In chapter 3 Frank discusses emblematic illustrations, bishops, religion and Aristotle.
Apr 03, 2013•12 min
As Stephen continues to write poetry we learn of Cassiopeia, augurs and their flights of birds, along with Freud, Jung, and Telemachus.
Mar 27, 2013•11 min
Frank discusses two quotes, one simple, one opaque, the latter filled with hidden symbolism, sexual desire and the connections that make them sing.
Mar 20, 2013•11 min
Frank talks about Sylvia Beach and her part in brining Ulysses to the world.
Mar 15, 2013•14 min
Frank discusses Joycean phrases including "Pin it Down" along with actor Kevin Spacey.
Mar 13, 2013•13 min
Stephen still on Sandymount. "Omnis caro ad te veniet." A pale vampire, and Douglas Hyde. Hamlet's tablets.
Mar 06, 2013•11 min
Still Proteus, still on Sandymount Strand, Stephen watches the "gypsy woman" pass. The handmaid of the moon. Bride-, child-, and death-beds.
Feb 27, 2013•13 min
The couple passes Stephen on the beach, and he wonders if the woman wonders about him - or his hat. Saint James, Hamlet, and Eve.
Feb 20, 2013•12 min
A bit of song: The Rogue's Delight and The Canting Academy. Morose delectation. Stephen muses on monkwords versus roguewords.
Feb 13, 2013•10 min
Stephen contemplates the lingo of rogues, and Frank introduces us to Thomas Harman and Richard Head.
Feb 06, 2013•11 min
The cocklepickers become Gypsies in Stephen's mind. Bing awast to Romeville.
Jan 30, 2013•11 min
Stephen's dream, almost. Haroun al Raschid. Adverb becomes verb.
Jan 23, 2013•11 min
The dogs digs; Thomas Gray's Elegy. Spouse-breach and pards, and Brunetto Latini's Tesoretto.
Jan 16, 2013•9 min
Tatters, the cocklepickers' dog, encounters a fallen comrade on Sandymount Strand and is called away. In Memoriam.
Jan 09, 2013•10 min
Still on Sandymount Strand: a dog, depicted with a painter's eye, barks at the sea. Heraldry. Seamorse… or seamouse?
Jan 02, 2013•12 min
Stephen thinks of drowning, and his mother's death. Tide and change.
Dec 26, 2012•7 min
In this bonus episode a few days before Christmas, Frank discusses the final tale of The Dubliners: The Dead.
Dec 21, 2012•24 min
Stephen, dwelling on insults, thinks of the Decameron - and of his own failures of courage and athleticism.
Dec 19, 2012•9 min
Still on the same paragraph, Frank considers Walter Harris's The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin as a source for Joyce. Moving on, the dog barks, and Stephen imagines himself a stag at bay. Famous pretenders.
Dec 13, 2012•15 min
A running dog on the beach. Stephen thinks of Lochland raiders, and of ancient Dubliners attacking beached turlehide whales.
Dec 05, 2012•11 min
Just over halfway through Chapter 3, Proteus, we continue last week's passage. Sir Lout the gigant, and a live dog.
Nov 28, 2012•10 min
Stephen ascends from the tide, in both thought and motion, but finds only weeds, rocks, and rats. Louis Veuillot on Gautier, and an Arabian tale of sand and stone that may or may not be off-topic.
Nov 21, 2012•13 min
Stephen doesn't want to spend another night at Martello tower; luckily, his soul walks with him. Elsinore.
Nov 14, 2012•11 min
A return from Paris to Sandymount Strand, and the Kish lightship. Depressions in sand and soul, and time passing.
Nov 07, 2012•11 min
Paris still remembered on the Strand. Kevin Egan used to be a fine figure of a boy. Old bombs, old exiles, and old songs - and we're done with kevin Egan.
Nov 05, 2012•14 min
Continuing a paragraph, Kevin Egan in the Paris of Stephen's memory. Victoria and Maud Gonne, Millevoye and Faure. Bathtime. Next paragraph: the bomber smokes, and muses on the jailbreak of James Stephens.
Oct 24, 2012•12 min
Conversations in Paris. Dalcassians, Arthur Griffith, pimander. Stephen as his father's son in Kevin Egan's eyes. A shirt tells a story.
Oct 17, 2012•11 min
Stephen still remembers Paris with Kevin Egan and Patrice: gunpowder cigarettes, absinthe, milk, coffee, and postprandials.
Oct 12, 2012•9 min
The smell of Paris, a sensual meditation, and a bit of French farce. Giacomo Joyce.
Oct 03, 2012•11 min
Frank takes a look at four more stories from The Dubliners in this poorly-named episode: A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, A Mother, and Grace.
Sep 28, 2012•24 min