  urlLink Guardian Unlimited Books | News | How to read this book: John Mullan on Ulysses : "Ulysses is huge, but you can sip at it. There is plenty that needs no academic explanation, as particular and exact as each passing sensation. 'From the cellar grating floated up the flabby gush of porter. Through the open doorway the bar squirted out whiffs of ginger, teadust, biscuitmush. ' This is a book full of smells. And odd sounds. 'Mrkgnao! ' goes Bloom's cat. 'Pwfungg! ' sounds an expiring gas jet. Any page has the quiddity - the this-ness - of one day in Dublin in 1904, brought to life in Paris almost two decades later. " 
