Ep. 150- Throwaway
I need to see a man about a horse.
Topics in this episode include a return to nutarianism, Tom Rochford’s surprisingly heroic back story, the Ascot Gold Cup, racehorses with weird names, Jack B. Yeats’ Olympic career, the life cycle of a pernicious rumor, Tom Rochford’s invention, Don Giovanni’s ending (spoiler alert), peristalsis nearing its inevitable conclusion, Prescott’s Dye Works, gambling culture in Edwardian Dublin, the class consciousness of gambling culture, whether it’s better to win or lose a wager, the alienation of the gambler, Bloom’s immunity to society’s “narcotics”, the symbolism of horses, a fear of horses, the racialisation of orientalism, the performance of masculinity, the masculinity of Blazes Boylan contrasted with the masculinity of Leopold Bloom, and why you should bet on the dark horse.
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1834 painting of the Ascot Gold Cup
Further Reading:
CHENG, V. J. (1991). White Horse, Dark Horse: Joyce’s Allhorse of Another Color. Joyce Studies Annual, 2, 101–128. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26283640
Igoe, V. (2016). The real people of Joyce’s Ulysses: A biographical guide. University College Dublin Press.
Loveridge, M. (1991). Joycean Narrators Report the Ascot Gold Cup in “The Times.” James Joyce Quarterly, 28(3), 679–682. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25485186
NOHRNBERG, P. C. L. (2010). “Building Up a Nation Once Again”: Irish Masculinity, Violence, and the Cultural Politics of Sports in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. Joyce Studies Annual, 99–152. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26288756
Osteen, M. (1995). The economy of Ulysses: making both ends meet. New York: Syracuse University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yycf2ar5
Shea, D. (2010). “A Rank Outsider”: Gambling and Economic Rivalry in “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 48(1), 75–88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41429837