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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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, 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, 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, 18 July 2012
Still on Sandymount Strand. "Dan" Occam, the invincible doctor. Imagined bells and twinned principles. |
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.
Direct download: re_Joyce_82_Foot_and_Mouth_and_Modernism.mp3
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