Sunday 28 June 2015

Monday, 22 June 2015, Pages 242 - 243

Stopped at "... it was such a blowick day."  (243.20)

Joyce presents what seems to be one of his most favorite nursery rhymes in a new incarnation:

"Psing a psalm of psexpeans, apocryphul of rhyme!"

i.e., "sing a song of six pence, a pocketful of rye"

Monday 15 June 2015

Monday, 15 June 2015, Pages 240 - 242

Today (in the midst of an unusually obscure passage) we ground to a halt at 242.10, "...at 81" (the last words make the first two words of line 242).

Thursday 11 June 2015

Monday, 8 June 2015, Pages 239 - 240

We stopped at "... smily skibluh eye." (240.32)

A challenge: Translate 'Hightime' into German!

Tuesday 2 June 2015

Monday, 1 June 2015, Pages 238 - 239

We read our way to "Vania, Vania Vaniorum, Domne Vanias!" (239.15)

The girls are teasing Glugg with a colour guessing game and, here, they play out a seduction scene on him.