baal’s Comments (group member since Mar 19, 2018)

baal’s comments from the Spring Is in Bloom: Ulysses at the Wild Detectives group.

Somehow, the idea of the missing scholar that ended up as a vagrant falls in line with this idea: "Umberto Eco compares Joyce to the ancient episcopi vagantes (wandering bishops) in the Middle Ages. They left a discipline, not a cultural heritage or a way of thinking. Like them, the writer retains the sense of blasphemy held as a liturgical ritual." [From Joyce's Wikipedia page.]

Mark wrote: "dnl wrote: "So now I understand this painting: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/wor...

"The Transmogrifications of Bloom" by R. Hamilton (1984-5)"

Cool picture. Thanks for shar..."

Yeah thank you; you know: XX century Western literature boils down to the surProust value of memory. —According to some literature professor quoted to me sometime in the distant past of 2010—.

So now I understand this painting: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/wor...

"The Transmogrifications of Bloom" by R. Hamilton (1984-5)

I'm still very intrigued about the interpretation of Dedalus' Parable of the Plums, so I couldn't refrain from googling and I found this essay riddled with spoilers: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/...