…Wilson. Hello Mr Wilson, come down, come on in, sit down. His opening gambit in the conversation was: are you familiar with James Joyce? No, I got about halfway through Ulysses and like it's just straight over my head. You know it's that thing where you…

…beautiful language ever created and the greatest works of literature are all written in Irish English, from Jonathan Swift to James Joyce to flann o brien. That's another lecture. I have another lecture, the land where bulls are pregnant where I explain…

…one of the inevitable byproducts of jesuit education. The jesuits educated the marquis de sade and Diderot and Voltaire and James Joyce and Jerry Brown. Jerry Brown, I don't know about that case, but they are very good at producing intellectually intricate…

…Philly James E Moore James McCarthy. I hope you all appreciated that. The good book is called Finnegan's wake and it's by James Joyce and I never leave home without it. The question is asking who are the twelve that dominate our society? The first part…

…of the thing. After all the Asians, Asians, Asians. We've got the twelve apostles with a slightly Irish twist on their names. Joyce is dealing with the importance of twelve in the human. I don't know whether to call it subconscious or unconscious or…

…and so on and Rome right up to the British Isles. Up until only about twenty years ago it was still in use. When Joyce was writing finnegans wake, the whole pointage system was based on twelves. The twelve appear most often. This is the dream of all…

…owl and the owl is the bird associated with Athena who is the goddess of juries. This is why I call it psychoarchaeology. Joyce is tracing the jury system back to paleolithic rituals before Athena became the goddess of the greeks that we all know. She…

…Sochi and geranium and the abnihilization of the atom will appear in close conjunction with each other. Some people think Joyce had precognition. It's just a coincidence that novi Sochi and geranium and the abnihilization of the atom will appear together.…

…jury, besides the magic of the collateral. By the way, this is my basic thinking here. I got the idea of psychoarchaeology from Joyce, but he doesn't use that word. I got it trying to figure out what Joyce was doing in Finnegan's way. Vigo Ian Battista…

…here. I got the idea of psychoarchaeology from Joyce, but he doesn't use that word. I got it trying to figure out what Joyce was doing in Finnegan's way. Vigo Ian Battista Vigo, Who's mentioned in several of my books, who was a major influence on Joyce…

…was doing in Finnegan's way. Vigo Ian Battista Vigo, Who's mentioned in several of my books, who was a major influence on Joyce and Karl Marx an art group, Vigo said that everything emerges from poetry. First there is poetry, then the metaphors of poetry…

…jury system. You can analyze any aspect of our society trace it back and if you have any trouble try extending his leg. Joyce analyzes everything and traces it back to its paleolithic origins. It shows how the jury and the zodiac both emerged out of the…

…You have to have a representative from each tribe before the nation of Israel can do anything. Well coincidence deals with Joyce Marilyn Monroe, the marquis de sade and other interesting people but it deals with the web of coincidence that appears in…

…Marilyn Monroe, the marquis de sade and other interesting people but it deals with the web of coincidence that appears in Joyce and connects him to all of these other characters. Joyce was more interested in coincidence and synchronicity than any other…

…but it deals with the web of coincidence that appears in Joyce and connects him to all of these other characters. Joyce was more interested in coincidence and synchronicity than any other writer before me. He probably influenced me to be so interested…

…end absurdly as well as sadly. He caught pneumonia because he didn't know enough to come in out of the rain. Anyway Joyce developed a fascination with Botkin. Botkin plays a major role in Finnegan's wake. He's always haunting Joyce. In a visit to Ireland…

…out of the rain. Anyway Joyce developed a fascination with Botkin. Botkin plays a major role in Finnegan's wake. He's always haunting Joyce. In a visit to Ireland Joyce Actually went to the cemetery where Michael Botkin was buried. He felt that he was…

…developed a fascination with Botkin. Botkin plays a major role in Finnegan's wake. He's always haunting Joyce. In a visit to Ireland Joyce Actually went to the cemetery where Michael Botkin was buried. He felt that he was being cuckolded by a ghost. Joyce…

…to Ireland Joyce Actually went to the cemetery where Michael Botkin was buried. He felt that he was being cuckolded by a ghost. Joyce had a very metaphysical mind. He felt that Michael Botkin in some sense had loved Laura more than he did because Michael…

…that Michael Botkin in some sense had loved Laura more than he did because Michael Botkin Wasn't as much of an egotist as Joyce. He felt that he was nick the devil and Michael Botkin was nick the archangel Michael and it became a cosmic struggle with…

…nick the devil and Michael Botkin was nick the archangel Michael and it became a cosmic struggle with Laura as the prize and Joyce only won because Michael Lost. Anyway Joyce went to Michael Botkin's Grave in the cemetery in Galway. Right next to it was…

…nick the archangel Michael and it became a cosmic struggle with Laura as the prize and Joyce only won because Michael Lost. Anyway Joyce went to Michael Botkin's Grave in the cemetery in Galway. Right next to it was a grave that said j Joyce, which…

…Lost. Anyway Joyce went to Michael Botkin's Grave in the cemetery in Galway. Right next to it was a grave that said j Joyce, which confirmed Joyce and his belief that he should pay attention to coincidences. Joyce was born in a house called leoville and…

…went to Michael Botkin's Grave in the cemetery in Galway. Right next to it was a grave that said j Joyce, which confirmed Joyce and his belief that he should pay attention to coincidences. Joyce was born in a house called leoville and was buried next to…

…Right next to it was a grave that said j Joyce, which confirmed Joyce and his belief that he should pay attention to coincidences. Joyce was born in a house called leoville and was buried next to the lion house. He was buried in the cemetery in Zurich…

…tangles of puns and coincidences and modern physics is something known as the cosmic glue that binds all particles together and Joyce, the pun is the cosmic glue. Everything is tied together by puns which are the verbal emblems of coincidence. Coincidence…

…may. The first one is not terribly serious. On a scale from one to ten in terms of leprechauns, where would you place James Joyce? Oh definitely ten plus, ten plus okay I mean you're putting that at the top right yes but don't you think honestly that…

…are more fun things to do. Who's your favorite author? My favorite author? Yes oh we already talked about him the leprechaun, James Joyce. There you go okay, well I really I'll tell you I'm going to have to read the book Finnegan's wake. That sounds…

…Surprise me in the slightest to see anybody turn into another Beethoven or another Einstein or another Aleister Crowley or another James Joyce because those people did it even though they were born naked naked and unable to speak and had to crawl around…

…stuff you also came out with masters of the illuminati which is kind of a strange parable involving Einstein, Alistair Crowley and James Joyce. How did that come about? Well one of my ideas is that everything is related to everything and I don't like the…

