Ep. 145 - Gorgon-Zola

LestrygoniansPodcastLeopold Bloom
Written By Kelly Bryan

Fermentation is hot.

Topics in this episode include Davy Byrne’s moral pub, Nosey Flynn, Noah and the curse of Ham, Plumtree’s Potted Meat, cannibalism, missionaries who get eaten by cannibals, long pig, Reverend MacTrigger, lapses in Leopold Bloom’s empathy, the Jesuits’ mission of conversion, colonialism, Yom Kippur, food as an expression of religion, mity cheese, why Bloom chooses cheese, sunyata, why it’s extremely anachronistic for Bloom to seek cheese, a brief history of indigenous Irish cheese, why no one ate cheese in Dublin in 1904, the 20th century revival of Irish cheese, burgundy, and sexy, sexy fermentation.

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Further Reading:

  1. Beck, H. Mity Cheese. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/cheese 

  2. Beck, H. Salty missionaries. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-environs/missionaries 

  3. Cheng, V. (1995). Joyce, race, and empire. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/joyceraceempire0000chen/page/n7/mode/2up

  4. Farmar, T. (1991). Ordinary lives: Three generations of Irish middle class experience. Gill and MacMillan, Ltd.: Dublin. 

  5. Henke, S. (1978). Joyce’s Moraculous Sindbook. Ohio State University Press. 

  6. Letters of James Joyce. (1966). In R. Ellmann (Ed.). London : Faber and Faber. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/lettersofjamesjo0000joyc/page/n5/mode/2up 

  7. Kerr, R. (2022). James Joyce, Eugene Stratton, and Spectrality: The Absent Presence of Racial Politics in Ulysses. James Joyce Quarterly, 59(2), 231. https://www.academia.edu/92573371/James_Joyce_Eugene_Stratton_and_Spectrality_The_Absent_Presence_of_Racial_Politics_in_Ulysses 

  8. Klitgård, I. (2011). Food for thought: Cannibalistic translation in the Lestygonians episode of James Joyce's Ulysses. Akademisk kvarter, 3, 290-304. http://www.akademiskkvarter.hum.aau.dk/number/vol3/Klitgaard_Food_for_Thought.pdf 

  9. MacSweeney, P. (n.d.). Lost indigenous cheeses of Ireland. CheeseScience.net. Retrieved October 18, 2023, from http://www.cheesescience.net/2009/03/lost-indigenous-cheeses-of-ireland.html 

  10. Ó Sé, M. (1948). Old Irish cheeses and other milk products. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 53(178), 82-87. Retrieved from https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1948/b1948-019.pdf

  11. O’Sullivan, M., & Downey, L. (2018). CHEESE-MAKING. Archaeology Ireland, 32(4), 38–41. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26565827 

  12. Quish, J.A. (2010). A hundred years of going to the creamery. The Creamery Press: Bishopstown, Co. Cork.

  13. Reuters. (2003, November 14). Fijians apologise for eaten missionary. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/nov/14/1 

  14. RICH, L. (2010). A Table for One: Hunger and Unhomeliness in Joyce’s Public Eateries. Joyce Studies Annual, 71–98. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26288755 

  15. Romanoff, A. Lestrygonians-Modernism Lab. Retrieved from https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/lestrygonians/ 

  16. Tamura, A. (2008). The Eighth Episode of Ulysses and The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg. Treatises and studies by the Faculty of Kinjo Gakuin College, 4(2), 7-19. 

  17. Tucker, L. (1984) Stephen and Bloom at Life’s Feast. Ohio State University Press.

  18. What is the Middle Way? Buddhism for Beginners. Tricycle. https://tricycle.org/beginners/buddhism/middle-way/ 

  19. 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

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