Ulysses – considered something of the ultimate in literary modernism,

was, for me, utterly transformed when my brother suggested that it was actually an attempt at descriptive realism.

What if narrative – endlessly diverting narrative, latching onto distractions in every passing window and side-street, with no possible conversation or observation omitted – is the best way to diagram the urban world?

the narrative position just outlined actually describes not a person at all but a surveillance camera

what if Dublin did not, in fact, precede and inspire Joyce's novel, but the city had, itself, actually been derived from Joyce's book?

If you fed Ulysses into a milling machine

what might be the spatial result?

What if you fed Ulysses through a 3D printer?

we might even someday be justified in concluding that Dublin itself is a written text, and that Ulysses is simply its most famous translation.