Friday, June 24, 2022

“Once upon a time”

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.

Related reading
All OCA Joyce posts (Pinboard)

[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.]

comments: 2

Fresca said...

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.
Looking forward to the gobbets to come.

Michael Leddy said...

I will post some. The challenge is finding passages that can stand with little or no annotation. (I mean, look what happened here.)