There's music everywhere.

Pg. 231..."There's music everywhere." Yes there is. Blazes' jingle jangle, Lydia the bell, Molly's "tongue when she talks like the clapper of a bellows", Simon singing Irish ballads--"Encore, enclap...", Ben Dollard singing in a resonant bass while Father Cowley plays the piano--"Father Cowley's outstretched talons griped the black deepsounding chords" -232, "Woodwind like Goodwin's name" -233, "Tap blind walked tapping by the tap the curbstone tapping, tap by tap" -236 and Bloom's endless stream of musical thoughts. There is more, of course, but it's impossible to keep up. The music in this chapter seems to flit and flutter through Bloom's mind, almost as a distraction to keep him from thinking about Molly. At one point he laments the fact that the music Simon Dedalus is singing makes him sad and expressly hopes that the next song will be of a more uplifting nature. The music, though, a the very beginning, what seems to be a song that summarizes the entirety of the chapter, shows a trend that leans towards the inevitable event of Boylan reaching 7 Eccles Street with the intention of exploring Molly's "chambers".