Thursday, 27 April 2017 (2.228)

The reading has advanced to “greed and misery” (2.228).

Catherine Meyer sends a drawing of “ponderous buck”, as she calls it. We agree with her that it punctuates the end of episode 1 rather well.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2017

Thursday, 20 April 2017 (1.691)

The last reading nearly reached the end of episode 1, stopping at the “sagging loincloth” (1.691) 

Catherine Meyer captures some of the mood in her painting:

© Catherine Meyer

Thursday, 13 April 2017 (1.417)

The last reading stopped at: “look at that now, she said”  (1.417) 

Catherine Meyer illustrates it with this wonderful painting. Note the writing in mirror at the bottom of it, which she does using both hands – left and right writing at the same time.

Catherine Meyer

Thursday, 6 April 2017

A new round of Ulysses has just begun. Check this site to keep track of how far the group has read each week. The last reading stopped at “you dreadful bard” (1.134). 

The numbers in parentheses refer to the Hans Gabler edition. The first number indicates the chapter, the second the line on the page.

Catherine Meyer (local artist and long-standing member of the reading groups) has, sends a painting to illustrate the passage just read. We have the artist's permission to reproduce her works in this blog.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich, 2017

New reading group

A new round of Ulysses readings is starting on 

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Everybody is welcome to join.

To download flyer click link below:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bwj7cJO4A0bAWGNORE5QLS1aNGc

Thursday, 30 March 2017

The group reached the end of Ulysses last week. A new round of the book is beginning on Thursday, 6 April 2017. Everyone is welcome – first-time readers and recidivists.

To conclude this round, Catherine Meyer, local artist and long-standing member of the reading groups, sends a last painting with these words:

The idea for my picture was to capture the various feelings, sentiments and instances of “yes” coming from Molly. The blue background reminds her of “O and the sea the sea” (18.1598), probably remembering Gibraltar as well as Howth and echoing Buck Mulligan’s exclamation “Thalatta! Thalatta!” earlier in the book (1.80).

As the episode “Penelope” has both, a sense of chaos and a strictly composed structure, I tried to do the same with the center of my painting. It looks chaotic but I composed it very carefully, going through many stages.

The famous closing words “yes I will Yes” frame the picture. To stress the optimism in these words about the unknown future of the Blooms I used vivid and lively colours.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2017