Wed, 15 February 2017
Some men about town...
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Wed, 8 February 2017
We meet an inventive Dublin hero.
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Wed, 1 February 2017
Meet a controlling sneezer.
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Fri, 27 January 2017
From a secretary to a clergyman.
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Wed, 25 January 2017
Romance language - and “literature”...
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Wed, 18 January 2017
We meet the dashing seducer!
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Wed, 11 January 2017
The brooding Dedalus brood shifts in time.
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Fri, 6 January 2017
The Story So Far - So Far.
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Wed, 4 January 2017
Dublin city is on the move.
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Fri, 30 December 2016
A little Latin loving, perhaps?
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Wed, 28 December 2016
Father Conmee is such a thoughtful man.
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Wed, 21 December 2016
Dublin opens up to Father Conmee.
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Wed, 14 December 2016
A wonderful moment of characterization.
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Wed, 7 December 2016
In a new chapter, Dublin city is a character.
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Wed, 30 November 2016
The final moments of Scylla and Charybdis.
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Fri, 25 November 2016
Amid Mulligan's bawdry - a profound moment.
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Wed, 23 November 2016
Is the book taking over the narration?
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Wed, 16 November 2016
Stephen is barely holding on.
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Wed, 9 November 2016
Does Stephen believe his own theory?
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Wed, 2 November 2016
Stephen lays out the drama.
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Fri, 28 October 2016
Stephen’s own myth.
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Wed, 26 October 2016
Stephen identifies family villains
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Wed, 19 October 2016
Stephen & Brush up Your Shakespeare.
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Fri, 7 October 2016
A Baker’s Dozen Special Edition.
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Wed, 5 October 2016
Stephen links incest to avarice.
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Fri, 30 September 2016
Stephen tallies Shakespeare’s deep resources.
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Wed, 28 September 2016
Stephen describes the Shakespeare clan.
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Wed, 21 September 2016
Shakespeare in love, sacred and profane.
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Wed, 14 September 2016
Buck derogates and Stephen soars.
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Wed, 31 August 2016
Was Hamlet a woman? Or an Irishman?
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Fri, 26 August 2016
Stephen’s tormentor is back!
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Wed, 24 August 2016
Stephen shows Shakespearean sympathies.
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Wed, 17 August 2016
Stephen has a lot to say.
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Wed, 10 August 2016
Stephen reflects on ancient thoughts.
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Wed, 3 August 2016
Stephen is not yet among the new poetic voices.
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Fri, 29 July 2016
Stephen's twixt Shakespeare and Theosophy.
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Wed, 27 July 2016
Stephen famously opens portals of discovery.
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Wed, 20 July 2016
Stephen launches his Shakespeare theory
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Wed, 13 July 2016
Stephen’s theory moves toward lift-off. |
Wed, 6 July 2016
In the library Stephen listens.
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Fri, 1 July 2016
In the writing of Ulysses handwriting took on new meaning.
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Wed, 29 June 2016
In the library Stephen theosophizes.
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Fri, 24 June 2016
Who - or what - are Scylla and Charybdis?
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Wed, 22 June 2016
Mr. Bloom has to run and hide.
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Wed, 15 June 2016
Mr. Bloom is a decent fellow.
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Wed, 8 June 2016
Can Mr. Bloom arrest his anguished thoughts?
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Wed, 1 June 2016
Enter some sober minor characters.
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Fri, 27 May 2016
Is Mr. Bloom really a Freemason?
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Wed, 25 May 2016
Mr. Bloom enjoys voluptuous memories.
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Wed, 18 May 2016
Mr. Bloom is melancholy about oysters.
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Wed, 11 May 2016
Mr. Bloom has to listen to some unwelcome chatter.
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Wed, 4 May 2016
Mr Bloom orders lunch and fights off malice.
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Fri, 29 April 2016
Mr. Bloom has a strange, futuristic view of dining.