…was discovered three times in three different fields simultaneously. So Einstein is there as the man who discovered physical relativity. Joyce is there as the one who first incorporated relativity into literature by writing a novel from 18 different viewpoints…

…one who first incorporated relativity into literature by writing a novel from 18 different viewpoints instead of from one view. Before Joyce Every novel came from one viewpoint and in Ulysses, Joyce told a novel from 18 different viewpoints. And Crowley is…

…a novel from 18 different viewpoints instead of from one view. Before Joyce Every novel came from one viewpoint and in Ulysses, Joyce told a novel from 18 different viewpoints. And Crowley is there as the one who introduced relativity into the occult and…

…books I wish everybody would read so they'd be more rounded. And the list is, if I can remember it, Ulysses by James Joyce the cantos of Ezra pound, science and sanity by Alfred Korzybski, Shakespeare, Ovid Chaucer, Justine by de sade because it raises…

…find that within Finnegan's wake in chapter 7, you will find that a character named Shem the penman, which is James the penman, James Joyce the author, is writing a book inside the book. And where is he writing it from? No number brimstone walk Asia in…

…Burroughs has survived. The thing about Burroughs is he was sort of the world's best known writer who nobody read other than James Joyce. He is sort of the most unreadable writer in a lot of ways. I've actually read interviews with you where you've said…

…the book was ever published. I read that and I went home and I said to my wife: this is the greatest writer since James Joyce. I just felt the way Burroughs used prose was like it had electricity nobody else was writing at that voltage and I felt…

…nothing else works, it will. And sometimes it happens when you're doing a lot of very imaginative work like I did an essay on Joyce and Crowley and the numerology of the Finnegan's wake and the book of the law and after I finished it I was living in…

…the working class Irish Catholics are pretty much the same everywhere. Later I read a portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce and by god it was the same story all over again. So can you describe what life was like at garrison beach in…

…front. If they would only leave out all the sadomasochism, it might be one of the best educational systems in the world. James Joyce thought he acquired a great deal from the jesuits, even though in the portrait of the artist he portrays the sadistic…

…can remember when my first article was published. That was 1959. In 1959 I sold two articles on my birthday one to the James Joyce review it was called Joyce and Taoism and one to the realist which was called the semantics of god. The semantics of god…

…was published. That was 1959. In 1959 I sold two articles on my birthday one to the James Joyce review it was called Joyce and Taoism and one to the realist which was called the semantics of god. The semantics of god asked the question: does god…

…a she or an it? And came down in favor of it. As you might guess by the fact I also wrote an article about Joyce and Taoism at the same time. I'm very much into Taoism. I can conceive of a principle of organization within the universe that makes…

…of which we lived and where we went every day at least well not every day but almost every day. Dublin to me is a James Joyce Theme park. Anywhere you go you walk the streets, you go to a restaurant, you go to a pub you go shopping. Everybody seems…

…shopping. Everybody seems to come right out of Ulysses and they all seem to be talking about the same topics. Everything that Joyce mentions is still there the Wellington Monument, Boyle Apartment store on whatever street it is. Living in Dublin to me was…

…Theme park. I'm a big fan of Raymond Chandler. Do you feel like living in Ireland influenced your writing very heavily? Yeah especially well Joyce has been a major influence all my life but I think while I was in Ireland Two of the books I wrote in…

…that makes the conversation livelier and inspires us to order another pint. Yeah kenner went around trying to find out where James Joyce was baptized. He found three churches claiming they baptized Joyce and this is only recently you know when you find out…

…another pint. Yeah kenner went around trying to find out where James Joyce was baptized. He found three churches claiming they baptized Joyce and this is only recently you know when you find out there were seven heads of st denis in the middle ages.…

…of st denis in the middle ages. Well what can you expect of the middle ages? But this is only in the last century. You know Joyce was baptized in 1882 right it's only a little more than a century ago. And well he met a guy who claimed to know the…

…old crank. I think that sums it up better than any of my previous titles. Who are your favorite writers? Well James Joyce, Ezra pound and even though it's corny Shakespeare. Shakespeare is an inexhaustible well of a treasury of language and fascinating…

…He appeared for a while in a magazine called the new free woman edited by Harriet Shaw weaver, who also was publishing James Joyce and Ezra pound in every issue. And Joyce Apparently read tucker because he told somebody in Paris that tucker had the…

…the new free woman edited by Harriet Shaw weaver, who also was publishing James Joyce and Ezra pound in every issue. And Joyce Apparently read tucker because he told somebody in Paris that tucker had the clearest head ever in politics. And he seems to…

…negative criticism. You can either brood about it and get morbid or try to forget it or you can make a joke out of it. Joyce I think was the first one to realize the value of making a joke out of it. The seventh chapter of Finnegan's wake, the Shem…

…it you're acting infantile. So they have a variety of choices. John Steinbeck was notorious for writing nasty letters to unfavorable reviewers. Joyce never replied to any of his reviews no matter how nasty they were. He just saved all of them and turned…

…Vico said all revolutions are sons against fathers. That's in his book the new science which is the basic structure that Joyce adopted in Finnegan's wake. Isn't Vico One of the background characters for Finnegan's wake? Yeah he plays an important role in…

…Leopold Blum. Critics refer to Blum as a jew from the 1920s up until the 1970s when somebody published an essay in the James Joyce review called: is Leopold Blum a jew? It depends on how you define jew. According to the rabbinical definition, a jew is…

…by three definitions he isn't and by two definitions he is, and is this trivial? I don't think so I think Joyce made Blum's Background genetically and culturally so complicated to make anti semitism seem even more ridiculous because Blum is only Jewish…

…day, that day when, as Edna O brien wrote nothing and everything is happening. Now you hold a particular reverence, almost for Joyce it seems. What is it about Joyce that you find so fascinating? Oh there are many, many things but I suppose the…

…O brien wrote nothing and everything is happening. Now you hold a particular reverence, almost for Joyce it seems. What is it about Joyce that you find so fascinating? Oh there are many, many things but I suppose the principal thing that comes to mind is…

…that happens in an ordinary day. And according to Joyce's own descriptions what was he trying to do with this text? Well Joyce was not much given to explaining himself he dropped hints. It seems to me one of Joyce's Major motives consisted of trying…

…and especially the plays of Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen, of course, gradually moved from naturalism to expressionism as his career went on but Joyce felt that if he pushed realism far enough it would collapse upon itself. The closest you can get to realism, it…

…realism far enough it would collapse upon itself. The closest you can get to realism, it seems in literature is the style Joyce uses in most of Ulysses, which is the interior monologue. You're inside one person's head and you perceive that person perceives…

