A character in this novel proclaims that "all human history moves toward one great goal" at the exactmoment that a literal goal is scored in a nearby hockey game. A man tries to fend off the rotting ghost of his mother with a walking stick, only to destroy a chandelier, in a nightmarish chapter from this novel written as a play script. A long roman candle explodes in the sky at the end of a scene in which the protagonist spies on (*) Gertie MacDo
A character in this novel proclaims that "all human history moves toward one great goal" at the exactmoment that a literal goal is scored in a nearby hockey game. A man tries to fend off the rotting ghost of his mother with a walking stick, only to destroy a chandelier, in a nightmarish chapter from this novel written as a play script. A long roman candle explodes in the sky at the end of a scene in which the protagonist spies on (*) Gertie MacDowell in this book's thirteenth chapter, "Nausicaa." The concert manager Blazes Boylan has an affair with the wife of this novel's protagonist, who continually crosses paths with Stephen Dedalus throughout his sojourns in Dublin. For 10 points, name this modernist novel about Leopold Bloom, written by James Joyce.