Episode 13 (Nausicaa)
The Roman candle bursting as Gerty leans back - 'O! O! O!' - was the passage cited in The Little Review's 1921 conviction and Judge Woolsey's 1933 ruling lifting the ban.
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From Ulysses by James Joyce
Gerty MacDowell's romance-novel reverie on the strand, intercut with Bloom's masturbation during the fireworks, triggered the U.S. obscenity prosecution that banned Ulysses until 1933.
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