#ipanoptes

08042020

Thank gods for Ulysses Annotated. Every little reference has a note or commentary. Don Gifford and Rober Seidman created a great resource. Allows more time for reading. 

p. 144/771 

07262020

Spent midday on the outside porch listening to the rain and taking notes across disciplines. Making pathways through Joyce’s Ulysses.

p: 95/771

{08122020}

Building connections between Ancients and Moderns. What would Nietzsche say to Lucretius or Plato? Where would Stephen Dedalus be without the Greeks? 

04082012

An image from a sense of past security. I could sit here for hours reading in the shade of my parents’ backgarden. 

07212020

Oh, James Joyce, — what a leviathan you have created! 

The effect of death upon those that live is always strange, and often terrible in the havoc it makes with innocent desires (32).

07252020

The moment was just right. Too many years I have tried to capture an image of these birds in flight. But today, finally: a hesitant leap and then awkward beauty skimming the surface of the subdivision’s landscape.