... this foreign bird exists, and on another level, where Zeus is the most powerful god of an ancient pantheon. (It cannot be coincidental that "Thunder" ­ the natural phenomenon associated with the Zeus deity - is the last name of a little boy in the following "section" of part I ... rarer and paler twilight, radiating swift eddies to the last verges of a universe ever vaster, farther and more palpable. (p 167) Here, Joyce repeats the components of the introductory sequences almost exactly: Stephen is receiving instructions from his elders which he obeys apparently "obediently", ... and ...

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