and cogent reasons for whatever she does and in all probability such deaths are due to some law of anticipation by which organisms in which morbous germs have taken up their residence tend to disappear at an increasingly earlier stage of development.

• Mina Purefoy experiences a moment of maternal grace, reflecting on her newborn child and her long-standing marriage to her husband, Doady.
• The narrative lists the many Purefoy children, both living and deceased, emphasizing the continuity of the family line and the passage of time.
• Mr. Purefoy is depicted as a faithful, aging servant of the bank and his faith, having 'fought the good fight' through the trials of domestic life.
• The tone shifts to a meditation on the persistence of 'evil memories' or sins that remain buried in the human heart despite the passage of years.
• These repressed memories are described as ghosts that can be summoned by a single chance word, appearing not for vengeance but as silent, reproachful reminders.
• The observer notes a 'false calm' on a face, suggesting a deep-seated bitterness or unhealthiness hidden beneath a practiced social exterior.

Yet a chance word will call them forth suddenly and they will rise up to confront him in the most various circumstances, a vision or a dream, or while timbrel and harp soothe his senses or amid the cool silver tranquility of the evening or at the feast, at midnight, when he is now filled with wine.

• A pastoral scene of women and a child by a grey urn transitions into the sterile, quiet atmosphere of a lying-in hospital.
• The tension of the medical students' vigil is compared to a gathering storm, heavy with moisture and impending energy.
• Upon the announcement of a successful birth, the quietude shatters into a chaotic, violent rush as the men bolt toward Burke’s pub.
• Bloom remains behind briefly to offer a kind word to the nurse, noting the physical toll the labor has taken on the mother.
• The narrative shifts to a celebratory, cosmic praise of Theodore Purefoy for his 'doughty deed' of procreation.
• The text concludes by mocking Malthusian restraint, urging the new father to embrace his role despite the financial burdens of domestic life.

But as before the lightning the serried stormclouds, heavy with preponderant excess of moisture, in swollen masses turgidly distended, compass earth and sky in one vast slumber.

• The passage opens with a vigorous rejection of sterile cohabitation and contraception, framing procreation as a vital, raw necessity.
• The character Purefoy is celebrated as a patriarch who has successfully fulfilled his life-task, likened to a charging bison.
• A shift occurs into a chaotic, multilingual street scene as a group of men departs from the maternity hospital in high spirits.
• The narrative dissolves into a cacophony of slang, liturgical Latin, and Nietzschean references, reflecting a drunken, celebratory descent.
• The group moves toward 'Burke’s' pub, driven by a collective thirst and a mocking disregard for social and religious institutions.
• The dialogue captures a frantic, fragmented exchange about money, drink orders, and the physical toll of their revelry.

Give her beefsteaks, red, raw, bleeding! She is a hoary pandemonium of ills, enlarged glands, mumps, quinsy, bunions, hayfever, bedsores, ringworm, floating kidney, Derbyshire neck, warts, bilious attacks, gallstones, cold feet, varicose veins.

• The text captures a chaotic, drunken scene filled with a dense mixture of slang, dialects, and multilingual puns.
• Characters engage in rapid-fire banter involving betting, drinking, and references to local Dublin landmarks like the Mater Hospital.
• The dialogue shifts fluidly between Hiberno-English, mock-French, Scots, and Yiddish-inflected speech, reflecting a state of intoxication.
• Themes of sexual desire and domestic life are interspersed with references to horse racing and 'dead cert' tips.
• The narrative voice mimics the sensory overload of a 'speakeasy' environment where identities and languages blur together.
• The passage concludes with a sense of impending departure and the lingering tension of unpaid debts or 'oof'.

Shrieks of silence. Every cove to his gentry mort. Venus Pandemos. Les petites femmes.

• A group of boisterous, intoxicated men engage in a chaotic, multilingual exchange of slang, Latin, and mock-dialects as they leave a pub.
• The dialogue shifts rapidly between various personas and linguistic styles, reflecting the disorienting effects of alcohol and the 'Oxen of the Sun' stylistic evolution.
• The mysterious 'man in the mackintosh' is spotted and mocked by the group, adding to the recurring motif of his spectral presence throughout the day.
• The scene concludes with the group dispersing into the Dublin night, heading toward the red-light district while mimicking the sounds of a passing fire brigade.
• Religious imagery and mock-liturgical phrases are interspersed with crude jokes, highlighting the tension between the sacred and the profane.

Thrust syphilis down to hell and with him those other licensed spirits. Time, gents! Who wander through the world.

• A bombastic American evangelist, Alexander J. Christ Dowie, delivers a rowdy, slang-filled sermon framing God as a shrewd business proposition.
• The narrative shifts to the Mabbot street entrance of Dublin's 'nighttown,' a surreal and grimy red-light district filled with danger signals and skeleton tracks.
• The scene is populated by grotesque figures, including a deafmute idiot tormented by children, a rag-and-bone gnome, and various derelicts.
• Cissy Caffrey sings a bawdy nursery rhyme while British soldiers, Private Carr and Private Compton, stumble through the streets in a drunken stupor.
• Stephen Dedalus and Lynch enter the chaotic scene, immediately drawing the mocking attention of the loitering soldiers.

Come on you winefizzling, ginsizzling, booseguzzling existences! Come on, you dog-gone, bullnecked, beetlebrowed, hogjowled, peanutbrained, weaseleyed fourflushers, false alarms and excess baggage!

• Stephen Dedalus wanders through the red-light district, chanting Latin liturgy while brandishing his ashplant stick as a symbolic wand.
• A local bawd attempts to solicit Stephen and Lynch, turning to venomous insults when they ignore her advances.
• Stephen theorizes that gesture can serve as a universal language, revealing the 'structural rhythm' and 'first entelechy' of reality.
• Lynch mocks Stephen’s high-minded philosophical musings, labeling them 'pornosophical philotheology' given their sordid surroundings.
• The scene shifts to Leopold Bloom, who is seen panting and frantic, his reflection distorted into various caricatures by shop mirrors.

He flourishes his ashplant, shivering the lamp image, shattering light over the world.

• Leopold Bloom navigates a chaotic urban landscape, purchasing a pig's crubeen and a sheep's trotter while suffering from a physical stitch in his side.
• The sensory environment is overwhelming, featuring a distant fire, clanging bells, and a near-collision with a sandstrewer tram.
• Bloom experiences a series of internal anxieties, ranging from health concerns and the need for exercise to the superstitious 'mark of the beast.'
• The narrative shifts into a surreal encounter with a sinister, masked figure who demands a password in a multilingual exchange.
• Bloom's movements are characterized by a frantic, 'stifflegged' dodging of obstacles, reflecting his psychological disorientation and 'brainfogfag.'
• The passage highlights the tension between Bloom's mundane domestic errands and the threatening, hallucinatory atmosphere of the night streets.

The motorman bangs his footgong. THE GONG: Bang Bang Bla Bak Blud Bugg Bloo.

• Bloom experiences a physical collision with the Caffrey children, triggering a paranoid check of his belongings for pickpockets.
• A vision of Bloom's deceased father, Rudolph, appears in traditional Jewish attire to interrogate his son's moral and financial failings.
• The apparition of Rudolph critiques Bloom's past behavior, specifically his association with 'drunken goyim' and a youthful injury sustained while racing.
• Bloom's mother, Ellen, appears in a theatrical costume, reacting with exaggerated maternal alarm to her son's disheveled state.
• The sequence shifts to a vision of Molly Bloom dressed in opulent Turkish costume, asserting a new sense of dominance and distance.
• The scene illustrates Bloom's deep-seated guilt and the psychological weight of his family history and marital anxieties.

Are you not my dear son Leopold who left the house of his father and left the god of his fathers Abraham and Jacob?

• Bloom experiences a surreal vision of his wife Marion as an exotic Moorish figure accompanied by a camel.
• The narrative shifts into a hallucinatory sequence where inanimate objects like a cake of lemon soap gain speech and personality.
• Bloom is confronted by a series of female figures from his past and present, including the bawd, Bridie Kelly, and Gerty Macdowell.
• The dialogue blends reality with Bloom's internal guilt and sexual anxieties, particularly regarding his interactions with Gerty.
• Mrs. Breen appears in a masculine overcoat to mock Bloom for his presence in the 'haunts of sin' during the late hours.
• The scene illustrates the fluid, dream-like logic of the 'Circe' episode where identities and locations shift rapidly.

We’re a capital couple are Bloom and I. He brightens the earth. I polish the sky.

• Bloom encounters Mrs. Breen in a surreal, hallucinatory sequence where social boundaries and time begin to blur.
• The narrative shifts into a minstrel-show performance by the Bohee brothers, reflecting Bloom's racialized and exoticized internal thoughts.
• Bloom attempts a flirtatious, 'frivolous' reconnection with Mrs. Breen, evoking their shared history as 'Josie Powell' and her former suitors.
• The dialogue descends into a coded, nonsensical 'teapot' language, signifying a breakdown of formal communication into intimate, playful absurdity.
• Bloom’s persona shifts into a 'squire of dames,' performing a patriotic toast while physically engaging in a romanticized, dream-like memory of a staircase encounter.

I confess I’m teapot with curiosity to find out whether some person’s something is a little teapot at present.

• Leopold Bloom engages in a surreal, flirtatious, and emotionally charged dialogue with Mrs. Breen amidst a chaotic urban backdrop.
• The narrative features grotesque and carnivalesque figures, including Denis Breen with sandwich boards and Richie Goulding carrying a bag of fish and pills.
• Bloom expresses a sense of betrayal and personal crisis, claiming to be in a 'grave predicament' while navigating the 'stupid crowds.'
• The conversation shifts into a detailed, nostalgic recollection of a past trip to the Leopardstown races, highlighting Bloom's meticulous memory for fashion and social slights.
• The scene blends reality with phantasmagoria, as characters' appearances and behaviors shift rapidly in a dreamlike sequence.

Woman, it’s breaking me!

• Bloom navigates a surreal urban landscape filled with fragmented memories of Mrs. Breen and Molly.
• The narrative shifts through grotesque street scenes, including loiterers laughing at a crude prank involving a bucket of porter.
• Bloom encounters various figures of the night, including aggressive whores and drunken soldiers, highlighting the chaotic atmosphere of the red-light district.
• The interaction between the Navvy and the British soldiers (Carr and Compton) underscores the underlying political and social tensions of Dublin.
• Bloom reflects on his impulsive decision to follow Stephen Dedalus, questioning his own motivations and the role of fate.
• The passage emphasizes themes of coincidence, physical decay, and the disorienting effects of alcohol and the night.

In an archway a standing woman, bent forward, her feet apart, pisses cowily.

• Bloom narrowly avoids a street accident and reflects on his own mortality and potential for insurance claims.
• He encounters a stray dog and, despite initial hesitation and fear of madness, decides to feed it his purchased food.
• The Watch confront Bloom for his actions, leading him to defend himself as a 'friend of man' and an advocate for animal welfare.
• The scene shifts into a surreal hallucination involving Bob Doran and a violent bulldog dripping with 'scumspittle'.
• Signor Maffei, a sinister lion tamer, appears to describe the brutal methods used to break and train wild animals.
• The narrative blurs the lines between Bloom's internal guilt, his desire for kindness, and the inherent cruelty of the world.

The bulldog growls, his scruff standing, a gobbet of pig’s knuckle between his molars through which rabid scumspittle dribbles.

• Leopold Bloom attempts to evade the authorities by adopting a series of increasingly absurd and contradictory identities, including a dental surgeon and a naval gallant.
• The discovery of a business card for 'Henry Flower' leads to accusations of unlawful behavior and a lack of fixed residence.
• A veiled figure named Martha appears to accuse Bloom of breach of promise and emotional manipulation, threatening him with her brother's wrath.
• Bloom resorts to desperate defenses, invoking Masonic signs, his wife's military pedigree, and appeals to Irish nationalism to prove his respectability.
• The scene shifts rapidly between reality and a surreal courtroom drama where Bloom claims to be a 'man misunderstood' and a 'scapegoat.'

Henry! Leopold! Lionel, thou lost one! Clear my name.

• Bloom attempts to defend his character by claiming loyalty to the British Empire and citing his supposed military service and journalistic credentials.
• Myles Crawford appears in a surreal caricature, mockingly identifying his newspaper with vulgar epithets and demanding to know if Bloom is the author in question.
• Philip Beaufoy, a pretentious author, accuses Bloom of plagiarism and 'loathsome conduct,' dismissing him as a 'soapy sneak' and a 'jackdaw' lacking a university education.
• Bloom counters the elitist accusations of Beaufoy by claiming he attended the 'university of life' and criticizing Beaufoy's work as 'bad art.'
• The legal proceedings take a turn toward Bloom's private life as he is accused of being a 'house devil' and an 'archconspirator.'
• Mary Driscoll, a former servant, is called as a witness to testify against Bloom regarding his alleged 'carryings on' that forced her to leave her position.

It’s perfectly obvious that with the most inherent baseness he has cribbed some of my bestselling copy, really gorgeous stuff, a perfect gem, the love passages in which are beneath suspicion.

• Mary Driscoll, a former servant, accuses Bloom of making inappropriate advances and physical assault while his wife was away.
• Bloom attempts to defend himself by claiming he treated her with generosity and 'white' conduct, citing gifts like emerald garters.
• The court proceedings devolve into a surreal, hallucinatory spectacle where Bloom delivers a long, rambling, and largely unintelligible speech.
• Bloom's defense shifts from denial to a sentimental plea for reform, invoking images of domestic bliss and his upbringing as a 'sevenmonths’ child.'
• The scene transitions into a chaotic cross-examination involving embarrassing personal details and physical indignities, met with laughter and catcalls from the gallery.

He surprised me in the rere of the premises, Your honour, when the missus was out shopping one morning with a request for a safety pin.

• J. J. O'Molloy delivers a surreal and contradictory legal defense for Bloom, characterizing him as a 'poor foreign immigrant' and an 'infant' of Mongolian extraction.
• The defense attributes Bloom's alleged misconduct to a 'momentary aberration of heredity' and atavism, claiming his actions are acceptable in his supposed native Egypt.
• Bloom appears in a dazed, subservient state, attempting to sing in a stereotypical 'oriental' pidgin before being aggressively silenced by the crowd.
• O'Molloy invokes the Mosaic code and portrays Bloom as a victim of systemic persecution, famously stating, 'When in doubt persecute Bloom.'
• The scene shifts into a hallucinatory slideshow of Asia Minor, featuring the figure of Moses Dlugacz, as the legal proceedings dissolve into shifting identities and imagery.

I shall call rebutting evidence to prove up to the hilt that the hidden hand is again at its old game. When in doubt persecute Bloom.

• Leopold Bloom attempts to defend his character in a surreal court setting by citing his connections to Dublin's high society and elite officials.
• A series of high-society women, including Mrs. Yelverton Barry and Mrs. Bellingham, come forward to accuse Bloom of sending lewd anonymous letters.
• The accusations detail Bloom's voyeuristic tendencies and his attempts to solicit 'misconduct' through improper overtures and erotic literature.
• Mrs. Bellingham reveals Bloom's deceptive nature, noting he sent a common potato blossom while claiming it was a rare edelweiss from the heights.
• The Honourable Mrs. Mervyn Talboys joins the chorus of accusers, denouncing Bloom as a 'plebeian' for his unsolicited advances at a polo match.
• The scene shifts from a formal defense to a chaotic public shaming as a mob of 'sluts and ragamuffins' jeers at the accused prisoner.

I had it examined by a botanical expert and elicited the information that it was a blossom of the homegrown potato plant purloined from a forcingcase of the model farm.

• Leopold Bloom is confronted by a group of high-society Dublin women who accuse him of sending them obscene and masochistic letters.
• The Honourable Mrs Mervyn Talboys and her companions react with violent, performative fury, threatening to horsewhip and flay Bloom for his transgressions.
• Bloom exhibits a submissive and cringing demeanor, admitting to a desire for 'refined birching' to stimulate his circulation while simultaneously pleading for mercy.
• The scene shifts into a surreal public trial where Bloom's private fetishes and his status as a cuckold are broadcast to the city of Dublin.
• A jury of Dublin men appears in a fog-filled box to witness the spectacle, emphasizing the theme of public exposure and social judgment.

I’ll scourge the pigeonlivered cur as long as I can stand over him. I’ll flay him alive.

