Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce

Yet another Baker's Dozen edition: The Introduction from the brand-new eBook, re: Joyce Volume One, which contains the transcripts of the first dozen podcasts.

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In which Stephen, his teeth bothering him, leaves Sandymount Strand as Chapter Three ends.

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Here we have a delightfully tricky cluster of references that range from Satan to a horse race in France.

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Stephen has a few zombie thoughts about how a corpse will be changed by the sea.

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Stephen listens to the rhythm of the waves and thinks of weavers at the loom.

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Stephen makes a contribution to the seven seas.

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Stephen considers having put himself in other people’s shoes.

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Stephen has an unhealthy thought for the Book of Genesis.

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Touch & Go, Stephen dreams of yellow stockings and apple dumplings.

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In which Stephen, naughty boy, takes the meaning of “ineluctable” a little farther.

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In chapter 3 Frank discusses emblematic illustrations, bishops, religion and Aristotle.

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As Stephen continues to write poetry we learn of Cassiopeia, augurs and their flights of birds, along with Freud, Jung, and Telemachus.

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Frank discusses two quotes, one simple, one opaque, the latter filled with hidden symbolism, sexual desire and the connections that make them sing.

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Frank talks about Sylvia Beach and her part in brining Ulysses to the world.

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Frank discusses Joycean phrases including "Pin it Down" along with actor Kevin Spacey.

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Stephen still on Sandymount. "Omnis caro ad te veniet." A pale vampire, and Douglas Hyde. Hamlet's tablets.

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Still Proteus, still on Sandymount Strand, Stephen watches the "gypsy woman" pass. The handmaid of the moon. Bride-, child-, and death-beds.

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The couple passes Stephen on the beach, and he wonders if the woman wonders about him - or his hat. Saint James, Hamlet, and Eve.

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A bit of song: The Rogue's Delight and The Canting Academy. Morose delectation. Stephen muses on monkwords versus roguewords.

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Stephen contemplates the lingo of rogues, and Frank introduces us to Thomas Harman and Richard Head.

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The cocklepickers become Gypsies in Stephen's mind. Bing awast to Romeville.

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Stephen's dream, almost. Haroun al Raschid. Adverb becomes verb.

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The dogs digs; Thomas Gray's Elegy. Spouse-breach and pards, and Brunetto Latini's Tesoretto.

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Tatters, the cocklepickers' dog, encounters a fallen comrade on Sandymount Strand and is called away. In Memoriam.

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Still on Sandymount Strand: a dog, depicted with a painter's eye, barks at the sea. Heraldry. Seamorse… or seamouse?

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Stephen thinks of drowning, and his mother's death. Tide and change.

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In this bonus episode a few days before Christmas, Frank discusses the final tale of The Dubliners: The Dead.

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Stephen, dwelling on insults, thinks of the Decameron - and of his own failures of courage and athleticism.

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Still on the same paragraph, Frank considers Walter Harris's The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin as a source for Joyce. Moving on, the dog barks, and Stephen imagines himself a stag at bay. Famous pretenders.

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A running dog on the beach. Stephen thinks of Lochland raiders, and of ancient Dubliners attacking beached turlehide whales.

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Just over halfway through Chapter 3, Proteus, we continue last week's passage. Sir Lout the gigant, and a live dog.

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Stephen ascends from the tide, in both thought and motion, but finds only weeds, rocks, and rats. Louis Veuillot on Gautier, and an Arabian tale of sand and stone that may or may not be off-topic.

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Stephen doesn't want to spend another night at Martello tower; luckily, his soul walks with him. Elsinore.

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A return from Paris to Sandymount Strand, and the Kish lightship. Depressions in sand and soul, and time passing.

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Paris still remembered on the Strand. Kevin Egan used to be a fine figure of a boy. Old bombs, old exiles, and old songs - and we're done with kevin Egan.

