One Hundred Years of Ulysses

Many passages from Ulysses, if appearing almost anywhere else, would probably get me fired. A century ago, however, this great novel was Afew years ago, the private school where I teach asked me to offer an evening class on James Joyce’s Ulysses to adults. The idea was to remind alumni, parents and other community members what it feels like to be in one of our enriching classrooms. For over a decade, my Ulysses senior elective had been a major feature of our course catalogue; now, a few adults were about to pop the hood on this infamous tank of a book.