YEAR OF ULYSSES

M VP

By Stefan Krecsy and the Modernist Versions Project Team

2014 CC-BY TABLE OF CONTENTS

I-III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII the centerpiece for the YoU, this tweets – the actual archive, as well Introduction retrospective affords pride of place as the visualization thereof, leaves I But who are all those people, to the sixteen twitter chats that much to be desired as a reading chal- dropped into the text by not these digitial publications inspired. copy. lengeyou much more than their names, During these chats, Joyceans of to make rapidly sketched features, ges- all stripes took to twitter to debate instant tures, appearances and fragmen- and discuss the finer (and, at times, sense tary reactions? rougher) points of each episode; in of this the hopes of celebrating as well as continuing the dialogue of YoU, these twitter chats are here pre- sented, with some editorial over- Does this relentlessly paran- Celebrating the 90th birthday sight, for your reading pleasure. tactical listing aggregate into of James Joyce’s Ulysses and its Prior to a brief discussion on anything with a claim to being incumbent Canadian emancipa- the necessity of this editorial understood as a narrative. In tion from copyright, the Year of engagement, I would like to thank #YoU Twitter Viz. Click to Enlarge. their sequence, the terse state- Ulysses (YoU) brought Joyce’s Dr. Jentery Sayer’s for his work in Warning: Bandwith Required ments appear as randomly masterpiece to the greatest possi- setting up an active twitter archive. In editing the roughly thirteen collocated nucleai of narrative ble readership through a series of But for him, no such editorial work thousand tweets archived within without compelling inherent, let web seminars, twitter chats, and, would be possible, as the record of the YoU chats for presentation, I alone connectively causal rela- centrally, the digital publication of these chats would otherwise have wanted to avoid overwhelming the tion, they fail to become narrative a first edition Shakespeare & Co. been inaccessible (inaccessible, reader with material, while also because they are denied explicate Ulysses. Though the serial release though perhaps not lost, thanks to affording a sense of the com- contextualizable locally, nor can of the 1922 text, made possible the vigilance of the NSA) due to plexity of Twitter as a medium. the unprepared reader muster through the efforts of Patrick Belk Twitter’s limited archival record. Occasioanly, it seems as though implicit meaning from a wider and Mathew Kochis at the Univer- However, in recording the Twitter is entirely a centrifugal reading memory, or from a social -Hans Walter Gabler, sity of Tulsa and with the support entirety of the Twitter Chat – a medium, demanding multiplicity or topographical memory? “The Segments and the Whole” of the McFarlin Library, served as yield of some thirteen thousand rather than coherence, cacophony 1 2 rather than unity; in either case, a strange elision occurring where hopes of making the reading expe- a fourteen character hashtag of Ulysses, and of good conver- while both impulses were readily commentaries on Ulysses itself rience somewhat more inviting. becomes something of a burden. I sation, should find all this is as it apparent throughout the YoU morphed into commentaries on As an interactive PDF, all URL’s have also removed the handles of should be. twitter chats, it was not nearly so Twitter and vice versa. Throughout within the text are hyperlinked and the tweets from the corresponding obvious how best to represent the chats, participants raised the will lead to their corresponding participants, as my hope here was -Stefan Krecsy these impulses on paper. While troubling intricacies of discussing websites. Similarly, the episode to foreground the dialogue rather YoU Lead Researcher & Editor the above visualization provides Ulysses on Twitter, while others headers are linked to their corre- than the participants themselves. an effective way conceptualize the highlighted the similarity between sponding PDF copy of the digiti- Though issues of design, space, discussion as a whole, the sheer the two, at first so dissimilar, texts. lazed 1922 Ulysses. Furthermore, and method motivated my deci- number of connections and digres- With these elisions in mind, though I have worked to increase sion to do so, I also assumed that sions can be nothing short of over- Gabler’s challenge resonated with the legibility and accessibility of the in a medium where everything is whelming. Though the data thus my own experience with YoU, twitter archive, I have left unedited so thuroughly public, the partic- presented affords a good sense of and motivated me to attempt a any errors and shorthand that ipants would not bemoan some the size of engagement that YoU sort of synthesis between Twit- might be found therein. small privacy. That being said, an inspired, it does not necessarily ter and some of the technics of Finally, faced with an unwieldy enterprising reader could recon- facilitate a desire to engage , far less Ulysses, and “Wandering Rocks” mass of tweets, I was forced to struct the conversations based on read, such material. in particular. I have written about exclude a great many of them, and the tweeter handles being replied In casting about for how best this approach in more detail at the as such, this should not stand in to, and to make this enterprise eas- to represent the complexity of a Maker Lab and MVP’s websites, as a conclusive catalogue of the ier, I have listed the participants in year-long twitter conversation, and but in brief, recognizing that twitter entirety of the YoU tiwtter chats, the appendix. Furthermore, if the while reviewing the YoU lectures chats are always plural, I have much less the project as a whole. spirit so moves a reader to discover , I was struck by Hans-Walter attempted to represent what I take A great many retweets have been the source of a particular tweet, Gabler’s challenge “to make to be the relentless and centrifu- removed for the sake of brevity, let me refer you once more to the instant sense” of the “relentlessly gal pressure of the twitter archive and the same basic concern twitter archive as expressed within parantactical listing” of “Wan- using the labyrinthine form of motivated my decision to excise the visualisation. dering Rocks.” In reviewing the “Wandering Rocks” as a model. the YearofUlysses’s hashtags – as Despite these revisions, I trust apparently undifferentied bolus of With that being said, I should many participants themselves that the chats remain messy, tweets, I had already recognized provide a few textual notes in the complained throughout the chats, ambiguous, and incomplete. 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3 4 5 6 sKOK #ulysses @uvic think about the novel! 22 June 2012 ─ Overview of the Telemachiad ─ With images of pages, digital TELEMACHIAD (5-ish min); half-hour each Telemachus, reproduction seems to emphasize the 12:00 - 14:00 Proteus, Nestor, w/breaks in between for physicality of the book, esp with type open Q& ;A. Ready? bleeding thru pgs ─ Thx all . Can we start by thinking a ─@EKSwitaj I think the note abt # of Moderated By bit abt digital context? Do U get anything signed copies, etc. speaks to physicality different, ideas abt book as artifact? too. Who bought, for how much. cf. L janineutell ─ Seems that’s something @mvp1922 Rainey. contributes to our study of the book, and ─ Broader than just , but the HTML/ a place to start. PDF question is actually rather vexing; ─ Frontmatter, publication informa- latter has many advantages… but is way ─ TODAY at 2pmEST! Here’s tion, book history. less portable. some inspiration: Wordles for the ─ First decision: html or pdf? I had to ─ Also note: no chapter headings, no Telemachiad. http://t.co/xgUbOPHZ // choose PDF. numbered chapters, no Homeric clues, any interesting prompts? #fb ─ less possession of the text; feels at a just the “I” at the start. ─ In case you missed it, here’s a great distance but typography becomes more ─@janineutell Yes, and to the book, piece on from @readywriting: http://t. pronounced. the text, and literature as a commodity co/B2mAaUqJ #ulysses @uvic ─@janineutell This is the first time (or a set of commodities?). ─@GhostProf ICYMI: Made some I’ve seen SB’s wonderful note, asking ─@cforster Yes re: HTML/PDF. wordles; posted this a.m.: http://t.co/ “the reader’s indulgence of typographical Tools w/diff uses. broader but @mvp1922 xgUbOPHZ errors” will raise more convo abt this I think. ─ in an hour: “bringing this novel ─ it’s definitely nice to see a first edi- ─@janineutell @EKSwitaj Just read of the everyday back into everyday life.” tion and not have to use the white gloves. that chapter from Rainey. The ‘limited 2pm EST. Love Sylvia Beach’s apology. edition’ vs. private edition def. stands out ─ 5 minutes to YoUr first chat. A ─@jrparks321 Went w/PDF myself. to me. huge thank you to @janineutell for mod- ─@cforster Yes, esp since the errors ─@EKSwitaj Exactly. Who is it for. #yearofulysses erating. More here: http://t.co/swON- have actually contributed a lot to how we (And why does Beach feel like she has to

7 8 apologize anyway? To whom?) the profane on the first page. ─ I might also tag @notthemiddle- haunted, yes? RT @EKSwitaj: Could His letter. Speaking in memory. ─ Interesting: Telemachus begins ─ Check out the reader’s copy-edit- ─@mchlstvns Enjoyed Mulligan man to offer thoughts on haunting, if we we also connect the Black Mass to the ─@notthemiddleman Would that with the “black mass”/parody, ends with ing on page 31 if we’re talking materiality. more this time arnd: ludic impulse want to start with Stephen. cat in Calypso contrast with (say) the ghost of Hamlet’s writing parody (Ballad of JJ, Haines’ ─ p.3/4 possible to see hidden text contrasted w/Stephen, detected more ─ Always loved that book starts with ─ We may be getting ahead of our- father? Is the call for revenge ethical? irishisms) overleaf. Not quite haunted text but kindness this time too. a black mass, or at least a parody. R up selves; but I wonder if “haunted” does ─ Sounds associated w/ghosts: ─@cforster -- I dont nec. think suggests wider contexts ─ Also the parodic masculinity of the profane on the first page. describe both Steph. & ; Bloom. They prayers, singing. Stephen is ambivalent - but in process ─ Haha! Yes. Interactivity. RT @ ‘Buck’ who is also bullish. Contra the ─ vaguely reminiscent of maternal have very different + ─ really enjoying this discussion of discovering how difficult history is to mchlstvns: Check out the reader’s panther downstairs. super-ego but Stephen resists maternal ─ ways of relating to the past. moderated by @janineutell move past. copy-editing on page 31 if we’re talking ─ interesting he is accused of ghoul- law (intellectually but not emotionally). ─@cforster How so? some haunt- ─@cforster @notthemiddleman materiality. ishness himself, it seems, by a ghost. ─ interesting he is accused of ghoul- ing: Rudy? father? Hamlet’s father = revenge = ethical? *** ─ I might suggest moving on to ─@mchlstvns Parody heightened ishness himself, it seems, by a ghost. ─ Morbidly enough I have to sign What then Stephen? Responds to call? ─ My interest in Bloom always leads Telemachus at this point. We can always by neo-pagan references, use of Greek ─@notthemiddleman Connection off now to bury someone. Thanks @ Parallel? me to ask: why begin with Stephen? come back to these Qs/see where else (Arnold/1890s, Hellenise yourself.) to your point about maternal law (still janineutell ! ─@notthemiddleman Comment abt ─ The opening with Stephen in MT they come up. ─@notthemiddleman It’s like a grappling w/that) ─@janineutell Stephen (unlike “time out of joint” makes me want to do is both destabilizing and familiar. Those black mass that begins the novel by ─@notthemiddleman It’s like a Bloom… maybe) is haunted not simply something w/time/haunting but not sure familiar with Joyce recognize Stephen, *** raising unquiet spirits - culminating with black mass that begins the novel by by the dead, but by his guilt. what. but not Tower ─ I might suggest moving on to Rudy in Circe? raising unquiet spirits - culminating with ─ Yes. RT @cforster: @janineutell ─ We’re coming on the halfway ─ Opening with the Stephen in the Telemachus at this point. We can ─ Could we also connect the Rudy in Circe? Stephen (unlike Bloom… maybe) is mark for Telemachiad livechat. Next tower has a lot of political implications always come back to these Qs/see Black Mass to the cat who turns up in ─@notthemiddleman @GhostProf haunted not simply by the dead, but by up: Nestor and Proteus. Another min- for me. where else they come up. Calypso? Witches’ rite and witches’ see this w/ghost of mother in Circe, too. his guilt. ute of open thread. ─ but consider the opposite, if it ─ Background in case it’s useful: familiar? ─@janineutell @notthemiddleman ─ Evidence of Stephen’s being ─@janineutell maybe only Mol- opened with Calypso, reader would Telemachus takes place at 8am, Mar- ─ The opening with Stephen in MT @GhostProf and Old Gummy Granny haunted by guilt: Fergus, pp. 9-10 in @ ly’s Yes Yes at end is true movement recognize setting (home) but not Bloom tello Tower, Sandycove. Simultaneous is both destabilizing and familiar. Those in Circe mvp1922 1st edition towards life affirmation rather than - more traditional w/Calypso. familiar with Joyce recognize Stephen, ─@janineutell absolutely. Also the ─ sorry stopped for dinner there. haunting ─ Like this. RT @cthomasmurphy: ─ My interest in Bloom always leads but not Tower epic convention of an apostrophe to the Ghost comes in silence; no ethical ─@notthemiddleman moments opening w/ Stephen is destabilizing, me to ask: why begin with Stephen? ─ Opening with the Stephen in the muse: here, “christina,” for maternal message, just terror. of haunting in Penelope, she thinks of familiar. Those familiar w/ Joyce rec ─ Always loved that book starts with tower has a lot of political implications theme ─@notthemiddleman Ghosts are knitting his burial clothes. She moves Stephen, not Tower a black mass, or at least a parody. R up for me. ─ OK: but Bloom? he is also all silent in U, except for Virag, I think? past, the men don’t? ─ Which readers though? @ *** 9 10 janineutell @cthomasmurphy Might a bringing breakfast to Molly. recognize the Tower? again. Possibly a theme for Nestor? kindness this time too. ─@cforster And Mulligan gets Dublin audience have been expected to ─@cforster One last : never forget ─@EKSwitaj -- even an audience ─ Shall we have a moment of open ─ Also the parodic masculinity of annoyed: he was trying to puff Stephen recognize the Tower? that house means family, genealogy, that may rec. MT may not recognize the thread before moving on? Anything ‘Buck’ who is also bullish. Contra the up as an Irish bard/intellectual to ─@cthomasmurphy familiarity w/ lineage. history (nightmare of) that cause that we haven’t done you’d like to do? panther downstairs. Haines. Stephen makes me think of Cranly ref, ─ really enjoying this discussion tower to remain ─ We’re coming on the halfway ─ We’re coming on the halfway ─ cf: Deasy on the Englishman’s too. moderated by @janineutell ─ Morbidly enough I have to sign mark for Telemachiad livechat. Next mark for Telemachiad livechat. Next “proudest boast”: “I paid my way.” (@ ─@cthomasmurphy Perhaps we off now to bury someone. Thanks @ up: Nestor and Proteus. Another min- up: Nestor and Proteus. Another min- mvp1922 ed: pg 31) learn something abt. Stephen’s ideas re: *** janineutell ! ute of open thread. ute of open thread. ─ Interesting: Telemachus begins friendship (thinking abt that more this ─ For those who haven’t seen the ─ Could we go back to @jrparks321 ─@cthomasmurphy Just read ‘em; ─ If you’re just joining and would with the “black mass”/parody, ends with time) Martello Tower in Sandycove, here’s a re: political? Tower has something to so MT captures Stephen’s own ambiv- like to do a bit of reading, check out writing parody (Ballad of JJ, Haines’ ─ opening at MT has to do w/ the picture from a few years ago: http://t.co/ do w/? Politics/art? alent political commitments--English the @mvp1922 1st ed: http://t.co/ irishisms) end. Starts in Dun Laoghaire (south nsdehTFo ─@cthomasmurphy @EKSwitaj language & ; Irish nation? Kv7Ro5zm ─@mchlstvns by the way, thank you point of Dublinbay) ends at Howth ─Opening with the Stephen in the Ruins/artifacts that stand for something ─ Here’s @cthomasmurphy: tower ─ Any comments on Haines? for making the panther bit make sense (North) #commodiusvicus tower has a lot of political implications lost, but still haunting (political mem- is creation of force and hatred (history) ─@cforster only crass ones. for me. ─ Morbidly enough I have to sign for me. ory?) but also place S needs (temporarily) for ─ Was wondering that myself. RT @ ─@mchlstvns Ditto @janineutell’s off now to bury someone. Thanks @ ─ Say more! RT @jrparks321: ─@cforster One last : never forget survival cforster: Any comments on Haines? thanks re: the panther; “panthersahib” janineutell ! Opening with the Stephen in the tower that house means family, genealogy, ─@cthomasmurphy: hatred - not ─ Among other things Haines is on 44 really clarifies... ─ Nice. RT @mchlstvns: open- has a lot of political implications for me. lineage. nec Irish v English but rather created another figure highlighting Stephen’s ─@janineutell . Oh, I like that ing MT has to do w end. Starts Dun ─I tend to read a lot into the tower ─ Then what does a tower mean? from British distrust of Napoleon and complicated relationship to his own connection. Laoghaire (s point of Dublinbay) ends setting, maybe more than need be, as RT @GhostProf: @cforster One last : continental Europe words. ─@cforster @janineutell aw, shucks. Howth (N) #commodiusvicus a place of uncertain home -- British & ; never forget that house means family, ─@cthomasmurphy Martello Tow- ─@cforster “Would I make any you’re welcome. ─@mchlstvns damn - i like that - Irish genealogy, lineage. ers, specifically, designed to defend money by it” (14.490) in Gabler (sorry, ─ Further on writing/imperialism: ─ Also, contrast Buck and Stephen’s ─ a place designed to defend Ireland ─ really enjoying this discussion the British Empire during Napoleonic @mvp1922! Quicker!) Stephen’s teaching: Lycidas, Pyrrhus improvised bachelorhood at the tower from the Euro continent (France) - plac- moderated by @janineutell Wars ─ “Would I make money by it ? stuff, contrast w/riddle (more parody?) with Bloom’s organized, urbane home ing the island itself in a sort of limbo. ─ Nation/state/borders? Back to Stephen asked.” (16) ─ At the Philly Finnegans Wake in Calypso. ─ Which readers though? @ politics again? RT @janineutell Then *** ─@mchlstvns Yes: writing/imperi- Group Graham McPhee from West ─@mchlstvns Yes, and the old janineutell @cthomasmurphy Might a what does a tower mean? ─@mchlstvns Enjoyed Mulligan alism: we see it in Deasy’s horse letters, Chester brings up horses/imperialism/ woman bringing them milk to Bloom Dublin audience have been expected to ─@cforster asks back to politics more this time arnd: ludic impulse too. Britishness. Deasy’s writing. contrasted w/Stephen, detected more 11 12 *** which he’s expected to be authoritarian. kind of authority? unanswerable? ludic (15.2240) Homestead, the other in the Telegraph. ─ 11am on Sandymount Strand. ─ My interest in Bloom always leads ─@EKSwitaj Quote I just noted authority rather than force/tyranny? ─@mchlstvns Interesting sugges- Any thoughts? Stephen is supposed to meet Mulligan me to ask: why begin with Stephen? speaks to that: thinking of childhood in ─@janineutell Yes! He sees them tion; though I’m a little hesitant to ─@jrparks321 Irish Homestead at 12:30 at The Ship, wandering towards ─ Among other things Haines is relation to tyranny. thus as a group. It’s different when he dissolve the cow into the generality of published “The Sisters” in 1904 Dublin Center City. another figure highlighting Stephen’s ─ And the part where he lets the works with an individual. Real empathy “the animal.” ─@jrparks321 Telegraph = Irish ─ Of course he doesn’t meet him complicated relationship to his own kid read when he’s supposed to recite: for Sargent. ─ Holy cow! (pun intended). We nationalist. Bloom works for the Tele- again until S& ;C, but we have a ship on words. “Turn over. I don’t see anything.” ─@janineutell I’m not sure I’d say only have a half-hour left of . Let’s graph and the Freeman p. 50 of @mvp1922 1st ed. ─@cforster -- I dont nec. think ─@janineutell Also “In a moment ludic though it could be. Authority make our way to Proteus. ─@jrparks321 Telegraph = Irish ─ Two Words: Ineluctable modal- Stephen is ambivalent - but in process they will laugh more loudly, aware of my through superior knowledge or the nationalist. Bloom works for the Tele- ity. I’m pretty sure this is where I of discovering how difficult history is to lack of rule and of the fees their papas appearance of it. *** graph and the Freeman stopped reading this book the first time move past. pay.” ─@EKSwitaj Yes: so the joke’s on ─ Further on writing/imperialism: ─@jrparks321 Telegraph/Freeman I tried. ha! ─@cthomasmurphy Interesting. ─@jrparks321 Authority? Deasy whom? Stephen’s teaching: Lycidas, Pyrrhus near each other: SD delivers Deasy’s ─@jrparks321 Michael Levenson How is Stephen not ambivalent? speaks in proverbs, prophesy, via ─@janineutell Thanks. I’ll look into stuff, contrast w/riddle (more parody?) letter; Bloom goes to Freeman for work lists this as one of the most notorious ─ I sometimes find Stephen’s ideas canon. that! ─At the Philly Finnegans Wake in Aeolus. stopping points in the novel (w/ *Oxen* about history to be contradictory; inter- ─ The children are so used to being ─ Holy cow! (pun intended). We Group Graham McPhee from West ─ Stephen says, “I know two editors and *Circe*). ested in being contrarian. ruled that they expect it and maybe want only have a half-hour left of . Let’s Chester brings up horses/imperialism/ slightly” I love that line! ─@jrparks321 -- I warn people ─-Horse & ; History symbol and it--or is that just Stepen’s perception? make our way to Proteus. Britishness. Deasy’s writing. ─@jrparks321 Making fun of him- about those first two words and beg subject of Nestor ─@EKSwitaj Yes, and he pre-empts ─@jrparks321: Deasy says: “I want self or Deasy? : ) them to just keep going because they’re ─I guess contrarian/ambivalent not their laughter w/riddle. *** that to be printed and read.” The Press ─@jrparks321 @janineutell so close to Bloom! the same thing. ─@janineutell Does he resist using ─ it’s the first mention of cattle trade begins to become important here. A.E.I.O.U ─ Once I got over being terrified of ─@mvp1922 28-29: S on child- authority to pre-empt the laughter we get, but it comes up as shorthand for ─@jrparks321: And the press is ─ Ss weirdness w/Deasy’s letter/eds Proteus, I loved the narrative slipping hood: “Secrets weary of their tyranny. then, or is it just a more subtle kind of England’s exploitative endeavor a lot. important thruout re: ownership of reminds not just of Aeolus but S& ;C: back and forth btw Stephen and ??? Tyrants willing to be dethroned.” authority? ─@cforster Cows underscore writing, art and individual v politics/ feels this way abt intellectuals/highfa- ─ The German later in para. makes ─ YES. RT @emilederosnay: .@jani- ─@EKSwitaj think Stephen sees Dublin’s provincialism, like in Hades, collective lutins/scholars. me think Kant; but the sense of the cate- neutell comes with his age? Essentially a them as savages: so much Blake “inno- maybe. Aligns w/ “John Bull” myth, I ─ What does Writing/Publishing ─ Holy cow! (pun intended). We gories of perception here -> Aristotle. brilliant grad student :) cence/experience” in episode. “Mirth- think. Interesting RQ mean for Stephen vs. Deasy? only have a half-hour left of . Let’s ─ So: “ineluctable modality of the ─ My interest in Nestor: contrarian less but w meaning” ─@cforster comes to head with all ─ Deasy gives SD 2 copies. Tells make our way to Proteus. visible”: the eye does not transform Stephen trying to function in a role in ─@EKSwitaj Riddle as a certain the animal metaphors and signifiers in him to get both published, one in Irish * what it sees. Do we change world by Circe? thinking the 8 beatitudes. Gabler ** 13 14 perception? ─@jrparks321 I’ve long wished the ─@cforster I think specificity of eye Quite a bit of sound: eyes and ears. ─ Shut your eyes and see. Closes his map from *Thom’s* which Budgen = awareness of body. For SD = terror. ─@jrparks321 re: pattern from body eyes to hear. Stephen slips in and out of (I think) reports Joyce used was more ─ Yes. RT @kominkie: @janineutell to mind: yes. I think it’s more back and world, mind. easily available. Knock your sconce against it. Empirical forth, though. Go into the mind, then ─@janineutell Doesn’t help that ─@cforster I was JUST GOING refutation of George Berkeley. comes out. your dropped in Stephen’s head. Turns TO SAY that you wish that! ─@janineutell @cforster Could that ─@cthomasmurphy @jrparks321 out colour is the ineluctable modality of ─@cforster @jrparks321 . Been be to do with Joyce’s own eye troubles? Seems like that’s a consistent issue in the visible trying to get a hold of that map forever. ─ See Gottfried on iritis. RT @ Ulysses: what is actual sound and what ─@mchlstvns Just going to add that! ─ Help the guy out! Anyone? RT EKSwitaj: @janineutell @cforster is perceived sound? Narrative //s the slipping in and out of @mchlstvns: @cforster @jrparks321 . Could that be to do with Joyce’s own ─@jrparks321 Partly why I love the visible world, diff perceptions. Been trying to get a hold of that map eye troubles? end: seems to bring together through ─@janineutell Not sure that the forever. ─@jrparks321 In terms of where perception/imagery. ineluctablity=objectivity; S exploring ─ (Wow; “Proteus” may be uniquely he’s getting it, how he composed it? ─@cthomasmurphy: Beer. Break- the contours of the nature of visual challenging to discuss on twitter... .) ─ Do we have all of the senses (sight, fast. The stale roll in Eumaeus, right? experience. touch, sound, taste, smell) evoking ─-- does he eat them though - think- ─@cforster Did I make it sound like *** thought and memory or just sight? ing of line in Eumaeus -- “did not eat ineluctability=objectivity? Didn’t mean ─ Wonderful vision of an umbilical ─@jrparks321 Aristotle, Berkeley, today” meaning “yesterday” -- Beer - of to. I agree re: contours/experience. telephone: “The cords of all link back, Lessing, cld look at stuff on heresy too; course. ─ Can I throw memory and strandentwining cable of all flesh.” (p. ntbks/MSS on how he added in draft- imagined experience in here too? The 38) ing/proofing. Gouldings and Kevin Egan. ─ And that telephone gag combines ─@jrparks321 touch, sound, smell, ─ (Wow; “Proteus” may be uniquely a technology for bridging SPACE with a pretty sure no taste. Orifices = perme- challenging to discuss on twitter... .) biological connection through TIME. able body. Scary. ─@jrparks321 - “Crush, crack, crick, *** *** crick” not sure this constitutes as sound ─@jrparks321 Used Thom’s ─@janineutell Any evidence/ideas - but it’s perceived sound of sand under Directory and letters from his aunt to on Joyce’s structure/patterns behind feet help him. this vortex of SD’s thoughts? ─@cthomasmurphy @jrparks321