• Leopold Bloom is subjected to a surreal, nightmarish trial where he is accused of being a dynamitard, bigamist, and public nuisance.
• The Recorder of Dublin sentences Bloom to death by hanging, characterizing him as an 'odious pest' and a participant in white slave traffic.
• A sinister executioner named Rumbold appears, boasting of his lethal efficiency and demanding 'five guineas a jugular.'
• Bloom attempts to defend his character and appeals to acquaintances in the crowd, but he is met with cold rejection and further accusations of terrorism.
• The ghost of Paddy Dignam rises from the grave to testify, confirming his own death by natural causes and explaining his presence through metempsychosis.
• The scene blends legal procedure with gothic horror, featuring mutilated spirits and symbolic transformations that reflect Bloom's internal guilt.

The beagle lifts his snout, showing the grey scorbutic face of Paddy Dignam.

• A surreal funeral scene unfolds featuring a distorted Father Coffey and the deceased Paddy Dignam, who appears as a dog-like figure listening for his burial details.
• Characters like Tom Rochford perform acrobatic, nonsensical leaps into coalholes, blending the mundane with the grotesque.
• Leopold Bloom wanders through a sensory fog where disembodied 'kisses' twitter and warble his name in a childlike, eroticized language.
• Bloom encounters Zoe Higgins outside a brothel, where she mistakes a shrivelled potato in his pocket for a physical ailment.
• The potato is revealed to be a talismanic heirloom, which Zoe playfully confiscates as they enter a state of shared intimacy.
• The atmosphere shifts into an orientalist fantasy as Bloom gazes into Zoe's eyes, triggered by the music and scents of the setting.

Her hand slides into his left trouser pocket and brings out a hard black shrivelled potato.

• A sensory and surreal encounter between Bloom and Zoe in a Dublin brothel dissolves into a grand hallucinatory sequence.
• Bloom transitions from a submissive client to a populist political figure, donning various costumes including workman's overalls and mayoral robes.
• The narrative parodies political rhetoric as Bloom delivers a 'stump speech' attacking the vices of tobacco and the greed of 'capitalistic lusts.'
• The hallucination culminates in Bloom being hailed as the future Lord Mayor of Dublin by city magnates and the public.
• The scene blends Jewish identity with Irish civic pride, featuring Hebrew blessings alongside traditional Irish welcomes like 'Cead Mile Failte.'
• The transformation of 'Cow Parlour' into 'Boulevard Bloom' signifies the total, albeit imaginary, conquest of the city by Bloom's ego.

She bites his ear gently with little goldstopped teeth, sending on him a cloying breath of stale garlic.

• A surreal and grand procession winds through Dublin, featuring an exhaustive list of civic, religious, and trade representatives.
• The crowd displays frantic devotion, with boys perched on every available architectural surface to witness the spectacle.
• Leopold Bloom appears as a messianic figure, riding a milk-white horse and adorned in royal regalia including a crimson mantle and ermine.
• The diverse guilds of Dublin, from chimney sweeps to bullion brokers, march in a display of total societal unity.
• Religious leaders from all denominations, including the Chief Rabbi and the Archbishop of Armagh, unite to recognize Bloom's authority.
• The Bishop of Down and Connor officially proclaims Bloom as the 'emperor-president and king-chairman' to the cheers of the masses.

Under an arch of triumph Bloom appears, bareheaded, in a crimson velvet mantle trimmed with ermine, bearing Saint Edward’s staff the orb and sceptre with the dove, the curtana.

• Leopold Bloom undergoes a surreal and blasphemous coronation ceremony involving archbishops and the 'stone of destiny.'
• The protagonist assumes absolute power, appointing his horse as Grand Vizier and replacing his wife with the celestial Princess Selene.
• Bloom delivers a grandiloquent speech claiming military glory and promising a utopian future for Ireland, the 'promised land.'
• The vision culminates in the construction of 'Bloomusalem,' a colossal edifice shaped like a pork kidney that requires the mass destruction of Dublin.
• The scene blends high ritual with grotesque absurdity, as loyal subjects die cheering for a leader who lodges them in labeled boxes.

It is a colossal edifice with crystal roof, built in the shape of a huge pork kidney, containing forty thousand rooms.

• A surreal confrontation occurs between Bloom and the Man in the Macintosh, resulting in the latter's sudden disappearance after a cannonshot.
• Bloom assumes a messianic role, striking down political and social enemies while his bodyguard distributes an absurdly eclectic range of gifts and bribes.
• The distribution includes everything from religious indulgences and 'World’s Twelve Worst Books' to rubber preservatives and sausages, satirizing populist philanthropy.
• Bloom performs a series of miraculous and grotesque acts of public service, including juggling, kissing bedsores, and dancing the Highland fling.
• The scene culminates in a mock-religious ceremony where Bloom recites Hebrew terms and establishes a 'Court of Conscience' for open-air justice.
• The public response is one of hysterical adoration, with women and children hailing him as a 'Little father' and a savior figure.

He performs juggler’s tricks, draws red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet silk handkerchiefs from his mouth.

• Leopold Bloom assumes a messianic and authoritative persona, dispensing legal, financial, and medical advice to a crowd of Dubliners.
• He outlines a utopian vision for 'The New Bloomusalem,' advocating for universal brotherhood, esperanto, and the abolition of war and poverty.
• His social reforms include eccentric modernizations such as electric dishscrubbers, saloon motor hearses, and 'three acres and a cow' for everyone.
• The crowd's reaction is volatile, shifting rapidly from reverent praise and legal consultation to accusations of heresy and plagiarism.
• The scene descends into surreal chaos as statues of naked goddesses representing modern muses like 'Publicity' and 'Painless Obstetrics' are paraded by.
• Despite being denounced as an 'anythingarian' by religious figures, Bloom maintains a humorous, performative rapport with the bystanders.

Free money, free rent, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state.

• A surreal and chaotic scene unfolds where Bloom is accused of moral depravity and 'infantile debauchery' by religious zealots.
• A mob of women and shopkeepers reacts with extreme violence, ranging from mass suicide to pelting Bloom with household refuse.
• Bloom attempts to defend himself by claiming a case of mistaken identity, blaming his supposed double, Henry.
• A panel of medical experts provides a series of absurd, contradictory, and pseudoscientific diagnoses regarding Bloom's physical and mental state.
• The testimony shifts from condemning Bloom as a 'stinking goat' to describing him as a 'womanly man' of simple and lovable moral nature.
• The passage satirizes the intersection of religious hysteria, medical authority, and the public's appetite for scandal.

Slander, the viper, has wrongfully accused me.

• In a surreal hallucinatory sequence, Bloom is defended against legal charges by the claim that he is about to give birth.
• Bloom undergoes a fantastical labor, producing eight 'metallic-faced' sons who are immediately installed as global financial leaders.
• The crowd questions Bloom's divinity, prompting him to perform a series of absurd miracles including eating oyster shells and eclipsing the sun.
• A mock-biblical genealogy traces Bloom's lineage through a chaotic mix of Jewish, Irish, and fictional ancestors.
• The atmosphere shifts from adoration to accusation as voices from Bloom's past confront him with his previous indiscretions.
• The scene ends with a violent turn as the crowd calls for Bloom to be 'sjamboked' or beaten for his past actions.

Bloom embraces her tightly and bears eight male yellow and white children. They appear on a redcarpeted staircase adorned with expensive plants.

• Leopold Bloom is subjected to a surreal public shaming, placed in a pillory while being mocked by orphans and mission girls.
• Religious and historical figures denounce Bloom as a false Messiah, casting him as a scapegoat for the sins of the people.
• The scene shifts into a mock-religious execution where Bloom is burned at the stake, assuming a Christ-like persona amidst the flames.
• A litany of 'The Daughters of Erin' parodies Catholic prayer by canonizing mundane and absurd aspects of Bloom's life and identity.
• Following his symbolic destruction, Bloom reappears as a weary Irish emigrant, reflecting on the futility of patriotism and existence.
• The hallucination concludes with Zoe, a prostitute, puncturing Bloom's dramatic self-pity with a cynical and grounded remark.

Kidney of Bloom, pray for us. Flower of the Bath, pray for us. Wandering Soap, pray for us.

• Bloom expresses a cynical weariness regarding love and human relationships, comparing them to a simple 'cork and bottle.'
• Zoe, a prostitute, uses flattery and physical allure to lead Bloom toward a private room, negotiating a price for her time.
• The narrative shifts into a surreal, hallucinatory mode where Bloom regresses into an infant-like state, counting Zoe's buckles.
• The atmosphere is thick with sensory details, including the 'lion reek' of previous men and the 'sulphur of rut' exhaled by personified male brutes.
• Bloom experiences a moment of social anxiety and jealousy, fearing the 'greeneyed monster' while navigating the brothel's threshold.
• The setting of the music room is described as a chaotic mosaic of footmarks and moth-filled light, where other characters like Lynch and Kitty Ricketts wait.

She leads him towards the steps, drawing him by the odour of her armpits, the vice of her painted eyes, the rustle of her slip in whose sinuous folds lurks the lion reek of all the male brutes that have possessed her.

• In a Dublin brothel, Stephen Dedalus engages in a fragmented, drunken philosophical discourse while surrounded by Kitty, Zoe, and Florry.
• Lynch mockingly observes the scene, using a brass poker as a wand to manipulate the women's clothing and belongings.
• Stephen attempts to articulate a complex theory of music and identity, touching on the relationship between the fundamental and the dominant.
• A personified cap challenges Stephen's intellect, dismissing his logic as 'woman's reason' and asserting that 'Jewgreek is greekjew.'
• The high-minded debate is punctuated by the mundane and the apocalyptic, as Florry mentions rumors of the coming Antichrist.
• The scene concludes with Stephen's struggle to define the 'self' against the backdrop of a blaring gramophone and shouting newsboys.

Jewgreek is greekjew. Extremes meet. Death is the highest form of life. Bah!

• A surreal, apocalyptic vision unfolds in Nighttown, featuring the arrival of the Antichrist and a grotesque hobgoblin.
• The End of the World is personified as a two-headed octopus in Scottish attire performing a frantic dance.
• Elijah appears as a fast-talking American evangelist, blending religious fervor with the language of salesmanship and Coney Island showmanship.
• The characters are addressed as individual 'Christs,' urged to tap into a cosmic vibration and the 'higher self.'
• The scene collapses the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, using a gramophone and 'sunphone' to bridge the gap to eternity.

Along an infinite invisible tightrope taut from zenith to nadir the End of the World, a twoheaded octopus in gillie’s kilts, busby and tartan filibegs, whirls through the murk, head over heels, in the form of the Three Legs of Man.

• Elijah delivers a frantic, mock-religious sermon to the prostitutes, blending American revivalist rhetoric with cynical winks to the audience.
• The women of the brothel offer absurd, parodic confessions of their 'ruination,' blaming everything from port wine to working plumbers.
• Stephen Dedalus and a group of medical students mock the Beatitudes through a nonsensical, rhythmic chant of 'beer beef battledog.'
• Literary figures like Best and John Eglinton appear in surreal costumes, debating the merits of aesthetics versus 'plain truth.'
• The Irish sea-god Mananaun Maclir manifests as a bizarre occult figure holding a bicycle pump and a crayfish marked with the zodiac.
• The scene shifts abruptly from high-concept spiritual parody back to the mundane reality of the brothel as Zoe asks for a cigarette.

He smites with his bicycle pump the crayfish in his left hand. On its cooperative dial glow the twelve signs of the zodiac.

• The scene depicts a surreal encounter in a brothel where Bloom's grandfather, Lipoti Virag, makes a fantastical entrance through a chimney flue.
• Virag acts as a cynical, clinical commentator on the physical attributes and 'meretricious finery' of the prostitutes present.
• The dialogue highlights Bloom's fetishistic interests and his tendency toward empathetic observation, contrasted against Virag's cold, predatory analysis.
• Virag uses pseudo-scientific and archaic language to deconstruct the women's appearances, pointing out flaws and deceptive clothing.
• The passage explores themes of voyeurism and the commodification of the female body through a hallucinatory, 'Circe'-esque lens.

Did you hear my brain go snap? Pollysyllabax!

• The character Virag delivers a frantic, pseudo-scientific lecture on physical ailments like styes and warts, suggesting folk remedies involving honey and nutmeg.
• Bloom struggles with his memory and mental fatigue, attempting to recall his father's 'mnemotechnic' lessons amidst a chaotic day of accidents.
• The dialogue shifts into a grotesque discussion of animal husbandry and the fattening of livers, blending biological observation with carnal metaphors.
• Virag mocks Bloom’s past intellectual ambitions, such as squaring the circle, while pivoting to lewd inquiries about women's undergarments.
• The passage concludes with a surreal meditation on the brief, sex-driven lives of insects, comparing human attraction to the way honey lures a bear.

Insects of the day spend their brief existence in reiterated coition, lured by the smell of the inferiorly pulchritudinous fumale possessing extendified pudendal nerve in dorsal region.

• The character Virag engages in a surreal, pseudo-scientific lecture on sexology and biological instincts.
• Bloom reflects on the 'cloven sex' and the mythological connection between serpents and women's milk.
• A personified moth enters the scene, singing of its transformation from a king to a tiny, fluttering creature.
• The dialogue shifts into a grotesque display of animalistic mimicry and gluttonous references to oysters and truffles.
• Henry Flower appears as a romantic, stylized apparition, embodying a courtly and musical persona.
• The scene emphasizes the dominance of instinct over reason in both life and death.

Serpents too are gluttons for woman’s milk. Wind their way through miles of omnivorous forest to sucksucculent her breast dry.

• Stephen Dedalus grapples with his own intoxication and artistic identity, reflecting on his financial debts and his morning interview with Deasy.
• The narrative shifts into a surrealist mode featuring the 'Siamese twins' Philip Drunk and Philip Sober, who represent the internal conflict between fiscal responsibility and hedonism.
• The dialogue explores the 'reduplication of personality' as characters confront their past actions and the physical objects, like the ashplant, that define them.
• Zoe and Virag introduce themes of religious hypocrisy and primal sexuality, mocking the clergy and the 'fall of man' through grotesque imagery.
• The scene descends into a chaotic, diabolic critique of religious figures, characterized by Virag's aggressive and blasphemous outbursts.

The Siamese twins, Philip Drunk and Philip Sober, two Oxford dons with lawnmowers, appear in the window embrasure.

• The narrative descends into a surreal, phantasmagoric sequence within a brothel setting, blending gritty reality with grotesque visions.
• Characters discuss disease and tragedy, specifically the death of a child born from a syphilitic encounter, highlighting the bleakness of their environment.
• The figure of Virag undergoes a monstrous transformation, exhibiting animalistic behaviors and spouting blasphemous, fragmented history.
• Stephen Dedalus engages in intellectual wordplay, punning on his identity as a 'spoiled priest' and the concept of 'cardinal sin.'
• The scene culminates in the grand, absurd appearance of Simon Dedalus as a cardinal, complete with a corkscrew cross and simian acolytes.

Virag unscrews his head in a trice and holds it under his arm.

• A surreal performance by a Cardinal figure involves a mocking song about a murdered drake and a swarm of midges.
• Bloom nervously offers chocolate to Zoe while obsessively monitoring the sounds of male voices and footsteps outside the door.
• The women in the brothel share the chocolate, reminiscing about past encounters and social events like the bazaar.
• Bloom adopts various dramatic personas, including a Napoleonic pose, to mentally exorcise the presence of potential rivals.
• Bloom reflects on the psychological and physiological effects of colors and flavors, questioning if the chocolate acts as an aphrodisiac.
• The scene culminates in the arrival of Bella Cohen, the formidable mistress of the establishment.

By the hoky fiddle, thanks be to Jesus those funny little chaps are not unanimous. If they were they’d walk me off the face of the bloody globe.

• Bella Cohen, a formidable brothel madam, exerts a powerful and hypnotic dominance over Leopold Bloom through her physical presence and a personified fan.
• The dialogue shifts into a surreal psychological space where Bella's fan speaks for her, accusing Bloom of being under 'petticoat government.'
• Bloom expresses a weary desire for submission, describing himself as an 'exhausted' man standing before the 'too late box' of human life.
• The scene culminates in a fetishistic act where Bloom kneels to tie Bella's bootlace, reminiscing about his youthful fantasies of being a shoefitter.
• Bella’s physical description is grotesque and masculine, featuring a 'sprouting moustache' and 'falcon eyes,' emphasizing her role as a dominant figure.
• The interaction highlights Bloom's preoccupation with his own aging, his family history of sciatica, and his submissive sexual inclinations.

Is me her was you dreamed before? Was then she him you us since knew? Am all them and the same now we?

