Wandering Rocks
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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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Ep. 106 – M’Intosh
Who is the man in the macintosh? Topics in this episode include trying to figure out the identity of Ulysses’ most enigmatic figure, Penrose, HCE, Peter Falk, the details we can decipher from M’Intosh’s brief appearances in Ulysses, the infallibility of Bovril, Dusty Rhodes, why searching for Easter eggs can be unsatisfying, Theoclymenos, James Clarence…
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Who Was the Real Reuben J. Dodd?
“ I never liked Jimmy Joyce. He used to drink the altar wine.” – Reuben J. Dodd, Jr. This post is a part of an occasional series on the real people behind the characters in Ulysses. To listen to a discussion of this topic, check out the podcast episode here. The Dublin of Ulysses is…