As you point out, it is interesting that Joyce’s spokesmen on the page are a rather feminine intellectual, and a wanking cuckold who seems into the idea of playing the female part to a prostitute when Joyce’s legacy is more Buck Mulligan- he’s the striding swaggering swinging his cock about tararabomdie plump stately Ulysses sits on the shelf with seven annotated histories. Alley beflops astride. Etc! He activates that bro lit synthesis already latent in something like Melville where the center drops out of the novel and all that’s left is something for the reader who knows who Vico is and something for the dick joke connoisseur, even if that's not necessarily entirely true of Ulysses itself. I do like the book I promise! look forward to more of your thoughts, you’ve read it many more times than I have!
Following our discussions about colonization and anti-colonial movements,just after Stephens three masters dialogue, Haines, in reply to Stephen’s denunciation of the British Empire, replies,
“Of course I’m at Britisher, and I feel as one. I don’t want to see my country fall into the hands of German jews either. That’s our national problem…”
Haines compares Irish colonial resistance to antisemitic British nationalism. Is here another instance of Nazism as de-colonial movement?
Also, will your 2022 review of Ulysses on johnpistelli.com color your view for this upcoming series? Will you track where Ulysses veers off into the technical abstractions that herald a sterile technocracy?
Excellent episode by the way, maybe the best yet, although the Conrad, Woolf, and Dickens episodes are hard to beat. Really enjoying the series as this is my first read through of Ulysses. Thanks again!
Thank you! And yes, good eye, that fits right into the paradigm of Nazism as decolonialism.
I'll definitely mention that reading from 2022. We'll see if I change my mind! But I think it's relevant to the later chapters even if I do, especially "Oxen of the Sun."
Ulysses has a very special place in my heart. It is a book that, probably many than any other, has captured my father's imagination and intellect since he was a young man. The mysteries of this book are connected to the mysteries of my father. I think "The Dubliners", though, remains my personal favorite of Joyce's oeuvre.
As you point out, it is interesting that Joyce’s spokesmen on the page are a rather feminine intellectual, and a wanking cuckold who seems into the idea of playing the female part to a prostitute when Joyce’s legacy is more Buck Mulligan- he’s the striding swaggering swinging his cock about tararabomdie plump stately Ulysses sits on the shelf with seven annotated histories. Alley beflops astride. Etc! He activates that bro lit synthesis already latent in something like Melville where the center drops out of the novel and all that’s left is something for the reader who knows who Vico is and something for the dick joke connoisseur, even if that's not necessarily entirely true of Ulysses itself. I do like the book I promise! look forward to more of your thoughts, you’ve read it many more times than I have!
Following our discussions about colonization and anti-colonial movements,just after Stephens three masters dialogue, Haines, in reply to Stephen’s denunciation of the British Empire, replies,
“Of course I’m at Britisher, and I feel as one. I don’t want to see my country fall into the hands of German jews either. That’s our national problem…”
Haines compares Irish colonial resistance to antisemitic British nationalism. Is here another instance of Nazism as de-colonial movement?
Also, will your 2022 review of Ulysses on johnpistelli.com color your view for this upcoming series? Will you track where Ulysses veers off into the technical abstractions that herald a sterile technocracy?
Excellent episode by the way, maybe the best yet, although the Conrad, Woolf, and Dickens episodes are hard to beat. Really enjoying the series as this is my first read through of Ulysses. Thanks again!
Thank you! And yes, good eye, that fits right into the paradigm of Nazism as decolonialism.
I'll definitely mention that reading from 2022. We'll see if I change my mind! But I think it's relevant to the later chapters even if I do, especially "Oxen of the Sun."
Really really fascinating!
Ulysses has a very special place in my heart. It is a book that, probably many than any other, has captured my father's imagination and intellect since he was a young man. The mysteries of this book are connected to the mysteries of my father. I think "The Dubliners", though, remains my personal favorite of Joyce's oeuvre.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the series; I will at least try to illuminate some of the mysteries of Ulysses, insofar as I can.