• Bloom undergoes a surreal psychological transformation, adopting a submissive female persona under the command of the hyper-masculine Bello.
• Bello subjects Bloom to a series of verbal humiliations and physical threats, asserting total despotic control.
• The scene explores themes of masochism and gender fluidity as Bloom oscillates between terror and infatuation.
• The surrounding women in the brothel join in the ritualistic degradation, treating Bloom as an object for their amusement.
• Bello’s threats escalate from physical discipline to grotesque fantasies of slaughtering and consuming Bloom like a suckling pig.

Bow, bondslave, before the throne of your despot’s glorious heels so glistening in their proud erectness.

• Bello Cohen subjects Leopold Bloom to physical and psychological humiliation, treating him as a beast of burden in a sadistic role-play.
• The scene shifts from financial grievances and horse-racing metaphors to a forced gender transformation.
• Bello declares Bloom 'unmanned,' ordering him to discard male garments for luxurious, restrictive female attire.
• Bloom is rechristened 'Ruby Cohen' and 'Alice,' symbolizing his total subjugation to Bello's authority.
• The narrative explores Bloom's past fetishes and 'thrift,' revealing his history of secretly trying on women's clothing.
• The dialogue emphasizes themes of power, masochism, and the fluidity of identity within the surreal 'Circe' episode.

Henceforth you are unmanned and mine in earnest, a thing under the yoke.

• Bloom undergoes a surreal, hallucinatory interrogation by Bello, who assumes a dominant and sadistic persona.
• The dialogue explores Bloom's history of gender non-conformity, including his past as a female impersonator and his fascination with corsetry.
• A chorus representing 'The Sins of the Past' enumerates Bloom's various sexual transgressions and voyeuristic habits.
• Bello subjects Bloom to a ritual of humiliation, demanding confessions of obscenity and threatening him with menial, degrading labor.
• The scene culminates in a symbolic marriage of servitude where Bello 'owns' Bloom, marking a total reversal of traditional power dynamics.

The sins of your past are rising against you. Many. Hundreds.

• Bello Cohen subjects Bloom to a series of degrading domestic and sexual commands, forcing him into the role of a 'maid of all work.'
• The narrative shifts into a surreal auction where Bloom is treated as livestock, with his physical 'points' and 'milk record' evaluated by bidders.
• Bloom is forcibly feminized and instructed in the art of 'Gomorrahan vices' to appeal to the instincts of the 'blasé man about town.'
• Bello mocks Bloom's impotence and physical inadequacy, contrasting him unfavorably with the 'man of brawn' currently occupying his home.
• The scene explores themes of power reversal, gender fluidity, and the psychological manifestation of Bloom's deep-seated anxieties and masochism.

Trained by owner to fetch and carry, basket in mouth.

• Bello taunts Bloom with visions of his domestic life being usurped by other men in his absence.
• Bloom is cast as a Rip Van Winkle figure, returning to find his home and family unrecognizable after a metaphorical twenty-year sleep.
• The text highlights Bloom's paternal anxiety as he mistakes his grown daughter, Milly, for his wife, Molly.
• Bello accuses Bloom of being a 'male prostitute' and a voyeur, turning his past indiscretions against him.
• The scene culminates in a grotesque threat of death and erasure, where Bloom is told he will be buried in a 'shrubbery jakes' alongside other discarded husbands.
• Bloom's psychological collapse is depicted through his loss of willpower and his 'tearless' weeping as he faces total social and domestic displacement.

You have made your secondbest bed and others must lie in it.

• A group of Jewish figures perform a ritualistic mourning chant over Bloom, casting 'dead sea fruit' instead of flowers.
• A nymph descends from a framed picture above Bloom's marriage bed to confront him in a surreal, hallucinatory encounter.
• The nymph recounts being rescued by Bloom from the 'stale smut' of cheap advertisements and 'Photo Bits' magazines.
• Bloom attempts to romanticize their connection as a spiritual meeting on another star, while the nymph focuses on the mundane vulgarity of his life.
• The dialogue shifts to the domestic squalor of Bloom's bedroom, including mentions of soiled linen and a broken commode.
• Nature itself becomes sentient and vocal, with whispering yew trees and a cascading waterfall providing a rhythmic backdrop to the scene.

You bore me away, framed me in oak and tinsel, set me above your marriage couch.

• The narrative shifts into a surreal, hallucinatory landscape where personified trees and waterfalls confront Bloom with his past.
• Bloom regresses into a juvenile state, wearing a schoolcap and recalling the 'halcyon days' of his teenage years at High School.
• The dialogue explores themes of adolescent voyeurism and sexual awakening, including Bloom's memories of spying on Lotty Clarke.
• Nature itself acts as a moral witness, with the Yews and a sniveling calf named Staggering Bob accusing Bloom of 'profaning' the shade.
• The sequence ends with a dark premonition of death as a 'dummy' of Bloom falls from a cliff into the water, mimicking a suicide or accident.

Faces of hamadryads peep out from the boles and among the leaves and break, blossoming into bloom.

• A surreal confrontation occurs between Bloom and a Nymph who claims a state of cold, ethereal purity.
• Bloom confesses to various base physical acts and fetishes, contrasting his carnal reality with the Nymph's divine pretensions.
• The Nymph attempts to maintain a facade of sanctity, eventually transforming into a nun-like figure to denounce desire.
• The tension breaks when Bloom's trouser button snaps, leading him to mock the Nymph's hypocrisy and hidden physical needs.
• The encounter ends in a violent outburst as the Nymph attempts to castrate Bloom before fleeing in a cloud of stench as her plaster form cracks.

We are stonecold and pure. We eat electric light.

• Bloom engages in a sharp, insulting verbal sparring match with the madam, Bella Cohen, critiquing her appearance and character.
• The dialogue shifts between aggressive vulgarity and moments of strange vulnerability, particularly regarding Bloom's sentimental attachment to a potato.
• Stephen Dedalus intervenes with philosophical musings and literary allusions, eventually paying for the group's entertainment with exaggerated politeness.
• The scene captures the chaotic atmosphere of the brothel, blending physical comedy, musical interruptions, and financial disputes.
• A collective squabble ensues over the payment and the duration of the stay, highlighting the transactional nature of the encounter.

Your eyes are as vapid as the glasseyes of your stuffed fox.

• Bloom takes charge of Stephen's finances to prevent him from being overcharged or losing his money in the brothel.
• Stephen reflects on his broken glasses and the 'ineluctable modality of the visible,' struggling with his physical perception of the world.
• The group discusses the fate of Georgina Johnson, leading Stephen to mockingly compare her marriage to the 'Lamb of God.'
• Zoe attempts to read Stephen's palm, identifying traits of courage while Lynch mocks Stephen's lack of true fortitude.
• The atmosphere shifts into a surreal hallucination as a 'pandybat' cracks and the head of Father Dolan springs from the pianola.

Brain thinks. Near: far . Ineluctable modality of the visible. (He frowns mysteriously) Hm. Sphinx. The beast that has twobacks at midnight.

• The scene shifts between palm reading in a brothel and a surreal, hallucinatory confrontation with infidelity.
• Zoe and Bella examine the palms of Stephen and Bloom, interpreting their futures and character flaws through physical traits.
• Stephen reflects on the synchronicity of time and age, noting a mathematical symmetry between his and Bloom's pasts.
• A hallucinatory Blazes Boylan appears, crudely boasting of his sexual encounter with Bloom's wife, Molly.
• Bloom is transformed into a submissive servant in his own home, facilitating Boylan's entry to see his wife.
• The passage highlights Bloom's psychological humiliation as he accepts a tip from his wife's lover while she calls out for her 'darling'.

He hangs his hat smartly on a peg of Bloom’s antlered head.

• Bloom adopts a submissive and voyeuristic role as Boylan prepares to engage with Marion, even offering lubricants for the act.
• The prostitutes in the brothel provide a chorus of sensory commentary, imagining the sexual encounter in vivid, food-based metaphors.
• A hallucinatory vision occurs in a mirror where the face of William Shakespeare appears, crowned by reindeer antlers symbolizing cuckoldry.
• The apparition of Shakespeare mocks Bloom's attempts at invisibility and references the betrayal themes of Othello through 'Iago' wordplay.
• The scene shifts into a surreal procession involving the widowed Mrs. Dignam and her children, blending mourning with grotesque domesticity.
• Stephen Dedalus provides a scholarly but cynical commentary on lust, referencing mythology and biblical transgressions to contextualize the chaos.

The face of William Shakespeare, beardless, appears there, rigid in facial paralysis, crowned by the reflection of the reindeer antlered hatrack in the hall.

• Stephen Dedalus performs a grotesque, broken-English caricature of Parisian nightlife for the amusement of Lynch and the prostitutes.
• The performance blends descriptions of high-fashion 'cocottes' with dark, blasphemous imagery of 'vampire men' and 'debauched nuns.'
• Stephen’s monologue descends into increasingly absurd and bestial sexual imagery, culminating in a joke about an omelette that sends Bella into fits of laughter.
• The scene shifts from the brothel's reality into a hallucinatory sequence where Stephen recalls a prophetic dream of a 'fubsy widow' in the street of harlots.
• A vision of Stephen's father, Simon Dedalus, appears as a soaring bird of prey, urging his son to maintain his pride and 'keep our flag flying.'
• The narrative dissolves into a surreal hunt sequence involving wallpaper patterns transforming into a fox fleeing across the countryside.

Break my spirit, will he? O merde alors! (He cries, his vulture talons sharpened) Hola! Hillyho!

• A chaotic, hallucinatory horse race unfolds featuring phantom mounts, skeleton horses, and Garrett Deasy riding the favorite, Cock of the North.
• The crowd is a cacophony of bookies, touts, and gamblers shouting odds and betting slogans in a feverish atmosphere.
• Garrett Deasy is pelted with a torrent of mutton broth as he gallops past, brandishing a hockey stick and shouting Latin mottos.
• The scene shifts abruptly to a brothel interior where Zoe, Stephen, and Lynch prepare for a dance as the pianola is activated.
• Professor Goodwin, appearing as an incredibly aged figure in court dress, mimimes playing the piano with handless arms.
• Stephen seizes Zoe to begin a waltz to the tune of 'My Girl’s a Yorkshire Girl' amidst shifting colored lights and theatrical entrances.

A dark horse, riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winningpost, his mane moonfoaming, his eyeballs stars.

• Professor Maginni, a flamboyant dance instructor, directs a surreal and highly choreographed sequence of calisthenics and deportment.
• The passage personifies the hours of the day—morning, noon, twilight, and night—as dancers who shift in mood from innocent play to weary, masked movements.
• A pianola provides a popular musical backdrop, triggering nostalgic memories of bazaars and 'Yorkshire girls' among the characters.
• Stephen Dedalus moves through a series of dance partners—Zoe, Florry, and Kitty—amidst shifting, hallucinatory lighting and colors.
• The scene culminates in a chaotic, mechanical whirligig motion where the physical room seems to rotate like a fairground attraction.
• The frantic energy leads Stephen to abandon the formal dance, seizing his ashplant as the atmosphere reaches a fever pitch.

The night hours, one by one, steal to the last place. Morning, noon and twilight hours retreat before them. They are masked, with daggered hair and bracelets of dull bells.

• The scene erupts into a chaotic, hallucinatory dance where Stephen Dedalus loses control of his physical surroundings.
• Stephen's deceased mother appears as a gruesome, decaying specter, confronting him with the physical reality of death.
• The apparition demands religious repentance and reminds Stephen of her maternal sacrifices and his past actions.
• Buck Mulligan appears in a jester's costume to mock the solemnity of the moment, intensifying Stephen's psychological distress.
• Stephen reacts with a mixture of desperate curiosity about the afterlife and violent repulsion toward the 'ghoul' of his memory.
• The sequence highlights the crushing weight of Stephen's guilt and his struggle to break free from the influence of family and faith.

Stephen’s mother, emaciated, rises stark through the floor, in leper grey with a wreath of faded orangeblossoms and a torn bridal veil, her face worn and noseless, green with gravemould.

• Stephen Dedalus experiences a terrifying hallucination of his deceased mother, who pleads for his repentance and warns of divine judgment.
• In a fit of existential rage and intellectual defiance, Stephen shouts 'Non serviam!' and smashes the chandelier with his ashplant cane.
• The act of destruction causes immediate chaos in the brothel, leading Stephen to flee the scene while the inhabitants panic.
• Bella Cohen, the brothel owner, demands exorbitant compensation for the damage, leading to a tense confrontation with Bloom.
• Leopold Bloom attempts to de-escalate the situation by using his wits, masonic signs, and social leverage to protect Stephen from the police.
• The scene concludes with Bloom paying a small fee and rushing out to find Stephen as a street brawl begins to brew outside.

Time’s livid final flame leaps and, in the following darkness, ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry.

• Bloom attempts a stealthy exit from the brothel, adopting the persona of Haroun al Raschid to evade Corny Kelleher and other arrivals.
• A surreal, hallucinatory chase ensues where Bloom is pursued by a massive 'hue and cry' consisting of nearly every character encountered in the novel.
• The pursuit is characterized by a cacophony of voices and a barrage of symbolic objects being hurled at Bloom as he zigzags through the streets.
• The scene shifts abruptly to a confrontation involving Stephen Dedalus, Cissy Caffrey, and two British soldiers outside the house.
• Stephen, in a drunken and philosophical state, attempts to explain his presence through historical and grammatical abstractions while tensions rise with the soldiers.

Incog Haroun al Raschid he flits behind the silent lechers and hastens on by the railings with fleet step of a pard strewing the drag behind him, torn envelopes drenched in aniseed.

• Stephen Dedalus engages in a drunken, intellectualized confrontation with two British soldiers, Private Carr and Private Compton.
• The tension escalates as the soldiers perceive Stephen's abstract philosophical rambling as a personal or political insult.
• Bloom attempts to intervene and usher Stephen away, but Stephen insists on his right to speak to any human being on the 'oblate orange.'
• Stephen declares a personal internal revolution, stating he must 'kill the priest and the king' within his own mind.
• A surreal hallucination of King Edward VII appears, dressed in eclectic masonic and royal regalia, ironically calling for 'peace, perfect peace' while encouraging a fight.
• The scene highlights the volatile intersection of Irish intellectualism, British military presence, and the absurdity of colonial loyalty.

But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king.

• Stephen Dedalus engages in a tense, drunken philosophical confrontation with British soldiers, Private Carr and Private Compton.
• The narrative dissolves into a surreal hallucination featuring King Edward VII and various figures of Irish revolutionary history.
• Leopold Bloom attempts to mediate the conflict, characterizing Stephen as a harmless poet to de-escalate the soldiers' growing aggression.
• The scene juxtaposes violent Irish nationalist rhetoric with the grotesque execution of the Croppy Boy, highlighting the brutality of political martyrdom.
• The sequence concludes with a macabre display of death and fetishism as Rumbold the hangman desecrates the remains of the executed.

To make the blind see I throw dust in their eyes.

• A tense standoff erupts between Stephen Dedalus and British soldiers Private Carr and Private Compton over perceived insults to the King.
• The hallucinatory figure of Old Gummy Granny appears, personifying Ireland as the 'old sow that eats her farrow.'
• Leopold Bloom attempts to de-escalate the violence by citing Irish loyalty and military service in the Boer War.
• The scene dissolves into a chaotic blend of historical military references, nationalist fervor, and apocalyptic imagery.
• Cissy Caffrey becomes the focal point of the dispute, representing a 'link between nations' amidst the rising aggression.
• The conflict escalates into a symbolic pandemonium with cries of 'Dublin's burning' and the sound of Gatling guns.

The old sow that eats her farrow!

• A chaotic, hallucinatory landscape unfolds where the dead of Dublin rise from their graves in a surreal procession.
• Irish political history is parodied through a series of absurd duels between famous nationalist figures and their counterparts.
• A blasphemous 'Black Mass' is performed by Father Malachi O’Flynn and Reverend Mr Haines Love over a naked, fettered Mrs. Purefoy.
• The scene descends into linguistic and spiritual inversion, featuring a backward liturgy and the voice of Adonai calling out 'Dooooooooooog!'
• Amidst the escalating violence and sectarian discord, Bloom attempts to rescue Stephen from a brewing physical confrontation.
• Stephen Dedalus rejects his walking stick in favor of 'reason' even as the world around him collapses into a feverish, irrational nightmare.

On the altarstone Mrs Mina Purefoy, goddess of unreason, lies, naked, fettered, a chalice resting on her swollen belly.

• Private Carr violently assaults Stephen Dedalus, striking him in the face and leaving him unconscious on the ground.
• A chaotic crowd gathers, with various bystanders debating the morality of the soldier's actions and the victim's status.
• Leopold Bloom attempts to intervene and protect Stephen, acting as a witness against the soldiers when the police arrive.
• The arrival of the Watch creates a legal threat for the soldiers, who are urged by their comrades to flee before being detained.
• Corny Kelleher arrives and uses his social influence and casual bribery to convince the police to drop the matter.
• Bloom works to manage the social fallout, framing Stephen's behavior as 'wild oats' to protect the Dedalus family reputation.

