The Homeric Tradition
Sep. 20th, 2003 01:10 pmOr: How to Tell You Go to a Liberal Arts College
The marathon reading of James Joyce's Ulysses is going on today, tonight, and tomorrow. I came by around eleven for the tail end of chapter five and listened. Then we all read the first hundred lines of chapter six, Hades, as we walked from Peirce lounge to the little college graveyard behind Rosse (across Middle Path), dodging people and trees as we tried to keep one eye on the book and one on the surroundings.
Our "stage" in the graveyard was the entrance to the Lewis masoleum. I got to read a passage where the characters are discussing bodies falling out of coffins and other funny things. Hee. Glad I got to read an entertaining passage. After chapter six was over, we processed back to Peirce, reading the first one hundred lines of chapter seven as a group that had grown from about ten at the beginning to maybe twenty-five by the end of the chapter in the graveyard, shouting half of it 'cause they were a bunch of newspaper headlines. It was really, really cool. It grew into almost a chant at times, and people on the sides were staring and shouting and clapping as we walked. It was such a neat feeling to be participating in something like this--it's something that I probably won't ever get to be a part of again.
And hey, I got a free commerative T-shirt, too. Cool. ;)
Yes, my school is a quarter English majors, and we are in the middle of nowhere. How did you guess? *snicker*
ETA: And now I can officially say that I've been on Kenyon College radio! Hee. We spent an hour reading on someone's radio program. This was after a lazy hour and a half in the sun under the angel statues outside Rosse reading chapter 11, a bit of time in Peirce with chapter 12, and the rest of 12 on the radio. I've spent the last three and a half hours with that book. I think I'm done for the night. ;)
The marathon reading of James Joyce's Ulysses is going on today, tonight, and tomorrow. I came by around eleven for the tail end of chapter five and listened. Then we all read the first hundred lines of chapter six, Hades, as we walked from Peirce lounge to the little college graveyard behind Rosse (across Middle Path), dodging people and trees as we tried to keep one eye on the book and one on the surroundings.
Our "stage" in the graveyard was the entrance to the Lewis masoleum. I got to read a passage where the characters are discussing bodies falling out of coffins and other funny things. Hee. Glad I got to read an entertaining passage. After chapter six was over, we processed back to Peirce, reading the first one hundred lines of chapter seven as a group that had grown from about ten at the beginning to maybe twenty-five by the end of the chapter in the graveyard, shouting half of it 'cause they were a bunch of newspaper headlines. It was really, really cool. It grew into almost a chant at times, and people on the sides were staring and shouting and clapping as we walked. It was such a neat feeling to be participating in something like this--it's something that I probably won't ever get to be a part of again.
And hey, I got a free commerative T-shirt, too. Cool. ;)
Yes, my school is a quarter English majors, and we are in the middle of nowhere. How did you guess? *snicker*
ETA: And now I can officially say that I've been on Kenyon College radio! Hee. We spent an hour reading on someone's radio program. This was after a lazy hour and a half in the sun under the angel statues outside Rosse reading chapter 11, a bit of time in Peirce with chapter 12, and the rest of 12 on the radio. I've spent the last three and a half hours with that book. I think I'm done for the night. ;)
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