We see everyone the living room and Buck Mulligan is wearing a fantastic flowing gown.
Well, Stephen actually has the shaving bowl now. He brought it downstairs...
Oh I reread it, I guess Buck was the one who went downstairs, leaving Stephen up there. I think I'm having difficulty getting used to the style of this book. There's no quotation marks, all of the dialogue is marked by dashes.
Anyway, Stephen has the shaving bowl.
Smoke is filling the room while Buck is flipping out while making breakfast.
In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti -The sign of the cross in latin
"In the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit."
Growing up, Dad would always say "... and the holy ghost" and his Act of Contrition was way different than mine, Hell. I don't even remember the words now.
So Stephen meets his buddies downstairs in the living room. I think Buck was cooking breakfast but smoke was getting everywhere. Unfortunately the over head range hood wouldn't be invented for another 17 years.
Bucks flipping out, so Stephen opens the front door with the key that he had.
You might say he had Ein Schlüssel zum Schloss. Oh wait. no! I know! He walked downstairs with *clears throat* mit einem Schlüssel und einer Schüssel für das Schloss.
Everyone is sitting at the table talking about Bucks strong tea, Mrs Cahill strong tea and her water pot.
Places
Growing up, Dad would always say "... and the holy ghost" and his Act of Contrition was way different than mine, Hell. I don't even remember the words now.
So Stephen meets his buddies downstairs in the living room. I think Buck was cooking breakfast but smoke was getting everywhere. Unfortunately the over head range hood wouldn't be invented for another 17 years.
Bucks flipping out, so Stephen opens the front door with the key that he had.
You might say he had Ein Schlüssel zum Schloss. Oh wait. no! I know! He walked downstairs with *clears throat* mit einem Schlüssel und einer Schüssel für das Schloss.
Everyone is sitting at the table talking about Bucks strong tea, Mrs Cahill strong tea and her water pot.
Places
Sandycove is a Dublin Suburb, with a "bathing place" Called the Forty Foot. On further thought, yeah, common sense tells me a bathing place is probably a pool or something... for bathing. Speaking of which, There is a movie that I really enjoy called Nostalgia, It also has a pool which I imagine is also a bathing place. It's a really good movie. Toward the end, all of the water is let out and a guy has to walk while carrying a candle from one end to the other. I promise it's not nearly as boring as it sounds. Well, I can't actually make that call. It may bore you to tears. People, including me, have a bad habit of declaring to other people what is "good" or "boring". What does that mean to other people? We, including me, forget that we don't share the same brain. Well, we don't share the part of the brain that develop certain tastes for things. I don't think we do anyway? Jung say (As far as I understand) we share a "Collective Unconscious" meaning, our basic fundamentals that make us human, like the concept of a mother as a source of protection of food. I that is a really bad explanation. But getting back to tastes, thinking about it. there has to be a staggering amount of reasons why I love crunchy and Lucy loves creamy, and we live in private wet and round universes where the idea of anything other than not loving the same the same crunchy or creamy doesn't come to us automatically, and it has to be explained to us by other private universes balls.
Also Sandycove has The Martello Tower, where this whole story has been taking
Martello Tower - Where the first several pages of this books takes place.
Glossary
Also Sandycove has The Martello Tower, where this whole story has been taking
Martello Tower - Where the first several pages of this books takes place.
Glossary
Hearth - A fireplace.
Barbacans- The tower part of a castle, or I guess just a tower.
Kip - A kip is a lot of things, In British terms, it means light sleeping or sleeping somewhere that's not your home. -- I'm thinking however, that in this case it might be referring to tea.
Hew - to chop or cut something
Wheedling - Buttering someone up to do or give something to you.
Characters
Janey Mack - aka Jay, on of the guys staying at the castle
old mother Grogan - See Mrs. Cahill
Mrs. Cahill - I think her and Grogan maybe the same person
Other Things
Jove - Another name for Jupiter, who was the god top dog of the Roman's. If you went east a ways to Greece, they would have called the god Zeus. AND, If you traveled back west to Rome and waited, for I dunno, a few hundred years, A dude named Constantine would show up. He would start off being down with the Roman Gods team until he would eventually decide to trade up to a sleeker, more efficient, monotheistic god. 10 years later, being the good christian that he was, would make Christianity the official religion of Rome. Forcing some OG shot callers to go underground and come up with some wacky and awesome cults.
Folk and Fishgods of Dundrum - Ok let's start off with Fishgods, I found something about the Salmon of Knowledge, it's a story about a Fish that ate 9 hazelnuts and fell into the Well of Knowledge, I'm not sure if this has anything to do with Dundrum or not.
Again I'm talking the big wet universe ball. Is it that much of a stretch, to take the idea of a sea or an ocean, a basically limitless supply of water and re-purpose it to a well? Now we have another, basically limitless source of water. Giving you what you need to live, but also represents everything. Knowledge of everything. With it you things like know how many pores are in rocks of Stonehenge, You know how the average age of all female casualties of the american civil war and so on.