Stephen totters, collapses, falls, stunned. He lies prone, his face to the sky, his hat rolling to the wall.

• The watchmen depart after Corny Kelleher intervenes, sparing Bloom and Stephen from further official scrutiny.
• Kelleher recounts his night of transporting commercial travelers to a brothel before happening upon the scene.
• Bloom fabricates a story about visiting an old friend to explain his presence in the red-light district.
• Kelleher offers a lift but ultimately departs, leaving Bloom to care for the unconscious and disoriented Stephen.
• The departure of the car is marked by a surreal, rhythmic exchange of silent gestures and 'tooraloom' sounds.
• Bloom is left alone in the night, attempting to rouse Stephen by name as the young man remains in a deep stupor.

The car jingles tooraloom round the corner of the tooraloom lane. Corny Kelleher again reassuralooms with his hand. Bloom with his hand assuralooms Corny Kelleher that he is reassuraloomtay.

• Bloom tends to a semi-conscious Stephen, brushing woodshavings from his clothes and ensuring he is not physically harmed.
• Stephen deliriously recites fragments of Yeats's poetry, leading Bloom to reflect on the young man's education and potential.
• In a moment of profound grief and longing, Bloom experiences a vision of his deceased son, Rudy, appearing as a silent, ethereal figure.
• Bloom assumes a paternal role, deciding to guide the unsteady Stephen toward a cabman's shelter for refreshment.
• The narrative shifts into a more clinical, verbose prose style as the pair begins their late-night trek through the streets of Dublin.
• Bloom searches for a conveyance to transport them, navigating the 'fetid atmosphere' of the city's livery stables and lanes.

Against the dark wall a figure appears slowly, a fairy boy of eleven, a changeling, kidnapped, dressed in an eton suit with glass shoes and a little bronze helmet, holding a book in his hand.

• Mr. Bloom and Stephen Dedalus are forced to travel on foot after failing to hail a stationary cab outside the North Star hotel.
• Bloom suffers a minor wardrobe malfunction with a lost trouser button but maintains his composure as they walk through the refreshing night air.
• The pair passes several Dublin landmarks, including the morgue and the Great Northern railway station, while Stephen's mind drifts to the playwright Ibsen.
• Bloom, described as 'disgustingly sober,' provides a cautionary lecture to Stephen regarding the dangers of 'nighttown,' including predatory criminals and unscrupulous police.
• Bloom reflects on the providential intervention of Corny Kelleher, which saved Stephen from potential injury or legal ruin earlier in the evening.
• The narrative highlights Bloom's distrust of the police, whom he characterizes as being prepared to 'swear a hole through a ten gallon pot' to secure a conviction.

Bread, the staff of life, earn your bread, O tell me where is fancy bread, at Rourke’s the baker’s it is said.

• Bloom reflects on the systemic bias of law enforcement and the inherent dangers of arming soldiers against civilians.
• The narrative explores the physical and moral decay associated with excessive drinking and the 'squandermania' of fast living.
• Bloom expresses disapproval of Stephen’s medical companions for abandoning him, which Stephen cynically likens to the betrayal of Judas.
• While navigating the dark streets near the Customhouse, the pair encounters a watchman and a suspicious figure lurking under the railway arches.
• Bloom remains on high alert for 'desperadoes' and 'marauders' who might terrorize pedestrians for their money.
• Stephen recognizes the man accosting them as Corley, a man of fallen status whose breath smells of 'rotten cornjuice'.

Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper.

• Stephen Dedalus is approached by Corley, a dissolute man with a dubious claim to noble lineage through a relative's service in a washkitchen.
• Corley presents a familiar hard-luck story, claiming to be homeless, jobless, and abandoned by his former associates like Lenehan.
• Stephen suggests a teaching position at Mr. Deasy's school in Dalkey, but Corley admits he lacks the academic aptitude for such work.
• Despite his own exhaustion and lack of a place to sleep, Stephen feels a sense of pity for Corley's desperate situation.
• Stephen searches his pockets for a small loan and, after finding only broken biscuits, discovers two coins he mistakes for pennies.
• Corley identifies the coins as half-crowns, and Stephen generously lends him one despite his own precarious financial state.

A few broken biscuits were all the result of his investigation.

• A destitute acquaintance approaches Stephen Dedalus, pleading for help securing menial work through a mutual connection named Boylan.
• The encounter highlights the extreme economic desperation in Dublin, where even sandwich-board positions require weeks of advance booking.
• Mr. Bloom observes the interaction with a shrewd, skeptical eye, noting the stranger's dilapidated appearance and chronic impecuniosity.
• Bloom reflects on the social hierarchy of 'parasites' and the cycle of people preying on their neighbors for survival.
• Stephen admits to giving the man half a crown, prompting Bloom to question Stephen's own precarious living situation for the night.

God, you’ve to book ahead, man, you’d think it was for the Carl Rosa.

• Bloom questions Stephen about leaving his father's house, to which Stephen cynically replies that he left to seek misfortune.
• Bloom praises the elder Dedalus as a gifted raconteur while subtly suggesting that Stephen return home to escape his current companions.
• Stephen recalls a bleak domestic scene of his sisters eating cheap herrings and drinking cocoa made with oatmeal water in a soot-coated kettle.
• Bloom warns Stephen against trusting Buck Mulligan, suggesting Mulligan is opportunistic and may have even drugged Stephen's drink.
• Despite acknowledging Mulligan's medical talent and bravery, Bloom concludes that Mulligan is merely 'picking' Stephen's brains out of jealousy.

Stephen’s mind’s eye being too busily engaged in repicturing his family hearth the last time he saw it with his sister Dilly sitting by the ingle, her hair hanging down, waiting for some weak Trinidad shell cocoa that was in the sootcoated kettle to be done.

• Bloom and Stephen enter a cabman's shelter, a modest wooden structure rumored to be run by the infamous 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris.
• The pair encounters a diverse group of 'waifs and strays' whose curiosity is piqued by the arrival of the two noctambules.
• Bloom attempts to care for a fatigued Stephen by ordering him coffee and a bun, despite the questionable quality of the fare.
• A heated argument in Italian outside prompts Bloom to praise the language's musicality, which Stephen cynically dismisses as mere haggling over money.
• Stephen reflects on the arbitrary nature of names and sounds, suggesting that even the most famous figures are defined by labels that are essentially 'impostures'.
• Bloom reveals that his own family name was changed, highlighting themes of identity and assimilation.

Sounds are impostures, Stephen said after a pause of some little time, like names.

• A red-bearded sailor named D.B. Murphy initiates a conversation with Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in a late-night shelter.
• Upon hearing Stephen's surname, the sailor claims to have known a Simon Dedalus who was a world-class marksman in a traveling circus.
• The sailor provides a dramatic, physical reenactment of Simon Dedalus shooting eggs off bottles over his shoulder in Stockholm.
• Stephen remains aloof and cynical about his father's reputation, while Bloom attempts to navigate the social awkwardness of the encounter.
• Murphy reveals his origins in Carrigaloe and claims he is returning to a wife he has not seen in seven years.
• Bloom reflects on the literary tropes of the returning mariner, comparing the sailor's story to figures like Enoch Arden and Rip van Winkle.

He turned his body half round, shut up his right eye completely. Then he screwed his features up someway sideways and glared out into the night with an unprepossessing cast of countenance.

• A sailor named D.B. Murphy recounts a melodramatic scenario of a husband returning home to find his wife has moved on with another man.
• Murphy provides proof of his identity and recent discharge from the ship Rosevean, which arrived carrying bricks from Bridgwater.
• The sailor boasts of his global travels, claiming to have visited the Red Sea, China, and Russia, while witnessing pirates and icebergs.
• He shares sensational stories of nature, including a crocodile biting an anchor and maneaters in Peru who consume horse livers.
• The group examines a postcard from Bolivia showing indigenous women, which the sailor uses to justify his graphic and exoticized claims.
• Mr. Bloom remains skeptical and observant, quietly checking the postcard's address and postmark for inconsistencies.

I seen a crocodile bite the fluke of an anchor same as I chew that quid.

• Bloom harbors a long-cherished plan to travel to London by sea, despite his limited experience as a 'landlubber' whose longest voyage was to Holyhead.
• He envisions the trip as a health-restoring journey through Plymouth and Southampton, culminating in a tour of the 'modern Babylon' of London.
• A secondary scheme involves organizing a high-end concert tour of English seaside resorts featuring an all-star Irish cast and his wife, Molly, as the leading lady.
• Bloom critiques the bureaucratic 'red tape' and 'effete fogeydom' that hinder the development of new travel routes like the Fishguard-Rosslare line.
• He laments the social inequality that prevents the average man from seeing the world due to the lack of a few 'paltry pounds.'

But even suppose it did come to planking down the needful and breaking Boyd’s heart it was not so dear, purse permitting, a few guineas at the outside considering the fare to Mullingar where he figured on going was five and six, there and back.

• The narrative contrasts the necessity of a 'radical change of venue' for city dwellers with the scenic, though sometimes inaccessible, beauty of the Irish countryside.
• A traveler shares exotic and unsettling anecdotes, ranging from Chinese novelty 'pills' that bloom in water to xenophobic remarks about dietary habits.
• The atmosphere shifts to violence as the narrator describes a lethal stabbing in a Trieste brothel, brandishing a clasp-knife to illustrate the murder.
• The listeners discuss the local perception of knife crimes, incorrectly attributing historical political assassinations to foreigners due to the choice of weapon.
• Bloom and Stephen share a silent, knowing glance regarding the presence of 'Skin-the-Goat,' a man linked to the Invincibles, who remains stoically indifferent to the conversation.

Prepare to meet your God, says he. Chuk! It went into his back up to the butt.

• Mr. Bloom reflects on the land troubles of the early eighties while observing a group of men in a quiet, pensive atmosphere.
• Bloom attempts to engage a sailor in conversation about the Rock of Gibraltar, but the man responds with lazy scorn and indifference.
• The sailor expresses a deep, physical exhaustion with the sea, ships, and the repetitive diet of salt junk.
• Bloom contemplates the vastness of the oceans and the psychological toll they take on those who spend their lives upon them.
• The narrative explores the societal tendency to offload the dangers of the sea onto others, much like the concepts of hell, lotteries, or insurance.
• The sailor reveals he is wearing the clothes of a former shipmate who abandoned the sea for a comfortable life as a valet.

I’m tired of all them rocks in the sea, he said, and boats and ships.

• A sailor in a Dublin shelter recounts his distaste for roaming and his son Danny's decision to go to sea against his mother's wishes.
• The mariner displays a tattoo on his chest featuring an anchor, the number 16, and the face of a Greek man named Antonio.
• By manipulating his skin, the sailor makes the tattooed face of Antonio appear to shift from a frown to a forced smile, impressing the onlookers.
• The sailor reveals that Antonio met a grim end, having been eaten by sharks after the tattoo was inked during a calm in the Black Sea.
• The atmosphere is interrupted by a haggard streetwalker peering into the shelter, prompting a flustered Mr. Bloom to hide behind a newspaper.
• Bloom reflects on the woman's identity and her previous offer to do his washing, leading to a private thought about laundering his wife's undergarments.

And in point of fact the young man named Antonio’s livid face did actually look like forced smiling and the curious effect excited the unreserved admiration of everybody.

• Bloom expresses disgust and pity for a diseased woman from the Lock hospital, blaming men for her condition while fearing the health risks she poses.
• Stephen indifferent to the woman herself, offers a cynical philosophical critique of Irish society, suggesting people sell much more than just their bodies.
• Bloom advocates for the state licensing and medical inspection of sex workers, framing it as a necessary public health measure for a 'paterfamilias' to support.
• The conversation shifts to a theological debate regarding the nature of the soul versus the biological functions of the brain and 'grey matter.'
• Stephen uses scholastic logic to describe the soul as an incorruptible substance, though he mockingly suggests God might annihilate it as a 'practical joke.'
• The two men find themselves 'poles apart' as Bloom struggles to reconcile scientific progress, like X-rays, with the existence of a supernatural deity.

Fear not them that sell the body but have not power to buy the soul. She is a bad merchant. She buys dear and sells cheap.

• Bloom and Stephen engage in a weary dialogue about historical authenticity and the authorship of Shakespeare.
• Bloom attempts to coax Stephen into eating a stale bun and drinking coffee, reflecting on the poor quality of temperance shelters.
• The narrative highlights Bloom's skepticism toward the Coffee Palace, noting its lucrative nature and poor pay for his wife's musical services.
• Stephen expresses a visceral, psychological aversion to a simple table knife, claiming it reminds him of Roman history.
• Bloom privately doubts the veracity of the sailor's tall tales while simultaneously considering the strange coincidences of life.
• The interaction underscores the physical and mental exhaustion of both men as they navigate the late-night shelter.

Liquids I can eat, Stephen said. But O, oblige me by taking away that knife. I can’t look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

• Bloom reflects on the suspicious appearance of the sailor, suspecting he might be a former convict or simply a 'mariner' prone to exaggeration.
• The narrative explores the nature of self-mythologizing, suggesting the lies a man tells about himself are minor compared to the rumors spread by others.
• Bloom recalls various curiosities and 'simple souls' from his past, including midget queens and Aztecs displayed in waxworks as gods.
• The conversation shifts to ethnic stereotypes, specifically the supposed volatility of 'italianos' and Spaniards driven by hot climates.
• Bloom mentions his wife Molly's Spanish heritage via her birth in Gibraltar to explain her dark features and temperament.
• Stephen Dedalus interrupts the rambling discourse with a cryptic Italian remark about money and theft.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn’t probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

• Mr. Bloom discusses the aesthetic superiority of antique statues compared to the poorly dressed local women.
• The conversation shifts toward maritime disasters, including collisions with icebergs and ships lost in fog.
• A sailor credits his survival through various monsoons and perils of the deep to a pious medal.
• The group recalls the tragic wreck of the Norwegian barque Palme and the loss of the s.s. Lady Cairns.
• The sailor exits the shelter to relieve himself, secretly consuming ship's rum from flasks hidden in his pockets.
• Bloom observes the sailor's disorientation as he navigates the modernized city infrastructure after his long absence at sea.

Rumpled stockings, it may be, possibly is, a foible of mine but still it’s a thing I simply hate to see.

• The narrative follows Gumley, a man of former means now reduced to a night watchman due to his own financial recklessness and alcoholism.
• A group of men laments the decay of Irish shipping, noting that despite having natural harbors, almost no ships call at them anymore.
• A conspiracy theory is floated regarding a ship that struck a rock in Galway Bay, suggesting the captain was bribed by the British government to sabotage Irish maritime schemes.
• The sailor returns from his private drinking and urination, boisterously singing a crude sea chanty about the poor quality of ship rations.
• Skin-the-Goat delivers a passionate but weary speech about Ireland's natural wealth being drained by English taxation and exploitation.

The biscuits was as hard as brass / And the beef as salt as Lot’s wife’s arse.

• A heated debate erupts in a shelter regarding the inevitable downfall of the British Empire and Ireland's role as its 'Achilles heel'.
• One speaker argues that England's crimes will lead to a historic collapse at the hands of rising powers like Germany and Japan.
• A veteran counters by claiming the Irish Catholic peasant is actually the 'backbone' of the British Empire, providing its best soldiers and leaders.
• The keeper of the establishment expresses disdain for all empires, arguing that no Irishman is worthy of his salt if he serves the British crown.
• Leopold Bloom privately dismisses the talk of imminent collapse as 'egregious balderdash', noting that England likely conceals its true strength.
• Bloom reflects on the irony that Irish soldiers have historically fought for England more often than against her, viewing the political posturing as a performance.

Brummagem England was toppling already and her downfall would be Ireland, her Achilles heel, which he explained to them about the vulnerable point of Achilles, the Greek hero, a point his auditors at once seized as he completely gripped their attention by showing the tendon referred to on his boot.

• Bloom reflects on the nature of crime and political violence, expressing a detached admiration for conviction while personally repudiating physical harm.
• The narrative recounts Bloom's encounter with anti-Semitism, where he countered an insult by pointing out that Christ and his family were Jews.
• Bloom advocates for a gradualist approach to social change, suggesting that revolution should occur on a 'due instalments plan' rather than through sudden violence.
• He emphasizes the absurdity of xenophobia and nationalistic hatred, arguing that it is illogical to hate neighbors simply for speaking a different 'vernacular.'
• The dialogue between Bloom and Stephen highlights a shared intellectual space where they discuss the humanity of religious figures 'secundum carnem.'
• Bloom concludes that while every country has the government it deserves, improvement is possible through mutual equality and goodwill rather than claims of superiority.

