My novel, Aloysius the Great, reeks of Joycean and Ulyssean parallels. Interested in James Joyce or Alexander the Great? contact me here via message.
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“The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men /Gang aft agley….”
Robert Burns
Alas, the exquisite prospect of a pilgrimage to Ireland in July has been cast aside by the Fates and the wages of ineluctable mortality.
A medical situation requires serious treatment.
Prayers welcomed.
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From James Joyce’s Ulysses:
“Grey horror seared his flesh...Cold oils slid along his veins, chilling his blood : age crusting him with a salt cloak...To smell the gentle smoke of tea, fume of the pan, sizzling butter. Be near her ample bedwarmed flesh. Yes, yes.”
Yes.
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John Maxwell O'Brien retweeted
Merci John !
Poetry in Paris & Peace 🌿🕊🌍
et LE grand rendez-vous
vendredi 10 juin 5pm-8pm
au mythique Café de la Mairie
sur notre merveilleux Marché de la Poésie, sur la belle place St Sulpice ornée d’une fontaine Renaissance ….
Ça c’est Paris !🎶🌟🌿🕊 – at Paris, France
Question for Dubliners:
Do any of you know an individual willing and able to give a tour of Dublin (July 5th or 6th) in a car for three people (who cannot do extensive walking) with an emphasis on cultural (Joyce, etc.) considerations.
Price open for competent guides.
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John Maxwell O'Brien retweeted
La revue L’Intranquille no.22
publiée par les éditions Atelier de l’Agneau 🐑 Françoise Favretto
Revue en vente à l’Espace L’Autre Livre 13 r. École Polytechnique
Paris Ve
Photo: Alexandre Desrameaux, poète, Françoise Favretto, editrice et Jeanne Marie, traductrice poesie🌿🕊 – at Paris, France
John Maxwell O'Brien retweeted
Very proud, honoured and thankful to the entire conference committee, especially in the centenary year of Ulysses (published 1922). So, I'll be talking mainly about Ulysses, and little bit about Finnegans Wake in a lecture entitled 'Joyce's Heretics: Sages, Saints or Sinners'?
ARE YOU A DUBLINER OR WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF DUBLIN ON…
JULY 7th at 4:00 pm?
RATHMINES LIBRARY
JAMES JOYCE GALORE, ALOYSIUS, AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT TO BOOT!
JACOB’S BISCUITS, TEA AND THE O’BRIENS HOLDING FORTH.
Ulysses:
“Thing is if you really believe in it…Lourdes cure, waters of oblivion, and the Knock* apparition, statues bleeding…Blind faith…Lulls all pain.”
*At Knock in County Mayo where visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, several saints and Jesus Christ were said to be seen.
In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Stephen Dedalus identifies his [James Joyce’s] fears:
“...dogs, horses, firearms, the sea, thunderstorms, machinery, country roads at night....”
From James Joyce’s Ulysses:
“The summer evening had begun to fold the world in its mysterious embrace.”
How did James Joyce describe himself to Carl Jung?
“A man of small virtue, inclined to extravagance and alcoholism.”
From James Joyce’s Ulysses:
There are sins…evil memories which are hidden away by man in the darkest places…Yet a chance word will call them forth suddenly…shrouded in the piteous vesture of the past, silent, remote, reproachful.”
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“That the dead do not stay buried is…a theme of Joyce...Finnegan is not the only corpse to be resurrected.”
(Richard Ellmann)