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Continuing a paragraph, Kevin Egan in the Paris of Stephen's memory. Victoria and Maud Gonne, Millevoye and Faure. Bathtime. Next paragraph: the bomber smokes, and muses on the jailbreak of James Stephens.

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Conversations in Paris. Dalcassians, Arthur Griffith, pimander. Stephen as his father's son in Kevin Egan's eyes. A shirt tells a story.

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Stephen still remembers Paris with Kevin Egan and Patrice: gunpowder cigarettes, absinthe, milk, coffee, and postprandials.

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The smell of Paris, a sensual meditation, and a bit of French farce. Giacomo Joyce.

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Frank takes a look at four more stories from The Dubliners in this poorly-named episode: A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, A Mother, and Grace.

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Pained memories, and a song. Sense-memories of Paris.

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Columbanus, Fiacre, and Scotus. Stephen's return from Paris, with dirty magazines and a fateful telegram.

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Stephen's remembered self, still in Paris, walks like the dispossessed - and murders in his mind. The Linati schema.

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Nostalgia for Paris: medical studies and cheap stew, ticket stubs and alibis.

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Thinking of Paris and Irish expatriates: Patrice, dynamite, and wild geese. The Michelet view of women, and a little French dialogue.

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Stephen is not going to his aunt's house after all. Kevin Egan, and the works of the blasphemous M. Leo Taxil.

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Musings on the sand, shells, lost ships, and sewage. A stogged bottle, and Christ imagery on a clothesline.

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Stephen imagines his writings lasting an epoch, a mahamanvantara. Then: back to the third-person narrative of grainy sand and squeaking pebbles.

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Still Chapter 3, on the Sandymount Strand. Stephen reflects on his childhood reading habits, literary ambitions, and private conceits.

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Stephen will never be a saint, for various reasons.

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Still on Sandymount Strand. "Dan" Occam, the invincible doctor. Imagined bells and twinned principles.

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Priests move through Stephen's mind, in the sort of passage that got Joyce in trouble. Three bells mark three Eucharists.

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Frank delves into the second five stories of the Dubliners.

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Stephen recalls friends and priests by nickname, and considers Jaochim Abbas, that old heretic.

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Stephen ponders his family's fall from grace. Joachim Abbas. Frank unpacks "the rabble."

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In Stephen's mind (still on Sandymount Strand), his uncle offers him food and drink, of a sorts. Second-hand opera, and a note of warning.

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A special episode celebrates Bloomsday 2012 on June 16. Frank introduces us to the first five stories of Dubliners as a way of "getting into Joyce."

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An imagined domestic scene, mock heroism, and Stephen's nuncle. Differing versions of the text, and contradictions. Names unpacked, and a poignant poem.

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In Stephen's mind, his father continues to mock his mother's family, and Stephen visits his uncle's cottage.

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Sandymount Strand. Stephen's thoughts: his father's voice editorializes on his mother's family. To illuminate, Frank calls on the Iliad, and Thersites's rant against Agamemnon.

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Chapter 3 continues along Sandymount Strand. Wind and waves, Hamlet, and a god of the sea.

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Stephen on the nature of the trinity, and the fate of heresiarchs. Contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality.

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Still on Sandymount Strand. Stephen ponders his own origins and, for the first time, reflects on his father.

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Still on the beach, Stephen muses on Eve, bellybuttons, bucklers, and a good deal of poetry.

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Stephen ascribes a crime to the midwife on the beach. A phonecall to the navel of the world.

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Chapter 3 returns to "normal" narrative for a moment. Women descend to the sea. Swinburne.

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In this bonus episode, Frank describes Joyce's reading list, which owed so much to his Catholic education.

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Stephen parses the poetry of his own thoughts, and opens his eyes to see if the the world has persisted. It has.

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Stephen's thoughts echo his steps as he walks on shells. Frank digresses on Proust.

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Stephen walks blindly in borrowed boots and trousers. Los demiurgos and William Blake.

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Stephen closes his eyes and walks in the audible world. Nacheinander and Nebeneinander.

