8 episodes
From What I Can See, in Paris ashley
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- Society & Culture
As a blinding, elderly man, setting out to read Joyce's Ulysses poses one of the largest unanswered challenges present in my life. From mon café préfère in Pairs, just across the English Channel from Ireland, I will undertake this task. My journaling will serve as a channel through which I share my ponderings and experience this classic novel.
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From What I Can See, in Paris: Full Project
One massive book. One elderly, blinding man. One desire to traverse Jame Joyce's master work before my eyesight handicaps my ability to read. Join me as I recount my experiences in this audio-journal.
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Ending with Penelope – Concluding Episode
The final chapter of Ulysses marks the completion of my voyage through this mighty narrative, but though I've completed the text and thus completed this project recounting my experience, this moment is far from an ending.
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From What I Can See, in Paris – Trailer
Join me on my adventures, as a blinding man living in Paris, as I read James Joyce's masterful Ulysses.
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Into the Mind, Closer to Each Other – Episode Four
Bloom and Stephen interact more in these four chapters than throughout the rest of the novel; I follow their relationship in present and past, while ever-searching for the sporadic appearances of the Arranger.
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Wonderings about the Wandering Arranger – Episode Three
Ulysses becomes increasingly all-enveloping as the chapters increase in number and in length. The revelation of an Arranger who shapes the narrative plays a vital role on both the development of this masterful work and equally on the retrospective recollections of earlier chapters. I am in the eye of the Ulysses storm now.
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Further In – Episode Two
Traversing through chapters four through eight, my journey through Ulysses continues. I forge on ever-ahead, nearing the half-way mark.