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| Germaine Greer's "Shakespeare's Wife" in defense of Ann Hathaway: a response to Stephen's grand Shakespeare theory in Scylla & Charybdis? |
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| "Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance." |
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| Don't know how I missed it the first time, but the little hints in the last 2 chapters: could Molly maybe be pregnant? I DEMAND A SEQUEL. |
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| capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop |
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| The subtlety & sweetness of Bloom's relationship w/his daughter: in a long list of things in his desk, a letter she wrote him when v. small: |
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| I love that the book is so its own combo of funny/sincere that Joyce had to make up a word which is itself funny/sincere. JOCOSERIOUS. |
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| in reputable circles -- shaken them up in a colossal hat, laid them end to end." -- On Ulysses, TIME, 1923. |
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| "To the uninitiated it appeared that Mr. Joyce had taken some half million assorted words -- many such as are not ordinarily heard |
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| Ladies and gentlemen, I AM FINISHED READING ULYSSES. Def. not done talking about it, tho, never fear. |
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| Finally to Molly's soliloquy! "you sometimes love to wildly when you feel that way so nice all over you you cant help yourself" |
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| Bloom ends in bed w/Molly carried "rereward, by the proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space" |
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| Bloom makes me think of that line from The Virgin Suicides: "What we have here is a dreamer." |
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| Long dreamy sciencey passages about lightyears and extraterrestrial life. Joyce, ilu. Bloom, same goes double. |
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| "His skin, alert, feels her fingertips approach." |
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| Ithaca, the 2nd-to-last-chapter, is done entirely in Q&A form like a catechism. It's strangely addictive. & was apparently Joyce's fav chap! |
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| Interesting to no one but me: Leopold Bloom and I are both exactly 5 feet, 9 and a half inches tall. |
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| Never mentioned Oxen of the Sun! It chronologically mimics the entire history of the English lang. from Anglo-Saxon thru 20th cent. Amazing. |
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| It kind of freaks me out how much I identify with Bloom's stream of consciousness. It's how I think! Am I a Joyce character? |
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