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| A young James Joyce.
I like Bloom's interior monologue
much more than arrogant Stephen's Telemachae. Bloom is anti-Odyssean in
his humility, his being an outsider (Jew), and in his quiet observant
nature. However, he is Odyssean in power and wit in that he understands
the conversations of others (as outsiders often do), attends carefully and
notices details, has a pretty clear self-knowledge. I am not even
bothered by the corniness of the headlines in Aeolus, partly because I realize
that my irritation is anachronistic: Joyce didn't get this stuff from
Barth; he invented it. Also, since I am ADD, I like having the
parts labelled and cut into little pieces. :-)
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—Barbara O.
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