Don't forget that my opinions opinions mean anything. They only (maybe) offer a different(or different flavor of) view(s). A lot of smart people have had long complicated arguments about what is real, and as of right now, as far as I know, there aren't any tools that can tell you for sure. If I ate the salmon of wisdom and gained the power of the granda malseka pilko de la universo, maybe only then would I know for sure that the Universe that I have swallowed would look the same as it would to you if you had eaten it, and if it truly represented the True Universe that no one can really see, or if that True universe even really exists?
The Weird sisters in the year of the Big Wind - This is pretty interesting. Do you remember W.B Yeats? He wrote the poem about Fergus crusin' senzorge? Well these weird sisters were his weird sisters, Lily and Lolly Yeats. They lived a life of early 1900s working women and got together and opened printing place called Dun Emer where they printed greeting cards and their brothers poems.
I'm not sure what makes them weird though.
The Big Wind - Now the Big Wind. This took place 1/6/1839 - 1/7/1839 or 1839/1/06 - 1839/1/07 for our metric friends. It was a huge windstorm that beat the crap out of Ireland and the UK. Tore up buildings, killed hundreds of people and wrecked 42 ships!!
Mabinogion- The Mabinogion is a book of the earliest stories of Celtic British literature.
It has eleven different kinds of stories like drama, comedy, fantasy etc. There are also stories of a very different kind of King Arthur and another called the Four Branches of Mabinogi that apparently defies categorization, seems pretty intense.
Barbacans- The tower part of a castle, or I guess just a tower.
Kip - A kip is a lot of things, In British terms, it means light sleeping or sleeping somewhere that's not your home. -- I'm thinking however, that in this case it might be referring to tea.
Hew - to chop or cut something
Wheedling - Buttering someone up to do or give something to you.
Characters
Janey Mack - aka Jay, on of the guys staying at the castle
old mother Grogan - See Mrs. Cahill
Mrs. Cahill - I think her and Grogan maybe the same person
Other Things
Jove - Another name for Jupiter, who was the god top dog of the Roman's. If you went east a ways to Greece, they would have called the god Zeus. AND, If you traveled back west to Rome and waited, for I dunno, a few hundred years, A dude named Constantine would show up. He would start off being down with the Roman Gods team until he would eventually decide to trade up to a sleeker, more efficient, monotheistic god. 10 years later, being the good christian that he was, would make Christianity the official religion of Rome. Forcing some OG shot callers to go underground and come up with some wacky and awesome cults.
Folk and Fishgods of Dundrum - Ok let's start off with Fishgods, I found something about the Salmon of Knowledge, it's a story about a Fish that ate 9 hazelnuts and fell into the Well of Knowledge, I'm not sure if this has anything to do with Dundrum or not.
Again I'm talking the big wet universe ball. Is it that much of a stretch, to take the idea of a sea or an ocean, a basically limitless supply of water and re-purpose it to a well? Now we have another, basically limitless source of water. Giving you what you need to live, but also represents everything. Knowledge of everything. With it you things like know how many pores are in rocks of Stonehenge, You know how the average age of all female casualties of the american civil war and so on.
Don't forget that my opinions opinions mean anything. They only (maybe) offer a different(or different flavor of) view(s). A lot of smart people have had long complicated arguments about what is real, and as of right now, as far as I know, there aren't any tools that can tell you for sure. If I ate the salmon of wisdom and gained the power of the granda malseka pilko de la universo, maybe only then would I know for sure that the Universe that I have swallowed would look the same as it would to you if you had eaten it, and if it truly represented the True Universe that no one can really see, or if that True universe even really exists?
The Weird sisters in the year of the Big Wind - This is pretty interesting. Do you remember W.B Yeats? He wrote the poem about Fergus crusin' senzorge? Well these weird sisters were his weird sisters, Lily and Lolly Yeats. They lived a life of early 1900s working women and got together and opened printing place called Dun Emer where they printed greeting cards and their brothers poems.
I'm not sure what makes them weird though.
The Big Wind - Now the Big Wind. This took place 1/6/1839 - 1/7/1839 or 1839/1/06 - 1839/1/07 for our metric friends. It was a huge windstorm that beat the crap out of Ireland and the UK. Tore up buildings, killed hundreds of people and wrecked 42 ships!!
Mabinogion- The Mabinogion is a book of the earliest stories of Celtic British literature.
It has eleven different kinds of stories like drama, comedy, fantasy etc. There are also stories of a very different kind of King Arthur and another called the Four Branches of Mabinogi that apparently defies categorization, seems pretty intense.
Upanishads-It is the last and the most recently written part of Vedas, a series of texts that basically lays out what Hinduism is all about.
