All help him see some of his own many faces, recover lost memory and to know himself for the first time. He continues to collect the detritus he has been accumulating to take home for his daughter, but the bits and pieces take on new meaning. The beach is decorated with shells of all sizes and shapes. Chip-chips like pink baby slippers, oysters like open palms. Grey and babyish.
New characters function as necessary sounding boards.
Shikara asks, and Stephen spouts off as if this is the question he has been waiting for. He has found a pair of ears. In his apprenticeship, he is learning to perceive things differently, to become one of the many lagahoos, the term Trinidadians of Indian heritage use for shape-shifters. In Part III, Stephen goes back to Mr. Ram's, ostensibly to return the advance. But things here have changed too.