BtZ42 Read

[Mark Kohut]

"They have begun to move."...The Evacuation (capped)....a reification of
the refugee crisis.

The universality of GR...most refugees then in history, now maybe matched
by the horror of the refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(Marxism)

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I do not like such statements either and wish I had sat on this
> little post overnight and changed it.
>
> But, I will suggest that maybe it is the life-embracing aspect of Pirate
> and all done exuberantly, comically that
> rightly reminds one of the beginning of Ulysses?
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Ray Easton <raymond.lee.easton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I loathe statements about literature of the form "it feels to me
>> like..."  ( pace, Mark -- not aiming at you, but only at myself! ), but I
>> do have to say that some of what follows after the dream "feels to me like"
>> the beginning of Ulysses.  Felt so my first reading and has every time
>> since.
>>
>> I cannot figure out why, though -- and the why is what matters.
>>
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>>
>> On March 16, 2016 6:37:02 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Distinct feeling of Mulligan at Ulysses opening now that you mention it.
>>> Wholly changed but in comic tone and meaning
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> And the first rebirth is a Pirate, followed by Bloat.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> “There are proceedings of such a delicate nature that it is well to
>>>> overwhelm them with coarseness and make them unrecognisable; there are
>>>> actions of love and of extravagant magnanimity after which nothing can be
>>>> wiser than to take a stick and thrash the witness soundly…“ Nietzsche,
>>>> BG&E, 29.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And what is Pirate‘s relation to Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus,
>>>> anyway?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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