my baby's in the white fluffy clouds

*goes and gets copy of Ulysses* *skims Circe chapter* No, I think this is pretty clearly delineated as surrealism even if I try to use SF reading protocols on it, because there are no clear rules you can extrapolate as to how the apparitions work. The hallucinations are flagged as hallucinations because they produce alterations in the landscape and persons present at, apparently, whim. Even in the most fantastical of fantasy worlds, there must be a reason for things to happen as they do, or we the readers must be able to tell that the author has a reason, even if we do not know what it is. The reasons for things to happen in this chapter are 'because they come from Bloom's or Dedalus' subconscious thoughts', and if the things which come from their subconscious thoughts are actual physical happenings, one would expect that also to be true in the rest of the book (which is not the case) or for there to be a signal that the characters have entered a space where the physical laws of the world have changed (which is also not the case). It could be argued that the switch into stage directions format could signal the change into a fantastical world, except that Joyce has been switching modes in like fashion continuously in the earlier novel and it has never meant anything of the sort. If the rest of the earlier book were in one mode and then suddenly this were stage directions, I might well take that to mean that we are to read all of the events of this chapter as physically happening; but no.