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Fw: time synshronizatio: coin
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From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: don barton johnson
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:42 PM
Subject: coin
Hi, Don,
I wonder if the text below can interest you and the List. I´ll send it on anyway.
The idea is to bring out VN´s fascination with J.Joyce´s synchronization devices.
The lines in TT about the cockshuttle ( that appears twice, at least, after an interval of eight years), together with the theme of "picking up coins" can be associated to VN´s Lecture on James Joyce, when VN comments about
Part two, ch. 7 of "Ulysses":
" in the second section the synchronization begins (...) See the technique? It is now three. Kelleher sends a silent jet of hayjuice (...)and at the same time in another part of the town a generous white arm ( Molly Bloom´s) from a window in Eccles Street, three miles away to the northwest, flings forth a coin to the one-legged sailor who has by now reached Eccles Street (...) Lenehan´s walking (...) is synchronized with Molly Bloom replacing the card advertising an unfurnished apartment that has slipped from the sash when she opened it to fling the one-legged sailor a penny.
And since at that same time Kelleher was talking...(...) we conclude with a tinge of artistic pleasure that sections 2,3 and 9 occurred simultaneously in different places.
( pag.331/332 or 3:00 o´clock ) F. Bowers ed.1980.