James Joyce's Ulysses-Kavitha and Akanksha

[Akanksha]

Here's to mounting the insurmountable.
Wish us luck.
Join us, if you please.

[Amit]

I would like to join in.

[Ahtims]

Wishing you luck.. .. double doses of it. Have heard this nut is a tough one to.crack.

[Akanksha]

Amit wrote: "I would like to join in."

Please do!

[Akanksha]

Smitha wrote: "Wishing you luck.. .. double doses of it. Have heard this nut is a tough one to.crack."

Yeah, I tried twice last year and gave up on both occasions!

[Amit]

So How is it going?
Done with Part 1. I had a lot of difficulty in deciphering Stephen's monologue in the 3rd chapter!!!

[Akanksha]

Hats off, Amit! I have just managed to finish Telemachus, the first chapter.

[Akanksha]

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[Kavitha]

Hi Amit! Glad you could join us, the more, the merrier :)

[Kavitha]

I finished Telemachus. Wow! so much sarcasm from Mulligan! The language is so different I keep looking at the link that Aka shared, half the time I get the answer from there. I still have to google to understand certain words. For ex., barbacans...I still don't know what does it mean.

1. There is this reference to circe when I clicked "Ghouls. The chewer of corpses" I didn't remember that circe is chewer of corpses when I read Circe by MM and also from google. So don't understand where and what the connection is.

2. I wondered why Mulligan refers multiple times as to Stephen's refusal to pray when his mother asked him at death bed, then finally figured that Mulligan is actually referring to lack of faith by Stephen. Why is Mulligan mocking Stephen's faith when he himself is mocking God?!?!? Jesuit...

3. Gosh, so much quoting of various books including the picture of Dorian Gray! That is the only quoted book I have read and so understood the reference :) Also, I know only couple of authors Keats, Wilde. Wilde's paradoxes...need to look up for more.

4. I enjoyed the mini poems (if that has a specific name, let me know, Aka) and also how the author described the sea.

[Isha]

How do u read a book like that? I tried, very hard but after the thirty pages i was lost but i really want to read it. In one single page there so many references that i lost the heart to continue reading it. They say James Joyce made 800 references in this book alone. In his own words, "In this one book, i have given people a lifetime's work." Guess its true.

[Akanksha]

Isha wrote: "How do u read a book like that? I tried, very hard but after the thirty pages i was lost but i really want to read it. In one single page there so many references that i lost the heart to continue ..."

800?! I am sure it's a lot more than that :P
We will try again come January.

[Abish]

Did anyone really read this ?
I remember an old reference from HIMYM then and now after hearing those catchy phrases I really this is something ...