15 16 17 18 interests you. to consider that the episodes were never 13 July 2012 ─Is it interesting that the Calypso officially titled. from whom Bloom escapes in the morn- ─@GhostProf I've always thought CALYPSO 13:00 - 15:00 ing is the Penelope to whom he returns Calypso correspondence suggests at night? escaping domestic pleasure into world of ─More generally,how seriously do masculine obligation. Moderated By we take the Homeric correspondences? ─@cforster Sure, but also narcissism (Eliot certainly took them seriously.) and misdirection. In psychoanalytic cforster ─@cforster Yes, why "Calypso" here? terms, the drive missing its aim. She's hardly a menace in the Odyssey. ─@cthomasmurphy @BobRBogle ─@cforster Hi. Tucson, AZ, USA. I Entirely fair; but the use of Homeric text suspect Homerism to be more useful to as prop for reading started with the Little ─The twitter chat re #Calypso starts the author than to the reader. Review, no? now. Thank you so much to @cforster for ─@BobRBogle For a reader mightn'y ─@BobRBogle I should confess, I moderating! http://t.co/KBstZzwy they provide a way to make sense of probably would; moreso with "Hades" or ─Heighho! twitter discussion of what otherwise might be "just" a report of some of the smaller, light touches. "Calypso" begins! Come one, come all! everyday life? ─@cforster Certainly Homer PleaseE feel free to report in whence ─@cforster Saw a data vis that informed the writing & ; therefore our you're tweeting. showed a computer confusing Ulysses interpretation, but its final importance ─We'll be discussing "Calypso" for the prose rhythm with Iliad and Odyssey can be overemphasized next two— hours (until 3pm, EDT). 40% of the time! ─@cthomasmurphy Which is why ─I thought we'd start with some ─(I mean, I'm not saying life is an the "Calypso" correspondence seems so general issues in the first hour (homeric immense panorama of futility and anar- odd to me; correspondence; internal monologue) chy... but... ) ─@cthomasmurphy one reading of [+] ─@cforster Sure. But isn't that the the entire Homeric intertext is surely as a ─then some more specific issues point? What's wrong with *just* such a vast satirical send up of Bloom, no? (meats/animals/paper…); but I'm just report? ─@cforster -- Calypso the Nymph "facilitating." Please raise whatever most ─I agree with @BobRBogle -- need pictured above Blooms bed -- maybe its #yearofulysses 19 20 an escape from the portrait of domestic at night? genuinely unsure. updowns. avoidance, and deriving pleasure from ─@janineutell @ghostprof I think bliss? ─@cforster Yes, why "Calypso" here? ─@cforster Domestic bliss? I've ─@earth2steve Indeed; a double yes! avoidance. Link to his incomplete coitus Bloom takes pleasure in serving, & ; in all ─@cforster -- that is, Calypso as a She's hardly a menace in the Odyssey. never really understood if there's deeper "Be near her le bedwarmed flesh. Yes, with MB. the minutiae of being alive. Nymph -- not her precisely -- but incorpo- ─@GhostProf I've always thought significance 2 lack of intercourse 4 so yes." (61) ─@GhostProf And that sort of play of ─ (I'm looking for a particularly great rated as Bath of the Nymph Calypso correspondence suggests many years. ─@GhostProf @cthomasmurphy approach/avoidance is here with the first quote that captures Bloom's ambiva- ─@bobrbogle What about this: escaping domestic pleasure into world of ─@bobrbogle What about this: While OED doesn't back me up, I've refs to Blazes. lence; he stays as he leaves the bedroom... Calypso captures Odysseus, but masculine obligation. Calypso captures Odysseus, but heard "peckish" used to mean not simply ─@cforster Yes, so why is BB so hotly ) Penelope herself is trapped. A measure ─@cforster that would presuppose Penelope herself is trapped. A measure desiring of food... named: blazes, boilin'? ─@janineutell @GhostProf Lies, I of growth for LB?” that Bloom 1. has masculine responsibili- of growth for LB?” ─Interesting insight. Altho more fair ─ For Lacan, the drive generates plea- think, in Bloom's "Show! Hide! Show!" ─I think that play of staying/going ties & ; 2. is happy in his domestic role ─@cthomasmurphy Breakfast in bed perhaps to say Molly *has* been faithful sure by missing its aim, not achieving it. as BB invites him to peep through the captures the Calypso motif, and the play ─@cthomasmurphy Which is why = perversion, the pleasure of the marital 10 yr. To achieve it is to extinguish desire = bad. keyhole #Circe of desire, well. the "Calypso" correspondence seems so bed shifted to food rather than consum- ─@cforster @cthomasmurphy ─@GhostProf @cforster never ─ I think that play of staying/going ─@AllStevie Yes, Bloom enjoys the odd to me; mation. Hunger = lust = flesh = cannibalism = thought about importance/presence of captures the Calypso motif, and the play pleasure of us, the common human, not ─@cforster -- Calypso the Nymph ─@GhostProf Penelope pinned. Lestrygonians, but also Cyclops. menace. of desire, well. the Classical Literary Hero. pictured above Blooms bed -- maybe its Perhaps. Certainly bedridden. ─ RT @cforster: We'll be discussing ─@GhostProf where's the pleasure ─@AllStevie Yes, Bloom enjoys the ─Calypso theme=delay from home- an escape from the portrait of domestic ─@cthomasmurphy And certainly in "Calypso" for the next two hours (until for Bloom? pleasure of us, the common human, not coming, which connects to Irish nation- bliss? Lestrygonians LB equates food appetite 3pm, EDT). ─@cforster So what's your psychologi- the Classical Literary Hero. alism, references to Palestine & ; LB's ─@cforster So what's your psychologi- with sexual appetite. ─@cforster Did Molly's discovery of cal theory, Calypso 2 Penelope, Chris? ─@AllStevie @earth2steve Doesn't Jewishness, no? cal theory, Calypso 2 Penelope, Chris? ─As @mchlstvns ref to #Circe, and LB's flirtatious letters finally trigger her ─@BobRBogle I wish I had one! This LB's character become more individual ─@ellisjudd Exactly; and the the- ─The derivative pleasure of the @BobRBogle's to #Penelope (I think) own tryst? is one of many questions on which I am (perverse?) later in the novel, say, Circe? matics of home from Homeric intertext; martyr, enabling the pleasure of MB thru suggest, much remains opaque this early genuinely unsure. ─@cforster @earth2steve I think resisting present pleasure in name of faith self-denial. Which is gratifying. LB as in the novel. *** ─ The derivative pleasure of the Circe is where a lot of his subconscious to homeland. masochist?” ─@GhostProf -- consumption + con- ─@cforster Sure, but also narcissism martyr, enabling the pleasure of MB thru perversion is brought into the light. ─@cforster -- that is, Calypso as a summation -- George Costanza almost and misdirection. In psychoanalytic self-denial. Which is gratifying. LB as ─@janineutell @mchlstvns for *** Nymph -- not her precisely -- but incorpo- made it work. terms, the drive missing its aim. masochist?” me the point is that he never extricates ─Is it interesting that the Calypso rated as Bath of the Nymph ─Leopold is the first big "Yes" sayer in ─@GhostProf Could you elaborate ─@janineutell @GhostProf Bloom himself from the fantasy. He tries to see from whom Bloom escapes in the morn- ─@BobRBogle I wish I had one! This #Ulysses, returning to Molly's 'bed- re: drive/aim to Bloom? Intrigued. tarries with BB even here, with his faux himself as + ing is the Penelope to whom he returns is one of many questions on which I am warmed flesh.' They both accept life's ─@cforster His whole day is about naive question about the letter from BB. ─@janineutell @mchlstvns others

21 22 do, but never quite gets there. He can ─@GhostProf @cthomasmurphy ─@janineutell LB associates hams -- is he Everyone, or so appealing because who is uncommon, or the technique here ─ LB 'hyper-aware' in that he notices only do it as he imagines they see him. While OED doesn't back me up, I've while at a butcher shop. & ; sausages . . . he only appears so while being in fact which heightens ordinary perception? tiny things, muses on them, all day long! ─@GhostProf @mchlstvns Always heard "peckish" used to mean not simply ─@janineutell @cforster Politics special? ─ Did Joyce craft LB as a hyper-aware Not 'self-aware' ("where's my bloody living in a world of others' perceptions. desiring of food... introduced in LB's trip to the butcher ─ Leopold is the first big "Yes" sayer in observer/feeler to have an effective narra- hat?"). Implications for narrator/narrativity? ─ Leopold is the first big "Yes" sayer in We're down to our last 10 minutes: #Ulysses, returning to Molly's 'bed- tor, or did he craft him as a model for us? ─@AllStevie @earth2steve Doesn't ─@GhostProf @cforster Not always, #Ulysses, returning to Molly's 'bed- what haven't we talked about? How well warmed flesh.' They both accept life's ─ Say LB is less "common" and more LB's character become more individual but this is a nice response to the Q I just warmed flesh.' They both accept life's JJ captures Milly's 15yo voice perhaps? updowns. "candid, uninhibited." (perverse?) later in the novel, say, Circe? posed re narrativity. Narrating yourself. updowns. ─@cforster I still want to know if LB ─@earth2steve Indeed; a double yes! ─ Subconscious mind not Victorio- ─ In talking about how easily we iden- ─@GhostProf @janineutell @mchl- ─@earth2steve Indeed; a double yes! puts relish on his kidneys, or eats them "Be near her le bedwarmed flesh. Yes, an-suppressed. tify with LB, do we not risk self-exposure stvns True, but I think he has a grasp on "Be near her le bedwarmed flesh. Yes, with vigor. yes." (61) ─ I'm still wondering how hyper- or embarassment. //Maybe that's a good who he is, & ; it's not pure fantasy. He... yes." (61) ─@cforster @allstevie Big question aware LB really is. He returns his hat thing. ─@GhostProf @janineutell @mchl- ─@cforster @cthomasmurphy *** -- is he Everyone, or so appealing because to its hook; but only recalls he's done so ─@cforster No, LB equally (non) stvns ...knows himself better than others Hunger = lust = flesh = cannibalism = ─ Bloom as a hyper-observant human he only appears so while being in fact later. perverse throughout; in #Circe we see can. Lestrygonians, but also Cyclops. serves Joyce well as a rich narrator. He is special? ─@cforster Good point re: LB's subconscious primarily is all. ─ RT @cforster: We'll be discussing also a model of a life lived fully. ─@cforster LB is VERY uncom- heightened ordinary perception, but note ─@cfoster I like your comment *** "Calypso" for the next two hours (until ─@janineutell @ghostprof I think mon, in the sense he is hyper-aware and the absence of grudge-bearing & ; other about exposure/embarrassment. Bloom ─@cthomasmurphy Breakfast in bed 3pm, EDT). Bloom takes pleasure in serving, & ; in all feeling; common in that he is not a Hero, internal junk. exposes himself, e.g. "reflects (refracts is = perversion, the pleasure of the marital ─ Picking up on @GhostProf's point the minutiae of being alive. Moviestar. ─@BobRBogle What intrigues me it?)" bed shifted to food rather than consum- about cannibalism; note how people ─I think that play of staying/going ─@earth2steve @cforster So, special, about the narration here is the way in ─@cforster I think we do. Certain mation. are figured as meat:"her moving hams" captures the Calypso motif, and the play like the rest of us? which it incorporates different levels of discomforts manifest when teaching this ─@cthomasmurphy And certainly in "sound meat there" of desire, well. ─ RT @cforster: We'll be discussing consciousness + to undergrads as a result. Lestrygonians LB equates food appetite ─ Later, MB compared to "she-goat ─@AllStevie Yes, Bloom enjoys the "Calypso" for the next two hours (until ─@BobRBogle perceptions & ; ─@GhostProf I once had a student, with sexual appetite. udder"; or LB feeling his flesh "seared" by pleasure of us, the common human, not 3pm, EDT). thoughts, but whisps of material that commenting on the conclusion of "Nausi- ─ Hm. Speaking of food: do you sup- grey horror (like a burnt kidney). the Classical Literary Hero. ─@earth2steve You're now asking Bloom doesn't seem to fully acknowl- caa," note "It's just like when..." and blush. pose "relish" is adverbial or condimental? ─@cforster @GhostProf Cannibalism ─ I think @AllStevie's question raises about the technique of the internal edge. ─@cforster @ghostprof lol that's ─@GhostProf -- consumption + con- a stretch? Is emphasis on "meat" instead a larger one: how "common" is LB? Isn't monologue/stream of consciousness; is ─@earth2steve @cforster as one who's awesome summation -- George Costanza almost rendering economics of home? About there a touch of the artist about him? ;) LB's diff from SD's? lousy at grudge-bearing, I relate to LB; made it work. marking value? ─@cforster @allstevie Big question ─@earth2steve I wonder if it's LB again, "special, like the rest of us" fits

23 24 ─@cforster Yes, so why is BB so hotly alism, references to Palestine & ; LB's left shoulder first. Plus I have no testicles. Bloom's homeland? Or do I misunder- terms of politics, genealogy, state/nation? (riches, confiscations & ; heirs included). named: blazes, boilin'? *** Jewishness, no? ─@AllStevie consistent with the stand? How to delineate? How does Ulysses do ─@janineutell @GhostProf Bloom ─ RT @cforster: We'll be discussing black mass that Buck conducts in ch. 1! ─@janineutell I wish I had a better it? *** tarries with BB even here, with his faux "Calypso" for the next two hours (until ─@GhostProf Yes! & ; he goes to a response re: domesticity->politics. ─ Bloom's meditation on Arthur ─@earth2steve You're now asking naive question about the letter from BB. 3pm, EDT). Protestant school. Never connected that Joyce raises this, but I'm unsure what to Griffith and the homerule sun is certainly about the technique of the internal ─@cforster Did Molly's discovery of ─@cforster "Stately" contains the word before. make of it. a politically charged moment in this monologue/stream of consciousness; is LB's flirtatious letters finally trigger her yes in reverse: first/last occurrence in ─ As we enter last /12 hour: During ─@BobRBogle though "Cyclops" episode, yeah? LB's diff from SD's? own tryst? book. 1st chat people spoke quite a bit about will show a different idea about nation & ─@AllStevie @GhostProf The SoC ─ RT @cforster: We'll be discussing ─@BobRBogle @cforster I think ─@BobRBogle Political too- the politics; are those concerns absent ; home. narration here shows how the political "Calypso" for the next two hours (until it comes down to heat v. cold, blazes v. state. And spoonerific - Stately, plump/ "Calypso"? ─@janineutell @cforster Sorry, went irrupts the everyday; it oozes and bubbles 3pm, EDT). bloom and the cold of interstellar space. plately, stump. Buck Mulligan/Muck ─@cforster Politics not on the surface for coffee. Back now. Oikos (root of eco- in. ─ MT @BobRBogle 1 major interest- The humours. Bulligan. John Bull. in #Calypso, but surely important to form nomics) = home. But this is inseparable ─ (SoC being my idosyncratic abbrevi- ing Q of #Ulysses is: who is even telling ─@BobRBogle @cforster and of ─@GhostProf In wordles for LB's character; a nation of one in Dublin. as well in ation for stream of consciousness.) this story? course theory of entropy; heat is what Calypso& ;Proteus, notice prominence ─@cforster Good Q re politics, esp in ─@janineutell @cforster Ulysses ─@jenterysayers @ghostprof except ─@BobRBogle I think the answer to moves/organizes and staves off death. of "back"; characters being drawn into the the context of the domestic space (domes- from Home Rule, a man's home is his the king is pooing, & ; the queen hasn't got that Q shifts as Joyce worked on it; it's a Heat = passion. past/burdened by it? tic economy?). Vacated of politics? castle (not like the tower), and the House out of bed. #whatdoesitMEAN novel that starts in modernism and ends ─@GhostProf Or instead of heat, to ─@GhostProf @BobRBogle State ─@cforster What about Agendath as genealogy. ─@GhostProf In other words, you eat in PoMo. sound like TSE, fertility; ~Bloom~? Cf. and Religion (mirror and razor lay Netaim? Hebrew search for homeland as ─@janineutell @cforster So, really, at home; you do business in your house. ─@BobRBogle In "Calypso" I think the vision of "barren land, bare waste" crossed) governing language of text parallel to Irish? I think the domestic is overrun with They are often the same building. we're in midst of a novel trying to chart (60). ─@GhostProf Father Son & ; Holy ─@ellisjudd Exactly; and the the- politics. ─@GhostProf @BobRBogle The consciousness meticulously. Not so later ─@cforster Totally! And even in Ghost & ; Jakes McCarthy (from mem- matics of home from Homeric intertext; ─ The jangling quoits on MB's bed colonization of the everday (language) by (#Ithaca). TWL, it's spring -- the sun -- that mixes ory, hope I got it right) resisting present pleasure in name of faith frame always make me think of the open- the commercial (brand-name)? #over- ─@BobRBogle Which is why I think memory and desire. "Summer surprised ─@AllStevie I learned the genu- to homeland. ing of Nightwood, with Hedwig Volkbein reading #adorno one very interesting Q: how does Molly's us…" flexion thus: spectacles, testicles, wallet, ─@janineutell @cforster Politics giving birth and ─@cforster @bobrbogle Or of the concluding monologue differ from ear- watch, with corresponding hand move- introduced in LB's trip to the butcher ─ dying, to start things off on the everyday by the epic? Or of the epic by the lier ones LB/SD. *** ments. ─@ellisjudd @cforster damn, you beat house/coat of arms/family name/ geneal- everyday? Is it all colonization, though? ─@cforster @BobRBogle Beat my ─ Calypso theme=delay from home- ─@GhostProf so, wait, is that the me to it ogy obsession of that novel, too. ─@GhostProf Well, it's about the fingers to the punch: after censorship coming, which connects to Irish nation- Protestant way? As a Catholic, I learned ─@cforster What are you asserting is ─@AllStevie House v. Home in economy and design of domestic space ordeal of "Nausicaa," narrativevoice

