Do you want to read James Joyce’s Ulysses, but have shied away for its reputed formidability?
Have you seen its title top numerous “Best Books” lists and felt a deep and irreconcilable shame that you consider yourself a literate person and have yet to take on Western Culture’s highest literary achievement?
Do you like people sometimes? Especially the [...]
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Wandering Rocks- Ulysses Funmary # 9: Scylla & Charybdis September 30, 2009Ok– it is long past time for me to write this funmary, but admittedly I’ve been bogged down in the minutie of academia (not unlike our librarians here). So, after far too much ado and many apologies, through the twin dangers we must sail. Now, in The Odyssey, Odysseus knows what dangers await him. He has [...]lizaanne42
- Ulysses recap, pp. 184-204 of “Scylla and Charybdis” September 16, 2009By LIZAANNE Well, hopefully, my slow start on this section has given everyone a chance to catch up and make their way (in a nice, orderly fashion, of course) up to hushed reading room of “Scylla & Charybdis” (unfortunately presided over by some Quaker named Lyster, instead of Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian). For your edification, here are […]lizaanne42
- ULYSSES Funmary #8: Lestrygonians September 4, 2009By JERRY GRIT We’re back with Bloom, who is for the most part alone here. Sensual guy he is, his concern for food is central. Especially since he’s looking for lunch. Unlike the narcotic somnolent effect food has on us (as depicted in the postprandial “Lotus Eaters”) we’re preprandial here. His mind is alert. He’s on [...]jerrygrit
- ULYSSES Recap, pp. 174-183 of “Lestrygonians” August 31, 2009By JERRY GRIT The twread-thru Ulysses continues… 174. Horserace talk from Flynn. Chix dig cold noses&beards&dogs. LB likes wine w/sandwich, thinks can go home @ 6 & that we eat odd things. 175. Who 1st thought 2 eat oysters? People who eat tainted food, special food. LBs waiter fantasy. Sees flies doink. Wine is LBs #madeleine. 176. LB reca […]jerrygrit
- ULYSSES Recap, pp. 163-173 of “Lestrygonians” August 30, 2009By JERRY GRIT **********Wandering Rocks Alert********** Some dude in Dublin is also tweeting though Ulysses! (I discovered this when I hashtagged Ulysses… apparently the old “#” can be helpful when it’s not abused). He’s way back in “Hades,” but he’s not really summarizing a page per tweet. So he could catch up […]jerrygrit
- ULYSSES Recap, pp. 151-162 of “Lestrygonians” August 28, 2009By JERRY GRIT First, this should have been your face… Second, here’s the first part of my tweet-thru Ulysses‘ “Lestrygonians” chapter, minus the shameless hashtag exploitation (which was completely unsuccessful in inflating our follower number). 151. LB wandering, handed religious flyer. Recalls glowing cross they lived by befor […]jerrygrit
- A “Lestrygonians” Preview and 13 Good Reasons August 26, 2009By JERRY GRIT There are many reasons I’ve gone astray the last few weeks and haven’t been administering to full capacity. Here are 13 good ones… 1. I moved. 2. To a fixer-upper. 3. I got a metal shared in my eye. 4. It rusted. 5. It infected my eye. 6. I assembled these chairs. They sort-of work, too. 7. I also painted them. I [...] […]jerrygrit
- ULYSSES Funmary #7: Aeolus (plus pp. 134-150) August 24, 2009By Brendan Jaysis, there were a lot of windbags in this episode – windbags talking about windbags. We see again that there’s not enough room for Bloom – after being “tight” in the carriage, he’s bumped into by the Gallant Lenehan. And verbally dissed by Crawford.. And pretty much ignored by everyone else. Another example of the [...]jerrygrit
- ULYSSES pp. 116-133 “Aeolus” August 11, 2009By BRENDAN One of the things I love about Ulysses is the familiarity of it. To have so many connections to a text written nearly a century ago is remarkable. Last month, I walked down Sackville Street (now O’Connell Street, named for Daniel, who got a mention in the Hades episode). I passed the General Post [...]jerrygrit
- The Wandering Rocks Button! August 5, 2009Invented by our very own Lizaanne! To create your own Wandering Rocks button for your blog… Go to the Appearance area of your dashboard > Widgets. Choose TEXT & drag it over to your Sidebar. Title the text title box: Wandering Rocks– A Ulysses Reading Group or A Whole Mess of Awesomeness or something else reeking of coolness. Then, paste […]jerrygrit
- Ulysses Funmary # 9: Scylla & Charybdis September 30, 2009
