Character Quote by E. M. Forster
“Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.”
![“In [Bloom's] having managed to sustain his curiosity about the people and the world around him after thirty-eight years of familiarity and routine that ought to have dulled and dampened it; and above all in the abiding capacity for empathy, for moral imagination, that is the fruit of an observant…” quote by Michael Chabon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68c/michael-chabon-627_book-of-life_in-bloom-s-having-managed-to-sustain-his_2528393.jpg)
