Ulysses has a reputation for being the hardest of hard books: an incomprehensible mess. This semester, I'm in a seminar on all of Joyce's work, and for the past 12 weeks we've been giving Ulysses a page-by-page analysis. I have heard before that "close-reading" is the only way to really "get" the text, and I'd like to oppose that notion.
Chapter 15
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