[cf. Gabler 20: 11-17; 1922 24:11-17] Cochrane has forgotten the location of the seminal Pyrrhic victory: Aesculum. For fun: here’s a computer game simulation of the battle: He manages to remember the general’s words, or at least one variant of them. This causes Stephen to ruminate further on history: the accomplishments of a legendary general reduced […]
Cochrane
Reader's Guide: Nestor 003
[cf. Gabler 20: 1-5; 1922 24:1-5] The “Nestor” chapter is undergirded by ideas of history and memory, allusions to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce’s novel published prior to Ulysses;and evocations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, whose titular character provides constant comparison and self-identification for Stephen. If there is one idea […]
Reader's Guide: Nestor 002
[cf. Gabler 20: 1-5; 1922 24:1-5] Stephen is teaching a class in a private (as we’d say in the US) boys’ school not far from the tower where we were in Episode 1. We’re in the middle of a lesson about Pyrrhus, a Greek general who fought against the Romans in the 3rd century BC. […]