…tunnels, to quote Timothy Leary. Leary, by the way said Joyce's Prose prepared me to enter psychedelic space I would say that Joyce is best read while you're stoned and if you've never had a psychedelic reading, Joyce is the next best equivalent. Yosetani…

…to enter psychedelic space I would say that Joyce is best read while you're stoned and if you've never had a psychedelic reading, Joyce is the next best equivalent. Yosetani roshi, with whom I studied Zen Briefly I don't mean to claim I got very far…

…you can never fully know the territory. Besides, the territory is changing all the time. Universe is non simultaneously apprehended. Now is Joyce denounced as a terrorist? Well as a matter of fact, frequently he was. Yes a lot of the first criticisms of…

…frequently he was. Yes a lot of the first criticisms of Ulysses were denouncing it for its obscenity and blasphemy which was just Joyce being naturalistic this is the way people talk these are the things people do and so on and fiction has never dared…

…before. Well if you want realism I'll give you realism until it collapses on itself. As I said, one recent article defined Joyce as a one man literary IRA. In a sense Ulysses Destroys English Literature because the whole history of English Literature is…

…futility of all styles. No matter what style you write in you're not conveying reality you're conveying a style. And so Joyce does parodies of mort Arthur, Dickens, Swift the whole history of English Literature is in Ulysses and every framework changes the…

…Cahill it could be blazer's boyland secretary whose first name is Martha which makes for a very intriguing pattern because, as one Joyce Scholar discovered in the wandering rocks chapter, when boylan calls his secretary Martha if you put it on the map of…

…through the part of Grafton Street where bloom is standing at that time looking in a department store window. That is so much Joyce Y in that I still suspect it's boylan's secretary which has another strange loop because if boylan is having a real affair…

…world seems to me. So I think Ulysses is closer to the world than any other novel before Ulysses. Is there any indication that Joyce had studied for example, the physics of the day? Yeah in his notes for the ithaca chapter it's quite clear that he is…

…geometry in another sense like in Lobachevsky. And they meet in another sense like Lobachevsky and they get further and further apart. And Joyce did that because he didn't want the reader to be quite sure what the climax of the novel was we never know…

…But isn't June 16th an important day in both the novel and in Joyce's life with Nora? Yes, this is something a lot of Joyce Scholars skirt around nervously. They say June 16th was the day Joyce and Nora went for a walk together for the first time…

…in Joyce's life with Nora? Yes, this is something a lot of Joyce Scholars skirt around nervously. They say June 16th was the day Joyce and Nora went for a walk together for the first time actually, as Joyce's Letters to Nora in 1909 when she was still…

…make him rich, and he got cheated by his partners June 16th. What actually happened is they walked on sandy mount strand and Joyce made sexual advances and she gave him a hand job. So every year as bloomsday gets bigger and bigger and leads to more…

…more and more, they are all celebrating a hand job whether they know it or not. I think the hand job was so important to Joyce because based on all the biographical work that's been published so far it was the first time in his whole life that he had…

…could meet again and they wrote to each other about everything they did, everything they fantasized and so on. And I think Joyce arranged that those letters couldn't be published until 25 years after his death or 50 years after his death I forget which.…

…his death or 50 years after his death I forget which. He knew he was a classic he never doubted it for a moment. Joyce was absolutely 100 sure he was the most important writer in Shakespeare. He knew he was creating a whole new literature. He'd be the…

…were working on other important art during this time? Well the major one as far as I'm concerned seems to be Ezra pound. Joyce was living in poverty in Trieste, teaching at the Berlitz School. He had written dubliners and nobody would publish it. He had…

…knew of any poets who didn't belong to that circle but were writing in more or less the imagist style and Yeats recommended James Joyce. Pound wrote to Joyce. Joyce sent them a batch of poems. Pound put two of them into the anthology, the two I would…

…didn't belong to that circle but were writing in more or less the imagist style and Yeats recommended James Joyce. Pound wrote to Joyce. Joyce sent them a batch of poems. Pound put two of them into the anthology, the two I would have picked curiously…

…belong to that circle but were writing in more or less the imagist style and Yeats recommended James Joyce. Pound wrote to Joyce. Joyce sent them a batch of poems. Pound put two of them into the anthology, the two I would have picked curiously enough.…

…poems. Pound put two of them into the anthology, the two I would have picked curiously enough. And then pound wrote back to Joyce and said: send me more poetry and Joyce wrote back: I'm not writing poetry lately I'm writing short stories. He sent pound…

…the two I would have picked curiously enough. And then pound wrote back to Joyce and said: send me more poetry and Joyce wrote back: I'm not writing poetry lately I'm writing short stories. He sent pound the dubliners stories. Pound went off into one…

…been rejected by every publisher in England and Ireland and the United Kingdom. Pound found a publisher in New York and then Joyce started Ulysses and pound got that serialized in a magazine called the new free woman later changed its title to the…

…t s Eliot and Benjamin Tucker the individualist anarchist who's been a major influence on my thinking. Eventually she decided when Joyce started Ulysses that he should not have to undergo the hassles of trying to write such a complicated book while teaching…

…devote full time to Ulysses. A few years later she began supporting him entirely all through the writing of Finnegan's wake and to Joyce None of this made any sense. Why should Ezra pound a man he never met appear out of nowhere like a fairy godmother…

…he never met appear out of nowhere like a fairy godmother and work all these miracles to advance his career? But Joyce Finally found the explanation. Pound's father was named homer. I mean Joyce's mind worked that way he was always seeing synchronicities…

…mind worked that way he was always seeing synchronicities and meaningful correspondences. You know why was pound so intrigued by Joyce? Well pound had a tremendous capacity for enthusiasm for original work. Pound. Discovered t s Eliot and Ernest Hemingway and…

…capacity for enthusiasm for original work. Pound. Discovered t s Eliot and Ernest Hemingway and quite a few others as well as Joyce. Joyce was one of his major enthusiasms. But t s Eliot was a major enthusiasm too. Pound edited the wasteland at Eliot's…

…for enthusiasm for original work. Pound. Discovered t s Eliot and Ernest Hemingway and quite a few others as well as Joyce. Joyce was one of his major enthusiasms. But t s Eliot was a major enthusiasm too. Pound edited the wasteland at Eliot's Suggestion…

…any poetry in English, and the contents fascinate me. The cantos seems to me the first multicultural poem. Pound was even more cryptic than Joyce in explaining what he was doing but he did call it the tale of the tribe and when you look at it you find…

