Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce (general)
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.

Stephen dons a paternity suit.

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Buck Mulligan trashes the Playboy.

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Stephen's in a world of fine words.

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Stephen watches a code being cracked.

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It’s time for bad, very bad, jokes.

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The radiance of the intellect.

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And guess who’s back in the game? 

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 Mr. Bloom has a funny walk.

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Vested interests in the editor’s office.

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A continuation of Wednesday’s half-upload!

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In this throaty half-podcast Mr. Bloom reflects on a baker.

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A Placeholder, because Frank’s voice isn’t working to day: listen…

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Mr. Bloom hears more purple prose.

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Mr. Bloom walks into a difficult room.

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Memory matters for Mr. Bloom.

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Mr. Bloom considers words and noises.

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A Baker’s Dozen Special Edition on Joyce’s flummoxing riddle.

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Mr. Bloom ponders journals and journalists

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Mr. Bloom sees a distinguished gentleman.

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Chapter 7 begins: In the Cave of the Winds 

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Mr. Bloom gets little thanks for a sartorial correction.

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Mr. Bloom sees a rat and is gloomy.

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A great and famous confusion begins.

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Mr. Bloom ponders death and mortality.

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Mr. Bloom, at the graveside, observes many things.

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Do we have a solution to Joyce's long-perplexing mystery? 

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Mr. Boom sees an old love-rival, who doesn’t like him.

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Mr. Bloom finds he is not alone in the cemetery.

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Is Mr. Bloom being inappropriate at a funeral?

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Mr. Bloom contemplates noxious vapors.

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Considers the woman whose private fortune supported James Joyce for over twenty years.

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Mr. Bloom prepares some condolences.

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In this new, extra edition, Mr. Bloom has some jagged thoughts.

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Mr. Bloom contemplates grave matters.

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Mr. Bloom hears a good legal principle.

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Mr. Bloom considers the further uses of cattle.

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

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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.

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Pained memories, and a song. Sense-memories of Paris.

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Columbanus, Fiacre, and Scotus. Stephen's return from Paris, with dirty magazines and a fateful telegram.

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Stephen's remembered self, still in Paris, walks like the dispossessed - and murders in his mind. The Linati schema.

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Nostalgia for Paris: medical studies and cheap stew, ticket stubs and alibis.

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Thinking of Paris and Irish expatriates: Patrice, dynamite, and wild geese. The Michelet view of women, and a little French dialogue.

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Musings on the sand, shells, lost ships, and sewage. A stogged bottle, and Christ imagery on a clothesline.

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Stephen imagines his writings lasting an epoch, a mahamanvantara. Then: back to the third-person narrative of grainy sand and squeaking pebbles. 

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Still Chapter 3, on the Sandymount Strand. Stephen reflects on his childhood reading habits, literary ambitions, and private conceits.

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Stephen will never be a saint, for various reasons.

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Priests move through Stephen's mind, in the sort of passage that got Joyce in trouble. Three bells mark three Eucharists.

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Frank delves into the second five stories of the Dubliners.

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Stephen recalls friends and priests by nickname, and considers Jaochim Abbas, that old heretic.

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Stephen ponders his family's fall from grace. Joachim Abbas. Frank unpacks "the rabble."

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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.

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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."

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An imagined domestic scene, mock heroism, and Stephen's nuncle. Differing versions of the text, and contradictions. Names unpacked, and a poignant poem. 

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In Stephen's mind, his father continues to mock his mother's family, and Stephen visits his uncle's cottage.

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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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Chapter 3 continues along Sandymount Strand. Wind and waves, Hamlet, and a god of the sea.

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Stephen on the nature of the trinity, and the fate of heresiarchs. Contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality.

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Still on Sandymount Strand. Stephen ponders his own origins and, for the first time, reflects on his father.

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Still on the beach, Stephen muses on Eve, bellybuttons, bucklers, and a good deal of poetry.

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Stephen ascribes a crime to the midwife on the beach. A phonecall to the navel of the world.

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Chapter 3 returns to "normal" narrative for a moment. Women descend to the sea. Swinburne.

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In this bonus episode, Frank describes Joyce's reading list, which owed so much to his Catholic education.

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Stephen parses the poetry of his own thoughts, and opens his eyes to see if the the world has persisted. It has.

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Stephen's thoughts echo his steps as he walks on shells. Frank digresses on Proust.

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Stephen walks blindly in borrowed boots and trousers. Los demiurgos and William Blake.

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Stephen closes his eyes and walks in the audible world. Nacheinander and Nebeneinander.

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More thoughts on Aristotle, by way of Berkeley, Johnson, and Boswell.

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Slightly deeper into chapter 3. Diaphanous reality, and a quick lesson on Aristotle.

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The beginning of chapter 3, Proteus. Stephen's stream of consciousness takes over as he walks along the beach.

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End of Chapter 2: Nestor. A brief summary.

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Stephen finally pries himself away from Mr. Deasy, and a recurring theme is introduced. 

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Mr. Deasy's litany of women who ruined things for everybody. 

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Joyce the symbolist. History may or may not be moving towards God.

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Stephen reflects vividly upon Mr. Deasy's rant.

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Frank unfolds Joyce's daily life in Zurich, which he in many ways abandoned to live in the Dublin of his Ulysses.

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Mr. Deasy expounds upon the Jews.

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Mr. Deasy, in addition to his other qualities, is a paranoid and a bigot.

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A letter to the editor, deconstructed.

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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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A key is found, a door opened, breakfast is served, and various profanities are narrowly avoided, for once.

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We sit down to a fortified breakfast, and meet Haines and his dream. Also: more blasphemy.

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Stephen sees ceremony and symbolism in a shaving bowl.

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Stephen is called to breakfast by Buck, and hit up for a loan at the same time. All is not forgiven.

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We translate Stephen's prayers for the dying from the Latin, and return immediately to both Homer and Shakespeare.

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In his second bonus podcast, Frank discusses Joyce's formation on the Island of Saints and Scholars.

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Stephen's mother is placed in the structure of the cosmos.

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Stephen, still brooding, summons memories of his mother's life, and we learn something of pantomime.

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Stephen remembers, poetically and tragically, his mother's deathbed.

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As Stephen stands alone on the tower, we muse upon the painterly language of the seascape.

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Mulligan, descending the stairs, trivializes his own insults - and musters considerable literary resources to do so.

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Stephen absorbs Mulligan's insults and, standing upon the tower by the sea, once again recalls his Shakespearean precedent.

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Mulligan boldly defends himself against Stephen's charge, and dissects death  - and Stephen himself - in the process.

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We touch on one of the most important themes of Ulysses, and perhaps in all of writing.

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A few thoughts on the Celtic spirit, and on what, exactly, can be seen from Martello tower.

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We dig through some more insults, and ponder the names of characters who don't, in fact, appear in the novel.

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A single word produces lessons on the Greek language, politics, and cultural criticism.

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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.

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Stephen and Mulligan fence - or, alternately, joust.

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The looking glass evokes both Shakespeare's Caliban and Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray

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As the insults mount, Stephen faces his own reflection.

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 We find meaning - and a Shakespearean precedent - in Stephen's black clothing.

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Getting past Mulligan's accusations of mummery, we enter Stephen's thoughts and encounter his dead mother.

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Frank describes the real life figure behind the character Haines.
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In this next installment we hear from Stephen Dedalus.​
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Jame's Joyce's blasphemy still has power today.  Listen to Frank Delaney investigate the next section of Ulysses.

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Episode Three in which we learn more about Stephen Dedalus including the origins of his name.
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