One of the great beginnings.
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, is about to engage in some heavy lifting: Ulysses begins today.
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[Geen : not a typo. The song is “Lilly Dale,” by H.S. Thompson. Here are the lyrics. And here are two recordings. Whoever sings to young Stephen Dedalus changes grave to place.]
Friday, June 24, 2022
“Once upon a time”
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Yay! Once again I can piggyback on your reading--I have never got past that beginning, except to skip to Molly's yeses at the very end.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the gobbets to come.
I will post some. The challenge is finding passages that can stand with little or no annotation. (I mean, look what happened here.)
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