Stylistic Transformations and a Fateful Meeting?

There is a meticulous artistry to Episode 14 that I found pretty interesting. Basically Joyce rolls through the entire history of the English language, stylistically, starting with Old English and ending with an almost incomprehensible flood of 20th century American slang. I liked certain parts and found other parts utterly baffling, which pretty much sums up the entire experience so far. Another remarkable element to Episode 14 is that this is the episode in which Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus finally directly meet. In this meeting, Bloom plays a sort of father figure role, “protecting” Dedalus (or kind of thinking about protecting him?) from his increasingly drunken friends and maybe even from himself. It should be interesting to see how this relationship plays out.