Wed, 12 October 2016
Stephen dons a paternity suit.
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Wed, 7 September 2016
Buck Mulligan trashes the Playboy.
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Wed, 16 December 2015
Stephen's in a world of fine words.
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Wed, 9 December 2015
Stephen watches a code being cracked.
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Fri, 27 November 2015
It’s time for bad, very bad, jokes.
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Wed, 25 November 2015
The radiance of the intellect.
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Fri, 20 November 2015
And guess who’s back in the game?
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Wed, 18 November 2015
Mr. Bloom has a funny walk.
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Wed, 11 November 2015
Vested interests in the editor’s office.
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Fri, 6 November 2015
A continuation of Wednesday’s half-upload! |
Wed, 4 November 2015
In this throaty half-podcast Mr. Bloom reflects on a baker.
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Fri, 30 October 2015
A Placeholder, because Frank’s voice isn’t working to day: listen…
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Wed, 28 October 2015
Mr. Bloom hears more purple prose.
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Wed, 21 October 2015
Mr. Bloom walks into a difficult room.
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Wed, 14 October 2015
Memory matters for Mr. Bloom.
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Wed, 7 October 2015
Mr. Bloom considers words and noises.
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Fri, 2 October 2015
A Baker’s Dozen Special Edition on Joyce’s flummoxing riddle.
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Fri, 25 September 2015
Mr. Bloom ponders journals and journalists
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Wed, 23 September 2015
Mr. Bloom sees a distinguished gentleman.
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Wed, 16 September 2015
Chapter 7 begins: In the Cave of the Winds
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Wed, 9 September 2015
Mr. Bloom gets little thanks for a sartorial correction.
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Wed, 2 September 2015
Mr. Bloom sees a rat and is gloomy.
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Wed, 26 August 2015
A great and famous confusion begins.
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Wed, 19 August 2015
Mr. Bloom ponders death and mortality.
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Wed, 12 August 2015
Mr. Bloom, at the graveside, observes many things.
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Wed, 5 August 2015
Do we have a solution to Joyce's long-perplexing mystery?
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Wed, 29 July 2015
Mr. Boom sees an old love-rival, who doesn’t like him.
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Wed, 22 July 2015
Mr. Bloom finds he is not alone in the cemetery.
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Wed, 15 July 2015
Is Mr. Bloom being inappropriate at a funeral?
Direct download: 266_-_Lilting_Sepulchres_-_7-12-15_7.34_PM.mp3
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Wed, 8 July 2015
Mr. Bloom contemplates noxious vapors.
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Fri, 3 July 2015
Considers the woman whose private fortune supported James Joyce for over twenty years. |
Wed, 1 July 2015
Mr. Bloom prepares some condolences.
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Fri, 26 June 2015
In this new, extra edition, Mr. Bloom has some jagged thoughts.
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Wed, 24 June 2015
Mr. Bloom contemplates grave matters.
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Wed, 17 June 2015
Mr. Bloom hears a good legal principle.
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Thu, 28 May 2015
Mr. Bloom considers the further uses of cattle. |
Wed, 24 July 2013
Mr. Bloom ponders the sunburst, the bank of Ireland, and independence, among other things. |
Fri, 28 September 2012
Frank takes a look at four more stories from The Dubliners in this poorly-named episode: A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, A Mother, and Grace. |
Wed, 26 September 2012
Pained memories, and a song. Sense-memories of Paris. |
Wed, 19 September 2012
Columbanus, Fiacre, and Scotus. Stephen's return from Paris, with dirty magazines and a fateful telegram. |
Wed, 12 September 2012
Stephen's remembered self, still in Paris, walks like the dispossessed - and murders in his mind. The Linati schema. |
Wed, 5 September 2012
Nostalgia for Paris: medical studies and cheap stew, ticket stubs and alibis. |
Wed, 29 August 2012
Thinking of Paris and Irish expatriates: Patrice, dynamite, and wild geese. The Michelet view of women, and a little French dialogue. |
Wed, 15 August 2012
Musings on the sand, shells, lost ships, and sewage. A stogged bottle, and Christ imagery on a clothesline. |
Wed, 8 August 2012
Stephen imagines his writings lasting an epoch, a mahamanvantara. Then: back to the third-person narrative of grainy sand and squeaking pebbles. |
Wed, 1 August 2012
Still Chapter 3, on the Sandymount Strand. Stephen reflects on his childhood reading habits, literary ambitions, and private conceits. |
Wed, 25 July 2012
Stephen will never be a saint, for various reasons. |
Wed, 11 July 2012
Priests move through Stephen's mind, in the sort of passage that got Joyce in trouble. Three bells mark three Eucharists. |
Fri, 6 July 2012
Frank delves into the second five stories of the Dubliners. |
Wed, 4 July 2012
Stephen recalls friends and priests by nickname, and considers Jaochim Abbas, that old heretic.
