Book Discussion #3,4,5

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  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    ...nothing that much really, heard/told/read somewhere that dubliners- portrait- ulysses was the progression...........I have all three but yet to start............guess I need to find me a copy the homer
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    ...nothing that much really, heard/told/read somewhere that dubliners- portrait- ulysses was the progression...........I have all three but yet to start............guess I need to find me a copy the homer
  • Blanche
    Blanche Posts: 247
    tish wrote:
    eviltoasterelf, blanche... where you at with the reading? I'm trying NOT to finish The Odyssee as I love it so. Damn committments/keeping my work crap!
    Well, I reread neither Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man nor the Odyssey prior to participating in this thread, but I had read them thoroughly enough in school to remember the plot.

    Moreover, seeing there was little activity here (probably due to end of year holidays), I sort of gave up the ghost.

    I thought, quite frankly, that the thread was dead.

    But I am glad to steal what the the great doctor once said, ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE!
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    The Odyssey would be my favorite book
    Because of the enchanted sirens' song
    Bondage tightens as my hook
    Tied to the mast with bindings strong

    To test my loyal friends I'd see
    Wherein the true love lies
    Revenge on those who hate me
    Blood on my hands they die

    And be the gods delight
    Gifts find me the bard
    Strength and truth my might
    Loved through sorrows' yard

    TV Lovely
    -just now/06
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    Reading aloud is helping me with Ulysses. It's a pretty fun book. I just keep thinking this is a selfish pleasure. Perhaps I should be at an old folks home reading to the seniors or something! Anyhow...

    I am looking forward to the Odyssey discussion...
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    Well, basically, a tentative outline is Portrait in December, Odyssey in January, and then the big-mac-daddy Ulysses in February. Will you still be around?

    You know, if I had to write a paper about Portrait and the Odyssey, I would focus/compare the authors' description of the afterlife. Gees, when I think of the chapter Joyce devoted to describing hell, well, I kinda thought if I had had that fear put into me as a young girl, I might have weighed my "sins" a bit more carefully! Actually, what blew me away, was that after repented, Stephen had let his errors go... now that's a skill! How amazing to write about the unknown! And what a difference in beliefs throughout historical times.

    It's not big-mac-daddy February just yet, so fins... have you got any topics for discussing the Odyssey?

    Oh yeah, its getting much easier in the Odyssey to see the symbolism in the characters names... Mr. Power, Rev. Love, Simple Simon, Mrs. Douce who is douce, Nosey Flynn, Brother Swan, etc... I reviewed my reading focussing not on the sounds and flow of the words, but rather the color, number and organ references. I'm past number five now, blue and the cock-named character! In this book, I love the line, "Things are going along swimmingly." (That may not be a verbatim quote.)

    Thanks.
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    "Will? You? I. Want. You. To."

    "He laid the dry snot picked from his nostril on a ledge of rock, carefully. For the rest let look who will."

    "In the beginning was the word, in the end the world without end."

    "We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell."

    "Order in the court! The accused will now make a bogus statement."
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    Thankfully the book broke out into sex here and there, or that would have been one loonnnnggg HARD read!
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle

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