James Joyce’s Ulysses: 3 Glaring Misconceptions
“How can you own water really? It’s always flowing in a stream, never the same, which in the stream of …
Category Archives: The Hero
The Hero’s Deed (Dead?)
Yeah, I’ve used this image before, but it’s the best I know of heroism today: battered and outdated. I photoshopped …
Experience…. Experience It!
“If you think that I am sad about this last year, about disappointments, about the painful loss of love; if …
A (Nearly) Wordless Journey Toward The Light
*** What difference is there between us humans and the plant world besides the fact that some of us can …
The Fork In The Road
“What distinguishes the men I have in mind is that they did not impose their authority on man; on the …
The Labyrinth Of Learning
“Few ever get to the heart of the labyrinth. Most of us crawl about the entrance, or else venture timidly …
Bloomsday Is An Intellectual Game… Dedalusday A Spiritual Journey
“Bloomsday is an intellectual game… Dedalusday is a spiritual journey.”—Xenon “When Zen gives utterance to itself, it goes against the …
It’s Bloomsday…For The Masses, Dedalusday For The Few
“Will you be as gods? Gaze in your omphalos.”—Stephen Dedalus, A.K.A. James Joyce, Ulysses “It’s Bloomsday…for the masses; Dedalusday for …
Facts? What Facts?….Or, Women, Would You Find Love? Listen Up!
“To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn’t become an artist overnight. …
Failure Of Nerve?
“Professor Gilbert Murray has termed the centuries between the flowering of classical Athens and the growth of the radically different …
