Reading Ulysses for Fun: Ithaca Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Hush. It's nearly 3 a.m. This is Ithaca Part 2.
Let's see how Bloom ends his day.
I would love your comments. Join the fun and encourage another reader. We are nearly there.
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Chris Reich
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Haha, a nice style of narrative, Chris: would do Joyce proud. On my way to finishing Ulysses tomorrow. Molly's episode...boy have I been waiting for this...Cheers!
You have a lot to be proud of! Let me know your final thoughts on the book. I hope that you have had some pleasure climbing the Joyce mountain. May I ask where you are? I like knowing there are readers all over the world.
@@TeachUBusiness Hi! Just finished it. Great final chapter. (though I had to get used to the ''punctuation'' the first 15 pages or so, haha. Overall I really enjoyed the book. I had started 6 months or so before, and got to page ¬200, but I didn't really get it nor got any pleasure out of it.
This time I went in, alongside your videos, with the sole purpose of just enjoying the experience, knowing a lot of references would go right past me. Actually, perhaps not the sole reason. The language and experimental style was what really attracted me to the books at first (that and my love for his two previous works): the humor was what kept me sticking.
I'm very excited to read it again sometime: definitely within a year, with the bloomsday book.
Oh, and I'm from the Netherlands, Groningen. (perhaps you forgot my last comment).
Btw, have you already addressed who macintosh was?--I'm very curious. (or is the Ulysses project completely over). I would personally very much enjoy an overview of the journey we went through. Though I would understand other projects as well. Too bad I missed the party, haha.
Have a good one!
Don't you hate when the furniture has been moved while you were out and you discover ample evidence of infidelity all about?
Michael Goldenberg As many times as I have read this chapter, this time seemed the most deeply profound. It is a source of constant amazement that this book can open up new vistas with every read.
I watched a few of your "Reading Ulysses for Fun" videos and have got to say: this is your best one. I always appreciate your sensitiveness, attentivenes and approach to the most delicate parts of these chapters (maybe another point which connects you to Bloom, drawing on a remark of yours from one of the previous videos); needless to say, this is the video which encapsulates what I liked most about your readings. Near the end of the video, one of my favourite parts of the book lit up even more than it used to:
"If he had smiled why would he have smiled?
To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter
whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity." (p.601)
Thank you very much. My desire is to get people to enjoy great art, music, and literature. There should be pleasure in it. I am grateful to hear from you because you see the beauty in the passage you quote. That makes my heart sing. I believe the humanities make us human and when we share these feelings and experiences, it proves that. Thank you for sharing a bond. I hope you are safe and well in this age of COVID.
WOW, AWESOME-my first "catechismal experience!" Part 1 and then the best one of all Part 2.. Our teacher has transcended! Oliver (NOW I CAN"T wait to get answers and find out of Molly and Bloom can make together.)
Now that's what I'm talkin' about. We're in the stretch! There is so much in this episode to discuss. The passages are something. I love the passage about looking out and seeing an event that happened long before we were born. We can in fact see the Andromeda Galaxy with the naked eye. That means we see it as it was 2.5 million years ago.
And seeing the light in the bedroom, Bloom compares "woman" to the moon.
"What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?
Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising, and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible."
Anastasia Morissette I have now made the Penelope video 3 times and erased it. I think I finally know what I want to say. Stay tuned and thank you for inspiring me!
I'm uploading it now! Takes about 12 hours to upload. No kidding. HOPEFULLY it will be available Saturday. I'm so grateful for your participation. I've somewhat timed the videos 'toward' you. I hear from you and start thinking, "it's time to get a video up!" Have you chosen your drink of choice for the celebration?
Anastasia Morissette, How about a Burgundy and a bit of blue cheese?
Anastasia Morissette Thank you so much. I was very surprised and super pleased! You are the best.
Thank you very much Chris I am from Ankara Turkey and it would be Impossible for me to digest Ulysees without your explanatory videos. although I am sure it will take me long time to understand it further. Great great help, thank you very much.. ıt took me 2 months to read it by the way.. 🙏🧿🤗
Thank you for your kind words. You must be very proud to accomplish reading this book. Remember to enjoy it.
Well done Chris ! Thank you again for your commentaries ! Really helped opening up this chapter for me !! I’m going to have to re read this again a few times to get my brain around it all !
