As a follow up to my last post, I wanted to look closely at part of a sentence in The Ondt and the Gracehoper. Years ago, I felt compelled to make notes on this sentence — which describes the Ondt “swarming of himself in his sunnyroom” — when I was living in a house with a sunroom.
Continue reading“The Ondt and the Gracehoper” — like The Mookse and the Gripes — is a fable told by Shaun to illustrate the flaws of Shem.
Continue readingThis post looks at the phrase “apathy of the stars” in Ulysses and its relationship to Finnegans Wake.
Continue readingIn re-reading Ulysses, I was struck by the word “unlikelihood” occurring in a significant place (Stephen’s Shakespeare theory, Chapter 9). The word has a prominent place in the Prankquean episode in Finnegans Wake , where a variant of the word is one of the PQ’s rejoinders to Van Hoother.
This post looks at the word “unlikelihood” in Finnegans Wake and Ulysses.
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The Suspended Sentence 