Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's "Ulysses". His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the "Odyssey". The character's name and some of his personality was inspired by James Joyce's friend Leopold Popper. Popper was a Jew of Bohemian descent who had hired Joyce as an English tutor for his daughter Amalia. Popper managed the company of Popper and Blum and it is believed that Leopold Bloom was invented by taking Popper's first name and Anglicizing
Encounters in the Phoenix Quadrant If, however, you prefer to create your own encounter situations from scratch and have no use for even so much as a frame on which to hang your ideas, you'd be best advised to leave this aid on the shelves." Encounters in the Phoenix Quadrant Encounters in the Phoenix Quadrant is a 1980 role-playing game supplement for "Traveller" published by Group One. "Encounters in the Phoenix Quadrant" is a play aid for "Traveller" that describes three new ship types - a deep space miner, a Springer freighter, and an exploration ship - and their crews. William A. Barton reviewed "Encounters