Episode 9 (Scylla and Charybdis)
'Paternity may be a legal fiction.' Stephen's bravura performance to AE, Eglinton, and Lyster connects authorship, fatherhood, and self-creation - and Mulligan crashes the scene.
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From Ulysses by James Joyce
In the National Library, Stephen elaborates his theory that Shakespeare is the ghost of Hamlet's father, not Hamlet - a meditation on paternity that anticipates Bloom-Stephen.
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