
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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The End of Stephen Tauter
Bloom rescues Stephen Tauter who is about to get into real trouble. Haynes Love raises high behind the celebrant's petticoat revealing his gray bear hairy buttocks between which a carrot is stuck. The mass is supposed to be literally the enactment of the crucifixion on Mount Calvary. There, Christ on the cross, almost dead, was pierced by the lance of lunginus. As Stephen is putting all these things together, what he is doing is dying to himself. Bloom communes with the night.
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