tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post687761413392914020..comments2024-03-05T15:10:07.370-06:00Comments on A Building Roam: Books I'm ReadingPQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-63088214604678739272010-03-09T21:21:43.794-06:002010-03-09T21:21:43.794-06:00I've only been thumbing through it so far, but...I've only been thumbing through it so far, but if it seems like it'd work best to read Ulysses and then refer to the Allusions when something unknown comes up (and there's so much of throughout the book--names, songs, phrases in multiple languages). <br /><br />But it's also fun to just flip through and read--for instance if you've just read the Ithaca chapter (which is perhaps the book's richest when it comes to random obscure facts) it's great to just flip through the Allusions to that chapter and come across things like the fact that "My Favourite Hero", a schoolboy essay Bloom remembers writing (pg 685) was the title for an essay Joyce actually wrote when he was a child in school---it was an essay about his favorite hero Ulysses.PQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-91066680194402237282010-03-09T05:43:14.997-06:002010-03-09T05:43:14.997-06:00That Allusions book sounds intriguing - how do you...That Allusions book sounds intriguing - how do you use it? I mean, do you read a bit of it and then read the Joyce, or do you read the Joyce and when something seems peculiar do you look it up?<br />LisaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com