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Day 1 · Telemachus
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan”
Day 2 · Telemachus
The sea as “a great sweet mother”
Day 3 · Telemachus
Haines the folklore-collecting Englishman
Day 4 · Telemachus
The milkwoman as Ireland
Day 5 · Telemachus
“Dogsbody”
Day 6 · Telemachus
“Usurper”
Day 7 · Nestor
Pyrrhus and the “Pyrrhic victory”
Day 8 · Nestor
Cyril Sargent and “amor matris”
Day 9 · Nestor
“I paid my way”
Day 10 · Nestor
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”
Day 11 · Proteus
Interior monologue with no handrail
Day 12 · Proteus
The navelcord as a “telephone” to the past
Day 13 · Proteus
Stephen mocking his own past self
Day 14 · Proteus
The dog as shape-shifter (Proteus)
Day 15 · Proteus
The homeward ship
Day 16 · Calypso
Bloom's appetite for the ordinary body
Day 17 · Calypso
“Agendath Netaim,” the planters' company
Day 18 · Calypso
The letter Bloom doesn't ask about
Day 19 · Calypso
“Metempsychosis” → “met him pike hoses”
Day 20 · Calypso
Bloom as a tender, anxious father
Day 21 · Calypso
Joyce dignifies the undignified
Day 22 · Lotus Eaters
The drowsy “lotus” mood
Day 23 · Lotus Eaters
Bloom's secret life as “Henry Flower”
Day 24 · Lotus Eaters
The tram that ruins the view
Day 25 · Lotus Eaters
The “language of flowers”
Day 26 · Lotus Eaters
Bloom the outsider, looking in
Day 27 · Lotus Eaters
The cake of lemon soap
Day 28 · Hades
Bloom among the men, half-included
Day 29 · Hades
Two fathers, two sons, one rival
Day 30 · Hades
The kindness of changing the subject
Day 31 · Hades
The carriage window as a frame
Day 32 · Hades
Bloom's silent grief for his father
Day 33 · Hades
Father Coffey's brisk Latin
Day 34 · Hades
The man in the macintosh
Day 35 · Hades
Bloom's practical, unsentimental musing on death
Day 36 · Hades
Menton's cold shoulder
Day 37 · Aeolus
Mock headlines breaking up the text
Day 38 · Aeolus
Bloom's workaday competence
Day 39 · Aeolus
MacHugh's Rome-versus-Greece speech
Day 40 · Aeolus
Lenehan's flop of a riddle
Day 41 · Aeolus
Crawford's bluster
Day 42 · Aeolus
Taylor's speech on the Irish language
Day 43 · Aeolus
Stephen's shift from favor-runner to potential writer
Day 44 · Aeolus
The Parable of the Plums
Day 45 · Aeolus
Talk versus work, one more time
Day 46 · Aeolus
Aeolus as the 'chapter of the winds'
Day 47 · Lestrygonians
The 'peristaltic' style of digestion
Day 48 · Lestrygonians
Bloom's curiosity about the gulls
Day 49 · Lestrygonians
The seedcake on Howth Head
Day 50 · Lestrygonians
Eating as animal appetite
Day 51 · Lestrygonians
A modest, satisfying meal
Day 52 · Lestrygonians
Bloom's easy sympathy for others' troubles
Day 53 · Lestrygonians
The blind stripling
Day 54 · Lestrygonians
Food as a marker of class and comfort
Day 55 · Lestrygonians
Bloom's dodge at the museum gate
Day 56 · Lestrygonians
The museum gate as a hiding place
Day 57 · Scylla and Charybdis
Stephen performing his theory
Day 58 · Scylla and Charybdis
The father-and-son argument
Day 59 · Scylla and Charybdis
Platonism versus a grounded, biographical reading
Day 60 · Scylla and Charybdis
Scylla and Charybdis as intellectual danger
Day 61 · Scylla and Charybdis
Stephen the performer
Day 62 · Scylla and Charybdis
The second-best bed
Day 63 · Scylla and Charybdis
Shakespeare as the Ghost, not the Prince
Day 64 · Scylla and Charybdis
The father who is his own son
Day 65 · Scylla and Charybdis
Mulligan's timing
Day 66 · Scylla and Charybdis
The stage direction "Entr'acte"
Day 67 · Scylla and Charybdis
"Do you believe your own theory?" / "No."