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Wed, 27 April 2016
Mr. Bloom is too disgusted for words.
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Wed, 20 April 2016
Mr. Bloom fights melancholy with silk.
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Wed, 13 April 2016
Mr. Bloom tries a little magic experiment.
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Wed, 6 April 2016
Mr. Bloom overhears a mysterious, passing conversation.
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Fri, 1 April 2016
The light of James Joyce’s life, his daughter, Lucia.
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Wed, 30 March 2016
Is Mr. Bloom having a sugar dip?
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Fri, 25 March 2016
Wading beneath the surface of Ulysses...
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Wed, 23 March 2016
Mr. Bloom contemplates pregnancies.
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Wed, 16 March 2016
A hint of the kinky in Mr. Bloom.
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Wed, 9 March 2016
Meet Cashel Boyle O’Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell.
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Wed, 2 March 2016
Mr. Bloom displays compassion.
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Fri, 26 February 2016
Mr. Bloom meets a pretty old friend.
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Wed, 24 February 2016
Mr. Bloom has fond memories.
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Wed, 17 February 2016
The sandwich men are here!
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Wed, 10 February 2016
An advertisement worries Mr. Bloom.
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Wed, 3 February 2016
Mr. Bloom feeds the birds.
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Fri, 29 January 2016
And on we go - into Chapter Eight.
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Wed, 27 January 2016
Quiet departure from the cave of the winds.
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Wed, 20 January 2016
Will the editor print Stephen's tale?
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Wed, 13 January 2016
The Father of the Winds asks to be kissed.
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Wed, 6 January 2016
Stephen begins to tell a story.
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Fri, 1 January 2016
For New Year’s Day a Baker’s Dozen Special Edition on the year of Leopold Bloom.
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Wed, 30 December 2015
Stephen listens, then leads
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Fri, 25 December 2015
Stephen listens to echoes of Egypt
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Wed, 23 December 2015
Moses enters Stephen’s life.
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Wed, 2 December 2015
Stephen is encouraged to emulate.
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Wed, 30 September 2015
Mr. Bloom, amid noise, gets a result.
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Fri, 28 August 2015
Mr. Bloom, in the cemetery, imagines alternative commemorations.
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Fri, 31 July 2015
Mr. Bloom wonders whether our dead bodies can produce good food.
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Wed, 10 June 2015
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Wed, 3 June 2015
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Wed, 20 May 2015
Mr. Bloom reflects on old songs and unfortunate hospital names.
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Wed, 13 May 2015
Mr. Bloom recalls a coroner and funeral hurries on.
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Wed, 6 May 2015
Mr. Bloom’s fellow-travelers make a gaffe - or is it deliberate? |
Wed, 29 April 2015
Mr. Bloom contemplates the colors of burial. |
Wed, 22 April 2015
Mr. Bloom’s mental travelog through Dublin continues. |
Wed, 15 April 2015
In which we find a cure for a drunk’s red nose. |
Fri, 10 April 2015
The Story So Far - revisiting Chapters 1 to 5. |
Wed, 8 April 2015
Mr. Bloom is subjected to rudeness. |
Wed, 1 April 2015
Will the real Reuben Dodd please stand up? |
Wed, 25 March 2015
The funeral rolls on past distinguished statues. |
Wed, 18 March 2015
