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Among the bodybuilders Gavin Francis discusses in his essay from the October 22 issue of the Review, the most surprising is surely Leopold Bloom, the hero of Ulysses, who keeps in a drawer (along with his stash of pornographic postcards) a chart measuring his progress with “Sandow-Whiteley’s pulley exerciser,” a real device invented by the man […]