25 26 dramatically changes ─@cforster @BobRBogle Bah, have ─@BobRBogle I have a hard time LR-MAKING NO COMPROMISE!); ─ We're down to our last 10 minutes: says "immature/mature/female" ─@BobRBogle Absolutely; here we K. Mullins somewhere in this towering thinking through this novel without at but complexity doesn't [+] what haven't we talked about? How well ─ I wonder if that is a point of contrast encounter a question similar to that of the bookstack. I'll get back to you. least some consideration of its process of ─@BobRBogle necessarily imply a JJ captures Milly's 15yo voice perhaps? with the earlier monologue of SD (in use of the Homeric parallels I think. ─@cforster I don't buy the #Nausicaa publication. master plan, or that we take the schemata ─@cfoster and in so many ways "Proteus" eg)? ─@BobRBogle i.e. what are we sup- shift; don't know what Ellman says. ─@cforster @BobRBogle I tend to too seriously, or view it as completely Ulysses is a novel about errors and mis- ─Is there a qual diff between thoughts posed to ~do~ with this book? ─@ellisjudd Remove the headlines be okay with a lot of tellers; cf. Riquelme's unified. takes, for LB and SD both of SD and LB besides intellectual/sen- ─@mchlstvns Though "Nausicaa" and #Aeolus is still stylistically quite book on "Teller & ; Tale" or Hayman's ─@cforster I don't worry abt the ─@BobRBogle That ambiguity is sual? itself (or "Aeolus") already evidences a divergent from what went before. "Arranger" schemata, but #Ulysses is a giant clock part of the clockwork mechanism! (But ─Compare SD & ; LB on keys; LB shift to inject additional material, no? ─@ellisjudd @BobRBogle Proof is ─@ellisjudd The "Arranger" hypoth- full of hundreds of gears, not an organic surely it is adverbial! Surely!) leaves his house unlocked, SD is covetous ─@mchlstvns That is: Gerty's mono- in the pages; no headlines: http://t.co/ esis seems unnecessarily constraining; process. ─@yesisey Fractured POV's require of key. Different attitudes to permeability logue is not her _voice_, in the way LB's bEPMFO26 how about a work open to its own com- ─@BobRBogle my 1st read was for parallax to approximate *truth*. of self? monologue is his "voice," right? ─@mchlstvns @BobRBogle plex history? a class. Honestly don't know if I would ─@cforster @mchlstvns got me think- ─@cforster True, but still predomi- WHEW. Though I agree, it's still differ- ─@BobRBogle @cforster The 4th have made it on my own. Don't think that *** ing: narrating oneself, maybe it takes nantly "initial style," despite headlines and ent from the 3 previous chapters,which time I read the whole thing I noticed how diminishes it ─@BobRBogle Which is why I think years of practice to be comfortable. 1/? Gertyspeak. After Nausicaa, it disap- are stylistically similar unified it really is, but it's impossible 1st ─ Not sure I agree. MT @BobRBogle one very interesting Q: how does Molly's ─@cforster @mchlstvns Influenced pears ─#Aeolus prefigures #Sirens in its time #Ulysses is a giant clock full of hundreds concluding monologue differ from ear- by reading: Gerty sounds like a ladies' ─ As early as #Aeolus we begin 2 see musical poetry w/o the headlines. ─ Speaking of the history/materiality of gears, not an organic process. lier ones LB/SD. magazine, SD is influenced by medieval stylistic shift, which makes me think ─ Speaking of serial appearance, of texts: how to read Bloom's concluding ─@cforster Organic embellishment ─@mchlstvns Though "Nausicaa" scholars Joyce may have intended wild divergence note how Pound toned down the jakes use of "Matcham's Masterstroke"? overlaid on the clock. Exquisite timing. itself (or "Aeolus") already evidences a ─@cforster @mchlstvns LB's been all along. scene: cf:p67/68 with http://t.co/ZLxn- ─@AllStevie Agree, SD'A. You can- But AE doubted SD's theory, too. shift to inject additional material, no? doing it so long it's more comfortable, ─@BobRBogle I'm intrigued by @ l1hZ not write a book this complex and do it on ─@BobRBogle Hundreds of gears I ─ In #Penelope Molly certainly har- MB just doesn't give a fuck. mchlstvns suggestion that censorship of ─@BobRBogle Beneath this the fly in response to public opinion. like; I don't know that they power a single bors many delusions LB doesn't, but she ─@cforster @mchlstvns maybe we're "Nausicaa" is key event in stylistic shift. question I think is a real fissure among ─@cforster Sure, I like that as well. mechanism. Some just spin& ;spin for has a certain kind of Truth he lacks. ALL telling the story (or is that too FW?) ─@BobRBogle @mchlstvns Does K. readers; btwn those who want a unified Just putting it out there as an important our amusement. ─@mchlstvns That is: Gerty's mono- ─@AllStevie Absolutely; thou "Nau- Mullin suggest so in her book? teller & ; others. step towards getting away from unified ─@GhostProf the way it does every- logue is not her _voice_, in the way LB's sicaa" reads not as Gerty's consciousness ─@BobRBogle Yeah but he went ─@cforster I encourage new readers narr. thing: by weaving in mentions of every- monologue is his "voice," right? but as narrated by a novelist Gerty would back and added the headlines after initial to think of episodes as independent ─@BobRBogle I wouldn't necessar- thing that could possibly have anything to ─@cforster @bobrbogle I think read. serial publication, right? books, not chapters. ily say "response to public opinion" (cf: do with it. there's a difference between all 3. Schema ─@cforster guess what I'm saying is,

27 28 Gerty has internalized that voice as how ─@cthomasmurphy @cforster @ if that sort of anagrammatical reading on adverbs? Distinguishes btw a clear stories should sound. BobRBogle Cat: another iteration of isn't (dare I say it?) "overreading"? extradiegetic narr and Bloom's mind "See yourself as others...": "Wonder what ─@cforster OMG yes: 1st adverbs ─@janineutell That is the best/pith- *** I look to her." describing LB: "curiously, kindly" sum iest explanation I've heard. The adverbs ─ What to make of the cat? (Beyond: ─@cforster @bobrbogle true. FTR, him up PERFECTLY are intensely writerly (HA!). "Isn't LB a nice guy." Or is that enough?) my cat quotes Joyce. ─@cforster Frequency of adjectives ─ MT @janineutell: Adverbs dis- ─@cforster Didn't Freud say some- ─@ellisjudd Towers etc-a question interesting -- "plump" gets used lots in tinguish between a clear extradiegetic times a cat is just a cat? of, as @AllStevie says, POV & ; "seeing Telemachus. Searchable now on @ narrator and Bloom's mind. ─@GhostProf I don't see too many ourselves as others..." Sometimes non-hu- mvp1922 version! ─@GhostProf I don't see too many adverbs within LB's monologue though- man others. ─@BobRBogle Political too- the adverbs within LB's monologue though- -they seem a sign of the narrativity rather ─@mchlstvns See yourself as others: state. And spoonerific - Stately, plump/ -they seem a sign of the narrativity rather thn cnscnss. again I ask, who is telling (seeing) all of plately, stump. Buck Mulligan/Muck thn cnscnss. ─@BobRBogle Probably... though #Ulysses? Prob. M'Intosh. Bulligan. John Bull. ─ We're down to our last 10 minutes: JJ seems interested in registering the cat's ─@cforster @bobrbogle I'm just ─@cforster @earth2steve I think what haven't we talked about? How well voice; 1/2 saying, his "meows" have k's in them Circe is where a lot of his subconscious JJ captures Milly's 15yo voice perhaps? ─@BobRBogle As Bloom notes: #justsaying perversion is brought into the light. ─@cforster I still want to know if LB "They understand what we say better than ─@GhostProf I once had a student, puts relish on his kidneys, or eats them we understand them." (61) *** commenting on the conclusion of "Nausi- with vigor. ─@cforster He sees the different sides ─ Hm. Speaking of food: do you sup- caa," note "It's just like when..." and blush. of the cat's personality & ; it's POV. Cat's pose "relish" is adverbial or condimental? ─@cforster Yup. And sometimes features (eyes, teeth) harken to Ch 1... ─ Anyone want to comment on Joyce's when you point things out, the shock of ─@cthomasmurphy @BobRBogle adverbs? After "Stately plump..." & ; recognition is also one of exposure. Also the bells's *Heighho*; even before "moved about the kitchen softly" etc; what ─ Which is why I think the key- "Circe" the nonhuman gets a voice. to say? phrase of the whole is "See ourselves as ─@cforster @BobRBogle telling ─@cforster "Stately" contains the word others see us." though, a cat understands us more than yes in reverse: first/last occurrence in ─@cforster @ghostprof lol that's we understand it" followed by language book. awesome un-understandable ─@BobRBogle I wonder sometimes ─@cforster too late to comment

29 30 31 32 RA3YQuco difference from other cultures - foreign 03 Aug 2012 ─ Homeric Corres.: Odysseus’s crew but alluring LOTUS munch some opiatic flowers, become ─@jrparks321 I like the idea of 11:00 - 13:00 inert, & ;are disembarrassed of their Bloom as flower--a heliotrope: ie. desires for home . Bloom is a ‘son/sun’ oriented flower. EATERS ─ A sketch of “Lotus Eaters” themes, then: narcotics, addiction, home, wan- *** dering, inertia, thanatos... ─ I’ve been thinking about Bloom’s Moderated By ─ Q, then: How potent is the language knowledge of the world, intelligence, of flowers here, or lotus eaters as a and, basically his mind. Would you call mchlstvns homeric correspondence? him smart? ─@GhostProf How much of empire ─@jrparks321 Bloom, I think, has ─ @mvp1922: @mchlstvns-coming is thematically tied to the narcotics and its cracking intelligence and wit, but is inse- up with provocative qs for chat tomor- attendant addictions? cure about his lack of college education, row. Brush up on Lotus Eaters and don’t ─@jrparks321: I don’t know if Tea no? you? miss it http://t.co/xM5bMSsJ qualifies as narcotics, but Tea and the Far ─@mchlstvns @jrparks321 What’s ─ A little taste of ‘Lotus Eaters’ audio East certainly seem central to LE. the place of wisdom wrt knowledge for http://db.ttvEYMqUMO ─@jrparks321 And to LB generally. Bloom? ─ Time: ~10:00am, Bloom walks That’s what, the third oriental reverie? ─@mchlstvns “Cracking curricu- (surreptitiously) to postoffice, stops at (And tea is caffeine, no?) lum” Church, buys some lemonsoap, walks ─@GhostProf @jrparks321 The towards bath. *** difference b/w knowledge and wisdom ─ Same time as “Nestor”: Stephen ─@mchlstvns In a sense -- the com- being its transmission? How does it and Bloom have their first quasi meeting mercialization of the exotic, simultane- compare to Deasy? in “Hades” (up next on @mvp1922) ously foreign but presented in a familiar ─ @GhostProf Thinking of Levinas’ ─ Place: wandering just southeast of (cont). distinction: knowledge seeks to grasp Dublin’s heart (#Aeolus) and Dublin’s ─ form (tea, here) in a way dupes/ and hold; wisdom allows for alterity. #yearofulysses stomach (#Lestrygonians): http://t.co/ dopes the masses into an ideology of ─@mchlstvns @GhostProf Deasy

33 34 lives by one set of facts, Bloom uses all body, no brains--sensual vs sensory the reappearance of characters from the power relations in Dublin. [+] Dublin has become a fever-dream/ to me. Buildings can be demolished, multiple senses to experience and ─@eetempleton @mchlstvns @ Dubliners in ‘LE’. ─@jrparks321 Do you think LB’s nightmare of empire? people move away, but streets tend to “know” his environment GhostProf So, sensual experience is no ─@mchlstvns I should say half-be- voyeurism in LE is partially boredom ─@mchlstvns I’m thinking of the keep their names. ─@jrparks321 @mchlstvns So is guarantee of wisdom/understanding? lieving I’m getting something uniquely w/ ppl around LB? way LB thinks about Bantam Lyon’s there wisdom in the sensory, bodily, ─@jrparks321 @mchlstvns @ Irish out of JJ’s work. ─ mind if we bring this back to Lotus shaved moustache. “He does look *** etc. that is missing in the cerebral? GhostProf Not if we use Boylan as the ─ “Curious if “”Dubliners”” (re) Eaters: how does the sensuality work in Balmy. Younger than I am” ─@GhostProf @mchlstvns So LB is ─@GhostProf @jrparks321 I buy test-case. Unless we shft focus of both appearance makes it feel like a (real) the episode? ─ Welcome @ellisjudd! Where do sort of a traveling camera or roving eye? that, esp. in the distinction b/w LB and entirely to the self community (like simpsons), or makes it ─@mchlstvns Also makes me think you see the politics arising in LE? ─@jrparks321 @GhostProf I’m Stephen. Accounts for stephen’s lack of ─@jrparks321 @mchlstvns @Ghost- feel claustrophobic. of how Wandering Rocks opens with ─@jrparks321 Weird too w/ M’Coy inclined to agree. Cinematography empathy? Prof Right--I’d put Molly in the sensual ─@jrparks321 might be interesting Church. How does this initial location considering how much they have in wrks formally in ‘LE’; very scopophilic ─@GhostProf @jrparks321 But c and shift Boylan over to sexual to talk for a mmnt about how Dublin’s set up the chapter? common: wife in showbusiness, etc. chapter: flicker, flick. does Ulysses enforce a clear distinction ─, so LB then is a composite figure represented, since LE’ss the first wan- ─@jrparks321 I wonder how much ─@jrparks321 How much gossip ─@jrparks321 @GhostProf Is b/w cerebral & ; sensory? of cerebral/sensory, contributes to his dering episode. of LB’s isolation is his ‘jewishness’ and LB tries to avoid here. These characters Bloom a sort of modern ethnographer? ─@mchlstvns @jrparks321 Isn’t the everymanness? ─@jrparks321 What aspects/tech- how much is deliberate. seem to know a lot about eachother. [+] How much does technology mediate lesson of the Odyssey that Odysseus niques contribute to this historical, or ─@jrparks321 Is Bloom presenting his wanderings? * has to learn wisdom where he’s already *** geographical, verisimilitude? ** an effacing self to these acquaintances to ─ In a chapter about inertia and “smart”? ─ Now I’m thinking about Joyce’s ─@jrparks321 Me too. Strange the ─ No that we’re entering the 2nd avoid the gossip? or is it more innocent? impotence, why is LB so mobile? He ─@mchlstvns @GhostProf @ distance from Dublin when he wrote, amount of criticism that focuses on hour, might we ask if LB’s chapters are ─@jrparks321 Back2streets: Do you covers about as much space here as jrparks321 I’ve always thought so-- particularly Vargas Llosa’s essay on LB’s openness& ;empathy to urban less (overtly) political than SDs? find the list of toponyms confusing at Lestrygonians hence the LB SD duality, which gets Dubliners. interactions. ─ Enda Duffy see’s Bloom’s wan- times, despite their accuracy? ─@mchlstvns Good question. I was further complicated w/ Boylan ─@jrparks321 Interesting: got a ─@mchlstvns For me, it’s dialogue, derings as minute forms of everyday ─@jrparks321 I found, when first shocked by all the ground covered in ─@mchlstvns @GhostProf @ quick precis? street names (I see a huge significance in resistance to colonial power forma- reading, that it was difficult to know the map you provided! jrparks321 And Molly ─@mchlstvns Llosa talks about JJ’s street names), and advertisements tions. Work for ‘LE’? where Bloom was. ─@mchlstvns Any thoughts on all ─@eetempleton @GhostProf @ Dublin as wholly artistic creation, yet I ─ Whenever I teach autobiography ─@mchlstvns Some of his observa- ─@jrparks321 How much of the the floods and baths in this chapter? jrparks321 How does Boylan compli- read JJ believing I’m getting historical essays, I make students list all of the tions of others certainly come across as naming, rather than describing, has to I’m guessing it’s just the Odyssey, sea cate it? I’d like to hear more. Dublin. street names before they begin writing. criticisms inspired by insecurity. {+} do with Joyce’s exile? Joyce writing by voyage. ─@mchlstvns @GhostProf @ ─@jrparks321 Good point. I’m ─ Esp. in the colonial context, the ─@mchlstvns Or could the wan- way of maps? ─@cthomasmurphy Very welcome jrparks321 To grossly oversimplify, he’s wondering what you make, then, of streetnames seem to reveal a lot about derings just show the extent to which ─@mchlstvns Seems very significant nevertheless. I was wondering how

35 36 imperialism (flow of global capital) fit in as an addiction ─@mchlstvns To connect our ques- tions (floods and movement) Maybe LB is some kind of fish in this chapter. ─@jrparks321 Genuinely befuddled by the floods. Could be calls for rejuve- nation/recycling a la old testament?

37 38 39 40 constantly made to feel the outsider. needle him. The appearance of Boylan 24 Aug 2012 ─@mvp1922 @Yellworque: @James- signals an oh-so-innocent inquiry into the Joyce_OTT is ready to discuss Hades in concert tour. HADES 10:00 - 12:00 #JamesJoyce #Ulysses - ! ─@BobRBogle: We see the slurs in ─ I think we have a sense by now of Cyclops; in Hades, I’d argue evidence the grounds (however unfair) for LB’s of understanding 4 LB, esp re: father’s Moderated By exclusion. But what is the manner of that suicide exclusion? ─ Some sympathy, but most ignore Yellworque ─ Is made 2 feel or *is* an outsider? him. Never saw it as needling but coinci- Has LB any friends? Unsure others dis dence that they raise the Boylan issue in him vs don’t really *know* him. LB’s mind. ─ For one thing, LB is “Bloom” to ─ [+] There is of course the odd coin- ─ Welcome to the fifth #MVP Twit- one and all; otherwise, the men call cidence that the men could be said to be ter Chat. We’ll be talking about “Hades.” each other by their first names—by their sitting in a sociable (coach) The one in the graveyard. Christian names. ─@nickmimic LB and Kernan— ─ Or “Had Days,” as Joyce calls it in ─ “What is your Christian name?” another victim of the baiting—are some- F W. Hynes says rather bluntly later in the what out of place at a Catholic funeral, ─ “Hades,” as the third Bloom episode. right? episode, showcases LB in the society of ─ Jewish slurs as if LB isn’t present; as ─@Yellworque Certainly. Though other men. if he himself is a shade. one of the questions would be whether ─ If Ep. 4 gave us LB at home (in ─ Nice! He even tries to join in on the religious or social exclusion or combo are the main), Ep. 5 had him venturing into game—witness his disastrous piece of at play most the street but still able to keep largely to storytelling re: Reuben J. ─@nickmimic (Just dropping in). himself. ─@BobRBogle: Both - pub goers in Indeed; the funeral is a sort of social ─@Yellworque: tackles “Hades” Cyclops sure have fun w/ Bloom, but even obligation. Condolences seem proforma today. 1PM EST. I’ll be in the modera- we laugh at LB’s “phenomenons” and (save LB’s). tor’s chair. #Joyce conversation ─ Even pronouns do the work of #yearofulysses ─ Not so in “Hades,” where Bloom is ─ The men certainly know how to exclusion. That “we” at the episode’s

41 42 opening: “Are we all here now? ... Come one of the questions would be whether the Dublin of Ulysses. In Cyclops, Bob parisons to “Grace.” ─ IDK whether M’Intosh is *just* a picked up on LB’s Jewishness at this along, Bloom.” religious or social exclusion or combo Doran will mourn a Willy Dignam! ─ Family is absent or reduced to Joyce puzzle or more signif; suspect the point. ─ Interesting though, that the man in are at play most ─ Yes again the grand gulf between roles. Dignam’s son becomes “the boy former. Depends what the def. of “is” the mackintosh is the outsider to Bloom, ─ Notes for “Penelope” now at the @ the emotion and the exhibition thereof; with the wreath.” Much later we’ll learn is, maybe. who is himself the outsider NLIreland have “sociable (carriage).” unbridged to the present. Willy, we about his grief. ─ I think Bloom takes it as moment ─ How about a different tack? Where @nickmimic hardly knew ye! of connection with Hynes, even are the women in “Hades”? Where is ─@nickmimic (Just dropping in). ─ Willy Dignam = new man. “Other *** inclusion (who’s that...no idea...no idea Mrs. Dignam? Indeed; the funeral is a sort of social I now,” as Stephen would say. ─ Interesting though, that the man together), but [+] ─Maybe it simply suggests/affirms obligation. Condolences seem pro- ─ But even at the funeral, we see in the mackintosh is the outsider to ─ that gets truncated when Hynes Dignam/Elpenor was outsider/friendless forma (save LB’s). language’s capacity to create another. Bloom, who is himself the outsider does hear him and moves off, like so too. ─@cforster Yes. Funerals are venn Hynes gives life to M’Intosh by scrib- ─ So speaking of M’Intosh, in many other truncated moments of diagrams, if you will, of protocols. bling the name. Cyclops we learn of his dead ladylove. social connection *** Some religious, some nat., some hist., If M’Intosh=Joyce, who’s the lady? ─ sic: *doesn’t hear ─ What about society vs./+ socia- some objective *** ─ M’Intosh = Joyce was Nabokov’s ─ So you see Hades as highlighting bility in Hades? What are the terms ─@BobRBogle Don’t know...funer- ─ WRT LB’s fingernail inspection, reading, right? What about the men- LB’s outsiderness, + M’Intosh further of (ritualistic) engagement? Irish? als stereotypically bring out consolation how does this correspond 2 SD’s views tion of Mrs Sinico? She’s mentioned in emphasizes it. But why such harping on Dublin? and connection? Though don’t know of art/God paring his nails in Portrait? the episode. it in this ep? ─ [+] There is of course the odd Hades is harping [+] ─@BobRBogle: Correspond, I ─ Mrs Sinico your opinion or an ─@nickmimic Right: just like coincidence that the men could be said ─@BobRBogle *that* much more don’t know. The fingernails certainly idle guess? Do we know or care why the Reuben J. incident, community to be sitting in a sociable (coach) than other episodes recall SD in Portrait, moving the LB M’Intosh was there? requires an outsider (even temporarily). ─ Also, believe the one use of ─ True, not harping, just our 1st mapping beyond Eps. 1-3. ─ A guess. But that’s my point: ─@BobRBogle Don’t know...funer- “sociable” in the episode was edited out view of LB + other Dubliners. Altho ─ This is the last of the paired epi- Macintosh is (and remains) a bit of a als stereotypically bring out consolation between Rosenbach MS and 1922 ed?: LB’s SoC cuts 2 ribbons stereotypic sodes but complicates the parallel when “known unknown,” to quote Donald and connection? Though don’t know initially at 6.174 funeral empathyfest. LB spots “a lithe young man” & ; in the Rumsfeld. Hades is harping [+] ─ That should properly be *revised ─ Is the absence of any genuine Portrait ref. ─ Yeah, I am interested in M’In- ─@BobRBogle *that* much more out* rather than “edited out” in previ- mourners part of bursting the stereo- ─ The range of self-reference also tosh less for identificatory reasons (ad than other episodes ous tweet type of a funeral? moves beyond Eps. 1-3 of Ulysses to infinitum, ad nauseum) than for what it ─ First-timers to U—or Little Review ─@Yellworque Certainly. Though ─ Friendship seems fairly difficult in Dubliners. Many ppl have drawn com- says bout Bloom readership—wouldn’t necessarily have

43 44 45 46 newspaper for that matter. How do the ─ What does anyone make of (crit- 14 Sept 2012 headlines impact the reading experi- ical) attempts to see the crossheads as AEOLUS ence? Am I right to say... anything other than headlines? 12:00 - 14:00 ─..they were only added at the very ─ I agree. I tend to think #Aeolus is end, in the Rosenbach? the episode in which #Ulysses begins to ─ They seem to me to subordinate turn into #Ulysses for real. Moderated By the action of the episode to the style they ─@Yellworque So do the headlines imitate. That sense of being subordinated serve to organise or disrupt the prose? or Lanigan to... both? ─...a process seems to be a theme of ─”Smash a man to atoms if they got Aeolus the episode as a whole him caught. Rule the world today” ─ Even later, right? Galley proofs of ─@Yellworque Do you mean, ─@laniganaeolus hi what year was the episode which Joyce saw in August (I regarding them as the interventions of aoleus written? think) of 1921. some kind of “Arranger”? ─@Book_Lover666 Depends on ─@Yellworque I stand corrected. ─ Banally parrot, wryly comment what part of the text you mean. The What would we be left with if they were on, misrepresent. All of the above. It’s headlines date to 1921 but (most of) the never inserted though? certainly hard to imagine them not part body is 1918. ─@LaniganAeolus @Yellworque A of the episode ─@Book_Lover666 He was plan- lot of talk. The headlines also give the ─ Always the Arranger. The head- ning it from June 1917 at latest, finished appearance of structure without really lines are the book beginning to whisper by Aug 1918 structuring it. and/or snigger back at the author -- snide ─@BobRBogle Yes most definitely: ─@LaniganAeolus An episode much commentary. @Yellworque noted that the headlines closer to any other of the first ten: those ─@LaniganAeolus Possibly an were put in very late. Aeolus thus an early “initial style” chapters. Arranger but not just. I’m thinking of ex le of.. ─@BobRBogle Yes, and this is the arguments that read them as e.g. early ─...JJ departing from the stylistic first ep where style becomes imitative cinema subtitles. approach of the opening sections of mechanical and labour processes ─@BobRBogle or to snigger back at #yearofulysses ─@EKSwitaj @BobRBogle Or a depicted the characters themselves.

