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“The Croppy Boy”
The Dead Sea is a famous saline lake on the present-day border between Israel, Palestine, and Jordan, which has been a significant religious and health tourism site for thousands of years.
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Dead Sea Term Timeline in Ulysses
The timeline below shows where the term Dead Sea appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 4: Calypso
...front of the sun, which makes him think of darker imagery, like the desert, the Dead Sea , and Sodom and Gomorrah. An old woman crosses in front of him, reminding him...
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Episode 5: Lotus Eaters
...Ceylon, where the Tea Company grows its crop. He compares this to floating in the Dead Sea and remembers learning about physics in school.
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Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun
...grand vision of infinite space and silence, and he sees his soul flying towards the Dead Sea , surrounded by a herd of moaning beasts in parallax. He sees a “wonder of...
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Episode 17: Ithaca
...would go if he could, ranging from the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland to the Dead Sea . He imagines running away and navigating by the stars, while people back in Dublin...
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