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Eve. Naked wheatbellied sin. A snake coils her, fang in’s kiss.

Eve. Naked wheatbellied sin. A snake coils her, fang in’s kiss.

How much did I spend? O, a few shillings. For a plump of pressmen. Humour wet and dry. Wit. You would give your five wits for youth’s proud livery he pranks in. Lineaments of gratified desire. There be many mo. Take her for me. In pairing time. Jove, a cool ruttime...

Eve. Naked wheatbellied sin. A snake coils her, fang in’s kiss.

Eve. Naked wheatbellied sin. A snake coils her, fang in’s kiss.

How much did I spend? O, a few shillings. For a plump of pressmen. Humour wet and dry. Wit. You would give your five wits for youth’s proud livery he pranks in. Lineaments of gratified desire. There be many mo. Take her for me. In pairing time. Jove, a cool ruttime...

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Leopold Bloom

Leopold Bloom

Bloom is our protagonist. The majority if the book follows him as he conducts business in Dublin, interacts with Joyce's extensive cast of characters, and ruminates on the impending affair between his beloved wife Molly and her manager Blazes Boylan. Bloom's actions...

Episode 1: Telemachus

The first Episode in Ulysses begins at the Martello Tower in Sandycove, Dublin. The scene involves 4 characters, Buck Mulligan, Stephen Dedalus, and Hainse, three young men who are staying in the tower, and a milkmaid who is delivering milk to them. The episode explores themes of death, Dedalus’s relationship to the Catholic Church, and the relationship of the country of Ireland with its people.

Episode 2: Nestor

Episode 2 takes place at Garrett Deasy’s school where Stephen is a teacher. Stephen is teaching a class in which one of the students is struggling. Stephen contemplates the relationship between the boy and his mother. In this episode, multiple parallels are drawn between Deasy and the character Nestor from the Odesey. 

Episode 3: Proteus

In Episode 3 we find Stephen on Sandymount Strand contemplating both a visit to the home of his aunt and uncle, and the question of what is real and what is imagined. He contemplates the complicated relationship between his father and his uncle, and the “Ineluctable modality of the visible”.