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Text: Ulysses by James Joyce. "a gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of burgundy" Bloom also thinks of it as a "Nice quiet bar." That combination is the point. Davy Byrne's offers one of the novel's great anti-heroic meals: modest, precise, and restorative. In a book crowded with appetite, noise, and bodily urgency, Bloom chooses restraint. Joyce uses the pub as a momentary sanctuary. Its role is not revelry but relief, a civilized pause in the city's digestive chaos. The lunch is memorable because it is so exact and so deliberately ungrand.