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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tuesday January 27, 2009
A Kind of Cross
“For every kind of vampire,
there is a kind of cross.”
— Gravity’s Rainbow
The above text on Joyce’s theory of epiphanies:
“It emphasizes the radiance, the effulgence, of the thing itself revealed in a special moment, an unmoving moment, of time. The moment, as in the macrocosmic lyric of Finnegans Wake, may involve all other moments, but it still remains essentially static, and though it may have all time for its subject matter it is essentially timeless.”
— Page 17 of Stephen Hero, by James Joyce, Theodore Spencer, John J. Slocum, and Herbert Cahoon, Edition: 16, New Directions Publishing, 1963
Related epiphanies —
Detail from
the above text:
Cover of
a paperback novel
well worth reading:
Related material:
the above text:
Cover of
a paperback novel
well worth reading:
Related material:
“Joyce knew no Greek.”
— Statement by the prototype
of Buck Mulligan in Ulysses,
Oliver St. John Gogarty,
quoted in the above
New Directions Stephen Hero
“Chrysostomos.”
— Statement in Ulysses
by the prototype
of Stephen Dedalus,
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
See also the link to
Mardi Gras, 2008,
in yesterday’s entry,
with its text from
the opening of Ulysses:
“He faced about and
blessed gravely thrice
the tower,
the surrounding country
and the awaking mountains.”
Some context:
(Click on images for details.)
and
“In the process of absorbing
the rules of the institutions
we inhabit, we become
who we are.”
— David Brooks, Jewish columnist,
in today’s New York Times
The Prisoner,
Episode One, 1967:
“I… I meant a larger map.”
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