Ep. 69 - Met Him Pike Hoses
We do our best to take Molly’s advice and tell it in plain words - what is metempsychosis?
Nymph's Bathing Place, Edward John Poynter, 1904
Topics covered in this episode include Boylan’s bold hand, whether or not cats are kosher, moustache cups, secret letters, “La Ci Darem La Mano”, an orangekeyed chamberpot, how Molly can be both Calypso and Penelope, Joyce’s personal interest in metempsychosis, why understanding reincarnation is a key to understanding Ulysses as a whole, Molly’s quest for high quality erotica, the importance of Paul de Kock, nymphs, the truth about Photo Bits, Molly the nymph, metamorphosis v. metempsychosis, the importance of the body in Ulysses, and the union of body and mind.
Caricature of de Kock, André Gill, 1867
Illustration from the original Ruby
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Media Mentioned in this Episode:
Atlas Obscura on moustache cups
Ruby: A Novel, Founded on the Life of a Circus Girl, Amye Reade
Further Reading:
A moustache cup
Burgess, A. (1968). ReJoyce. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/page/n39
Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vy6j4tk
Gilbert, S. (1955). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books.
Gryta, C. (1984). Who Is Signor Maffei? And Has "Ruby: The Pride of the Ring" Really Been Located? James Joyce Quarterly,21(4), 321-328. Retrieved April 2, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/25476612
Kojima, M. (2005). Leopold Bloom's "metempsychosis" and "parallax" in "Ulysses". Journal of Irish Studies,20, 21-30. Retrieved February 11, 2020, fromwww.jstor.org/stable/44646151
Lang, F. (1993). Ulysses and the Irish God. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/ty6p8yo
Mahon, P. (2009). Joyce: a guide for the perplexed. Continuum Books. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vbbm3hv
Marsh, T. (1993). Is There More to "Photo Bits" than Meets the Eye? James Joyce Quarterly,30/31, 877-893. Retrieved April 3, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/25515775
Power, M. (1981). The Discovery of "Ruby". James Joyce Quarterly,18(2), 115-121. Retrieved April 3, 2020, fromwww.jstor.org/stable/25476349
Rickard, J.S. (1999). Joyce’s book of memory: the mnemotechnic of Ulysses. Duke University Press: London. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/saqmaeg
Simone, T. (2013). “Met him pike hoses”: Ulysses and the Neurology of Reading. Joyce Studies Annual2013, 207-237.https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/530794.