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More thoughts on Aristotle, by way of Berkeley, Johnson, and Boswell.

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Slightly deeper into chapter 3. Diaphanous reality, and a quick lesson on Aristotle.

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The beginning of chapter 3, Proteus. Stephen's stream of consciousness takes over as he walks along the beach.

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End of Chapter 2: Nestor. A brief summary.

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Stephen finally pries himself away from Mr. Deasy, and a recurring theme is introduced.

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Mr. Deasy's litany of women who ruined things for everybody.

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Joyce the symbolist. History may or may not be moving towards God.

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Stephen reflects vividly upon Mr. Deasy's rant.

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Frank unfolds Joyce's daily life in Zurich, which he in many ways abandoned to live in the Dublin of his Ulysses.

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Mr. Deasy expounds upon the Jews.

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Mr. Deasy, in addition to his other qualities, is a paranoid and a bigot.

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A letter to the editor, deconstructed.

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Reflections on hockey and history. Stephen reads - or at least scans - a letter.

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Waiting in Mr. Deasy's office, Stephen is transported by the art on the walls.

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Stephen fails to warm to Mr. Deasy's arguments.

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Stephen debates Mr. Deasy - in his own mind, at least.

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Frank unpacks Mr. Deasy's politics.

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Mr. Deasy and Stephen continue their exchange, and Frank unpacks the tartan from a painting of a prince.

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Stephen tallies his debts - as does Joyce.

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Mr. Deasy expounds on the power of money; Frank digresses.

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Stephen is paid, meticulously.

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In this bonus episode, Frank draws from Frank Budgen's memoir to illuminate Joyce's painterly grasp of detail and language.

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A little financial arrangement.

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As Stephen waits in the headmaster's study, we learn something about its inhabitant.

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A new character enters the stage in the longest and least complicated passage yet.

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More on mothers, their love, and secret childhoods.

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Stephen dwells on ancient philosophers: Averroes, Moses Maimonides, Bruno.

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Moors, math, foxes, and the dead.

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Eyeing the student Sargent, Stephen considers saints, sons, and mothers.

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Stephen's reflections on a poor student plumb the limits of a mother's love.

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A boy stays after class, and Joyce toys with both authority and identity.

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As Stephen's class lets out, a riddle is asked and answered, satisfying nobody.

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Stephen is a somewhat merciful teacher. Musings on Jesus, government, and riddles.

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Stephen's classroom; a library in Paris; Blake and Aristotle; dragons and souls.

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Observations on the author, and the history of Ulysses.

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In Stephen's classroom, Joyce brings in Milton. Reflections on drowning.

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In Stephen's musings on history, real and potential, Frank finds a recurring Joycean theme.

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Stephen muses on first-rate wit and second-hand history.

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In Stephen's classroom, four girls' names hint at religion, class, and sex.

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In Stephen's classroom, Frank muses on the names of cookies and of boys.

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Stephen continues his lesson, and we learn something of both Pyrrhus and Nestor.

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We begin Chapter 2, and find Stephen in the classroom with old battles, radical poets, and the daughters of memory.

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June 16 is Bloomsday, as well as the one-year anniversary of this podcast.

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Mulligan bathes, and Stephen takes his leave. The end of chapter 1.

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Gossip at the swimming hole: an unlikely officer, redheads, supermen, and missing ribs.

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Stephen, Mulligan, and Haines encounter bathers, and Joyce employs some foreshadowing with news of Mulligan's brother.

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Stephen fathoms the depths of both Hell and Dublin Bay, and Frank muses upon T. S. Eliot.

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Stephen presents us with a roll call of heresiarchs.

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In this bonus episode, Frank discusses the four characters we've met so far, along with their real-life antecedents.

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Stephen considers the Church.

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Stephen claims to serve three masters.

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Haines asks Stephen about a personal god, and Stephen answers - out loud, briefly, and to himself, at great length.

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Stephen and Haines share a moment and a smoke.

