Orange is the Old White
S: On the 12th of July the Orangemen a/k/a the Protestant Boys of Northern Ireland annually celebrate their ongoing colonial status by walking through the streets of Belfast and Derry, banging big drums, setting fires, and flaunting the Union Jack
Orange is the Old White
S: On the 12th of July the Orangemen a/k/a the Protestant Boys of Northern Ireland annually celebrate their ongoing colonial status by walking through the streets of Belfast and Derry, banging big drums, setting fires, and flaunting the Union Jack
Viva Anna Livia!
M: Slander! Libel! Calumny in notion! Oh, the itch of these washerwitches… Of no good repute themselves and questionable heritage — I heard one’s undocumented (“She’s an anchor, baby!”) and the other sat with a sleeping guv’nor — two washerwomen
Viva Anna Livia!
M: Slander! Libel! Calumny in notion! Oh, the itch of these washerwitches… Of no good repute themselves and questionable heritage — I heard one’s undocumented (“She’s an anchor, baby!”) and the other sat with a sleeping guv’nor — two washerwomen
barely in her tricklies
Anna Lizzia by Haele Wolfe S: FW pps 143 – 148 presents us with Iseult la Belle’s Soliloquy – quite in the manner of Molly’s celebrated book-ending stream of consciousness — but we are now admitted to the consciousness (unconsciousness?) not
barely in her tricklies
Anna Lizzia by Haele Wolfe S: FW pps 143 – 148 presents us with Iseult la Belle’s Soliloquy – quite in the manner of Molly’s celebrated book-ending stream of consciousness — but we are now admitted to the consciousness (unconsciousness?) not
In Vico… velitas
Happy 347th Birthday to Giambattista Vico, the Italian philosopher whose Scienza Nuova inspired Joyce in his writing of the Wake. His four-part circle of history: theocratic age, aristocratic age, democratic age, ricorso (return to the beginning), inspired the book’s structure and themes
In Vico… velitas
Happy 347th Birthday to Giambattista Vico, the Italian philosopher whose Scienza Nuova inspired Joyce in his writing of the Wake. His four-part circle of history: theocratic age, aristocratic age, democratic age, ricorso (return to the beginning), inspired the book’s structure and themes
No one understands him but his woman
S: After all that patter, time to take a stab at mater, because HCE is back, and ALP’s got him! The Lady in invoked with an ecumenical litany of honorifics, the antidote to the catalogue of opprobrium recently heaped on
No one understands him but his woman
S: After all that patter, time to take a stab at mater, because HCE is back, and ALP’s got him! The Lady in invoked with an ecumenical litany of honorifics, the antidote to the catalogue of opprobrium recently heaped on
In the mix
S: “While scientists still do not know much about why or how we dream, some have suggested that we typically spend more than two hours dreaming each night,” according to The National Sleep Foundation (you won’t catch them napping.) Here,
In the mix
S: “While scientists still do not know much about why or how we dream, some have suggested that we typically spend more than two hours dreaming each night,” according to The National Sleep Foundation (you won’t catch them napping.) Here,
The sacred river
fig. 1 – Summer by Kathleen Creighton M: Ladies and Gentleman: Anna. Livia. Plurabelle! She is ALP to Earwicker’s HCE; not a mountain, but a river, one aitch removed from ALPH, the “sacred river” of Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” then another a-pex
The sacred river
fig. 1 – Summer by Kathleen Creighton M: Ladies and Gentleman: Anna. Livia. Plurabelle! She is ALP to Earwicker’s HCE; not a mountain, but a river, one aitch removed from ALPH, the “sacred river” of Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” then another a-pex
Enter Rumour, all painted with tongues
S: “In dreams begin responsibilities,” wrote W. B. Yeats, (whose birthday is today) in Responsibilities, 1914. “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” wrote Joyce, (whose Bloomsday is nigh) in Ulysses, 1922. M: Here
Enter Rumour, all painted with tongues
S: “In dreams begin responsibilities,” wrote W. B. Yeats, (whose birthday is today) in Responsibilities, 1914. “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” wrote Joyce, (whose Bloomsday is nigh) in Ulysses, 1922. M: Here
‘Man Devoyd of the Commoner Characteristics of an Irish Nature’
S: No sooner have we made the acquaintance of the “big cleanminded giant H. C. Earwicker,” FW 33.59 than his good name is called into question. We read reports and retorts expressed in unadored legallies and journalease concerning maybe the genitals
‘Man Devoyd of the Commoner Characteristics of an Irish Nature’
S: No sooner have we made the acquaintance of the “big cleanminded giant H. C. Earwicker,” FW 33.59 than his good name is called into question. We read reports and retorts expressed in unadored legallies and journalease concerning maybe the genitals
HCEmore, an introduction
S: I passed away a hole day picking and shoveling away at the name “Earwicker,” only to find that the Author had done the work (be) for me, in the ballad of Persse O’Reilly. FW 44-47. Fecking Joyce! The surname
HCEmore, an introduction
S: I passed away a hole day picking and shoveling away at the name “Earwicker,” only to find that the Author had done the work (be) for me, in the ballad of Persse O’Reilly. FW 44-47. Fecking Joyce! The surname
What’s a Wake when it’s at home?
S: FW 23. 17. “O foenix culpa!” Theology. Without Adam’s sin fall, no sinless Son of man could rise. (The second time as farce.) Now what have we hear? The dinn of bottles and trotters trompin’ and prayer “delivered us
What’s a Wake when it’s at home?
S: FW 23. 17. “O foenix culpa!” Theology. Without Adam’s sin fall, no sinless Son of man could rise. (The second time as farce.) Now what have we hear? The dinn of bottles and trotters trompin’ and prayer “delivered us
Make room for the Muses
S: FW 8, 9. As Finn is laid out and the keening commences, we Slo Pan his mythshapen bodyscape, i.e. Dublin’s farce city, as far as his phallus. Dissolve to: Ext, Day. Wellington Museum. The Wellington Monument, or more correctly
Make room for the Muses
S: FW 8, 9. As Finn is laid out and the keening commences, we Slo Pan his mythshapen bodyscape, i.e. Dublin’s farce city, as far as his phallus. Dissolve to: Ext, Day. Wellington Museum. The Wellington Monument, or more correctly
Unaided, decamp!
M: How can each — and every — page contain such opportunity for befuddlement and wonder? Seven pages in and one line makes total sense.10.24: “Phew!” S: Open sez me. I’m going in (under cover). We know certain things, having read
Unaided, decamp!
M: How can each — and every — page contain such opportunity for befuddlement and wonder? Seven pages in and one line makes total sense.10.24: “Phew!” S: Open sez me. I’m going in (under cover). We know certain things, having read
Cover story
S: For I shall consider the cover – without, of course, judging the book by it. This volume before me, rescued from heap in a shambles of a shop on the Isle of Skye: New York: The Viking Press, 1945,
Cover story
S: For I shall consider the cover – without, of course, judging the book by it. This volume before me, rescued from heap in a shambles of a shop on the Isle of Skye: New York: The Viking Press, 1945,
sum mer de le wake 