V2nd: Once again, a parallel _Ulysses_

[Michael Bailey]

if there is a resonance with _Ulysses_, it's a nice inversion:

Spotlight back and forth between the young Jew and the old Gentile,
trading licks, and how young Benny helps old Stencil and gets involved
in his Quest instead of old Bloom taking in young Stephen to his
home...

somebody somewhere's probably already worked out on that idea already...

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:22 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Benny is a Jew. In fact, the novel goes out of its way to draw his
> family tree and heritage from Job and the wandering Jew. Fairly
> important; at least as important as his Italian and Greek
> heritage--Prometheus and Christ (also a Jew). I doubt very much that
> Benny's aloof wanderings and reveries about playing god or angels of
> death is a product of some self-loathing Jewish reactionary. Also,
> it's not fair to conflate Benny's thoughts with the authors.
>

if I did it wasn't intentional;  I figure if an author's interested
enough in something to have a character think it, it's at least
mentionable


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