Ep. 142 - Weggebobbles, Fruit, and Scotch Octopuses
"If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity."
Topics in this episode include two-headed octopuses, the Freemasons, the real Lizzie Twigg, Dublin's oldest vegetarian restaurants, Æ, vegetarianism in the early twentieth century, Pythagorus, nutarians and fruitarians, Leopold Bloom's brief foray into vegetarianism, nutsteak, mashed yeast, the elitism of vegetarians, James Joyce's vendetta against vegetarians, whether or not a vegetarian diet inspires poetry, the transformative power of food, taking the soup, and metempsychosis.
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Further Reading:
Adkins, P. (2017). The Eyes of That Cow: Eating Animals and Theorizing Vegetarianism in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Humanities, 6 (46). Retrieved from https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/6/3/46
Annino, E. Joyce Restyles The Times. James Joyce Digital Interpretations. Retrieved from https://jamesjoyce.omeka.net/exhibits/show/vegetarianism-in--lestrygonian/vegetarianism-in--lestrygonian
Carlson, L. (2018, Jan 12). A Case for Kale: Vegetarianism in Victorian England. The Feast podcast. Retrieved from http://www.thefeastpodcast.org/2018/1/11/e0d34emxze70bjr6hrbleztkq2u1k2
D’ARCY, A. M. (2013). JOYCE AND THE TWOHEADED OCTOPUS OF “JUDÉO-MAÇONNERIE.” The Review of English Studies, 64(267), 857–877. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24541022
Dwyer, F. (2022, Mar 17). Could you survive on a pre-Famine Irish diet? I tried.... The Irish History Podcast. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/v9BLZaXGSfw
Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
Freedman, A. (2009). Don’t eat a beef steak": Joyce and the Pythagoreans. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 51(4), 447–462. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40755555
McGrath, S. (2013, May 21). Some notes on the history of Vegetarianism in Dublin Pt. I (1866 – 1922). Come Here to Me. Retrieved from https://comeheretome.com/2013/05/21/some-notes-on-history-of-vegetarianism-in-dublin-pt-i-1866-1922/
Rosenquist, R. Bloom’s digestion of the economic and political situation. Flashpoint Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.flashpointmag.com/lestrgon.htm
Tucker, L. (1984) Stephen and Bloom at Life’s Feast. Ohio State University Press.
Yared, A. (2009). Eating and Digesting “Lestrygonians”: A Physiological Model of Reading. James Joyce Quarterly, 46(3/4), 469–479.http://www.jstor.org/stable/20789623