Episode 12 (Cyclops)
'Christ was a jew like me.' Bloom's declaration provokes the Citizen to hurl a biscuit tin; the gigantist mock-heroic parodies frame Bloom's apotheosis as 'ben Bloom Elijah' ascending to heaven.
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From Ulysses by James Joyce
The Cyclops episode's confrontation between Bloom and the Citizen is the novel's most-debated political moment, mixing satire of Irish chauvinism with Bloom's quiet ethical witness.
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