Leopold Bloom Air" was modelled on Leopold Bloom. Leopold Bloom also serves as an archetype, due to his non-identity and political indifference, for the nihilistic and apathetic mass in contemporary society in the French radical fringe publication "Tiqqun". Grace Slick's song "Rejoyce", from the album "After Bathing at Baxter's" concerns the novel "Ulysses", and Bloom is mentioned in the song. 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
Alhaji (novel) Alhaji (novel) Alhaji (1992) is a novel by Ebou Dibba. It is set in The Gambia and Senegal. It was published by Macmillan of London. The novel's central character is a sixteen-year-old boy, not named until the last page of the book. The boy does not like school, as he doesn't care for his teacher, Quasi. The boy's favorite companion is a horse, Alhaji. A businessman named Alhaji Kebba contacts the boy and wishes to buy and/or borrow the horse Alhaji. While the protagonist is reluctant to sell or loan him, the businessman is persistent and uses various methods to