#Lestrygonians

[theblackestofsuns]

Practically poetry.

Mr. Bloom recalls a passionate moment in the Lestrygonians episode of Ulysses.

#Ulysses #James Joyce #The Lestrygonians #She Kissed Me

[dillydedalus]

reading ulysses is not enough, i need to eat it

#weird that i had this thought during s&c rather than lestrygonians but OKAY

[thequietabsolute]

Mild fire of wine kindled his veins.

— James Joyce, from Lestrygonians, Ulysses

#red ink 🍷 #james joyce #Ulysses #wine #red wine #literature #quote #beautiful writing

[giantsteppes]

“His downcast eyes followed the silent veining of the oaken slab. Beauty: it curves: curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.”

– James Joyce: Ulysses, Episode VIII - Lestrygonians

#the altar is my hips

[balloonatics]

Balloonatics are BACK on the streets of Dublin: Bloomsday Thursday 16 June 2022

Balloonatics are celebrating Bloomsday and 100 years of Ulysses. For this special post-pandemic, centenary year, we once again offer a sequence of theatrical walks, from early morning to early afternoon.

Each walk is based on an episode from Joyce's epic novel. In the evening we return to Wynn's Hotel, our traditional port of call, for Joyce performances and readings.

Just turn up for the walks: we'll pass the hat en route. For the evening event, admission is by ticket.

8am CALYPSO

Meet at Eccles Townhouse (formerly Aurora), the site of Larry O'Rourke's, the pub on the Eccles Street/Upper Dorset Street corner. For maps click here.

Our odyssey starts with Leopold Bloom's first movements of the day, as he buys a kidney and prepares breakfast for Molly, himself and the cat.

10.30am LOTUS-EATERS

Meet at Westland Row, under the railway bridge, opposite Pearse Station.

Blooms tries to avoid being seen as he collects a letter from a secret correspondent. The circuitous route of the episode is clearer walked than read!

12.30pm LESTRYGONIANS

Meet at the Joyce Statue on North Earl Street. This walks runs via O'Connell Street to Grafton Street

After attending a funeral and a business visit to a newspaper office, Bloom has lunch on the brain as he makes his way through the heart of the Hibernian Metropolis.

7.30pm Evening Show: HUMID NIGHTBLUE FRUIT

Wynn's Hotel, Lower Abbey Street. Advance tickets here or €10 on the night (cash only) if available

Round off your Bloomsday with a set of rehearsed readings from Ulysses, with our cast of five and live music, this year featuring the story 'Grace' from Dubliners, and a celebration of the James Joyce Mass.

Stay on for the Bloomsday Session - impromptu readings and songs from the floor.

Advance tickets available here (inc. booking fee) or you can take your chance on the night €10 (cash only if available).

This year's team of performers hails from Dublin, London and Lisbon. Our Irish and international ensemble is: Paul O'Hanrahan, Chris Bilton, Mark Wale, Paul Dornan and Mick Greer with musician John Goudie.

[jareckiworld]

Šárka Koudelová - Lestrygonians (Ulysses series) [oil on bamboo board, 2018]

#Šárka Koudelová #czech art #Ulysses #greek mythology #Lestrygonians

[meramyst18]

"This is not, cannot, had better not be a dream, because the words that came to me, as I pressed my eyes shut, were, This is like coming home, like coming home after years away among Trojans and Lestrygonians, like coming home to a place where everyone is like you, where people know, they just know— coming home as when everything falls into place and you sud-denly realize that for seventeen years all you'd been doing was fiddling with the wrong combination."

–André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

#call me by your name #call me by my name #elio and oliver #lgbtlove #books and libraries #booksreader #quotes #books quotes

[nocoastposts]

This is like coming home, like coming home after years away among Trojans and Lestrygonians, like coming home to a place where everyone is like you, where people know, they just know—coming home as when everything falls into place and you suddenly realize that for seventeen years all you’d been doing was fiddling with the wrong combination.

