James Joyce Ulysses- Episode 7 Aeolus

[@anonssr9514]

The chaos of this chapter, that now I understand was intentional, was what motivated to finally look for "help" online. I'm glad I found your videos! Helped me fill a lot of gaps from previous chapters and made me realize that it wasn't just me having a hard to time to follow the chaos this chapter presented. I will continue to follow along for sure! Thanks so much for making this videos!

[@bryanbraker8135]

Definitely the toughest episode yet. I walk away, having watched you, read it, watched you again, and read it again, feeling as though I get about 60% of what the heck that was all about. Keeping the chaos in mind helped, so thanks for that.

[@TeachUBusiness]

It is a rough one. But there is a lot of interesting stuff in this chapter. Don't get bogged down. Absorb what you feel and move on.

[@coldieco]

thank you sooooo much for this video!! i’m from russia and now we study British literature. Your video really did help me to understand it better ! send love🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@TeaAndBunsMC]

Makes me so happy that you're reading ulysses! Native English speakers will tell you this book is hard to understand. I can't imagine what it is like to read ulysses as a russian!! I just finished reading Crime and Punishment and am going to start brothers Kamarazov soon.

[@coldieco]

@@TeaAndBunsMCwow!! that’s sooo cool!!!! wish you luck🤝🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@epicgirl3718]

>British literature Poor Parnell, my dead king!!! anyway its cool ur reading the book as a non native

[@sticky123]

I'm totally loving you guidance and interpretations. You have made the book so much more accessible and enjoyable. Thank you.

[@igorfrederico2629]

I started reading the book years ago with my than girlfriend (now wife) and your videos were a lot of help, I love every single one of them, you are a really good professor, one o the bests Ive ever had. But being honest, as most of people, I kinda let the book down sometime in this part of it and just now am returning the reading with my partner. This time as I am re-reading some chapters, like this one, I'm getting a lot more and having so much fun. Having read more complicated books in this period helped too, some Faulkner and Virginia Woold for instance, and I'm from Brazil and choose to read in an awarded translation that is really great and capture the spirit of Joyce. The translator is a scholar on Joyce here in Brazil and have a companion book to the novel that I use it to help decifring the whole. But still, the most fun and continuing to be the best analyses and help has being your videos. Really thanks for the insights and this time I'm really anxious to finish it and get all of your videos!

[@TeachUBusiness]

I love what you wrote! Thank you for making my day! You really got me when you said you were having fun. That means everything to me. If you need help or get stuck, let me know. I am so proud to know that you are enjoying the book. Take care. Chris

[@igorfrederico2629]

@@TeachUBusiness oh yeah. I got to love books that are tricky and complicaded. Of course, not all of them have content like Faulkner or Joyce, but I really have Fun Reading' It, deciphering, learning with others, looking for vídeos like yours. And I have to say and reafirm, yours are easily the best ones and I aways laugh and end up learning and having more insights than when I started. And I'm the one who should be thanking you. This really makes my experience something richier and more enjoyable. So far I'm struggling with the 9th episode, but I'm liking the challenge. And I should say, I really didnt have to read this one, I dont have to study It or write something about it, I Just wanted to have a good read and as the Reading progresses and I get Lost, or get something or have a laugh at It, my love for It Just grows more and more. And your vídeos are a great part of It. Sorry for the "kissing ass", but you deserve all the love :)

[@seanhavern9864]

Enjoying this book so much and I couldn’t read it without this guide! Being an Irishman makes it all the more enjoyable for me. Thanks for the brilliant guide!

[@TeachUBusiness]

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment! I appreciate your words very much. Enjoy your Odyssey.

[@HayashiOkuni]

Dear Chris! Thank you again so much for your inspiration. Absolutely unique and special experience to follow your vision! It was really breathtaking to hear about transmigration of the souls in the previous video (from Steven to Bloom), I am still speechless. Thank you so much and Cheers to everyone!

[@bradleyhorwitz8490]

I love this video series. Thank you so much for doing it. There is not enough discussion about the wonder that is James Joyce on youtube. This is the section of the book, where everything starts to get really fun and interesting. Also had to say loved your Hades Episodes, one of my favorite sections of the book, fantastic breakdown. Poor Paddy...

[@sofiabozelli]

I enjoy these so much!! It´s the only way to face reading Ulysses at 21! Thank you Chris! Sending love from Brasil :)

[@BinoRucker]

Same at 54 lol❤

[@mka7331]

Your videos are great. Thank you, Chris! Fun watching, fun reading.

