Yes, chapter 5 is the "Lotus Eaters" chapter, with Bloom at the Turkish Baths at the end.

My favorite chapters are 15 "Circe" in the red-light district where Bloom and Daedalus are visited by apparitions, both euphoric and demonic.

And Chapter 17 "Ithaca" the one written entirely in a question and answer format:

What act did Bloom make on their arrival at their destination?
At the housesteps of the 4th Of the equidifferent uneven numbers, number 7
Eccles street, he inserted his hand mechanically into the back pocket of his
trousers to obtain his latchkey.

Was it there?
It was in the corresponding pocket of the trousers which he had worn on
the day but one preceding.

Why was he doubly irritated?
Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded
himself twice not to forget.

I personally try and only eat local grass-fed meat. I spend about $600 to pack a freezer with organicly fed pork and beef and another $500 on an overwhelming amount of organic fruits & vegetables. We freeze about half of those, my wife cans and juices a lot of it as well as making jams, etc. It's very healthy food and delicious. We also have a chicken coup that is largely organic fed, a lot of it scraps that we get eggs and sometimes meat from. We have a wonderful little store in the area called Greenstar (Ithaca, NY) that sells largly organic, local foods so we get things like bread, milk, snacks from there generally.

We try to live and eat as people did back in the day and we spend around the same as someone who hits the grocery once a week but eat much better. Still we know full well that our living style is completely impossible for the vast majority of people who live in the center of a city and are often to poor to be able to afford anything but the cheap mass produced meat, if even that. It's a sad state and we count ourselves very lucky.

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fake. go on, look for Ithaca college, it doesn't exist

@blankfist you're obviously still in one of these really hostile moods.

First, I said "The way I understand it..." which is to say, I myself was indicating I didn't know for sure.

Second, you've not actually invalidated what I said at all. A guy who wants to start his own currency, but then gets indicted and convicted for running an unauthorized coin mint, and fraudulently presenting those coins as legal tender, doesn't prove that making your own currency is illegal, it means running an unauthorized mint and using the coins as counterfeit dollars is illegal.

On your other link, all it says is that you need a license to transmit currency across state lines, and describes the regulations that apply. Nothing from that link says you have to conduct your transactions in dollars.

You also haven't addressed the examples I provided. Are you saying credit cards and checks are illegal? Are you saying WoW gold and gift cards are illegal? That they're not currency? What about Ithaca Hours? What about all of these?

I honestly don't care whether it's illegal to use alternative currencies or not. I'm mostly just trying to cheer you up by trying to convince you that you're not actually as oppressed as you think you are.

I bet this lady doesn't know that the earliest books of the bible spoke of Jesus as a spirit, not a living man.

And.. no root beer in Ireland? You poor bastards, your missing one of the greatest concoctions in the history of mankind! Luckily I live within pissing distance of the best root beer out there. Ithaca Root beer.

http://www.root-beer.org/DBI/Ithaca.jpg

got to love ithaca. spent 4 years of school there and this is the perfect cross section... peaceniks, stoners, hippies, idealists, professors, young mothers with darling children, young lovers, rastafarian street musicians...

Ithaca, NY is full of hippies. Did you expect any other type of questions? Venus fly trap?!?

Believe it or not but this track always spoke to me. Not necessarily because I enjoy it, though I do. But because the first few sentences of the track are familiar to me.

You see about a mile from where I grew up, in the hills south of Ithaca, NY by a small lake called Cayuta Lake there is a grave yard that has some very old graves. Most of them are tied to the mansion that was built about two hundred years ago. I'm talking graves from the early 19th century. Many of them have unusual sayings on them or old prayers. Several are large statues of angels.

On in particular as I remember was from a man who died in the 1860s. He had what appeared to be a stylized Jewish star in brass on the grave stone. Under that was a very dark poem. I always remembered it because it was so unusual.

Years later I got this album and on my CD player I found this track. It struck me immediately, that the first two sentences are EXACTLY the same as was written on that grave. Used to hang out with a friend in that old graveyard and had several odd experiences there. When I played this track for him he about fell over.

I don't know if part of this track is some old and oft unused prayer or from some other writing. But to this day the track brings back that memory.

thank you very much, Mr. Kitty-cat, sir

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
*promote

very generous of you, dft. What do you think of this one, since you just got a crown and all? (congrats again!)
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sean-Connery-Recites-Ithaca-by-CP-Cavafy

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Aww.. what a cute pic. Do you have a video you'd like me to promote?

In reply to this comment by laura:
this is my favorite part of my halloween...my daughter and I, carving the only pumpkin left in town when I bought it (the day before Halloween).

Thanks Laura, that was really nice... If you get a chance, check out the song by Symphony X - The Odyssey ... it's got kind of another version of The Odyssey that was originally done by Queen. Very artistic as well.

In reply to this comment by laura:
Thought you might like this one:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sean-Connery-Recites-Ithaca-by-CP-Cavafy
forgive me if you've seen it already!

Just thought I would let you know that the last comments of yours I read were on the thread concerning the "ignore" feature....and I won't be ignoring your comments, FYI. Seemed that whole notion got you pretty upset, but please remember that people have their own "ignore" features already which consist of bothersome scrolling past comments they don't want to read. People who ignore you (or anyone else for that matter) simply aren't ready to read what you have to say and wouldn't have understood it anyway...unless they were meant to read it, in which case they will read it. Make sense? Prolly not. I thought you would like this one anyway:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sean-Connery-Recites-Ithaca-by-CP-Cavafy
cheers

thank you, RhesusMonk...seemed appropriate. Think I got them all...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca

Wonderful. Studied Latin and Classics as an undergrad; this sums up the meaning of Odysseus's ordeal very well in my eyes. Nice post. Might want to change the "Ithacas" to "Ithakas" if you care.