Andre Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

#Call Me By Your Name #Andre Aciman #cmbyn quotes #cmbyn fandom #CMBYN book #elio perlman #oliver cmbyn #elio x oliver #elio and oliver #coming home #love

[rosefire11]

“ this is not, cannot, had better not be a dream, because the words that came to me, as I pressed my eye shut, were, This is like coming home, like coming home after years away among Trojans and Lestrygonians, like coming home to a place where everyone is like you, where people know, they just know—coming home as when everything falls into place can you suddenly realize that for seventeen years all you’d been doing was fiddling with the wrong combination.” — Call Me By Your Name

#currently reading #books #call me by your name #literature #quotes

[blindrapture]

Talkin' about the holy books

In case anyone is particularly curious about the status of my Joyce adventures:

Thanks ever so much to boyfriend @theomachomai, I got two lovely resource books for Christmas (Don Glifford's Ulysses Annotated, Richard Tindall's Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake), and thanks to my brother Nathan I even got Stuart Gilbert's study on Ulysses (written WITH JOYCE'S SUPERVISION so it's pretty insightful for symbolism), so I've been focusing on Ulysses for the time being.

Like, reading Ulysses from wake-up to sleep, which is admittedly quite appropriate since that's what the book *is*

I may have read all of it before, but. But now I have a *pretty thick* book of annotations to cross-reference, complete with excerpts from referenced poems and songs, a lot of maps of historical Dublin (with charts showing where even the *minor characters* are during set episodes), near-exhaustive lists of rhetorical devices, metaphysical allusions, pastiched styles, Hebrew and Christian rites, the minutae of Anglo-Irish political history, and so many Odyssey parallels.

I now know where the hell (and *who* the hell) everyone is in Wandering Rocks. Lestrygonians is now one of my favourite episodes. Sirens is breathtaking and I actually *know* these goddamn characters. I got through Oxen of the Sun yesterday and was able to understand what was going on in almost all of the sentences. *Oxen of the Sun*. That's.. that's a big fucking deal.

(For the record, Oxen of the Sun is the episode that is written in the style of the birth and development of the English language. So it begins with Latin rites and philosophy, and Celtic alliterative prose, then develops through middle English through the *many* subgenres of literature-- there's Sterne, Swift, Dickens, Poe pastiches-- until blending then-modern street slang with American evangelist diction, the English of the then-future. And *in* this shifting style, the action involves a party of drunken medical students and their friends/acquaintances waiting for a lady to successfully give birth. While they wait, they argue quite passionately about birth control, the justice system, awful popes and awful kings, appropriate displays of compassion for women, medical horrors, all while good ol' Stephen Dedalus effortlessly quips out esoteric philosophy and cowers at the sound of thunder. It's. It's a long doozy of a chapter, absolutely beautiful, and. I *can't believe* I've even remotely understood it.)

Circe is next on my list, the longest chapter, the climax of the book, a hauntingly manic absurdist stageplay before absurdism even existed, as Leopold Bloom traverses the painfully Catholic brothels of town looking for his transubstantial son Stephen Dedalus, inanimate objects and unspoken thoughts transform the world around them violently, gender breaks down, and. .....well, I'm going to find out what else happens, for myself. (Wish me luck?)

Please read Ulysses if ever you find yourself within reach of the opportunity to conveniently do so. Even without knowing all the references, it's positively mesmerising, socially critical, linguistically playful, conceptually symphonic, and life-affirming. One look at it will tell you all of that, and all that advanced study does is inform you of *how* it achieves this.

Ulysses took seven laboured years to gestate, and long after its publication its open depictions of lower-class life, women's roles, and the misguided hypocrisies of antisemitism earned it a very contested reputation. I say all of this with the deepest admiration.

(And all of this praise I'm heaping on it? The funniest part is that it only further lampshades the sheer eldritch unfathomability that is Finnegans Wake, which took *seventeen* years, and which took the densest parts of Ulysses as its *starting point*.)

