Telemachus

Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s alter ego from “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” is thrust into the role of Telemachus, Odysseus’ son, recast as a lofty aesthete grieving the death of his mother while keeping his distance from his overbearing, dissolute father.

A little boy down the street wrote him a letter saying that when he’d walk his dog at night, he felt safer when he’d see Telemachus outside.

A customer at the Infiniti dealership where Telemachus worked told of how she texted back and forth with him about the Dodgers.

Marc Orfanos received a call from Phillips within a day of his son Telemachus’ killing.

All of it came as the horrifying details of Telemachus’ death – on the floor of a bar, bleeding out from five bullet holes – tormented them.