Episode 14 Oxen of the Sun

Bloom visits a friend at the maternity hospital.

[@joanvega2177]

Really helped with the final portion of the chapter. All that nonsense sounds less like nonsense and more like drunken gibberish when you read it aloud. Still difficult to understand some of the dialect, but I got a good sense of what was happening. Thanks for uploading the whole audiobook, all of the audiobooks have been of great help.

[@gearaddictclimber2524]

Same reason I came here

[@marmstrong2782]

Absolutely astonishing.

[@Pingami3000]

This is unintelligible genius right here!

[@seaghanmackinnon7677]

I wouldn't have thought it possible

[@herrklamm1454]

I hit a bit of a brick wall with this chapter.

[@evocatimedia]

@@herrklamm1454 Because you obviously didn’t snort a brick like the author or the people that say they understand and like this rambling.

[@Hybridman7]

Most helpful. Thanks for this piece of work!...

[@user-xw2zw5uy5k]

It's so difficult for me to understand and focus on this chapter```😭

[@Mr1930s]

花梧栢 Joyce wrote the entire novel with the intent for us, the reader, to dig deep into his references.

[@user-xw2zw5uy5k]

Yes, I agree with you. I will try to understand and find the beauty in it.

[@herrklamm1454]

花梧栢 he’s making a point in showing the folly in the Irish revivalists wanting to revive old, dead language. Language evolves - going backwards doesn’t work, just like the cycle of life, time and space moves forward. It’s supposed to be almost impossible to understand to emphasise this point. It’s a dig at the Irish revivalists of the time who wanted to bring back the Irish language which the general Irish people had long forgotten at that point in time.

[@mattmontag3922]

Like the Oxen, this chapter is a warning about cultural restoration

[@suttree3233]

1:34:37 to 1:38:15 The money shot

[@suttree3233]

10:12 to 11:37 Middle English parody

[@tb3331]

11:38 , 1:30:55 &1:34:38

[@april3945]

23:36

[@april3945]

So dark is destiny

[@PollisDrake]

Poor Rudy.

[@chrissyc9652]

Whut

[@mbp83020]

37:11

[@mbp83020]

1:30:18

[@banjogyro]

WTF

[@parthoghosh9999]

This chapter discourages . James Joyce lost his followers .Most difficult chapter.

[@evocatimedia]

Give crazy people paper, ink and a publisher.... and watch as the “sane” gobble up the madness as if it has any meaning and value. 🙄😒

[@PollisDrake]

OK boomer

[@llliiliiiiiililiiiliiiilllllli]

"symbols on a page, ahhhh I'm going insane!" -you

[@evocatimedia]

@@PollisDrake Ok Zoomer. Ok Parrot. Ok Xerox. Ok little kid that has no own jokes, comments or ideas. PS I aint no boomer. But I bet your mommy and baby sitter would love to have me come for dinner.

[@evocatimedia]

@@llliiliiiiiililiiiliiiilllllli Your lame comment shows you are the one with mental problems. I bet just checking Twitter has you reaching for your daily prescription.

[@PollisDrake]

​@@evocatimedia The innovations in this book are now 100 years old. But still too modern for you eh? You're a Boomer in your mind, whatever age you are. Catch up, and stop blaming artists for your own lack of understanding.