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Orange is the Old White
S: On the 12th of July the Orangemen a/k/a the Protestant Boys of Northern Ireland annually celebrate their ongoing colonial status by walking through the streets of Belfast and Derry, banging big drums, setting fires, and flaunting the Union Jack
Orange is the Old White
S: On the 12th of July the Orangemen a/k/a the Protestant Boys of Northern Ireland annually celebrate their ongoing colonial status by walking through the streets of Belfast and Derry, banging big drums, setting fires, and flaunting the Union Jack
Viva Anna Livia!
M: Slander! Libel! Calumny in notion! Oh, the itch of these washerwitches… Of no good repute themselves and questionable heritage — I heard one’s undocumented (“She’s an anchor, baby!”) and the other sat with a sleeping guv’nor — two washerwomen
Viva Anna Livia!
M: Slander! Libel! Calumny in notion! Oh, the itch of these washerwitches… Of no good repute themselves and questionable heritage — I heard one’s undocumented (“She’s an anchor, baby!”) and the other sat with a sleeping guv’nor — two washerwomen
In Vico… velitas
Happy 347th Birthday to Giambattista Vico, the Italian philosopher whose Scienza Nuova inspired Joyce in his writing of the Wake. His four-part circle of history: theocratic age, aristocratic age, democratic age, ricorso (return to the beginning), inspired the book’s structure and themes
In Vico… velitas
Happy 347th Birthday to Giambattista Vico, the Italian philosopher whose Scienza Nuova inspired Joyce in his writing of the Wake. His four-part circle of history: theocratic age, aristocratic age, democratic age, ricorso (return to the beginning), inspired the book’s structure and themes
No one understands him but his woman
S: After all that patter, time to take a stab at mater, because HCE is back, and ALP’s got him! The Lady in invoked with an ecumenical litany of honorifics, the antidote to the catalogue of opprobrium recently heaped on
No one understands him but his woman
S: After all that patter, time to take a stab at mater, because HCE is back, and ALP’s got him! The Lady in invoked with an ecumenical litany of honorifics, the antidote to the catalogue of opprobrium recently heaped on
The sacred river
fig. 1 – Summer by Kathleen Creighton M: Ladies and Gentleman: Anna. Livia. Plurabelle! She is ALP to Earwicker’s HCE; not a mountain, but a river, one aitch removed from ALPH, the “sacred river” of Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” then another a-pex
The sacred river
fig. 1 – Summer by Kathleen Creighton M: Ladies and Gentleman: Anna. Livia. Plurabelle! She is ALP to Earwicker’s HCE; not a mountain, but a river, one aitch removed from ALPH, the “sacred river” of Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” then another a-pex
Unaided, decamp!
M: How can each — and every — page contain such opportunity for befuddlement and wonder? Seven pages in and one line makes total sense.10.24: “Phew!” S: Open sez me. I’m going in (under cover). We know certain things, having read
Unaided, decamp!
M: How can each — and every — page contain such opportunity for befuddlement and wonder? Seven pages in and one line makes total sense.10.24: “Phew!” S: Open sez me. I’m going in (under cover). We know certain things, having read
sum mer de le wake 