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Lisa Hill
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Melbourne, Australia
Planet Earth
TABLE TALK
“I am reading Ulysses with Team Ulysses at DoveGrey Reader and annotating my thoughts here as I go.
—Lisa Hill, 219 days ago
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—Lisa Hill, 220 days ago
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PUBLIC NOTES
No two opinions in the Catholic Catechism: Mr J himself noted that the literary style parodied in this episode is the Catechism. For those not in the know, the Catholic Catechism was a book of rules, homilies, laws, guides to righteous living etc, in the form of questions and answers. The questions were not for discussion or thoughtful consideration - the Catechism was a didactic book and the questions were rhetorical. As with Mr Deasy's letter and also his questions, there can be 'no two opinions on the matter' in response ... but Stephen's silence is telling ... he makes small attempts to challenge the power of Deasy (also symbolising the Catholic church and Stephen's rejection of it?) but ultimately he disengages and refuses to answer because he's refusing to engage with Deasy's dogmatism.
Ulysses
Monday, July 6, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
The organ:kidneys: Each episode has a body part as motif. This one is obviously the kidney.
Ulysses
Monday, July 6, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Stephen's debts: Stephen is poor, and owes money and favours everywhere.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Iago: The reference to 'put thy money in thy purse' is a reference to Shakespeare's Iago, who dupes his friend Roderigo who is in love with Othello's wife - there is no love that money can't buy....
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Stephen's pay: Mr Deasy, a father figure advising Stephen to be sensible with his money, pays him his salary.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Sargent is someone's son: Foolish unattractive Sargent triggers Stephen's consciousness that he was someone's son, someone who loved him as his own mother (whose last wish he denied) had loved and borne him
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Stephen the schoolmaster: Typcial modernism - no introduction or explanation, just a switch of scene and the reader makes sense of it as best she can. Stephen is a (not very good) schoolmaster - he teaches history and algebra.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
12 ribs: My 12th rib is gone - Humans have 12 ribs - God made woman from the rib of man.
The Uebermensch is a concept from Nietsche, complex to understand, but to do with a turning away from the otherworldliness of religion and achieving things on earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Et unam sancatm catholicam et Apostilicam ecclesiam: And I believe in One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church - from the Catholic Mass
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
The Ballad of Joking Jesus: The Ballad of Joking Jesus is not Joyce's own invention: these verses are The Ballad of Japing Jesus are by Oliver St John Gogarty.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Hamlet: The men are teasing Stephen about his theories about Hamlet, and the motif about men in search of their fathers continues elsewhere in the book.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Prick of conscience: Agenbite of inwit means a prick of conscience. A reference to an well-known French medieval text badly translated by a Kentish monk.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Language and nationalism: Irony: Haines the Englishman speaks Gaelic and the Irishwoman doesn't understand it.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Allusions to myth: Upanishads are Hindu scriptures; the Mabinogion is Welsh pre-Christian myth.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
A blessing: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost - the traditional Catholic blessinghere being mocked by Mulligan (no wonder the church didn't like this book!)
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Prayer for a departing soul: "May the crowd of joyful confessors encompass thee; may the choir of blessed virgins go before thee." (The traditional prayer that a priest says over a dying soul)
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Memories: Stephen's memories of his mother - her trinkets (old featherfans etc), her habits, the songs she sang...
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Hypocrisy? Or an unexpected emotion?: Stephen tackles Mulliagn about the thoughtless remark about his dad mother (beastly dead) and Mulliganis a bit taken aback - he tries to justify it by attacking Stephen for refusing her last wish - and ends with a rather ungracious apology. Stephen isn't mollified. He considers himself offended, not his mother. Is this hypocrisy, or he is feeling guitly??
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Omphalos: An omphalos is an ancient religious stone artifact,... According to the ancient Greeks, Zeus sent out two eagles to fly across the world to meet at its center, the "navel" of the world. Omphalos stones used to denote this point were erected in several areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea; the most famous of those was at the oracle in Delphi. (source WIkipedia). Mulligan is saying that the Martello Tower is the centre of their universe.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Matthew Arnold: Matthew Arnold was a poet, with a prediliction for moralising about contemporary social issues
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
High jinks in the Martello Tower?: Mulligan and Stephen are depicted as apart from the wealthier students horsing around downstairs. The Martello Tower is one of many defensive small forts built by the British in Ireland and James Joyce lived there for a while. Mgdalen is a college in Oxford.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Caliban: Caliban is the wild, amoral creature in Shakespeare's The Tempest - who also makes speeches of great beauty. But why the reference to Oscar Wilde here?
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Irony: Stephen's insistence on following mourning customs (ie wearing black) is at odds with his refusal to follow the custom of praying with her on her deathbed.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Hyperborean: Hyperborean is a classical allusion to the Greek myth of Hyperborea - a muthical land where the sun shines all the time - but it can also mean the extreme north. http://ulyssesseen.blogspot.com says its meant to show that Stephen's views are extreme, because he won't compromise his lack of faith even to pray with his dying mother.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Jejune Jesuit: jejune means 1. boring: uninteresting and intellectually undemanding. 2. childish: lacking maturity or sophistication - the very opposite of what Jesuits - the most intellectual of Catholic priests - stand for.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
A Mass: holding the bowl aloft and reciting the introit signals that Buck shaving is a parody of the Catholic Mass.
Ulysses
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
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