Mr. Bloom keeps his thoughts to himself as he moves away from a taunt. |
Wed, 11 March 2015
As Mr. Bloom shows tact, James Joyce shows his own changing mind. |
Wed, 4 March 2015
Mr. Joyce's life echoes Mr. Bloom's. |
Wed, 25 February 2015
In which a major player in Mr Bloom's anguish steps onstage. |
Wed, 18 February 2015
Discover how and where the four men are sitting in the carriage. |
Wed, 11 February 2015
Mr. Bloom reads the Hatches, Matches & Dispatches. |
Wed, 4 February 2015
In a funeral carriage we see Mr. Bloom being snubbed. |
Wed, 28 January 2015
During a halt in the funeral Mr. Bloom reminisces... |
Wed, 21 January 2015
The funeral-goers uncover some of their carriage’s past life. |
Fri, 16 January 2015
In response to a listener (and donor) some suggestions on how to read the works of James Joyce. |
Wed, 14 January 2015
Sad thoughts for Mr. Bloom, as he recalls a better occasion. |
Wed, 7 January 2015
Simon Dedalus, Stephen's father, threatens dire action against Buck Mulligan. |
Wed, 31 December 2014
In which Mr. Bloom sees for the first time Stephen Dedalus. |
Wed, 24 December 2014
The carriage moves off, the funeral begins. |
Wed, 17 December 2014
We begin a new chapter and go to a funeral. |
Wed, 10 December 2014
Chapter Five ends in a bath-tub: or does it? |
Wed, 3 December 2014
Mr. Bloom considers the game of cricket and a ballad. |
Wed, 26 November 2014
Mr. Bloom thinks he can do better. |
Wed, 19 November 2014
The beginning of a wonderful long-running joke. |
Wed, 12 November 2014
Mr. Bloom considers hemophilia and lemony soap. |
Wed, 5 November 2014
Mr. Bloom shows an understanding of nettles and oatmeal and rainwater |
Wed, 29 October 2014
Mr. Bloom entertains deep thoughts about healing potions. |
Wed, 22 October 2014
Mr. Bloom peers into the history and mystery of alchemy. |
Wed, 15 October 2014
Mr. Bloom adjusts his clothing and steps out into the light. |
Wed, 8 October 2014
Mr. Bloom dwells on lofty priests and lowlife pickpockets. |
Wed, 1 October 2014
Mr. Bloom and the wonders of the confessional. |
Fri, 26 September 2014
In this Baker's Dozen special edition hear about two new and compelling books of Joyceana. |
Wed, 24 September 2014
Mr. Bloom contemplates high voices and fancy drinks. |
Wed, 17 September 2014
Mr. Bloom loves the sound of his wife's glorious voice. |
Wed, 10 September 2014
Mr. Bloom attempts some democratic thoughts on Catholic worship. |
Wed, 3 September 2014
Mr. Bloom has a few scathing thoughts on Catholics and their standards. |
Wed, 27 August 2014
Mr. Bloom's irreverent thoughts extend to irreverent events. |
Wed, 20 August 2014
Mr. Joyce, through Mr. Bloom's thoughts, offends the devout. |
Wed, 13 August 2014
I find interesting connections and mischievous irreverence. |
Wed, 6 August 2014
Mr. Bloom contemplates some world religions. |
Fri, 1 August 2014
Frank's centenary talk for the Rosenbacchanal dinner in Philadelphia on Friday 13 June 2014. |
Wed, 30 July 2014
Mr. Bloom contemplates a virtual flood of dark brew. |
Wed, 23 July 2014
Mr Bloom considers valuable signatures and barrels of Guinness |
Wed, 16 July 2014
A woman with a jar of cool water in her head? Does Mr. Bloom imagine it? |
Wed, 9 July 2014
Mr. Bloom has his own, somewhat questionable, version of the famous scene from the Gospels.
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Wed, 2 July 2014
Mr. Bloom reflects on roughness, roses and thorns. |
Wed, 25 June 2014
Mr. Bloom considers floriography. |
Wed, 18 June 2014
Mr. Bloom reads his erotic correspondence and we learn a little more about him. |
Wed, 11 June 2014
Mr. Bloom looks at a wise cat and opens his breathtaking letter. |
Wed, 4 June 2014
Mr. Bloom, in search of a quiet corner, causes rudery to be unveiled. |
Wed, 28 May 2014
Mr. Bloom contemplates the peaceful lives of horses. |
Wed, 21 May 2014
Mr. Bloom looks into the distance and recalls his poor father. |
Wed, 14 May 2014
Mr. Bloom, pleased at having vanquished McCoy, now worries about vaccination. |
Fri, 9 May 2014
In this Baker's Dozen essay Frank looks at some of the places in Homer's Greece that connect to Joyce's Dublin. |
Wed, 7 May 2014
Mr. Bloom agrees to oblige Mr. McCoy at a funeral. |
Wed, 30 April 2014
Mr. Bloom gets wise to a luggage scam. |
Wed, 23 April 2014
Mr. Bloom is hoping for something shocking but Life gets in the way.
