homophobia
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An Intimate Portrait of Mr. W. H.
“The Love that dare not speak its name” in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that…
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In the Jakes with Mr. Bloom
“The life of [Ulysses] comes first and the philosophy afterwards. Obscenity is a question of manners and conventions for ever changing. Virtuosity, if it stood alone, would soon become demoded, and philosophy too, but living character stays through whatever material is presented.” – Frank Budgen “Professor Bloom is a finished example of the new womanly…
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The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
To listen to a discussion of this topic, check out the podcast episode here. On page 49 of “Proteus,” Stephen Dedalus spends a paragraph thinking about his shoes, which feels appropriate rounding out an episode that consists of walking on the shore: His gaze brooded on his broadtoed boots, a buck’s castoffs, nebeneinander. He counted…
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Decoding Dedalus: Pale Vampire
Is the mouth south someway? Or the south a mouth? – Stephen Dedalus This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and break it down line by line. The passage below comes from “Proteus,” the third episode of Ulysses. It appears on pages 47-48 in my…