Florry whispers to her. Whispering lovewords murmur liplapping loudly, poppysmic plopslop.

The Bloom family live at 7 Eccles Street in Dublin.

Ulysses was first serialised in The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday.

Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his novel Ulysses takes place in 1904, the date of his first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom.

Bosh! Stephen said rudely. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Although it was initially serialized in an American journal, the magazine was later declared obscene, and Ulysses was banned in the United States until 1934.