Monday, 20 July 2015, Pages 246 - 248

Stopped  at "...he knows as much how to man a wife as Dunckle Dalton of matching wools." (248.22)

Notes: 
1. On coming Monday, the 27th of July, at 14.30h, Halila will present some of the work she has been doing during her stay at the Foundation as a scholar. Everyone interested is very welcome to attend.

2. There will be no reading during the first week of August due to the Workshop held at the Foundation. Therefore, this reading group will not be meeting on Monday, 3 August 2015.

Monday, 13 July 2015, Pages 245 - 246

We read as far as "Solitude." (246.35)

Gadolmagtog! indeed

Monday, 6 July 2015, Pages 244 - 245

We read to "the poissission of the highly course" (245.13).


Some of the group's favourites included:

"When otter leaps in outer parts then Yul remembers Mei." (245.6)

"And now with robby brerfox's fishy fable lissaned out, the threads simwhat toran and knots in its antargumends" (245.9)

"Her hung maid mohns are bluming, look" (245.6) hides the line "The young May moon is beaming, love" from a song by Thomas Moore, which Molly remembers too in Ulysses (18.80).

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, 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).

Monday, 8 June 2015, Pages 239 - 240

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

A challenge: Translate 'Hightime' into German!

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.