Just AAAAAA I fucking LOVE this

#james joyce

[stargazerinaboat]

“This is like coming home, like coming home after years away among Trojans and Lestrygonians, like coming home to a place where everyone is like you, where people know, they just know—coming home as when everything falls into place and you suddenly realize that for seventeen years all you’d been doing was fiddling with the wrong combination.”  

- Call me by your name, André Aciman.

#Andre Aciman #call me by your name #lit quotes #quotes #love quotes #lovers

[mousquetaireetprince]

“(Souvenir de Mauve, 1888. By Vincent van Gogh)

Click here while reading this.

I remember everything

“I liked how our minds seemed to travel in parallel, how we instantly inferred what words the other was toying with but at the last moment held back.”

“This is like coming home, like coming home after years away among Trojans and Lestrygonians, like coming home to a place where everyone is like you, where people know, they just know—coming home as when everything falls into place and you suddenly realize that for seventeen twenty three years all you’d been doing was fiddling with the wrong combination.”

“The summer I learned to love fishing. Because he did. To love jogging. Because he did. To love octopus, Heraclitus, Tristan.”

“...I was convinced that no one in the world wanted him as physically as I did; nor was anyone willing to go the distance I was prepared to travel for him. No one had studied every bone in his body, ankles, knees, wrists, fingers, and toes, no one lusted after every ripple of muscle, no one took him to bed every night and on spotting him in the morning lying in his heaven by the pool, smiled at him, watched a smile come to his lips, and thought, Did you know I came in your mouth last night?” “‪You are my homecoming, when I’m with you and we’re well together, there’s nothing more I want. You make me like who I am, who I become when you’re with me, Oliver Paris.”‬

“It never occurred to me that I had brought him here not just to show him my little world, but to ask my little world to let him in, so that the place where I came to be alone on summer afternoons would get to know him, judge him, see if he fitted in, take him in, so that I might come back here and remember.”

“I'd seen it written in novels but never believed it until now.”

“ ‘Do I like you, Oliver Paris? I worship you.’ ”

“If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.”

“This was the best person I’d ever known in my life. I had chosen him well.”

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”

“You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call my life make any sense. And if I should hear that you died, my life as I know it, the me who is speaking with you now, will cease to exist.”

“We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”

“ ‘I’m like you.’ [...] ‘I remember everything.’ “

Príncipe de azúcar, 

¿es que acaso me enamoré de ti a primera vista? ¿desde el primer momento que te vi te quise, te deseé, te necesité? La neblina en mi cabeza y la confusión en mi corazón no me dejan recordarlo con claridad. Sin embargo, hay un momento en el que estoy seguro que, aunque no me di cuenta, aunque no lo admitía, aunque no lo veía, sabía que tenía que conocerte. 

“Entre más hablo contigo más ganas tengo de no dejarte ir.” Es que cada palabra tuya era como una bendición para mis oídos, un destello de luz en mis mañanas nubladas y una gota de lluvia en los días secos. Y lo siguen siendo. 

Desde el primer día, todo lo que siento es tan nuevo y tan maravilloso al mismo tiempo. Desde un “desarrollo la misma historia que tienes en mente” hasta nuestras películas favoritas. Desde un beso, el primero lleno de pasión y cariño con un niño, hasta la primera vez que hicimos el amor. La primera canción que compartimos y el primer “te amo”. La primera noche en que tuve un hombro para llorar y la primera Navidad que celebramos juntos. Todos los días sucede algo nuevo, todos los días hay un nuevo misterio, un misterio que quiero descifrar junto a ti. Un misterio que se llama amor. 

He aprendido a adorar lo que amas. Comenzando por los artistas que te dieron su mano, y luego las canciones que te hacen feliz. Las historias de mitología que tanto me fascina escuchar de tus labios. O la relación de los astros y los planetas sobre mi vida, tu vida, nuestras vidas. Y todas esas palabras en japonés que te gusta repetir. No hay día en el cual me cansaré de decirte lo especial que eres, no sólo para mí, para este mundo. Tu sola existencia es lo más grandioso que me pudo pasar. Eres la mejor persona que he conocido, la más dulce, la más cariñosa, la más comprensiva, la más espléndida, la más pura. Y yo, desde que estoy contigo, también soy la mejor persona que he podido ser, porque puedo mostrar todas mis facetas y no temer de ellas, aceptar mis errores y cambiarlos cuando es necesario y, además, sonreír por quien soy. Y te estaré eternamente agradecido por inspirarme a escoger ser el mejor hombre.

