Thursday, 21 July 2016

The reading stopped at Bloom's two lines: 

BLOOM

Bee or bluebottle too other day butting shadow on wall dazed self then me wandered dazed down shirt good job I … (15.2430).

Catherine Meyer sends a painting for this week's entry and comments:

For my picture I have taken the title «the end of the world» with the description of the two paragraphs («a rocket rushes up the sky and bursts…», 15.2174), and it goes with the next stage directions («...over the possing drift and choking breathcoughs, Elijah’s voice,…», 15.2183).

The End of the World, a tow-headed octopus, is depicted as a man’s and woman’s head in the form of the Three Legs of Man, the three feet dancing the keel row. The zenith and nadir line is part of the thigh, out of which the three feet come. Elijah is up in the sky with the banner of old glory. The scotch accent and the kilt have their rendering in the pattern of a scottish fabric. For once the dreadful twoheaded octopus shows up in two „normal“ profiles and the fearful proclamation of the end of the world appears as a white bursting star. The trumpery insanity is disguised as Elijah.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2016