Joyce's Ulysses Re Love, Mortality & Death

Writer Chris Hedges says we should read Ulysses because it shows us that "the most heroic and important actions of human existence do not take place on a battlefield or on great public stages . . . It is love, and the reverence for the sacred that deep love inspires, that alone allows us to face the specter of our own mortality and cherish and hold fast to life in the face of death."