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Wed, 27 June 2012
Stephen ponders his family's fall from grace. Joachim Abbas. Frank unpacks "the rabble."
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Wed, 20 June 2012
In Stephen's mind (still on Sandymount Strand), his uncle offers him food and drink, of a sorts. Second-hand opera, and a note of warning. |
Sat, 16 June 2012
A special episode celebrates Bloomsday 2012 on June 16. Frank introduces us to the first five stories of Dubliners as a way of "getting into Joyce." |
Wed, 13 June 2012
An imagined domestic scene, mock heroism, and Stephen's nuncle. Differing versions of the text, and contradictions. Names unpacked, and a poignant poem. |
Wed, 6 June 2012
In Stephen's mind, his father continues to mock his mother's family, and Stephen visits his uncle's cottage. |
Wed, 30 May 2012
Sandymount Strand. Stephen's thoughts: his father's voice editorializes on his mother's family. To illuminate, Frank calls on the Iliad, and Thersites's rant against Agamemnon.
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Wed, 23 May 2012
Chapter 3 continues along Sandymount Strand. Wind and waves, Hamlet, and a god of the sea. |
Wed, 16 May 2012
Stephen on the nature of the trinity, and the fate of heresiarchs. Contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality. |
Wed, 9 May 2012
Still on Sandymount Strand. Stephen ponders his own origins and, for the first time, reflects on his father. |
Wed, 2 May 2012
Still on the beach, Stephen muses on Eve, bellybuttons, bucklers, and a good deal of poetry. |
Wed, 25 April 2012
Stephen ascribes a crime to the midwife on the beach. A phonecall to the navel of the world. |
Wed, 18 April 2012
Chapter 3 returns to "normal" narrative for a moment. Women descend to the sea. Swinburne. |
Fri, 13 April 2012
In this bonus episode, Frank describes Joyce's reading list, which owed so much to his Catholic education. |
Wed, 11 April 2012
Stephen parses the poetry of his own thoughts, and opens his eyes to see if the the world has persisted. It has. |
Wed, 4 April 2012
Stephen's thoughts echo his steps as he walks on shells. Frank digresses on Proust. |
Wed, 28 March 2012
Stephen walks blindly in borrowed boots and trousers. Los demiurgos and William Blake. |
Wed, 21 March 2012
Stephen closes his eyes and walks in the audible world. Nacheinander and Nebeneinander. |
Wed, 14 March 2012
More thoughts on Aristotle, by way of Berkeley, Johnson, and Boswell. |
Wed, 7 March 2012
Slightly deeper into chapter 3. Diaphanous reality, and a quick lesson on Aristotle. |
Wed, 29 February 2012
The beginning of chapter 3, Proteus. Stephen's stream of consciousness takes over as he walks along the beach. |
Wed, 22 February 2012
End of Chapter 2: Nestor. A brief summary. |
Wed, 15 February 2012
Stephen finally pries himself away from Mr. Deasy, and a recurring theme is introduced. |
Wed, 8 February 2012
Mr. Deasy's litany of women who ruined things for everybody. |
Wed, 1 February 2012
Joyce the symbolist. History may or may not be moving towards God. |
Wed, 25 January 2012
Stephen reflects vividly upon Mr. Deasy's rant. |
Fri, 20 January 2012
Frank unfolds Joyce's daily life in Zurich, which he in many ways abandoned to live in the Dublin of his Ulysses. |
Wed, 18 January 2012
Mr. Deasy expounds upon the Jews. |
Wed, 11 January 2012
Mr. Deasy, in addition to his other qualities, is a paranoid and a bigot. |
Wed, 4 January 2012
A letter to the editor, deconstructed.
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Wed, 28 December 2011
Reflections on hockey and history. Stephen reads - or at least scans - a letter.
