Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce

Mr. Deasy expounds on the power of money; Frank digresses.

Stephen is paid, meticulously.

In this bonus episode, Frank draws from Frank Budgen's memoir to illuminate Joyce's painterly grasp of detail and language.

A little financial arrangement.

As Stephen waits in the headmaster's study, we learn something about its inhabitant.

A new character enters the stage in the longest and least complicated passage yet.

More on mothers, their love, and secret childhoods.

Stephen dwells on ancient philosophers: Averroes, Moses Maimonides, Bruno.

Moors, math, foxes, and the dead.

Eyeing the student Sargent, Stephen considers saints, sons, and mothers.

Stephen's reflections on a poor student plumb the limits of a mother's love.

A boy stays after class, and Joyce toys with both authority and identity.

As Stephen's class lets out, a riddle is asked and answered, satisfying nobody.

Stephen is a somewhat merciful teacher. Musings on Jesus, government, and riddles.

Stephen's classroom; a library in Paris; Blake and Aristotle; dragons and souls.

Observations on the author, and the history of Ulysses.

In Stephen's classroom, Joyce brings in Milton. Reflections on drowning.

In Stephen's musings on history, real and potential, Frank finds a recurring Joycean theme.

Stephen muses on first-rate wit and second-hand history.

In Stephen's classroom, four girls' names hint at religion, class, and sex.