Ito Returns with an Essay on the Cyclops Episode

Another excellent essay, this time on Naoki Yanase's theory that the nameless narrator is a dog. Yanase translated Finnegan's Wake and wrote Solving an Enigma of James Joyce. Ito analyses different drafts of Ulysses and Joyce's list of characters, coming up with Leary the Dog (who is not Garryowen). Ito is cautious about assuming that this is proof of the theory. He provides an interesting background about the identity of the mysterious Citizen - Michael Cusack, a 'Gaelic athletic enthusiast'. Ito concludes by asking if we really need to know the identity of the narrator anyway? Good theory, but I'm with Ito on this one.