Thursday, 10 December 2015

The reading has progressed to: "A nobody, two pair back and passages, at seven shillings a week, and he covered with all kinds of breastplates bidding defiance to the world." (12.1070)

Here is Catherine Meyer's rendering of the Irish growling tower encountered in a scene from last week's reading:

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2015

Thursday, 26 November 2015

The reading stopped at "The friends we love are by our side and the foes we hate before us" (12.524).

A ghost made an appearance in this chapter ("In the darkness spirit hands were felt to flutter … " (12.338). Dignam came back -- which prompted Catherine Meyer to try to capture some of the scene visually. Note the distinctive feature of her mirror writing (Catherine writes with both hands at the same time, in two directions, and in mirror). 

Of the drawing she says: 

"Although ghosts are not paintable because they are invisible I painted a stereotyped ghost in the return room (Fritz Senn likes this word, because in French "ce sont les revenants"). The immortal soul is at the right hand side of the picture under the bed waiting to be soled. (The boot has to be soled.)"

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2015