Thursday, 25 January 2018 (11.541)

The last reading stopped at:

          “Let me there”

                    (Sirens U11.541)

Thursday, 18 January 2018 (11.285)

The reading group has now begun the most musical chapter, episode 11, and reached:

          “bitch's bastard” 

                    (Sirens U11.285)


We will have to do without Catherine Meyer's wonderful visual contributions for this and next week as she won't be able to attend the readings. 

Thursday, 11 January 2018 (end of episode 10)

The reading group has now reached the end of episode 10, “Wandering Rocks”.

Catherine Meyer, local artist and long-standing member of the reading groups at the Zurich Foundation, sends a drawing inspired by two sentences:

“John Henry Menton, filling the doorway of Commercial Buildings, stared from winebig oyster eyes, holding a fat gold hunter watch not looked at in his fat left hand not feeling it. Where the foreleg of King Billy's horse pawed the air Mrs Breen plucked her hastening husband back from under the hoofs of the outriders.” (10.1229–33)

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2018

Saturday, 13 January 2018

On Saturday, 13 January, on the 77th anniversary of Joyce’s death, the FRIENDS are celebrating Fritz Senn’s 90th birthday with an apéritif riche at the Zürich James Joyce Foundation.

Starts between 11 a.m and 3 p.m. at Augustinergasse 9 – open end

Thursday, 4 January 2018 (U10.1075)

The first reading in the new year stopped at:

          “creation ....”

                    (Wandering Rocks U10.1075)

Catherine Meyer, local artist and long-standing member of the reading groups, sends this painting to illustrate one of the passages read. She writes:

I struggled with the theme: “touch me not” – noli me tangere. The first three attempts at a watercolour turned out bad and I found them simply useless. The fourth attempt, in lemon yellow and sepia, shows two hands, one of which repels Maria Magdalena on the grave of Jesus Christ with the biblical phrase noli me tangere. The other hand stands for a different kind of “touch me not”, in Irish usage also meaning “don’t ask for money”. This is one example found in this chapter for misunderstanding words and phrases.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2018

1 January 2018

As you may be aware, Fritz Senn turned 90 on Monday, 1 January 2018. Several newspapers have published articles to commemorate the occasion, a few of which are linked below:

NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung):
https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/fritz-senn-bei-joyce-darf-man-nicht-allzu-pompoes-sein-ld.1340950

The Irish Times:
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/happy-returns-an-irishman-s-diary-on-joyce-scholar-fritz-senn-1.3342036

SZ (Süddeutsche Zeitung):
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/fritz-senn-froehliche-wissenschaft-1.3807627


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