Index — All Eighteen

The episodes of Ulysses.

Each card gives you the basics: where, when, who Homer thought it was, what happens, and what to listen for. Read them in order, or dip in.

8 of 18 episodes

Early twentieth-century photograph of 7 Eccles Street
IV. Calypso8:00 AM

7 Eccles Street

Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.

Leopold Bloom arrives. He cooks a kidney for breakfast, feeds the cat, brings Molly her post — including a letter from Blazes Boylan — and quietly senses what's coming.

HomericCalypsoStyleMature narrative
SexualityExileIdentity
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Early twentieth-century photograph of Westland Row & Lincoln Place
V. Lotus Eaters10:00 AM

Westland Row & Lincoln Place

Bath. Cleanse from drugs of the day.

Bloom drifts through the city, picks up a flirtatious letter under a false name, watches Mass, and ends in the warm narcotic of a public bath.

HomericLotus EatersStyleNarcissism
ReligionSexualityExile
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Early twentieth-century photograph of Around Grafton Street
VIII. Lestrygonians1:00 PM

Around Grafton Street

Pineapple rock, lemon platt, butterscotch.

Hungry Bloom wanders past food shops and pubs, recoils at a brutal lunchtime crowd, and settles for a quiet cheese sandwich at Davy Byrne's.

HomericLestrygoniansStylePeristaltic prose
MemorySexualityModernity
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Early twentieth-century photograph of Ormond Hotel bar
XI. Sirens4:00 PM

Ormond Hotel bar

Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing.

A chapter written like music. Bloom eats dinner alone as barmaids flirt and Simon Dedalus sings, while Boylan rides off to meet Molly.

HomericSirensStyleFuga per canonem (music)
SexualityMemoryExile
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Early twentieth-century photograph of Sandymount Strand
XIII. Nausicaa8:00 PM

Sandymount Strand

The summer evening had begun to fold the world in its mysterious embrace.

Gerty MacDowell daydreams in the style of cheap romance novels while Bloom watches from a distance. Fireworks; a charged, private moment.

HomericNausicaaStyleTumescence / detumescence
SexualityReligionModernity
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Early twentieth-century photograph of National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street
XIV. Oxen of the Sun10:00 PM

National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street

Deshil Holles Eamus.

Bloom visits a friend in labour. Medical students drink upstairs; the prose grows from Anglo-Saxon to modern slang, mirroring the development of a child.

HomericOxen of the SunStyleEmbryonic prose history
ReligionSexualityModernity
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Early twentieth-century photograph of Nighttown (Monto, north Dublin)
XV. Circe12:00 AM

Nighttown (Monto, north Dublin)

(The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown…)

Bloom follows a drunk Stephen into the red-light district. A hallucinatory play unfolds: shame, transformation, ghosts, and finally a quiet rescue.

HomericCirceStyleHallucinatory drama
SexualityIdentityMemory
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Early twentieth-century photograph of Molly's bed, 7 Eccles Street
XVIII. PenelopeAfter 2 AM

Molly's bed, 7 Eccles Street

Yes because he never did a thing like that before…

Molly Bloom's unpunctuated nocturne. Eight long sentences carrying memory, lovers, irritation, tenderness, and a final, famous, affirming Yes.

HomericPenelopeStyleInterior monologue (female)
SexualityMemoryIdentity
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