sea change

• Decoding Dedalus: God Becomes Featherbed Mountain

  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 line below comes from “Proteus,” the third episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p. 50 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the line that begins “God…

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• Decoding Dedalus: Full Fathom Five

  “I haven’t let this young man off very lightly, have I? Many writers have written about themselves. I wonder if any one of them has been as candid as I have?” – James Joyce to Frank Budgen This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and …

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