Blooms & Barnacles

We discuss James Plunkett’s 1969 novel, Strumpet City and the 1980 mini-series of the same name.

If both clocks were correct, one would be redundant.

Topics in this episode include the Ballast Office, the timeball, stellar parallax, ships’ navigators and chronometers, the whereabouts of the timeball, the political controversy of Greenwich Mean Time, Dunsink time, Sir Robert Ball and The Story of the Heavens, what the heck parallax actually means, how James Joyce uses the term parallax in Ulysses, being your own solar eclipse, how to make friends and influence astronomers at the Dunsink Observatory, Robert Anton Wilson, Clyde Tombaugh, the epiphanies to be found in common street furniture, Bishop Berkeley’s thoughts on stereoscopic vision, Dedalus and Bloom as a binary star system, the hypostasis of urination, and crossing the streams.

Parallax

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We share our thoughts on Dubliners short stories "The Boarding House" and "A Little Cloud"

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What is the parallax of Aldebaran?

Topics in this episode include gulls, Simon Dedalus, Little Chandler, Leopold Bloom’s poetic impulse, Leopold Bloom’s philosophy of advertising, the secret ingredient in Epps’ Cocoa, the supremacy of Kino’s 11/- Trousers over Plumtree’s Potted Meat, Victorian advertising styles, Howard Bridgewater’s theory of advertising, Dr. Hy Frank’s remedy for the clap, numerology, Chris Callinan, the true meaning of K. 11, the parallax of Aldebaran, Lenehan being just the worst, the number 11 and George Mesias’ suits.

Kino's & Hely's: Two Ads in Lestrygonians

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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Elijah is Coming!!!

Topics in this episode include epiphanies in Dubliners, the transformative power of peristalsis, Leopold Bloom and the Prophet Elijah, the peculiar tale of John Alexander Dowie, God’s bloodlust, the also peculiar history of the Salvation Army, what religion and advertising have in common, phosphorescence, polygamy, monster trucks, Bloom as a redeemer for Ireland, and the surprising origin of the city of Zion, Illinois.

Elijah is coming! Is Coming!! IS COMING!!!

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Who’s for dinner?

Topics in this episode include revisiting Ulysses-themed tarot, Odysseus’ encounter with the Lestrygonians, being in Leopold Bloom’s head once more, the Homeric parallels found in Ulysses’ eighth episode, the dangers of being too hangry, translating The Odyssey into French, anthropomorphic geography, trophomorphism, the intersection of food and sexuality, bloody imagery, and why James Joyce connected fermentation to women.

Ulysses & The Odyssey - The Lestrygonians — Blooms & Barnacles

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Nelson supposes his toeses are roses, but Nelson supposes erroneously.

Topics in this episode include Barcelona, revisiting James Joyce’s Guinness ad, the history of Nelson’s pillar, Horatio Nelson, the final resting place of Nelson’s head, possible replacements for Nelson atop the former pillar, failed attempts to raise the wind, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The Parable of the Plums, Mt. Pisgah, the 17th century origin of the title of Stephen’s parable, the Eucharist, the parable of the wise and foolish virgins, Fumbally’s Lane and the Liberties, bitterness and deflation, bathos, Antisthenes and cynicism, Penelope’s beauty in comparison to Helen’s, paralysis, Moses, sean bhean bhocht, Parnell’s monument, plumtrees, plumstones, plums in general, Nelson as a poor reciprocator of oral sex, Stephen’s misogyny, hypostasis, and PEN IS CHAMP.

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We share our thoughts on Dubliners short stories "Araby" and "Eveline"

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What if we held hands in the Akasic Record?

Topics in this episode include too much information about the Freemasons, entering the Promised Land, Daniel O'Connell's mass meeting at Mullaghmast, political radicalism, the Akasic Record, Stephen's magic powers, rebutting John F. Taylor, Parnell's parliamentary finesse, argumentum ad pasiones, leaning into your own bias, the origin of the phrase "Dear Dirty Dublin," duplicitous newsies, disappointment for J.J. O'Molloy, Odysseus rebuffed by Aeolus, and Stephen girds his loins for creative outburst.

The Language of the Outlaw: John F. Taylor's Speech in "Aeolus"

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