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Wed, 21 December 2011
Waiting in Mr. Deasy's office, Stephen is transported by the art on the walls. |
Wed, 14 December 2011
Stephen fails to warm to Mr. Deasy's arguments. |
Wed, 7 December 2011
Stephen debates Mr. Deasy - in his own mind, at least. |
Wed, 30 November 2011
Frank unpacks Mr. Deasy's politics. |
Thu, 24 November 2011
Mr. Deasy and Stephen continue their exchange, and Frank unpacks the tartan from a painting of a prince. |
Wed, 16 November 2011
Stephen tallies his debts - as does Joyce. |
Wed, 9 November 2011
Mr. Deasy expounds on the power of money; Frank digresses. |
Wed, 2 November 2011
Stephen is paid, meticulously. |
Fri, 28 October 2011
In this bonus episode, Frank draws from Frank Budgen's memoir to illuminate Joyce's painterly grasp of detail and language. |
Wed, 26 October 2011
A little financial arrangement. |
Wed, 19 October 2011
As Stephen waits in the headmaster's study, we learn something about its inhabitant. |
Wed, 12 October 2011
A new character enters the stage in the longest and least complicated passage yet. |
Wed, 5 October 2011
More on mothers, their love, and secret childhoods. |
Wed, 28 September 2011
Stephen dwells on ancient philosophers: Averroes, Moses Maimonides, Bruno. |
Wed, 21 September 2011
Moors, math, foxes, and the dead. |
Wed, 14 September 2011
Eyeing the student Sargent, Stephen considers saints, sons, and mothers. |
Wed, 7 September 2011
Stephen's reflections on a poor student plumb the limits of a mother's love. |
Wed, 31 August 2011
A boy stays after class, and Joyce toys with both authority and identity. |
Wed, 24 August 2011
As Stephen's class lets out, a riddle is asked and answered, satisfying nobody. |
Wed, 17 August 2011
Stephen is a somewhat merciful teacher. Musings on Jesus, government, and riddles. |
Wed, 10 August 2011
Stephen's classroom; a library in Paris; Blake and Aristotle; dragons and souls. |
Fri, 5 August 2011
Observations on the author, and the history of Ulysses. |
Wed, 3 August 2011
In Stephen's classroom, Joyce brings in Milton. Reflections on drowning. |
Wed, 27 July 2011
In Stephen's musings on history, real and potential, Frank finds a recurring Joycean theme. |
Wed, 20 July 2011
Stephen muses on first-rate wit and second-hand history. |
Wed, 13 July 2011
In Stephen's classroom, four girls' names hint at religion, class, and sex. |
Wed, 6 July 2011
In Stephen's classroom, Frank muses on the names of cookies and of boys. |
Wed, 29 June 2011
Stephen continues his lesson, and we learn something of both Pyrrhus and Nestor. |
Wed, 22 June 2011
We begin Chapter 2, and find Stephen in the classroom with old battles, radical poets, and the daughters of memory. |
Thu, 16 June 2011
June 16 is Bloomsday, as well as the one-year anniversary of this podcast. |
Wed, 15 June 2011
Mulligan bathes, and Stephen takes his leave. The end of chapter 1. |
Wed, 8 June 2011
Gossip at the swimming hole: an unlikely officer, redheads, supermen, and missing ribs. |
Wed, 1 June 2011
Stephen, Mulligan, and Haines encounter bathers, and Joyce employs some foreshadowing with news of Mulligan's brother. |
Wed, 25 May 2011
Stephen fathoms the depths of both Hell and Dublin Bay, and Frank muses upon T. S. Eliot. |
Wed, 18 May 2011
Stephen presents us with a roll call of heresiarchs. |
Fri, 13 May 2011
In this bonus episode, Frank discusses the four characters we've met so far, along with their real-life antecedents. |
Wed, 11 May 2011
Stephen considers the Church. |
Wed, 4 May 2011
Stephen claims to serve three masters. |
Wed, 27 April 2011
Haines asks Stephen about a personal god, and Stephen answers - out loud, briefly, and to himself, at great length.
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Wed, 20 April 2011
Stephen and Haines share a moment and a smoke. |
Wed, 13 April 2011
Mulligan capers, versifies, and blasphemes. |
Wed, 6 April 2011
Haines dwells on Hamlet, and we are reminded of the famous sons of that play, the Odyssey, and - of course - the Bible. |
Wed, 30 March 2011
Mulligan plays with paradox, and we get a foreshadowing of Stephen's father. |
Wed, 23 March 2011
We learn the price of both a rented tower and a lecture on Hamlet.
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Wed, 16 March 2011
Punctuation obfuscates; but we press on, and find significance in Stephen's walking stick.
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Wed, 9 March 2011
Mulligan is full of contradictions.
