“... fewer empty crates back than it sends full crates out. When I followed the postwoman to the kitchen, I saw, like some recurring nightmare, 20 more crates filled with letters. Selekt’s crates are yellow and stamped with the black hunting horn logo of Deutsche Post, the former German state mail monopoly that, like its Dutch counterpart, was privatised ...”

“... his only expressed desire; he struggled with his weight for most of his life. It extended into the kitchen: Mother didn’t want to do the cooking, so Father did all of that. She never learned to drive, so he did all of that too. Mother found it stressful to hold us when we were tearful babies; she handed us off to Father, who was apparently magically good at ...”

“... episode of Ulysses he is fully socialised. He is in a carriage with other men on his way to Paddy Dignam’s funeral. As they travel, the men catch sight of Stephen Dedalus, ‘your son and heir’, as Leopold Bloom points out. As Simon Dedalus rants for a while about the company his son is keeping and what he intends to do about it, Bloom ...”