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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