February 2010
3 posts
what was bloom's relationship with paddy dignam...
the link to the complete list of foods eaten by...
pork kidneys
grilled gorgonzola sandwich with mustard and a glass of burgundy
beef liver and cods’ roe, mashed potatoes? Beer?
?
This seems like it would be a bog standard undergrad lit paper gimmick or a regular bloomsday activity, but so far no meal by meal list presents itself. If I wanted to eat like bloom and drink like withnail on the same day what would I eat?
January 2010
1 post
1 tag
December 2009
3 posts
DONE!
concavity and metempsychosis
How did I forget the yachting cap?
readingulysses:
words from Ulysses and Infinite Jest
November 2009
9 posts
concavity and metempsychosis
words from Ulysses and Infinite Jest
1 tag
“Two fellows that would suck the whiskey off a sore leg.”
– Ulysses by James Joyce
finally
I caught up to where we are supposed to be in Ulysses! The trip to Florida, three birthday celebrations for one person, trick or treating, and a Halloween party delayed my schedule but I am back on track!
Ulysses :: Concordance (with line numbers) →
Usually I can tell from their context, where the words scrawled in my notebook in need of definition come from in the text. When I can’t tell, this is the fastest place to search.
Begob only occurs once outside the Cyclops episode.
Begob means “by god” and so does begorrah.
[Telemachus] [529] —SO I DO, MRS CAHILL, says she. BEGOB, MA’AM, says Mrs Cahill, GOD SEND...
Ulysses - Columbia University Online Text →
Table of Contents for the Columbia Text I have been using for quotes. I could not find it before now and I have been moving from chapter to chapter by editing the urls.
“The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead.”
– ULYSSES - Cyclops
Rosenbach Museum & Library - Location of Ulysses... →
The Rosenbach Museum & Library is home to the manuscript for Ulysses, and a portion of the manuscript is always on display. The Rosenbach’s founder, Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, was one of the most visionary collectors and dealers the world of rare literary books and manuscripts has ever known. Rosenbach, holder of a Ph.D. in English literature from...
October 2009
43 posts
1 tag
finished Sirens
I finally stopped trying to understand everything (ha!) and it was more fun, but this chapter was the most difficult yet. I managed to laugh a few times - I like his made-up words.
reading the Cyclops episode
in Homosassa springs.
gorgonzola is a weird cheese choice for a germaphobe
Sirens
was a stumbling point for me. I could not get a grasp on the spatial relationship of the characters involved in the restaurant which made it even harder to differentiate real versus imagined interactions. I am sure all of the information was there, but I could not internalize it adequately. I grasped enough to know that Bloom was finally encountering Boyle and I felt the sad awkwardness.
unintentionally great use of quotation marks in...
thebronzemedal:
“i finished” Ulysses
“Moored under the trees of Charleville Mall Father Conmee saw a turfbarge, a...”
– ULYSSES - Chap. 10 - Wandering Rocks
There’s the Dubliner for you.
“Dubliners, strictly speaking, are my fellow-countrymen, but I don’t care to speak of our ‘dear dirty Dublin’ as they do. Dubliners are the most hopeless, useless and inconsistent race of charlatans I have ever come across, on the island or the continent. This is why the English Parliament is full of the greatest windbags in the world.
The Dubliner passes his time gabbing and making the...
“The guide encouraged drinking as much beer as possible while in Dublin, noting,...”
– Gridskipper: Cheapo Dublin
lenehan
Bummer… You are ahead of me, ahead of our schedule, but now I am not looking forward to this development.
readingulysses:
I was amused by Lenehan until the moment when he groped the drunk Molly in a cab in Blooms prescence. Now every memory of me laughing at his jokes makes me feel dirty.
“He crossed at Nassau street corner and stood before the window of Yeates and...”
– ULYSSES - Chap. 8 - Lestrygonians
Flashed on lots of images when reading this paragraph.
The watch on the roof of the bank for testing the glasses made me think of the glass man’s video camera in Amelie and also the proprietor’s photo series in that movie by Paul Auster and Jarmusch...
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“God’s curse on you, he said sourly, whoever you are! You’re blinder...”
– ULYSSES - Chap. 10 - The Wandering Rocks
on an unrelated note, Buck Mulligan is a two-faced sycophantic little prick isn’t he. That is the impression that is developing anyway.
lenehan
I was amused by Lenehan until the moment when he groped the drunk Molly in a cab in Blooms prescence. Now every memory of me laughing at his jokes makes me feel dirty.
“They are sundered by a bodily shame so steadfast that the criminal annals of the...”
– ULYSSES - Chap. 9 - Scylla and Charybdis
jailbirds with keyholes and queens with prize bulls are my favorites; he ended the list with a bang
momentum, working set, active memory, connections,...
I did not read any Ulysses yesterday. I am going to double down today, not out of some sense of obligation, but rather to reinforce the structures that it is building in my mind. They are still fresh, fragile, perishable.
“Davy Byrne smiledyawnednodded all in one:
— Iiiiiichaaaaaaach!”
– ULYSSES - Chap. 8 - Lestrygonians
“Par`tu´ri`ate v. i. 1. To bring forth young.”
– Free Online Dictionary
mic·tu·rate
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1. to bring forth urine.
“No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his...”
– ULYSSES - Chap. 9 - Scylla and Charybdis
gagging sweetly buck mulligan
“Ulysses had himself bound to the mast of his ship so that he could not follow...”
– MOLDE
“Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.”
– ULYSSES - Chap. 8 - Lestrygonians
poached eyes on ghost
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“Cityful passing away, other cityful coming, passing away too: other coming on,...”
– ULYSSES - Chap. 8 - Lestrygonians //
“I kind of had weird dreams last night because of Ulysses. At one point, I was...”
– Floyd
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“He led the way, admonishing:
—We will sternly refuse to partake of strong...”
– Lennehan
Finished Aeolus today. I did not get the joke about the statue and the two virgins, but it was a fun episode to read.
I enjoyed the use of the headlines to recast or even contradict the text.
update: I looked at the bloomsday for aeolus and I did get the joke about the two virgins and...
i just started the lotus eaters episode
I have read the first four episodes or about ten percent of the book (and understood about ten percent of the read portion). So far, I enjoyed the Nestor episode the most. The Proteus episode was fun but I had a harder time distinguishing between actual action, remembered action, and imagined action than I did with the other episodes. The Proteus section is rumored to be a common dropping off...
“contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality”
– ULYSSES - Chap. 3 - Proteus
Floyd hooted out loud at this one and then we tried hash out the difference between conmagnificandjewbangtantiality and transmagnificandjewbangtantiality from memory without much success. I had to look it up because I haven’t given much thought to the...
“—Mkgnao!”
– ULYSSES - Chap. 4 - Calypso //
