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Episode V · Lotus Eaters

Bloom drifts toward the East and the smell of tea

Today's passage · lines 5.1–85

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With time to kill before the funeral, Bloom wanders south of the river, past a tea shop whose window sets him dreaming of the languid East — sleeping in the sun, doing nothing, flowers and warm water.

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