A Fine Old Custom

I’ll tickle his catastrophe, believe you me!

Topics include Ulysses tarot cards, incubism, the system of correspondences found in Ulysses, Martin Cunningham, Mr Power, Simon Dedalus, armstraps, caring for corpses, women’s role in caring for the dead, hats as identities, economic incubism, Bloom’s outsider status, Irish funeral customs, embalming, why Dignam’s widow doesn’t attend his funeral, keening, Rudy, 9 Newbridge Avenue, circulation and the heart, Dublin through a corpse-eye-view, funerals traveling through the center of town, Six Feet Under, an anonymous Englishman, kippers, Bloom as a defier of custom, fidus Achates, hat etiquette, Strumpet City, a wild Stephen appears, Latin Quarter hat, Richie Goulding, Bright’s disease, Simon Dedalus’ way with words, Ignatius Gallaher, “A Little Cloud,” the incubus of alcohol, Simon’s hatred of Buck Mulligan, Elizabethan insults, and the Joyce family’s connection to Clery’s.

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