Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce
Re: Joyce! On the international literary feast day of Bloomsday 2010, we launched a podcast to commemorate James Joyce's mighty novel, "Ulysses", the action of which took place in 18 hours of June 16, 1904. Every week you'll find a five-minute mini-essay from me designed to take you through the novel that's on every list of the greatest books ever written. And as Ulysses runs to some 375,000 words, and I mean to go through it sentence by sentence if I have to, in order to convey the full brilliance of this novel - and the enjoyment to be had from it - I'll be podcasting for some time to come! It's such an absorbing book, it's got diamond mines of references, it's so compassionate, so tender, so moving, so funny - and most of us never know that, because most of us have long been daunted by it. No need to be afraid any more - that is, if you make a habit of listening to these podcasts.

Reflections on hockey and history. Stephen reads - or at least scans - a letter.

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Waiting in Mr. Deasy's office, Stephen is transported by the art on the walls.

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Stephen fails to warm to Mr. Deasy's arguments.

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Stephen debates Mr. Deasy - in his own mind, at least. 

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Frank unpacks Mr. Deasy's politics.

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Mr. Deasy and Stephen continue their exchange, and Frank unpacks the tartan from a painting of a prince.

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Stephen tallies his debts - as does Joyce.

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Mr. Deasy expounds on the power of money; Frank digresses.

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Stephen is paid, meticulously.

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In this bonus episode, Frank draws from Frank Budgen's memoir to illuminate Joyce's painterly grasp of detail and language.

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A little financial arrangement.

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As Stephen waits in the headmaster's study, we learn something about its inhabitant.

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A new character enters the stage in the longest and least complicated passage yet.

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More on mothers, their love, and secret childhoods.

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Stephen dwells on ancient philosophers: Averroes, Moses Maimonides, Bruno.

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Moors, math, foxes, and the dead.

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Eyeing the student Sargent, Stephen considers saints, sons, and mothers.

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Stephen's reflections on a poor student plumb the limits of a mother's love.

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A boy stays after class, and Joyce toys with both authority and identity.

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As Stephen's class lets out, a riddle is asked and answered, satisfying nobody.

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Stephen is a somewhat merciful teacher. Musings on Jesus, government, and riddles.

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Stephen's classroom; a library in Paris; Blake and Aristotle; dragons and souls.

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Observations on the author, and the history of Ulysses.

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In Stephen's classroom, Joyce brings in Milton. Reflections on drowning.

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In Stephen's musings on history, real and potential, Frank finds a recurring Joycean theme.

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Stephen muses on first-rate wit and second-hand history.

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In Stephen's classroom, four girls' names hint at religion, class, and sex.

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In Stephen's classroom, Frank muses on the names of cookies and of boys.

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Stephen continues his lesson, and we learn something of both Pyrrhus and Nestor.

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We begin Chapter 2, and find Stephen in the classroom with old battles, radical poets, and the daughters of memory.

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June 16 is Bloomsday, as well as the one-year anniversary of this podcast.

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Mulligan bathes, and Stephen takes his leave. The end of chapter 1.

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Gossip at the swimming hole: an unlikely officer, redheads, supermen, and missing ribs.

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Stephen, Mulligan, and Haines encounter bathers, and Joyce employs some foreshadowing with news of Mulligan's brother.

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Stephen fathoms the depths of both Hell and Dublin Bay, and Frank muses upon T. S. Eliot.

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Stephen presents us with a roll call of heresiarchs.

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In this bonus episode, Frank discusses the four characters we've met so far, along with their real-life antecedents.

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Stephen considers the Church.

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Stephen claims to serve three masters.

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Haines asks Stephen about a personal god, and Stephen answers - out loud, briefly, and to himself, at great length.

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Stephen and Haines share a moment and a smoke.

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Mulligan capers, versifies, and blasphemes.

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Haines dwells on Hamlet, and we are reminded of the famous sons of that play, the Odyssey, and - of course - the Bible. 

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Mulligan plays with paradox, and we get a foreshadowing of Stephen's father.

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We learn the price of both a rented tower and a lecture on Hamlet.

 

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Punctuation obfuscates; but we press on, and find significance in Stephen's walking stick.

 

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Mulligan is full of contradictions.

 

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We have a bit of a breather while Stephen and Buck debate what, if anything, Stephen's aphorisms are worth.

 

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Stephen's inner voice, a presumption of remorse, and a few words on Ireland's climate.

 

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Literature and lore in Joyce's Dublin.

 

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In a rare uncomplicated passage, milk is measured, and Frank describes the various types of junkets.

 

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Levels of respect: for women, doctors, and the Irish language.

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Frank Delaney offers a special surprise in honor of James Joyce's Birthday.

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The old woman carries, not just milk, but an allegory of Ireland herself - at least in the eyes of both Stephen and Joyce himself.

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More scholarship of folklore. The milk arrives, and its bearer is mocked by Mulligan and venerated by Stephen.

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Mulligan gets mythic, and mocks exactly the sort of thing this podcast is doing.

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Petulance for breakfast, "pet" and "kip," and a dirty joke about the tea.

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