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Episode 15: Written as a hallucinatory play in the red light district.
Episode 16: This chapter is super ambiguous, and the comedy comes from mistaking characters for other characters.
Episode 17: Written as a catechism, the comedy comes from the hyper-scientific question and answer format being applied to the mundane.
Episode 18: Streaming consciousness of Bloom's wife.

Episode 10: This chapter has nothing to do with the main characters. It is instead presented as a bunch of short stories surrounding the side characters. The humor comes in the fact that it is largely pointless and that most of the side characters make fun of the main characters.
Episode 11: Everything is a music pun. A lot of onomatopoeia is used.

Episode 7: Making fun of journalism (it's written like a newspaper, pay attention to the headlines.)
Episode 8: Food puns, everything can be eaten and everything eats in this chapter.
Episode 9: Making fun of Hamlet and elitists who debate over obscure pieces of literature (very much so making fun of certain scholars who would later analyze Ulysses).

So, I'm feeling brave! But I'm going to need some help:Episode 1: Normal novel.
Episode 2: An informal catechism.
Episode 3: Elitist masculine monologue.
Episode 4: Poking fun at the great heroes of yore.
Episode 5: The hypnotic nature of religion.
Episode 6: Death.

i've started reading this on daily lit but so far it is so heartbreakingly beautiful that I'm am going to stop until i have my own copy of the book to love