As in a good epic, Ulysses begins in medias res and fills us in on Stephen's life since the end of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by flashback; and by the flashback of memory we are given the story of Molly's and Bloom's lives.

The pleasantly smushy-edged earcups on this new model do an excellent job of isolating your ears.

a stringful of fish

It was … followed by feelings of immense guilt and self-flagellation. What did I do wrong? What did I forget?