In Ulysses, the eclectic Dublin poet George Russell is loosely acquainted with Stephen Dedalus. In “Scylla and Charybdis,” Russell loans Stephen money, but doesn’t include him in his anthology of young up-and-coming Irish poets. He also vigorously rejects Stephen’s convoluted theory about Shakespeare’s family because he views art as an expression of “eternal wisdom,” or universal truths unconnected to the realities of everyday life. Joyce, who really met Russell in his youth, repeatedly pokes fun at Russell’s theosophy and the unusual pseudonym he used to publish his work (“Æ”).