Whew, that was close.

Someone mentioned it was Bloomsday yesteday, so I looked up the WP article on it, and ended up reading a chapter-by-chapter summary of Ulysses. And not a moment too soon; one of the books I got yesterday, Raph Koster's A Theory of Fun for Game Design, features a cartoon depicting one teenage boy telling another, "I beat the last level of Ulysses last night, I had to use god mode for the end boss. Molly is really tough!"

(I am enjoying this book a great deal, by the way, and am reading it cover to cover (not very difficult) before trying to tackle that textbook. Its core ideas are intriguing and surely controversial as well. I bet there's already been a Slashdot post about it where half the comments are THIS GUY IS AN IDIOT BUH BUH GUH ETC.)