…for 50 years now and I haven't gotten bored yet. I'm still finding new delights in them. Do you feel that pound and Joyce fed each other artistically? Well pound fed Joyce Financially for a while I mean he helped Joyce get fed. Their influence on each…

…yet. I'm still finding new delights in them. Do you feel that pound and Joyce fed each other artistically? Well pound fed Joyce Financially for a while I mean he helped Joyce get fed. Their influence on each other remains somewhat problematical. I think…

…feel that pound and Joyce fed each other artistically? Well pound fed Joyce Financially for a while I mean he helped Joyce get fed. Their influence on each other remains somewhat problematical. I think they were going in different directions, although they…

…they both regarded as the hypocrisy and pomposity of the Victorian Period into something nitty gritty and down to earth. But Joyce was much more preoccupied with human psychology, although his interest went far beyond that. But if you can find one center…

…Joyce was much more preoccupied with human psychology, although his interest went far beyond that. But if you can find one center to Joyce you might say the study of guilt and remorse and shame and how it affects human beings, because those are the main…

…human cultures. Ireland is just one weird special case of that. Pound's interest more and more moved to economics. Pound and Joyce use a lot of the same anthropological sources and the cantos begins with Odysseus traveling to the underworld to consult with…

…with the odyssey, just like there is in Ulysses. There are many parallels and there are many differences. Pound admired everything Joyce did extravagantly up until Finnegan's wake which he couldn't stand. Why? Well that's one of those riddles of human life.…

…of creative original work but Finnegan's wake was too creative and original in ways that pound didn't like. Did he feel Joyce had just departed too far? Well Finnegan's wake was being serialized in transition magazine. It was under the working title work…

…being serialized in transition magazine. It was under the working title work in progress and pound in his letters refers to it as Joyce in regress. I think pound looked at a few samples of Finnegan's wake as they were published tried to figure out what…

…regress. I think pound looked at a few samples of Finnegan's wake as they were published tried to figure out what the hell Joyce was doing and discovered that a great deal of it was scatological and childish level excretory and urinary puns and I don't…

…scatological and childish level excretory and urinary puns and I don't think pound deciphered much more than that. He thought Joyce was exploring the murkier areas of the freudian unconscious and the hell with that stuff. It's not that important. Finnegan's…

…and one levels and I think that's the level that you find first, especially if you've. Read Ulysses and you know that Joyce was pushing towards more and more realism about biological facts that have been under heavy taboo in English Irish Culture for a…

…in English Irish Culture for a long time. I also think excretion and urination play a large role in Finnegan's wake because Joyce with all of his elaborations remains fundamentally a documentary style artist and I think Joyce did a lot of studies of the…

…large role in Finnegan's wake because Joyce with all of his elaborations remains fundamentally a documentary style artist and I think Joyce did a lot of studies of the sleeping brain and concluded that all night long whatever you're dreaming about one part…

…consciousness narrative technique. Well it was part of Joyce's Documentary approach to literature. There's a great story in ellman's biography of Joyce when he was the best known eccentric at university college he was 18 years old and he had an article…

…back of the room over to the window, took out a notepad and was busy writing and finally the jesuit teacher said: Mr Joyce what are you doing? And Joyce said they're burying an alderman. I'm counting the mourners. The Ulysses in Finnegan's wake are full…

…window, took out a notepad and was busy writing and finally the jesuit teacher said: Mr Joyce what are you doing? And Joyce said they're burying an alderman. I'm counting the mourners. The Ulysses in Finnegan's wake are full of that kind of details. When…

…alderman. I'm counting the mourners. The Ulysses in Finnegan's wake are full of that kind of details. When bloom walks down Grafton Street, Joyce who was writing in Trieste, wrote to an aunt in Dublin to make sure he got the time right from o Connell…

…perspectives the objective details in Ulysses are astonishingly accurate. Do we find any conspiracy theory going on in Ulysses? Well Joyce used to be considered the most apolitical of artists but there's been a rebellion against that. I've got three books:…

…of artists but there's been a rebellion against that. I've got three books: manginello's Joyce's Politics, which argues that Joyce had a strong. Sympathy for both Benjamin Tucker's individualist anarchism and Leo Tolstoy's Anarcho pacifism. This is based on…

…had a strong. Sympathy for both Benjamin Tucker's individualist anarchism and Leo Tolstoy's Anarcho pacifism. This is based on articles Joyce wrote in Italian when he was living in Trieste which hadn't been translated before, in which he does Express his…

…when he was living in Trieste which hadn't been translated before, in which he does Express his political opinions rather frankly. Joyce and the politics of desire is a feminist defense of Joyce Against feminists who claim he was really a misogynist. What…

…before, in which he does Express his political opinions rather frankly. Joyce and the politics of desire is a feminist defense of Joyce Against feminists who claim he was really a misogynist. What looks like feminist ideas in his books is really a facade…

…Against feminists who claim he was really a misogynist. What looks like feminist ideas in his books is really a facade behind it. Joyce fears and hates women and this one argues that's not true at all. He's one of the greatest feminist artists who ever…

…all. He's one of the greatest feminist artists who ever happened to be born with a willy. And then there's Vincent Chang's Joyce race and empire which sees a steady progression in Joyce from dubliners to Finnegan's wake. In Dublin It's all about the…

…happened to be born with a willy. And then there's Vincent Chang's Joyce race and empire which sees a steady progression in Joyce from dubliners to Finnegan's wake. In Dublin It's all about the oppressive effect of British rule on Ireland. In Ulysses the…

…make them look more like other primates than like human beings. And as Cheng points out this was the literary environment in which Joyce grew up in which he was classified as subhuman, a sort of gorilla. That's the way the Irish were regarded by the…

…a sort of gorilla. That's the way the Irish were regarded by the English. This ties in with that extreme view that Joyce was a one man literary IRA. With Joyce's parodying English Racism, it gets more and more generalized until in Finnegan's wake he's…

…has an imperialist motive behind it. Ezra pound in one of his reviews said: in presenting Ireland under English Domination. Joyce Implicitly shows the entire accident under the domination of finance capital that was before pound coined the word usurocracy or…

…usurocracy, the international bankers, the financiers he called it finance capitalism. In that case it's interesting that these two writers, Joyce and pound were contemporaneous with each other. What was it about that time in history that seemed to create so…

…doubled for the first in 250 years where previously doublings took millenniums. By 1900, when they were all becoming mature Picasso, pound Joyce, Frank Lloyd Wright they were all either in their 20s or their late teens. The world was obviously so full of…

…it. The order is the order of the way human beings relate to the realities around them. Interestingly, you've written about both Joyce and pound as, in a sense, prophets of the internet. Yeah well who's generally regarded as the major prophet of the…

