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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Ulysses

Purchased: in Dublin, June 1975. Read: finally cover to cover in Nanaimo, October 2016. "And now my last evening. A day of some walking and shopping and pleasure at being able to get around this city (and pleasure that I don't have to stay and try to support myself here). A shower. The most wonderful refreshing thing. And a very beautifully bound and set copy of Ulysses. A present to me. Wishing me all the best.” Encountered: Bergman and Fellini; Flann O’Brien (and Myles na Gcopaleen) and Monty Python and Terry Gilliam; much mocking and sneering and hilarious parodies; grand scale opera-on-acid featuring bizarre kaleidoscopic hallucinations with detailed staging and costume direction; Lewis Carrol, Alice and Wonderland (“First the verdict and then the trial!”); several different narrators and voices and an unseen examiner who asks dozens of questions that might be found on a college exam (In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation effected?); and the stunning brilliant Molly Bloom soliloquy that I saw Siobhán McKenna perform at the Gate Theatre on O'Connell Street in 1975. Ulysses.
I “acquired” this Anthony Burgess book on Joyce years ago. There’s a card in it indicates that apparently I was supposed to return it to the Mount Pleasant Library in 1972. Burgess points out as many have that Ulysses is a great comic novel. It served as a useful guide and there’s a vast number of resources on line to bring perspective and road maps into the reading of Ulysses. Burgess calls it a labyrinth. 

"Ulysses is a book to own, a book to live with, to borrow it is probably worth than useless, for the sense of urgency imposed by a time-limit for reading it fights against the book’s slow pace, a leisurely music that requires an unhurried ear and yields little to the cursory, newspaper-nurtured eye… Ulysses is, like Paradise Lost, an auditory work and the sounds carry the sense… [T]he whole book has a spatial scheme in which time has been divested of its bullying hurry-along authority… Time is the great enemy, and books like Ulysses and Finnegans Wake triumphantly trounce it. Time has to be put in its place. 

Ulysses, then, is a labyrinth which we can enter at any point, once we have satisfied ourselves as to its general plan and purpose.. it is a book for the bedside." Chapter 12. The Bedside Labyrinth.

 Eimear McBride on her fine novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and reading Ulysses when she was 25 —


Sunday, November 13, 2016

Friday, November 11, 2016


From the 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen. 

 Sisters of Mercy

Oh, the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song
Oh, I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long

Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control
It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul
Well, I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned

Well, they lay down beside me, I made my confession to them
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem

When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon
Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night
We weren't lovers like that and besides, it would still be all right
We weren't lovers like that and besides, it would still be all right

Thursday, November 10, 2016

The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats

Wednesday, November 9, 2016




The Modello is a medium bodied red from some exciting, indigenous varieties. Try it with roasted pork. Grape varieties: local grapes, mainly Refosco and Ramoso.

Masi Agricola Lands made for wine. The Venetian regions have always been ideal for viticulture, thanks to the huge variety of historically recognised terroir sites.

Masi has selected the best vineyard sites in foothill and hillside locations, paying particular attention to the development of single vineyard, or cru, wines which express the excellence of individual high quality vineyard sites and consequently have their own unique characteristics.


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Friday, November 4, 2016

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