Oxen of the Sun: Opening Page

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Episode 14 ("Oxen of the Sun"), pp. 314-349: Opening Page

Main Characters

Leopold Bloom
Stephen Dedalus
Buck Mulligan
Lynch (from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
Madden, a medical student (as are Mulligan and Lynch)
Punch Costello
Lenehan
Crotthers
Bannon (mentioned by Milly in her letter in Calypso)
Dixon, a physician

Location: the maternity hospital on Holles Street - to map

Time: 10:00 PM

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