Te amo, Paris. Te amo de aquí al fin del universo, y también a partir de donde empieza otro nuevo.

Blessed be the mystery of love.

Your loving Aramis.

[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Wednesday, 27 October 2021

It's also a Ulysses recitation tomorrow. Believe me, and brought up quite a good and potentially very productive move might be different, in assessing this, and I realize of course! I'm basically saying here is that you're doing fine and I'll get back to you. 648; changed of to and in writing already: please take a shot at getting people to dig into the text as quickly as possible after the final with comments at the last lecture was recitations.

Perhaps most importantly, though it's doubtless available elsewhere, that their policy was to trade ease of use for us don't show that you're examining different types of problems at different scales, and your material, and that you must take all reasonable steps to ensure that you can reschedule you for doing a check/check-minus-type assignment for next week: Think about the Lestrygonians episode would have most helped here. I'm not willing to give those speeches remember what E. But you were reciting. Hi, Miguel! Twentyeight I was a much cleaner text than to worry about whether you are hopefully already memorizing. I'm about equally hard for it to another in ways other than they are constructed, or at least four productive possible responses if this happens. On Raglan Road: Personally, I think that making a specific, complex set of ideas in here, and talk about why in section, so I would like me to give you a grade independently of the Sirens 1891. What We Lost: Eavan Boland, or else/give me a handout with thoughtful questions and frame them. Please use it as he makes clear in the text is all yours! Similar comments could be. Prestigious Academic Senate Outstanding TA Award for the Academic Senate awards for distinguished professors and TAs are open for those risks. The Butcher Boy, you gave in section tonight, a B paper one day late unless you have any questions, OK? Arrangement of the class and kicked the topic's rear end. I'll get back to you at the Recitation Assignment Guidelines handout. Punching a short breakdown on your way up to you. As I've said not because you don't need to have a strong job yesterday you got up in some ways. Still, if you have any other reason. I'm looking forward to hearing you do a very good recitation and discussion will be worth a similar amount of information about the texts, and reschedule would be most helpful for you to reschedule—as is any selection from Ulysses in front of the play and how the text is a good student this quarter, and the Sirens 1891. Thanks for doing a genuinely excellent job. We can talk about a particular stance on the section to discuss Francie's stream of consciousness is potentially a very good job digging in to the section as a group of talented readers and viewers, is not unusual in the course. Feeling sad.

Hi! SF author Frank Herbert's creepy and implausibly Lamarckian notion of cellular individual memory? You handled your material if you have specific reasons why the grade that a key component of your paper would benefit from exploring in relation to Punishment and whichever other text that they are dealing with, and think about other playwrights, filmmakers, etc. I think that there are places where nuance and sensitivity are particularly necessary. You may not look at. What We Lost 5 p. I will be most successful if you have a good weekend, and that this is not a full recitation schedule in both sections? You picked a selection from that novel would be to take so long to get reading quizzes or to post-Victorian ideals demands that they must discuss at least, with the text to text and helping them to avoid large amounts of repetition of their material. What do viewers need to expose your own responses are sufficient data to establish a rigrous logical structure. What I'd encourage you to work harder for the class this quarter. Again, I think that pinning down what the paper, and in a late paper/—even if you want me to but need to do that if someone else steals your thunder thematically, you can just bring it to be perhaps more flexible, is not entirely satisfying and/or interpretation/. You have to try to force a discussion with the but this is partly a cultural difference in our office hours and am about to turn in an automatic failing grade for students to develop their own would be to have a student again for a variety of questions and/or taking the safe path, but it fits a general plan is to ask people for general comments people can still pull your participation grade that you are responsible for reading the poem as a novel by an Irishman. It's my pleasure in teaching when I'm snowed under with grading and term papers, and most are getting full credit.

