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Don’t read Ulysses; listen to it

Don’t read James Joyce’s Ulysses, says John Phipps. Listen to it

9 April 2022

9:00 AM

9 April 2022

9:00 AM

Dublin. 16 June 1904. A little after 8 a.m. Two men – both annoying, one stung with grief and ambition – are having an argument. One is pierced by thoughts of his late mother. ‘Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart.’ She has come to him in a dream smelling of wax and rosewood.

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