So I without deviating from plain facts in the least told him his God, I mean Christ, was a jew too and all his family like me though in reality I’m not.

• Mr. Bloom argues that global conflicts and 'wretched quarrels' are driven by greed and economic factors rather than honor or flags.
• Bloom defends the Jewish contribution to national prosperity, citing the historical decline of Spain and the rise of England as evidence.
• He critiques religious dogma, suggesting that the promise of an afterlife prevents people from improving their current material conditions.
• Bloom defines true patriotism as ensuring every citizen, regardless of creed, has a comfortable annual income of 300 pounds.
• Stephen Dedalus expresses a cynical detachment from the concept of work, prompting Bloom to defend intellectual and literary labor as essential to the nation.
• The dialogue highlights the contrast between Bloom's practical, materialistic idealism and Stephen's weary, abstract intellectualism.

He could hear, of course, all kinds of words changing colour like those crabs about Ringsend in the morning burrowing quickly into all colours of different sorts of the same sand.

• Stephen Dedalus dismisses the conversation about Ireland with a sharp, possessive claim that the country belongs to him.
• Mr. Bloom, confused by Stephen's cryptic and irritable tone, attempts to navigate the young man's 'crosstempered' mood.
• Bloom reflects on the tragic decline of promising, cultured young men who succumb to 'premature decay' and social scandal.
• The narrative shifts into a stream of consciousness regarding public morality, legal scandals, and the hypocrisy of the upper classes.
• Bloom contrasts those who fail through eccentricity with the 'natural genius' of self-made men who rise from the lowest rungs.
• The passage highlights the generational and temperamental gap between the weary Bloom and the cynical, intoxicated Stephen.

But I suspect, Stephen interrupted, that Ireland must be important because it belongs to me.

• Bloom reflects on the intellectual stimulation provided by chance encounters and the 'miniature cameo' of diverse human experiences.
• He considers writing a literary piece titled 'My Experiences in a Cabman’s Shelter' for profit, inspired by the success of other writers.
• While scanning the newspaper, he encounters a chaotic mix of headlines ranging from international disasters to local sporting results.
• Bloom reads the obituary of Patrick Dignam and notices several typographical errors and factual inaccuracies in the list of mourners.
• He is particularly annoyed by being listed as 'L. Boom' and notes the inclusion of people who were not actually present at the funeral.
• Stephen Dedalus reacts to the newspaper's contents with a cynical joke about the 'first epistle to the Hebrews' and putting one's foot in one's mouth.

Nettled not a little by L. Boom (as it incorrectly stated) and the line of bitched type but tickled to death simultaneously by C. P. M’Coy and Stephen Dedalus B. A. who were conspicuous, needless to say, by their total absence.

• Bloom reads the racing results in the newspaper, noting that the rank outsider Throwaway won the Gold Cup at Ascot.
• The victory of Throwaway proves Lenehan’s earlier tips and Bantam Lyons’s frantic betting to be incorrect.
• A cabman asserts that the Irish leader Charles Stewart Parnell is not actually dead but has merely absconded.
• Conspiracy theories circulate that Parnell's coffin was filled with stones and that he is currently living as a Boer general named De Wet.
• Bloom reflects on the fickle nature of public memory and the unlikely possibility of a political leader returning after twenty years of oblivion.
• Bloom considers the mundane reality of Parnell's death from pneumonia versus the dramatic myths created by his grieving followers.

The coffin they brought over was full of stones.

• Bloom reflects on the physical presence and eventual betrayal of a commanding political figure by his own henchmen.
• The conversation shifts to the inevitability of returning to the scene of a crime or a past life, drawing parallels to the Tichborne claimant case.
• The men in the shelter discuss the scandal involving a woman who allegedly caused the leader's downfall, mixing crude admiration with condemnation.
• Bloom considers the transition of the affair from a Platonic relationship to a public scandal that 'electrified' the court.
• The narrative highlights the sensationalism of the legal proceedings, specifically the vivid image of the leader escaping a bedroom via a ladder in his nightclothes.

It certainly pointed a moral, the idol with feet of clay, and then seventytwo of his trusty henchmen rounding on him with mutual mudslinging.

• The narrative reflects on the downfall of a political leader whose career was ruined by a scandalous extramarital affair.
• A comparison is drawn between the 'magnificent specimen' of the lover and the unremarkable nature of the husband.
• The clergy and former supporters are criticized for turning against their benefactor once his private life became public.
• Bloom and Stephen discuss the influence of 'blood and the sun' on passionate temperaments, specifically regarding Spanish heritage.
• The passage explores the 'eternal question' of whether real love can survive within a marriage when a third party is involved.
• Bloom produces a faded photograph of his wife, Molly, to ask Stephen if she fits the 'Spanish type' they are discussing.

North or south, however, it was just the wellknown case of hot passion, pure and simple, upsetting the applecart with a vengeance and just bore out the very thing he was saying as she also was Spanish or half so, types that wouldn’t do things by halves, passionate abandon of the south, casting every shred of decency to the winds.

• Leopold Bloom presents a photograph of his wife, Molly, to Stephen Dedalus, highlighting her status as a professional singer and daughter of a Major.
• Bloom critiques the limitations of photography, arguing that it fails to capture the 'opulent curves' and 'symmetry' of the female form as effectively as Greek marble statues.
• The narrative explores Bloom's internal conflict between wanting to display his wife's beauty and maintaining social and professional etiquette.
• Bloom reflects on the physical changes in his wife since the photo was taken in 1896, noting she is now 'distinctly stouter' but dismissing societal judgments on such matters.
• The scene captures Bloom's intellectualized appreciation of the female body, which he views through the lens of an amateur artist and museum-goer.
• The interaction reveals Bloom's deep relish for Stephen's company, viewing the young man as 'distingué' and the 'pick of the bunch' among his acquaintances.

She could without difficulty, he said, have posed for the ensemble, not to dwell on certain opulent curves of the.

• The narrative recounts the public scandal and legal proceedings surrounding Charles Stewart Parnell’s adulterous affair and subsequent divorce case.
• A violent confrontation is described where Parnell’s supporters raided a newspaper office to destroy typecases in retaliation for attacks on his private life.
• Despite the controversy, Parnell is depicted as a commanding figure of 'settled purpose' even as his political followers realized their idol had 'feet of clay.'
• Bloom recalls a personal encounter during a chaotic protest where he retrieved Parnell’s fallen silk hat and returned it to him.
• Parnell’s aristocratic upbringing is highlighted by his composed and gentlemanly 'perfect aplomb' when thanking Bloom amidst the physical struggle.
• The episode contrasts this dignified interaction with the crude jokes of the common cabmen and the earlier, less graceful encounter with a legal professional.

His hat (Parnell’s) a silk one was inadvertently knocked off and, as a matter of strict history, Bloom was the man who picked it up in the crush after witnessing the occurrence meaning to return it to him (and return it to him he did with the utmost celerity).

• Bloom reflects on the inevitability of infidelity, suggesting that even the best wives often have a 'waiting list' of suitors looking for a flutter in polite debauchery.
• The narrative explores the typical cycle of discovery in affairs, involving anonymous letters, domestic scenes of tearful begging, and the eventual hollow promise of reform.
• Bloom expresses paternal concern for Stephen, worrying that the young man is wasting his intellect on 'profligate women' and risky liaisons.
• The stark reality of Stephen's physical neglect is revealed when he admits he has not eaten since the day before yesterday.
• Despite their differences, Bloom senses a mental kinship with Stephen, recalling his own youthful flirtation with radical politics and 'ultra ideas' twenty years prior.

—The day before yesterday, Stephen said, improving on himself.

• Bloom reflects on his past political sympathies with the 'backtothelander' movement and his resentment toward being misunderstood during the confrontation at Barney Kiernan’s.
• He contemplates the physical and social casualties of political propaganda, lamenting the 'destruction of the fittest' caused by mutual animosity.
• A logistical dilemma arises regarding where Stephen Dedalus should spend the night, as it is too late for transit to Sandymount or Sandycove.
• Bloom hesitates to bring Stephen home due to the potential temper of his wife, Molly, recalling a past incident involving a stray dog that caused domestic friction.
• He ultimately decides to offer Stephen a 'shakedown' for the night, including cocoa and a rug, prioritizing safety and warmth over rigid social precedent.
• Bloom privately mocks the 'blood and ouns' champion and the dubious character of the sailor, whom he suspects will end up in a low-quality brothel.

The crux was it was a bit risky to bring him home as eventualities might possibly ensue (somebody having a temper of her own sometimes) and spoil the hash altogether as on the night he misguidedly brought home a dog (breed unknown) with a lame paw.

• Bloom reflects on the irony of religious prejudice, noting that people are most offended by perceived betrayals from those they consider harmless.
• Seeking to escape the 'stuffy' atmosphere of the shelter, Bloom invites Stephen back to his home for cocoa and conversation.
• Bloom's mind teems with ambitious 'Utopian plans' for Stephen’s future, envisioning a career in journalism, literature, or musical tours.
• The surrounding patrons engage in mundane activities, such as reading trivial news about the former viceroy and the chief secretary.
• An old sailor with damaged eyes from 'sand in the Red Sea' shares his literary preferences while struggling to read the newspaper.
• Bloom quietly settles the bill and prepares to lead Stephen away, hoping to capitalize on Stephen's vocal talent as a 'slice of luck'.

All kinds of Utopian plans were flashing through his (B’s) busy brain, education (the genuine article), literature, journalism, prize titbits, up to date billing, concert tours in English watering resorts packed with hydros and seaside theatres, turning money away, duets in Italian with the accent perfectly true to nature and a quantity of other things.

• Bloom pays the modest bill for their refreshments, spending his final fourpence before leading Stephen out of the shelter.
• Stephen questions the mundane practice of placing chairs on tables at night, receiving a literal and practical answer from Bloom.
• The two men walk arm in arm through the night air, with Bloom offering physical support to a weak and unsteady Stephen.
• Bloom reflects on the political betrayal of Parnell by the 'belauded peasant class' as they pass a sleeping watchman.
• The conversation shifts to music, where Bloom expresses his preference for Italianate sacred works and light opera over Wagner.
• Bloom fondly recalls his wife Molly's sensational performance of Rossini's Stabat Mater at Gardiner Street church.

Yes, Stephen said uncertainly because he thought he felt a strange kind of flesh of a different man approach him, sinewless and wobbly and all that.

• Bloom praises Stephen's father's rendition of 'M’appari' while Stephen pivots the conversation toward Elizabethan lutenists and composers.
• Stephen expresses interest in purchasing a sixty-five guinea instrument from Arnold Dolmetsch, a figure Bloom does not immediately recognize.
• A passing horse-drawn sweeper creates a momentary distraction, leading Bloom to confuse the composer John Bull with the political caricature.
• Bloom reflects on the nature of animals, considering how most creatures can be tamed or outwitted by human ingenuity.
• The encounter with the horse prompts Bloom to jokingly warn Stephen of peril, highlighting his cautious and protective nature.
• Bloom transitions the conversation toward a potential meeting between Stephen and Molly, noting her deep passion for music.

He was just a big nervous foolish noodly kind of a horse, without a second care in the world.

• Bloom is deeply impressed by the rare quality of Stephen’s tenor voice, viewing it as a valuable asset in a market saturated with common baritones.
• He envisions Stephen using his musical talent and university degree to gain entry into the elite social circles of Dublin's financial and titled classes.
• Bloom reflects on the importance of social presentation, noting that Stephen’s attire must be improved to successfully 'worm his way' into high society.
• The potential for financial gain is highlighted as a practical benefit that would support Stephen without compromising his dignity or intellectual standing.
• Bloom believes Stephen’s performance of original, unconventional music would provide a refreshing novelty to a public tired of hackneyed popular solos.
• Despite the optimistic outlook, Bloom recognizes the need for a 'backerup' to provide the necessary momentum to overcome Stephen's tendency toward procrastination.

Even more he liked an old German song of Johannes Jeep about the clear sea and the voices of sirens, sweet murderers of men, which boggled Bloom a bit.

• Bloom contemplates advising Stephen to distance himself from a disparaging acquaintance, viewing the young man's literary and vocal potential as a 'ball at his feet'.
• The narrative captures a visceral moment of a horse relieving itself in the street, serving as a mundane, earthy interruption to the characters' lofty intellectual journey.
• The duo's physical movement is tracked with mathematical precision as they navigate the streets of Dublin, moving from a united pace to a more disparate, relaxed walk.
• Their conversation, described as a 'duumvirate deliberation', spans an encyclopedic range of topics including music, prostitution, gaslight, and the Roman Catholic Church.
• The text identifies shared sensibilities between the two men, noting their mutual preference for musical over pictorial art and a continental over an insular lifestyle.
• The driver of a sweeper car silently observes the two figures—one full, one lean—as they recede into the distance, highlighting their isolation from the surrounding world.

The horse having reached the end of his tether, so to speak, halted and, rearing high a proud feathering tail, added his quota by letting fall on the floor which the brush would soon brush up and polish, three smoking globes of turds.

• Bloom and Stephen compare their heterodox beliefs, finding common ground in their resistance to orthodox religious and social doctrines.
• The two men hold divergent views on civic self-help and the spiritual affirmation of literature, though they agree on certain historical anachronisms.
• Bloom reflects on his history of nocturnal intellectual discussions, noting a chronological decline in the frequency of his interpersonal relations.
• A philosophical meditation occurs regarding the transition from existence to nonexistence and the eventual fading of individual perception by others.
• Upon arriving at 7 Eccles Street, Bloom realizes he has forgotten his latchkey in the pocket of a different pair of trousers.
• The frustration of the forgotten key is doubled by Bloom's memory of specifically reminding himself not to forget it.

He reflected that the progressive extension of the field of individual development and experience was regressively accompanied by a restriction of the converse domain of interindividual relations.

• Bloom executes a calculated physical descent into his own home, bypassing a locked door through a display of athletic and mechanical precision.
• The narrative adopts a hyper-clinical tone, cataloging Bloom’s exact weight, the date across multiple calendars, and the specific physics of leverage used to gain entry.
• Stephen observes the domestic ritual from outside, watching the silent progression of light as Bloom moves through the dark kitchen to open the front door.
• The act of lighting a fire is described as a chemical release of potential energy, grounding a simple chore in the language of universal scientific laws.
• The warmth of the newly kindled hearth triggers a series of memories for Stephen, recalling various figures from his past who provided him with fire and shelter.

Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by the impact, raised the latch of the area door by the exertion of force at its freely moving flange and by leverage of the first kind applied at its fulcrum.

• Stephen and Bloom observe the domestic details of the kitchen, including laundry drying and the specific arrangement of cooking vessels on the range.
• The narrative provides a highly technical account of Dublin's water infrastructure, tracing the flow from the Roundwood reservoir through miles of pipeage to the city.
• A bureaucratic conflict is revealed involving water conservation orders and the legal conviction of the South Dublin Guardians for significant nocturnal wastage.
• Bloom, described as a 'waterlover,' contemplates the physical and metaphysical properties of water, from its democratic nature to its vast oceanic depths.
• The text transitions from the mundane act of filling a kettle to a grand catalog of water's global hegemony and its capacity to dissolve and sustain.

What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier, returning to the range, admire? Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level.

• A comprehensive catalog of water's physical properties, from its chemical composition of hydrogen and oxygen to its vast geological power.
• The text explores water's dual nature as both a docile tool for industry and a violent force of nature capable of deluges and maelstroms.
• Bloom observes the ubiquity of water, noting its presence in the human body and its various states as vapor, mist, snow, and ice.
• Stephen Dedalus reveals his hydrophobia, expressing a deep-seated distrust of both physical water and 'aquacities' of thought and language.
• Bloom refrains from offering hygiene advice to Stephen, concluding that the discipline of cleanliness is incompatible with the erratic nature of genius.

That he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by submersion in cold water, (his last bath having taken place in the month of October of the preceding year), disliking the aqueous substances of glass and crystal, distrusting aquacities of thought and language.

• Bloom observes the scientific process of ebullition, tracing the energy of burning coal back to its origins in primeval forests and solar radiation.
• The text details the precise thermal expenditure required to raise water temperature to the boiling point for the purpose of shaving.
• Bloom reflects on the tactical advantages of shaving at night, including the avoidance of morning distractions and the benefit of a softer beard.
• The narrative highlights Bloom's 'masculine feminine' hand, which possesses surgical precision but is governed by a reluctance to shed blood.
• A meticulous inventory of the kitchen dresser reveals a domestic landscape of chipped eggcups, tea, and a half-empty bottle of invalid port.