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Wed, 2 March 2011
We have a bit of a breather while Stephen and Buck debate what, if anything, Stephen's aphorisms are worth.
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Wed, 23 February 2011
Stephen's inner voice, a presumption of remorse, and a few words on Ireland's climate.
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Fri, 18 February 2011
Literature and lore in Joyce's Dublin.
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Wed, 16 February 2011
In a rare uncomplicated passage, milk is measured, and Frank describes the various types of junkets.
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Wed, 9 February 2011
Levels of respect: for women, doctors, and the Irish language. |
Wed, 2 February 2011
Frank Delaney offers a special surprise in honor of James Joyce's Birthday. |
Wed, 26 January 2011
The old woman carries, not just milk, but an allegory of Ireland herself - at least in the eyes of both Stephen and Joyce himself. |
Wed, 19 January 2011
More scholarship of folklore. The milk arrives, and its bearer is mocked by Mulligan and venerated by Stephen.
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Wed, 12 January 2011
Mulligan gets mythic, and mocks exactly the sort of thing this podcast is doing. |
Wed, 5 January 2011
Petulance for breakfast, "pet" and "kip," and a dirty joke about the tea. |
Wed, 29 December 2010
A key is found, a door opened, breakfast is served, and various profanities are narrowly avoided, for once. |
Wed, 22 December 2010
We sit down to a fortified breakfast, and meet Haines and his dream. Also: more blasphemy.
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Wed, 15 December 2010
Stephen sees ceremony and symbolism in a shaving bowl. |
Wed, 8 December 2010
Stephen is called to breakfast by Buck, and hit up for a loan at the same time. All is not forgiven. |
Wed, 1 December 2010
We translate Stephen's prayers for the dying from the Latin, and return immediately to both Homer and Shakespeare. |
Fri, 26 November 2010
In his second bonus podcast, Frank discusses Joyce's formation on the Island of Saints and Scholars.
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Wed, 24 November 2010
Stephen's mother is placed in the structure of the cosmos. |
Wed, 17 November 2010
Stephen, still brooding, summons memories of his mother's life, and we learn something of pantomime. |
Wed, 10 November 2010
Stephen remembers, poetically and tragically, his mother's deathbed. |
Wed, 3 November 2010
As Stephen stands alone on the tower, we muse upon the painterly language of the seascape. |
Wed, 27 October 2010
Mulligan, descending the stairs, trivializes his own insults - and musters considerable literary resources to do so. |
Wed, 20 October 2010
Stephen absorbs Mulligan's insults and, standing upon the tower by the sea, once again recalls his Shakespearean precedent. |
Wed, 13 October 2010
Mulligan boldly defends himself against Stephen's charge, and dissects death - and Stephen himself - in the process.
Direct download: RE_Joyce_18_-_Whos_the_Impossible_Person_.mp3
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Wed, 6 October 2010
We touch on one of the most important themes of Ulysses, and perhaps in all of writing. |
Wed, 29 September 2010
A few thoughts on the Celtic spirit, and on what, exactly, can be seen from Martello tower.
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Wed, 22 September 2010
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Wed, 15 September 2010
We dig through some more insults, and ponder the names of characters who don't, in fact, appear in the novel. |
Wed, 8 September 2010
A single word produces lessons on the Greek language, politics, and cultural criticism.
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Fri, 3 September 2010
Stepping away from the narrative for a moment, Frank gives us a look at Joyce's education, his family, and his conflicted relationship with the Catholic church.
Direct download: re_Joyce_12a_-_Bakers_Dozen_-_James_Joyces_Origins.mp3
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Wed, 1 September 2010
Stephen and Mulligan fence - or, alternately, joust. |
Wed, 25 August 2010
The looking glass evokes both Shakespeare's Caliban and Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray
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Wed, 18 August 2010
As the insults mount, Stephen faces his own reflection. |
Wed, 11 August 2010
We find meaning - and a Shakespearean precedent - in Stephen's black clothing. |
Wed, 4 August 2010
Getting past Mulligan's accusations of mummery, we enter Stephen's thoughts and encounter his dead mother.
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Tue, 27 July 2010
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Tue, 20 July 2010
Frank describes the real life figure behind the character Haines.
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Tue, 13 July 2010
In this next installment we hear from Stephen Dedalus.
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Tue, 6 July 2010
Jame's Joyce's blasphemy still has power today. Listen to Frank Delaney investigate the next section of Ulysses. |
Wed, 30 June 2010
Episode Three in which we learn more about Stephen Dedalus including the origins of his name.
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