Did he find four separating forces between his temporary guest and him? Name, age, race, creed. . . . What, reduced to their simplest reciprocal form, were Bloom’s thoughts about Stephen’s thoughts about Bloom and about Stephen’s thoughts about Bloom’s thoughts about Stephen? He thought that he thought that he was a jew whereas he knew that he knew that he knew that he was not. James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
