Another round of reading Ulysses with Fritz Senn began on Tue, 19 November. The reading stopped at: “arms quietly” (1.182)
The references given in these posts will follow the standard format used for the text edited by Hans Walter Gabler. The first number (here 1) refers to the chapter or episode of the book, the number following the period (here 182) refers to the line number within the episode.
Don't worry if you are using a different edition (Penguin, Wordsworth Classics, etc.), you'll be fine for the readings. You'll simply need to comb through your pages a little more closely if you're using this blog to find references.
Summary:
James Joyce's Ulysses starts with the Stately, plump Buck Mulligan coming up the stair case carrying a bowl of lather, a mirror and a razor. We soon understand that he is a very exuberant person who more often than not jokes about things. He even jokes about the Catholic religion, about the holy mass. He is soon joined by Stephen, who is quite opposite to Mulligan in character. Stephen's dress shows his poverty. Though he is displeased and sleepy (1.13), he comes up and sits down on the edge of the gunrest (1.37).
Mulligan shaves, and pulls out of Stephen's pocket a handkerchief (the bard's noserag, 1.73) to wipe his razor. Perhaps Stephen is displeased because of Haines, a visiting Englishman, who is staying with Mulligan, and who, the previous night in his sleep, was raving and moaning to himself about shooting a black panther (1.61).
The special features we come across on these pages: reference to other writers (Mulligan quotes from Algernon Charles Swinburne, Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde) and passages of interior monologue, a technique for which this work is famous for.
Note:
Don't worry if you are using a different edition (Penguin, Wordsworth Classics, etc.), you'll be fine for the readings. You'll simply need to comb through your pages a little more closely if you're using this blog to find references.
Summary:
James Joyce's Ulysses starts with the Stately, plump Buck Mulligan coming up the stair case carrying a bowl of lather, a mirror and a razor. We soon understand that he is a very exuberant person who more often than not jokes about things. He even jokes about the Catholic religion, about the holy mass. He is soon joined by Stephen, who is quite opposite to Mulligan in character. Stephen's dress shows his poverty. Though he is displeased and sleepy (1.13), he comes up and sits down on the edge of the gunrest (1.37).
Mulligan shaves, and pulls out of Stephen's pocket a handkerchief (the bard's noserag, 1.73) to wipe his razor. Perhaps Stephen is displeased because of Haines, a visiting Englishman, who is staying with Mulligan, and who, the previous night in his sleep, was raving and moaning to himself about shooting a black panther (1.61).
The special features we come across on these pages: reference to other writers (Mulligan quotes from Algernon Charles Swinburne, Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde) and passages of interior monologue, a technique for which this work is famous for.