Hi! It was quite on-point font, etc. This is a weaker assertion that takes a directly historical perspective on it, and that not everyone has chosen sufficiently far in this regard. Also, one thing that's holding your sophisticated set of ideas here, and I'll see you blossom over the break? At the root of these policies in the course as a whole, I think that one of the book has similar interpretive problems that I don't know for sure. Keep your overall project. He Wishes for Cloths of Heaven. I am not sure, it's not inevitably the case and I hope you won't have time to get.

And what kind of viewer is likely to impact your paper never quite follow through in enough depth in your thesis shows that you're trying to get a D-. The question What is the appropriate time if you have a very specifically worded claim about the quality of the texts, and you met them at their level of. You take on religion requires that a cynical and dangerous rhetoric has co-opted a historical phenomenon. Section is necessary or helpful or a B, almost a B. Still, she's a dear girl.

One way to do well on the section a bit more would have to say about gender in relation to issues that arise as you write quite well here: you should have an excellent summer! If you have put work into. So, I think, too, and I'll have them. Again, thank you for 20 November in section lately keep it from being even more impressive way. Plan for Week 9: General Thoughts and Notes 9 October 2013. If you want me to do is to say anything at all; both seem more or less offhand verbal comment made in a more elaborate description if you have an immediate answer to this question: you had some important aspects to your presentation, I'm so sorry to take so long to get back to them? This week has rescheduled due to a specific question: they're summarizing the rest of the text that you've done some excellent work here, and it can be helpful to make sure to give a paper of eight full pages. There are two potential difficulties that I get is that your basic point about McCabe having a meaningful argument. That is to have dug into these questions and were almost completely accurate to the course as a whole or the sentences in which Celtic myth there are some comma splices, sentence, phrase, and that the best possible dressing, and different societies mean very different. VI. Let me know if you have any other questions, OK? Group-generated midterm review session. Hawthorn in the Ulysses lectures which, come to each other think about might be to find this out is to find somewhere else to leave by 5, and this may be interested in getting into the A-range paper/—even if you can't go on Tuesday.

Tomorrow! Flip through them in a comparative analysis of a variety of texts in more depth. Again, I'm certainly not at a coffee shop on Sunday or Monday that is genuinely smarter than her grade up substantially. Alternately, you could engage in a way that you have left, and I really will take as long as to convince the reader or viewer of one-half percent, you're welcome to perform up to you because, really perceptive readings, I just wanted to meet you at 11, and/or disorganized to the group may help to define each of these numbers assume that you make the assumption that the title gets brought into focus. But you were trying to get you a passing grade for the remainder of the play, Irish nationalism, and I appreciate the argument itself, and over the last few hours yet. I wasn't previous familiar with the play with which you can deal with, and have been done even more front and center would help to focus your analysis are. Thank you, too, that field is blank. Where do you think are likely many others. 8-9, though as I can do with your section, and perhaps others as lenses into these questions, talk about it reinforced, just what I mean is that failing to turn in your delivery; perfect textual accuracy; impassioned sense of what you want to see what people do some of the theorists involved and their outlines don't bear a lot of ways that you have any substantial changes, I'd recommend asking him if he's amenable, I'd find a recording of his son. All of these is that you should rightfully be proud of. Two students got a thoughtful delivery of the Stare's nest is that it will help to spend more explicit stand on how much effort and time into crafting such a good choice, and I quite liked your paper is when you write, and I'll schedule a room. You can use footnotes if you go over twelve I'll start making discreet kneecap-breaking gestures unless someone before you ask people to go that way. You are the texts with which they engage. Among other things differently. 25 D 65% 97. Again, none of them. Poems for Recitation on 27 November is good enough. A shovel. I've tried to point toward some important feminist concerns through a bit more would have paid off for you two is going, and problems with that time passes differently when you're doing fine and are a few things that you really want to make your work on this.

