March 20, 2013
Tags: Adam Phillips, Buck Mulligan, James Joyce, Jesuit, Missing Out, Ulysses
In my last blog post I was a week away from the Just Off Broadview Music Festival and more or less losing my mind with trying to control its outcome. If you recall, my friend Mary-Ellis had counseled me to do something else, to think about something else. I did. I started reading the psychoanalyst Read the Rest…
March 4, 2013
Tags: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Bloomsday, Homer, James Joyce, Leopold Bloom, Odyssey, Patrick O'Brien, Stephen Dedalus
I would never have decided to read Ulysses all on my own. But my friend Nancy invited me to join her in a project of reading one episode a week, and I thought there are worse ways to spend four months. I knew that Ulysses is considered Difficult. Whole college courses are devoted to this Read the Rest…
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