Thursday, 22 March 2018 (12.959)

The group has now reached:

          “he never ate.”

                    (Cyclops U12.959)

Catherine Meyer sends a drawing, explaining:

I mingled two different statements from the last reading, both of which I think show the same kind of humour: “Arsing around from one pub to another” (12.752) and a few lines later “Let me, said he, so far presume upon our acquaintance which, however slight it may appear if judged by...” (12.786). 

An Irish scholar once said to Fritz Senn that one could read this kind of formally polite interpolation as being spoken by somebody who is not quite steady on his legs.

On my painting you can see that arsing around or being polite leads to the same dancing scene.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2018