Jonty Claypole
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first heard Dec 2025
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But that is a very similar sentiment to what James Joyce ends up doing in Ulysses.
And I don't think he was intending it when he first conceived this book in 1907.
I think, like the Dadar artists, Joyce is filled with this absolute abhorrence and contemplation.
Contempt for this war that Europe had fallen into.
And when you hear Stephen Daedalus say history is the nightmare from which I'm trying to escape.
Joyce as well is asking, how can we get away from this?
How can we get away from the language and the traditions and the linguistic traditions that pulled us into war?
And in Ulysses, what he's doing is he's trying to reinvent language from the ground up.
He's trying to reinvent the language and literary form to build everything from scratch.
And I I think why the Odyssey becomes
a a as a kind of inspiration text becomes even more significant at this point is that it takes on a political context.
If you think about it, the Odyssey for Europe has been this universal text.
It's been this ursource, this foundation of
story or or foundation epic that every European country feels in some way attached to.
It's the Esperanto of art or of stories, or the United Nations of stories.
And Joyce is calling to the Odyssey to say we have more in common than we do in difference.
There's more that unites us.
So why are we fighting like this?
And the other thing that takes on a very heightened politicized air is this recreation of One Day in Dublin in 1904.
I think doing that prior to the First World War and doing it at such length would have felt very self-indulgent.
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