Ulysses
Novel by James JoyceWikipedia
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Nov 3, 2026
Alex BergHOST
Cause like, I'm not going to read it.
Alex BergHOST
I can't remember if it's Finnegan's wake or Ulysses.
Alex BergHOST
That's like the stream of consciousness, but it's like, I don't care.
Alex BergHOST
I bet it's great, but I don't care.
Eric TrommaterHOST
It is unique in film, I think, to Fellini.
Eric TrommaterHOST
Joyce did it very, very well in especially Ulysses.
Eric TrommaterHOST
But what it allows for is you can take a novel and tell it from, in Ulysses' case, 16 different points of view, and James Joyce was just an absolute master at it.
Eric TrommaterHOST
Fellini is the only one who really I think could do that in film, where you...
Eric TrommaterHOST
The way he moves the camera, you can just move from person to person to person to person, and you don't have a central point of view.
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But
Joseph CampbellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
the astonishing thing is, it was already prepared for Ulysses.
Joseph CampbellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Because Bloom, all through Ulysses, is saying 32 feet per sec, per sec, the law of falling bodies.
Joseph CampbellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And his son, if the son had lived, would have been 11 years old on the day of Ulysses, June 1694.
Joseph CampbellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And Stephen Daedalus, who became his spiritual son, was 22 years old, twice
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the
speaker_0UNKNOWN
Was he, in Dubliner's writing, static art?
Joseph CampbellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yes, that was static art.
Dee LaffanHOST
Yeah.
Dee LaffanHOST
But didn't James Joyce famously write part of Ulysses in Davy Burns or the Dubliners? So they have that link there as
Aoife CarrigyGUEST
well.
Aoife CarrigyGUEST
He famously would have included a lot of pubs throughout his literature.
Jay RuudHOST
You have to really put in some work, which might not be lovable to a lot of people.
Jay RuudHOST
So Ulysses, which often makes the number one ranking of everybody's greatest novelist, I'm not going to read that book.
Jay RuudHOST
It's more difficult and not so much a lovable read.
Jay RuudHOST
You know, it is for some people, especially if you read it a few times and you kind of get into it.
Alice SlaterHOST
So she basically kind of, we follow her through her thoughts as she like roams around Manhattan slash Brooklyn, trying to convince various people that she knows and doesn't know.
Alice SlaterHOST
or trying to orchestrate situations in which she might end up being killed the thing is is that because I didn't revisit the blurb I completely forgot that the whole point of the book is that it's it's like Ulysses-esque right so I think I spent the first sort of 30 pages being like what the fuck is this writing style because it's not It didn't immediately strike me as stream of consciousness.
Alice SlaterHOST
So it almost felt like random asides.
Alice SlaterHOST
I'm probably making myself sound really dumb.
Jim FusilliHOST
And then there's a long conversation between Oscar and E.M. Forster.
Jim FusilliHOST
It gives Oscar a chance to say he doesn't think much of James Joyce's Ulysses, calling it, sorry, can't stop the chat, lots on.
Jim FusilliHOST
You establish in the prologue that dialogue is a useful tool for character and expediency.
Jim FusilliHOST
But as a writer, those scenes have to flow, don't they? You can't force those.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Well, their IPO prospectus finally arrived this week.
Patrick BoyleHOST
It is 240,000 words long, which is about the length of James Joyce's Ulysses, which is not considered an easy read either.
Patrick BoyleHOST
The risk factor section alone runs 90 pages, roughly three times what SpaceX put in front of investors earlier this year.
Patrick BoyleHOST
And the SpaceX prospectus wasn't exactly normal either.
Clare McLaughlinGUEST
So James Joyce, a very famous Irish playwright or author, was visually impaired, actually.
Clare McLaughlinGUEST
And when I read, I read like Ulysses is tough going reading because it's.
Christine KahnHOST
Yeah.
Clare McLaughlinGUEST
It's quite in-depth.
Clare McLaughlinGUEST
It's thick and it's very, it kind of jumps a bit all over the place.
Clare McLaughlinGUEST
But he used the framework of Homer's Odyssey.
Clare McLaughlinGUEST
for Ulysses.
Clare McLaughlinGUEST
So whereas Homer's Odyssey took 40 years for Homer to get back home, Ulysses is 24 hours, you know.
DermotHOST
welcome.
DermotHOST
This is a bonus podcast where we talk about topics tangential to James Joyce's Ulysses and we're here today to talk about Perhaps the most interesting church in Dublin, which is? St.
DermotHOST
Mikan's.
DermotHOST
Yes.
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