Blooms & Barnacles

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I need to see a man about a horse.

Topics in this episode include a return to nutarianism, Tom Rochford’s surprisingly heroic back story, the Ascot Gold Cup, racehorses with weird names, Jack B. Yeats’ Olympic career, the life cycle of a pernicious rumor, Tom Rochford’s invention, Don Giovanni’s ending (spoiler alert), peristalsis nearing its inevitable conclusion, Prescott’s Dye Works, gambling culture in Edwardian Dublin, the class consciousness of gambling culture, whether it’s better to win or lose a wager, the alienation of the gambler, Bloom’s immunity to society’s “narcotics”, the symbolism of horses, a fear of horses, the racialisation of orientalism, the performance of masculinity, the masculinity of Blazes Boylan contrasted with the masculinity of Leopold Bloom, and why you should bet on the dark horse.

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