Jonty Claypole
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10,520 appearances
32 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 4d ago
Jonty Claypole’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Sylvia Beach, the owner of a now famous bookstore in Paris called Shakespeare and Company, came to the rescue and published it in France in 1922.
And for anyone who's been to Paris and been to Shakespeare and Company, you will know it as that bookshop full of earnest young Americans.
writing unreadable first novels.
So, like Odysseus, finally reaching If Ithaca, we have finally reached Ulysses after referring to it, usually in disparaging terms, over the life of this podcast.
And the question is, how going to approach it?
Are we gonna fall on our knees and kiss the shores, Sophie?
Or will we grab bow and arrow and lay waste to the palace and the suitors?
And if you're concerned we're sounding just a little too flip, it's worth remembering that Joyce himself said that Ulysses is fundamentally a humorous work those were his words, filled with wordplay, toilet humour and irreverence.
So I I feel that Joyce would approve of whatever approach we take.
Well, yes.
And publish poems in uh periodicals about how ignorant we were.
He he would d depict us farting criticism onto his work and finally being engulfed and poisoned by the toxicity of our o of our own effusions.
Okay, Sophie, it's synopsis time, sixteenth of june, nineteen oh four.
Stephen Dedalus, who we last encountered in Portrait of the Artist as a young man, and let's be honest, we're relieved to see the end of is back.
So we're definitely into Born Legacy stage here.
If you recall, y you may not want to recall, but if you recall Sophie, Portrait ended with Stephen deciding everything was going to be so much better in Europe.
And frankly, as he said good riddance to Dublin, I think we were feeling good riddance to Steve and Devilus.
Well, unfortunately, he's had his stint in Europe and he he's back in Dublin.
Partly because his mother became ill and has died, and in consequence, he is all at sea.
He's also racked with guilt, as he should be, because his mother asked him to pray with her before she died.
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