Episode 11 (Sirens)
'Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing.' The opening overture and Bloom's listening to 'M'appari' as Boylan rides to Molly - music as cuckoldry and consolation.
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From Ulysses by James Joyce
The Sirens episode opens with a tuning-up overture of fragments and structures itself as a musical fugue while Bloom listens to Simon Dedalus sing.
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