Ithaca

• Kino’s & Hely’s: Two Ads in Lestrygonians

  “In using advertisements to represent Ulysses, then, Joyce is intentionally degrading the novel, drawing it into the muck of popular culture for comic effect. A trouser advertisement in a rowboat: This is the language of Ulysses!” – Daniel Gunn Leopold Bloom, adman extraordinaire, can’t help but notice the dozens of ads he passes throughout the…

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• The Secret Life of Martha Clifford

  “Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re barbarians! How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history’s forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds…

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