JOYCE		LUCK CLUB
DUBLINERS	ULYSSES	THE PORTRAIT

Sllt:  Oh, has anybody been able to decipher the word, Sllt? '...Almost human the way it sllt to call attention. That door too sllt creaking, asking to be shut....' - from the section, Orthographical. Thanks Chandra Sllt, like the cat's mkgnao and mrkgnao and the wavespeech of seesoo, hrss, rsseeiss, ooos, is Joyce's attention to things. Things for Joyce were not things and he invested them with a colorful inner life to such an extent that they almost came to life. The empty fireplace in 'The Sisters' and the fire in the fireplace of 'Ivy Day' in Dubliners are almost as much characters as any of the personages of those stories. One could also mention O'Madden Bourke's umbrella in 'A Mother' and in Ulysses but the list is endless. As we will later discover, Bloom's button has a speaking part and Lynch's cap has several lines. In Finnegans Wake the coffin-letterbox-underwater tomb as well as the letter are highly important inanimate objects but with enormous vitality. Bob Bob, May I ask how and when you became a Joyce expert? Is English literature your field of specialisation? Just thinking of how Joseph Campbell became attracted to Joyce on reading Proteus, and on being helped by the lady at the Shakespeare and Co in Paris in how to read Joyce. Afterwards he gave lots of lectures on reading Joyce. Do you do the same? I sure am glad that you three - (Mike and Bod included) - are on this list. Otherwise, I would have felt quite lonely ... Chandra Top! HOME!