Ulysses - James Joyce

Underdog

Ok so I'm writing an essay on this book and focusing on the episode titled Aeolus. In the section titled 'Noted Churchman An Occasional Contributor', it ends with a small segment where Bloom is thinking to himself:

"Three Months' renewal. Want to get some wind off my chest first. Try it anyhow. Rub in August: good idea: horseshow month. Ballsbridge. Tourists over for the show."

My essay focuses on the parallel between the story of Aeolus in The Odyssey (Aeolus bags all the bad winds to speed Odysseus's way home and just as the ship is in sight of Ithaca, the crew open the bag thinking there's treasure to be had and the bad winds end up blowing the ship all the way back to the beginning) and the episode. I know that the second sentence "Want to get some wind off my chest first" has some significance but I have no idea what the hell it means. I know what the rest of the paragraph means but I've been wracking my brains about this one. Any ideas?

Edit: Have tried various guides but they just skip over it.

bsjezz

i think 'want to get some wind off my chest' in this case means he wants to go to talk with the editor etc. at the telegraph before he goes out to keyes, where he needs to ask for the three month renewal (which in this case i think is a delay to the period the advert begins running / runs until)

maybe?

edit: you could then read 'get some wind off' as him going to where the the noisy newspaper staff (aeolus' crew) will unleash some horrible bag of setbacks, which could simply be their endless smarmy dialogue

edit edit: don't write that last bit in your essay