Episode 14 (Oxen of the Sun)
From 'Deshil Holles Eamus' to the closing slang, Joyce moves through Mandeville, Bunyan, Sterne, Dickens, Carlyle - language itself giving birth.
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From Ulysses by James Joyce
The maternity-hospital episode parodies the entire history of English prose from Anglo-Saxon to modern slang, mirroring gestation.
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