The flag is up on the playhouse by the bankside. The bear Sackerson growls in the pit near it, Paris garden. Canvasclimbers who sailed with Drake chew their sausages among the groundlings. Work in all you know. Make them accomplices.
Chapter Nine belongs to Stephen, with Bloom making only a cameo.
In an office at the National Library, Stephen is playing literary detective for an audience of Dublin literati. Father Conmee blessed both gravely and turned a thin page of his breviary. Chapter Ten was a late addition to Joyce's plan, not based on any Homeric adventure. Joyce worked out the timings with great care, from his exile in Zurich, and the paths are retraced every June 16 in Dublin by enthusiasts. And then laughed more.