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Mulligan capers, versifies, and blasphemes.

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Haines dwells on Hamlet, and we are reminded of the famous sons of that play, the Odyssey, and - of course - the Bible.

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Mulligan plays with paradox, and we get a foreshadowing of Stephen's father.

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We learn the price of both a rented tower and a lecture on Hamlet.

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Punctuation obfuscates; but we press on, and find significance in Stephen's walking stick.

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Mulligan is full of contradictions.

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We have a bit of a breather while Stephen and Buck debate what, if anything, Stephen's aphorisms are worth.

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Stephen's inner voice, a presumption of remorse, and a few words on Ireland's climate.

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Literature and lore in Joyce's Dublin.

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In a rare uncomplicated passage, milk is measured, and Frank describes the various types of junkets.

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Levels of respect: for women, doctors, and the Irish language.

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Frank Delaney offers a special surprise in honor of James Joyce's Birthday.

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The old woman carries, not just milk, but an allegory of Ireland herself - at least in the eyes of both Stephen and Joyce himself.

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More scholarship of folklore. The milk arrives, and its bearer is mocked by Mulligan and venerated by Stephen.

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Mulligan gets mythic, and mocks exactly the sort of thing this podcast is doing.

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Petulance for breakfast, "pet" and "kip," and a dirty joke about the tea.

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A key is found, a door opened, breakfast is served, and various profanities are narrowly avoided, for once.

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We sit down to a fortified breakfast, and meet Haines and his dream. Also: more blasphemy.

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Stephen sees ceremony and symbolism in a shaving bowl.

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Stephen is called to breakfast by Buck, and hit up for a loan at the same time. All is not forgiven.

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We translate Stephen's prayers for the dying from the Latin, and return immediately to both Homer and Shakespeare.

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In his second bonus podcast, Frank discusses Joyce's formation on the Island of Saints and Scholars.

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Stephen's mother is placed in the structure of the cosmos.

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Stephen, still brooding, summons memories of his mother's life, and we learn something of pantomime.

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Stephen remembers, poetically and tragically, his mother's deathbed.

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As Stephen stands alone on the tower, we muse upon the painterly language of the seascape.

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Mulligan, descending the stairs, trivializes his own insults - and musters considerable literary resources to do so.

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Stephen absorbs Mulligan's insults and, standing upon the tower by the sea, once again recalls his Shakespearean precedent.

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Mulligan boldly defends himself against Stephen's charge, and dissects death - and Stephen himself - in the process.

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We touch on one of the most important themes of Ulysses, and perhaps in all of writing.

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A few thoughts on the Celtic spirit, and on what, exactly, can be seen from Martello tower.

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We dig through some more insults, and ponder the names of characters who don't, in fact, appear in the novel.

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A single word produces lessons on the Greek language, politics, and cultural criticism.

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Stepping away from the narrative for a moment, Frank gives us a look at Joyce's education, his family, and his conflicted relationship with the Catholic church.

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Stephen and Mulligan fence - or, alternately, joust.

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The looking glass evokes both Shakespeare's Caliban and Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray

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As the insults mount, Stephen faces his own reflection.

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We find meaning - and a Shakespearean precedent - in Stephen's black clothing.

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Getting past Mulligan's accusations of mummery, we enter Stephen's thoughts and encounter his dead mother.

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Frank describes the real life figure behind the character Haines.

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In this next installment we hear from Stephen Dedalus.

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Jame's Joyce's blasphemy still has power today. Listen to Frank Delaney investigate the next section of Ulysses.

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Episode Three in which we learn more about Stephen Dedalus including the origins of his name.

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Frank Delaney continues his reading of James Joyce's Ulysses. This podcast covers paragraphs two and three of the first chapter and introduces the character Stephen Dedalus.

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Frank Delaney begins with the first chapter of Ulysses and introduces the character of Buck Mulligan.

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Frank Delaney introduces his weekly podcast on James Joyce's Ulysses.

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