National Library - Scylla and Charybdis

Stephen is at the National Library to deliver his Hamlet theory to Lyster the Librarian, John Eglinton, George Russell and Richard Best. He has steadied his nerve with “three drams of usquebaugh” in Mooney’s before the event. He begins -What is a ghost? He intends to prove that Shakespeare is the ghost Hamlet’s father. “HAMLET, I AM THY FATHER’S SPIRIT”. Stephen paints his picture of Elizabethan London using local colour. Work in all you know. He remembers that he owes money to George Russel (AE) – A.E.I.O.U. Bloom arrives looking to view the Kilkenny People. Stephen passes on Deasy’s foot and mouth letter to Russel to give to the editor of the Irish Homestead, The pigs’ paper. Bullockbefriending. Mulligan arrives, and as he and Stephen leave together Bloom passes before them.