Ep. 59 - Rere Regardant

This episode’s passage comes from p. 50-51 in my edition of Ulysses (1990 Vintage International), and covers the passage beginning “Come. I thirst.” and ending “…a silent ship.”

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We did it!!! We finally finished “Proteus”! We’re covering the last page of Ulysses’ third episode this week. Topics include Dermot’s love of tall ships and the Master and Commander novels, why a ship isn’t always a ship, Biblical allusions galore, why Stephen invokes Lucifer, cockle hats and sandal shoon, how Stephen tamed Proteus, half-remembered Tennyson, Stephen’s terrible teeth, themes of decay and creation, Kinch the Superman, the symbolism of shells, Stephen the nose picker, heraldry, the appearance of the Rosevean, and a nautical representation of the crucifixion.

This episode's passage comes from p. 50-51 in my edition of Ulysses (1990 Vintage International), and covers the passage beginning "Come. I thirst." and ending "...a silent ship." We did it!!! We finally finished "Proteus"! We're covering the last page of Ulysses' third episode this week.

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Frank Budgen’s sketch of “Proteus”

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Media Mentioned in this Episode:

Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hellas” (a play, not a poem)

James Joyce, “The Holy Office”

From "The City in the Sea" CD (Salisbury, 1991)"You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the gl...

Further Reading:

Lucifer, dico qui nescit occasum.

1. Atura, A. & Dionne, L. Proteus - Modernism Lab. Retrieved from https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/proteus/ 

2. 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 

3. Budgen, F. (1972). James Joyce and the making of Ulysses, and other writings. London: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y2qpjk4g 

4. Burgess, A. (1968). ReJoyce. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

5. Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/page/n39 

6. 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 

7. O’Shea, M.J. (1986). James Joyce and heraldry. Albany: State University of New York Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y4u57wya

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