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Chandra wrote > And where is the Joyce who is so complicated to read? Have I missed something? Have I so got used to Joyce?! That is exactly the feeling I have been having in the last few stories ... Two Gallants (tho' the gold coin is still a slight puzzle ..... the idea of the girl paying for his services was a good one , Chandra , but the tone of the last 2 sentences doesn't convince me this was what Joyce had in mind (:-)) , Eveline , After the Race (and for that matter even 'The Boarding House' which I finished just now ) all seem too direct to fit intot he same genre of stories as 'Araby' etc . Are we missing something ? "What excitement! Jimmy was excited too; he would lose, of course. How much had he written away? The men rose to their feet to play the last tricks,talking and gesticulating. Routh won. The cabin shook with the young men's cheering and the cards were bundled together. They began then to gather in what they had won. Farley and Jimmy were the heaviest losers. " Made me wonder at the level to which Jimmy was fooling himself . He is more *excited* for the winner than worried for himself . Why ?!! Almost as if he doesn't want to think of his losses and wants to put it off for as long as he can "He knew that he would regret it in the morning, but at present he was glad of the rest, glad of the dark stupor that would cover up his folly" But that was not to be . There was no more of the dark night left to cover up his follies ....... Day was already being announced . The end conveys a feeling of mistakes catching up on you whether you ar eready for it or not . Overall , I found it to be a generally good story but isn't his basic theme getting to be the same ..... Waiting for somebody to throw open a totally different line of thought (:-)))) Vidya
well, i'd love to say that you have become a joyce expert overnite, chandra, in fact that may actually be true... but the realist in me is thinking, "just wait til we get to ulysses!" :-) this is the precise reason i wanted to start with dubs, fraulein friendin. ;-) and i think there can be symbolic readings of after the races -- but then! you knew i would say that!!!! :-)))). Maureen |
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