The Circe episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses is a jeweled phantasmagoria; and it’s filled with incredible inventories, including one where Bloom’s “bodyguard distribute[s] Maundy money, commemoration medals, loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives in sealed envelopes tied with gold thread, butter scotch, pineapple rock, billets doux [...]
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The World’s Twelve Worst Books?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Circe, James Joyce, John Madera, The World's Twelve Worst Books, Ulysses on June 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »