Embedded Ulysses test

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"Do you see that man who has just skipped out of the way of the tram? Consider, if he had been run over, how significant every act of his would at once become. I don't mean for the police inspector. I mean for anybody who knew him. And his thoughts, for anybody that could know them. It is my idea of the significance of trivial things that I want to give the two or three unfortunate wretches who may eventually read me." --James Joyce [Ellmann p163]

joyce in ulysses
was explicitly elevating
perfectly random everyday minutia
to the status of
universal immortal literature

every life
can be seen as art

even blogged or twittered*

(linkblogs should reward
such artists)

 
 
 
 
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* eg [who's dancing] [what we dreamed]

50+ Joycean conjectures annotated

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Joyce's unfinished tetralogy

given joyce's attachment to symmetry
a portrait/ulysses/wake trilogy
would have seemed lopsided

    _ _________ _________ .
   | |         |         | :
   |P|         |         |S:
   |o|         |         | :
   |r| Ulysses |Finnegans|S:
   |t|         |  Wake   | :
   |r|         |         |A:
   |a|         |         | :
   |i|         |         |T:
   |t|         |         | :
   | |         |         |S:
   | |         |         | :
    ~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ .

unless he hoped to append
"something simple about the sea"

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Joyce's Odyssean trilogy

we know joyce determined in 1907
to rewrite 'stephen hero' as the prequel to ulysses
because he needed stephen dedalus
to reach the end of that book
in just the right shape
to serve as bloom's telemachus

and in fact
joyce couldn't finish 'portrait' in 1914
until he'd drafted the opening of ulysses
so the intervening gap would be minimal

(if scylla and charybdis really was conceived
as chapter two
and not relocated until after 'portrait'
had gone to press
that original plan may have left
discernible footprints
in the last chapters of the earlier book)

but if, now, finnegans wake
is really the key to ulysses
with bloom the dreaming everyman

then these three works
are a true trilogy

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ulysses in and outdoors

only two episodes of ulysses
take place entirely outdoors

proteus (3) and
nausikaa (13)

both on sandymount strand
one suggesting stephen wanks
the other portraying how bloom does

only one episode takes place
entirely indoors

penelope (18)
suggesting how molly wanks

the rest move between
in and outdoors

but all
surely significantly
end outdoors

except ithaca (17)

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The key to Ulysses... is Finnegans Wake?

in designing
the riddles of ulysses
i think joyce relied on
a fiendish corollary
to conan doyle's 1890 dictum

only those who've studied ulysses
closely enough to eliminate the impossible
will dare to acknowledge
its improbable truths

so take the following
with a grain of saltpeter:

16 june 1904 was the historical date
of the general slocum disaster
termed in ulysses a beanfeast
at which 1021 attendees died in a fire

so when
on 10 march 1923
joyce drafted the first vignette of fw
dating it internally as
"after that same barbecue beanfeast was all over"
we may suspect we're still
at #7 eccles
with ROC = Bloom-the-dreamer
and Boylan and Stephen the "all of them gone"
and ROC's heeltapping perambulation
equated to Bloom's own
in the last half of Ithaca

but if ROC is Bloom
then Tristan and Isolde
can only be Bannon and Milly
putting Bloom's condom to use
the following day

so then
could Patrick's eventual socking
of Berkeley
be a hidden explanation
of Stephen's wounded hand
after the altercation with Mulligan
between Oxen and Circe?

Mulligan might naturally have told Stephen
about Milly and the condom
or about Bloom's gluepot

but could Stephen have been so offended
as to strike Mulligan in Bloom's defense?

and if Berkeley is Mulligan
and Patrick is Stephen
then is holy St Kevin
Stephen as well
rather than the awol-in-ulysses Stannie/Shaun?

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