Thursday, 23 March 2017

The group is about to finish the book. Around two pages from the end of episode 18, the reading stopped at: “That ought to satisfy him” (18.1513)

Catherine Meyer, who has been illustrating each week with paintings and drawings inspired from the readings, sends another contribution with the following words.

It is very, very late at night and Molly’s mind is still circling around love: 

“all the amount of pleasure they get off a womans body“ (18.1380);

and Bloom embracing her only sometimes, whereas “of course a woman wants to be embraced 20 times a day almost to make her look young” (18.1408);

“I suppose its all the troubles we have makes us so snappy” (18.1459);

and “Im not like that” (18.1460), referring to her previous thoughts that “we are a dreadful lot of bitches” (18.1459) 

– which I took to depict in watercolours and gouache.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2017