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A man passes a day in early twentieth-century Dublin, in a journey patterned on Homer’s Odyssey.

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Chapter 7

―Dan Dawson’s land, Mr Dedalus said.

―Is it his speech last night? Mr Bloom asked.

Ned Lambert nodded.

―But listen to this, he said.

The doorknob hit Mr Bloom in the small of the back as the door was pushed in.

―Excuse me, J. J. O’Molloy said, entering.

Mr Bloom moved nimbly aside.

―I beg yours, he said.

―Good day, Jack.

―Come in. Come in.

―Good day.

―How are you, Dedalus?

―Well. And yourself?

J. J. O’Molloy shook his head.

Sad

Cleverest fellow at the junior bar he used to be. Decline poor chap. That hectic flush spells finis for a man. Touch and go with him. What’s in the wind, I wonder. Money worry.

― Or again if we but climb the serried mountain peaks.

―You’re looking extra.

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