Episode 6 (Hades)
Bloom thinks: 'In the midst of death we are in life. Both ends meet.' The episode catalogues funeral customs while exposing Bloom's grief over his father Rudolph's suicide and Rudy's death.
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From Ulysses by James Joyce
Bloom rides to Glasnevin cemetery contemplating mortality, his father's suicide, and Rudy - one of the novel's most moving meditations on death.
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