As a storm that twists and turns on the cool evening of a darkened summer's night, Ulysses contains passages inside of passages that form a path through the thickets of indulgence of the literary mind. Allegory, symbolism, references leading towards the classics of olden times await the daring ancient sojourner, who is brave enough to allow his fingers the chance to adventurously trip through the pages of a story holding a vast array of tales within plots, and themes leading into the storehouse of the human physiological and psychological soul. Passages such as the scene described in the fourth article of this series serve to illustrate the treasures that await a reader who is brave enough to delve a little bit deeper past the basic plotline of the novel. We have already seen how the author used his language and prose to express themes, ideas, and symbolism on an epic proportion drawing from the Greek mythology of the Western tradition. His use of the stream of conscousness technique was also observed. Another interesting aspect at work in this passage, a characteristic that portrays the genius of Joyce at his finest was his ability to find individual words inherent in the literary tradition, and use those words in interesting and different ways or methods to not only give his novels a richer more deeper meaning; but to play around with those meanings, helping to give the reader surprises to discover lying beneath the covers of the now already famous book. His ability to find unusual words, especially ones that drew, in this case, from the ancient Greek myths is uncanny and brilliant. Words, the use of syllables, creating new words from the old Irish tongue, gae his use of the stream of conscousness technique within the framework of the epic narrative more meaning and clarity, a feeling of depth unequaled by a majority of the writers in the twentieth century.
One word used by Joyce that stands out in the conversation between Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dadelus is chrysostomos. The very nature of such a word used inside of the casual atmosphere of a situation in which the main character is performing the simple act of shaving in the morning should serve as a clue to the reader that Joyce is in the process of planning something unexpected; for this, as we have seen, is no ordinary novel and Joyce no ordinary novelist. The first idea that comes to mind when seeing this word is that of a feeling chaos, or of the center falling from an ordered state, but Joyce has a lot more in store for the reader than
