| 1 | * "....but I suspect that Ireland is important because it belongs to me." [[MakesSenseInContext In context,]] one of Stephen's more arrogant, yet weirdly awesome moments. Hell, Stephen's whole drunken rage against the British soldiers is a great RefugeInAudacity moment subverted in that he ends up falling on his face and having to be rescued by Bloom, but still. |
| 2 | * The scene in the pub in "Cyclopes" where eternal doormat NiceGuy Bloom finally stands up to the anti-semitic Citizen and proudly affirms his own Judaism in front of everybody. The first scene in the whole book where Bloom shows real backbone. |
| 3 | -->'''Bloom''': Mendelssohn was a jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza. And the Saviour was a jew and his father was a jew. Your God. |
| 4 | ** The last such scene takes place between the second-last and last chapters: Bloom has asked Molly to bring ''him'' BreakfastInBed the next morning, instead of (as is usual) the other way round. Molly's interior monologue starts with her mulling over this request. |
| 5 | * The whole damn novel is one crowning moment of awesome for Joyce, who utilizes and parodies (sometimes [[AffectionateParody affectionately]] sometimes [[StylisticSuck not]]) so many styles of writing that the novel itself is an Odyssey tracing several hundred years of the literary discourse. |
| 6 | ** Joyce wrote it during a period when his eyesight was failing, so to compensate he wrote in crayon on large sheets of butcher paper. |
| 7 | * As a testament to the book's influence, there's now a [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Statue_of_Molly_Bloom_Alameda_Botanic_Gardens_Gibraltar.jpg statue]] of Molly Bloom standing in Gibraltar. She was chosen as the subject of the statue because she's--without doubt--the most famous Gibraltarian in the history of fiction. |
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