Thursday, 18 August 2016

The reading stopped at: 
BLOOM: Done.Prff! (15.3390)

Catherine Meyer sends her painting with these words:

In the last reading we were still surrounded by the same characters: Bello, Bloom and some others such as Milly, Nymphs, Voices and the Echo. Still insulting Bloom. That’s why I clung to the lovely limerick that Fritz recited to us 5 minutes before the end of the reading. The sentence that reminded him of the limerick was:

“The wanton ate grass wildly.” (15.3357)

It is the paragraph in which Bloom confesses his first adventure with a girl named Lotty Clarke. Joyce describes the sex appeal of springtime and Lotty. At reading “the wanton ate grass wildly”  Fritz recited, with a chuckle, the following limerick.

There once was a girl from Madras

Who had such a beautiful ass

It was not round and pink

As you probably think

But had two ears, a tail and ate grass. 

From here, I began to think about donkeys and how I could put together a pink round ass with no pink round ass but long ears, a tail and grass:

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2016