Reflections on hockey and history. Stephen reads - or at least scans - a letter.

Waiting in Mr. Deasy's office, Stephen is transported by the art on the walls.

Stephen fails to warm to Mr. Deasy's arguments.

Stephen debates Mr. Deasy - in his own mind, at least. 

Frank unpacks Mr. Deasy's politics.

Mr. Deasy and Stephen continue their exchange, and Frank unpacks the tartan from a painting of a prince.

Stephen tallies his debts - as does Joyce.

Mr. Deasy expounds on the power of money; Frank digresses.

Stephen is paid, meticulously.

In this bonus episode, Frank draws from Frank Budgen's memoir to illuminate Joyce's painterly grasp of detail and language.

A little financial arrangement.

As Stephen waits in the headmaster's study, we learn something about its inhabitant.

A new character enters the stage in the longest and least complicated passage yet.

More on mothers, their love, and secret childhoods.

Stephen dwells on ancient philosophers: Averroes, Moses Maimonides, Bruno.

Moors, math, foxes, and the dead.

Eyeing the student Sargent, Stephen considers saints, sons, and mothers.

Stephen's reflections on a poor student plumb the limits of a mother's love.

A boy stays after class, and Joyce toys with both authority and identity.

As Stephen's class lets out, a riddle is asked and answered, satisfying nobody.

Stephen is a somewhat merciful teacher. Musings on Jesus, government, and riddles.

Stephen's classroom; a library in Paris; Blake and Aristotle; dragons and souls.

Observations on the author, and the history of Ulysses.

In Stephen's classroom, Joyce brings in Milton. Reflections on drowning.

In Stephen's musings on history, real and potential, Frank finds a recurring Joycean theme.

Stephen muses on first-rate wit and second-hand history.

In Stephen's classroom, four girls' names hint at religion, class, and sex.

In Stephen's classroom, Frank muses on the names of cookies and of boys.

Stephen continues his lesson, and we learn something of both Pyrrhus and Nestor.

We begin Chapter 2, and find Stephen in the classroom with old battles, radical poets, and the daughters of memory.

June 16 is Bloomsday, as well as the one-year anniversary of this podcast.

Mulligan bathes, and Stephen takes his leave. The end of chapter 1.

Gossip at the swimming hole: an unlikely officer, redheads, supermen, and missing ribs.

Stephen, Mulligan, and Haines encounter bathers, and Joyce employs some foreshadowing with news of Mulligan's brother.

Stephen fathoms the depths of both Hell and Dublin Bay, and Frank muses upon T. S. Eliot.

Stephen presents us with a roll call of heresiarchs.

In this bonus episode, Frank discusses the four characters we've met so far, along with their real-life antecedents.

Stephen considers the Church.

Stephen claims to serve three masters.

Haines asks Stephen about a personal god, and Stephen answers - out loud, briefly, and to himself, at great length.

Stephen and Haines share a moment and a smoke.

Mulligan capers, versifies, and blasphemes.

Haines dwells on Hamlet, and we are reminded of the famous sons of that play, the Odyssey, and - of course - the Bible. 

Mulligan plays with paradox, and we get a foreshadowing of Stephen's father.

We learn the price of both a rented tower and a lecture on Hamlet.

Punctuation obfuscates; but we press on, and find significance in Stephen's walking stick.

Mulligan is full of contradictions.

We have a bit of a breather while Stephen and Buck debate what, if anything, Stephen's aphorisms are worth.

Stephen's inner voice, a presumption of remorse, and a few words on Ireland's climate.

Literature and lore in Joyce's Dublin.

In a rare uncomplicated passage, milk is measured, and Frank describes the various types of junkets.

Levels of respect: for women, doctors, and the Irish language.

Frank Delaney offers a special surprise in honor of James Joyce's Birthday.

The old woman carries, not just milk, but an allegory of Ireland herself - at least in the eyes of both Stephen and Joyce himself.

More scholarship of folklore. The milk arrives, and its bearer is mocked by Mulligan and venerated by Stephen.

Mulligan gets mythic, and mocks exactly the sort of thing this podcast is doing.

Petulance for breakfast, "pet" and "kip," and a dirty joke about the tea.