After Rudy

Just past one o'clock, Leopold Bloom is trying to think about lunch. Philip Kitcher's walk through the eighth episode of James Joyce's Ulysses, Lestrygonians, arrives at a line Bloom thinks and hurries past, and Kitcher treats it as the hinge of the whole marriage. Follow Bloom from a memory on the pavement into Davy Byrne's, where a glass of burgundy carries him back to a hillside above Dublin Bay and the afternoon that began everything; then stay for Kitcher's summing up of what the Blooms have arranged between themselves, and what, on this one day, the arrangement is starting to cost. Can devotion stand in for the thing it replaced?