Miss MacIntosh, My Darling discussion

May we corral off topic chatter in this thread?

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My experience of reading the first 40 pages of Miss Mac...


"Still a tadpole, already a frog", Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, 2009

Nearly 110 years now, but in honor of Nathan wandering the pathways of "Finnegan's Wake"...

This year’s ‘Bloomsday’ – 108 years after Leopold Bloom took his legendary walk around Dublin on the 16th June 1904 – is the first since the works of James Joyce entered the public domain.

Frank Delaney asks whether we should perhaps now stop trying to read Joyce and instead make visits to him as to a gallery.

- See more at: http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06...

Ce Ce wrote: "Nearly 110 years now, but in honor of Nathan wandering the pathways of "Finnegan's Wake""

Much thanks. I may be rebeginning Finnegan exactly on Bloomsday, 2014 anno mundi.

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Much thanks. I may be rebeginning Finnegan exactly on Bloomsday, 2014 anno mundi."

There are 2 links of Joyce reading...first 4 minutes or so of Ulysses and then scroll down and a bit over 8 minutes of Finnegan's Wake.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/33666/...

Think I can coax you into Finnegans Wake after Miss MacIntosh?

I have always wanted to read Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake...but first there will have to be an AFTER Miss Mac! A horizon I can't quite catch sight of at page 142. ;-)

Ce Ce wrote: "I have always wanted to read Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake..."

Oh yes of course most certainly. Let me know when you get to Ulysses and I'll make up some threads for your posts over at the Wake Grappa. ; )

Will do, Nathan...in the meantime I am flying on angel's wings, or red-winged black birds, or rising from the sea with the Egyptian sailor...dreaming I am the 5th or 6th passenger on the bus (depends if Ms Young counts the unborn baby...with the mother's sleeping/wakeful dream/hallucinations it's hard to say with certainty if the child is unborn, living or dead).

And there we have the world of Miss Mac! ;-)

Is there anyone else reading Miss Mac? I am just beginning Chapter 9. I plan on continuing my reading, however I have to admit navigating the moonscape of Miss Mac and posting in something of an echo chamber is becoming a little too surreal.

Will anyone be joining the discussion?

I intend to get back to Miss Mac now that I'm back at my main base. Young's large volume is sitting in front of me at the moment, but the bookmark is still at the end of chapter two.
Note to self: get off gr and open a book.

Fionnuala wrote: "I intend to get back to Miss Mac now that I'm back at my main base. Young's large volume is sitting in front of me at the moment, but the bookmark is still at the end of chapter two.
Note to self:..."

Great! Let's hope there are another few souls to join us...

Ce Ce wrote: "Is there anyone else reading Miss Mac? I am just beginning Chapter 9. I plan on continuing my reading, however I have to admit navigating the moonscape of Miss Mac and posting in something of an ec..."

Oh I'm still very much on the bus. True, I've had my attention severely kidnapped by Finnegan recently. But I've still got that seat on the bus somewhere in the train of the driver's locks. True too that I've never been very contributive to the discussion here or elsewhere ; but very much enjoying your posts ;; kind of like, Okay but where did she get that and what does it have to do with Miss MacIntosh? Followed very quickly with, Ah yes! I see! Totally twisted and most excellent! --But yes, very much.

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Oh I'm still very much on the bus. True, I've had my attention severely kidnapped by Finnegan recently. But I've still got that seat on the bus somewhere in the train of the driver's locks. True too that I've never been very contributive to the discussion here or elsewhere ; but very much enjoying your posts ;; kind of like, Okay but where did she get that and what does it have to do with Miss MacIntosh? Followed very quickly with, Ah yes! I see! Totally twisted and most excellent! --But yes, very much."

Thank you, Nathan. I am glad to hear you are still on the bus. And I knew you took a Finnegan detour.

My response tends to be visual...and Miss Mac is a great excuse for seeking the quirky or "twisted". If I didn't have a life she could send me on endless fantastical flights of fancy. Not to mention Ms Young is traversing my home terrain of the midwest.

Others, I am certain, would have a completely different experience or interpretation. As I mentioned in one of my posts, this seems to be a read that almost requires us to engage, to seek. Ms Young does not do it for us...she simply weaves her web and leaves us to find our own way, or not. She may be humored at my experience & thoughts, or quite possibly appalled...wherever she may be hovering in her death is life, life is death, world.

I would love to hear/see other perspectives. I found chapters 6, 7 and 8 painfully difficult. A deep dark fog...no humor, no light...not even a trace of quirkiness that I could see. I read chapter 9 last night and feel I am back in more fluid territory. This morning I have returned to contemplating chapter 6 and working it through. In that regard, as well, a few fellow readers would be welcome.

It truly is a difficult book for a group read. But it is also a book perhaps enhanced and helped by a tapestry of response. I do hope a few souls find their way.

I have not bailed. I am in the process of moving...and meeting some other deadlines. The move is happening bit by bit...Miss Mac was placed on my nightstand, not the first day but the third. Just not enough silence and peace to immerse myself in Ms Young's world.

Ce Ce wrote: "I have not bailed. "

I'm still here too. I've taken to it as a long term reading, like I had done with The Wake, more so than I had initially intended.

I am here as well, Ce Ce and am enjoying your updates. I hope to spend time with this novel in large chunks over the summer.

Me too, Ce Ce, about to start chapter seven.

Nathan & Fionnuala...I'll be back on the bus soon! ;-)

Brian, welcome! This most certainly will be a summer, fall and maybe winter road trip.

Fio, I've been catching your "Wake" updates...glad to be reading vignettes vicariously.