tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post2017337114083406569..comments2024-03-05T15:10:07.370-06:00Comments on A Building Roam: Cassiopeia and Tycho's Star in UlyssesPQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-20334603947162623842013-03-14T14:52:24.353-05:002013-03-14T14:52:24.353-05:00Thanks very much for your comment, Patrick, that&#...Thanks very much for your comment, Patrick, that's really an honor to hear!<br /><br />What you've noted there was just a simple typo which I've just corrected. It's funny, though, because that kind of little typo occurs in Ulysses where Bloom's penpal mistress writes in a letter "other world" instead of "other word" and it becomes something he ponders throughout the day.<br /><br />Joyce gives us a clue to consider in regards to such errors when at another point in the book Stephen says:<br />"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."<br /><br />That last line is shortened in the somewhat famous version of the quote that's always attributed to Joyce: "mistakes are the portals of discovery."<br /><br />Portals of discovery such as word/world and sum/sun are blasting open all over the pages of his final and arguably finest work, Finnegans Wake.PQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-11048436455313082982013-03-14T14:35:51.783-05:002013-03-14T14:35:51.783-05:00Hi,
I am one of the recent Volunteers who are...Hi,<br /> I am one of the recent Volunteers who are keeping the Joyce Tower in Sandycove. Co. Dublin (Setting for the first page of Ulysses) open to the public, Free of Charge. As a result, I am trying to brush up on my knowledge of Joyce. I find your blog very interesting and helpful in doing this. Can you comment on the two different spellings of what is apparently the same word hereunder. I had assumed it was a simple "TYPO" but with Joyce one never knows.<br /><br />"beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets ... to the extreme boundary of space" until "somehow reluctantly, suncompelled" he would return (how great a word is "sumcompelled" in this instance?).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15716273799906976470noreply@blogger.com