Monday, 20 March 2017, Pages 370-372

Our reading proceeded till "And they all pour forth." (372.6)

Now here is a challenge for you all who did not come to the reading on Monday! 

Recognise what words/phrases Joyce was thinking of when he came up with the following on the pages we read:

1. polisignstunter
2. knootvindict
3. To pump the fire of the lewd into those soulths of bauchees
4. Porterfillyers and spirituous suncksters, oooom oooom!

Please note that no info will be available here for the next three weeks! 

Monday, 13 March 2017, Pages 368-370

Our reading stopped at "... Gilligan-Goll." (370.22)

Well, the setting is still the tavern. Four old men are mentioned again.  They represent, depending on who interprets them, as the four evangelists, the four ages Vico mentions, or simply four old men.

There is a 'poem' a la Omar Khayyam, and another that refers to the lyric on drug addiction by Willie the Weeper (whom Joyce refers to as Whooley the Whooper ) and the nursery rhyme, The house that Jack built.

The hen scratching the letter makes another appearance but the Russian General and Buckley are no where to be seen, though we can be dead sure that they will appear soon enough!