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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Joyce, James

Joyce, James
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Chapter Five

Deflation.

The opening of Chapter Five shows the young Icarus brought down to
earth, the description suggesting decay and dislocation: inadequate food;
an inaccurate clock; louse marks; the dark pool of the jar, which resembles
the pool that Stephen waded through in Chapter Four to secure illumination;
and Stephen's whistling and cursing father.

Holy Week Services.

C. G. Anderson has traced the Holy Thursday Mass in Chapter Five.
Stephen, Anderson maintains, is now a priest of art and performs the
appropriate rite. In Anderson's analysis, ...

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