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I did it! It took me 2 months, but I finished Ulysses. I found a lecture on YouTube, that I listened in advance of each chapter. I would NEVER have understood what I was reading otherwise. It's a hard book to read. The very hardest book I've ever read. I'm not one of those people who will read it over and over again.
Ultimately, the story is about the metempsychosis of a person. The change in Bloom takes place in a single day - 6/16/1904. He goes through all the emotions of imaturity and arrogance, being "of the body" with his defication and hunger; his growth into maturity includes a psychadelic "trip" that reminds him of his guilt, and brings him to self forgiveness until he is a new man who reconciles with his adulterous wife Molly.
Ultimately, the story is about the metempsychosis of a person. The change in Bloom takes place in a single day - 6/16/1904. He goes through all the emotions of imaturity and arrogance, being "of the body" with his defication and hunger; his growth into maturity includes a psychadelic "trip" that reminds him of his guilt, and brings him to self forgiveness until he is a new man who reconciles with his adulterous wife Molly.