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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.