Leopold Bloom - Introduction and Defining Scenes

From Ulysses by James Joyce
Bloom is introduced eating organ meats with relish and tending to Molly's breakfast, immediately establishing his sensuous, domestic, mortal humanity in contrast to Stephen's abstraction.
Episode 4 (Calypso), opening

'Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.' The famous introduction grounds Bloom in body, appetite, and ordinary kindness (feeding the cat, buying kidney from Dlugacz).

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Episode 4 (Calypso)

Molly asks the meaning of 'metempsychosis,' introducing the novel's reincarnation/Homeric correspondence motif.

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