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Wed, 16 April 2014
Mr. Bloom is irritated by impediments to his lovely, rich-woman fantasy. |
Wed, 9 April 2014
Mr. Bloom sees a rich lady, but is she too far above him? |
Wed, 2 April 2014
Mr Blooms wants to read his secret letter but he's interrupted. |
Wed, 26 March 2014
Mr. Bloom has scathing thoughts on the men in uniform. |
Wed, 19 March 2014
Frank stalks Mr. Bloom to the Post Office and finds that he uses a false name! |
Wed, 12 March 2014
Mr. Bloom is caught between Newton and Archimedes. |
Wed, 5 March 2014
Mr. Bloom thinks how sweet it would be to do nothing. |
Wed, 26 February 2014
Mr. Bloom has a secret and Joyce has a very good joke. |
Wed, 19 February 2014
Mr. Bloom hears an undertaker's song. |
Fri, 14 February 2014
a Baker's Dozen edition for St. Valentine's day, Frank considers the love story at the heart of Joyce's greatest work |
Tue, 11 February 2014
The beginning of Chapter Five: Mr. Bloom goes forth. |
Wed, 5 February 2014
Mr. Bloom is bodily refreshed and summoned by bells. |
Wed, 29 January 2014
How do you connect Leonardo da Vinci to Disney's dancing hippos? |
Wed, 22 January 2014
The Literary Ambitions of Leopold Bloom. |
Wed, 15 January 2014
Warning! TMI on the way - Mr. Bloom is in the toilet. |
Tue, 7 January 2014
Mr. Bloom goes about his morning duty. |
Wed, 1 January 2014
Mr. Bloom takes the air and considers his estates. |
Wed, 25 December 2013
Can Mr. Bloom's cat forecast the weather? |
Wed, 18 December 2013
Is Mr. Bloom going to lose his daughter as well as his wife? |
Wed, 11 December 2013
Mr. Bloom reflects on having a teenage daughter. |
Wed, 4 December 2013
What a delicious breakfast a kidney makes. |
Wed, 27 November 2013
Mr. Bloom's soft porn stirs his thoughts of reincarnation. |
Fri, 22 November 2013
Frank's bonus edition looks at the man who wrote The Odyssey. Or did he? And was it a man? |
Wed, 20 November 2013
Mr. Bloom's interest is whipped up by Ruby, the Pride of the Ring. |
Wed, 13 November 2013
Do we hear a different kind of chamber music? |
Wed, 6 November 2013
Poor Mr. Bloom fears the local Don Giovanni. |
Wed, 30 October 2013
Mr. Bloom prepares a tray and keeps it in the family. |
Wed, 23 October 2013
Mr. Bloom has fond but slightly unhealthy memories of birthday gifts. |
Wed, 16 October 2013
Mr. Bloom prepares breakfast but will the cat eat pork? |
Wed, 9 October 2013
Mr. Bloom delivers the mail and a pain to his own heart. |
Tue, 1 October 2013
Bloom's mood changes: he seems to have a cloud over him... |
Tue, 1 October 2013
Bloom's mood changes: he seems to have a cloud over him... |
Wed, 25 September 2013
Mr. Bloom experiences a mood change - he's literally under a cloud. |
Wed, 18 September 2013
Mr. Bloom reminisces about Jewish friends and their harvest festivals. |
Wed, 11 September 2013
Mr. Bloom, walking along the street, contemplates the sale of olive groves in the Middle East. |
Wed, 4 September 2013
Mr Bloom thinks about the girl next door, but her boyfriend is a cop. |
Fri, 30 August 2013
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. |
Wed, 28 August 2013
Who's telling this story - Mr. Bloom or Mr. Joyce? |
Wed, 21 August 2013
A girl in the butcher's shop excites Leopold Bloom. |
Wed, 14 August 2013
Leopold Bloom licks his lips at sausages and hears children singing. |
Wed, 7 August 2013
Mr. Bloom calculates how a barman rises to own a pub. |
Wed, 31 July 2013
