Bloomsday - Seattle 2018
Our annual Bloomsday readings started in 1998. After concluding Ulysses in 2013, we started afresh four years ago. This year, we’re reading the second half of Chapter 8, “Lestrygonians”, and all of Chapter 9, “Scylla and Charybdis”.
Chapter 8.ii: Lestrygonians
We pick up where we left off last year in the middle of Chapter 8, as Leopold Bloom is searching for lunch. He enters Davy Byrne’s peaceful pub, gaining respite from the hubbub of Dublin. Joyce, as ever, is preoccupied with “the significance of trivial things”, through which we learn more about Bloom’s past and how others see him.
Chapter 9: Scylla and Charybdis
In Chapter 9, Stephen Dedalus is holding forth in the National Library of Ireland, giving the performance of his life to an audience of Irish writers and scholars who were part of the Irish Literary Revival of the early 20th century. Stephen is an outsider, desperately trying to assert himself in front of these gatekeepers of Irish culture. He shares his elaborate theories on the life of Shakespeare, why the bard left his second-best bed to his widow, Anne Hathaway, and the fatherlessness of Hamlet.
Reading at the Seattle Central Library, June 16th, 2018
2:30pm on Saturday, June 16th, 2018,
The Seattle Central Library,
Level 4, Room 2 — Howard S. Wright Family & Janet W. Ketcham Meeting Room,
1000 Fourth Ave,
Seattle, WA 98104
Map.
Donations towards costs of posters and props are welcome. Please arrive before 2:30pm to find a seat. The reading will take about two hours.
Please RSVP to the Facebook event.
Poster
We encourage you to download Leon Mattigosh’s Lestrygonians/Scylla & Charybdis poster (PDF, 1MB) and post it around town.
Press Release
This is our twenty-first year of Bloomsday readings. (Press Release).
Commentary
Lestrygonians (Chapter 8)
- Text of Chapter 8
- The Joyce Project: Lestrygonians
- Kennesaw Guide
- Cliff Notes
- Sparknotes
- The Joyce Portal
- The Sheila Variations
- Joyce Images
- Shmoop Summary and Analysis
- Groden Notes
- Joyce’s Moraculous Sindbook: Suzette Henke — “Lestrygonians” and “Sirens”: Food for Men and Gods
Scylla and Charybdis (Chapter 9)
- Text of Chapter 9
- The Joyce Project: Scylla and Charybdis
- Kennesaw Guide
- Cliff Notes
- Sparknotes
- The Joyce Portal
- The Sheila Variations
- Joyce Images
- Paul Debraski
- Shmoop Summary and Analysis
- Groden Notes
- Joyce’s Moraculous Sindbook: Suzette Henke — “Proteus”: The Art of Perception, “Scylla and Charybdis”: The Artist as God
Miscellaneous
- The Modern Word
- James Joyce’s Ulysses: Where It’s Always June 16, 1904
- RTÉ 25-hour broadcast of Ulysses (history)
Other Wild Geese Events
See our archives for details of our previous readings.