  Andrea, sorry for the delayed response, I was out of town for the past two weeks. I've added some friends on the email list who are down for the challenge. Everyone, meet Itza (hotdamn105@...), Phil (chente@...), and Thomas (t.kreiml@...). Good people every one. Diving right in... I think what strikes me so far is the way characters' narratives shift so fluidly.
As you said, Andrea, the "I" is almost untraceable. The narrative internalizes and then goes third person without a blink. Mulligan's references to uebermensch and Zarathustra (pg. 22, 23) seem to me direct allusions to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The last few pages of the first chapter seems especially dionysian to me. Also, when Dedalus says to Mr. Deasy " History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" (34) I think of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, and even some of Yeats (does anyone else think so?).
And yes, that scene on the beach is incredible. I'd like to hear some more thoughts on that. When Bloom enters, the 1st/3rd person seems to be blurred even more. It is really incredible the way Joyce mingles the thoughts(? ) of the cat and Bloom into a sort of dance between them. Language seems to crumble when the car says, "Mkgnoa" and "Prr.
Scratch my head. Prr. " (55). But then Bloom and the cat understand each other perfectly, don't they? Bloom even says, "They call them stupid. They understand what we say better than we understand them.
She understands all she wants to. " The other thing that strikes me about the Bloom section (chapter 2) is the music that seems to be driving Bloom's inner-dialogue. Things like "Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically. Walk along a strand, a strange land, come to a city gate, sentry there, old ranker too, old Tweety's big mustaches.... Wander through awned streets" (57). The sound of each sentence is beautiful.
The placement of words even seems to have some esoteric double meaning (ex. putting "a strand, a strange land" together as if there is some connection between them). It kill me how natural it sounds, it seems effortless. Those are my initial thoughts so far. I think these things are pretty minute, but so far a greater picture has not been made clear to me (haha, the big joke: is it ever?). Chris Perreira 
