Ulysses (novel) on Minutemen’s 1984 album "Double Nickels on the Dime" makes reference to the date of the novel in its title. Jacob Appel's novel, "The Biology of Luck" (2013), is a retelling of "Ulysses" set in New York City. The novel features an inept tour guide, Larry Bloom, whose adventures parallel those of Leopold Bloom through Dublin. Serial text published in the "Little Review", 1918-1920 Ulysses (novel) Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal "The Little Review" from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its
Races and creatures in His Dark Materials Gallivespians are Lord Roke, commander of the spies in Lord Asriel's Adamant Tower, the central fortress for the rebellion, and Madame Oxentiel, who succeeds to Lord Roke's position after his death. The name "Gallivespian" echoes that of the gall wasp. The word gall means both an abnormal outgrowth and is a synonym for impudence or bile, whilst "vespa" is Latin for "wasp". The name also recalls the protagonist of "Gulliver's Travels", who encounters a world of tiny people. Cliff-ghasts are the more prominent type of ghasts in "His Dark Materials". Since many of the characters grow up in the same