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In the early hours of June 17, 1904, Leopold Bloom takes a drunken Stephen Dedalus under his wing and brings him to 7 Eccles Street for a cup of cocoa, “the creature cocoa\.” And then the two men step outside\. From the catechetical “Ithaca” episode of Ulysses \. Bloomsday: “the 16th of June 1904\. Also: the 16th of June of any year, on which celebrations take place, esp\. in Ireland, to mark the anniversary of the events in Joyce’s Ulysses” \( Oxford English Dictionary \)\. Related reading A...