the lecture series....

ok, so my eldest downloaded on our p.c. a lecture series on ulysses that he has been listening to of late......1 lecture for each of the 18 'chapters'.....as titled by their relationship to the greek poem...he never used them in the actual published novel, but did have them in his notes.....i listened to the chapter (i say chapter, but joyce uses no such deliniations) i just finished....and have started at the beginning in hopes of catching myself up to all i missed...and there is a lot that one can miss with a book so detailed and exhaustive...oy!......hearing each chapter thus described is a marvelous gift....especially the commentary on chapter three (proteus on sandymount strand)...in which the lecturer relates that this is the chapter that stops most readers....mucks them down, discourages them into reading no further...the lecturer goes so far as to advise that one simply skip this chapter and come back to it once momentum has resumed.....that option is quite freeing to hear....