Kevin's Watch

Yeah, I read 27% (according to my Kindle) and i was enjoying it but I was busy and realized I need to sit down and read entire chapters at a time, reading a couple pages and getting interrupted just does not work for this book.

It takes a lot to get me to like prose that disregards conventions like quotation marks, etc. But still, I want to finish when I can take more focused time on it and read an episode at a time. Otherwise I come back and i'm lost.

Anyway I got into Fatal Revenant so it will be a few days at least.

To get back to Joyce, I've started the Dubliners. Interesting snapshots thus far, I have read The Sisters and The Encounter. I'm not entirely sure, but I think the titles are more indicative of the 'epiphany' moment (when the character realizes that Dublin is a festering pit or some such) then it is of what the story is about. It's hard to say, since there are plenty of Gnomons in the story (a new word I learned! Essentially, it's something important/significant left unsaid).

Had a unique Joyce moment today. Myself and a couple of friends have set up a micro-publishing press and were looking for a venue to launch our first three poetry pamphlets. One of the suggestions was the house where 'The Dead' is set, 15 Usher's Island by the Liffey in Dublin. Today we went to talk to the owner of the house about the possibility of holding the launch there. We sat in the actual room where the meal is held in the story to discuss the details of the event. The house is still being renovated (the owner has been working on it for ten or more years), but we got to get a good look around it and in the end we worked a satisfactory deal for the launch.

Publishing the pamphlets has been a real pleasure; to get to launch them in a house with such associations with Joyce is an unexpected bonus!

u.

That's great U.

Personally I didn't like Dubliners that much, although its been a good many years now I suppose.

--A

Congratulations, u!