The movement of the narrative

“The method that underlies Ulysses is known as the ‘telling from the inside’. As that description denotes, it is psychological. Carried out in the particular manner used in Ulysses, it lands the reader inside an Aladdin’s cave of incredible bric-a-brac in which a dense mass of dead stuff is collected, from 1901 toothpaste, a bar or two of Sweet Rosie O’Grady, to pre-nordic architecture. And immense nature-morte is the result. This ensues from confining the reader in a circumscribed psychological space into which several encyclopaedias have been emptied.” - Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book I, ch. XVI, p. 91.