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8 posts from June 2011

Jun 29, 2011

Re: Joyce, Episode 55: Making the Point - of a Spear

Stephen continues his lesson, and we learn something of both Pyrrhus and Nestor.

Jun 22, 2011

Re: Joyce, Episode 54. Who Is Nestor?

We begin Chapter 2, and find Stephen in the classroom with old battles, radical poets, and the daughters of memory.

Jun 17, 2011

The Winners! Our Bloomsday Challenge produced such a high standard that I’m giving four, not three prizes. Thank you all!

We had an excellent response to our Bloomsday Challenge – which, as you may recall, asked for tweets summarizing James Joyce’s Ulysses. Food made many pungent appearances, as did Molly Bloom at her affirmative best. We had outbreaks of gerunds; charming and deliberate banalities (like the book itself); metaphysical strolls – in short, most entries made a more than decent attempt to echo Joyce’s own intentions. Which means that we had a very successful response – delightful to have a Challenge so well taken up. Thank you one and all – for your energy, your warmth, and your good-natured, uncynical participation, and here are the fine winners.

@geriatricus Prismatic prose, Dublin day-trip, guilt and yearning, rhetorically meaty treatise of the grand and the banal.

@lindenstein  "Dublin and its inhabitants on one rambling & otherwise ordinary day. Dublin itself is one of most carefully drawn characters."

@perko A perversely idealistic man describes his day of selfsame consequence, stewing in the broth of life's foul inner organs

@StanCarey  A man dissolved in many resolved in Molly comes to charms with a day in the life of a city all senses in Bloom. 


 

The Winners! Our Bloomsday Challenge produced such a high standard that I’m giving four, not three prizes. Thank you all!

We had an excellent response to our Bloomsday Challenge – which, as you may recall, asked for tweets summarizing James Joyce’s Ulysses. Food made many pungent appearances, as did Molly Bloom at her affirmative best. We had outbreaks of gerunds; charming and deliberate banalities (like the book itself); metaphysical strolls – in short, most entries made a more than decent attempt to echo Joyce’s own intentions. Which means that we had a very successful response – delightful to have a Challenge so well taken up. Thank you one and all – for your energy, your warmth, and your good-natured, uncynical participation, and here are the fine winners.

@geriatricus Prismatic prose, Dublin day-trip, guilt and yearning, rhetorically meaty treatise of the grand and the banal.

@lindenstein  "Dublin and its inhabitants on one rambling & otherwise ordinary day. Dublin itself is one of most carefully drawn characters."

@perko A perversely idealistic man describes his day of selfsame consequence, stewing in the broth of life's foul inner organs

@StanCarey  A man dissolved in many resolved in Molly comes to charms with a day in the life of a city all senses in Bloom. 


 

Jun 16, 2011

Re: Joyce, Episode 53a. Happy Bloomsday!

June 16 is Bloomsday, as well as the one-year anniversary of this podcast.

Jun 15, 2011

Re: Joyce, Episode 53. Horns and Hooves

Mulligan bathes, and Stephen takes his leave. The end of chapter 1.

Jun 08, 2011

Re: Joyce, Episode 52. A Side of Ribs

Gossip at the swimming hole: an unlikely officer, redheads, supermen, and missing ribs.

Jun 01, 2011

Re: Joyce, Episode 51. A Little Exposure

Stephen, Mulligan, and Haines encounter bathers, and Joyce employs some foreshadowing with news of Mulligan's brother.