GRGR1: Discussion opener for section 1

Joe Varo vjvaro at erie.net
Sat Sep 21 14:03:06 CDT 1996


On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, David Evers wrote:

> 
> > 11) What does `your sound will be the sizzling night' actually mean?
> >     What? Does `your sound will be the sizzling night' actually mean . . .
> 
> No idea what it means, but the context -- Pirate meets a derelict ogling
> Girl Guides at a water fountain in a park, and threatens to call the
> police -- seems familiar...
> 
> Isn't this a central incident in Finnegans Wake?  HCE in the Phoenix Park?

I don't know about Finnegans Wake (I never have managed to get through
THAT one), but there is the part in _Ulysses_ where Leopold Bloom is
ogling the girls on the beach.

Joe



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