A barman makes an astounding declaration to Mr. Bloom |
Wed, 17 July 2013
Mr. Bloom imagines sweet music, and we think of a sweet sad song. |
Wed, 10 July 2013
Mr. Bloom is musing on exotic flavors of the east, and crusty hot bread from Dublin |
Thu, 4 July 2013
Mr. Bloom leaves home, but how will he get back in again? |
Wed, 26 June 2013
As Mr. Bloom prepares breakfast for his wife, he thinks of her father, the Major. |
Wed, 19 June 2013
We meet one of literature's most famous and delightful characters, Leopold Bloom of Eccles Street Dublin. |
Wed, 12 June 2013
Frank casts a brief backward glance over ChapterThree. |
Fri, 7 June 2013
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. |
Wed, 5 June 2013
In which Stephen, his teeth bothering him, leaves Sandymount Strand as Chapter Three ends. |
Wed, 29 May 2013
Here we have a delightfully tricky cluster of references that range from Satan to a horse race in France. |
Wed, 22 May 2013
Stephen has a few zombie thoughts about how a corpse will be changed by the sea. |
Wed, 15 May 2013
Stephen listens to the rhythm of the waves and thinks of weavers at the loom. |
Wed, 8 May 2013
Stephen makes a contribution to the seven seas. |
Wed, 1 May 2013
Stephen considers having put himself in other people’s shoes. |
Wed, 24 April 2013
Stephen has an unhealthy thought for the Book of Genesis. |
Wed, 17 April 2013
Touch & Go, Stephen dreams of yellow stockings and apple dumplings. |
Wed, 10 April 2013
In which Stephen, naughty boy, takes the meaning of “ineluctable” a little farther. |
Wed, 3 April 2013
In chapter 3 Frank discusses emblematic illustrations, bishops, religion and Aristotle.
Direct download: re_Joyce_147_Shovel_Hats__Shadows.mp3
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Wed, 27 March 2013
As Stephen continues to write poetry we learn of Cassiopeia, augurs and their flights of birds, along with Freud, Jung, and Telemachus. |
Wed, 20 March 2013
Frank discusses two quotes, one simple, one opaque, the latter filled with hidden symbolism, sexual desire and the connections that make them sing. |
Thu, 14 March 2013
Frank talks about Sylvia Beach and her part in brining Ulysses to the world. |
Wed, 13 March 2013
Frank discusses Joycean phrases including "Pin it Down" along with actor Kevin Spacey. |
Wed, 6 March 2013
Stephen still on Sandymount. "Omnis caro ad te veniet." A pale vampire, and Douglas Hyde. Hamlet's tablets. |
Wed, 27 February 2013
Still Proteus, still on Sandymount Strand, Stephen watches the "gypsy woman" pass. The handmaid of the moon. Bride-, child-, and death-beds. |
Wed, 20 February 2013
The couple passes Stephen on the beach, and he wonders if the woman wonders about him - or his hat. Saint James, Hamlet, and Eve. |
Wed, 13 February 2013
A bit of song: The Rogue's Delight and The Canting Academy. Morose delectation. Stephen muses on monkwords versus roguewords. |
Wed, 6 February 2013
Stephen contemplates the lingo of rogues, and Frank introduces us to Thomas Harman and Richard Head. |
Wed, 30 January 2013
The cocklepickers become Gypsies in Stephen's mind. Bing awast to Romeville. |
Wed, 23 January 2013
Stephen's dream, almost. Haroun al Raschid. Adverb becomes verb. |
Wed, 16 January 2013
The dogs digs; Thomas Gray's Elegy. Spouse-breach and pards, and Brunetto Latini's Tesoretto. |
Wed, 9 January 2013
Tatters, the cocklepickers' dog, encounters a fallen comrade on Sandymount Strand and is called away. In Memoriam.