Day 68 · Scylla and Charybdis
Bloom stepping between Stephen and Mulligan
Day 69 · Wandering Rocks
The nineteen-scene structure
Day 70 · Wandering Rocks
The one-legged sailor
Day 71 · Wandering Rocks
Corny Kelleher's idle moment
Day 72 · Wandering Rocks
Boylan's basket of fruit
Day 73 · Wandering Rocks
Dilly's French primer
Day 74 · Wandering Rocks
Simon's easy charm
Day 75 · Wandering Rocks
Master Dignam's errand
Day 76 · Wandering Rocks
The interpolation technique
Day 77 · Wandering Rocks
The blind stripling's cane
Day 78 · Wandering Rocks
The viceregal cavalcade
Day 79 · Sirens
The musical overture
Day 80 · Sirens
The jingling car
Day 81 · Sirens
"M'appari"
Day 82 · Sirens
Bloom's guarded letter-writing
Day 83 · Sirens
The returning tap of the cane
Day 84 · Sirens
"The Croppy Boy"
Day 85 · Sirens
Bloom's drifting, musical thoughts
Day 86 · Sirens
"Fuga per canonem"
Day 87 · Sirens
Bloom's quiet self-composure
Day 88 · Sirens
Emmet's epitaph and Bloom's timing
Day 89 · Cyclops
The anonymous first-person narrator
Day 90 · Cyclops
"Gigantism" — the first mock-heroic parody
Day 91 · Cyclops
The nameless first-person narrator
Day 92 · Cyclops
The Citizen's booming, one-note patriotism
Day 93 · Cyclops
The interpolated parody passages
Day 94 · Cyclops
Throwaway the racehorse
Day 95 · Cyclops
Bloom's definition of a nation
Day 96 · Cyclops
Prejudice hiding behind patriotism
Day 97 · Cyclops
"Love... I mean the opposite of hatred"
Day 98 · Cyclops
"Christ was a jew like me"
Day 99 · Cyclops
The thrown biscuit tin
Day 100 · Cyclops
The mock-ascension parody
Day 101 · Nausicaa
The novelette / "namby-pamby" narration
Day 102 · Nausicaa
Gerty's catalogued beauty
Day 103 · Nausicaa
The man in black watching from a distance
Day 104 · Nausicaa
The Mirus bazaar fireworks
Day 105 · Nausicaa
Innocent language, knowing action
Day 106 · Nausicaa
Gerty's limp
Day 107 · Nausicaa
The switch back to Bloom's stream of consciousness
Day 108 · Nausicaa
Bloom's exhaustion and drift
Day 109 · Nausicaa
The message written and erased in the sand
Day 110 · Nausicaa
The cuckoo's chime
Day 111 · Oxen of the Sun
The opening Latinate invocation
Day 112 · Oxen of the Sun
Bloom among the drunken students
Day 113 · Oxen of the Sun
Early medieval chronicle style
Day 114 · Oxen of the Sun
Malory-style chivalric prose
Day 115 · Oxen of the Sun
The march through seventeenth and eighteenth century prose
Day 116 · Oxen of the Sun
Bloom's private thoughts of Rudy amid the noise
Day 117 · Oxen of the Sun
Dickensian sentiment before the birth
Day 118 · Oxen of the Sun
The long-awaited birth
Day 119 · Oxen of the Sun
Bloom's silent watchfulness over Stephen
Day 120 · Oxen of the Sun
The closing rush of modern slang
Day 121 · Circe
The play-script format
Day 122 · Circe
Bloom buying food mid-chase
Day 123 · Circe
Rudolph Bloom's ghost
Day 124 · Circe
Molly as 'Marion' in Bloom's fantasy
Day 125 · Circe
The road not taken
Day 126 · Circe
The courtroom as conscience
Day 127 · Circe
The escalating absurdity of the charges
Day 128 · Circe
The New Bloomusalem
Day 129 · Circe
The turn of the crowd
Day 130 · Circe
Bella Cohen
Day 131 · Circe
Bella/Bello's gender switch
Day 132 · Circe
Fantasy as confession
Day 133 · Circe
Bloom's potato talisman
Day 134 · Circe
Stephen holding court
Day 135 · Circe
The mirror of Shakespeare
Day 136 · Circe
May Dedalus's ghost
Day 137 · Circe
"Nothung"
Day 138 · Circe
Bloom paying for the lamp
Day 139 · Circe
Privates Carr and Compton
Day 140 · Circe
Conscience versus loyalty
Day 141 · Circe
Bloom shielding Stephen
Day 142 · Circe
Bloom's diplomacy with authority
Day 143 · Circe
Stephen's murmured half-consciousness
Day 144 · Circe
Rudy, aged eleven
Day 145 · Circe
The return to stillness
Day 146 · Eumaeus
The exhausted prose style
Day 147 · Eumaeus
'Skin-the-Goat'
Day 148 · Eumaeus
Corley's cadging
Day 149 · Eumaeus
The sailor's postcard
Day 150 · Eumaeus
Parnell rumours
Day 151 · Eumaeus
The sailor's tattoo
Day 152 · Eumaeus
Skin-the-Goat and the Phoenix Park murders
Day 153 · Eumaeus
Bloom's mild political philosophy
Day 154 · Eumaeus
The photograph of Molly
Day 155 · Eumaeus
Bloom's habit of scheming
Day 156 · Eumaeus
The old horse and the street sweeper
Day 157 · Ithaca
The question-and-answer form
Day 158 · Ithaca
Parallels and differences
Day 159 · Ithaca
Bloom's forgotten latchkey
Day 160 · Ithaca
The shared cup of cocoa
Day 161 · Ithaca
The 'water hymn'
Day 162 · Ithaca
Bloom and Stephen as fellow outsiders
Day 163 · Ithaca
Urinating together under the stars
Day 164 · Ithaca
The distant bells
Day 165 · Ithaca
Bloom's itemized budget
Day 166 · Ithaca
The drawers' contents
Day 167 · Ithaca
Bloom's 'equanimity'
Day 168 · Ithaca
The closing question and single dot
Day 169 · Penelope
The unpunctuated interior monologue
Day 170 · Penelope
Molly's frankness about Boylan
Day 171 · Penelope
Gibraltar as Molly's lost world
Day 172 · Penelope
Molly's memory of Lieutenant Mulvey
Day 173 · Penelope
Molly's mixed feelings about Milly
Day 174 · Penelope
The loss of Rudy
Day 175 · Penelope
Molly's pride in her singing
Day 176 · Penelope
Molly's bodily frankness
Day 177 · Penelope
Molly's uncensored view of men
Day 178 · Penelope
The seedcake kiss on Howth
Day 179 · Penelope
The rising repetition of 'yes'
Day 180 · Penelope
"yes I said yes I will Yes"
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