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Monday 30 October 2017

Thursday, 26 October 2017 (9.154)

The group has startet a new episode, Scylla and Charybdis, and has advanced to: 

          “Lifted.” 

                    (Scylla and Charybdis U9.154)

Catherine Meyer sends a painting for this blog and writes:

This is going to be a very tough chapter and perhaps the most difficult one in the book. Odysseus is not the only one in danger when having to pass Scylla and Charybdis, but we in the reading group too have to watch out that we avoid the whirlpool and the six headed monster. That’s why we are most grateful to Fritz Senn, our host and tutor, who helps us to unravel the mysterious sentences.

I painted the title of the 9th chapter “Scylla and Charybdis” in gouache and watercolour.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2017




Monday 23 October 2017

Thursday, 19 October 2017 (8.1150)

The reading group has advance to:

          “But somehow you can’t cotton on to them someway.”   

                    (Lestrygonians U8.1150)

Catherine Meyer, local artist and long-standing member of the reading groups, has sent in a painting inspired by last week's gathering. She writes:

We read an erotic paragraph, where Bloom thinks of his wife, Molly, and his first exciting adventure with at the top of the hill Ben Howth:

“Beauty: it curves: curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses. (...) Can see them library museum standing in the round hall, naked goddesses” (8.920–22).

Bloom thinks of Pygmalion and Galatea and wonders what she would say first at seeing him: “ Mortal” (8.924).  He goes on to think that Mortals have to eat. They stuff food into one hole and out behind (8.929)Then he wonders whether statues have one. 

My painting in pastels and ink shows Galatea as a statue, and in the background Bloom's memory of his wife Molly and her curves.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2017



Friday 13 October 2017

Thursday, 12 October 2017 (8.866)

The last reading stopped half-way through the paragraph starting with “Mild fire” at:

          “Effect on the sexual.”

                    (Lestrygonians U8.866)

Tuesday 10 October 2017

Thursday, 5 October 2017 (8.613)

The last reading stopped at:

          “Wants to sew on buttons for me. I must answer.”

                    (Lestrygonians U8.613)