A double falciform ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at both sides simultaneously.

• Bloom inspects his kitchen pantry, noting a collection of mundane food items and empty jam jars that reflect his domestic reality.
• The discovery of torn betting tickets triggers a series of memories regarding the day's horse race and the strange coincidences surrounding the winner.
• Bloom reflects on the 'Elijah' throwaway and a chance encounter with Bantam Lyons, realizing he inadvertently provided a winning tip he did not use himself.
• Despite missing a financial opportunity, Bloom feels a sense of satisfaction in having sustained no loss while providing 'light to the gentiles.'
• The host prepares Epps’s soluble cocoa for his guest, Stephen Dedalus, following the instructions with ritualistic precision.
• In a gesture of extreme hospitality, Bloom relinquishes his favorite cup and shares the premium cream usually reserved for his wife.

He had not risked, he did not expect, he had not been disappointed, he was satisfied.

• Bloom observes his guest while reflecting on his own preference for literature of instruction over amusement, specifically citing his use of Shakespeare to solve life's problems.
• The narrative details Bloom's early poetic ambitions, including a prize-seeking verse written at age eleven and a romantic acrostic sent to Molly Tweedy.
• Bloom identifies four fundamental separating forces between himself and his guest: name, age, race, and creed.
• The text explores Bloom's youthful experiments with his identity through various anagrams of his own name, ranging from 'Ellpodbomool' to 'Old Ollebo, M. P.'
• A complex list of distractions is provided to explain Bloom's failure to complete a commissioned topical song, involving political tensions and the physical allure of a performer.

An ambition to squint / At my verses in print / Makes me hope that for these you’ll find room?.

• The text explores the mathematical relationship between Bloom and Stephen's ages, projecting their relative growth into the distant future.
• A series of hypothetical calculations demonstrates how their age ratio would shift if they lived to extreme, even antediluvian, ages.
• The narrative acknowledges that these mathematical projections could be nullified by death, the end of the world, or a change in the calendar.
• Two prior encounters between the protagonists are recalled: one in a garden in 1887 and another in a hotel coffee room in 1892.
• A third connection is revealed through Mrs. Riordan, a mutual acquaintance who lived in the same hotel as Bloom and the same house as Stephen.
• Bloom politely declines an invitation to dinner, expressing his refusal with an escalating series of redundant, appreciative formalities.

In 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum post diluvian 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.

• Bloom reflects on the physical decline of aging and considers resuming Eugen Sandow's exercises to regain 'juvenile agility.'
• The narrative explores the complex, recursive layers of thought between Bloom and Stephen regarding their mutual perceptions of identity and Jewishness.
• A detailed genealogical contrast is provided, tracing Bloom's 'transubstantial' heritage across Europe and Stephen's 'consubstantial' Irish roots.
• The text highlights their divergent religious and educational paths, noting Bloom's three baptisms compared to Stephen's single ceremony.
• The two men are characterized as representing the fundamental temperamental divide between the scientific and the artistic minds.
• Bloom's hesitation to use the cliché 'university of life' reveals his social anxiety and uncertainty about the repetition of their dialogue.

He thought that he thought that he was a jew whereas he knew that he knew that he knew that he was not.

• Bloom reflects on the historical significance of revolutionary inventions like the parachute and the safety pin, imagining their application in educational toys.
• He contemplates the financial success of local bazaars and the untapped potential of modern advertising through 'triliteral monoideal symbols.'
• The text explores various advertising slogans and wordplay, ranging from the effective to the absurd, such as 'Uwantit' and 'Plumtree’s Potted Meat.'
• Bloom shares a failed business idea for an illuminated showcart to illustrate that originality does not always guarantee commercial success.
• Stephen and Bloom construct contrasting narrative scenes centered on the Queen’s Hotel, leading to the somber memory of Bloom’s father’s suicide.

The name on the label is Plumtree. A plumtree in a meatpot, registered trade mark. Beware of imitations. Peatmot. Trumplee. Moutpat. Plamtroo.

• Bloom reflects on a past purchase of a straw hat in Ennis, attributing a naming coincidence to pure chance rather than intuition.
• He finds more satisfaction in observing the reactions and narratives of others than in performing his own verbal storytelling.
• Bloom considers the commercial potential of his past school essays and moral apothegms as possible sources of financial or social success.
• The narrative shifts to the 'domestic problem' of how to occupy a wife, listing solutions ranging from parlor games to commercial proprietorship.
• Bloom contemplates more radical hypothetical solutions for wives, including state-inspected masculine brothels for erotic satisfaction.
• He justifies a need for her further education by citing her 'deficient mental development,' such as her inability to write the letter Q or understand geopolitics.

What to do with our wives. What had been his hypothetical singular solutions?

• Bloom reflects on Molly’s intellectual deficiencies and his varied, often unsuccessful, attempts to educate her through direct instruction and indirect suggestion.
• The dialogue shifts to a lineage of 'seekers of pure truth,' linking the three Moses figures—of Egypt, Maimonides, and Mendelssohn—to establish a tradition of Jewish eminence.
• Stephen and Bloom exchange fragments of ancient Irish and Hebrew verse, highlighting the phonetic and rhythmic qualities of their respective ancestral tongues.
• A physical comparison of scripts is performed on the flyleaf of a pulp novel, 'Sweets of Sin,' where they transcribe characters to compare their numerical and symbolic values.
• The two men acknowledge that their linguistic knowledge is largely theoretical, focusing on grammatical rules rather than functional vocabulary.
• The text proposes a mythical shared origin for the Irish and Hebrew peoples, tracing both back to a post-deluge seminary founded by a descendant of Noah.

She followed not all, a part of the whole, gave attention with interest comprehended with surprise, with care repeated, with greater difficulty remembered, forgot with ease, with misgiving reremembered, rerepeated with error.

• The text draws extensive parallels between Jewish and Irish histories, citing their shared experiences of dispersal, persecution, and the preservation of sacred literatures.
• Bloom and Stephen find common ground in the evolution of language, tracing a path from Egyptian hieroglyphs to modern telegraphic codes and Ogham script.
• A moment of mutual recognition occurs as Stephen hears the 'accumulation of the past' in song, while Bloom sees the 'predestination of a future' in Stephen.
• Bloom reflects on his own potential alternate lives in the church, at the bar, or on the stage, listing various historical exemplars of success.
• The encounter culminates in a musical exchange where Stephen recites the ballad of 'Little Harry Hughes,' a legend involving a Jewish daughter and a lost ball.

He heard in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation of the past.

• Stephen Dedalus provides a dark commentary on a ballad, framing the victim as a predestined figure who is led to a secret apartment and immolated.
• Leopold Bloom reflects on the possibility of ritual murder, weighing the influences of superstition, rumor, and atavistic delinquency.
• Bloom considers his own susceptibility to psychological states like hypnotic suggestion and somnambulism, recalling instances of sleep-paralysis and sleepwalking.
• The narrative shifts to Bloom's memories of his daughter Milly, tracing her development from a crying infant to an adolescent asserting her independence.
• Bloom observes Milly's physical traits and behaviors, noting her rejection of childhood toys and her growing secrecy regarding social encounters.
• The departure of Milly is compared to the temporary departure of the family cat, both driven by a 'secret purpose' and the pursuit of a new mate.

One of all, the least of all, is the victim predestined.

• The text compares the behaviors of Milly Bloom to those of a cat, highlighting her passivity, economy, and instinct for tradition.
• Leopold Bloom utilizes household objects like an owl and a clock as didactic tools to explain complex scientific and mechanical principles to his wife, Molly.
• Molly reciprocates Bloom's instruction with domestic attentiveness and a stated desire to possess a fraction of his scientific knowledge.
• Bloom proposes that Stephen Dedalus stay the night in an improvised cubicle, suggesting mutual benefits for the guest, host, and hostess.
• The narrative explores the potential for a 'reconciliatory union' between Stephen and Milly, suggesting the path to the daughter is through the mother.
• A brief mention of the late Mrs. Emily Sinico leads to a suppressed explanation from Bloom regarding his absence at her funeral.

Because the way to daughter led through mother, the way to mother through daughter.

• Stephen Dedalus declines Bloom's offer of asylum, leading to a final exchange of money and a series of hypothetical future collaborations.
• Proposed intellectual and artistic exchanges include Italian lessons, vocal instruction, and peripatetic dialogues across various Dublin landmarks.
• Bloom reflects on the 'irreparability of the past' through the memory of a circus clown who falsely claimed him as a father.
• The 'imprevidibility of the future' is illustrated by Bloom's failed experiment to track a notched coin through the city's economy.
• Bloom's youthful optimism regarding the perfectibility of human life has been tempered by the harsh realities of natural law and social inequality.
• The narrative catalogs the inescapable 'generic conditions' of existence, including birth, decay, natural disasters, and the necessity of destruction for sustenance.

The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert Hengler’s circus in the Rotunda, Rutland square, Dublin, an intuitive particoloured clown in quest of paternity had penetrated from the ring to a place in the auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was seated and had publicly declared to an exhilarated audience that he (Bloom) was his (the clown’s) papa.

• Stephen and Bloom exit the house in a ritualistic procession, likened to the biblical exodus from Egypt.
• Bloom finds comfort in his identity as a 'keyless citizen' who navigates the unknown through rational action.
• The characters emerge into the garden to witness the 'heaventree of stars,' prompting a meditation on the vastness of the cosmos.
• Bloom contemplates the astronomical scale of the universe, viewing human life as a mere parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.
• The narrative shifts from cosmic evolution to microscopic involution, exploring the infinite divisibility of matter down toward nothingness.
• The passage highlights the contrast between the rational, syllogistic mind and the overwhelming scale of the macrocosm and microcosm.

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

• The text explores the staggering mathematical scale of the universe, illustrating how a single calculation could fill thirty-three volumes of paper.
• It contemplates the possibility of extraterrestrial life on other planets, hypothesizing that different anatomical structures might survive where humans cannot.
• The author suggests that regardless of physical form or planetary environment, any sentient race would likely remain tethered to the same inherent vanities as humanity.
• A detailed astronomical survey covers stellar colors, magnitudes, and the historical discoveries of scientists like Galileo, Kepler, and Herschel.
• The narrative links celestial events, such as the appearance of new stars, to the births of significant figures like William Shakespeare and Leopold Bloom.

An apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.

• The narrative connects the life cycles of individuals like Stephen Dedalus and Rudolph Bloom to the vast, indifferent movements of stellar constellations.
• Bloom concludes that the cosmos is not a divine entity but a 'Utopia' of infinite, illusory forms that exist beyond the reach of human certainty.
• The text explores the profound symbolic parallels between the moon and womanhood, citing antiquity, cyclical constancy, and a 'tranquil inscrutability.'
• A domestic lamp serves as a 'visible splendid sign' for the invisible presence of Molly Bloom, bridging the gap between the celestial and the mundane.
• The encounter between Bloom and Stephen culminates in a moment of shared silence and a primal, synchronized act under the night sky.
• Human existence is framed as a brief 'pallor' set against the 'terribility' of an isolated and implacable universe.

Silent, each contemplating the other in both mirrors of the reciprocal flesh of theirhisnothis fellowfaces.

• Bloom and Stephen stand together in the night, comparing the physical trajectories of their urination and the divergent theological and biological thoughts that occupy their minds.
• A shooting star streaks across the sky from Vega toward Leo, serving as a silent celestial witness to their brief union.
• The physical act of opening the door is described in clinical, mechanical detail, emphasizing the transition from shared space to individual paths.
• As they part ways, the chime of the bells of Saint George triggers different internal echoes: liturgical Latin for Stephen and a simple rhythmic chant for Bloom.
• Bloom reflects on the current state of his acquaintances, listing those asleep in bed and those, like Paddy Dignam, who are in the grave.
• Left alone, Bloom experiences a profound sense of isolation, feeling the metaphorical cold of interstellar space as he contemplates his deceased companions.

Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Reaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

• Bloom recalls a specific memory from 1887 of waiting for the sunrise after a night of charades.
• Upon reentering the room, Bloom suffers a minor head injury by colliding with the displaced walnut sideboard.
• The furniture in the room has been significantly rearranged, including the translocation of a prune plush sofa and a majolica-topped table.
• Two distinct chairs—one squat and stained, the other slender and cane—are positioned in a way that suggests symbolic and circumstantial significance.
• A vertical piano stands where the sideboard once was, holding remnants of smoking materials and the sheet music for 'Love’s Old Sweet Song'.
• Bloom surveys these domestic alterations with a mixture of physical pain, focused attention, and eventual amusement.

The right temporal lobe of the hollow sphere of his cranium came into contact with a solid timber angle where, an infinitesimal but sensible fraction of a second later, a painful sensation was located.

• Leopold Bloom performs a ritualistic lighting of an aromatic incense cone using a rolled prospectus for Agendath Netaim.
• The mantelpiece displays a collection of frozen matrimonial gifts, including a stopped clock, a glass-encased dwarf tree, and an embalmed owl.
• A complex exchange of gazes occurs between Bloom and these inanimate objects, mediated by the reflection of a gilt-bordered mirror.
• Bloom contemplates his own identity as a 'solitary' and 'mutable' man, noting his shifting resemblance from his mother to his father.
• The narrative provides a meticulous inventory of Bloom's bookshelf, detailing the physical condition and specific titles of his diverse library.
• The presence of an overdue library book by Conan Doyle highlights Bloom's minor domestic negligences amidst his philosophical musings.

The truncated conical crater summit of the diminutive volcano emitted a vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense.

• A detailed catalog of Leopold Bloom's bookshelf reveals a diverse collection ranging from military history and astronomy to physical culture and geometry.
• The physical condition of the books—detached covers, erased names, and missing title pages—suggests a history of second-hand ownership and utility.
• Bloom reflects on the necessity of order and the inherent insecurity of hiding secret documents within the pages of books.
• The text highlights Bloom's use of mnemotechnics to recall the name of the battle of Plevna without needing to consult his volumes.
• Physical discomfort from his formal clothing leads Bloom to perform a methodical, anatomical undressing to achieve relief and consolation.

The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its place: the deficient appreciation of literature possessed by females: the incongruity of an apple incuneated in a tumbler.

• Leopold Bloom examines physical marks on his body, including a bee sting scar and the wear on his feet from a day of walking.
• A detailed financial ledger for June 16, 1904, accounts for every penny spent on food, transport, and a loan from Stephen Dedalus.
• Bloom engages in a sensory ritual of self-grooming, inhaling the scent of a clipped toenail with a sense of nostalgic satisfaction.
• The narrative transitions from mundane physical details to Bloom's long-term material aspirations.
• Bloom rejects traditional inheritance models in favor of purchasing a modest, modern, and safe suburban dwelling by private treaty.

He raised his right foot and, having unhooked a purple elastic sock suspender, took off his right sock, placed his unclothed right foot on the margin of the seat of his chair, picked at and gently lacerated the protruding part of the great toenail, raised the part lacerated to his nostrils and inhaled the odour of the quick, then, with satisfaction, threw away the lacerated ungual fragment.

• A detailed architectural vision of a suburban residence featuring smart carriage finishes, stucco fronts, and gilt tracery.
• The property is situated on several acres of land, strategically located near transit lines yet isolated enough for privacy and fresh air.
• The interior is meticulously furnished with modern luxuries including an Axminster carpet, a fumed oak bookcase, and a cathedral chime clock.
• Advanced domestic technology and utilities are highlighted, such as an automatic telephone, carbon monoxide gas supply, and a refrigerator.
• The grounds are envisioned as a botanical paradise featuring a humane beehive, tropical palms, and eccentric floral arrangements.
• The household structure includes specific provisions for a tiered staff of servants with defined salaries, bonuses, and retirement plans.

Bentwood perch with fingertame parrot (expurgated language), embossed mural paper at 10/- per dozen with transverse swags of carmine floral design and top crown frieze.

• Leopold Bloom envisions an idealized future as a country gentleman living in a residence named Flowerville or Saint Leopold’s.
• The dream includes a meticulously inventoried estate featuring botanical gardens, a vinery, and specialized agricultural tools.
• His imagined lifestyle balances physical labor like pruning and weeding with intellectual pursuits such as snapshot photography and the study of folklore.
• Bloom contemplates a rise in social status, transitioning from a simple cultivator to a resident magistrate with a family crest and classical motto.
• The vision encompasses seasonal recreations, from summer river boating to winter discussions of unsolved historical mysteries by a peat fire.
• This fantasy represents a longing for domestic stability, longevity, and civic recognition far removed from his current urban reality.

