Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Needs More!!!

In what directions did listener and narrator lie?

Listener, S. E. by E.: Narrator, N. W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of latitude, N., and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45degrees to the terrestrial equator.

In what state of rest or motion?

At rest relatively to themselves and to each other. In motion being each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space.

In what posture?

Listener: reclined semilaterally, left, left hand under head, right leg extended in a straight line and resting on left leg, flexed, in the attitude of Gea-Tellus, fulfilled, recumbent, big with seed. Narrator: reclined laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the index finger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in the attitude depicted in a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, thechildman weary, the manchild in the womb.

Womb? Weary?

He rests. He has travelled.

4 comments:

Eric said...

Did you realize that Tupac Shakur was born on Bloomsday?
He once said, "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
The parallels are eerie.

Em said...

Very interesting.

Aunt Bell said...

I usually love your posts, but this one (for me) was...yucky. Sounds too much like something my dad would have come up with. Ewwwwwwwwww.....

pdore said...

I'm so sorry it creeped you out Bell :( It was TOTALLY unintentional. It's towards the end of the book when Bloom goes to sleep next to his wife, and I just like his writing so much, but I didn't think that it might be creepy. So no more James Joyce stuff for now! Well, one more.