The reading stopped at ". . . Brown, Robinson and Co." (16.538)
Summary:
The main happening on these pages is Bloom's entering with Stephen the cabman's shelter, where their presence soon attracts a sailor, who introduces himself as D. B. Murphy, of Carrigaloe. He spins many stories, chief among them being his meeting Simon Dedalus, who toured the wide world with Hengler's Royal Circus. He also says that he docked just that morning after seven years at sea, and that his little woman is waiting for him at home. Like Bloom, our own Odysseus, the sailor too is on his way home though neither of them is in a hurry to get there!