Could Bloom of 7 Eccles street foresee Bloom of Flowerville?

• Leopold Bloom envisions himself as a balanced administrator of justice, navigating between clemency and rigour within a complex social hierarchy.
• His personal history reveals a series of religious transitions, moving from his father's Judaism to Protestantism and eventually to Roman Catholicism for marriage.
• Bloom's intellectual development is marked by an early advocacy for Darwinian evolution and the political theory of colonial expansion.
• He demonstrates a lifelong engagement with Irish nationalism and economic reform, supporting figures like Parnell, Davitt, and Gladstone.
• His commitment to civic order is contrasted with his youthful enthusiasm, such as climbing a tree to witness a massive political torchlight procession.
• The text details a meticulous financial plan for acquiring a country residence through a state-aided building society and amortized loans.

In support of his political convictions, had climbed up into a secure position amid the ramifications of a tree on Northumberland road to see the entrance into the capital of a demonstrative torchlight procession.

• The text outlines various speculative methods for acquiring wealth, ranging from complex real estate financing to high-risk gambling and technological exploitation.
• Scientific and mathematical fantasies are proposed, including a telegraph system to exploit time zone differences for horse racing bets and a solution to the quadrature of the circle.
• Industrial wealth is imagined through the reclamation of waste soil for agriculture and the chemical processing of human and animal waste on a national scale.
• Large-scale civic engineering projects are detailed, such as hydroelectric plants at Dublin bar and the transformation of North Bull into a resort with casinos and hotels.
• The passage reflects a meticulous, almost clinical obsession with the intersection of probability, geometry, and economic fantasy.

The unexpected discovery of an object of great monetary value (precious stone, valuable adhesive or impressed postage stamps) in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight).

• Bloom envisions elaborate infrastructure improvements for Dublin, including the restoration of waterways and new tramlines for cattle transport.
• The realization of these grand civic schemes is posited to require the immense financial backing of global magnates like Rothschild or Rockefeller.
• Bloom considers the discovery of an inexhaustible gold seam as the only alternative to dependency on elite financiers.
• He justifies these complex mental exercises as a method of psychological hygiene to ensure sound repose and renovated vitality.
• His philosophical outlook suggests that since most human desires remain unfulfilled, mental placation is necessary to ward off malignant agencies during sleep.
• He fears the potential for irrational violence, such as homicide or suicide, occurring during an aberration of reason while dreaming.

What did he fear? The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an aberration of the light of reason, the incommensurable categorical intelligence situated in the cerebral convolutions.

• A meticulous inventory of Leopold Bloom's private drawer reveals a collection of sentimental mementos, including old photographs and family relics.
• The collection contains evidence of Bloom's secret correspondence under the pseudonym Henry Flower, including letters from Martha Clifford.
• Items of a sexual nature are cataloged, such as erotic photocards and rubber preservatives purchased by mail from London.
• The drawer holds records of Bloom's physical self-improvement efforts, specifically measurements taken during a two-month exercise regimen.
• Commercial and medical curiosities are present, including a prospectus for 'The Wonderworker,' a remedy for rectal complaints.
• The inventory juxtaposes the mundane, like boot renovation recipes, with the profound, such as a sealed prophecy regarding Irish Home Rule.

a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone’s Home Rule bill of 1886 (never passed into law)

• Leopold Bloom examines a collection of testimonials for the 'Wonderworker,' a medical device supposedly endorsed by a diverse range of social classes.
• Bloom reflects on his own 'virile power of fascination' and his successful interactions with various women throughout the preceding day.
• The contents of a second drawer reveal Bloom’s financial security, including insurance policies, bank balances, and government stock.
• A legal notice documents the family's transition from the Hungarian name Virag to the name Bloom by deed poll.
• Mementos of Bloom's father, Rudolph, evoke a sense of melancholic history through an old haggadah, a daguerreotype, and a suicide note.
• The fragmented phrases of his father's final letter highlight a tragic decline into 'progressive melancholia' and a final plea for kindness.

Be kind to Athos, Leopold ... my dear son ... always ... of me ... das Herz ... Gott ... dein ...

• Bloom reflects on his father Rudolph's suicide and feels a sense of remorse for his youthful disrespect toward Jewish traditions and dietary laws.
• He reevaluates religious practices, finding them no more or less rational than any other belief systems encountered in his adult life.
• The text recounts Rudolph’s history of migrations across Europe, from Szombathely to Dublin, framed as a 'retrospective arrangement' of settlements.
• Time and age have eroded these memories differently: for the father through narcotic toxins and for the son through the distractions of life.
• Bloom contemplates a 'nadir of misery,' envisioning a descent into total destitution, ending as a disenfranchised, moribund lunatic pauper.
• Financial documents like bank passbooks and endowment policies serve as the only tangible shields against this potential social and physical collapse.

Reduce Bloom by cross multiplication of reverses of fortune, from which these supports protected him, and by elimination of all positive values to a negligible negative irrational unreal quantity.

• The text explores the necessity of departure as a means to escape the friction of constant cohabitation and the stagnation of domestic life.
• It presents a logical argument against the perpetual reunion of parents and offspring, labeling the return to the original couple as both absurd and impossible.
• A catalog of geographical allurements is provided, ranging from the natural wonders of Ireland to exotic global landmarks like the Dead Sea and Tibet.
• Navigation for the wanderer is described through both celestial mathematics and earthly, carnal observations.
• The protagonist, Leopold Bloom, is reimagined as both 'Everyman' and 'Noman,' a figure destined for a perpetual, cometary orbit beyond the known stars.

Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and

• Bloom contemplates a cosmic, hypothetical return as an 'estranged avenger' with infinite wealth, yet finds the idea irrational due to the imbalance of time and space.
• Practical inertia prevents further wandering, driven by the lateness of the hour, the peril of the streets, and the physical allure of a warm bed.
• The narrative compares the merits of an occupied bed over an unoccupied one, highlighting the superior 'human calefaction' of a partner over a hot water jar.
• Bloom silently reviews the day's events through a pseudo-religious lens, mapping his mundane activities onto sacred rites and biblical concepts like 'Armageddon' and 'Atonement'.
• The section concludes with Bloom confronting minor mysteries, such as the identity of 'M’Intosh' and the imperfections of his day, including failed business errands.

What past consecutive causes, before rising preapprehended, of accumulated fatigue did Bloom, before rising, silently recapitulate?

• Bloom meticulously catalogs the feminine apparel and household objects scattered throughout the bedroom, noting their scents and origins.
• The narrative details Bloom's ritualistic preparation for sleep, characterized by extreme caution and a sense of reverence for the bed as a site of life and death.
• Upon entering the bed, Bloom encounters the physical evidence of another man's recent presence, specifically crumbs and flakes of potted meat.
• Bloom reflects on the philosophical nature of displacement, viewing himself as merely one term in an infinite mathematical series of occupants.
• The text transitions from the physical reality of the room to a mental reconstruction of his wife's romantic history, beginning with a man named Mulvey.

To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one.

• Bloom cataloging a long, seemingly infinite list of men associated with his wife, Molly, ending with the current 'occupant of the bed,' Blazes Boylan.
• The protagonist analyzes his rival through a clinical lens, categorizing Boylan's vigor, physical proportions, and commercial success with derogatory descriptors.
• Bloom experiences a complex progression of emotions toward the series of lovers, moving from alarm and desire to a state of fatigue and 'epicene comprehension.'
• A psychological breakdown of envy and jealousy reveals Bloom's view of the sexual act as a mechanical 'piston and cylinder movement' between organisms.
• The narrative concludes with a sense of equanimity, where Bloom rationalizes the adultery as a natural act less calamitous than a cosmic disaster or a violent crime.
• The text highlights the inevitability of adaptation to altered life conditions, framing the betrayal as an irreparable but ultimately minor event in the grand scale of existence.

As not so calamitous as a cataclysmic annihilation of the planet in consequence of a collision with a dark sun.

• Bloom reflects on his lack of jealousy regarding Molly's adultery, viewing the act through a lens of logical abnegation rather than emotional outrage.
• He dismisses traditional retributions like assassination or duels, considering instead more pragmatic or cynical outcomes like legal suits or quiet separation.
• His internal justification relies on scientific and linguistic abstractions, reducing the sexual act to a mere grammatical transition between active and passive voices.
• He finds a cosmic sense of peace in the 'apathy of the stars' and the futility of moral protest against natural biological functions.
• The encounter concludes with a ritualistic, sensory appreciation of Molly's physical form, described in highly stylized, geometric, and olfactory terms.
• In his final report to Molly, Bloom practices selective omission, hiding his own clandestine correspondence and the day's more volatile confrontations.

He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.

• The narrator recounts specific details of the day, including a theatrical performance, a pornographic novel, and Stephen Dedalus's minor injury.
• A clinical analysis reveals a decade-long cessation of complete carnal intercourse between the narrator and listener following the death of their infant son.
• The text details a breakdown in mental intimacy, exacerbated by the 'natural comprehension' between the listener and her daughter which restricts the narrator's freedom.
• The narrator's movements are constantly scrutinized through a series of feminine interrogations regarding his destination and purpose.
• The pair lies in a state of relative rest, positioned at specific geographical coordinates and angles to the equator while the earth moves through space.
• The listener is described in the posture of Gea-Tellus, representing a fulfilled and recumbent earth goddess figure.

At rest relatively to themselves and to each other. In motion being each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space.

• Leopold Bloom returns to bed in a state of exhaustion, described through a rhythmic, nursery-rhyme-like catalog of 'Sinbad the Sailor' variations.
• The narrative shifts into Molly Bloom’s stream-of-consciousness monologue as she reacts to Leopold’s unusual request for breakfast in bed.
• Molly reminisces about Mrs. Riordan, a pious and miserly former boarder, critiquing her hypocrisy and lack of generosity.
• The text explores Molly’s perspective on male vulnerability, noting how men become 'weak and puling' and crave female attention when slightly ill.
• Molly expresses skepticism regarding Leopold’s whereabouts and his 'pack of lies' about his day, analyzing his appetite as a sign of his activities.

Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc’s auk’s egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

• Molly reflects on Leopold Bloom's secretive behavior, suspecting him of writing letters to other women behind her back.
• She recounts past betrayals, specifically an affair or flirtation Bloom had with their former servant, Mary, in Ontario Terrace.
• Molly expresses disdain for the double standards of men, noting that 'one woman is not enough for them' as they age.
• She describes the tension of managing a household where the husband attempts to bring servants to the family dinner table.
• Molly contemplates her own power of seduction, imagining how she might easily confuse and entice a younger man.
• The narrative reveals her internal conflict between indifference toward Bloom's infidelities and a lingering desire for proof and control.

I saw to that better do without them altogether do out the rooms myself quicker only for the damn cooking and throwing out the dirt I gave it to him anyhow either she or me leaves the house

• Molly reflects on the physical and psychological toll of sexual encounters, dismissing the societal weight placed on 'the first time' as mere talk.
• She recounts a confession with Father Corrigan, critiquing the priest's intrusive questioning about the specific location of a man's touch.
• The narrative explores a fantasy of intimacy with a priest, noting the sensory appeal of incense and the perceived safety of such an affair.
• Molly observes the vulnerability of men, specifically noting the rare and impactful sight of a man crying.
• A sudden thunderstorm triggers a moment of religious terror, prompting Molly to revert to prayer and contrition despite her husband's atheism.

I said on the canal bank like a fool but whereabouts on your person my child on the leg behind high up was it yes rather high up was it where you sit down yes O Lord couldnt he say bottom right out and have done with it

• The narrator reflects on a recent intense sexual encounter, comparing the physical experience to animalistic strength and vigor.
• She contemplates the physical toll of childbirth and the societal expectation for women to be constantly burdened by large families.
• The stream of consciousness shifts to memories of social jealousy and past arguments regarding religion and politics.
• She analyzes her husband's intellectual nature and his specific knowledge of the human body and medicine.
• The narrator considers her own power of seduction and the subtle ways she can manipulate male attention and jealousy.
• A sense of competition with other women emerges as she weighs her husband's past attractions against her own influence over him.

nice invention they made for women for him to get all the pleasure but if someone gave them a touch of it themselves theyd know what I went through

• Molly Bloom contemplates the dynamics of jealousy and attraction, recalling how she used to provoke her friend Josie's envy.
• She compares her husband Leopold's quirks with the more repulsive habits of other men, such as Josie's husband who sleeps in muddy boots.
• The narrative explores the performative nature of female friendship and the subtle competition for male attention.
• Molly reflects on the case of Mrs. Maybrick, who poisoned her husband, musing on the desperation that drives women to such extremes.
• Despite her frustrations, she acknowledges Poldy's small domestic virtues, like wiping his feet and blacking his own boots.
• She concludes that men are fundamentally dependent on women, despite their often aggravating behavior.

I used to tell her a good bit of what went on between us not all but just enough to make her mouth water but that wasnt my fault

• Molly Bloom reflects on the distinct ways different men, including Boylan and Poldy, are attracted to her body and clothing.
• She recalls a specific encounter with Boylan at the DBC tea rooms where he became fixated on her feet and shoes.
• Molly contrasts Leopold's peculiar fetishes, such as his obsession with her muddy boots and her undergarments, with more conventional flirtations.
• The narrative reveals Molly's awareness of her own power and the 'madness' men exhibit regarding female anatomy and apparel.
• She reminisces about past romantic encounters, including a kiss on the choir stairs with Bartell d'Arcy after a performance.
• Molly considers her own value and how Leopold 'got her cheap' by not knowing her full history before their engagement.

he was lo times worse himself anyhow begging me to give him a tiny bit cut off my drawers that was the evening coming along Kenilworth square

• Molly reflects on the double standards of men who demand to know a woman's whereabouts while pursuing their own clandestine affairs.
• She recalls a specific encounter in the rain where she teased a suitor, negotiating his advances while managing the risk of public discovery.
• The narrative explores the contrast between a man's 'company manners' and the explicit, 'savage' desires revealed in private letters and physical intimacy.
• Molly compares the techniques and temperaments of various lovers, noting a preference for those who understand the art of making love over those who are clumsy or rushed.
• The passage captures the domestic anxiety of unexpected visitors and the performative nature of maintaining appearances while managing secret trysts.

I was dying to find out was he circumcised he was shaking like a jelly all over they want to do everything too quick take all the pleasure out of it

• Molly reflects on the logistical complications of her upcoming trip to Belfast and her husband Leopold's trip to Ennis.
• She recalls a humorous and stubborn incident where Leopold insisted on finishing boiling soup while a train was departing.
• Molly contemplates the thrill of travel and the possibility of a romantic encounter in a first-class carriage.
• She reminisces about her singing career and the social maneuvers Leopold used to secure her performances.
• Molly expresses disdain for contemporary Irish politics and Sinn Fein, contrasting them with her memories of British soldiers.

he walks down the platform with the soup splashing about taking spoonfuls of it hadnt he the nerve and the waiter after him making a holy show of us screeching and confusion for the engine to start but he wouldnt pay till he finished it

• Molly recalls a romantic farewell at a canal lock with a soldier she calls her Irish beauty.
• She criticizes the pointlessness of war and the old men like Kruger who send young men to die of fever.
• The narrative shifts to her admiration for military pageantry, specifically the Spanish cavalry and the Black Watch.
• Molly contemplates her current companion's wealth, his stylish clothes, and his anger over losing money on a horse race.
• She reflects on social etiquette and the desire for luxury items like hallmarked silver and fine Belfast linen.
• The stream of consciousness reveals her frank observations on male behavior and her own physical desires.

I love to see a regiment pass in review the first time I saw the Spanish cavalry at La Roque it was lovely after looking across the bay from Algeciras all the lights of the rock like fireflies

• Molly contemplates her physical appearance, worrying about her weight and the aging of her skin.
• She critiques the quality of goods and gifts received, from laddered stockings to flat stout and cheap wine.
• The narrative explores the social necessity of style and the harsh judgment women face when they lack a male partner or fine clothes.
• Molly calculates her remaining years of youth, weighing her age against other women like Mrs. Galbraith.
• She expresses a desire for luxury and a rejection of 'measuring and mincing' when it comes to household spending.

