"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."

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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."

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"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."

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