[@TeachUBusiness]

Happy Blooms Day! Thank you so much for your comments! That means a lot to me. Enjoy your own odyssey!

[@mka7331]

Chris Reich oh can it be! Today's the day! Happy Blooms Day to you, too! I have chosen literary modernism and the representation of consciousness as one of my main topics for my university degree here in Germany. Reading the chapters can be challenging but your videos are great for watching them before or after reading a chapter! Your enthusiasm is so captivating. Very contagious. :-) Greetings from Germany.

[@TeachUBusiness]

That's fantastic! It is so cool to connect with people reading this book. I may pop online for a live session today! Thank you for participating and commenting.

[@TeachUBusiness]

global.gotomeeting.com/join/789827509 I'm online now...

[@karleber3250]

Thank you very much for this channel

[@TeachUBusiness]

Thank you VERY much for your comment. Your encouragement matters to me! How's the book going for you?

[@lauriebranch6219]

Love your work

[@blakesteele3791]

Thanks for these vids cuz they've really added to my understanding of this tricky book.

[@TeachUBusiness]

Thank you! I appreciate that you took the time to write a comment. Keep going! You're doing GREAT.

[@rachelj2795]

So far this is the episode I have least enjoyed reading, but as I moved on I found that my mind kept returning to it. It had such a big impact on me. As well as reading I am passionate about dance and have been creating pieces inspired by the images that have struck me most in Joyce's writing. My latest was an improvisation around the thump, thump, thurap of the machines and the relentlessness of life. Despite living in such different times it feels like Joyce understood the world that we live in so perfectly and that has brought me so much comfort, particularly at a time when so little makes sense. I am so grateful I took the leap and decided to read this book, and that I found your channel and can connect with others on their odysseys!

[@TeachUBusiness]

Wow. That is superb commentary! This is a tough episode but you found the pulse. Joyce is give the background on the relentless machinery of time and life. Beautiful. You will especially like Sirens when you get there. That entire episode is musical. I can't wait to hear your take on Sirens!!! Thank you for commenting.

[@rachelj2795]

That sounds wonderful. I'm so excited for the episodes to come! And I really value how much Joyce's writing has helped me to appreciate all of the aspects that make up our existence. It's right that this episode shouldn't feel enjoyable. It's tough to be bombarded with people and events and noise that threaten to blow us off of our course, but it's also an incredibly important part of our journeys. None of us would be the people we are without the hurricanes we have faced, and our difficulties are so much a part of what ultimately connects us as humans despite how isolating it can feel to be caught in those winds. I hope Stephen can find that sense of connection later in the novel. I've been thinking about him a lot throughout these episodes and feel so excited every time he is mentioned or we get a glimpse of him. It's interesting that I feel so connected to him despite his lack of connection to the people and places around him!

[@hempenasphalt1587]

If you like dance you should look up Joyce's daughter Lucia was a dancer in the 20s.

[@freddywilson6784]

Reading this chapter and being part of the commute this morning, it made me wonder how Joyce would write about the high speed traffic of a highway. The stop-go, the weaving in and out, the similarity to a race though we're all traveling to different places/places we may not even WANT to go to.

[@TeachUBusiness]

You expressed it PERFECTLY!

[@batanlio959]

Hi Chirs, for me you are the second author of ulysses.. you give the (plot) the unique interpretation. thank you 🙏

[@TeachUBusiness]

That is very kind of you. It thrills me that you enjoyed the reading! It is about having fun with this great book. Thank you. You made my day!

[@jennagonzales1964]

I really appreciate your videos! They help me a lot and are very enjoyable to watch! (:

[@TeachUBusiness]

Wow, that is so nice of you to say! Thank you. We are all in this together! Let me know if you have questions. Thank you again and happy reading!

[@user-uz9wg6ef5k]

Thank you so much for your videos. Greetings from Germany

[@andreamanzanilla6833]

Your video was so helpful. Thank you!

[@TeachUBusiness]

I'm so glad! Please stick with it!

[@glenernstrom9256]

Chris, with your help, these layers pop out. Caught all of the wind references. From actual wind to breaking wind. Hilarious. Also, I was one of those who got a book (Gifford and Seidman) where the scholars cataloged all of the references. Learned that Joyce used dozens of "rhetorical devices" in this episode, I think to cheekily have fun with how these can be superficial, artificial uses of language. Onomatopoeia, anthimeria, alliteration, etc. At the same time, I think Joyce likes these devices because you see them throughout (Also, I seem to be acquiring his writing style. So funny.)

