Decoding Dedalus

  • Decoding Dedalus: Saint Thomas’ New Viennese School

    Decoding Dedalus: Saint Thomas’ New Viennese School

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and  break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p. 205-206 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the passage…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: He drew Shylock out of his own long pocket.

    Decoding Dedalus: He drew Shylock out of his own long pocket.

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and  break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p. 204 – 205 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: Yogibogeybox in Dawson chambers.

    Decoding Dedalus: Yogibogeybox in Dawson chambers.

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and  break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p.191-192 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the passage that…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: Christfox in Leather Trews

    Decoding Dedalus: Christfox in Leather Trews

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and  break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p.193 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the passage that…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: Entelechy, Form of Forms

    Decoding Dedalus: Entelechy, Form of Forms

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and  break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p. 189-190 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the passage…

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  • Ep. 141 – The Fascination of a Name

    Ep. 141 – The Fascination of a Name

    “Simon Dedalus said when they put him in parliament that Parnell would come back from the grave and lead him out of the house of commons by the arm.” Topics in this episode include James Stephens and his organizational blunder, Michaelmas traditions, architecture and peristalsis, the legacy of Dr George Salmon and his big spooky…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: Hamlet, ou le Absentminded Beggar

    Decoding Dedalus: Hamlet, ou le Absentminded Beggar

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and  break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p. 186-187 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the passage…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: Horseness is the whatness of allhorse.

    Decoding Dedalus: Horseness is the whatness of allhorse.

    “Stephen disdains the subtle resuscitation of the Victorian bardolatry in the Revival’s aspiration to model the creation of Irish national culture on the use of Shakespeare for British national consolidation. Both efforts, to him, are grounded in the almost religious glorification of the poet.” – Irina D. Rasmussen, “Riffing on Shakespeare: James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus,…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: Folly. Persist.

    Decoding Dedalus: Folly. Persist.

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and  break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p. 184-185 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the passage…

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  • Decoding Bloom: John Howard Parnell

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Bloom where I take a paragraph of Ulysses and  break it down line by line.  The passage below comes from “The Lestrygonians”, the eighth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page 164-165 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). It begins “Provost’s house” and ends “house of…

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