Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce

Still on Sandymount Strand. "Dan" Occam, the invincible doctor. Imagined bells and twinned principles.

Priests move through Stephen's mind, in the sort of passage that got Joyce in trouble. Three bells mark three Eucharists.

Frank delves into the second five stories of the Dubliners.

Stephen recalls friends and priests by nickname, and considers Jaochim Abbas, that old heretic.

Stephen ponders his family's fall from grace. Joachim Abbas. Frank unpacks "the rabble."

In Stephen's mind (still on Sandymount Strand), his uncle offers him food and drink, of a sorts. Second-hand opera, and a note of warning.

A special episode celebrates Bloomsday 2012 on June 16. Frank introduces us to the first five stories of Dubliners as a way of "getting into Joyce."

An imagined domestic scene, mock heroism, and Stephen's nuncle. Differing versions of the text, and contradictions. Names unpacked, and a poignant poem. 

In Stephen's mind, his father continues to mock his mother's family, and Stephen visits his uncle's cottage.

Sandymount Strand. Stephen's thoughts: his father's voice editorializes on his mother's family. To illuminate, Frank calls on the Iliad, and Thersites's rant against Agamemnon.

Chapter 3 continues along Sandymount Strand. Wind and waves, Hamlet, and a god of the sea.

Stephen on the nature of the trinity, and the fate of heresiarchs. Contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality.

Still on Sandymount Strand. Stephen ponders his own origins and, for the first time, reflects on his father.

Still on the beach, Stephen muses on Eve, bellybuttons, bucklers, and a good deal of poetry.

Stephen ascribes a crime to the midwife on the beach. A phonecall to the navel of the world.

Chapter 3 returns to "normal" narrative for a moment. Women descend to the sea. Swinburne.

In this bonus episode, Frank describes Joyce's reading list, which owed so much to his Catholic education.

Stephen parses the poetry of his own thoughts, and opens his eyes to see if the the world has persisted. It has.

Stephen's thoughts echo his steps as he walks on shells. Frank digresses on Proust.

Stephen walks blindly in borrowed boots and trousers. Los demiurgos and William Blake.