[@TeachUBusiness]

There is a LOT there to unravel!!!!! Good job seeing them. This is a complex episode but fun once you get started with understanding. Lots of hot air!

[@lollypophead]

I only found you in Hades! But I will follow you the res of the way through for this my first time. Great video--thank you!!!

[@veragreenwood9864]

I knew there had to be a simple explanation. Thank you!

[@olivergoldsmith6669]

On to my second Aeolus read--the first time I "GOT THE CLAMOR," this time I will get the two woman reference and the parable--thanks to Chris. Oh, I wonder, would Joyce be good at my next dinner party? Oliver

[@periodic98]

Hi This is my first time reading Ulysses. I have decided to attack this book in 4 ways. 1sr I listen to an aduble lecture from the great cources on Ulysses. 2nd I listen to your fun talk (which is excellent and thanks a million). 3rd I listen to the episode on an audiobook and finally I read the episode. You’re last talk on Hades (I’am cycling down to Glasnevin cemetery on Thursday) the bar of soap and then he references soap as a byproduct of death. I thought it was going to be horrible reading this but it’s fascinating. Thank you :)

[@TeachUBusiness]

Noel Connors Are you in Dublin? Thank you very very much for your comments. It means so much to me when I hear from someone reading the book. I believe it is one of the greatest books every written and appreciate anyone who takes it on. The Cyclops video will go up this week. It takes me about 10 days to think through what to in 20 minutes or so. Please tell me more about you!

[@TeachUBusiness]

Hi Noel, are you still reading? Hope all well with you.

[@herrklamm1454]

Well this chapter certainly Bloom me around something silly! Hot air; you’re not kiddin’! Found it really hard to stay with it.

[@TeachUBusiness]

This is a tough one to enjoy. There is a lot of hot air blowing around.

[@philipmaher2198]

I don't get how this chapter fits into the main story .

[@TeachUBusiness]

Watch the video again. It's about trying to go forward, trying to do the right thing and the wind (chaos, noise) is constantly blowing you backwards. Bloom is our everyman trying to succeed and he is mocked, ignored, put off----noise everywhere. Bloom is a traveler who struggles to reach the destination.

[@philipmaher2198]

@@TeachUBusiness Thank you for the great reply. It's hard to see your explanation on the page. Hard read for sure. Thank you for the videos.

[@davidcase1762]

But why the capital letter page divisions- are they headlines?

[@TeachUBusiness]

You got it! More wind, or as we say today, hot air.

[@wasfuerkeksigkeit]

What opera resembles a railway line? The Rose of Castille... this is a pun on “rows of cast steel” that resemble a railway line.

[@maxwellgoddard1673]

You're the man!!!

[@KT_RK]

Hello again, Chris! Just finished the 7th episode and your video was so very helpful! Thank you ☺️ I wanted to add a little notice: Stephen here gives a riddle again like he did in the class lately. And he knew both times his listeners wouldn't be able to understand it. And this tells us something about Stephen, how lonely he is and how he looks down on everyone around. I worry for him(( can't believe that Joyce could ever be such a person (as Stephen is said to be his "young" alter ego) 😅 but I'm eager to know how he is going to Bloom)

[@TeachUBusiness]

You make a very good observation. Joyce was a difficult person to be around according to his biographers. You hit it. Have you ever looked at Finnegans wake? It is nearly impossible to read. Imagine being out drinking, Joyce was big drinker, with a guy like that? Thank you for commenting.

[@KT_RK]

@@TeachUBusiness I only listened to a little extract from FW read by Joyce himself) very impressive, but it's a nut I'm not going to be cracking soon 😆

[@pamelapellegrini1766]

Hope things are getting better for you. I'm feeling a little better.

[@solivive2910]

Hi Chris really enjoying your commentaries they are helping me to understand Ulysses so thank you! May I offer a correction? If I understood correctly you said that Mary and Martha were sisters and that Mary was the mother of Jesus. They were indeed sisters but the Mary is not Jesus’ mother. It is Mary Magdalene (I believe) and she and Martha were the sisters of Lazarus. This may influence your ideas on this chapter slightly 🙏👍

[@philipmaher2198]

You spoke Italian good 👌

[@RadhaKumari-nm1fz]

I like your videos, thanks for demystifying Ulysses a little bit. I have a question-"He is sitting with a sweet thing in a child's frock"- do you know what this means?