…of internet and what is expected in the next 5 to 10 years. Now McLuhan always said he got most of his ideas from Joyce. That's no secret. In almost every book he stops off somewhere to mention James Joyce as the major authority on how media affect…

…always said he got most of his ideas from Joyce. That's no secret. In almost every book he stops off somewhere to mention James Joyce as the major authority on how media affect us. Well McLuhan also got a lot from pound. I first encountered McLuhan in…

…and the technique of the cantos is in many ways closer to internet than Von Negen's work is. Well both he and Joyce seem to have taken basically all information available to them and kind of condensed and synthesized it into their own vision. Yeah…

…that that opportunity is now available to all of us since we have this giant information source. That's what I mean about Joyce and pound being prophets of internet. Reading Joyce and pound is much easier now that internet exists, because every time you're…

…of us since we have this giant information source. That's what I mean about Joyce and pound being prophets of internet. Reading Joyce and pound is much easier now that internet exists, because every time you're really puzzled just put it into your search…

…that internet exists, because every time you're really puzzled just put it into your search engine and you'll find out something about it. The internet more and more begins to approximate the minds of pound and Joyce. Copyright© osho international foundation

…one of the inevitable byproducts of jesuit education. The jesuits educated the marquis de sade and Diderot and Voltaire and James Joyce and Jerry Brown. I don't know about that case, but they are very good at producing intellectually intricate atheists,…

…don't agree and a Dublin man said: well sure if they agreed one of them would be superfluous. That's good Irish Logic. For you, as James Joyce, I see they gave me as a prop they gave me poor yorick I knew him well a fellow of infinite Jest and merry…

…I run out of ideas I'll open Finnegan's wake at random and see how that fits into the topic of the night. Joyce pointed out that there are only three world class philosophers of celtic genes as distinguished from designer genes. There's origina, Scottish…

…that and anything I was talking about tonight have I, except for the totalitarian theme? I have been talking about totalitarianism. Joyce seems to have had the impression that totalitarianism is some kind of attempt to return to infancy. And why do I…

…end of my commentary on that for tonight. I could go further but we don't need to go that deep into the Joyce Ian Psychoarchaeology. Finnegan's wake is psychoarchaeology. It's going down through the various levels of the psyche to the most ancient ones…

…the parliament had appointed, the jacobites being the Stuart Family who were the legitimate heirs to the throne. But of course Joyce has misspelled darling to Darwin so as a reference to Charles Darwin in there, charlie you're my darling and charlie you're…

…or the dog? Which historical figure would you pick if you wanted to have a conversation with somebody? Anybody in history, Euclid, James Joyce Nope, Euclid, what was it? You see you're asking something. You may have touched a nerve with that one. I could…

…offend some people but then again as John Cleese once said there are some people one wishes to offend. What do you think of Joyce? Is there as much allegory in his work as the interpreters seem to make out? Does every sentence really mean someone or a…

…sentence really mean someone or a bandit is lying to us allegory? I don't know I don't know how much allegory there is in Joyce but every sentence has been worked on with great precision to give it at least 18 different meanings, about 13 of which are…

…and five are metaphysical. Well that's an average ratio. Sometimes he does better than that. But no you don't have to invent meanings in Joyce he puts so many meanings in that it's almost a full time job to find the ones he put in. You don't need to…

…negative criticism you can either brood about it and get morbid or try to forget it or you can make a joke out of it. Joyce I think was the first one to realize the value of making a joke out of it. The seventh chapter of Finnegan's wake, the Shem…

…it you're acting infantile. So they have a variety of choices. John Steinbeck was notorious for writing nasty letters to unfavorable reviewers. Joyce never replied to any of his reviewers no matter how nasty they were. He just saved all of them and turned…

…Vico said: all revolutions are sons against fathers that's in his book the new science which is the basic structure that Joyce adopted in Finnegan's wake. Isn't Vico One of the background characters for Finnegan's wake? Yeah he plays an important role in…

…Bloom. Critics refer to bloom as a jew from the 1920s up until the 1970s when somebody published an essay in the James Joyce review called: is Leopold Bloom a jew? It depends on how you define jew. According to the rabbinical definition, a jew is…

…by three definitions he is and by two definitions he is. And is this trivial? I don't think so. I think Joyce made bloom's background genetically and culturally so complicated to make anti semitism seem even more ridiculous, because bloom is only Jewish…

…particular day, that day when, as Edna O brien wrote nothing and everything is happening now you hold a particular reverence almost for Joyce it seems. What is it about Joyce that you find so fascinating? Oh there are many, many things but I suppose the…

…O brien wrote nothing and everything is happening now you hold a particular reverence almost for Joyce it seems. What is it about Joyce that you find so fascinating? Oh there are many, many things but I suppose the principal thing that comes to mind is…

…that happens in an ordinary day. And according to Joyce's own descriptions, what was he trying to do with this text? Well Joyce was not much given to explaining himself he dropped hints. It seems to me one of Joyce's Major motives consisted of trying…

…and especially the plays of Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen of course, gradually moved from naturalism to expressionism as his career went on. But Joyce felt that if he pushed realism far enough it would collapse upon itself. The closest you can get to realism, it…

…realism far enough it would collapse upon itself. The closest you can get to realism, it seems in literature, is the style Joyce uses in most of Ulysses, which is the interior monologue. You're inside one person's head and you're perceiving the world as…

…said Joyce's Prose prepared to give the exact words. Joyce's Prose prepared me to enter psychedelic space. I would say that Joyce is best read while you're stoned. And if you've never had a psychedelic reading, Joyce is the next best equivalent. Yosatani…

…to enter psychedelic space. I would say that Joyce is best read while you're stoned. And if you've never had a psychedelic reading, Joyce is the next best equivalent. Yosatani roshi, with whom I studied Zen Briefly I don't mean to claim I got very far…

…You can never fully know the territory. Besides, the territory is changing all the time, the universe is unsimultaneously apprehended. Now is Joyce denounced as a terrorist? Well as a matter of fact, frequently he was. Yes, a lot of the first criticisms of…

…he was. Yes, a lot of the first criticisms of Ulysses were denouncing it for its obscenity and blasphemy which was just Joyce being naturalistic this is the way people talk these are the things people do and so on, and the fictionists never dared…

…before. Well if you want realism I'll give you realism until it collapses on itself. As I said, one recent article defined Joyce as a one man literary IRA. In a sense Ulysses Destroys English Literature because the whole history of English Literature is…

…futility of all styles. No matter what style you write in you're not conveying reality you're conveying a style and so Joyce does parodies of mort Arthur, Dickens, Swift the whole history of English Literature is in Ulysses and every framework changes the…

