original type of thinker, a man of many ideas who could 
     overcome the Cyclops and achieve a significant triumph 
     of mind over matter. Knowledge is thus a capacity for 
     overcoming the difficulties of life and achieving success in 
     this world.

Brett here specifies the natural dichotomy which the book 
brings into any society, in addition to the split within the 
individual of that society. The work of James Joyce exhibits a 
complex clairvoyance in these matters. His Leopold Bloom of 
Ulysses , a man of many ideas and many devices, is a free-lance 
ad salesman. Joyce saw the parallels, on one hand, between 
the modern frontier of the verbal and the pictorial and, on the 
other, between the Homeric world poised between the old sacral 
culture and the new profane or literate sensibility. Bloom, the 
newly detribalized Jew, is presented in modern Dublin, a slightly