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The variants and editions of Ulysses.2 comments

Bob R Bogle wrote 1 month ago:   A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ―Paul Valéry Every so often the question comes up:  … more →

Tags: James Joyce, Ulysses, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", Aeolus, Calypso, chamber music, Circe, Cyclops, Don Gifford

Having reached the end of his tether.1 comment

Worlds Weary wrote 6 months ago: 1:57 am Oh I’ve had the bit between my teeth like a knife in the mouth, but now my tongue is s … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, temporality, mathematical esoterica, God, Free Will, Coactus Volui, knife

Beware of the steamroller.1 comment

Sly Uses wrote 6 months ago: 1:56 am Our lives are in peril tonight. I know this because look, up close everything is shifting si … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, temporality, Jorge Luis Borges, Suicide, Jagannath, spider, Clockwork Spider, Paul C. Thomson

Simply abounding in immortal numbers.

Sly Uses wrote 6 months ago: 1:55 am Let’s look at music. No, I said look. Can’t you see music? No? I’ll help y … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, temporality, mathematical esoterica, Dante Alighieri, Paradiso!, Symmetry, Mozart, Richard Wagner

Apropos of coffin of stones.

Sly Uses wrote 6 months ago: 1:53 am Most of these are filled with them, you know. Stones. Our bodies rot away, or they do at fir … more →

Tags: death, ghost, James Joyce, Nothing, Ulysses, Wetherup

The exploits of King Willow

Sly Uses wrote 6 months ago: 1:52 am Auspicious King Willow would cry in his pillow And cry in his pillow would he He called for … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, dream, old king cole, Sand, Achilles, Gian Marco Todesco, Donne di sabbia, James Fenimore Cooper

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riles them was a bite from a sheep.1 comment

Sly Uses wrote 6 months ago: 1:50 am Some believe that the bite from a sheep makes people angry whilst the wolf bite is a mere co … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, mathematical esoterica, Avatars of the Tortoise

Destruction of the fittest.

Sly Uses wrote 6 months ago: 1:48 am Well let’s Humpty Dumpty ourselves through this one shall we? You’ve got him ove … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, temporality, mathematical esoterica, through the looking glass, Lewis Carroll, 32 feet per second per second, Egg, Sundial

History repeating itself with a difference.

Nowthenowhen wrote 6 months ago: 1:46 am All right ladies, hold the mirror just so, can everybody see me? Just like this. Adjust your … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, Mirror, omphalos, Julio Cortazar, History, 32 feet per second per second, nele azevedo, Minimum Monument

With her fleshy charms on evidence in an open fashion.

Nowthenowhen wrote 6 months ago: 1:45 am Don’t look bored. Don’t look bored he says. Easy for you to say you’re doi … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, temporality, mathematical esoterica, Ruby: the Pride of the Ring, Fernando Botero, 32 feet per second per second, Circus Girl Seated, strangers on a train

Looking back now in a retrospective kind of arrangement all seemed a kind of dream.

Sly Uses wrote 6 months ago: 1:43 am It’s all lit up now but try explaining to people more invested in my marriage than I w … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, temporality, mathematical esoterica, Vern Tonkin, retrospective arrangement, Gossamer, Peruvian, Swedish

Dead he wasn't. Simply absconded somewhere.

Nowthenowhen wrote 6 months ago: 1:42 am I thought you were dead you yellow bastard. Grrrr. You resurrected yourself, didn’t yo … more →

Tags: cat, Ulysses, James Joyce, Resurrection, dog, AE (George W. Russell), Lizzie Twigg, Sister Mary Peter, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Different ways of bringing off a coup.1 comment

Sly Uses wrote 6 months ago: 1:41 am Establish dominance, think alpha male. But less is more, remember Al Gore in 2000? Not that … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, Michel Foucault, discipline and punish, revolution, musical chairs., All Their Daddies, Instruction Manual

ador dorador douradora

Nowthenowhen wrote 6 months ago: 1:40 am Love, pain and love. Give, glider, to the golden now. … more →

Tags: God, James Joyce, the wicked bible, Ulysses

Six sixteen which he pointedly turned a deaf ear to.2 comments

Nowthenowhen wrote 6 months ago: 1:36 am Look. Don’t you know that if you fuck a whore, you together become one body? It’ … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius, Turtles, Daniel, Paper Suits, Manel Güell, 1 Corinthians

Then he looked up and saw the eyes that said or didn't say the words the voice he heard said, if you work.

Sly Uses wrote 6 months ago: 1:35 am Stare at nothing in particular, but do swim your eyes closer. Work with me here, and I mean … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, God, crab, Work

Their two or four eyes conversing.

Sly Uses wrote 6 months ago: 1:33 am Scene: [A rabbi and a priest walk into a bar. The rabbi says:] Rabbi: Where is everybody, ar … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, temporality, priest, eye, GEORGE ORWELL, Animal Farm, Rabbi, New Bloomusalem

Always snapping at the bone for the shadow.

Nowthenowhen wrote 6 months ago: 1:31 am I’ll tell you what baby. You tell me, yeh? You got something to say? Well then say bec … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, The Diary of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain, Sue Webster, Tim Noble, The Original Sinners

If -- a big if, however.

Nowthenowhen wrote 6 months ago: 1:30 am It’s 2012, alas we are done! Though of linear time there is none. The calendar’s … more →

Tags: Ulysses, James Joyce, temporality, Sun, Julio Cortazar, Blood+, The Night Face Up, Poetry


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