Jonty Claypole
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3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 2d ago
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So there's this tradition in Irish literature of Molly's as working class or lower middle class, very sexualized, very
Desirable women.
And of course, there's Molly Malone in Cockles It and Muscles, the famous Dublin ballad, who's a Dublin fishmonger.
So it's a sort of amazing move because on one hand, Joyce is leaning into a literary stereotype from the 18th century of the kind of working-class, highly sexualized Molly character.
On the other, he's giving voice to female libido in the way that no male writer.
had ever really attempted to do up until that that moment.
And yes, there is a very valid argument that
That Molly's libido is actually just James Joyce's libido, sort of transposed onto Molly.
And it's also giving a voice to uh Penelope from the Odyssey, who is silenced by Telemachus and Odysseus and constantly put up on a pedestal.
You know, people are always saying how noble Penelope is.
But what if Penelope, James Joyce asks us, what if Penelope?
It's like Molly, and is spending her time thinking, Oh, my husband's been gone twenty years, I don't particularly want him back anyway.
Yeah.
I quite like the look of this suitor here, and is fantasizing about having sex with these a hundred and eight men who were besieging her palace.
Yeah.
Right.
So um
Let's cut to the chase.
Ulysses overrated or that you think it's amazing?
I do as well, but do you think it's overrated or underrated?
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