A Sloppy Mythology

The carriage stops at the cemetery gate, and four short sentences do the stopping. Philip Kitcher opens the second half of Hades, the sixth episode of James Joyce's Ulysses, by reading them aloud and showing why a word nobody uses, felly, is the only one that would do. Then he walks behind Paddy Dignam's coffin with Leopold Bloom and asks why Bloom is here at all. The answer involves money, a widow, and what the men around him assume about Jews. Inside the chapel, with the priest working through the Latin, Kitcher makes his case for what Bloom believes, and what he is willing to go through the motions for.