ABSTRACT
Homemade In Ulysses, Leopold Bloom, the Irish Odysseus, poses an exile's question to another exile whom Joyce called the English Ulysses: 'O, poor Robinson Crusoe! / How could you possibly do so?'1 Bloom's lilting refrain comes from a popular turn-of-the-century song that recalls a haunting moment in Robinson Crusoe when Defoe's castaway, alone at that time for six years, hears the disembodied voice of his previously trained wild parrot, Poll, ask, 'Robin, Robin, Robin Crusoe, poor Robin Crusoe, where are you Robin Crusoe? Where are you? Where have you been?'2
