I’ve been re-reading Ulysses in preparation for Bloomsday (my first re-read in almost twenty years), and all sorts of new ideas are occurring to me as I read it again after my study of Finnegans Wake.
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Grace Before Glutton
Finnegans Wake II.2 — the study chapter — ends with the children being called to dinner after their homework. They had been outside to play (II.1), they studied (II.2), and now it’s time to eat. The scene is about to shift to the tavern downstairs, where their father is working and a feast is underway, including the feast of storytelling (II.3).
This post looks closely at the final page of II.2.
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This post reflects on my last post and briefly offers an alternate way of conceiving the equations that I discussed there.
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“Justice” is cruel authoritarianism when it’s not tempered by Mercy.
Mercy is wishy-washy weakness when it’s not balanced by Justice.
Thus the brothers, Shaun and Shem. At the end of Chapter I.7, Justius (Shaun) monologues, followed by Mercias (Shem).
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