Kelly and Dermot discuss one of the most metal passages in all of Ulysses! You can find it at the end of \u201cProteus\u201d beginning with \u201cA side eye at my Hamlet hat.\u201d Topics include Hamlet (so much Hamlet), Stephen\u2019s creative spark, more resent for Buck Mulligan, more grief for Stephen\u2019s mother, the shifting protean nature of language and tides, various Biblical allusions, Stephen\u2019s poem, Percy Bysshe Shelley\u2019s Hellas, Dermot\u2019s grudge against Galileo, the philology of colors, did the sea really look like wine in ancient Greece?, the Annunciation and Mary\u2019s connection to the sea, the requiem Mass death, vampires, ghouls, anti-semitism and homophobia in Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula, Joyce\u2019s (possible) dig at Douglas Hyde\u2019s Love Songs of Connacht, the music of the spheres and how libraries used to work.