Can a train actually be less powerful than a bus? Are love and a future hope things we should not discuss?These are the thoughts that hit this train as it roars by a beautiful school bus waiting in the early-morning sky.

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writ...