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** Joyce wrote it during a period when his eyesight was failing, so to compensate he wrote in crayon on large sheets of butcher paper. [[Film/IronMan2 This makes Justin Hammer's toolish self-promotion of "the Ex-Wife" even ''more'' clueless]].

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** Joyce wrote it during a period when his eyesight was failing, so to compensate he wrote in crayon on large sheets of butcher paper. [[Film/IronMan2 This makes Justin Hammer's toolish self-promotion of "the Ex-Wife" even ''more'' clueless]].
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** The last such scene takes place between the second-last and last chapters: Bloom has asked Molly to bring ''him'' breakfast in bed the next morning, instead of (as is usual) the other way round. Molly's interior monologue starts with her mulling over this request.

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** The last such scene takes place between the second-last and last chapters: Bloom has asked Molly to bring ''him'' breakfast in bed BreakfastInBed the next morning, instead of (as is usual) the other way round. Molly's interior monologue starts with her mulling over this request.
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** Joyce wrote it during a period when his eyesight was failing, so to compensate he wrote in crayon on large sheets of butcher paper. [[Film/IronMan2 This makes Justin Hammer's toolish self-promotion of "the Ex-Wife" even ''more'' clueless]].

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** Joyce wrote it during a period when his eyesight was failing, so to compensate he wrote in crayon on large sheets of butcher paper. [[Film/IronMan2 This makes Justin Hammer's toolish self-promotion of "the Ex-Wife" even ''more'' clueless]].clueless]].
* 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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* 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 hundreds years of the literary discourse.

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* 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 hundreds hundred years of the literary discourse.
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-->'''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.
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* The scene in the pub in "Cyclopes" where eternal doormat NiceGuy Bloom finally stands up to the anti-semites and publicly admits to being a Jew in front of everybody. The first scene in the whole book where Bloom shows real backbone.

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* The scene in the pub in "Cyclopes" where eternal doormat NiceGuy Bloom finally stands up to the anti-semites anti-semitic Citizen and publicly admits to being a Jew proudly affirms his own Judaism in front of everybody. The first scene in the whole book where Bloom shows real backbone.
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* "....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 RefugeInAudacityMoment subverted in that he ends up falling on his face and having to be rescued by Bloom, but still.

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* "....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 RefugeInAudacityMoment RefugeInAudacity moment subverted in that he ends up falling on his face and having to be rescued by Bloom, but still.
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* 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 hundreds years of the literary discourse.

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* 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 hundreds years of the literary discourse.discourse.
** Joyce wrote it during a period when his eyesight was failing, so to compensate he wrote in crayon on large sheets of butcher paper. [[Film/IronMan2 This makes Justin Hammer's toolish self-promotion of "the Ex-Wife" even ''more'' clueless]].
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* The scene in the pub in "Cyclopes" where eternal doormat NiceGuy Bloom finally stands up to the anti-semites and publicly admits to being a Jew in front of everybody. Probably the one scene in the whole book where Bloom shows any kind of backbone.

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* The scene in the pub in "Cyclopes" where eternal doormat NiceGuy Bloom finally stands up to the anti-semites and publicly admits to being a Jew in front of everybody. Probably the one The first scene in the whole book where Bloom shows any kind of real backbone.
** The last such scene takes place between the second-last and last chapters: Bloom has asked Molly to bring ''him'' breakfast in bed the next morning, instead of (as is usual) the other way round. Molly's interior monologue starts with her mulling over this request.
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* "....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 officers is a great RefugeInAudacityMoment subverted in that he ends up falling on his face and having to be rescued by Bloom, but still.

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* "....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 officers soldiers is a great RefugeInAudacityMoment subverted in that he ends up falling on his face and having to be rescued by Bloom, but still.
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*"....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 officers is a great RefugeInAudacityMoment subverted in that he ends up falling on his face and having to be rescued by Bloom, but still.

*The scene in the pub in "Cyclopes" where eternal doormat NiceGuy Bloom finally stands up to the anti-semites and publicly admits to being a Jew in front of everybody. Probably the one scene in the whole book where Bloom shows any kind of backbone.

* 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 hundreds years of the literary discourse.

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