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Chapter 7 / Aeolus - First thoughts: This chapter (chapter 7) is very nice to read. It very well shows that one cannot apply what all oneknows about how a book is written. The chapter is full of sounds, images, it is really like a miniature painting of life on a normal day. It does not mean though that it is an easy chapter to read. Even though I feel I am slowly getting used to reading Ulysses with different eyes. The first section - In the heart of Dublin - where the tram traffic is described, so mundane, so beautiful. The second section: Then the wearer of the crown, by which the mail wagon is meant! How ordinary, but how poetical! The third section - an exercise in active and passiv voice! The fourth section - a lesson in an opera, one more opera. Oh, Joyce and his knowledge - he really pushes his readers. The questions start in the fifth section - The crozier and the pen - the hooked staff carried by a bishop as a symbol of the pastoral office and the pen used by news writers - Though there is a mention of 'the grace' it is not clear to me yet what is the connection between the crozier and the pen. Do both damn the people? Are both saviours? And what about Aeolus? Where are all the winds? In the words describing the various sounds - trams - clanging, ringing, post - loudly flung sacks of letter, dullthudding barrels, door of the Ruttledge's office whispering - ee, cree, circulation thumping, clanking drums ...? Any thoughts? Chandra The crozier and the pen is ironically intended since the bishop and the paper were not friends and the paper made a heavy weather about printing the bishop's pastoral messages. There is wind in abundance in this chapter but it is more conspicuous when one enters the office of Myles Crawford, Joyce's equivalent of Aeolus. Joyce also set out to provide examples of every rhetorical device imaginable. On the first page of this chapter alone are examples of: Ecphonesis: "Start, Palmerston Park!" Metonymy: "The Wearer of the Crown" Chiasmus: "grossbooted draymen . . . out of Prince's stores."
Bob
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