[@cosimocaputo4827]

Hi Chris, thanks for highlighting the main themes and some extra information about the riddle (which I still do not understand). As you say, this episode has being rather tough. it makes you feel your thwartedness. Flight Of The Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov, may be the best background music while reading kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4qke6KmrKqMrJo. Now some comments: 1) (speaking about machines) "now if he got paralyzed and no one knew how to stop them, they'd clank on and on the same". Human beings should not try to control nature. This machist who's-got-the-biggest-competition is a pintless and ever ending loop. 2) "And then the lamb and the cat and the dog and the stick and the water and the butcher and then the angel of death kills the butcher and he kills the ox and the dog kills the cat." This comes from a Jewish folk song called Chad Gadya, (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Gadya) where Pesach, the angel of death mentioned by Stephen, passes over the Jews to kill their usurpers: the Brit...oh, pardon, the Egyptians.

[@TeachUBusiness]

I love the way this episode starts. The trains all winding up and starting to move like some big clock. Then we get the noise of machines, a din. And it ends with everything grinding to a halt. Like the start of an old film. The sounds mumbles up to speed and things kick into gear.

[@MichaelGoldenberg]

Chris, are you sure that Mary and Martha refer to Jesus’ mother (and a cousin)? I am no Biblical scholar, but I thought this incident refers to two sisters (in Luke), though Mary here is sometimes thought to be Magdalene. Granted, all these Marys affiliated with Jesus makes for confusion, but that is in keeping with Aeolis anyway. In THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, I think Jesus actually marries them, but I read that fifty years ago so I am not sure that’s how it goes. He is engaged to Magdalene as a younger man, then has a seizure at the wedding and she winds up going into prostitution in her anger/grief/shame. I hope I am remembering correctly on that, too. Also, add to this Calypso and Penelope? I suspect there are other pairs of women in ULYSSES and elsewhere who make sense in this regard. Finally, “Martha Clifford,” not “Crawford.”

[@TeachUBusiness]

Um, I agree. There are more Mary's than I can track. In the story referred to, I think they were two sisters. Mary's cousin was Elizabeth. The biblical references get as dicey as Aeolus as you so rightly point out. Perhaps, if I survive ver 1.0 there will be a 2.0 to fix the errata!

[@MichaelGoldenberg]

Chris Reich No worries. What you’re doing is a demanding but invaluable contribution that is getting people (myself included) to read or reread ULYSSES. I feel lucky to have bumped into you in the random ways of the Internet and invited to play along. I am making attempt #3 on this book. The first was my freshman year in college in 1968. I wasn’t really ready for the challenge and don’t recall finding the teacher inspiring. I got to a point an stopped. In the ‘80s I bought the Gabler edition and again ran out of gas at some point (from my annotations, looks like in Nausicaa). Your series has me confident I will finish this time.

[@TeachUBusiness]

Michael Goldenberg Yes, I had a few missteps on my journey. I find it a bit funny now. At the time I really stressed over my mistakes but then I have seem other lectures trip too. It is a complex book. Also, weirdly, I have been fighting an eye condition that destdoys concentration. That makes greatly appreciate how Joyce could have written the bloody book! I am so glad you are along for the journey. The videos get better...I think.

[@MichaelGoldenberg]

Chris Reich I’ve worked as a proofreader and did doctoral work in literature (not on Joyce!) back in another life before moving into math education, so I tend to pick up errors (though less effective with my own work). Have made some glaring mistakes in blogging on math ed, and appreciated when others caught them before too long. Joyce is tricky in that he frequently has Bloom and others make errors of fact that might be obvious to readers of his time, particularly if familiar with Dublin. And the irony is that he worked so hard to get physical facts straight about the city. Sitting in Ann Arbor in 2018, never having gotten closer to Ireland than McSorley’s Bar in NYC or glasses of John Jameson’s, I know I am missing all sorts of things in ULYSSES and I will have to live with it. However, being able to look up words online is making this reading much more satisfying.

[@luigigentile1251]

Yes mary and Marta are sisters. Also sister of lazarus. Mary Marta and lazarus where friends of jesus

[@willmcgrane6359]

Sorry, macintosh.

[@honeyinglune8957]

There's a recording of Joyce reading a section of this chapter. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJm6YYeor7x6o6s