Direct download: re_Joyce_135_Cocklepickers_and_Dogsbodies.mp3
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Wed, 2 January 2013
Still on Sandymount Strand: a dog, depicted with a painter's eye, barks at the sea. Heraldry. Seamorse… or seamouse? |
Wed, 26 December 2012
Stephen thinks of drowning, and his mother's death. Tide and change. |
Fri, 21 December 2012
In this bonus episode a few days before Christmas, Frank discusses the final tale of The Dubliners: The Dead.
Direct download: re_Joyce_132A_ReJoyce_for_Christmas.mp3
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Wed, 19 December 2012
Stephen, dwelling on insults, thinks of the Decameron - and of his own failures of courage and athleticism.
Direct download: re_Joyce_132_Barking_at_Boccaccio.mp3
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Thu, 13 December 2012
Still on the same paragraph, Frank considers Walter Harris's The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin as a source for Joyce. Moving on, the dog barks, and Stephen imagines himself a stag at bay. Famous pretenders. |
Wed, 5 December 2012
A running dog on the beach. Stephen thinks of Lochland raiders, and of ancient Dubliners attacking beached turlehide whales. |
Wed, 28 November 2012
Just over halfway through Chapter 3, Proteus, we continue last week's passage. Sir Lout the gigant, and a live dog. |
Wed, 21 November 2012
Stephen ascends from the tide, in both thought and motion, but finds only weeds, rocks, and rats. Louis Veuillot on Gautier, and an Arabian tale of sand and stone that may or may not be off-topic. |
Wed, 14 November 2012
Stephen doesn't want to spend another night at Martello tower; luckily, his soul walks with him. Elsinore.
Direct download: re_Joyce_127_Homeless_with_Hamlet.mp3
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Wed, 7 November 2012
A return from Paris to Sandymount Strand, and the Kish lightship. Depressions in sand and soul, and time passing. |
Mon, 5 November 2012
Paris still remembered on the Strand. Kevin Egan used to be a fine figure of a boy. Old bombs, old exiles, and old songs - and we're done with kevin Egan. |
Wed, 24 October 2012
Continuing a paragraph, Kevin Egan in the Paris of Stephen's memory. Victoria and Maud Gonne, Millevoye and Faure. Bathtime. Next paragraph: the bomber smokes, and muses on the jailbreak of James Stephens.
Direct download: re_Joyce_124_Betrayals_and_Disguises.mp3
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Wed, 17 October 2012
Conversations in Paris. Dalcassians, Arthur Griffith, pimander. Stephen as his father's son in Kevin Egan's eyes. A shirt tells a story.
Direct download: re_Joyce_123_Matadors_and_Shepherds.mp3
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Fri, 12 October 2012
Stephen still remembers Paris with Kevin Egan and Patrice: gunpowder cigarettes, absinthe, milk, coffee, and postprandials. |
Wed, 3 October 2012
The smell of Paris, a sensual meditation, and a bit of French farce. Giacomo Joyce. |
Wed, 22 August 2012
Stephen is not going to his aunt's house after all. Kevin Egan, and the works of the blasphemous M. Leo Taxil. |
Wed, 18 July 2012
Still on Sandymount Strand. "Dan" Occam, the invincible doctor. Imagined bells and twinned principles. |