What would it be like to begin reading the novel without knowing that its action will take place over the course of just one day, without knowing that Bloom is Jewish, and without knowing that Molly Bloom will begin an adulterous affair with her impresario before it ends? Such an exercise, which might be called a "virgin reading," illuminates some important features of the way the narrative strategies of the novel guide the reading process into problematic ethical directions. Reference to current narratological theory helps to illuminate some of these strategies, such as the use of "implicature" by which deferred contexts, and even suggestive styles, create prejudicial innuendo about characters in the novel. Since the adultery of Molly Bloom is not confirmed until "Penelope," the virgin reader`s tracking of the adultery theme offers a particularly telling instance of how narrative in Ulysses is neither objective nor innocent. In addition, the narrative strategies of the novel rob virgin readers of innocence by obliging them to draw risky inferences and unsound conclusions from circumstantial and flimsy evidence.