This post briefly looks at the word bunk/bunkum/buncombe in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
Continue readingI’ll Be in My Bunk
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Illysus Distilling
I had the opportunity recently to visit the Great Jones Distilling Company in Manhattan and take a tour of their distillery. [No, they are not sponsoring this post] It was a marvelous time — an excellent tour I took with a friend — at the first distillery opened in Manhattan since prohibition (and it opened in…2021!).
The experience put me in mind of references to distilling in Finnegans Wake, which is what this post will be about.
Continue readingMadas / Sadam
This post looks more closely at the word “Amsad,” which appears in III.3 as an anagram for other words that I quoted in my last post.
Continue readingShut Your Eyes and See
In rereading Ulysses, I recently reviewed the passage where Mr. Bloom helps a “blind stripling” cross the street, and Bloom’s reflections remind me how central sense perception is to Joyce’s work.
In this post, I look at a few places where sense perception is important to Ulysses before turning to Joyce’s treatment of the senses in Finnegans Wake.
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The Suspended Sentence 