oxen of the sun

ok, so i came home from work and did read some in the next chapter of ulysses..the part where leopold is in the maternity hospital with stephen dedalus and his drunken friends...and the issues surround procreation and contraception...issues i did not expect in a book published in the twenties.....these are issues are and dear......especially given the highlighted case of the women named mina who has labored with her 8th (9nth?) child for 3 days.......and james joyce recorded the episode as if the papa was the hero for siring a baby that took three days to deliver.....and there was the insinuation that leopold who may or may not have masturbated on the beach was spilling his seed in sin......oh my.....and this line of conversation gets no nearer the actual task of birth and death of literature/language.....creation and creativity...