IMPORTANT:
There will be no reading on Tuesday, 19 May 2015. We shall meet again on 26 May 2015.
Today we stopped as Simon Dedalus was singing "When first I saw that form endearing..."
(Penguin 352.26) Gabler (11.665)
Bronze-headed Miss Douce wonders pensively why Boylan departed so soon, when she obliged him with Sonnezlacloche.
Simon Dedalus and Father Cowley are with Ben Dollard, who is playing the piano in the Ormond hotel salon. The three are also reminiscing about a past incidence at which Goodwin, a piano teacher, was playing the piano not so well as Father Cowley puts it mildly, saying, 'There was a slight difference of opinion between himself and the Collard grand' (a middle-grade piano). Bloom had saved the situation that night by lending Ben a pair of trousers, albeit too tight a pair. Father Cowley recalls that they had to search all Holles street till they found out from a chap in Keogh's (a bar?) how to contact Bloom. (Gifford says in his Annotations that when they were living in Holles Street, Molly and Bloom collected and sold secondhand clothes and theatrical costumes; 11.487). Their talk moves to Molly, her looks, her parentage, ...
Bloom and Richie Goulding are having their dinner. Liver and bacon for Bloom, steak and kidney pie for Richie, served by bald (= deaf) Pat. Dinners fit for princes. Clean here at least, unlike at Burton's, which Bloom had entered earlier that day thinking of having lunch there and had left immediately afterwards seeing how unesthetically people were eating (episode 8). While having dinner, Bloom's thoughts turn to Molly and to his conversation with her that morning (Met him pike hoses, Paul de Kock, nice name he). By sheer coincidence (or did he hear the music from the salon and recognize the voices?), Bloom is also thinking of the night when he and Molly lent Dollard a dress suit for the concert. He (Bloom) recalls how Molly did laugh when he (Dollard) went out. Threw herself back across the bed, screaming, kicking. With all his belongings on show. Thoughts of Molly make Bloom remember again the day the two had spent on the Howth. (There is a very nice sentence here: 'We are their harps. I. He. Old. Young.' Is Bloom thinking of how women (Molly) play with men (like himself /old and like Boylan /young?)
Meanwhile Boylan's jingle jaunts down the quays. More customers enter the Ormond bar. Miss Kennedy serves two gentlemen with tankards of cool stout. Miss Douce, bows to suave solicitor, George Lidwell, gentleman, entering. (George Lidwell represented Joyce in the case regarding Dubliners. Obviously Lidwell was not a great help and ended up as a suave solicitor here.)
Urged by his friends to sing, Simon Dedalus declines at first. Father Cowley himself sings softly looking at a painting (a dusty seascape, motive of the Sirens) hanging there. He again urges Simon to sing, offering to accompany him at the piano. As they are discussing about the music, Boylan is still jaunting jingly; Bloom and Goulding are having dinner. (Steak, kidney, liver, mashed, at meat fit for princes sat princes Bloom and Goulding.) Ritchie Goulding whistles a tune (All is lost now) from Bellini's opera, Sonnambula. Simon Dedalus starts singing 'When first I saw that form endearing', a free translation of the aria, M'appari, from Flotow's opera, Martha.
Thus there is much music in this Sirens episode: songs, arie, references to musical instruments, fragments of sentences (Example: He saved the situa. Tight trou. Brilliant ide; Penguin 346.4) that resemble fragments of musical motives.
There will be no reading on Tuesday, 19 May 2015. We shall meet again on 26 May 2015.
Today we stopped as Simon Dedalus was singing "When first I saw that form endearing..."
(Penguin 352.26) Gabler (11.665)
Bronze-headed Miss Douce wonders pensively why Boylan departed so soon, when she obliged him with Sonnezlacloche.
Simon Dedalus and Father Cowley are with Ben Dollard, who is playing the piano in the Ormond hotel salon. The three are also reminiscing about a past incidence at which Goodwin, a piano teacher, was playing the piano not so well as Father Cowley puts it mildly, saying, 'There was a slight difference of opinion between himself and the Collard grand' (a middle-grade piano). Bloom had saved the situation that night by lending Ben a pair of trousers, albeit too tight a pair. Father Cowley recalls that they had to search all Holles street till they found out from a chap in Keogh's (a bar?) how to contact Bloom. (Gifford says in his Annotations that when they were living in Holles Street, Molly and Bloom collected and sold secondhand clothes and theatrical costumes; 11.487). Their talk moves to Molly, her looks, her parentage, ...
Bloom and Richie Goulding are having their dinner. Liver and bacon for Bloom, steak and kidney pie for Richie, served by bald (= deaf) Pat. Dinners fit for princes. Clean here at least, unlike at Burton's, which Bloom had entered earlier that day thinking of having lunch there and had left immediately afterwards seeing how unesthetically people were eating (episode 8). While having dinner, Bloom's thoughts turn to Molly and to his conversation with her that morning (Met him pike hoses, Paul de Kock, nice name he). By sheer coincidence (or did he hear the music from the salon and recognize the voices?), Bloom is also thinking of the night when he and Molly lent Dollard a dress suit for the concert. He (Bloom) recalls how Molly did laugh when he (Dollard) went out. Threw herself back across the bed, screaming, kicking. With all his belongings on show. Thoughts of Molly make Bloom remember again the day the two had spent on the Howth. (There is a very nice sentence here: 'We are their harps. I. He. Old. Young.' Is Bloom thinking of how women (Molly) play with men (like himself /old and like Boylan /young?)
Meanwhile Boylan's jingle jaunts down the quays. More customers enter the Ormond bar. Miss Kennedy serves two gentlemen with tankards of cool stout. Miss Douce, bows to suave solicitor, George Lidwell, gentleman, entering. (George Lidwell represented Joyce in the case regarding Dubliners. Obviously Lidwell was not a great help and ended up as a suave solicitor here.)
Urged by his friends to sing, Simon Dedalus declines at first. Father Cowley himself sings softly looking at a painting (a dusty seascape, motive of the Sirens) hanging there. He again urges Simon to sing, offering to accompany him at the piano. As they are discussing about the music, Boylan is still jaunting jingly; Bloom and Goulding are having dinner. (Steak, kidney, liver, mashed, at meat fit for princes sat princes Bloom and Goulding.) Ritchie Goulding whistles a tune (All is lost now) from Bellini's opera, Sonnambula. Simon Dedalus starts singing 'When first I saw that form endearing', a free translation of the aria, M'appari, from Flotow's opera, Martha.
Thus there is much music in this Sirens episode: songs, arie, references to musical instruments, fragments of sentences (Example: He saved the situa. Tight trou. Brilliant ide; Penguin 346.4) that resemble fragments of musical motives.
