Today, somehow, I read ALL of Episode 15 - all 150 pages! That has been quite a feat, if I do say so myself. It's written in the form of a play, and, according to Wikipedia, contains all sorts of hallucinations that Bloom and Stephen have. I was wondering, because in the part about Bloom being on trial, he goes from a serial cheater to wanting to be spanked to cross-dressing to a king to voyeurism (as in wanting to watch and take pictures). Crazy stuff there.
I did find one thing interesting - at one point, Joyce mentions "Big Brother," a phrase I thought came about much later, 30 years later when Orwell wrote Animal Farm. Live and learn, right?
My favorite alliterative passage in Episode 15:
And my favorite sentence, since it's something I say all the time:
You know - to the deaf man on the phone!
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