…Cahill it could be blazer's boylan secretary whose first name is Martha. Which makes for a very intriguing pattern because as one Joyce Scholar discovered in the wandering rocks chapter, when boylan calls his secretary Martha if you put it on the map of…

…the part of Grafton Street where bloom is standing at that time looking in a department store window. That is so much Joyce Y in that I still suspect it's boylan's secretary, which adds another strange loop because if boylan is having a real affair…

…bloom whatsoever. There are things you never will find out. That's the way the world before Ulysses. Is there any indication that Joyce had studied for example, the physics of the day? Yeah in his notes for the ithaca chapter it's quite clear that he…

…and in another sense like in Lobachevsky and they meet in another sense like Lobachevsky and they get further and further apart. And Joyce did that because he didn't want the reader to be quite sure what the climax of the novel was. We never know the…

…But isn't June 16th an important day in both the novel and in Joyce's life with Nora? Yes this is something a lot of Joyce Scholars skirt around nervously. They say June 16th was the day Joyce and Nora went for a walk together for the first time.…

…in Joyce's life with Nora? Yes this is something a lot of Joyce Scholars skirt around nervously. They say June 16th was the day Joyce and Nora went for a walk together for the first time. Actually as Joyce's Letters to Nora in 1909 when she was still…

…make him rich, and he got cheated by his partners June 16th what actually happened is they walked on sandy mount strand and Joyce made sexual advances and she gave him a hand job. So every year as bloomsday gets bigger and bigger and leads to more…

…more and more they are all celebrating a hand job whether they know it or not. I think the hand job was so important to Joyce because based on all the time in his whole life that he had an orgasm with a woman without paying for it, his whole sex…

…until they could meet again. They wrote to each other about everything they did, everything they fantasized and so on. I think Joyce arranged that those letters couldn't be published until 25 years after his death or 50 years after his death I forget. He…

…after his death or 50 years after his death I forget. He knew he was a classic he never doubted it for a moment. Joyce was absolutely 100 sure he was the most important writer in Shakespeare. He knew he was creating an old new literature. He'd be the…

…were working on other important art during this time? Well the major one as far as I'm concerned seems to be Ezra pound. Joyce was living in poverty in Trieste teaching at the Berlitz School. He had written dubliners and nobody would publish it. He had…

…knew of any poets who didn't belong to that circle but were writing in more or less the imagist style, and Yeats recommended James Joyce. Pound wrote to Joyce. Joyce sent them a batch of poems. Pound put two of them into the anthology the two I would…

…didn't belong to that circle but were writing in more or less the imagist style, and Yeats recommended James Joyce. Pound wrote to Joyce. Joyce sent them a batch of poems. Pound put two of them into the anthology the two I would have picked curiously…

…belong to that circle but were writing in more or less the imagist style, and Yeats recommended James Joyce. Pound wrote to Joyce. Joyce sent them a batch of poems. Pound put two of them into the anthology the two I would have picked curiously enough…

…poems. Pound put two of them into the anthology the two I would have picked curiously enough and then pound wrote back to Joyce and said: send me more poetry. And Joyce wrote back: I'm not writing poetry lately I'm writing short stories. He sent pound…

…the two I would have picked curiously enough and then pound wrote back to Joyce and said: send me more poetry. And Joyce wrote back: I'm not writing poetry lately I'm writing short stories. He sent pound the dubliners stories. Pound went off into one…

…been rejected by every publisher in England and Ireland and the United Kingdom. Pound found a publisher in New York and then Joyce started Ulysses and pound got that serialized in a magazine called the new free woman later changed its title to the…

…t s Eliot and Benjamin Tucker the individualist anarchist who's been a major influence on my thinking. Eventually she decided when Joyce started Ulysses that he shouldn't not have to undergo the hassles of trying to write such a complicated book while…

…devote full time to Ulysses. A few years later she began supporting him entirely all through the writing of Finnegan's wake and to Joyce. None of this made any sense. Why should Ezra pound a man he never met, appear out of nowhere like a fairy godmother…

…he never met, appear out of nowhere like a fairy godmother and work all these miracles to advance his career? But Joyce Finally found the explanation. Pound's father was named homer. I mean Joyce's mind worked that way he was always seeing synchronicities…

…mind worked that way he was always seeing synchronicities and meaningful correspondences. You know why was pound so intrigued by Joyce? Well pound had a tremendous capacity for enthusiasm for original work. Pound discovered t s Eliot and Ernest Hemingway and…

…capacity for enthusiasm for original work. Pound discovered t s Eliot and Ernest Hemingway and quite a few others as well as Joyce. Joyce was one of his major enthusiasms, but t s Eliot was a major enthusiasm too. Pound edited the wasteland at Eliot's…

…for enthusiasm for original work. Pound discovered t s Eliot and Ernest Hemingway and quite a few others as well as Joyce. Joyce was one of his major enthusiasms, but t s Eliot was a major enthusiasm too. Pound edited the wasteland at Eliot's Suggestion…

…any poetry in English. And the contents fascinate me. The cantos seems to me the first multicultural poem. Pound was even more cryptic than Joyce in explaining what he was doing, but he did call it the tale of the tribe and when you look at it you…

…for fifty years now and I haven't gotten bored yet. I'm still finding new delights in them. Do you feel that pound and Joyce fed each other artistically? Well pound fed Joyce Financially for a while I mean he helped Joyce get fed. Their influence on…

…yet. I'm still finding new delights in them. Do you feel that pound and Joyce fed each other artistically? Well pound fed Joyce Financially for a while I mean he helped Joyce get fed. Their influence on each other remains somewhat problematical. I think…

…feel that pound and Joyce fed each other artistically? Well pound fed Joyce Financially for a while I mean he helped Joyce get fed. Their influence on each other remains somewhat problematical. I think they were going in different directions although they…

…they both regarded as the hypocrisy and pomposity of the Victorian Period into something nitty gritty and down to earth. But Joyce was much more preoccupied with human psychology although his interests went far beyond that. But if you can find one center…

…Joyce was much more preoccupied with human psychology although his interests went far beyond that. But if you can find one center to Joyce you might say the study of guilt and remorse and shame and how it affects human beings because those are the main…

…human cultures. Ireland is just one weird special case of that. Pound's interest more and more moved to economics. Pound and Joyce use a lot of the same anthropological sources and the cantos begins with Odysseus traveling to the underworld to consult with…

…with the odyssey just like there is in Ulysses. There are many parallels and there are many differences. Pound admired everything Joyce did extravagantly up until Finnegan's wake which he couldn't stand. Why? Well that's one of those riddles of human life.…