47 48 ─ The headlines are also a comment maps. Madness. ─ Possibly a related question, but has bluster with which they err in Aeolus. Homeric framework. ─...they were only added at the very on typography. If they weren’t in CAPS, ─ All those newspaper-office wind- anyone any thoughts on all of the refs to ─ Parnell, not to mention all the ─@BobRBogle Definitely, energy end, in the Rosenbach? they’d be just another voice (or voices). bags, I suppose. opening and closing doors in the ep? errors that later show up in the paper, is key, including the mechanical energy ─@Yellworque Hey, I did say ─@LaniganAeolus Yes absolutely. ─ To narrow that: what role does air/ ─@LaniganAeolus @BobRBogle reveal the fallibility of the medium of the press that would go on even if its ‘yammering.’ High energy does not Really a quite funny episode. But wind seem to play in the ep? How does It comes down to how the wind/energy ─ And the association with wind operator died necessarily mean efficient conversion of honestly I don’t worry abt the Headlines JJ utilise it in establishing the setting/ is used (to blow the ship home or for suggests the newspaper is very close ─@LaniganAeolus @BobRBogle same to power. much myself. mood? nothing) in status to the spoken word and how It comes down to how the wind/energy ─ They seem to me to subordinate ─@Yellworque Some of the ─@Yellworque And I suppose some ─ An e.g. of the breeziness spring malleable that is. is used (to blow the ship home or for the action of the episode to the style headlines, like “WE SEE THE CAN- are convinced there newspapers contain to mind? It’d be a great way to nudge nothing) they imitate. That sense of being subor- VASSER AT WORK” make more potential riches rather than just wind? the critical consensus on from merely *** ─@Yellworque Not really, the only dinated to... sense in that light, as it happens ─@LaniganAeolus Certainly JJ long-winded. ─@EKSwitaj @Yellworque “It’s the genuinely fast movement seems to be ─...a process seems to be a theme of ─@EKSwitaj since the narration introduces no end of wind-related and ─@LaniganAeolus Well, on the ads and side features sell a weekly, not from the paperboys, and the men going the episode as a whole seems to imitate the rhythms, and techni- windy references. Do they all still count most trifling level, opening and closing a the stale news” for a drink ─ Subordinated to a process ... that cal vocab, of the trams, what does that say as Homeric? door displaces air and creates a breeze. ─ I recall reading abt the new ─ But very fast, clipped dialog, I could be the def. of every workplace; at about ep? ─ “Want to get some wind off my ─What is the significance of Myles’s advent of mass media & ; 2 a degree think. Quite the crowd here & ; every- least in my experience. Are all charac- chest first.” OK, that’s Homeric but also bizarre (and totally erroneous) defence #Aeolus celebrates that: a new age one yammering. ters + *** ... idiomatic? Hiberno-English? of the North Cork Militia? being born. ─ really not dialog but polylog. ─ subordinate to the novel in which ─ Short on chatterers for the ─@EKSwitaj Fair question, but an ─@LaniganAeolus To give him ─@BobRBogle How celebratory is ─@BobRBogle Wait, are you they find themselves? moment I think...just to start off though, excitement prevails N the newsroom, an excuse to sing Ohio, which is very the tone though? describing Twitter chats, or Aeolus? ─@LaniganAeolus @Yellworque A maybe we can discuss the Homeric an energy. Sometimes 2 much empha- windy/breathy word with all those ─ (Also I note an absence of ^_^ lot of talk. The headlines also give the parallels in the ep sis looking 4 windiness. vowels? evolution WRT modern media, esp. in ─@BobRBogle Even if everyone appearance of structure without really ─ How does Joyce use the Homeric ─@Yellworque True enough. Isn’t ─@LaniganAeolus which only current political season Stateside.) present speaks in clichés and traffics in structuring it. story of Aeolus to establish Bloom’s the entirety of Ulysses a kind of Hiber- makes it even windbaggier ─@EKSwitaj Fair question, but an old stories, old jokes? “In the lexicon of ─”Smash a man to atoms if they got relationship with the characters he no-English Odyssey? What’s the effect ─ While their stances on Parnell excitement prevails N the newsroom, youth” & ;c. him caught. Rule the world today” meets here? of the crossover? had wavered massively, especially the an energy. Sometimes 2 much empha- ─@EKSwitaj @BobRBogle Or a ─ “if he got paralysed and no-one ─ Isn’t Aeolus particularly egre- ─@BobRBogle @EKSwitaj Well the Independent... sis looking 4 windiness. newspaper for that matter. How do the knew how to stop them they’d clank on gious when it comes to parallels? Joyce windiness can also be seen as “breezi- ─@BobRBogle It’s not just the ─@LaniganAeolus Right. Ulysses’ headlines impact the reading experi- and on the same...” plotting character routes using Odyssey ness”, rapid movement. erring though--it’s the confidence and own concerns start to drown out the ence? Am I right to say... ─ I would regard quotes like the two

49 50 I’ve given as indicating an anxiety about ─@LaniganAeolus which only malleable that is. ─ OK we’ll move onto the parable, is told his “seed” will inherit it. It is a ─ SD’s brilliant mind always almost, the mechanisation of work... makes it even windbaggier ─ There is error and there is strategic and then move on briefly to a couple of moment of empowerment. almost, uh . . . ─...and that anxiety is reflected in ─ While their stances on Parnell misdirection. other things if that’s OK with everyone? ─ But when these women see ─@EKSwitaj Yes, it does seem to the tension within the episode’s struc- had wavered massively, especially the ─ Is that strategic misdirection or ─ So anyone want to take a stab at Dublin panorama, it is enabled by the echo that moment. ture between “normal” narration and Independent... something intrinsically Dedalian? explaining Stephen’s story? Pillar. That controlling view is that of ─ My question though is whether SD “headlines” ─ But Bloom & ; everyone else ─ I think it’s significant that it takes ─ Struck by how SD starts out so the empire. fails by not providing closure, or if he flubs facts thruout #Ulysses. Authen- place on the Pillar. strong and swirls out in mystification, ─ SD is hardly an Irish nationalist. rather enjoys withholding it. *** ticity of error-fraught memory & ; ─@LaniganAeolus The pillar: in a not so unlike in #Scylla&;Charybdis. ─ Thus it is both political and sexual ─@EKSwitaj It would be in-keeping ─ I want to talk about politics and association. political sense, or an impotence sense? ─ A witty pisstake on Dubliners? impotence that is symbolised in the with his personality to withhold. He history in the episode, because it crystal- ─ windbaggy, adj. Of oversized trou- ─@LaniganAeolus Stagnation is a (Looks like I’m going to have to bale image of the seeds dropping uselessly leaves a lot unsaid. But it just seems like lises some of the problems with the sers: puffy, MCHammered. kind of inertia, as is a machine continu- here, folks. Talk soon!) over the edge a bad story newspaper ─@BobRBogle Very true, but ing after its operator is paralyzed. ─ Is that strategic misdirection or ─@BobRBogle He doesn’t have to ─@Book_Lover666 There was ─ (Sorry––you beat me to the newspapers claim to be a record. Of ─@LaniganAeolus I’d say the trams something intrinsically Dedalian? be a nationalist to have apprehensions one in Ireland at that time too. Since subject change. Let’s go for politics and course in this ep, the massive changes in become another voice therein. ─@BobRBogle In that sense it about imperialism. He has voiced those destroyed by the IRA history) their stances on... ─@EKSwitaj seems also to suggest reflects the apparent theme of impo- concerns before ─ What is the significance of ─@BobRBogle It’s not just the that, as a whole, Aeolus is quite “stag- tence in the story itself? Not quite able ─ “a servant of two masters” etc *** Myles’s bizarre (and totally erroneous) erring though--it’s the confidence and nated” ep. More like a Dubliners story to finish? ─ Thus it is both political and sexual ─ tram passages extremely jarring defence of the North Cork Militia? bluster with which they err in Aeolus. than most of U ─@LaniganAeolus Do you think impotence that is symbolised in the in this episode, mark the most radical ─@LaniganAeolus To give him ─ Parnell, not to mention all the ─@LaniganAeolus Which gets so? Or not? I’m unconvinced. image of the seeds dropping uselessly departure in the novel thus far. Why are an excuse to sing Ohio, which is very errors that later show up in the paper, back to @yellworque’s point that the ─ I think it’s significant that it takes over the edge they there? windy/breathy word with all those reveal the fallibility of the medium Parable of the Plums is like a piss-take place on the Pillar. ─@BobRBogle He doesn’t have to ─ The trams fit with the mechanical vowels? ─ The myth of believing what you on Dubliners. ─ The Pillar is obviously a symbol be a nationalist to have apprehensions energy bits of the episode, for one thing. ─@EKSwitaj Except that he is also read in newspapers or JJ novels. “News” ─@EKSwitaj @Yellworque Most of imperial power. It is also the site of about imperialism. He has voiced those ─@EKSwitaj Yeah & ; like those wrong about the North Cork Militia is what happened this a.m. w/o much definitely, but it casts the novel in a the city’s stagnation (the trams at its concerns before passages it creates a sense of alienation having fought in Ohio... context possible. more grim light than previous episodes base... ─@EKSwitaj So SD is shrewd in in the reader. But they also suggest ─ Ditto the “eightyone” Phoenix ─ And the association with wind had done. ─...are on power failure. detailing what’s wrong & ; falters in stagnation, oddly park murders. Ars longa, journalism ... suggests the newspaper is very close * ─@BobRBogle Possibly both coming up w anything better. Yes, the ─@LaniganAeolus Stagnation is a well, not quite. in status to the spoken word and how ** ─ When Moses sees Palestine, he fox riddle, yes! + kind of inertia, as is a machine con-

51 52 tinuing after its operator is paralyzed. #yearofulysses ─@EKSwitaj since the narration seems to imitate the rhythms, and tech- nical vocab, of the trams, what does that say about ep? ─@LaniganAeolus I’d say the trams become another voice therein. ─@EKSwitaj seems also to suggest that, as a whole, Aeolus is quite “stag- nated” ep. More like a Dubliners story than most of U ─@LaniganAeolus Which gets back to @yellworque’s point that the Parable of the Plums is like a piss-take on Dubliners. ─@EKSwitaj @Yellworque Most definitely, but it casts the novel in a more grim light than previous episodes had done.

53 54 55 56 the funniest. but it also it comments on meal. Her Irish meal? 5 Oct 2012 Irish role in Empire, food production, ─@SNOboston @MJKochis Actual LESTRYGONIANS advertising programs during the famine to offer 10:00 - 12:00 ─ Which might explain why bloom food (soup) to Catholics who convert to rather eat at Davy Byrne’s Protestantism. ─@MJKochis Hungry man is angry ─@SNOboston It’s in Gifford’s man consider all the hungry/angry men Ulysses Annotated. It refers to during the Moderated By of the island. But also the role food has in Famine, how the Protestants would have empire. soup kitchens MJKochis ─@MJKochis Banbury Cakes, ─@SNOboston @MJKochis On Guinness (Anglo-Irish industry shipping some gravestones-- “they took the soup” throughout the Empire), Apples that ─@SNOboston To get the soup, ─ “U.P.:up”, Purefoy’s birthing, Dor- must be Australian. you had to convert. Now rereading this an’s drinking binge, Gold Cup horserace, ─@cthomasmurphy Does that episode, it seems even more critical of seedcake, Davy Byrne, Blind stripling, explain the drinking? We have in this Catholicism Keyes ad. episode Doran beginning his annual ─-- What is Blooms meal then -- As ─ I’m not only struck by how much binge his lunch is rather European--Gor- the Famine plays a role in this episode, ─@MJKochis I am not sure. But I gonzola (Italy), Burgandy (France), but how hunger is set alongside advertise- think it comments on issues of Nation- Sandwhich (England) ments alism. Guinness the (probable) drink of ─@cthomasmurphy Possibly can ─@MJKochis What makes an choice to the men tie this in with the Cyclops episode, ad successful? Placement. However, if ─@MJKochis can you tell me more regarding foreigners. What is national hunger is everywhere, society becomes about how soup changes catholics to food identity blind to it. protestants? thats hilarious! Prepare to * ─ What you eat determines who you receive soup? ** are. Soup changes Catholics into Protes- ─@cthomasmurphy Definitely ─ As mentioned in a letter Joyce tants. Food = status and position? agree. Which picking up hunger with wrote to Carlo Linati, how does the #yearofulysses ─@MJKochis -- i find this episode Dilly, Bloom refers to mash being her episode function like a living entity?

57 58 *** nothing to help. The gulls on the other worst? having a discussion about how old the ─@cthomasmurphy I always won- ─@MJKochis Isn’t that the same ─ Bloom sees Dilly, he immediately hand, he feeds. ─ Line 490ish [...] very worst hour photo is and that this refers to Bloom der if it has to do with building up the as the Guinness, leaving Dublin from thinks how thin she is. Yet he does ─ Can we see Bloom as a socially of the day. Vitality. Dull, gloomy: hate again trapped in the past. myth of Bloom. the Liffey and going out to worldwide nothing to help. The gulls on the other conscious and active participant in this hour. Feel as if I had been eaten and ─@SNOboston -- Lenehan had distribution hand, he feeds. society? In Lestrygonians, he assists the spewed *** the “tip”--my mistake, he wasn’t there, ─ Possibly can go into a larger discus- ─@MJKochis Referring to prev. blind ─@cthomasmurphy Right! His ─ something that has always that was Lyons. Just so used to Lenehan sion of the un/seen acts of government, comment about Bloom feeing the ─@MJKochis Nosey Flynn notes descriptions refer to the weather but confounded me--this entire episode is drinking everywhere hunger, tragedy, sexual diseases, etc. gulls, possibly can read this in terms of Bloom’s generosity, right before maybe it’s because we are nearing the Bloom except for one short moment ─@MJKochis -- rumor creating eco-criticism ridiculing him for his jewish/mason “hump” hour of the day when he excuses himself myth as the men discuss his freemason- *** ─@MJKochis The first we meet background... ─ Also remembering this is one of ry--almost like a tall tale or Odysseus ─@MJKochis Banbury Cakes, Bloom, he’s talking to a cat. Later, in ─@MJKochis -- beautiful to *** the last episodes that does not play with figure-haha Guinness (Anglo-Irish industry ship- “Hades” he is imagining the thought consider Bloom imagines unseeing ─@MJKochis And Nosey refers to form (after we see major experimental ─-- sorry, jewishness and alleged ping throughout the Empire), Apples process of a rat. beforehand, imagining the world as the Molly as “well nourished” though he’s techniques) freemasonry that must be Australian. ─@MJKochis in Lestragonians, Blind Stripling unsees it also referring to her bosom... ─@cthomasmurphy doesn’t hap- ─@cthomasmurphy totally! You ─@cthomasmurphy Possibly can Bloom is often reminded of his time ─@cthomasmurphy It’s one of ─@SNOboston Interesting how pen often, the camera leaving Bloom/ get the impression that Dublin suffers tie this in with the Cyclops episode, working @ the cattle market. Grue- Bloom’s traits, the ability to empathize, Bloom keeps a picture of her in his Stephen, Aeolus has a spite of that too. from a serious “small town” complex. regarding foreigners. What is national some... that allows me to view him positively. pocket of when she was younger and ─ oddly shifts to the men discussing rumor mill runs 24/7 food identity ─@MJKochis Later, he will regret ─-- “Am I like that? See ourselves as more slim Bloom and his “winnings,” and Lene- ─@cthomasmurphy Definitely! ─@cthomasmurphy I think both not having anything to feed the horse in others see us” -- Yes Bloom, Buck Mul- ─@SNOboston And later Lenahan han trying to get more free drinks, why Like Odysseus, Bloom must have secret Bloom’s meal and where he eats again Eumaeus. But again, does nothing to ligan saw you creeping on the statue. will refer to Molly’s bosom as well. the shift here? knowledge. It’s interesting to tie that in reveal to us that he is always the out- feed Dilly ─@cthomasmurphy And what ─@MJKochis - tell me more about ─@cthomasmurphy might be con- with Jewish myths sider. Even in diet ─@MJKochis And Nosey refers to a way to end this episode by having the picture? I didn’t realize that was one fusing L w/ Cyclops Flynn and D Byrne ─pg. 145 “Regular world in itself” ─@MJKochis Absolutely - Citizen Molly as “well nourished” though he’s Bloom examine the Goddess’s “end” of Bloom’s many talisman.. wheres it talk about Blooms masonry/jewish (1922 edition) vs “Regular town in slopping back his Guinness, and what also referring to her bosom... ─@MJKochis -- another reason this mentioned? while he relieves himself itself” (Little Review) does he refer to it as, Wine of the Coun- is my favorite episode -- Bloom can do ─@SNOboston It I believe is ─@cthomasmurphy It almost seems ─Like the food that Bloom eats, try-what country? *** this (empathize) even at the worst hour mentioned in Eumaeus where he takes as though he’s excusing himself from Joyce is curtailing this episode to reach a ─@cthomasmurphy And when ─ Bloom sees Dilly, he immediately of the day. it out. the text as well. We get it earlier too: more global audience, rather than small your nationality and masculinity are tied thinks how thin she is. Yet he does ─@cthomasmurphy Why the ─@SNOboston I remember Hades, Aeolus town? up into alcohol, how can one expect to

59 60 assert authority ─ Sleep with my wife, fine. Give her the Famine plays a role in this episode, an STD, now I worry. (Not saying that but how hunger is set alongside adver- *** he accepts Boylan sleeping with Molly tisements ─The women of this episode play but still, odd ─ Regan “vegetarianism becomes a interesting roles as well. Dilly, Molly, ─@MJKochis I’d say pretty ratio- consequential force in Ulysses not to be Milly, Mrs. Breen, and Mrs. Purefoy to nal... drowned out by the dominant discourse mention a few ─@SNOboston @MJKochis -- of meat.” ─ Not to mention the odd and out of Especially considering how quickly ─@MJKochis -- AE and the vege- place reference to Bloom washing Milly rumors spread around Dublin. tarian movement -- Wind and Watery once a week. ─@SNOboston Me too espe- nature of their cause -- lified by cooking cially considering the the Contagious in soda *** Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866, and 1869. ─@MJKochis -- cooking in soda ─ This is the first episode where we And then, consider Circi. keeps the green in color, but robs the get a glimpse of Blazes Boylan (he’s ─@SNOboston @MJKochis But nutrients. Irish Lit Revival -- Green in mentioned in passing in Hades but we do we assume Joyce would make it a color only see him here) bigger deal for the male & ; gloss over ─@cthomasmurphy Definitely ─@MJKochis -- well, we think it’s how STD would affect Molly? read Marguerite Regan’s “Weggebob- Boylan-- Bloom runs away. “It is. It is. ─&; Bloom in Eumaeus discusses bles and Fruit”: Bloom’s Vegetarian [...] Is it?” gov’t regulated prostitution 2 clean it up. Impulses. ─Unlike what he sees (ads, Mrs. What do the women think of men reg. Breen’s old dress, the eating habits of their um...yeah seagulls, Dilly’s hunger etc), he wishes ─@cthomasmurphy @SNOboston to be unseen. It kind of coincides with a mentality that ─@MJKochis , maybe picking up male sexuality/orgasm is dominate over some ch agne and oysters? aphrodis. that of a women’s ─ Also interesting in this episode is Bloom’s rational (or irrational) fear that *** Boylan might have an STD. ─ I’m not only struck by how much

61 62 63 64 ourselves.” Every day a meeting of the Xanthippe? 26 Oct 2012 plural self... SCYL L A ─ The self can meet itself as various 10:00 - 12:00 “mixtures” -- Stephen is v concerned with this process of mixing in the imagination. & ─@plurabelle “I am other I” is one of my favorites - I think it speaks to the development of character CHARYBDIS ─@SNOboston Also the met/him/ psychosis pun is important here. Creative Moderateed By psychosis. ─@SNOboston Yes! And there’s a plurabelle ─ We associate 16 June 1904 with crucial ‘complex’ (2 senses) link bt the Joyce’s first date with Nora, but we also artist’s own character (bildung) and his know Joyce ‘conceived’ his Hamlet characters. theory that day. ─ Seems that Joyce &; Stephen are ─ Let’s consider the importance of both concerned with the idea of the artist this theory for the 22-year-old Joyce who as an “Everyman His Own Wife”--creat- was trying to learn to be a creator. ing in the void ─@plurabelle I like how the Hamlet ─ What do you think Joyce and/or theory plays into the Metempsychosis Stephen are getting at w/r/t the role of the theme - people being other people “other,” the “wife,” in artistic creation? ─ “@SNOboston Yes, “”Every life is ─ Or if self is a daily meeting of the many days...We walk through ourselves, “I am other I”s, what is the role of life (vs meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old mental?) experience in creating new “I”s? men, young men,..” ─ Are Joyce and Stephen realizing ─@SNOboston “...wives, widows, that it is not enough to be an artist in the #yearofulysses brothers-in-love. But always meeting void? Socrates learned dialectic from

