Wednesday 20 January 2016

Monday, 18 January 2016, Pages 291 - 293

We stopped at the perfect place: "Tis perfect." (page 293, last line)

We were treated to
(a) more mathematical symbols: because  and therefore 
(b) grammar: half a sylb, helf a solb, holf a salb
(c) yet another Joycean version of the aria from Verdi's Rigoletto: pi u la gonna e mobile

Important to note:
We shall go to have a drink after the reading next Monday (25 January 2016) to wish good bye and good luck to Talia, the current scholar at the Foundation. Nikki has offered to reserve a table at the pub.  More details on Monday at the reading. It is hoped that many of you will join.

Interesting links:
It was the 75th death anniversary of James Joyce on 13th January. The following articles in various newspapers would certainly of interest to many. (Click on the title of the articles to read.)

From The Irish Times:
'Endlessly exciting in its impenetrability': 1939 James Joyce review

From The Guardian UK:
Billy Mills: Finnegans Wake, The book the web was invented for
Sian Cain: Is James Joyce's Ulysses the hardest novel to finish?

From NZZ:
Angela Schader's comment on the Ulysses article above: Lesefrust start Leselust?

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