Hi Will. I'm enjoying hearing your reflections on Ulysses here and in the Discord. I very much like your associations to David Copperfield, one of my favorite novels of Dickens. I'm afraid I was the one talking about Iago. (I'm a retired English teacher, Will. I can't help it!😉) I am revisiting Ulysses after having read it in college and in graduate school. In college, I probably didn't get much of it as all. In graduate school, of course, we were reading it in an entirely different way. For me, it was an incredibly powerful reading experience--but not because I was reading all of the corollary texts (which we were required to do) but rather because I, like Stephen, was in a state of deep mourning for my father and my brother, who had died in close succession. I felt like I was living in the book, if that makes any sense. I'm having a very different experience this time around, almost 40 years later. The jury is still out for me. I'm just not sure how I feel about this book or if I even want to keep re-reading it. That said, I'm glad that you are reading with us. Now that we are getting into Bloom, I'm hoping things will pick up and that I will feel more engaged. Anyway, sorry for having gone on so long. 😊
No need to apologise at all and I completely appreciate a certain book, film, song, or painting et cetera being at the right point in someone's life when life is happening good or bad. Definitely a different tone now we're in episode/chapter 4 and we're dealing with Bloom. I think the endeavour will be worthwhile - even if it means lashing myself to Moby Joyce and being dragged into the depths.
I’ll be happy just to finish reading this book. I know full well that there is more depth and meaning that will be lost to me .
Glad to have you on board, Will. 🇮🇪
Thank you, and Greg, for setting it up and leading the way.
Hi Will. I'm enjoying hearing your reflections on Ulysses here and in the Discord. I very much like your associations to David Copperfield, one of my favorite novels of Dickens. I'm afraid I was the one talking about Iago. (I'm a retired English teacher, Will. I can't help it!😉) I am revisiting Ulysses after having read it in college and in graduate school. In college, I probably didn't get much of it as all. In graduate school, of course, we were reading it in an entirely different way. For me, it was an incredibly powerful reading experience--but not because I was reading all of the corollary texts (which we were required to do) but rather because I, like Stephen, was in a state of deep mourning for my father and my brother, who had died in close succession. I felt like I was living in the book, if that makes any sense. I'm having a very different experience this time around, almost 40 years later. The jury is still out for me. I'm just not sure how I feel about this book or if I even want to keep re-reading it. That said, I'm glad that you are reading with us. Now that we are getting into Bloom, I'm hoping things will pick up and that I will feel more engaged. Anyway, sorry for having gone on so long. 😊
No need to apologise at all and I completely appreciate a certain book, film, song, or painting et cetera being at the right point in someone's life when life is happening good or bad.
Definitely a different tone now we're in episode/chapter 4 and we're dealing with Bloom.
I think the endeavour will be worthwhile - even if it means lashing myself to Moby Joyce and being dragged into the depths.
@@willchambers8065 What a great image! OK. For now, we will forge ahead! Have a great day, Will.