Re: Joyce, Episode 55: Making the Point - of a Spear
Stephen continues his lesson, and we learn something of both Pyrrhus and Nestor.
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Stephen continues his lesson, and we learn something of both Pyrrhus and Nestor.
We begin Chapter 2, and find Stephen in the classroom with old battles, radical poets, and the daughters of memory.
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.
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.
June 16 is Bloomsday, as well as the one-year anniversary of this podcast.
Mulligan bathes, and Stephen takes his leave. The end of chapter 1.
Gossip at the swimming hole: an unlikely officer, redheads, supermen, and missing ribs.
Stephen, Mulligan, and Haines encounter bathers, and Joyce employs some foreshadowing with news of Mulligan's brother.
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