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.

Can Mr. Bloom's cat forecast the weather?

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Is Mr. Bloom going to lose his daughter as well as his wife?

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Mr. Bloom reflects on having a teenage daughter.

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What a delicious breakfast a kidney makes.

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Mr. Bloom's soft porn stirs his thoughts of reincarnation.

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Frank's bonus edition looks at the man who wrote The Odyssey. Or did he? And was it a man?

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Mr. Bloom's interest is whipped up by Ruby, the Pride of the Ring.

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Do we hear a different kind of chamber music?

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Poor Mr. Bloom fears the local Don Giovanni.

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Mr. Bloom prepares a tray and keeps it in the family.

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Mr. Bloom has fond but slightly unhealthy memories of  birthday gifts.

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Mr. Bloom prepares breakfast but will the cat eat pork?

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Mr. Bloom delivers the mail and a pain to his own heart.

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Bloom's mood changes: he seems to have a cloud over him... 

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Bloom's mood changes: he seems to have a cloud over him... 

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Mr. Bloom experiences a mood change - he's literally under a cloud.

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Mr. Bloom reminisces about Jewish friends and their harvest festivals.

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Mr. Bloom, walking along the street, contemplates the sale of olive groves in the Middle East. 

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Mr Bloom thinks about the girl next door, but her boyfriend is a cop.

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The twelfth of Frank's "Baker's Dozen" podcast mini-essays; and this time he gives some added background to the major characters in Ulysses. 

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Who's telling this story - Mr. Bloom or Mr. Joyce?

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A girl in the butcher's shop excites Leopold Bloom.

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Leopold Bloom licks his lips at sausages and hears children singing.

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Mr. Bloom calculates how a barman rises to own a pub.

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A barman makes an astounding declaration to Mr. Bloom

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Mr. Bloom ponders the sunburst, the bank of Ireland, and independence, among other things.

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Mr. Bloom imagines sweet music, and we think of a sweet sad song.

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Mr. Bloom is musing on exotic flavors of the east, and crusty hot bread from Dublin

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Mr. Bloom leaves home, but how will he get back in again?

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As Mr. Bloom prepares breakfast for his wife, he thinks of her father, the Major.

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We meet one of literature's most famous and delightful characters, Leopold Bloom of Eccles Street Dublin. 

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Frank casts a brief backward glance over ChapterThree.

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Yet another Baker's Dozen edition: The Introduction from the brand-new eBook, re: Joyce Volume One, which contains the transcripts of the first dozen podcasts.

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In which Stephen, his teeth bothering him, leaves Sandymount Strand as Chapter Three ends.

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Here we have a delightfully tricky cluster of references that range from Satan to a horse race in France.

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Stephen has a few zombie thoughts about how a corpse will be changed by the sea.

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Stephen listens to the rhythm of the waves and thinks of weavers at the loom.

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 Stephen makes a contribution to the seven seas. 

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Stephen considers having put himself in other people’s shoes.

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Stephen has an unhealthy thought for the Book of Genesis.

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 Touch & Go, Stephen dreams of yellow stockings and apple dumplings.

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In which Stephen, naughty boy, takes the meaning of “ineluctable” a little farther.

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In chapter 3 Frank discusses emblematic illustrations, bishops, religion and Aristotle.

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As Stephen continues to write poetry we learn of Cassiopeia, augurs and their flights of birds, along with Freud, Jung, and Telemachus.

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Frank discusses two quotes, one simple, one opaque, the latter filled with hidden symbolism, sexual desire and the connections that make them sing.

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 Frank talks about Sylvia Beach and her part in brining Ulysses to the world. 

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Frank discusses Joycean phrases including "Pin it Down" along with actor Kevin Spacey.

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Stephen still on Sandymount. "Omnis caro ad te veniet." A pale vampire, and Douglas Hyde. Hamlet's tablets.

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Still Proteus, still on Sandymount Strand, Stephen watches the "gypsy woman" pass. The handmaid of the moon. Bride-, child-, and death-beds.

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The couple passes Stephen on the beach, and he wonders if the woman wonders about him - or his hat. Saint James, Hamlet, and Eve.

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A bit of song: The Rogue's Delight and The Canting Academy. Morose delectation. Stephen muses on monkwords versus roguewords.

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Stephen contemplates the lingo of rogues, and Frank introduces us to Thomas Harman and Richard Head.

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The cocklepickers become Gypsies in Stephen's mind. Bing awast to Romeville.

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Stephen's dream, almost. Haroun al Raschid. Adverb becomes verb.

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The dogs digs; Thomas Gray's Elegy. Spouse-breach and pards, and Brunetto Latini's Tesoretto.

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Tatters, the cocklepickers' dog, encounters a fallen comrade on Sandymount Strand and is called away. In Memoriam.

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Still on Sandymount Strand: a dog, depicted with a painter's eye, barks at the sea. Heraldry. Seamorse… or seamouse?

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