Deasy is biased by the cultural and religious history he has prescribed to, although he is misinformed in these biases. The most notable evidence of his enslavement to a false interpretation of history is the crass joke he makes at the end of the episode, regarding the lack of Jewish immigrants which, of course, is factually incorrect. For Stephen it is the nightmare from which he is trying to awaken. Stephen, like Nietzsche, sees this imposed, standardized history as shackling and oppressive. For Stephen Dedalus, history is not a clearly delineated thing, something able to be codified into a series of dates and events.
History lies in the full range of the human experience, from the trivial to the grandiose.
In Ulysses, Joyce attempts to do more than write an account of a day in the life of an ordinary man. He s an alchemist, transforming fiction into history, and then back again, somehow creating an historic tale of forgotten men. 8 comments James Joyce is one of the most notorious con-artists of all time. Change the font or something. Maybe it'll seem better.