…of creative original work but Finnegan's wake was too creative and original in ways that pound didn't like. Did he feel Joyce had just departed too far? Well when Finnegan's wake was being serialized in transition magazine, it was under the working title…

…being serialized in transition magazine, it was under the working title work in progress and pound in his letters refers to it as Joyce in regress. I think pound looked at a few samples of Finnegan's wake as they were published tried to figure out what…

…regress. I think pound looked at a few samples of Finnegan's wake as they were published tried to figure out what the hell Joyce was doing and discovered that a great deal of it was scatological and childish level excretory and urinary puns and I don't…

…scatological and childish level excretory and urinary puns and I don't think pound deciphered much more than that. He thought Joyce was exploring the murkier areas of the freudian unconscious and the hell with that stuff it's not that important. Finnegan's…

…thousand and one levels. I think that's the level that you find first, especially if you've read Ulysses and you know that Joyce was pushing towards more and more realism about biological facts that have been under heavy taboo in English Irish Culture for…

…in English Irish Culture for a long time. I also think excretion and urination play a large role in Finnegan's wake because Joyce, with all of his elaborations, remains fundamentally a documentary style artist and I think Joyce did a lot of studies of his…

…large role in Finnegan's wake because Joyce, with all of his elaborations, remains fundamentally a documentary style artist and I think Joyce did a lot of studies of his sleeping brain and concluded that all night long whatever you're dreaming about one…

…narrative technique. Well it was part of Joyce's Documentary approach to literature. There's a great story in ellman's biography of Joyce when he was the best known eccentric at university college. He was eighteen years old and he had an article…

…back of the room over to the window, took out a notepad and was busy writing and finding the jesuit teacher said: Mr Joyce what are you doing? And Joyce said: they're burying an alderman I'm counting the mourners. Ulysses and Finnegan's wake are full of…

…window, took out a notepad and was busy writing and finding the jesuit teacher said: Mr Joyce what are you doing? And Joyce said: they're burying an alderman I'm counting the mourners. Ulysses and Finnegan's wake are full of that kind of details when…

…an alderman I'm counting the mourners. Ulysses and Finnegan's wake are full of that kind of details when bloom walks down Grafton Street, Joyce, who was writing in Trieste, wrote to an aunt in Dublin to make sure he got the time right from o Connell…

…perspectives, the objective details in Ulysses are astonishingly accurate. Do we find any conspiracy theory going on in Ulysses? Well Joyce used to be considered the most apolitical of artists but there's been a rebellion against that. I've got three books:…

…of artists but there's been a rebellion against that. I've got three books: manginello's Joyce's Politics, which argues that Joyce had a strong sympathy for both Benjamin Tucker's individualist anarchism and Leo Tolstoy's Anarcho pacifism. This is based on…

…had a strong sympathy for both Benjamin Tucker's individualist anarchism and Leo Tolstoy's Anarcho pacifism. This is based on articles Joyce wrote in Italian when he was living in Trieste which hadn't been translated before, in which he does Express his…

…when he was living in Trieste which hadn't been translated before, in which he does Express his political opinions rather frankly. Joyce and the politics of desire is a feminist defense of Joyce Against feminists who claim he was really a misogynist. What…

…before, in which he does Express his political opinions rather frankly. Joyce and the politics of desire is a feminist defense of Joyce Against feminists who claim he was really a misogynist. What looks like feminist ideas in his books is really a facade…

…Against feminists who claim he was really a misogynist. What looks like feminist ideas in his books is really a facade behind it Joyce fears and hates women and this one argues that's not true at all. He's one of the greatest feminist artists. Who ever…

…at all. He's one of the greatest feminist artists. Who ever happened to be born with a willy and then there's Vincent Chang's Joyce race and empire, which sees a steady progression in Joyce from Dublin is defending his work in Dublin. It's all about the…

…happened to be born with a willy and then there's Vincent Chang's Joyce race and empire, which sees a steady progression in Joyce from Dublin is defending his work in Dublin. It's all about the oppressive effect of British rule on Ireland. In Ulysses the…

…make them look more like other primates than like human beings. And as Chang points out there's a lot of environment in which Joyce grew up in which he was classified as subhuman, a sort of gorilla. That's the way the Irish were regarded by the English.…

…a sort of gorilla. That's the way the Irish were regarded by the English. This ties in with that extreme view that Joyce was a one man literary IRA. With Joyce's parodying English Racism gets more and more generalized until in Finnegan's wake he's…

…in the world especially if it has an imperialist motive behind it. Ezra and presenting Ireland under English Domination, Joyce Implicitly shows the entire accident under the domination of finance capital. That was before pound coined the word usurocracy,…

…usurocracy, the international bankers, the financiers he called it finance capitalism in that case it's interesting that these two writers, Joyce and pound were contemporaneous with each other. What was it about that time in history that seemed to create so…

…had doubled for the first 250 years where previously doublings. Took millenniums. By 1900 when they were all becoming mature Picasso, pound Joyce, Frank Lloyd Wright they were all either in their 20s or their late teens. The world was obviously so full of…

…it. The order is the order of the way human beings relate to the realities around them. Interestingly, you've written about both Joyce and pound as, in a sense, prophets of the internet. Yeah well who's generally regarded as the major prophet of the…

…of internet and what is expected in the next five to ten years. Now McLuhan always said he got most of his ideas from Joyce. That's no secret. In almost every book he stops off somewhere to mention James Joyce as the major authority on how media affect…

…always said he got most of his ideas from Joyce. That's no secret. In almost every book he stops off somewhere to mention James Joyce as the major authority on how media affect us. Well McLuhan also got a lot from pound. I first encountered McLuhan in…

…importance and the technique of the cantos is in many ways closer to internet than Finnegan's wake is. Well both he and Joyce seem to have taken basically all information available to them and kind of condensed and synthesized it into their own vision.…

…that that opportunity is now available to all of us since we have this giant information source. That's what I mean about Joyce and pound being prophets of internet. Reading Joyce and pound is much easier now that internet exists because every time you're…

…of us since we have this giant information source. That's what I mean about Joyce and pound being prophets of internet. Reading Joyce and pound is much easier now that internet exists because every time you're really puzzled just put it into your search…

…every time you're really puzzled just put it into your search engine and you'll find out something about it. The internet more and more begins to approximate the minds of pound and Joyce. This concludes session 2. Our program continues with session 3.

