Ep. 76 - Henry Flower, Esq
Mr. Bloom runs a mysterious errand at the Westland Row Post Office.
Topics include hidden lotuses, Corny Kelleher, Leopold Bloom’s missing hour, tooraloom tooraloom tay, Orientalism and Bloom’s fantasy of the Far East, stereotypes about climate’s affects the character of a culture, Tom Kernan, how Bloom succumbs to the Lotus Eaters, Henry Flower, what Bloom has hidden in his hat, Major Tweedy and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, the Lotus Eaters of the British military, Maud Gonne’s awkward activism, Edward VII’s freemasonry.
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Edward VII in freemason apron
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Media Mentioned in this Episode:
Strumpet City, James Plunkett
“I Vowed I Would Never Leave Her,” Arthur Lloyd
A Servant of the Queen, Maud Gonne
Further Reading:
Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
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
Tierney, Andrew. (2013). “‘One of Britain’s fighting men’: Major Malachi Powell and Ulysses.” James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from http://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/powell
Von Phul, R. (1982). "Major" Tweedy and His Daughter. James Joyce Quarterly, 19(3), 341-348. Retrieved October 6, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476450