Bloom demonstrates his capacity for success in business. He carefully evaluates investment opportunities, such as the Agendath Netaim prospectus, and he has a keen eye for value, as shown by the astronomy book he purchased for half its worth U His choice of career in advertising and also his placement of his daughter Milly in the burgeoning industry of amateur photography reveal his talent for forecasting.
Bloom thinks creatively and innovatively—characteristics of increasing usefulness in the emerging consumer-based economy of the twentieth century. Erasmus Smith High School , 2 graduated On June 16, , Leopold Bloom started his day at No.
So began the day that James Joyce immortalized in Ulysses. Woolsey decreed that it could be admitted into the country in United States v. One Book Called "Ulysses" , 5 F. Judges and cousins Augustus and Learned Hand subsequently affirmed Judge Woolsey's ruling over the dissent of Judge Martin Manton "Its characterization as obscene should be quite unanimous by all who read it.
Bloom v. Municipal Court for Inglewood Judicial Dist. However, Ulysses is much more than a challenging read. It is the story of a son looking for a father, a father looking for a son, death in the midst of life, the loss of a son and the birth of a son, a kind and curious man assaulted by antisemitism, infidelity and hope for intimacy, and, yes, coming home.
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As noted, Bloom does a number of things to antagonize those around him, who are already only too willing to condemn him: he puts nothing in black and white; he never buys drinks; as "Mister Knowall," he expounds at great length on the reasons that a hanged man undergoes a sexual erection at the time of death, adding to the already tense atmosphere of Barney Kiernan's pub in "The Cyclops," and although he helps Stephen in the later episodes of Ulysses, he is not averse to considering how Stephen can further his plans for a touring musical company.
Despite his faults, however, Bloom does perform such a remarkable number of charitable deeds in the novel that he becomes, in many ways, a modern Christ. He attends Dignam's funeral, for example, despite his knowing that he will not be accepted by the other mourners, and, later, he visits Paddy's widow to help her understand the life insurance policy.
Ironically, he met Cunningham in Kiernan's pub for that purpose and was accused of being a defrauder of widows and children. Bloom feeds Banbury cakes to hungry sea gulls. He pities the starving Dedalus children. He helps a blind youth cross a street. He goes to Dr. Horne's hospital to look in upon Mina Purefoy, who has lain three days in labor, and he stays after the birth to watch over Stephen, who he thinks is being covertly made drunk by Mulligan.
In Nighttown, Bloom cares for Stephen, even though he must run to catch up with him; he saves Stephen's money from the scheming Bella Cohen; he tries to persuade a soldier not to strike the incapable Stephen; and when Stephen is knocked down, Bloom takes him home, first stopping at a cabman's shelter to find some sustenance for him.
We now celebrate June 16 as Bloomsday. Bloom derived his knowledge of comets and stars and parallax from a book by an Irish astronomer, Robert Stawell Ball, The Story of the Heavens Ball was the Royal Astronomer of Ireland and director of Dunsink Observatory in Dublin which Bloom mentions several times by name, planning to visit. We have six editions of The Story of the Heavens in our History of Science collection, including the first of and the edition used by Joyce.
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