…century who's not known. Most people have heard of Buckminster Fuller and Albert Einstein and Aleister Crowley to some extent James Joyce. Jack Parsons is virtually unknown and yet he was more than anybody else responsible for the American Space program and…

…it goes back to Guillaume Baptiste Avico, an 18th century neapolitan who has been a major influence on me as well as on James Joyce, and my books are full of neologisms and odd uses of language just to break through the habits of perception that are…

…is. Yes that's quantum psychology. I also break sentences up in the Burroughs way so there's no subject and predicate. I use Joyce in stream of consciousness. I run words together so one word has five different meanings depending on which way you look at…

…stream of consciousness. I run words together so one word has five different meanings depending on which way you look at the sentence like Joyce did in Finnegan's wake. All of this is attempts to get us out of the lines of word and image that were laid…

…could do masses of an audience you have to have like sybil Danning playing roman Polanski could direct and pee wee Herman as James Joyce what was that girl's line again, who was that? So many jokes in the temple of cthulhu this afternoon that was very…

…the whole name of the thing is the illustration of the alchemical process of turning the water into the fire alchemical furnace, and Joyce has a lot of fun working that into the structure of Phoenix lake and Phoenix park is the biggest enclosed park in…

…books I wish everybody would read so they'd be more rounded. And the list is if I can remember it, Ulysses by James Joyce, the cantos of Ezra pound, science and sanity by Alfred Korzybski, Shakespeare, Ovid, Chaucer, Justine by de sade because it raises…

…How much influence did Crowley have on my writings? Well considerable, but he was only one of many influences. James Joyce was a powerful influence. H l Mencken, Timothy Leary, Ezra pound, Benjamin Tucker, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Shakespeare, Dante,…

…say about Lucid dreaming? The fascinating thing about Lucid dreaming is the better I get at it the more I realize that Joyce was portraying the unconscious accurately in Finnegan's wake. It's only when you're in the real fogged over dream state you think…

…and you're also in a night club in Chicago and you're also climbing a mountain in tibet which is just the way Joyce writes in Finnegan's wake. The unconscious can handle several reality tunnels at once. It's only unconscious minds that are narrowed down…

…is the best guide for Lucid dreaming. If you read Finnegan's wake enough you get into Lucid dreaming almost without trying. The way Joyce wrote Finnegan's he would get up in the morning and he would go to sleep and dream some more Lucid dreams in the…

…right? Do you feel part of the or that the stories, the dynamic of the stories, infect your life here or do you feel Joyce walking in the door at some point and meeting up with Einstein coming out of the kitchen and having do you feel the spirits…

…household? I'm not afflicted thank god, with jealousy of women. The only people I've ever been jealous of I think, are James Joyce, Who's Dead, Ezra pound who's dead, a few other notable literary worries who aren't dead. There have been times. Are you…

…writer he will read him. I know I hate to say till his dying day but until a day very far hence he will be reading Joyce. He rereads Joyce Every year. I will hear shuffles emerging from his office but I know that all he's ever done in his wake. I…

…him. I know I hate to say till his dying day but until a day very far hence he will be reading Joyce. He rereads Joyce Every year. I will hear shuffles emerging from his office but I know that all he's ever done in his wake. I read something of…

…beautiful language ever created and the greatest works of literature are all written in Irish English, from Jonathan Swift to James Joyce to flann o brien. That's another lecture. I have another lecture, the land where bulls are pregnant where I explain…

…course of the novel. Then where did frozen's cat come from? Well I suppose the major influence on my ideas about style is James Joyce, who changed the style in every chapter of Ulysses. That's where I first began to realize a style does create a reality…

…Well I regard science as two epics, before Einstein and after Einstein and the same way literature has two epics, before Joyce and after Joyce. And if there are some people still writing pre joycean novels today well that's because they just haven't…

…regard science as two epics, before Einstein and after Einstein and the same way literature has two epics, before Joyce and after Joyce. And if there are some people still writing pre joycean novels today well that's because they just haven't caught on. A…

…get into a rut. All right, and was it one of the talks that I heard that you said that Carl Jung met James Joyce and they didn't like each other very much because James Joyce, Jung said Jung observed was a borderland schizophrenic and if it wasn't…

…the talks that I heard that you said that Carl Jung met James Joyce and they didn't like each other very much because James Joyce, Jung said Jung observed was a borderland schizophrenic and if it wasn't for his art he would have went under. Was that…

…that or maybe somebody else? Jung did say that at one time Joyce's Theory about why Jung Didn't like him was if you translate Joyce into German It's freude. That could be it okay thank you for calling thank you, goodbye. You're on hour 25, go ahead. Oh…

…to it by creating a new legend? I don't know. As I said, wells is my favorite film director. My favorite novelist is James Joyce. I had a spooky Joyce Ian experience last bloomsday. Bloomsday is June 16th that's the day on which the events of Ulysses…

…legend? I don't know. As I said, wells is my favorite film director. My favorite novelist is James Joyce. I had a spooky Joyce Ian experience last bloomsday. Bloomsday is June 16th that's the day on which the events of Ulysses take place June 16th 1904…

…So now we're going to have the standard Ulysses and the corrected Ulysses and both of them have mistakes, which is just the way Joyce wanted it I'm sure. Anyway I took the review into the Dublin Evening. They asked me to bring it in on bloomsday, which…

…going to keep encountering each other until the climax of the novel and that's one of the major uses of synchronicity by Joyce in Ulysses and I'm thinking gee and I'm crossing the same lobby where bloom almost met Stephen Except that they're fictitious…

…from Ulysses no matter where you go. Bloomsday is a major economic event in Ireland because it brings in a lot of tourists who are Joyce Fans and it swells the bank accounts of all the hotels and b? Bs and so on. So you're bound to run into somebody…

…At least she doesn't claim he does talk she says he almost talks. So we've got three versions of Gary Owen and Joyce never tells you which is true because the difference between Ulysses and all novels previous to Ulysses is that Joyce Doesn't assume…

…and Joyce never tells you which is true because the difference between Ulysses and all novels previous to Ulysses is that Joyce Doesn't assume there is an objective reality separate from us. Joyce has the quantum mechanical point of view that every…

…between Ulysses and all novels previous to Ulysses is that Joyce Doesn't assume there is an objective reality separate from us. Joyce has the quantum mechanical point of view that every perceived reality is a function of the observer as much as it…

…article of mine called the semantics of god, which he printed in his magazine the realist, and the other was from the James Joyce review which had just accepted an article of mine called Joyce and Taoism, which they printed in their summer 1959 edition.…

…in his magazine the realist, and the other was from the James Joyce review which had just accepted an article of mine called Joyce and Taoism, which they printed in their summer 1959 edition. And I thought boy what an omen on my birthday I get my…