Brilliant! Thank you for taking the time to comment. Ithaca is such a beautiful chapter. It starts rough with the catechism format but as it unfolds it gets more and more beautiful. Take care, my friend.
CHRIS ,, I love the way you help us discover the nuances in this chapter. You are the best !
Thank you, Pamela! I appreciate your comment very much. I am glad you are enjoying the journey!
Dear Chris, I went through all the videos, and they brought me so much joy that I can't even put it into words. This one was the best! I hope we can continue our journey (our Odyssey) together one day. I also want to thank everyone who participated in the discussions or watched the videos. Special thanks to Mr. Oliver Goldsmith! I hope you are all happy and content!
Hey Chris it has been a long time watching your videos. I’m in China and there’s no time (yet) to devote to Ulysses but I came upon some bookstores and you wouldn’t believe it they have Ulysses translated in Chinese! I might buy a copy to see how they translated the first chapter since that is one of the chapters that I finished through the help of your videos. I just can’t imagine how they translated it with the play on language and other literary references.
I am very happy to hear from you, Nikolai. Glad you are doing OK. I saw a story a few months ago that Ulysses was being translated into Chinese but I cannot see how it could be possible. Your impressions about that would be fascinating. Thanks for responding and take care.
What a satisfied him? To have sustained no positive loss. To have brought a positive gain to others. Light be to the gentiles.
Amazing
You get it! Congratulations. You are feeling the writing!
what a wonderful way to end this episode.. thank you..
I found this chapter really hard to digest. This was actually one of the most difficult for me...I think I've missed alot of the details where the beauty lies but I have a general feel for the chapter now. If I were to pick the book up again and randomly pick chapters to study to go more in depth I think this would be the first one I'd pick. I've nearly done it Chris... one more to go... !!
It can be difficult. It is arranged as a sort of question and answer session that is like the way religion is taught in Catholicism. Or, you can "hear it" like a trial. There is a ton of excess detail. The water system is explained in depth starting with the water flowing from the mountains to the river and through the system. We get a good rundown on Bloom's thoughts about getting a small ranch and being a country gentleman. These are poetic snapshots to give us a lot of amusing detail about life in Dublin. I love the poetic style of the writing. Again, do not worry about getting it all. Pay attention to Bloom and Stephen as they interact and how that ends. Stephen is swallowed up by the darkness. This is the moment of metempsychosis. For Joyce, this is the moment he says farewell to his central character...and himself.
I've watched all your Ulysses videos a few times. Thank you so much for teaching from the good book and making these fine videos.
I don’t know how I feel about this chapter. Sort of feel like Joyce was trying to torment me. Some beautiful poetry jumps out at you at points though. I was just left feeling a little cold despite some of the poetic descriptions of the sky, universe, water etc. Hmmmm. Feel weird.
The comparisons made between Molly and the moon were powerful and touching right enough!
That's okay. For an experiment, go back and read a random page in the chapter and see if it opens a bit more. A lot happens. Blooms observations of the room are almost painful. He has travelled far. It is weird how they sleep...his head at her feet.
This chapter has made the struggle all worth it.
Brilliant! I love the Ithaca episode. The writing is beautiful. Frankly, I feel glad to be done with Stephen too.
Fantastic delivery
You are too kind! I hope you are enjoying the book. Thank you for writing a comment.
@@TeachUBusiness Hi Chris! After 15 years of trying, yesterday I finished the book thanks to your contagious enthusiasm shown in the videos you've made. I found Penelope the hardest chapter by far but I have reached a basic understanding of it. I like the quality of Molly as a Mother Earth and made me think of the little palaeolithic figurines that (in my unqualified opinion) hunt gatherers would carry with them and in times of stanziality (with some limited agriculture) I believe they stuck the figurine in the ground halfway (Molly in bed reclined) as propitiatory act for fertility and abundance of produce. It is a great book. I am now re-reading Dubliners, and I will re-read The Portrait of the Artist before tackling the K2 (mountain) Finnegans Wake. Thanks again
Hi Chris, I have a question. I still don’t understand how Bloom emerges the victor over Boylan... or does one need to wait till the next chapter? If this was intended to be the last chapter, why does it have so many unresolved issues?
Ah I just watched your Penelope video and you explained that you made a mistake... Penelope was written before Ithaca