Top professional golfers don’t have to carry their golf bags but those born in the six counties of Ulster that form part of the United Kingdom try hard to leave the political baggage in the locker room. As James Joyce’s StephenDedalus said in Ulysses, “I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.” Flags and symbols are wielded like weapons on a politically...
... Bloom: he is dignified, vulnerable, sensitive and tragicomic. However, Maurice Roëves's StephenDedalus is flat and uninteresting; his opening dialogue scenes with Mulligan and Haines in the Martello Tower are odd and stilted, yet maybe there's no other way of doing them. I was reminded of Manoel De Oliveira's 2002 film I'm Going Home, in which John Malkovich plays a film-maker...
... is why I chose the quote from "Ulysses" ... hidden in the wallpaper design of the mural, in which StephenDedalus remembers his “Latin Quarter hat,” “puce gloves,” and other “Paris fads” with which he -- and no doubt his hipster-goatee’d creator -- furnished his Paris persona. Today, the shop is run by George's daughter Sylvia Whitman -- George, now in his 90s, is mostly retired....
... never better than as the cuckolded Leopold Bloom, and Maurice Roëves makes a soulful internalised StephenDedalus, two men whose paths cross repeatedly on a single Dublin day and whose lives are hampered by sad melancholic truths (Bloom is still grieving for his long-dead infant son, while Dedalus has just lost his mother). An utterly definitive work.
“When Bloom discovers that StephenDedalus is living in the city, the two arrange to meet on the Number 11 Outer Circle tram so the “Bull Ring Befriending Bard” can take him on a guided tour of the city’s key residential areas, even though most of them are still fields. Unfortunately, Bloom boards a number [...]
... quote from Ulysses (full excerpt at bottom), hidden in the wallpaper design of the mural, in which StephenDedalus remembers his “Latin Quarter hat,” “puce gloves,” and other “Paris fads” with which he—and no doubt his hipster-goatee’d creator—furnished his Paris persona. Here , on her own blog, she explains what it was like to draw on the walls of a 17th century building. (I made...
This 13 minutes French animation by Jeremy Clapin tells a story about Henry, just an average guy whose life has been altered by his encounter with some 150 tonnes meteorite. It's a nice animation, cute but in a dark way. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! :) Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from StephenDedalus on Vimeo .
An encounter with a meteorite displaces a man exactly 91 centimeters away from himself. Very clever! Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from StephenDedalus on Vimeo . Loath cockroaches? You'll love this then! Alternative-Read.com: The "Inside Story" by Sassy Brit and her Gang! ~ http://www.twibes.com/group/READERSandREVIEWERS ~ Chat and Promo Group ~ WHAT'S ON YOUR...
... “Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare / Rides upon sleep.” Even Joyce has his protagonist StephenDedalus murmuring lines from Yeats’s early poem “Who Goes with Fergus'” on Sandymount strand: “And no more turn aside and brood / Upon love’s bitter mystery.” Like Shakespeare, Yeats is inescapable. Yet few critics, including Ellmann, have seemed entirely comfortable with this fact....
... streets, like blood in the body, "the weather as uncertain as a baby's bottom" (Simon Dedalus). Bohemia in Dublin was compulsory: in Paris, optional. Joyce was in revolt against a sort of arrogant bohemianism: culture separated from everyday life. The lecturer, as a writer on Ulysses , described himself as like a soccer correspondent for the book. He quoted the Balinese response...
... remains of it, cares little for the middle-aged Jew (Leopold Bloom) and distraught young poet (StephenDedalus) who are the protagonists of Joyce’s messy masterpiece. The heroes of our time are Harvard “symbologists”...