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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
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