Full fathom five thy father lies.
The end is nigh.\n\nKelly and Dermot discuss in the depth the drowning motif of \u201cProteus\u201d. Other topics include The Tempest and Ariel\u2019s Song, the wily nature of the sea, Stephen\u2019s estrangement from his father Simon, the role of alcohol in the lives of Ulysses characters, quitting alcohol, rising corpses, sea change, porpoises, the ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth, spongy titbits, Stephen\u2019s connection to a corpse, looking for a way out of a suffocating home life, why Buck Mulligan is a terrible friend, Stephen\u2019s fear of failure and of becoming his father, Stephen\u2019s guilt at abandoning his sisters, the mentality of a bucket of crabs, and why Dermot thinks the Dedalus family would have been great on The Jerry Springer Show.