Later, James Joyce followed Leopold Bloom around Dublin on this day in 1904.

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After all, the most famous organ-eater of all time is the character Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

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The result is that Meyer has managed to place the consciousness of a teenage girl and her environs in Forks at the start of the 21st century, much as James Joyce placed the consciousness of an ordinary man--Leopold Bloom--and the city of Dublin at the start of the 20th.

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