We shall start our next week's reading with "Answer: No, blank ye!" (149.11)
(This is the answer to question 11.)
Thus we needed three sessions to read - not necessarily decipher - the answer to the 10th question, "What bitter's love but turning, what' sour lovemutch but a beef burning till shed that drawes dot hems lake retourne?" Naturally the answer was all about love and yearning with - in the last paragraphs we read - a generous sprinkling of nursery rhymes, like Sing a Song of Sixpence (147. 7) that seems to have been a big favorite of Joyce as it is appears in various incarnations in his writing, As I was going to St. Ives (147.10), Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (147.11), Ring a Ring o' Roses (147.19), ...
Poems, fables and operas are also hinted at: not for all the juliettes in the twinkly way (148. 13) based on William Wordsworth's Daffodils, groupsuppers and caught lip solution from Anty (147. 16) inspired from The Ant and the Grasshopper and chaste dieva (147. 24) taken from the aria, Casta Diva, from Bellini's Norma. (Click here to listen to Anna Netrebko singing Casta Diva!)
(This is the answer to question 11.)
Thus we needed three sessions to read - not necessarily decipher - the answer to the 10th question, "What bitter's love but turning, what' sour lovemutch but a beef burning till shed that drawes dot hems lake retourne?" Naturally the answer was all about love and yearning with - in the last paragraphs we read - a generous sprinkling of nursery rhymes, like Sing a Song of Sixpence (147. 7) that seems to have been a big favorite of Joyce as it is appears in various incarnations in his writing, As I was going to St. Ives (147.10), Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (147.11), Ring a Ring o' Roses (147.19), ...
Poems, fables and operas are also hinted at: not for all the juliettes in the twinkly way (148. 13) based on William Wordsworth's Daffodils, groupsuppers and caught lip solution from Anty (147. 16) inspired from The Ant and the Grasshopper and chaste dieva (147. 24) taken from the aria, Casta Diva, from Bellini's Norma. (Click here to listen to Anna Netrebko singing Casta Diva!)
Chandra
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