65 66 67 68 less: the viceroy, after all, gets no interior it could be both leveling and refraction. 16 Nov 2012 monologue Which is where parallax comes in. WANDERING ─@eireprof Yes. The viceroy also ─ Parallax as simultaneous obser- 10:00 - 1:00 pst perceives a lot of inattention and some vation from diff vantage points. Each mockery. presents incomplete view of (reaction to) ROCKS ─ I’d start with a broader view. What’s same event. the function of #WanderingRocks in the ─ I just checked into the conversation. Moderated By novel #Ulysses? The backchannelly chaos of a tweet ─@BobRBogle Yes - on that convo reps the fractured nar. of WR well. jdrouin subject... Why does Joyce include ‘WR’ ;) while Homer left it unexplored? ─ Parallactic intrusion on multiple ─ Precisely because the wandering POV characters brings us inevitably to ─Parallax becomes less Stephen/ aspect allows the fracturing of POV the arranger. I always feel + Bloom and more Protagonists/Minor which achieves the hinge-effect, I’d say. ─ there’s a curious external conscious- Characters. ─ I see WR as extremely cinematic ness that’s s ling the various POV chars ─ Interesting observation, @eireprof. w multiple cameras capturing the same in WR & ; all episodes, trying episodes, Can you say a little more? shot, possibly influenced by JJ’s own trying+ ─@eireprof Yes - we don’t just get 2 cinema Xperience. ─ to grasp Truth through a filtering views, but many. We see Dublin from a ─ One aspect of the intrusions (jump- out and subtractive process. Sometimes variety of perspectives. cut, interpolation) is a de-privileging of it’s floating in conscious, muddy + ─@eireprof If the POV comes to point-of-view. ─ thoughts, sometimes (later) in embody a protagonist/minor characters ─ In other words, no single frame of deeper subconscious and symbolic split, then what of the final “summary” by reference has a final “say” in observing territory. the cavalcade? the events. ─@CleoHanaway parallax is often ─@eireprof Is Joyce telling us that the ─ The leveling of perspective could used in computing usually to indicate imperial point of view has a more power- have political implications in colonial speed changes or to hide spmething ful influence than is normally seen? Ireland. #yearofulysses ─@jdrouin perhaps, but also perhaps ─@susie_kenna @eireprof I suppose *** 69 70 ─I’d start with a broader view. ject... Why does Joyce include ‘WR’ shot, possibly influenced by JJ’s own 1900-onwards were attaching cameras to) same event. fraught: Odysseus delayed; Stephen What’s the function of #WanderingRo- while Homer left it unexplored? cinema Xperience. to moving vehicles. ─ Political implication is that the lingers; Bloom paralyzed? cks in the novel #Ulysses? ─#Joyce isn’t retelling #Homer ─ With the cameras in constant ─@Yellworque Flashbacks and Church and State have less authority in ─@jdrouin chaos replaces patterns ─@BobRBogle Good point. For but using #Odyssey as an architectural motion I’ve suggested in a way it antici- flashforwards, maybe (?) such a system of points of view. of institutional structure. Dig it! any readers who might be less familiar guide or informant for his own artistic pated bullettime in #TheMatrix! ─One aspect of the intrusions ─ Parallax as a why of conveying ─@jdrouin I suppose, too, Joyce with “Wandering Rocks,” perhaps we construction ─@BobRBogle Like The Matrix (jump-cut, interpolation) is a de-privi- spatially? Parallax as different political would have us remember lessons should introduce it. ─ Maybe Joyce is suggesting that, link! I’ve thought about WR and early leging of point-of-view. perspectives? Different views? learned about binaries/brackets in ─I’d say this episode is the pivot just because the Odyssey’s hero didn’t film - esp. films that simulate movement ─@BobRBogle We often reach ─@jdrouin Yet church and state “Scylla and Charybdis” of the book; the hinge. Afterwards the take the WR path, it doesn’t make it through space. for early film to understand WS. Is the bracket the episode: Father Conmee novel turns into something other than worthless... ─@BobRBogle Cinematic jump-cut flash, @CleoHanaway, an adequate and Viceroy. Does this privilege them in *** it’s been. ─ How useful do we find the Odys- is often associated with WR. #Joyce equivalent? any way? ─ I’m here! Question I had: if you ─ Yes, as @BobRBogle points out, sey / mythic method here? (And hence, predicted many things, incl #TheMatrix ─ That verbatim (or near verbatim) ─ I just checked into the conver- defined major “concepts of WR, would WR is a turning point from a consistent more generally in U?) and The #Beatles! quality is interesting though. How soon sation. The backchannelly chaos of a you identify? We’re putting together style to new styles in each succeeding ─ WR is a chapter of interesting ─ Through space, and also picking did films start quoting themselves? tweet convo reps the fractured nar. of ontology. @jdrouin episode. aberrances generally. Interior mono- around in different minds. WR well. ;) ─ Welcome, @jmhuculak! What ─ Also the episode in which interior logue for minor characters, non-Ho- ─@jdrouin .@bobrbogle What *** ─ Interesting that we’ve moved from do mean by ontology? Anthology? monologue goes wandering. meric paradigm, etc. about the tracking shot? Was that possi- ─ The leveling of perspective could paralysis of Dubliners to parallax of Is an anthology an ontology? WR an ─@BobRBogle Agreed. The ─ I’ve always thought it mattered that ble by 1922 or cameras still fixed? have political implications in colonial Ulysses. Is parallax paralytic? ontology of...? wandering and perspective shifts are a the WR in Odyssey is the way Odyss ─ Perhaps we can think about mean- Ireland. ─@eireprof Yes and no. We’re per- ─ we’re trying to identify major “con- “shuffling of the deck” for the following doesnt go. The ch in #ulysses is the path ing? How do paradigmatic aberrance ─@jdrouin could you elaborate on haps likely to think of Church and State cepts” in Ulys. that we will then version. episodes. not taken. or cinematic technique apply to WR this a little? as priveleged POVs, but WR might See how “concept” changes from @ ─ WR is a chapter of interesting ─@CleoHanaway has anyone content? ─@susie_kenna @eireprof I suggest otherwise. jdrouin aberrances generally. Interior mono- linked Ulysses to the odyssey - or bits ─ Can the filmic comparison suppose it could be both leveling and ─@eireprof Hence the point of ─ from version to version. we’re ver- logue for minor characters, non-Ho- from the books Joyce borrowed from? account for the interpolations? refraction. Which is where parallax bracketing? These particular brackets sioning not just commas, but concepts meric paradigm, etc. ─ Yes, seems more tracking than comes in. are now irrelevant / ineffective against too. @jdrouin *** jumping. Continuous motion. ─ Parallax as simultaneous obser- wandering. ─@patlockley @CleoHanaway As a *** ─ I see WR as extremely cinematic ─@GhostProf @jdrouin @ vation from diff vantage points. Each ─ Characters are certainly on the matter of fact, @Yellworque is making ─@BobRBogle Yes - on that sub- w multiple cameras capturing the same bobrbogle Early film makers from presents incomplete view of (reaction move, but that movement is often a genetic bibliography with Dirk Van

71 72 Hulle and others *** ─@CleoHanaway @patlockley source texts. ─@jmhuculak Some concepts in ─ One-legged solider - what’s he Check out @cforster ‘s paper/string ─ does it have to be between the WR: space, time, power, connection, about then?! visualization of “Wandering Rocks”: wars - and does breaking the fourth wall refraction, reflection. ─ Thoughts on the one-legged http://t.co/EaabsCG7 count as parallel? @CleoHanaway @ ─@jmhuculak What about ver- sailor?! jdrouin sioning motifs? Mirrors, doorframes, ─@CleoHanaway Could it be a *** ─@patlockley No reason it must windows, eyeglasses -- visual frames Wordsworth reference from Prelude? ─#EnduringModernisms What be inter-war, I suppose. Breaking the generally ─@jmhuculak Interesting. Or can WR teach us about reading these fourth wall another parallactic POV? ─ Yes! @jdrouin; great idea. We’ve maybe just a common site in 1922: contemporary novels, or they teach us ─@jdrouin The Waste Land as a just worked with Martin Holmes to http://t.co/Bj9kPJd1 (or both, and about reading WR? piece with parallactic authorship? Eliot identify the proper TEI for concept more!) ─@eireprof I believe Woolf’s and Pound! markup, now we’re ─ I mean a common sight in 1904! Mrs. Dalloway was inspired by the ─@jdrouin could argue Breakfast ─@jmhuculak Would be interesting ─@CleoHanaway That’s the tricky linked-consciousness narrative of WR. of Ch ions, Christy Malry and House to see what a topic modeling app like thing with ULYSSES: both a post- ─ Parallax as an inter-war novel of Leaves then. I would say breaking is Mallet returns as concepts in WR, and WWI novel and not a post-WWI novel method generally? To the Lighthouse? perpendicular? compare with ours (c.f. novels of rec past) ─@eireprof The Waves! Totally! ─@patlockley True, or at the very ─ now we’re getting our hands dirty ─@nickmimic Indeed! Ulysses’ ─@jdrouin Between the Acts? and least non-parallel. coming up with concepts/methods for parallactic time scenes (1904 & ; 1922) #virginiawoolf the ontol. @jdrouin are perhaps particularly interesting in ─@jdrouin Other parallactic texts: ─ Another great idea w/Mallet. Will relation to WR! The Waste Land (they do the police in check it out and post results! @jdrouin ─@nickmimic I believe thems is the different voices) ? ─@jmhuculak AFAIK Mallet only interwar novels. ─ Parallax &; mythic method -- syn- works with plain text (could be wrong), ─#EnduringModernisms What thesis of ancient/modern in contempo- so you’d need to strip TEI tags w/ a can WR teach us about reading these rary moment. Means of post-traumatic regular expression contemporary novels, or they teach us reconnection? ─ Well, that’s actually something about reading WR? ─@CleoHanaway Yes, The Waste the three of us are working on too, @ * Land certainly a parallactic text, w/ jdrouin ** multiple varied quotations of same

73 74 75 76 ─@jmclawson we definitely see rep- summer), and Leo’s left blooming alone, 7 Dec 2012 etition of motifs throughout, especially full of gas SIRENS with the metals, but other elements are 10:00 - 12:00 more obscure *** ─What do these have in common? ─Popping in from teaching––how do Sirens, singing, stripling; Tips, taps, you teach the overture, can I ask? topping; Canes, keys; Warmseated impa- ─@Yellworque that’s tough. I’m Moderated By tience, da capo inclined to have students read it aloud ─ The time: 4:00, Boylan and Molly’s before the rest of the episode, return only jmclawson rendezvous. Bloom’s thoughts are under- at the end standably dark. But aren’t they also lively? ─@jmclawson @Yellworque there’s ─ Popping in from teaching––how do much musicality there, but the plunge ─ Grabbing food before settling in to you teach the overture, can I ask? may be too deep at first chat about “Sirens”. Get some liv and join ─ Hello, here to listen and learn as I ─@Yellworque brings up a good us in thirty minutes! am only starting to read Ulysses now. point. The overture is a tough start, like a ─ The chat is about to begin! Join @ ─@susie_kenna that’s great! There’s symphony tuning, warming up, begin- jmclawson for “Sirens” in five minutes. a lot to discover, and there’s no need to ning later ─ Sonnez la cloche… and bronze eat everything at once; enjoy and have ─I had students memorize twenty by gold we begin! Welcome to the @ seconds lines of the opening two pages, then mvp1922 Twitter discussion of “Sirens.” ─@jmclawson colourcode overture perform them. ─ There’s a lot to consider in this phrases against their recurrence in the ─ You can watch the video of the chapter. Maybe it makes sense to begin episode? Cool! winner here: http://t.co/LSlKi5R6 with the beginning. What do you hope ─@Yellworque cool and not easy! I ─@GhostProf I love that idea! I’ve to discuss? imagined a spectrum of similarity. All only been using memorization sporadi- ─ The schema tells us that “Sirens” metals are blues, etc. But what of puns cally, but Ulysses is a great fit uses the technique of fuga per canone, and abbrevs? ─I like asking students to write one a musical form. Where’s music in the ─ Metals (gold, bronze, iron, steel) sentence summaries of complicated #yearofulysses episode’s form? make way to roses (of Castile, last of material. What can we do for all of

77 78 “Sirens”? Boom? ─@eireprof @ghostprof barmaids=si- jmclawson ─ “A man walks into a pub, discovers ─@GhostProf violence to Bloom’s rens/danger=Irish pub culture: seductive, ─ Has anyone tried to do audio his wife’s lover, hides, and then listens to sensitivities off stage: Boylan’s sexual addicting, ambition-killing? Soz I missd analysis on the recorded versions of the singing while contemplating cheating, climax. Destroys perception of time in the chat! chapter? too.” rest of book ─@GhostProf I’ve only ever listened ─ It covers most of the actions but ─@GhostProf also the long shadow of *** to the version narrated by Jim Norton, overlooks almost all of the ideas. What WWI violence seems to reach back- ─ I’m interested in “Sirens” and his- but there’s got to be something to your important is missing? @jmclawson wards as pacifist Bloom refuses to exact tory of music theory, especially Pythago- idea. ─@GhostProf Much safer than revenge ras: “Numbers… Vibrations…Musemath- ─@jmclawson Given the sonic having a student memorize and perform ─ Boylan is the siren Molly the siren ematics” (267) dimensions of the episode, it would be 20 lines from the last 2 pages gave in to? Don’t forget Leo’s interest in ─@jmclawson I’m also interested worthwhile. ─ Randall Stevenson recites whole BB’s cuckoldmaking. @GhostProf regarding history of music theory and ─ Musical annotations suggested pages of Penelope as part of his U lecture. ─@eireprof quite right. After the Plato: “Words? Music? No: it’s what’s by the text in “Sirens”: “as said before” Keeps undergrads riveted! @mollyhardy meeting, we get the pause between behind.” (263) becomes repeat sign; “Done” double bar @GhostProf Cyclops (5:00) and Nausicaa (8:00) ─Rhythm may offer a way to get line, etc ─@jmclawson it took me awhile to back to the overture @Yellworque asked *** find it: “The seat he sat on: warm” (254) about. What’s behind words? What ─ I have a qu: where’s the danger @GhostProf makes music? @jmclawson factor in “Sirens”? The ep in Odyssey is ─ Bloom here vacates his warm seat ─ A tool like Proseviz may be useful about danger, but the JJ version is quite in anticipation of BB’s coming. Odysseus here. It analyzes text based on phonemes. safe. listened to Sirens willfully @jmclawson @ ─ But of course analyzing phonemes ─ Re: @GhostProf ’s danger factor, GhostProf doesn’t do anything for the tones in which isn’t Blazes a temporary Odysseus here? ─@jmclawson Nice -- also homo- things are said. Tempted to stay with Douce, manages erotic. ─ I’m going to have to look up Prose- to flee. ─@GhostProf definitely, especially viz. Thanks @GhostProf ─Back to the earlier point, if BB is when making connection to Lestrygo- ─ Plato in Republic writes songs have the Odys here, then what of his musi- nian statues incident here: “Three holes 3 parts: words, melody, rhythm. We have cality and its threat to Bloom? Or, to L. all women” (273) words & ; melody; overture is rhythm? @

79 80 81 82 ─@Chrisx5x5 Damn! I call it Mamet- tion wrought by the citizen’s biscuit tin 18 Jan 2013 brain. Yes, Garryowen is what I mean. evocative of the actual destruction in CYCLOPS Guess I got garryowned! April 1916? @earth2steve 10:00 - 12:00 ─ Dogs indeed. I believe we even ─ I LOVE the teasing of Alf Bergan. have a cyclops dog here. But is that the What do you make of the empty biscuit beginning? tin? @mvp1922 Moderated ─@GiffordJames p. 298 in the MVP’s ─@earth2steve /That/ is provoc- By online 1922 edition, of course. http://t.co/ ative... But if the biscuit tin is bathos dJDCWOtv (and Citizen’s Fenianism?), what can we GiffordJames ─ Been reading Garryowen (?Owen- make of it? garry) is a borrowed hound, not the citizen’s, but a transient in the pub. *** ─ Are we narrowing our vision for ─ “when it wouldn’t blind him” But ─ The frame of ‘Cyclops’ with the Cyclops? what form of blindness, I wonder. narrator & ; sidekick Joe sounds like ─ A Mote in the eye... Aye. ─ He “sees” the tin is empty (like the a vaudeville routine. Intentional? ─ First, my father’s name is, in fact, rhetoric), for which he gets a swift boot to #Ulysses Don... “Mordor” (my pug’s other winking eye) ─@earth2steve Could well be. Music ─ No relation... ─@BobRBogle An important dog hall, too. Almost expected a player ─@GiffordJames Are you sure he’s trait. A transient avoiding the cyclops’ piano in the pub! no relation? We’re expecting great detail, blindness might be the best Odysseus ─ I’m pretty sure, if I must have a you know! ‘-) <-- one-eyed wink. here. Yet named... fave ep, #Cyclops is it. ─@ChocolateBono @dublinersdub ─@earth2steve EVERYTHING is Find out more by following the chat on *** intentional. now @mvp1922 @GiffordJames ─ He “sees” the tin is empty (like the ─ While I’m at it, this episode has ─Is it winking when you use two eyes? rhetoric), for which he gets a swift boot two of my favorites: 1. “Christ was a Jew ─ I’ll start -- is there anything special to “Mordor” (my pug’s other winking like me.” Talk about signposting! about the dogginess of Glengarry, do you eye) ─ and 2. “Where is he til I murder #yearofulysses think? ─ Wonder: Is the Dublin destruc- him?” You can’t get funnier than that.

83 84 ─@GhostProf So many comic Why this episode? Why Elijah moment at the end of the ch. Lacking introspection? ─@cthomasmurphy @GhostProf obvious parapraxis that stands out for routines between that duo in ‘Cyclops,’ ─@GiffordJames Maybe because Dog/God. ─@GiffordJames @cthomasmur- Exactly And I can’t help but feel the obviousness.”—The wife’s advisers, I the jokes are flying fast in that pub! there is only one eye/I? No qu. of seeing ─ True: narrator penetrates right phy Is the whole ch. then an assault singular “I” voice without introspection mean, says Bloom” #Ulysses self as others see you? thru 2 Molly/LB/Boylan. MT @ctho- on utopianism as inherently cruel and is part & ; parcel. ─ What does that Freudian slip tell ─@earth2steve I LOVE the teasing ─ “@BobRBogle: @GhostProf @ masmurphy: @GhostProf ... narrator monopic? ─@cthomasmurphy @GhostProf us? What can we see? An “eye” that of Alf Bergan. What do you make of GiffordJames This me likes: 1st person perspective LB in public ─@GhostProf @GiffordJames I’d Isn’t there an enormous myopia in that can’t see “I” even while speaking? No the empty biscuit tin? @mvp1922 requires one I to tell the tale.” ─ And I’m particularly curious about say an attack that shows utopias narrow- Eire-centrism? talking cure? ─ I move we move on to the good ─@GhostProf Ay! says I, re: how our narrator, Polyphemus, blurs ness of vision--regardless of founding ─@cthomasmurphy @GhostProf ─@GiffordJames @GhostProf I stuff -- the wacky, intercut loopy exag- seeing self as others see ourselves. Yet, the “I” and singular “eye.” Vision and principles 1of2 Is the “I” also the singular cyclopean think as early as ep. 1, we learn that gerated insertions. All in favor say... narrator’s eye gives new perspective on single identity ─@cthomasmurphy @GhostProf “eye”? Mono-visual & ; limited to a Eire-centrism is short-sighted/frag- ─ When I read this ep a few weeks Bloom in public ─@BobRBogle @cthomasmurphy Query - what destroys the utopic? I’m single view of the world? mented/unable to be made ago it seemed like an ep of Monty ─ this first person perspective allows @GhostProf There is more to perspec- thinking Marcuse’s Freud & ; Marx ─@cthomasmurphy @GhostProf ─@GiffordJames We don’t see what Python’s Flying Circus. & ; now 4 some- us to see Bloom as other’s see him -- a tive here than its politics and style... here. Introspection/unbewusst rejects the introspection that presents a we can’t see until we see others looking thing completely diff way different than we ourselves have ─ Yet our god and dog are seen ─@cthomasmurphy @GhostProf @ mobile and plural self? “I” can’t eye the at us? re: parapraxis ─@BobRBogle “I” #yearofulysses seen him. through one eye and see us through GiffordJames Bloom’s “love” utopia “Ich”? Aye? ─@cthomasmurphy @GiffordJames ─@BobRBogle The Flying Circus ─@cthomasmurphy @GhostProf one eye. Singular vision & ; singular seems as flawed as the Citizen’s list of ─ Does this imply not only a mis- @GhostProf-- whole, it is Stephen’s has forever changed my vision of this Eye/I/Aye! We shift out to watch identity? What’s unseen? Irish patriots and prision of the world around him but an broken mirror. Too many fragments for episode... Thanks! #yearofulysses Bloom, but our narrating voice shifts. ─ (Monocular vision very sharp &; ─@cthomasmurphy @GhostProf @ impossibility for self-knowledge and any unified vision. ─@earth2steve @BobRBogle The How do we see him? penetrating but lacks, er, dare we say GiffordJames and a “GREEN” Ireland self-observation? ─@janineutell What I wonder is lists *are* hilarious. I’m imagining how ─@cthomasmurphy Well, one parallax of stero vision.) seems to suit only one form of Irish--a ─@GiffordJames Oedipal blind- how much the failed internal vision I’d read it aloud in a class... #yearoful- other sees him. And is it my voice while ─#yearofulysses and by “unseen” failure to incorporate ness? foresees the failed utopianism. Yet a ysses reading? I mean unbewusst, unknown, uncon- ─@cthomasmurphy @GhostProf ─@GiffordJames Os the Fenian parapraxis “sees”? ─@GiffordJames @cthomasmurphy scious... The vision and singular “I” call @GiffordJames Bloom as Irish--which unable to eye the “I” or “Eire”? ─@cthomasmurphy @GhostProf *** Instead of seeing Bloom as others see me. mirrors the complaints nationalists ─ A closing query? May “I”? If Yet they can’t even be “seen” by ─ Are we narrowing our vision for him, we finally see others/participate in ─@BobRBogle And lacks depth have of British rule there’s a problem with self-observation Cyclops here, let alone unified? The Cyclops? other-seeing. perception. How can the cyclops see ─@cthomasmurphy @GhostProf & ; self-knowledge, what about the fragmentation is invisible... ─ This is the only first person nar- ─ This raises the question of vision himself? See his unknowns? Isn’t there an enormous myopia in that parapraxis? ─ Ah: was thinking the slips come rator in Ulysses. Why this emphasis? in the more theological sense, too -- the ─@BobRBogle unselfconscious? Eire-centrism? ─@GiffordJames P. 300 has an from awareness of being perceived.

