Episode 17 (Ithaca)
Catechistic account of Bloom kissing Molly's 'plump mellow yellow smellow melons' and the list of her suitors - comic and tender accounting of the marriage.
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From Ulysses by James Joyce
The novel's emotional center is the troubled Bloom-Molly marriage, the death of their son Rudy, and the question of whether love can survive infidelity, grief, and time.
Episode 13 (Nausicaa)
Bloom's masturbatory encounter with Gerty MacDowell on the strand, juxtaposing romance-novel sentiment with frank sexuality.
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Bloom thinks of Rudy, their dead infant son - the unspoken wound in the marriage.
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