The Only Use of
Sherlock Holmes
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- (Bloom walks on a net, covers his left eye with his left ear, passes through several walls, climbs Nelson's Pillar, hangs from the top ledge by his eyelids, eats twelve dozen oysters (shells included), heals several sufferers from king's evil, contracts his face so as to resemble many historical personages, Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, Henry Irving, Rip van Winkle, Kossuth, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Baron Leopold Rothschild, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes, Pasteur, turns each foot simultaneously in different directions, bids the tide turn back, eclipses the sun by extending his little finger.†
Chpt 15Sherlock Holmes = famous detective in make believe stories
Definition:
fictitious detective introduced in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887) and appearing in numerous film adaptations; known for deducing occurrences by with keen observations and logical reasoning