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• The Language of Flowers

  “P. S. Do tell me what kind of perfume does your wife use. I want to know.” – Ulysses, p. 78 To listen to a discussion of this topic, check out the podcast episode here. Mr. Leopold Bloom is predisposed to skulk. “Lotus Eaters” is a particularly skulky episode, during which Bloom kills an hour…

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• Decoding Dedalus: God Becomes Featherbed Mountain

  This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and  break it down line by line.The line below comes from “Proteus,” the third episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p. 50 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the line that begins “God…

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