#Irish literature #automatically generated text #Patrick Mooney #Python #Markov chains

[mungo-genny]

“And tell me I wasn’t dreaming that night when I heard a noise outside the landing by my door and suddenly knew that someone was in my room, someone was sitting at the foot of my bed, thinking, thinking, thinking, and finally started moving up toward me and was now lying, not next to me, but on top of me, while I lay on my tummy, and that I liked it so much that, rather than risk doing anything to show I’d been awakened or to let him change his mind and go away, I feigned to be fast asleep, thinking, This is not, cannot, had better not be a dream, because the words that came to me, as I pressed my eyes shut, were, This is like coming home, like coming home after years away among Trojans and Lestrygonians, like coming home to a place where everyone is like you, where people know, they just know— coming home as when everything falls into place and you suddenly realize that for seventeen years all you’d been doing was fiddling with the wrong combination”

Call Me By Your Name

André Aciman

#cmbyn #gay #dream #call me by your name

[filmtrash]

was oliver the one who came into elio's room that night early in the book and sat on the edge of the bed and laid on top of him and then left the room? and would you have any idea why he would do that?

OKAY I HAVE BEEN DYING TO TALK ABOUT THIS. DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK THIS HAPPENED OR DO PEOPLE THINK IT REALLY WAS A DREAM? I have my own opinions (that surround the fact whether it was real or not, it was his true sexual awakening) but I want to know what everyone thinks.

Here’s the extract;

And tell me I wasn’t dreaming that night when I heard a noise outside the landing by my door and suddenly knew that someone was in my room, someone was sitting at the foot of my bed, thinking, thinking, thinking, and finally started moving up toward me was now lying, not next to me, but on top of me, while I lay on my tummy, and that I liked it so much that, rather than risk doing anything to show I’d been awakened or let him change his mind and go away, I feigned to be fast asleep, thinking. This is not, cannot, had better not be a dream, because the words that came to me, as I pressed my eyes shut, were, This is like coming home, like coming home after years away among Trojans and Lestrygonians, like coming home to a place where everyone is like you, where people know, they just know - coming home as when everything falls into place and you suddenly realise that for seventeen years all you’d been doing was fiddling with the wrong combination. Which was when I decided to convey without budging, without moving a single muscle in my body, that I’d be willing to yield if you pushed, that I’d already yielded, was yours, all yours, except that you were suddenly gone and though it seemed too true to be a dream, yet I was convinced that all I wanted from that day onward for was you to do the exact same thing you’d done in my sleep.

Place your bets.

#this is so much #literally 15 pages in good grief #liv answers your questions

[synthesis-danjackson]

In an effort to dissect the format of a book and to really see how much I can extend the concept of a book in a more engaging and unusual way, For this idea, the concept is essentially the same, however each episode or volume is now an individual publication/object which is based on the chapter itself. Instead of having a nice set of publications that you can collect and line up on your bookshelf, these publications are self contained and mismatched; the volume for Hades takes the form of a bible or funeral pamphlet because, the final chapter ‘Penelope’ which sees Molly bloom impart a long monologue, completely unbroken by punctuation is displayed on a long singular sheet, mirroring the style of the writing. Ithica takes the form of an exam paper or question and answer document to match the way the chapter is written purely in questions and answers. Essentially, each object/artefact is well considered and unique, and entirely derived from the chapter. These volumes would undoubtedly be more so for serious fans of Ulysses, although there could be a smaller audience who appreciate the design and production of these publications. Theres an element of role-play about them, when you’re reading Lestrygonians, a chapter which sees Bloom have his lunch and talk about food, you can almost become the character asa you sit and read it from a menu. This idea of role-play is definitely something which would appeal to fans of the book, given that on Bloomsday, Ulysses fans dress as the characters and walk around Dublin.

Sirens, which is all about song, intonation and rhythm, becomes a packaged vinyl record, with the text in an insert and the record itself containing a reading of the chapter.