Comments on: Weather Report

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:21:11 +0000

I saw that Ulysses essay. It actually came up in our Faulkner discussion group on Wednesday evening. Family is everything, like it or not.

By: jd

jd — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:59:36 +0000

Ulysses is one of those books that, even if you haven’t read it, you know a lot about. I’ve heard parts of Molly’s section performed, but it will be interesting to see how I respond to it on the page.

By: Chris Robinson

Chris Robinson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:54:43 +0000

I’ll live it vicariously through you, but it would have been better to read it together. I’d love to hear your reaction to the poetry of Molly.

By: jd

jd — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:33:47 +0000

Well, Chris, I guess I’ll have to read it for you this summer. It’s funny — I have a great tolerance for rich, dense texts, but I’d never caught the tone of Ulysses until yesterday. I read another fifty pages last night and now I think I get it.

By: Chris Robinson

Chris Robinson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:32:34 +0000

I picked up Ulysses last night too. I’ve read it through four times because I can hear the voices. I grew up in a neighborhood full of Dubliners. But I realized I couldn’t square the time for it now. I have other things to read, indexing and copyediting to do, yenure file stuff, and a couple of essays to revise. It made me terribly sad. “Next summer,” I said to myself like a vow.