He backed towards the door.
Third cast. I got 139 and 700.
He backed towards the door. Get a light snack in Davy Byrne’s. Stopgap. Keep me going. Had a good breakfast.
—Roast and mashed here.
—Pint of stout.
Mr. Bloom entered the Burton to find
a place for lunch. He didn't like the dirty way the diners ate and decided not
to eat here.
The two lines are from Burton's guests.
The Burton no longer exist, but Davy Byrne’s, which became famous with this novel, still enjoys great prosperity.
Ulysses is based on motifs from Homer's Odyssey.
The avoidance of the Barton corresponds to Odysseus' escape from the land of
the man-eating giants, the Lestrygonians. The phrase "keep me going"
alludes of Odysseus ' voyage.
“While they were thus killing my men within the harbour I drew my sword, cut the cable of my own ship, and told my men to row with all their might if they too would not fare like the rest; so they laid out for their lives, and we were thankful enough when we got into open water out of reach of the rocks they hurled at us. ”
Homer, The Odyssey (book X), translated by Samuel Butler
"My Dinner Plate (Round 1)" by BrownGuacamole is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0
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