Note: For the time being, the Ulysses readings have been moved to an online platform. Please see the blog entry titled “All Readings Online” (30 October 2020) for further information.
The joint online reading held on Thursday, 19 November 2020 stopped at: “both our lives” (7.765)
Summary (by Chandra Holm):
Bloom is still inside Myles Crawford’s office making the phone call to Alexander Keyes. Outside the office, conversation goes on. Any such conversation at that time led to Irish history, to Irish culture, to Irish rebels, to the daring episode of the Invincibles (7.632 - 7.642), . . . There is really no dearth of topics among the people assembled in the Newspaper office. After all this is a Omnium Gatherum, a gathering of all kinds of talents representing, for instance, the law, the classics, the turf, literature (7.605 - 7.608), ... Even the gentle art of advertisement (7.608) would have been represented there if only Bloom were there. Even amidst the discussions on various topics, even amidst the riddles posed and limericks recited (7.578) by Lenehan, Stephen's mind is busy with its own thoughts (7.583). One of the challenges here is to separate the inner musings (internal monologues) from what is loudly spoken.