85 86 discomfort. refracted. cerebral+caustic. or hubris in defeating the cyclops, as ─ Can I ask which Cyclops we’re Odysseus does. *** looking at / looking through? ─@GiffordJames Interesting, about ─ This raises the question of vision ─ MT“@GiffordJames Obvious ref no hubris. I’m making a note to look in the more theological sense, too -- the is to Polyphemus in the Odys, but this is into Kerhser and Ramey. Elijah moment at the end of the ch. also the most famous Homeric source ─@mchlstvns Just taught a seminar Dog/God. in Arabian Nights” on /Arabian Nights/, heavy on Euro- ─@mvp1922 @bobrbogle @cthom- ─ “Sinbad the Sailor” was added pean insertions. Sinbad among ‘em. asmurphy Gods/Dogs eye view? to The Arabian Nights by Antoine Reshaping my Ulysses... ─ Yet our god and dog are seen Galland and carried across or translated through one eye and see us through to Arabic from Greek one eye. Singular vision & ; singular ─ Joyce refers to the Arabian Nights identity? What’s unseen? 4 episodes later in Eumaeus, where ─@GhostProf Is it the backwards Murphy is Sinbad and thereby an ana- use of God (dog) to attack a fellow logue to Odysseus. man? “After him, Garry! After him, ─@GiffordJames Not to mention: boy!” Sinbad the Sailor are Bloom’s last thoughts before he falls asleep in Ithaca. *** ─@mchlstvns Brandon Kerhser ─ This is the only first person nar- and James Ramey have noted this, but rator in Ulysses. Why this emphasis? they focus on the Eumaeus rather than Why this episode? Why Cyclops ─ Gifford argues the Citizen/narra- ─@mchlstvns So, if Cyclops is the tor is Michael Cusack. Ellmann says it’s translation from Homer to Arabian based on Joyce himself and his youthful Nights, why aren’t we looking for Sin- enthusiasms bad in this episode? ─Neither citizen nor narrator ─@mchlstvns It’s worth noting strikes me as being particularly Joycean: that the Arabian Sinbad has no curse

87 88 89 90 ─ What is the first point of the chap- ─@cthomasmurphy Seems most 8 Feb 2013 ter at which you begin to laugh? of us are agreed that it is disconcerting NAUSICAA ─@HaywardNausicaa (Maybe you or disorienting at first, and the joke is a 13:00 - 15:00 should have gone to the beach.) slow burner. ─@BobRBogle I’m not giving up ─ Much of the humour comes, I that easily! think, from this deliberate clash of ─@HaywardNausicaa Great Q. bodily/sexual matter with the genteel Moderated re: laughing. No laughing the 1st time tone of the narrative By round; didn’t get it; now: “winsome ─ But is there sthg misogynistic Irish girlhood” about it? Is GM the target of this Hayward ─ Of course I love the humor of humour? Or is it the style of the euphe- U, but I don’t find N to be particularly mistic narrative? Nausicca ─ Right, hi everyone, today’s chat packed with hilarity, myself. ─ Hi, just dropping in. Does humor is about the 13th chapter of Ulysses, ─ (now that I think about it: lots target women, or anyone susceptible to ‘Nausicaa’. of refs to “Irishness” in N; interesting commercialism... including Bloom? ─ I’ve turned down a trip to a South coming off Cyclops.) ─ +1 We see this re: Bloom else- Pacific beach this morning, but we’ve ─ Last words of Cyclops were ‘shot where. MT @doctaCynthia: Does got the next best thing: Sandymount off a shovel’. For me, the turn to ‘myste- humor target anyone susceptible to Strand. rious embrace’, ‘many a time and oft’, is commercialism incl Bloom? ─ I’ll ask questions about the things v. funny.

that I find most interesting, but please ─ much more disorienting on first *** take the chat where you’d like it to go read than after re-reading text. The ─ What is first reaction on first turn- ─ For tweeting purposes, let U = HAHA moment came, for me, years ing the page from ‘Cyclops’ to N? What Ulysses, N = ‘Nausicaa’, GM = Gerty later. do we make of its language and style? MacDowell, LB = Bloom. ─ When we begin to recognize LB ─ Stable & ; down-2-earth after ─ Let’s start with the most important and understand that this minor char Cyclops. Catch one’s breath after the question for any discussion of U. What of GM is being elevated for ulterior apocalypse. AntiJoycean, which gradu- #yearofulysses is funny about this chapter? purposes, I think. ally raises suspicions.

91 92 ─ But on first reading (and @ At what point in the narrative do those ─@BobRBogle So quite late in the think, from this deliberate clash of target women, or anyone susceptible to ─ Hi, just dropping in. Does humor profheatherf’s students are welcome suspicions become unavoidable? chapter. How about in the par when bodily/sexual matter with the genteel commercialism... including Bloom? target women, or anyone susceptible to here), is the shift of tone and language ─ much more disorienting on first GM is introduced? There are some tone of the narrative ─@doctaCynthia Another great commercialism... including Bloom? confusing at first? read than after re-reading text. The startling clashes there ─@ProfHeatherF Or using language Q. Yet LB is very suspicious of patent ─@doctaCynthia Another great ─ Bloom as “the gentleman” after HAHA moment came, for me, years ─ For instance, ‘those discharges she’d find on a label for whatever elixir medicines (‘all breadcrumbs they must Q. Yet LB is very suspicious of patent being ben Bloom Elijah -- also interest- later. she used to get’ is a strikingly ‘unmen- she might be taking for this unspeak- be’). Not so GM medicines (‘all breadcrumbs they must ing. and Y, wld say shift on 1st read- ─ Cyclops is so aggressive--it’s hard tionable’ detail in such a euphemistic able condition? ─ I don’t see misogyny, as J creates be’). Not so GM ing=disorienting. not to be suspicious by the softness of chapter . ─ But is there sthg misogynistic many kinds of female minds; GM is ─ How does LB come out of all this ─ Or has the idiosyncratic narrator the first part of N. ─@HaywardNausicaa Discharges: about it? Is GM the target of this 1 cliched ex le mostly 4 J’s joke: LB’s (so to speak)? An unusual misogyny in of Cyclops prepared us for new styles ─@cthomasmurphy Seems most or Joyce-the-author refined out of humour? Or is it the style of the euphe- gratification his part of the chapter and voices? of us are agreed that it is disconcerting existence asserting his unmistakable mistic narrative? ─ is the the first woman Bloom ─@BobRBogle Yes, or the ugly side ─ Not immediately apparent what’s or disorienting at first, and the joke is a presence... ─@janineutell @ProfHeatherF really “inspects” since the statue in of his objectification of GM - discarded going on even tho by now we’re used to slow burner. ─@BobRBogle Most pertinent Precisely - that’s the best defence for J, I Lestrygonians? once used, like any commodity shifts. ─@ProfHeatherF Well many question. Is there sthg uncomfortable think. That he is setting up incongruous ─@BobRBogle Or is the misogyny ─@HaywardNausicaa Of course ─ Only somewhat; by now we’re novels will do that tho: alternate a pow- about the indulgence in GM’s body, discourses just located in particular characters? there’s the abortive message in the sand. not necessarily surprised by these radi- erful chap with a chance to catch one’s knickers, discharges, etc? ─@janineutell @ProfHeatherF ─@GhostProf @BobRBogle Or is Guilt for that objectification? cal changes. breath. ─@HaywardNausicaa There’s ...as in Cylops before it, not to mention the misogyny located in a discourse? ─@HaywardNausicaa or a relation- ─@BobRBogle true, but I think for ─@BobRBogle So quite late in the places like that, also weird bits in tone Oxen, after ─ How does LB come out of all this ship of perfect equal use. a 1st time reader the joke isn’t immedi- chapter. How about in the par when where a cattier side of GM comes out: ─ Indeed. The question is, how (so to speak)? An unusual misogyny in ─@BobRBogle whatever guilt (if ately clear, nor its purpose. GM is introduced? There are some “snottynosed twins” much GM exists apart from advertise- his part of the chapter any) is there, it’s erased. never physi- ─@HaywardNausicaa Transition startling clashes there ─@HaywardNausicaa GM allows ments, dime novels and Catholicism? ─@HaywardNausicaa Perhaps by cally represented in the sand. Never from Cyc. to N. seems more in gear ─@BobRBogle And yet Gerty is herself to think of anything provided being dismissive of GM he’s asserting “confessed” with a collection of short fictions--not a so...breathless! she couches her thoughts behind *** his loyalty to MB. ─@cthomasmurphy Uh huh, perfect (un)ified text ─ Fr this discussion of clashes: it proper filters. ─ But is there sthg misogynistic ─@BobRBogle Yes, or the ugly side in its true sense of completed. Still LB ─@janineutell Right. Of course for would’ve been awesome if Wyndham ─ Discharges: or is this GM acknowl- about it? Is GM the target of this of his objectification of GM - discarded thinks he ‘got the best out of that’ 1st time reader equally true of whole Lewis had written a version of N: agon edging that she lives in euphemism humour? Or is it the style of the euphe- once used, like any commodity ─@BobRBogle So an aborted mes- book. of LB& ;GM. land? mistic narrative? sage of apology rather than identifica- ─ I think that’s an interesting Q. ─ Much of the humour comes, I ─ Hi, just dropping in. Does humor * tion/communication? *** ** 93 94 ─@cthomasmurphy LB’s *lame* Are there any parts of her character that than genre-riffing. ─@HaywardNausicaa It’s human: plunders here discourse? Or something else? @Hay- effort to assuage his own guilt. Make it are not attributable to other discourses? ─@Yellworque Definitely. It is the heroic self-image coupled to hyper- ─@BobRBogle That self-image/ wardNausicaa more human interaction less commod- ─ “Gerty is a quotation” Vinc Sherry those flashes of vernacular that bring us critical judgment of those others we best hypercritical of others point seems fair, ─ The similarities of the language ity transaction. @doctaCynthia closest to any ‘real’ GM, I think. know. and also fits the ‘Projected mirage’ of GM and MB perhaps suggest that J ─ I think one problem is the lan- ─@Yellworque It increases as we ─ Also, re. idealisations, for GM, LB ─ Dipping in and out––sorry, @ conceived these errors/irregularities as *** guage of GM’s free indirect discourse. It get closer to ‘that one shortcoming’, her is ‘manly man’ ‘real man’, etc, and she is HaywardNausicaa. I’ve tracked down ‘female’ ─ Odd that the narration charac- is very close, at times, to Molly’s (MB)... limp a ‘womanly woman’ three novels that made it in. There must ─@Yellworque Hard to say. I think terizes GM as “ivorylike” “Greekly ─@Yellworque Perhaps GM nar- ─@Yellworque That is, if we dis- ─@HaywardNausicaa LB is also a be more. that at ‘though... she was more a Giltrap’ perfect” and “alabaster” upon her rating self into romance novel a la Mme count the ‘quotations’ from ads that are “foreigner” with “dark eyes”--which is ─@Yellworque Publish or be we start to see free indirect discouse introduction (1/2). Bovary? Would that still be free indirect present more or less from the start interesting because damned! The question of what ‘namby (FID) ─@cthomasmurphy classical discourse? ─ Now we need to catalog when ─...that would seem to fit a) GM pamby’ novels J has in mind is still ─ Sorry, Matt, which GM errors are beauty, vs mass produced? ─@Yellworque As Fritz Senn precisely the mask slips. as LB’s projection (sexualised young vexed - we need you! you thinking of? ─@cthomasmurphy GM is like both spotted, I think, the narrative fluctuates ─ Interesting too that her narration woman), and b) LB as GM’s projection ─@Yellworque ...since The L lighter ─@Yellworque Perhaps GM nar- BVM and those sexy Greek museum between GM’s own voice, and that of conceals lameness. She sees self as she (‘honourable man’) is far from wholly satisfactory. There’s a rating self into romance novel a la Mme statues. the genteel narrator wants- idealized novel heroine. ─ Also, the ‘Sense’ of the chapter is decent article in three new finds. Bovary? Would that still be free indirect ─ Interesting too that her narration ─ Actually lifted from Mrs. Alex- ─@doctaCynthia That’s right, as given in Linati schema as ‘The Pro- ─ Publish _and_ perish being the discourse? conceals lameness. She sees self as she ander’s _A Life Interest_ (1888)! @ emphasised by the criticisms of rival girl jected Mirage’ modern variant. Yes, I think The ─@Yellworque As Fritz Senn wants- idealized novel heroine. HaywardNausicaa companions in vernacular ─ But of course both projections are LLighter is a bit of a red herring. @ spotted, I think, the narrative fluctuates ─ “Yet, the limp is what separates ─ ‘“I think your daughter is more ─ “Yet, the limp is what separates brought to earth: GM is a lonely girl, HaywardNausicaa between GM’s own voice, and that of her from the statue. She is “”real.”” a Carteret than a Barton,” he said’ @ her from the statue. She is “”real.”” She aware of her limp, and LB is wanking the genteel narrator She cannot be “”perfect,”” outside of HaywardNausicaa cannot be “”perfect,”” outside of fantasy on the beach *** ─@BobRBogle that’s sort of a ques- fantasy ─ If Uncle Charles only extends to ─@HaywardNausicaa That’s often ─ Perhaps both Projected Mirage ─ I think one problem is the lan- tion of what level the FID is working at: likely mode of speech, is the episode where, as @Yellworque says, the mask and cattiness re: friends are ultimately guage of GM’s free indirect discourse. It narr>LB>GM or narr>GM. *** only GM’s likely reading material? @ slips- when dealing with the other girls. coping mechanisms. GM has a lot to is very close, at times, to Molly’s (MB)... ─@Yellworque So a kind of FID, ─ Indeed. The question is, how doctaCynthia ─ Moments of iritation or flashes deal with. ─...particularly with the faulty use of but with additional distortion of partic- much GM exists apart from advertise- ─ “Gerty wished to goodness of anger against the serene backdrop ─@Yellworque Mrs Alexander riff conjunctions, and the lack of punctua- ular discourses governing the third-per- ments, dime novels and Catholicism? they would take their squalling baby of the genre fiction. @doctaCynthia @ is a great find! I would love to see a full tion. son ─@doctaCynthia That’s the rub. home”––this feels much more like FID HaywardNausicaa catalogue of the ‘women’s fiction’ J ─ Is the GM portion free indirect ─@Yellworque Errors of language,

95 96 e.g. ‘those incense’ (mistaken plural, simple, but I think it is far more com- BVM and those sexy Greek museum may anticipate bleed-over conscious- seems as if J had something specific in lation is tyranny!” Nicens chat. Thanks. based on sound rather than written plex than it seems statues. ness in Circe. mind. ─@mchlstvns @HaywardNausicaa language) ─ Yes, Henke defends J somewhat. ─@cthomasmurphy Well spotted! ─@Yellworque Tricky...very ─@HaywardNausicaa @BobRBo- And oddly enough--it happens in a ─@Yellworque Or the faulty use But there are points at which no identifi- We’re getting close to the question of tricky... gle I like to think it’s a joke: I am a pig barren environment -- a sandy beach of conjunctions (‘though’ repeated ad able genre comes into play. how much of GM’s narrative/character ─@BobRBogle On the other hand, -- satisfying that LB is what he eats (but -- similar to a desert. nauseum, without any contrast being ─@ProfHeatherF Joyce’s control is in LB’s head notice that in the last pages, as LB not for lunch) ─@cthomasmurphy @mchlstvns made) of FID is evident in several passages. I ─@HaywardNausicaa Been asking dozes, GM (and her FID) come back ─@BobRBogle Who was it that True, and where SD has (probably) left ─ Very interesting. Never picked up always use /Portrait/ vs. /Jacob’s Room/ myself that for years... ─@BobRBogle Perhaps suggests argued it was to say ‘I. AM. A. JEW’? his poem fragment that LB picks up. on ‘em. Could JJ be indicting the genre to teach it. ─ What’s J’s quote abt it all being in that she is somehow linked to his The thought of LB making such an ─@cthomasmurphy 2) LB is as much as GM’s command of Nglish? ─ There’s another projection LB’s mind? (semi-)consciousness outburst is v. funny elsewhere a ‘dark figure’ (e.g. Scylla & ; @HaywardNausicaa though, which is hard to explain, and it ─ Structure of chapter interesting ─ Reminds me suddenly of SD’s Charybdis) ─@Yellworque True, but a bit too ties into the FID question... the Church re: Bloom’s perception of GM. Does it *** stories that never quite wrap up. ─@cthomasmurphy Good point. close and consistent with GM’s errors service matter that he gets his own half? ─@doctaCynthia Interesting that LB ─ The fox. The plums. The beach How about in ‘Wandering Rocks’ - LB in that case, which is not obviously tied ─ What’s interesting is that J’s con- ─@BobRBogle ‘It all took place sees that cattiness as a feminine charac- scrawl. Any parallels in Finnegans a ‘darkbacked figure’ or sthg similar to a genre trol of FID is so evident, as you say, but in Bloom’s imagination’ (to Arthur teristic, yet he does it in ‘Lotus Eaters’ Wake? (A Wakean I’m not.) ─ There’s an interesting economy that there are also rogue elements Power... apparently). ─... just the gender essentialisms that ─@HaywardNausicaa @cthomas- *** of FID here--it’s not the MrsDall model ─@HaywardNausicaa Yes I have J subverts with LB throughout the novel murphy @BobRBogle I always read it as ─ There’s another projection where we can just keep adding in con- *** my doubts abt what J meant by that. an incomplete copulation... though, which is hard to explain, and it sciousnesses. ─ Odd that the narration charac- LB’s fantasies or GM’s “thoughts?” *** ─@BobRBogle I’m not equal to that ties into the FID question... the Church ─@Yellworque @HaywardNausicaa terizes GM as “ivorylike” “Greekly ─@BobRBogle that’s sort of a ques- ─@cthomasmurphy LB’s *lame* question either. Wait till I’ve had a few service Definitely JJ indicting genre. Henke has perfect” and “alabaster” upon her tion of what level the FID is working at: effort to assuage his own guilt. Make it pints in me first. ─ To begin with the service is just article along those lines, I think. introduction (1/2). narr>LB>GM or narr>GM. more human interaction less commod- ─@mchlstvns @HaywardNausicaa heard, and then GM ‘could picture the ─ “Gerty wished to goodness ─@cthomasmurphy classical beauty, ─ It gets tricky, eh! I think there are ity transaction. @BobRBogle You mean, copulation whole scene in the church’ they would take their squalling baby vs mass produced? too many personal details for there to ─@cthomasmurphy @BobRBo- without population? ─ But soon the church service seems home”––this feels much more like FID ─ is the the first woman Bloom be no GM (e.g. father’s alcoholism, gle And for God’s sake what was that ─@mchlstvns Here comes the night- untethered from GM’s conscious- than genre-riffing. really “inspects” since the statue in discharges) message going to say? I’ve never read a shift! So the point isn’t what it was going ness.... ─@doctaCynthia The structure of Lestrygonians? ─@HaywardNausicaa Yes: J’s satisfactory suggestion. to say, but that it is interruptus? this chapter tends to be dismissed as ─@cthomasmurphy GM is like both explanation is not exactly definitive. But ─@HaywardNausicaa It certainly ─ Buck: “Copulation without popu-

97 98 99 100 ─ More so than anywhere else in the ─@Yellworque That stuff more than 1 March 2013 chapter (even the book?) that legalese the stuff at the *end* of Oxen? It is the OXEN OF stuff runs away from me. Is that the end of *Oxen* that utterly defeats me. 10:00 - 12:00 point? ─@cforster It’s those 300wds ─@PhilipKeelGeheb ‘The voices particularly that get me. At least you THE SUN blend and fuse in clouded silence: have narrative to tether the close of the silence that is the infinite of space’ and episode to. Moderated etc. Too obvious? ─ With the density of the opening By ─@PhilipKeelGeheb @alisonlacivita and ending, does Oxen stand out as Maybe we get too comfortable with the being unnecessarily opaque? is it an Phillip return of Bloomy interior monologue at aesthetic mistake? the end of Naus ─@PhilipKeelGeheb Definitely KeelGehab ─ Hoopsa boyaboy hoopsa! Hoopsa ─@PhilipKeelGeheb @Yellworque stands out, but would feel like more boyaboy hoopsa! Hoopsa boyaboy I don’t mind the opening actually. I find of a mistake not to test that limit of the hoopsa! things way more difficult towards the method. ─ Let’s begin! I’ll start with a general end. Middle’s ok ─@PhilipKeelGeheb Mistake is one to see who’s here: anyone have a ─@PhilipKeelGeheb I’m partial to clearly a strong word; for those who favorite parodic style in ‘Oxen’? the Eumaeus bit want to see the novel as *chiefly* a ─ I’ve always been mightily stumped ─@sbslote And there’s the Slote narrative, it is + by the opening. spanner in the works. ─@jtwelsch @PhilipKeelGeheb I ─ “Universally that person’s acu- ─@sbslote which is an odd thing to often wonder if I’m well enough read to men” etc. say: my fave bit in one chapter is the part get some of the jokes. But I don’t think ─@Yellworque What about the that’s like another chapter mistake. opening, yo? ─ Of the competing claims for most * ─@Yellworque On first read I Wake-like bit of Ulysses, the close of ** found the first 59 lines impenetrable. Oxen generally ranks pretty highly. ─ Let’s begin! I’ll start with a general Coming straight after Naus. is the style ─ “Most Wake-like bit of Ulysses”–– one to see who’s here: anyone have a #yearofulysses more difficult? the thinking man’s Oscars. favorite parodic style in ‘Oxen’?

