Episode 1 (Telemachus)
Stephen broods on his mother's death and Mulligan's cruel remark that she was 'beastly dead'; the silver case and key establish his dispossession.
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From Ulysses by James Joyce
Stephen, the brooding young artist from Portrait, is introduced grieving his mother and resenting Mulligan; his defining intellectual moment is the Sandymount Strand meditation.
Episode 3 (Proteus)
'Ineluctable modality of the visible.' Stephen's solitary walk on Sandymount Strand is his great philosophical interior monologue on perception, signs, and flux.
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