The Essay | Reading Ulysses: Mary Costello on Ithaca
Based on Ulysses by James Joyce
Mary Costello selects an episode full of questions and answers, known as Ithaca. In the passage she chooses, the reader gets a bird's-eye view of the journey of water in Dublin.
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