I've decided to read James Joyce's Ulysses this spring, and I'd like to do it in a group. So I started Ulysses the Blog: a group blog where we all can read it together and maybe not lose our entire set of vintage marbles. Want to join a virtual book club? Of course you do.
Rob
(Yes, you. Who did you think I was talking to?)
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Who Wants To Climb A Mountain?
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I'd love to do this.
Wonder if I can find my heavily-marginaliaed copy from college? Or any of the accompanying helper texts?
n.b. To my knowledge there have been at least two very distinct editions in print in the last fifteen or twenty years, with totally differing pagination. (At one point Viking had both the "corrected text" and its previous edition in print at the same time, owing to intense scholarly conflict over just how correct the "corrected text" really was. I wish they'd opted to do the same with all their Faulkner titles, but that's a different henhouse.) From a quick click over to Amazon, it looks like there are no fewer than six at the moment (one annotated...).
Anyway, it occurs to me that, more than most books, Ulysses is likely to generate page-referencing on a regular basis, so it might be worth trying to keep everyone on the same page, as it were.
Greg, if you didn't want to do it, I'd have drafted you. (Come to think of it, I should draft Lisa Anne, too.)
So you're invited, and should be able to post as soon as you respond to the invite. And posting about the different editions available might be a good way to start. It's a really good point about page references. I doubt we'll all have the same edition, but if most (or even some) of us can synch up, that'd be great.
Hey Rob,
This is Tim (from your home town). I'm interested in joining you for the Ulysses blog, if it's still going. I kept putting it off until I could find a used copy, but I gave up on that. I now have the Vintage edition (gray with big blue U) from the local public library (hooray public libraries!). Let me know if I need a password or whatever. I hope all is well otherwise.
Tim,
I just need your email and I'll set you up. I might have it already, but I'm not at home where I can check right now.
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