Thursday, January 22, 2009

*- You, Cochrane, what city sent for him?

Part I Chapter 2 read by 2/2
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  1. zacharyJanuary 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM

    I thought the jumping in and out of Stephen's thoughts was kind of silly at first, but I've found the rhythm of it. I'm still not getting the compound words and clipped imagery. What are we supposed to be taking from this? Is this supposed to represent randomness of thoughts? Do people think in poetry? I don't.

    There's more anti-semitic talk in this chapter. I guess I never knew how wide spread that kind of thinking was in the first part of the 20th century. Maybe it's my biases against modernism, but I feel its a shame that these sketchy early characters aren't going get much more fleshing out. I like these crappy people Stephen keeps running into. I just know in my bones we're about to sink into some seriously workshop-y literary experiments that reveal nothing about these characters. I'm trying to just accept it for what it is (especially since I haven't read far yet).

    I like Faulkner. I hated Virginia Woolf. We'll see.

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  2. SJanuary 25, 2009 at 7:12 PM

    I feel like the scene between Stephen and Cyril Sargent is going to be really important. The way he's unloveable... the way it is connected to Stephen's own mother.

    I really like the compound words. How important of a writer do you have to be for your editor ro let you get away with that?

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  3. SFebruary 2, 2009 at 4:56 PM

    FYI:
    Today (2/2) is Joyce's birthday (b. 1882.) It is also the anniversary of Ulysses being published in its entirety in 1922. (It was first published as a serial.) The publisher was Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company in Paris.

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  4. SFebruary 2, 2009 at 5:00 PM

    P.S. more trivia tangentially re: Joyce's made up words. According to Pauline Kiernan of "Filthy Shakespeare," Shakespeare is recorded as the first use of over 3000 new words. Neat.
    She also states that an average college grad today has a vocabulary of 3000 to 4000 words and that the Bard, based on his plays, had a woking vocabulary of 29,000 words. Of course he made 10% of them up himself...

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  5. UnknownFebruary 2, 2009 at 5:02 PM

    Awesome...is this how short all the chapters are? I guess not, since I can't imagine that the book would be more than 200 pages otherwise. But these short chapters are great...20 minutes and I'm done for the week.

    So, uh, I don't really have a whole lot to say here, other than this chapter sure was good etc.

    I guess I'm a week behind you guys, so I'll try to catch up. When do we actually meet Bloom?

    Oh, one thing: I stumbled upon the Ulysses Cliff's Notes this weekend at the Salvation Army (a dime!) and, wow, they are so much more intensive and well-written than SparkNotes. I don't guess this is very intellectual of me, but I really recommend them, especially if you've been relying on the SparkNotes; it's like going from PEOPLE to THE NEW YORKER.

    (I don't even know where to get Cliff's Notes these days, though, now that Barnes & Noble owns SparkNotes.)

    From now on we have to comment in Joycean prose.

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  6. ShellyFebruary 2, 2009 at 8:36 PM

    Looking to the audio book chapters indicating length, chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 & 18 are in two parts.
    4 parts for 13
    3 parts for 16
    7 parts for 15
    4 parts for 17

    Johnny, this should come to you via the autoemail notification.

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