101 102 ─ Dunno if this is an answer but Joyce’s neologisms? ─ in the famous letter Joyce says but some form of state institutions, fam- episode? Oxen’s a chapter I return to most fre- ─@Yellworque (or anywhere in the Oxen’s about “the crime committed ily etc are needed to maintain modern ─@alisonlacivita @philipkeelgeheb quently for sheer pleasure (along with chapter, really, I was just re-reading the against fecundity by sterilizing the act of civic life Yes - linguistic and cultural growth. Sirens & ; Circe). first bit) coition.” Does this tie-in with/parody Irish ─@Yellworque In part perhaps b/c ─@alisonlacivita OED cites “omnip- ─ When Stephen pontificates on a *** Revival? the style is the focus, and so the chapter ollent,” for one, to the episode. similar point do we think he believes in ─@alisonlacivita should we care ─@CleoHanaway @alisonlacivita I is most easily removed from novel as a ─@alisonlacivita Word’s spellcheck what he says? about the antecedents of and styles think it certainly does. Does focus of whole? function certainly doesn’t like the ─@alisonlacivita Is it satirizing the through which our language has English language mean Irish lang revival ─@cforster Yes, in part. Also opening. state, its prosperity, its ability to replen- evolved? is irrelevant? because the chuckles are so hard won! ─@Yellworque @PhilipKeelGeheb ish its citizenry etc? ─@alisonlacivita Oxen illustrates ─@alisonlacivita @CleoHanaway Oxen especially repays close and Ah good, that’s the main one I was ─@PhilipKeelGeheb Yep, that’s the wonder & ; mystery of how language not a burn. Joyce seems to always skirt repeated scrutiny. wondering about. What does it mean in what I was going for. The intro seems to develops just as the fetus grows out of 1 around language revival, but promotes ─ Everyone’s drinking here. Does this context? set up “progress” of all kinds. sperm/1ovum cultural rev. that have much bearing on the mean- ─@alisonlacivita All-powerful, ─@PhilipKeelGeheb SD is pro- ─@PhilipKeelGeheb Nicely put! ─@alisonlacivita @CleoHanaway dering quick shifts in the style? seemingly. life, yo. And nations grow along with their and so much of Irish culture had been ─@PhilipKeelGeheb Surely; but ─@alisonlacivita Interesting: OED ─@alisonlacivita right,but does it language? irrevocably conditioned by the English just as style achieves semiautonomy cites “proliferent” (also in this opener) simply satirize “progress” as such or ─@PhilipKeelGeheb @alisonlaci- language (w/r/t events narrated), so too does the first to Nausicaa. affirm a necessity for states to sustain vita for all the episode’s talk about the ─@PhilipKeelGeheb @alisonlacivita episode w/r/t work. ─@Yellworque James Joyce broke themselves? nation’s prosperity/future it has to know Interesting... Shakespeare, tundish...?! ─@cforster good point. maybe my spellcheck last year. ─ One of the points of this os to fig- where it’s ─@PhilipKeelGeheb @Cleo- that’s what makes Oxen so estranging is ure out WHY we should read Ulysses/ ─@PhilipKeelGeheb @alisonlaci- Hanaway @alisonlacivita the OE the narrative’s relative autonomy from *** care. Whats impt about Oxen? Why vita been to most effectively be lead “Thole” (ln 75). in Beowulf intro the characters ─ This may be bc I read it yester- bother? ─@alisonlacivita It’s a kind of dou- Heaney says he heard this as a kid day, but the 1st section (-59) reminds ─@PhilipKeelGeheb Both? It ble feedback loop: both language and ─ I think it’s important in the midst

*** me a bit of the tone in Auden’s satirizes the orgs/institutions of the state, the nation cause the other to evovle of a book in Hiberno-English we have ─@Yellworque @cforster Going Unknown Citizen. but also shows how such needs to be for ─ does it ultimately seem that Joyce a “history” of how the language got to back to Ronan’s confusion with the first ─ By this I mean, satirizing the state civic life? is ambivalent about the future, with the that stage section -- how many words there are etc. ─@alisonlacivita It mocks them, chaos, slang, pidgin etc that ends the

103 104 105 106 ─@alexpryce100 Cheers! Please join read, as Strindberg is legendary for his 1 March 2013 us if you’re free. staging instructions ─ Fresh cup of tea, biscuits at the ─ so what if all Ulysses is a play, and CIRCE 10:00 - 12:00 ready. All set for some serious (and not circe just written that way? so serious) ‘Circe’ chat. ─ To what extent is ‘Circe’ halluci- ─ So - let’s get started... Is ‘Circe’ a nated by its protagonists?! @ellisjudd play, film, cartoon, or just some crazy @Jonhinius @PhilipKeelGeheb @ Moderated ramblings?1 keatsandchapman By ─ Who would describe ‘Circe’ as a ─@patlockley Joyce not a fan of play? @LiberateUlysses #joyce Strindberg according to this: http://t.co/ CleoHanaway ─ It’s layout looks like a play script... TKNgtowyTN ─ layout looks like a play, but ─@patlockley Joyce was particularly ─ RT @mvp1922: Just under half perhaps a play in which Ulysses is also a enamoured with Ibsen an hour until @CleoHanaway leads book - lots of characters (some “extras” ─ What about Bloom’s sex - and “Circe” chat. Get ready! given words) other bodily - changes in ‘Circe’? What ─ Brush up on “Circe” here http://t. ─ Circe’ as a play within a book? Any do they say about the identity of/behind co/bcaUJeEgRr thoughts? @Yellworque @nickmimic @ the perfomer? ─ Twitter chat on Joyce’s ‘Circe’ in thisisallan ─@CleoHanaway well, why would about 15 mins time. @cleohanaway is ─@patlockley And some household part of a book become a play? questions leading. objects are give word too! What says who was in charge of speakers before? ─ Ready for ‘Circe’ chat: magic, cin- you to that?! ─@CleoHanaway is circe a fourth ema, hallucinations, sex, drunkeness, ─ Compare (Circe) - http://t.co/ wall rebellion? gender changes, prostitutes... Join us in hJNOJoJyvY to say Twelfth Night - ─@CleoHanaway @patlockley 10 mins! http://t.co/5ii656Tw1X Good point! Is Joyce relinquishing ─ Want to see some live digital ─@CleoHanaway this is very much control?! #yearofulysses engagement? Follow the tag for a chat modern theatre though (wooster ─@CleoHanaway hard for me to say led by @cleohanaway on James Joyce’s group?) as of yet, but you could see a control loci ‘Circe’ ─ how much Strindberg did Joyce moving in the book - first bit very poetic,

107 108 light ─@CleoHanaway i think “zool- sense as he deals with it? ─@cthomasmurphy @PhilipKeel- seems comfortable with her open sexual animals. Bloom’s crubeen relates. ogy” is there from the beginning: ln25 ─@Katherine_Ebury @Cleo- Geheb Who plays the role of Circe in expression--but wielding a power ─@cthomasmurphy @PhilipKeel- *** on: pygmy woman, gnome, crone, oaths Hanaway @PhilipKeelGeheb so the ‘Circe’?! Alcohol, Joyce, the reader, ─@PhilipKeelGeheb A bit like Geheb Who plays the role of Circe in ─ Joyce assigns ‘Circe’ these sym- of a man roar, warrens bell having a voice is Bloom dehuman- sinning, nighttime....? the individual experience of reading ‘Circe’?! Alcohol, Joyce, the reader, bols: zoology, personification, panthe- ─ lines between “civilization” and ising? ─ “@CleoHanaway @cthomasmur- Ulysses!? sinning, nighttime....? ism, magic, poison, antidote, reel “animality” are blurred here: fits with ─@patlockley @Katherine_Ebury phy Bella Cohen in one way, she runs ─@CleoHanaway Precisely! ─ “@CleoHanaway @cthomasmur- ─ How does ‘zoology’ relate to the idea prostitutes/jews as half-castes @CleoHanaway easier to deal with a the brothel; drink, music, women are phy Bella Cohen in one way, she runs ‘Circe’? too bell than his wife, perhaps? the “”magic”” she uses *** the brothel; drink, music, women are ─ Bloom transforms into a sniveling ─@PhilipKeelGeheb Hi! Interest- ─@CleoHanaway Hurray! Non-hu- ─ “@Katherine_Ebury it is inde- ─@cthomasmurphy c.f. The the “”magic”” she uses dog, Zoe’s foot becomes a hoof.... Is ing. Might this fit with Joyce’s designa- man things speaking. Right up my terminate depending on who is being Nymph painting who comes to life wei- ─ “@Katherine_Ebury it is inde- this where zoology comes in?! tion of ‘zoology’ in the Linati Schema?! ecocritical alley :) enchanted by what? [besides Bloom] lding a poinard near Bloom’s loins! terminate depending on who is being ─ How about personification? ‘The Or ‘pantheism’? ─@alisonlacivita Yay! There has also ─@PhilipKeelGeheb @cthom- ─@CleoHanaway Indeed, Circe a enchanted by what? [besides Bloom] Soap’, ‘The Bells’, ‘The Chimes’... all ─@cthomasmurphy @PhilipKeel- been mention of animality and Joyce’s asmurphy Yes. Good point. But she powerful woman, and one not afraid to ─@PhilipKeelGeheb @cthom- speak - so are personified to a certain Geheb Who plays the role of Circe in designation of zoology as one ‘Circe’’s becomes a he (Bello)... Does she trans- use her power. I wonder if suffragette asmurphy Yes. Good point. But she extent... ‘Circe’?! Alcohol, Joyce, the reader, symbols. form herself? movement used Circe becomes a he (Bello)... Does she trans- ─@CleoHanaway is there much sinning, nighttime....? ─ So, in ‘Circe’, there is no singular ─@cthomasmurphy @Cleo- form herself? anthropomorphism in Ulysses - am ─ and also the idea of Circe as an *** Circe charcater (?). Magic is found in Hanaway Wonder if Molly would ─ So, in ‘Circe’, there is no singular thinking the cat at breakfast enchantress who changes men into pigs/ ─@CleoHanaway is everything a booze, sex.... and in the human subcon- notice if the Nymph used the poinard... Circe charcater (?). Magic is found in ─@patlockley Yes, true. Is the animals. Bloom’s crubeen relates. voice, so everything becomes words? scious? ─@CleoHanaway Circe and her booze, sex.... and in the human subcon- anthropomorphism of the cat different ─@Katherine_Ebury ‘Men’ specifi- Maybe that explains the typography? ─@CleoHanaway In a way, she aggressive femininity to a male serv- scious? to ‘personification’ of objects in ‘Circe’? cally.... ‘The Man-hating Ogress’ (Linati ─@CleoHanaway @mvp1922 is is already transformed. Circe is an ing as a subconscious fear of castra- ─@CleoHanaway In a way, she @mvp1922 Schema) it perhaps a circle? as people change aggressive feminine sexual goddess--but tion--Nymph in painting is already transformed. Circe is an ─@CleoHanaway is everything a ─@cthomasmurphy c.f. The name right? she refuses to ─@cthomasmurphy A sad thought aggressive feminine sexual goddess--but voice, so everything becomes words? Nymph painting who comes to life wei- ─@CleoHanaway Circe is indeed.... she refuses to Maybe that explains the typography? lding a poinard near Bloom’s loins! * observer dependent? whatever subcon- ─@CleoHanaway Circe is ** ─@CleoHanaway @mvp1922 is ─@Katherine_Ebury @Cleo- ─ and also the idea of Circe as an sciously “enchants” the character *** observer dependent? whatever subcon- it perhaps a circle? as people change Hanaway @PhilipKeelGeheb so sup- enchantress who changes men into pigs/ ─@CleoHanaway submit to ─ and also the idea of Circe as an sciously “enchants” the character name right? pose in circe giving a bell a voice makes animals. Bloom’s crubeen relates. Madonna/whore dichotomy. She enchantress who changes men into pigs/ ─@CleoHanaway submit to

109 110 Madonna/whore dichotomy. She seems comfortable with her open sex- ual expression--but wielding a power ─@PhilipKeelGeheb A bit like the individual experience of reading Ulysses!? ─@CleoHanaway Precisely! *** ─@cthomasmurphy c.f. The Nymph painting who comes to life wei- lding a poinard near Bloom’s loins! ─@CleoHanaway Indeed, Circe a powerful woman, and one not afraid to use her power. I wonder if suffragette movement used Circe ─@cthomasmurphy @Cleo- Hanaway Wonder if Molly would notice if the Nymph used the poinard... ─@CleoHanaway Circe and her aggressive femininity to a male serv- ing as a subconscious fear of castra- tion--Nymph in painting ─@cthomasmurphy A sad thought indeed....

111 112 113 114 cations of Circe. Scene:Shelter;Or- is LOL’! Love the literalised/confused 12 April 2013 gan:Nerves;Symbol:Sailors;Art:Naviga- metaphors/sayings: horse at the end of tion;Tech:Narrative (old) tether, so to speak! EUMAEUS 9:00-11:00 ─ Until now Joyce’s style has been a ─ “@CleoHanaway I know Fritz weeding out exposition, but “Eumaeus” Senn finds very funny (I’m inclined to saturates with redundant exposition. agree) Why the change? ─ All of the unneccesary clarifica- Moderated ─@PaulEamonnFagan Interesting tions crack me up ” By in terms of what comes next: ‘Ithaca’’s ─ R. Bell calls E “the grandest prat- pseudo-scientific questioning & ; seem- fall in U” & ; a “prime Irish Bull”– do PaulEamonn ing-rationalisation. we think it’s a joke? If so, who or what is ─&; if “Brevity is the soul of wit” is the butt? Fagan ─ And we’re off! Welcome all to or can all this exposition be funny? Or ─@PaulEamonnFagan The English the livechat on “Eumaeus”. Take a do you find it tedious? Any readerly language?! moment to get comfortable, I’ll walk responses? ─@CleoHanaway For e.g. “And you through the process. ─@CleoHanaway Yes, having later on at a propitious opportunity he ─ So, preparatory to anything else a switched gears in Book III from unde purposed (Bloom did)...” :) few ground rules: First, don’t forget to rto ver-exposition, the approach even ─@CleoHanaway There sure seems tag all of your posts gets r ed up in Ithaca to be some prodding at relationship ─ Finally to keep the character ─ But why the change do we think? between language & ; reality at this point count down, let’s use the shorthand Is E an instance of the book taking a w/the cliches etc. E=Eumaeus, S=Stephen, B=Bloom, cheap shot at its own obsession with ─@GhostProf @CleoHanaway M=Murphy, U=Ulysses, J=Joyce style? The reader? The issue of imposture and disguise is ─ Let’s start by discussing the style ─@CleoHanaway Yes, having certainly integral here - the “Irish Bull” of the episode, which I think is most switched gears in Book III from under approach seems apt people’s barrier to it. First, a quick to over-exposition, the approach even ─@PaulEamonnFagan Yes... And I overview: gets r ed up in Ithaca love ‘literally the last of the mohicans’! #yearofulysses ─ It’s 1am, following the alter- ─@PaulEamonnFagan ‘Eumaeus ─@CleoHanaway My favourite

115 116 instance of this is the completely inaccu- ─@CleoHanaway @GhostProf ─ For those joining us for the last half ─ “Sounds are impostures...like rate newspaper report of Dignam’s Very interesting, especially if Murphy hour, we’re discussing Murphy as an names. Cicero, .. Napoleon..Jesus.. funeral; L. Boom etc.! is a pseudo-Odysseus, on whose body alternative Ulysses to Bloom in Eumae- Shakespeares were as common as Mur- ─@CleoHanaway Yes! That always “Ulysses” is constructed us-any ideas? phies. What’s in a name?” makes me LOL! Some great neolo- ─@CleoHanaway @GhostProf In ─@GhostProf @CleoHanaway Tat- gisms too “Sherlockholmesing him up” this vein what do we make of the specif- toos as carrying your own undoubted and so on! ics of the tats: Anchor, no. 16, Antonio text? (ate by sharks)? ─@OpenJoyce @GhostProf @ *** ─@CleoHanaway @GhostProf If we CleoHanaway In that sense I also find ─ Does the issue of disguise in continue with the Shem-esque metatex- the metatextual & ; homoerotic conno- “Eumaeus” pertain to the way that U is tual idea, 16 could be the number of the tations of Antonio intriguiing itself disguised as both novel and epic? episode perhaps... ─ The only mentions of tattoo are in ─@GhostProf @CleoHanaway ─@PaulEamonnFagan @GhostProf this chapter The issue of imposture and disguise is Jennifer Levineon: no. 16 relates to an ─@PaulEamonnFagan @Open- certainly integral here - the “Irish Bull” artist figure in ‘lotto’ cards: http://t.co/ Joyce @GhostProf Yep - an actual approach seems apt cJZkEDCLX2 song: ‘Oh, Oh Antonio!’ ‘left me on my ─@GhostProf @CleoHanaway Can ─@CleoHanaway @GhostProf Very ownio’ http://t.co/99AR0yUSOF you expand in the idea of Murphy’s Shemean... also, if we go with the orig- ─@CleoHanaway @OpenJoyce @ tattoos both concealing & ; revealing his inal text W.B. Murphy could be W.B. GhostProf Great! Any parallels between character? Interesting Yeats, another artist Murphy/U & ; Antonio (Tattoo) Artist ─@GhostProf raised the issue of ─@PaulEamonnFagan @GhostProf & ; Bloom/U & ; Stephen artist disguise:Given the Homeric parallels, Might ‘16’ relate to The Bible: Reve- ─ The reference to the Tichbourne what do we think about the episode as lation 19:*16*: “on his thigh a name case suggest a man pretend to be some- one of imposture? written”. Long shot!? one else? ─@PaulEamonnFagan @GhostProf ─@CleoHanaway @GhostProf I’ll ─@OpenJoyce Great! Also Bacon Tats conceal flesh-body but reveal buy it! What about Murphy as an alter- as Shakespeare (p.589), “Christus or narrative-self: story/character. c.f. Shem native Ulysses to Bloom? Why upset Bloom his name is..”, “the pseudo the Penman in FW?! the symbolic structure? Skin-the-etcetera” (597)

117 118 119 120 How so? I know little about the Berlitz Method is very catechistic. The text- 3 May 2013 method. I always “believed” the Gilbert books Joyce use are full of questions schema. and answers. ITHACA 21:00 - 23:00 ─ In the copy I used to first read ─@EKSwitaj you think in a way, Ulysses, my margins are FILLED with this chapter is an attempt to remove annotations about religion. How impt is ambiguity? this to Ithaca? ─@OpenJoyce I think it’s the form Moderated ─@alisonlacivita Mine too! I think of an attempt to remove ambiguity that By it’s very important. But I think a lot of only ends up introducing more. the impt comes in contrast to language ─@OpenJoyce which to go back to alisonlacivita of science my obsession is a bit like the way Joyce ─ who is asking the questions.....in regarded language teaching. ─ I wanted to start by asking anyone ithaca? ─@EKSwitaj @OpenJoyce So the out there what critical conceptions they ─ On a larger scale, should we focus way exams are given, etc., inherently just already have of Ithaca? more on the larger structure and style exposes the biases of the questioner? ─@alisonlacivita That the Q& ;A of the episode, or should we spend time ─@cthomasmurphy I suspect the structure resembles, among other dissecting? giant period would support this reading, things, the Berlitz Method. (But of ─@OpenJoyce Seriously. which I like a lot... course I would say that.) ─@ProfHeatherF @alisonlacivita ─@alisonlacivita @OpenJoyce ─ Things I had first learned about And also the thoughts each thought they That’s part of it. Also that no matter Ithaca are now odd to me, and I was think they knew about each other. how you try to simplify language into wondering how others had first been ─@OpenJoyce I think of the Ithacan rules, it’s alive. introduced to it? asker as the same voice that asks study ─ Q of bias of questioner is inter- ─ Just taught it-we were struck by questions in a textbook. esting--”he” doesn’t feel biased to me how separated LB + SD are in this ep, ─@EKSwitaj I like this vision of the so much as...blank? empty? not really #yearofulysses despite narration that seems like it question-asker! there? would elide diff. ─ Langauge ─@ProfHeatherF But there’s still ─@EKSwitaj “Lol,” if I may say so. ─@alisonlacivita The Berlitz the issue of why the questioner asks

121 122 about what s/he/it asks about. ─ Ok in Ithaca “53rd parallel of lati- ─@cthomasmurphy @ProfHeath- Do you think it’s science vs. religion, or ─@cthomasmurphy The specific- ─@alisonlacivita and despite a ─@ProfHeatherF The Q seems tude, N., and 6th meridian of longitude” erF It just seems like a terribly awkward science as a “new” religion, like in FW? ity, whether the physical sciences, or wealth of information, he is a fiction. No almost like the “soul” (Joe) in Flann as co-ordinates is the location of Howth conversation. It’s like the stragglers at a ─@alisonlacivita The Berlitz addresses, or brands, seems to contrib- amount of science can prove he existed O’B TTP-- part of the narrator, but not Head college party. Method is very catechistic. The text- ute to this “reality” beyond entirely ─ So the narrator and listener might v@EKSwitaj I find it interesting that books Joyce use are full of questions ─@cthomasmurphy (or rather, ─@alisonlacivita (cont) our faith as ─@ProfHeatherF At times, the be Bloom proposing to Molly? a play becomes and interview - different and answers. attempt to establish that reality). readers Qs are clearly Bloom directing his ─ Is this old news? Just wondering / power dynamics ─@alisonlacivita I see science and ─@alisonlacivita Bloom’s motions ─@cthomasmurphy @alisonlacivita thoughts, but other times they have digging ─@alisonlacivita @cthomasmurphy religion operating in an orbit within this are recorded with specifity--he falls Suspension of disbelief as belief. Now their own mind @ProfHeatherF & ; climbing through episode. One cannot be the other, but through time and space climbing a there’s a commentary on religion. ─ Wonder if in talking about remov- *** a window because you don’t have your both try fence. ─@cthomasmurphy But what if we ing/creating ambiguity and establishing ─@ProfHeatherF Hi Heather! How key is very college dorm ─@alisonlacivita In a way, the ─@ProfHeatherF The Q seems are ALL JUST FICTION!! reality, we’re talking around the same so? What particular aspects made them ─@EKSwitaj @ProfHeatherF varying sciences try to prove that Bloom almost like the “soul” (Joe) in Flann ─@cthomasmurphy Kidding. :) thing? seem so separate? Indeed it does. Though “emotional” is real, the contents of his house are O’B TTP-- part of the narrator, but not ─@cthomasmurphy I wonder how ─@ProfHeatherF I love this section ─@alisonlacivita Undergrad English moments are made all the more touch- real, his life entirely the vaguely astronomic lyricism fit in w/ at 610-625ish, where the Q is “What?” majors! Classic male bonding moment ing because of it (I think) ─@alisonlacivita but we approach ─@alisonlacivita we have his weight, idea ep is proving LB’s realness--heav- -- that’s what I felt like. of peeing in the garden, but narr there is v@alisonlacivita So then does SD this book as fiction. Though, we only his middle name, dates for his 3 bap- entree of stars ─@EKSwitaj Is there an interview @ difference drinking from LB’s cup mean SD know Jesus “exists” because of the tisms, the contents of drawers, book- ─@ProfHeatherF @cthomasmur- within the interview - seems so at one ─@ProfHeatherF @alisonlacivita becoming [more like] LB? gospels. Can science shelf catalogue phy Precisely. I would have said the point? Narrator and Listener? And also the thoughts each thought they ─@alisonlacivita prove, through its ─@EKSwitaj To some extent -- it’s details abstract LB more -- place him as ─@OpenJoyce I’m not sure. Which think they knew about each other. ─ In the copy I used to first read cold bald style, a man moves through/ also this sense that in the modern era, part of larger systems part are you thinking of? ─@ProfHeatherF They even seem Ulysses, my margins are FILLED with occupies space using the same medi- our selves are our things, etc. ─@ProfHeatherF I think this is ─@OpenJoyce @EKSwitaj I think quite separate when they are peeing annotations about religion. How impt is um--writing. ─@alisonlacivita it’s as though we one of the areas where science attempts so -- Bloom’s consciousness takes on a -- I find I barely even notice when SD this to Ithaca? ─@cthomasmurphy Hmm, inter- are being given every detail possible to to be poetic/religious. And of course, it life of its own leaves! ─@alisonlacivita Mine too! I think esting! What passages/lines are you prove the man lived on this date, in this cannot be. ─@OpenJoyce @EKSwitaj Well, ─@ProfHeatherF Interesting you it’s very important. But I think a lot of thinking of? house ─ Maybe the water mapping early on that IS assuming part of the questioner bring up separation of LB + SD because the impt comes in contrast to language ─@cthomasmurphy I suspect the ─@cthomasmurphy Yep, definitely. links LB as concrete existing individual IS Bloom’s consciousness -- what do the form also separates them from the of science giant period would support this reading, All is records, numbers, receipts, to abstract giant systems, fitting one into you think? reader emotionally ─@cthomasmurphy Haha, great! which I like a lot... accounts... other.

