The presentation (I don't remember whose presentation it was) on how the language of Joyce is everywhere (I think it was Charity's) made me remember all the times after I'd been practicing for our presentaion that I would slip up and say a FW word.  I went to Barnes and Noble not too long ago to find The Hero With A Thousand Faces for my paper but I couldn't find it.  I went to the customer service desk and asked where the phullupsuppy section was.  She looked at me kind of funny for a minute but lead me right to where I wanted to be.  I asked my boyfriend if he had the Tossmania when he wouldn't sit still.  I told everyone in our suite that I was going outside to lock up my bisexycle.  My french professor asked me what I thought of an author and I said something about the author being zeemliangly similar to another author.  And to top it all off, the Sunday after our presentation I was at church and ended a prayer in the name of the former the latter and of their holocaust.  Damn Finnegans WAke which seems to be taking over my life.  The interesting psychological part of this seems to be that nobody really notices.  They pretty much know what you're talking about and just ignore that you've made a linguistic mistake.  Haru

Joyce Index

I just finished writing my paper a few days ago and I realized that I wanted to put something up here about Bloom and Ulysses.  I know, I know.  Made a big deal about how this was all about Finnegans Wake with the new layout and all but I miss Bloom a little bit.  And this is an answer to the question about loneliness and alienation which I also just finished a presentation on for French (existentialism).  I think that Ulysses is a novel of twentieth-century loneliness and alienation.  First of all Bloom is isolated throughout most of the entire book.  His peers view him as an outsider because of his religion, his wife, his job, his former jobs, and his philosophy.  He meets up with Stephen who is also separated from his peers but this is mostly self-willed introversion because of his intellect.  Stephen and Bloom never really connect in a substantial way.  They both express different views about most things, only sharing a few opinions here and there.  Bloom wants Stephen to stay but only because he thinks that Stephen will mend the break between himself and Molly.  The characters in this book all see to lead parallel line lives - lives that are near one another but never really make any connections.