God spare his spit for fear hed die of the drouth or I must do a few breathing exercises I wonder is that antifat any good might overdo it the thin ones are not so much the fashion now

• Molly reflects on the scandals of the aristocracy, specifically the Prince of Wales and his rumored affair with the 'Jersey Lily' Lillie Langtry.
• She criticizes the crude and unrealistic nature of the erotic and Rabelaisian literature Bloom brings home, finding the depictions of women and childbirth absurd.
• Molly expresses frustration with Bloom's lack of professional ambition and his preference for 'plottering' about the house rather than securing a stable bank or office job.
• She recounts a past attempt to help Bloom's career at Mr. Cuffe's, recalling her self-consciousness about her dress and the subtle flirtation that occurred with her employer.
• The narrative highlights Molly's disdain for Bloom's unsolicited advice on her fashion choices, which she finds impractical and aesthetically displeasing.

I hate that pretending of all things with that old blackguards face on him anybody can see its not true.

• Molly reflects on the physical sensations of breastfeeding and the lingering effects of her husband Leopold's physical attention.
• She contrasts the aesthetic beauty of the female form with what she perceives as the grotesque and exposed nature of male anatomy.
• The narrative recalls past financial struggles, including Leopold's suggestion that she pose naked for a wealthy patron or work as a wet nurse.
• Molly criticizes Leopold's inability to explain complex concepts simply, noting his tendency to use 'jawbreakers' about philosophy while failing at basic tasks.
• She expresses a sense of power and exhaustion regarding male desire, noting that men are like 'big infants' who want everything in their mouths.

I declare somebody ought to put him in the budget if I only could remember the half of the things and write a book out of it the works of Master Poldy

• Molly reflects on the intense physical pleasure and raw sexual release of her recent encounter.
• She observes the contrast between men who talk too much and those who act with silent, savage intensity.
• The sound of a distant train whistle evokes thoughts of industrial strength and the lonely lives of working men.
• Molly describes her domestic management, including clearing out old newspapers and overcoats to cool the house.
• Memories of Gibraltar surface, triggered by the heat and the smell of rain on sun-baked rock.
• She recalls a letter from her friend Hester, reminiscing about Parisian fashion, tea, and past flirtations.

O Lord I wanted to shout out all sorts of things fuck or shit or anything at all only not to look ugly or those lines from the strain who knows the way hed take it

• Molly recalls the visceral and violent spectacle of a Spanish bullfight and the cruelty shown toward the horses.
• She reminisces about her intimate friendship with Hester and the youthful games they played before life felt old.
• The narrative captures the electric moment of a first romantic encounter on the Alameda esplanade.
• Molly reflects on her literary tastes and the physical discomforts of heat and aging in her current bed.
• The departure of friends and the sight of officers on shore leave evoke a sense of stagnant isolation and a desire to escape.

I looked up at the church first and then at the windows then down and our eyes met I felt something go through me like all needles

• Molly reflects on the sensory chaos of military life, from the booming of ceremonial guns to the smell of soldiers' mess tins.
• She recalls the social dynamics of men like Captain Groves, whose drunken storytelling and false compliments she views with cynical detachment.
• The narrative captures a profound sense of isolation and boredom, where days feel like years and she resorts to mailing herself empty letters.
• Molly criticizes the perceived intelligence of men, suggesting they are oblivious to subtle social cues and romantic signals.
• She navigates a mental catalog of past acquaintances and domestic updates, ranging from Canadian recipes to the deaths of old friends.
• The passage highlights the mundane frustrations of daily life, such as swindling coalmen and the repetitive nature of household advertisements.

the days like years not a letter from a living soul except the odd few I posted to myself with bits of paper in them so bored sometimes I could fight with my nails

• Molly reflects on the emotional power of receiving love letters and how they transform one's perception of the world.
• She criticizes the formulaic and overly formal writing styles found in letter-writing guides, preferring simple words that can be interpreted freely.
• The narrative shifts to her memories of Mrs. Rubio, a judgmental and religious servant in Gibraltar who disapproved of Molly's habits.
• Molly recalls the excitement of her first romantic encounter with Mulvey, including the thrill of receiving his secret letter.
• She describes her youthful flirtations and the fabrication of a Spanish suitor to impress Mulvey during their early courtship.
• The passage highlights Molly's anxiety about aging and the fleeting nature of a woman's social value.

true or no it fills up your whole day and life always something to think about every moment and see it all round you like a new world

• Molly recalls a youthful romantic encounter with a lieutenant named Mulvey on the cliffs of Gibraltar.
• She describes the physical landscape of the Rock including St. Michael's cave, the Barbary apes, and the high galleries.
• The narrative details her deliberate efforts to entice him through her dress and physical proximity while maintaining certain boundaries.
• She reflects on the anxieties of the encounter, including fears of pregnancy and the physical mechanics of their intimacy.
• The memory is characterized by a fluid stream of consciousness that blends sensory details with past anxieties and desires.
• Molly concludes the recollection by struggling to remember his exact name, eventually settling on Harry Mulvey.

I loved rousing that dog in the hotel rrrsssstt awokwokawok his eyes shut and a bird flying below us he was shy all the same I liked him like that moaning I made him blush a little

• Molly reminisces about her youthful romance with Lieutenant Mulvey in Gibraltar nearly twenty years ago.
• She reflects on the physical freedom and wildness of her youth, contrasting it with the social expectations of the 'new woman'.
• The narrative explores her transition from her maiden name and her mother's name, Lunita Laredo, to becoming Mrs. Bloom.
• Molly considers the transient nature of men's lives at sea and the intensity of the brief connections they form with women.
• The passage captures a vivid sensory landscape of the Mediterranean, from the smell of old handkerchiefs to the sight of the Atlas Mountains.

I was jumping up at the pepper trees and the white poplars pulling the leaves off and throwing them at him he went to India he was to write the voyages those men have to make to the ends of the world and back.

• Molly reflects on past lovers, specifically Gardner and the heavy Claddagh ring she gave him before he died in the Boer War.
• She expresses deep disdain for her musical rivals, dismissing them as 'squealers' and 'sparrowfarts' who lack her talent and passion.
• The narrative shifts between her memories of romantic conquest and her current physical discomforts, including her husband's cold feet.
• Molly contemplates her potential as a prima donna and plans her future performances to incite envy in other women.
• The stream of consciousness captures her raw physical reality, from the digestion of a pork chop to her desire for a private room.

I knew more about men and life when I was I S than theyll all know at 50 they dont know how to sing a song like that.

• Molly reflects on her past in Gibraltar, recalling the cold winters and her youthful habit of dancing naked before a mirror.
• She expresses frustration with Leopold’s late-night drinking and his tendency to act like 'the king of the country' when demanding breakfast in bed.
• The narrative shifts to domestic planning, as Molly considers buying fresh fish to escape the monotony of 'everlasting butcher’s meat.'
• She contemplates a potential picnic outing but quickly dismisses the idea of traveling with Leopold due to his incompetence and social posturing.
• Molly vividly recalls a disastrous boating trip at Bray where Leopold’s arrogance nearly led to them drowning in a rough tide.

I suppose well have him sitting up like the king of the country pumping the wrong end of the spoon up and down in his egg wherever he learned that from

• Molly Bloom reflects on her husband Leopold's failed business schemes and his tendency to make grand, unfulfilled promises.
• She recalls the sensory details of her past, including the smell of the sea at Catalan Bay and the ruined state of her new white shoes.
• Molly expresses a deep-seated fear of intruders and isolation in their large house, especially with their daughter Milly away.
• She criticizes Leopold's decision to send Milly away to learn photography, suspecting it was a calculated move to keep her away from his and Molly's private affairs.
• The narrative captures her disdain for certain men in her life and her cynical view of Leopold's physical courage during a past burglary scare.
• Her thoughts drift between the mundane, such as the book 'Sweets of Sin', and the visceral, like her desire to punish those who annoy her.

I dont like being alone in this big barracks of a place at night I suppose Ill have to put up with it

• Molly expresses resentment toward her daughter Milly's perceived laziness and lack of gratitude for domestic labor.
• She observes a growing flirtatious bond between Leopold and Milly, suspecting him of favoring the girl while viewing Molly as 'laid on the shelf.'
• Molly details Milly's rebellious behavior, including smoking cigarettes, riding bicycles at night, and flirting with local boys.
• The narrative explores the physical and emotional distance growing between mother and daughter, highlighted by Milly's refusal to kiss Molly goodbye.
• Molly reflects on the nature of romantic love and sacrifice, skeptical of its existence in the modern world compared to theatrical ideals.

I suppose he thinks Im finished out and laid on the shelf well Im not no nor anything like it well see well see now

• Molly reflects on the behavior of her daughter Milly, noting her vanity and restlessness as she grows into womanhood.
• She recounts a physical altercation with a servant, expressing frustration over domestic incompetence and the lack of proper help.
• Molly criticizes Leopold's social choices, specifically his decision to bring Stephen Dedalus home through the kitchen.
• She expresses a weary resignation toward the constant cycle of domestic labor and the physical ailments of those around her.
• The narrative shifts to Molly's immediate physical discomfort as her menstrual cycle begins, which she views as a recurring nuisance.
• She contemplates the lack of peace in her life, suggesting that only death will offer a true respite from her burdens.

I wonder he didnt tear a big hole in his grand funeral trousers as if the one nature gave wasnt enough for anybody hawking him down in to the dirty old kitchen now is he right in his head I ask

• Molly recalls the discomfort of sitting through a play about adultery while dealing with her menstrual cycle.
• She critiques the hypocrisy of men who demand proof of virginity, noting how easily such 'stains' can be faked with red ink or juice.
• The narrative shifts to her physical discomforts, including the heat of her pubic hair and the noise of the jingling bed.
• Molly reflects on her own anatomy and beauty, admiring the whiteness and softness of her thighs.
• She expresses a fleeting desire to experience life as a man to appreciate the beauty of women from their perspective.
• Her thoughts turn to medical anxieties and the clinical, dismissive way doctors treat female anatomy and ailments.

O Lord what a row youre making like the jersey lily easy easy O how the waters come down at Lahore

• Molly recalls a medical examination where she felt a mix of disdain and amusement toward the doctor's clinical and invasive questions.
• She reflects on Leopold Bloom's peculiar obsession with her bodily functions and his romanticization of them through poetic language.
• The narrative captures the early days of their courtship, including his political ambitions and his attempts to appear sophisticated.
• Molly criticizes the impracticality of household items like chamber pots while observing Bloom's strange sleeping posture at the foot of the bed.
• She compares Bloom's sleeping form to a statue of an Indian god they once saw in a museum, noting his eccentric habits and religious theories.

I wouldnt trust him too far to give me chloroform or God knows what else still I liked him when he sat down to write the thing out frowning so severe his nose intelligent like that

• Molly contemplates the physical discomforts and history of her marriage, recalling the many houses they have lived in over sixteen years.
• She expresses frustration with Leopold Bloom's financial instability and his tendency to lose jobs due to his own 'impudence' or bad luck.
• The narrative reveals her deep suspicion of men's deceitfulness, noting that their many pockets are never enough to hold all their lies.
• She reflects on the grotesque nature of the medical books Bloom brings home, contrasting them with the mundane realities of domestic life.
• Molly recalls Bloom's dramatic behavior in the past, such as sleeping naked on the floor to mimic Jewish mourning rituals after a disagreement.
• The passage captures her internal conflict between resentment of his habits and the habitual intimacy of their shared life.

deceitful men all their 20 pockets arent enough for their lies then why should we tell them even if its the truth they dont believe you

• Molly Bloom critiques her husband Leopold's sexual technique and his tendency to be easily distracted by other women.
• She expresses disdain for the social circle of men in Dublin, viewing them as hypocritical 'good-for-nothings' who squander money in pubs.
• The narrative reflects on the funeral of Paddy Dignam, contrasting the somber event with the messy, drunken lives of the attendees.
• Molly recalls various musical performances and the flirtatious nature of Simon Dedalus, noting his 'delicious' voice despite his flaws.
• She resolves to protect her husband from the influence of his 'friends' who mock him behind his back while taking advantage of his sense.

I see it all now plainly and they call that friendship killing and then burying one another and they all with their wives and families at home

• Molly Bloom reflects on a photograph of herself and considers her aging appearance compared to the young Stephen Dedalus.
• She recalls seeing Stephen as a child and connects his recent arrival to a tarot card reading she performed earlier that morning.
• Molly expresses a desire for an intellectual companion who can appreciate her, contrasting Stephen with her husband's mundane business talk.
• She romanticizes the idea of Stephen as a poet, hoping he lacks the pretentious or unkempt traits of typical university students.
• Her thoughts drift to sensual memories of Gibraltar and the aesthetic beauty of young men, viewing Stephen as a potential source of 'consolation.'
• She calculates their age difference, concluding that at twenty-three or twenty-four, he is not too young for her.

I hope he hasnt long greasy hair hanging into his eyes or standing up like a red Indian what do they go about like that for only getting themselves and their poetry laughed at

• Molly fantasizes about a young poet, contrasting his perceived cleanliness and beauty with the 'pig-like' lack of hygiene in other men.
• She envisions a future where she mentors the poet in physical love, leading to mutual fame and public recognition of their affair.
• Molly expresses deep frustration with her husband's lack of refinement, comparing his crude behavior to that of a 'butcher' or an 'ignoramus.'
• She reflects on the double standards of sexual freedom, rejecting the idea that women should be 'chained up' while men pick and choose partners.
• The narrative reveals Molly's physical loneliness, noting her husband's coldness and his 'unnatural' habits that leave her feeling neglected.
• She contemplates the nature of desire and the female body, wondering what it would be like to experience pleasure from a male perspective.

I can help it if Im young still can I its a wonder Im not an old shrivelled hag before my time living with him so cold never embracing me except sometimes when hes asleep

• Molly reflects on the universal female desire for affection and physical intimacy to maintain a sense of youth and vitality.
• She contemplates the thrill of anonymous sexual encounters with sailors or strangers as a rebellion against social constraints.
• Molly criticizes male hypocrisy, noting how 'fine gentlemen' frequent prostitutes before returning home to their wives.
• She argues that the world would be more peaceful and stable if governed by women, who lack the destructive impulses of men.
• The narrative shifts to a poignant memory of her lost son, Rudy, and the lasting grief that altered her relationship with Leopold.
• She expresses frustration with her domestic role and Leopold's eccentricities while acknowledging her own unmet emotional needs.

itd be much better for the world to be governed by the women in it you wouldnt see women going and killing one another and slaughtering

• Molly reflects on Stephen Dedalus's departure, wondering why he refused to stay the night and imagining his potential ruin in the city streets.
• She critiques the nature of women, describing them as a 'dreadful lot of bitches' made snappy by their various troubles.
• The narrative shifts to her memories of Gibraltar, recalling the exotic names of people and streets like 'Paradise ramp' and 'the devils gap steps'.
• Molly considers her own intellect and desires, wishing to exchange Spanish lessons for Italian and longing for conversation with an 'intelligent welleducated person'.
• She fantasizes about a domestic future where Stephen lives in their spare room, writing and studying while she brings him breakfast in bed.

I always knew wed go away in the end I can tell him the Spanish and he tell me the Italian then hell see Im not so ignorant

• Molly contemplates a trip to the morning markets to enjoy the fresh produce and the possibility of a chance encounter.
• She plans to provoke her husband's jealousy and desire by dressing provocatively and flaunting her recent infidelity.
• Molly justifies her adultery as a natural consequence of human design and a minor sin in a 'vale of tears.'
• She schemes to manipulate him for money to buy new underclothes while maintaining an air of indifference.
• The narrative captures her internal shift from resentment to a calculated, playful dominance over her domestic sphere.
• She reflects on the cyclical nature of the morning as the world wakes up, from China to the local convent.

I know what Ill do Ill go about rather gay not too much singing a bit now and then mi fa pieta Masetto then Ill start dressing myself to go out presto non son piu forte

• Molly contemplates the beauty of nature and the divine, dismissing atheism as a lack of creative power and a fear of death.
• She plans to decorate her home with flowers and clean the piano keys with milk in anticipation of a potential guest.
• The narrative shifts into a vivid memory of Leopold Bloom's proposal sixteen years prior on Howth Head.
• Molly reflects on the sensual power of a woman's body and her ability to influence Bloom through his understanding of her nature.
• Her stream of consciousness weaves together local Dublin errands with exotic memories of Gibraltar, Spanish girls, and Moorish markets.

I gave him the bit of seedcake out of my mouth and it was leapyear like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said I was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a womans body yes

• A sensory-rich stream of consciousness recalling the vibrant landscapes of Algeciras and Gibraltar.
• The recollection of youth and beauty, symbolized by the 'Flower of the mountain' and the Alameda gardens.
• A nostalgic reflection on the beginning of a romantic relationship under the Moorish wall.
• The internal monologue captures the moment of decision and the surrender to physical and emotional intimacy.
• The text concludes with a rhythmic, repetitive affirmation of life and desire through the word 'yes'.

and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.