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Grief-haunted and dispossessed, young Stephen Dedalus starts the day mocked at his tower, teaching a dull class, and walking the strand alone.
Leopold Bloom
A humane Dublin wanderer whose small errands carry grief, curiosity, embarrassment, appetite, and care.
Dublin
A grey, crowded city where errands, debts, and insults turn ordinary streets epic.
A blasphemous joke turns morning ritual into a challenge that cuts at friendship.
Read →Buck Mulligan Intones
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
—_Introibo ad altare Dei_.
Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:
—Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit!
Buck Mulligan turns a shaving bowl into a chalice and mounts the top of the tower as if it were an altar, chanting the priest's opening words of the Mass over his lather and razor. This is playacting, and he knows exactly how funny and how blasphemous it is, which is the whole point of him. When he shouts down for Stephen, the mockery keeps going: he calls him a "fearful jesuit," teasing the friend who takes God, and everything else, far more seriously than Buck ever will.
Stephen's Morning
Grief-haunted and dispossessed, young Stephen Dedalus starts the day mocked at his tower, teaching a dull class, and walking the strand alone.
Cracked Lookingglass
A servant's cracked mirror, and Stephen decides it stands for all of Irish art.
Stephen Dedalus
A brilliant, grieving young man whose pride walks Dublin beside poverty, guilt, and a stick in his hand.
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