123 124 ─@ProfHeatherF as pretty as the *** details abstract LB more -- place him as ─ So the narrator and listener might ─@OpenJoyce I’d say very -- it per- or trying NOT to be? image sounds in the passage, it does not ─@ProfHeatherF What level stu- part of larger systems be Bloom proposing to Molly? sonifies the city. ─@ProfHeatherF Apparently, “fit” . And the narrator makes correc- dents are you teaching it to right now? ─ Maybe the water mapping early on @OpenJoyce @EKSwitaj LB & ; ─@alisonlacivita So the co-ordinates Stephen didn’t either. tions ─@alisonlacivita Undergrad English links LB as concrete existing individual MB lying head to toe? in #ithaca are for Howth Head ─@ProfHeatherF “not a heaven- majors! Classic male bonding moment to abstract giant systems, fitting one into ─@alisonlacivita @EKSwitaj I got ─@OpenJoyce That’s very inter- *** tree. not a heavenrot” -- it’s as though of peeing in the garden, but narr there is other. the feeling it might be sexual, but the esting! Mathematizing the rhododen- ─ How impt are Homeric corre- the thoughts are brought back down to @ difference ─@ProfHeatherF The water, the description of position isn’t drons... spondances? earth ─@ProfHeatherF Great! So their electricity, the sewers, the procession of ─@OpenJoyce @alisonlacivita ─@cthomasmurphy Ha, right! It’s ─@alisonlacivita List of Molly’s suit- ─@cthomasmurphy @ProfHeath- first reading? How did they respond to suitors, the celestial images, etc. Does that emphasize the lack of sexual like Conmee in W.R. when he sees the ors corresponds with the unruly suitors erF Really? I think it depends on your the chapter, in general? Did they enjoy connection then? lovers in the hedge. in Ithaca. However, the list in Ulysses is view of science! it? *** ─@EKSwitaj @OpenJoyce The flawed ─ It’s also a reaction to the “pathetic ─@alisonlacivita They universally ─ In addition to all the lovely chats head to toe-ness? Yes, I’d say -- it’s also *** ─ Ok - silly question - Ulysses is the fallacy” in a way -- but the “facts” of wished the whole book had been writ- going on, what parts do you just find just plain weird. A whole day of walking ─ Do we think “various reiterated Odyssey - so why does Sinbad appear? science become sometimes poetic ten in that style--surprised me! REALLY FUNNY? on those feet.. feminine interrogation” means a pro- ─@OpenJoyce It is so loosely The ─@alisonlacivita We learn every- ─@ProfHeatherF Really! That’s ─@alisonlacivita Funny: Stephen’s ─@alisonlacivita and an afternoon posal, perhaps rejected first? Odyssey, though.. so many others impt thing about Bloom. But science, like interesting! What did they like about it? inability to penetrate the mind of a of jingle-jangling in the bed. #bread- ─@OpenJoyce Is she not just asking aspects, too. this episode, is a new way of writing Were there any problems they had? female. “Queen’s hotel. Queen’s hotel. crumbs him politely about his day? ─ So is Sinbad, an arabic take on / ─@alisonlacivita In a way, it gener- ─ Ok. Some final wrap-up: Why Queen’s hotel.” ─@alisonlacivita @OpenJoyce And ─@alisonlacivita but it follows on based around the Odyssey? ? ates as much if not more information write like this? How does it change ─ Not really “funny,” but why do you the fact that the question sets it up as if it from the sexual history lines? ─@alisonlacivita Because Sinbad is about Bloom than the entire rest of the our reading? What does it “do” for the get a scar from a bee sting...? (1447- could be sexual. ─@OpenJoyce I always thought it possibly, vaguely, the arabic odyssey? novel combined reader, for the novel? 1450) was what goes in Bloom’s mind while he ─@OpenJoyce Sinbad is another ─@alisonlacivita Science/math can ─@alisonlacivita It places the reader ─@alisonlacivita If you scratch or *** is chatting with her? adventurer -- Bloom, falling asleep, always ask another question--but cannot in the position of a student reading a otherwise pick at it, a bee sting will scar. ─ Ok in Ithaca “53rd parallel of could think of his day as such? distinguish between what information is textbook, for one thing. ─@EKSwitaj Really? Ok. Maybe I latitude, N., and 6th meridian of longi- *** ─@alisonlacivita @OpenJoyce Or important just have not been stung enough..hope- tude” as co-ordinates is the location of ─ I never really know what to do w/ wish his day was such. ─ I am with @EKSwitaj I think this is *** fully it stays that way. Howth Head Little Harry Hughes. ─@OpenJoyce An explorer whereas a test - a reader was supposed to know ─@ProfHeatherF @cthomasmur- * ─ Ok. Howth Head - how significant ─@ProfHeatherF Good gracious, Bloom remains at home. Sinbad is a dif- these answers phy Precisely. I would have said the ** is this to Joyce? me neither. Is it SD being anti-Semitic, ferent Odyssues. Young Joyce of Count

125 126 of Monte Cristo plurality of people and roles ─@EKSwitaj At least Egypt -- cat chapter -- did you? to the readers to say this was based on the fold. ─@OpenJoyce Vaguely, sure -- wan- ─@OpenJoyce And that egg is goddesses as protector of women, etc.? ─@alisonlacivita Where!!!!! Tell another book? ─ It’s like the American Dream -- dering on a sea voyage for sure. what brings the resolution in Penelope, Bastet has cheezburger... me! Tell me! I want to have a reason to ─ But it is only a trellis? entrepreneurship! Self-made man! ─@cthomasmurphy @OpenJoyce of breakfast? crack open Dumas again! ─@OpenJoyce @EKSwitaj @ ─@cthomasmurphy Really! That’s Bloom’s wandering through Dublin ─@alisonlacivita @OpenJoyce In *** ─@cthomasmurphy I should have alisonlacivita Structural principle also interesting! I wonder when they did start though is away from home? I mean, still the ep. Bloom’s plan to write a song ─@EKSwitaj How do we all feel marked more of them! I thought of unravels in Eumaeus w/Murphy-who’s appearing in Ireland? in Ireland, but? for the 1892 Xmas panto “Sinbad the about the portrayal of women? Edmund several times!! also referred 2 as “Sinbad” ─@cthomasmurphy When JJ was ─@alisonlacivita @cthomasmurphy Sailor” is mentioned ─@alisonlacivita How far back does ─@alisonlacivita I will go through ─@PaulEamonnFagan @EKSwitaj writing U all those urban planning/gar- @OpenJoyce And w/Bloom being ─@PaulEamonnFagan @alisonla- our cultural association of women and the ep again soon & ; look out ED! I @alisonlacivita Ah the friend Sinbad den city movements were all the rage viewed as a foreigner by many Dublin- civita 4 mentions of sinbad - http://t.co/ cats go? love that young JJ liked CoMC. One of line? ─@alisonlacivita yeah, except JJ ers, “home” gets complicated. dlE0EEZXBB ─@EKSwitaj I always want to my first favs. mocks that dream to some extent. LB’s ─@alisonlacivita @OpenJoyce ─@alisonlacivita @OpenJoyce defend Joyce’s portrayal of women, but *** fantasy is to live a suburban, middle “Longest way round is the shortest way Maybe the problems of appropriating this does not help things. *** ─@OpenJoyce And that egg is class life home” myths in the panto Q are being re-raised ─@alisonlacivita The negative ─@OpenJoyce Sure, and how what brings the resolution in Penelope, ─@cthomasmurphy @alisonlacivita ─@OpenJoyce I found info stating ironically @ the end? things sd. about Molly’s abilities reflects names can change over times/cultures? of breakfast? I agree, and a very specific type of home that Sinbad may have been influenced Bloom’s limitations & ; perceptions (thinking FW here too) ─ and that the interview ends as is being advertised by the Odyssey, but nothing more *** more than anything ─@alisonlacivita Yes - but also you Bloom takes the egg - which relates to ─@alisonlacivita Just sounds like concrete ─ What’s the deal with the cat? ─@EKSwitaj Indeed. And the perhaps liberate the story. Joyce as tired the sexless marriage? something out of a home sale advert: ─@alisonlacivita @OpenJoyce ─@alisonlacivita I think the cat has “what to do with our wives” question -- of Ulysses? ─@alisonlacivita egg is womb / sex / “...with smart carriage finish and neat Blinding of cyclops/giant story, I her own agenda. They always do. but the tone of that is so odd? ─@alisonlacivita Yes - but also you love? doorbrasses” believe, are loosely similar. ─@EKSwitaj Cat as the Arranger! perhaps liberate the story. Joyce as tired ─@PhilipKeelGeheb I know that’s * ─@OpenJoyce LIke Bérard and the ─@EKSwitaj What is with Molly *** of Ulysses? ** the way it’s always discussed, but is it Phoenician origin of Odysseus. being compared to the cat? ─@OpenJoyce An explorer whereas ─@OpenJoyce @alisonlacivita Near ─ On another topic, what do really? ─ So the Roc Egg in Sinbad leads to ─@EKSwitaj How do we all feel Bloom remains at home. Sinbad is a dif- the end of the book is a good time for Bloom’s various schemes, his dream ─@PhilipKeelGeheb “a tennis and hallucinations and journeys - so the roc about the portrayal of women? ferent Odyssues. Young Joyce of Count the author to get tired of its structuring house, etc. tell us about him? About the fives court..a glass summerhouse with egg brings on the end of the journey ─@alisonlacivita How far back does of Monte Cristo principle time period? tropical palms” ?? ─ But perhaps the multiple bastard- our cultural association of women and ─@cthomasmurphy @OpenJoyce I ─@EKSwitaj @alisonlacivita but ─@alisonlacivita Sounds as though ─@alisonlacivita “stucco front with isations of Sinbad’s name is to suggest a cats go? noticed a lot of Monte Cristo refs in this it’s also a new way to end - sort of joke home sales brochures were coming into gilt tracery ..., rising, ... upon a gentle

127 128 eminence with agreeable prospect from ─@LiberateUlysses Indeed he was “unexpectedly” discovering a “precious balcony” -- let’s convert human waste to fuel! stone” or “valuable st s” ─@cthomasmurphy the private ─@alisonlacivita yeah, it’s a nice ─@PaulEamonnFagan @Philip- property aspect is certainly emphasized house, but from LB’s bank acct not KeelGeheb I hope I find one of those -- “protected against illegal trespassers” extravagant: it’s entirely pragmatic & ; st s. “padlock” etc attainable ─@alisonlacivita @PhilipKeelGeheb ─@alisonlacivita Bloom imagined ─@EKSwitaj @alisonlacivita I’ve Me too! Especially if it’s “by unusual that utopia was within the power of you never known a list in Joyce’s writings to means” such as “dropped by an eagle in & ; me to build. He was of an engineer- go “too far” :) flight”! ing age. ─ there’s also not a single thing in ─@cthomasmurphy Is that middle the house’s accoutrements for Molly *** class to you? It seems like he starts out (except maybe a toilet) ─ I like Ithaca. wanting that, but then once he keeps ─@PhilipKeelGeheb I don’t know... thinking... I don’t buy it! ─@alisonlacivita But how would ─@PhilipKeelGeheb So what Bloom break in when he forgets his does that mean? key? ─@alisonlacivita “A Shrubbery” ─@cthomasmurphy the “fingertame #MontyPython parrot,” all the various servants, an ─@alisonlacivita @PhilipKeelGe- orchard? heb Does Bloom’s desired house grow ─@cthomasmurphy Various anymore ridiculous than his ideas for reactions to dispossession? the New Bloomusalem? ─@cthomasmurphy @alisonlacivita ─@cthomasmurphy @PhilipKeel- He’d have to have more training in Geheb Nah, definitely not. It’s great! fence-climbing. I want a rabbitry and a dovecote in my ─@alisonlacivita @cthomasmurphy dream house, too! But how seriously can we take the late- ─@PhilipKeelGeheb The whole night ramblings of his mind? plan is contingent tho upon Blm

129 130 131 132 and hope to learn from it. described 24 May 2013 ─ To minimize character count ─ It’s also always seemed odd to me for twitter, let’s use J=Joyce, M=Molly, that it’s presented as stream of consc PENELOPE 10:00 - 12:00 B=Bloom, S=Stephen, P= “Penelope” when it’s really interior monologue. ─@mvp1922 Maybe it’s supposed *** to seem like she’s falling asleep? I never ─ J:“[I didnt interpret P] as a human think straight when I’m going to bed... Moderated apparition. In conception& ;technique I ─@Wharfrat1983 I think absolutely By depicted the earth which is prehuman& it’s capturing that liminal state. She also ;...posthuman” gets awoken several times -- the para plurabelle ─ Any thoughts about this state- breaks. ment? M represents U’s main female ─ in fact I find the “he’s” usually ─ Read Penelope http://t.co/ voice, yet she’s not human? have pretty clear antecedents from the KuEY7zGYtX ─ Harriet Shaw Weaver’s 1st context/place. ─ #mvp @Ghostprof” description of P was also “prehuman.” ─@mvp1922 interesting to think of ─ Don’t miss the final Twitter chat ─ I think the key is that his *concep- para breaks as waking. Otherwise, how of the #yearofulysses with Laura Hen- tion and technique* are prehuman. All are the non-period breaks dif from P’s sche (@plurabelle) Friday 24 May 10:00 the looping and cyclicality. other run-ons? am Pacific. ─ “prehuman” makes me think of ─ Can we cut to the chase? Is the ─ Laura Hensch to Moderate Final birth.. P represents the first part of the ending Molly having an orgasm or Twitter Chat – “Penelope” FRIDAY next day.. June 17th if you will... not? I hadn’t thought so until someone MAY 24 http://t.co/bZLtIYQ2o4 ─ There’s also the fact that she’s suggested it recently ─ All aTwitter with Molly Bloom drifting off to sleep, and she’s ∞, so ─@mvp1922 As she falls asleep, and @plurabelle today at 1pm ET: there’s something like a Jungian collec- she is completely within her mind.Also Tweet chat. http://t.co/rNSE7EJ4EF tive here “la petit mort,” orgasm & ; sleep both #yearofulysses #Ulysses ─ There are plenty of proper nouns involve obliteratn. ─ Laura, Great work. @plurabelle I here, and a lot of blurred “he”s, but ─@BobRBogle Indeed why should so very much admire what you’re doing, places and locations are the most vividly it be? Masturb consistent with larger

133 134 theme of seeing oneself as others do, voice in a totally dif realm Wandering Rocks. But no punct was self-indulgence. I just thought he contains it all ridiculous. fantasy, pleasure ─ I’ve always wondered whether unique at the time wanted to make me laugh. ─ So much of the novel is physicality. ─@BobRBogle I don’t see the ─ the idea of “yes” as both a basic it’s really a feminine consc. Joyce is ─@mvp1922 interesting to think ─@mvp1922 As she falls asleep, I think with this view (of masturbation) difference between sublime and ridic- joining and a self-satisfaction/self-indul- giving us or a male fantasy of it. Did he of para breaks as waking. Otherwise, she is completely within her mind.Also P stays consistent with the rest of the ulous... gence is maybe a way to think of P as know? how are the non-period breaks dif from “la petit mort,” orgasm & ; sleep both novel. ─ One of my fav things about Joyce is “prehuman” P’s other run-ons? involve obliteratn. ─ B/c of the eternal question: is U his humor. But for me there is smething ─ I read MB’s soliloquy as realistic *** ─ Possible. Although I feel that primarily abt paternity or abt marriage? breathtaking about the end, a silent awe, enough. Dont really get the prehuman ─ What do you think of the *** reduces the episode & ; the whole No *right* answer here, but I favor the not LOL thing. relationship b/t M and the “Arranger”? ─ Can we cut to the chase? Is the novel for that matter from sublime to latter. ─ Plenty of jokes in U. This I think ─@BobRBogle We were talking Sometimes the text doesn’t read like a ending Molly having an orgasm or ridiculous. ─@BobRBogle But what about the is not one. abt Joyce’s claim that he hadnt interptd monologue not? I hadn’t thought so until someone ─@plurabelle le petit mort also gap b2n the man lying next to her and ─@BobRBogle Indeed why P as a “human apparition” but as earth, ─@plurabelle Is that what the suggested it recently carries connotations of little Rudy’s the one she fantasizes about? should it be? Masturb consistent with pre-/posthuman “Arranger” is? I’ve never heard that ─@mvp1922 Really? I thought that’s death -- le petit (est) mort. ─ “@mvp1922: So is she mastur- larger theme of seeing oneself as others before... what it was when I first read it! Yes, it ─@mvp1922 Even after her busy bating? She just got her period earlier do, fantasy, pleasure. *** ─@Wharfrat1983 Hugh Kenner definitely is, yes...yes... day with Boylan, she still isn’t satisfied in the episode.” Class this week assured ─@BobRBogle But there’s huge ─ Any thoughts about this state- 1st used the term, saying that in U ─ So is she masturbating? She just & ; returns to herself, and that return is me it’s possible. physical aspect since all the eps corresp ment? M represents U’s main female you can feel a strong presence of an got her period earlier in the episode. a theme in U v@arnoldgoldman No doubt! with organs, and this is the flesh that voice, yet she’s not human? “arranger” behind the text ─@mvp1922 I don’t think Joyce ─ I read P as M’s recognition of contains it all ─@plurabelle In what sense ─@plurabelle ... don’t all novels would think that would stop her... at the value of her marriage. Reduced 2 *** ─ So much of the novel is physicality. pre-human? This is an odd way to have a strong presence of an arranger? least from what I’ve read about him... mere physicality, the point of the novel ─ And if the novel ends with mastur- I think with this view (of masturbation) come at her, no? This is why I didn’t get my degree in ─ And if the novel ends with mastur- disappears 4 me. bation, what is Joyce telling us about the P stays consistent with the rest of the ─@Wharfrat1983 But in terms English lol bation, what is Joyce telling us about the ─@BobRBogle Indeed why novel’s self-indulgence? novel. of evolutionary theory, that makes her ─@Wharfrat1983 @plurabelle novel’s self-indulgence? should it be? Masturb consistent with ─@mvp1922 I never thought about ─ of course, take that with a grain of inferior, animalistic, racialised as well as Sometimes an arranger other times a ─@mvp1922 I think that’s def one larger theme of seeing oneself as others self-indulgence. I just thought he wanted salt, I’ve never ready any secondary lit sexualised. narrator. Kenner’s not totally right with way to read it, esp since Joyce said the do, fantasy, pleasure. to make me laugh. on U, just the novel itself. ─@mvp1922 @Wharfrat1983 U, though. word “yes” corresp. to “cunt” in his plan ─@BobRBogle But there’s huge ─ Possible. Although I feel that ─ of course, take that with a grain of Yes, it seems like an odd/disturbing ─@Wharfrat1983 The “arranger” for P physical aspect since all the eps corresp reduces the episode & ; the whole salt, I’ve never ready any secondary lit implication when J places the female is mb more obvious stylistic choices like ─@mvp1922 I never thought about with organs, and this is the flesh that novel for that matter from sublime to on U, just the novel itself.

135 136 ─ I feel like I’m bring the intelli- and marriage) -- both are importance gence level of this whole way down :-/ ─ of course, take that with a grain ─@plurabelle And both are still yikes.. This is why I catalog books, not of salt, I’ve never ready any secondary lit true of Bloom too study them on U, just the novel itself. ─ Word known to all men in S& ;C. ─@Wharfrat1983 No, yr non- ─ I’d say w LB’s sensitivity he Ellmann’s argument in Gabler. I think critical view is important,there’s an excels @ both, tho he’s usually mis- MB finally begins reconciliation process embarrassing danger of missing the understood. MB’s understanding this w LB in P. point through too much crit properly closes story. ─@plurabelle I’ve met a few women ─@BobRBogle But what about the *** in Kentucky like that... gap b2n the man lying next to her and ─ Stephen’s inability to weave an ─@plurabelle I think this quote the one she fantasizes about? other into himself is one reason he falls explains why I love Ulysses. Ulysses ─At line 647 M talks about how she flat while B joins his mind to all kinds of is about people I’ve met before. Its barely recognizes herself in mirror after others. relatable. gazing into a man’s eyes--a dif physical ─ “@mchlstvns: @plurabelle Seems ─@Wharfrat1983 Yeah, I’ve defi- aspect to me that Ulysses chronicles the nitely met my share of humorless SDs ─ She goes over the list one by one beginning of S’s empathy: something he and awkwardly lurking LBs in bars and finally it’s only LB abt whom she lacked in portrait.” ─@plurabelle Or the douchebaggy enters the yes-athon. LB is the one she ─ Yes, I do think that S& ;C is mb the Buck Mulligan. There is no way that doesn’t diss. turning point when S realizes he needs a guy doesn’t exist in real-life. No way. ─@BobRBogle But not *this* LB mate, intellectually & ; otherwise -- the old one. LB works through this ─@Wharfrat1983 Yeah, I’ve defi- *** when thinking about debt - after 5 mo.s nitely met my share of humorless SDs ─ B/c of the eternal question: is U you are not + and awkwardly lurking LBs in bars primarily abt paternity or abt marriage? ─@BobRBogle the same person ─@plurabelle Also, B and S’s No *right* answer here, but I favor the as the one who borrowed money. free-indirect-discourse begin in U with latter. ─ “I liked him bc I saw he under- “yrself as others see you,” which to me ─ isn’t it about both and how stood or felt what a woman is and I implies an ethics Bloom kind of sucks at both? (Paternity knew I could always get round him”

137 138 139 140 March 29, 2013 Lectures Ronan Crowley SUNY Buffalo APPENDIX “A Medley of Voices” August 10, 2012 January 2013 Robert Berry and Mike Barsanti Anne Fogarty April 19, 2013 Ulysses Seen University College Dublin Alan W. Friedman “Swimming the Deeper Waters “Reading ‘Cyclops’” University of Texas at Austin of Joyceana” “Reading Ulysses at 90” February 15, 2013 October 12, 2012 Amanda Sigler May 10, 2013 Lectures James Clawson Erskine College William Kupinse Grambling State University “Sexy Modernism: University of Puget Sound “Dirty Eaters’: Bloom’s Eco- An Invitation” “Sustainability, Style, and Critical Cycles in Lestrygonians” Scientific Objevitity in the ‘Ithaca’ Participants February 15, 2013 Episode of Joyce’s Ulysses.” November 2, 2012 Vincent Cheng Terence Killeen Univserity of Utah June 15, 2013 James Joyce Centre, Dublin “Ulysses, Race, and Ropert Spoo Works Cited “Ulysses in the Mirror of Colonialism” University of Tulsa Modernism” “The Public Domains” March 8, 2013 November 23, 2013 Sam Slote July 20, 2012 Hans Walter Gabler Trinity College Dublin Michael Stevens Munich University “Between Commentary University of Victoria “The Segments and the Whole: and Eternity” “Calypso: The Everyday An Aspect of Joyce’s Art of with Relish” Construction.”

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