Read as far as "... looked at all: refrained." (Penguin 270.29), Gabler (9.965)
On the previous page Stephen had started to speak about Saint Thomas. He continues here comparing what he thinks were the ideas of St. Thomas with those of the new Viennese school (i.e., Freud) regarding incest. The key word here seems to be 'avarice' - incest as avarice of emotions,... Jews, whom christians tax with avarice... Stephen says whether these be sins or virtues old Nobodaddy (God) will tell us at doomsday lent (last judgement). He brings Shakespeare and his plays back into the discussion, quoting from Winter's tale (.. Sir Smile, his neighbor) and from Hamlet (Polonius advice to his son). This prompts Mr Best to say that Gentle Will (William Shakespeare) is being roughly handled.
Mr Best's comment starts off a play of words regarding 'will': 'will' as the modal verb, 'will' as the shortened version of the name, William, and 'will' as wish. (The will to live, ..., for poor Ann, ... is the will to die.) Stephen imagines how Ann would have lain on the secondbest bed (somehow this topic of the secondbest bed seems to haunt Stephen!), and how she would have spent her old age. He talks of how she would have suffered from remorse of conscience, and echoing an earlier section from the episode (Penguin 257.26) says, 'Venus has twisted her lips in prayer.'
Eglinton intervenes again, saying, ' I feel that Russell is right. (see Penguin, page 242) What do we care for his wife or father?" What follows in the coming pages is a discourse on the relationships between fathers and sons including Shakespeare's writing Hamlet soon after the death of his own father John, Stephen's thoughts about his relationship with his own father, Simon Daedalus. Naturally a reference to Jesus and Church is not left out (... only begetter to only begotten), nor to the nature of Holy Trinity (...Father was Himself His Own Son.) Stephen concludes that paternity may be a legal fiction. Who is the father of any son that any son should love him or he any son? The argument moves from a particular son and a particular father to being the father of all his race as shown by Shakespeare's writing of Hamlet.
Stephen next starts narrating how Shakespeare brought his own family into his plays: his mother's name in the forest of Arden (setting of As you Like it), his dead son Hamnet cast as Hamlet, his wife, Ann Hathaway as Cleopatra, Cressid and Venus, bringing finally into the picture the three brothers of William Shakespeare, Gilbert, Edmund and Richard. Mr Best, whose first name is Richard, is very keen that Stephen will say a good word for Richard.
Suddenly the discussion takes on the form of a play. After all as Hamlet said and Buck Mulligan mentions, the play's the thing! Musical terms ( piano, diminuendo, tempo, stringent) are introduced to indicate how these players speak. Stephen, moving on to how Shakespeare hides his own name in many of his plays, turns to the celestial phenomenon of a super nova (Tycho's star) that was discovered in November 1572 (when Shakespeare was eight and a half years old), in the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia and whose brightness lasted for almost sixteen months.
Again there is a link to the Bible, to Exodus, when Stephen explains this celestial phenomenon as a star by night, a pillar of the cloud by day. Perhaps this image of the Israelites walking makes Stephen look at his hat, his stick, his boots. He is wearing boots borrowed from Buck Mulligan. There are holes in his socks. His handkerchief borrowed that morning by Mulligan is soiled. All symbols of Stephen's poverty.
On the previous page Stephen had started to speak about Saint Thomas. He continues here comparing what he thinks were the ideas of St. Thomas with those of the new Viennese school (i.e., Freud) regarding incest. The key word here seems to be 'avarice' - incest as avarice of emotions,... Jews, whom christians tax with avarice... Stephen says whether these be sins or virtues old Nobodaddy (God) will tell us at doomsday lent (last judgement). He brings Shakespeare and his plays back into the discussion, quoting from Winter's tale (.. Sir Smile, his neighbor) and from Hamlet (Polonius advice to his son). This prompts Mr Best to say that Gentle Will (William Shakespeare) is being roughly handled.
Mr Best's comment starts off a play of words regarding 'will': 'will' as the modal verb, 'will' as the shortened version of the name, William, and 'will' as wish. (The will to live, ..., for poor Ann, ... is the will to die.) Stephen imagines how Ann would have lain on the secondbest bed (somehow this topic of the secondbest bed seems to haunt Stephen!), and how she would have spent her old age. He talks of how she would have suffered from remorse of conscience, and echoing an earlier section from the episode (Penguin 257.26) says, 'Venus has twisted her lips in prayer.'
Eglinton intervenes again, saying, ' I feel that Russell is right. (see Penguin, page 242) What do we care for his wife or father?" What follows in the coming pages is a discourse on the relationships between fathers and sons including Shakespeare's writing Hamlet soon after the death of his own father John, Stephen's thoughts about his relationship with his own father, Simon Daedalus. Naturally a reference to Jesus and Church is not left out (... only begetter to only begotten), nor to the nature of Holy Trinity (...Father was Himself His Own Son.) Stephen concludes that paternity may be a legal fiction. Who is the father of any son that any son should love him or he any son? The argument moves from a particular son and a particular father to being the father of all his race as shown by Shakespeare's writing of Hamlet.
Stephen next starts narrating how Shakespeare brought his own family into his plays: his mother's name in the forest of Arden (setting of As you Like it), his dead son Hamnet cast as Hamlet, his wife, Ann Hathaway as Cleopatra, Cressid and Venus, bringing finally into the picture the three brothers of William Shakespeare, Gilbert, Edmund and Richard. Mr Best, whose first name is Richard, is very keen that Stephen will say a good word for Richard.
Suddenly the discussion takes on the form of a play. After all as Hamlet said and Buck Mulligan mentions, the play's the thing! Musical terms ( piano, diminuendo, tempo, stringent) are introduced to indicate how these players speak. Stephen, moving on to how Shakespeare hides his own name in many of his plays, turns to the celestial phenomenon of a super nova (Tycho's star) that was discovered in November 1572 (when Shakespeare was eight and a half years old), in the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia and whose brightness lasted for almost sixteen months.
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