Circe - Nighttown Hallucinations

From Ulysses by James Joyce
The longest, most surreal episode stages Bloom and Stephen's repressed desires and guilts as a phantasmagoric play in Dublin's red-light district.
Episode 15 (Circe), climax

Stephen, drunk, smashes the chandelier crying 'Nothung!' and is knocked down by a British soldier; Bloom protects him and hallucinates the ghost of Rudy as an eleven-year-old fairy boy - the novel's symbolic father-son union.

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