Tuesday 12 April 2022

Online reading, Thursday 7 April 2022 (17.539)

The reading stopped at " ... (born Grier)." (17.539)

Summary:

The salient part of the pages read in this session has to do with the minute examination of the four forces - name, age, race and creed - that separate Bloom from Stephen. It takes more than four pages of examination to reach the end of the discourse on the consequences of the difference in their age. And neither of them openly allude to their racial differences. All that we know is that he thought that he thought that he was a jew whereas he knew that he knew that he knew that he was not.