Rank Ulysses' chapters from most difficult to easiest to comprehend

Difficultest - Night Town.

Tom,
I didn't particularly choose that passage , from Scylla and Charybdis, for its difficulty. I chose it because it represents what I enjoyed most from Ulysses, and it comes from a difficult episode. I speak only for myself (and who shouldn't) when I say I don't think I would have had the patience to get the enjoyment out of the difficult chapters had I not had the guides. By the second half of the book I felt I had the gist of most passages, but reading Blamires, for good or for bad, showed me how many other layers of meaning Joyce put into almost every word, in some cases. I'm sure i could have gotten through the entire book without ever noticing that Bloom is sometimes Moses, sometimes Jesus, sometimes the'holy spirit', and that Stephen is sometimes Hamlet, sometimes Jesus, sometimes Harry Potter, but it was kind of fun having had the elucidation early on and then having a few 'I get it!' moments that I would not have gotten otherwise.