Ep. 81 - No rose without thorns.

Did James Joyce once covertly suggest a new Guinness slogan?

Topics in this episode include Mary Lost the Pin of her Drawers, flat Dublin voices, the Coombe, Bloom’s preoccupation with correct pronoun-antecedent agreement, Jesus in the house of Martha and Mary, a famlus forgery, Ashtown and the trottingmatches, a famous hole in the wall, alcohol has the ultimate lotus, Barons Iveagh and Ardilaun, whether or not Jeff Bezos’ skin produces lice and vermin, whether or not Joyce had a vendetta against the Guinness family, whether or not Joyce tried to outdo the classic slogan “Guinness is good for you”, “James’s Choice”, Joyce’s (possible) Guinness slogan, Guinness references in Finnegans Wake, Joyceans in the upper echelons of the Guinness brewery, Guinness’ embrace of all things James Joyce in the early 80’s, Guinness business woes in the same era, and why one might invent an apocryphal story for fun and profit.

Jan Brueghel the Young and Peter Paul Rubens, Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, 1620’s

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Further Reading

1. Bowen, Z. (1974). Musical allusions in the works of James Joyce: Early poetry through Ulysses. Albany: State University of New York Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y9erlwtw 

2. Dannen, C. G. (2011). The Facts and Fiction Behind “the Free, the Flow, the Frothy Freshener”: The Guinness Company and the Story of Joyce’s Lost Ad. James Joyce Quarterly, 48(4), 711–726. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24598886 

3. 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 

4. Goda, M. (2006). “Take the Starch out of Her”: “Secret” / “Soil” of the Lotus-Eaters Episode in “Ulysses.” Journal of Irish Studies, 21, 107–117. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20539007

5. Thornton, W. (1968). Allusions in Ulysses: An annotated list. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/ucwq3x7