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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
US boss held in China leaves plant after payout
FILE - In this Tuesday, June 25, 2013 file photo, American Chip Starnes, co-owner of Specialty Medical Supplies, speaks to the media from a window as he is held hostage by angry workers inside his plant at the Jinyurui Science and Technology Park in Qiao Zi township of Huairou District, on the outskirts of Beijing, China. Sternes detained nearly a week by his company's Chinese workers left the Beijing factory Thursday, June 27, after he and a labor representative said the two sides had reached agreement in a pay dispute. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday, June 25, 2013 file photo, American Chip Starnes, co-owner of Specialty Medical Supplies, speaks to the media from a window as he is held hostage by angry workers inside his plant at the Jinyurui Science and Technology Park in Qiao Zi township of Huairou District, on the outskirts of Beijing, China. Sternes detained nearly a week by his company's Chinese workers left the Beijing factory Thursday, June 27, after he and a labor representative said the two sides had reached agreement in a pay dispute. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
Chu Lixiang, director of Huairou district workers union, holds up a letter of settlement during a press conference held at a medical supply plant in Beijing, China, Thursday, June 27, 2013. An American boss of the factory detained nearly a week by his company's Chinese workers left the Beijing factory Thursday after he and a union representative said the two sides reached agreement in a pay dispute. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Chu Lixiang, director of Huairou district workers union, is followed by journalists after a press conference held at a medical supply plant in Beijing, China, Thursday, June 27, 2013. An American boss of the factory detained nearly a week by his company's Chinese workers left the Beijing factory Thursday after he and a union representative said the two sides reached agreement in a pay dispute. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Chu Lixiang, director of Huairou district workers union, holds up a letter of settlement during a press conference held at a medical supply plant in Beijing, China, Thursday, June 27, 2013. An American boss of the factory detained nearly a week by his company's Chinese workers left the Beijing factory Thursday after he and a union representative said the two sides reached agreement in a pay dispute. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
BEIJING (AP) ? A pay dispute was resolved Thursday at a medical supply factory, ending a labor standoff in which the Chinese workers detained their American boss for nearly a week inside the plant until they reached agreement on a compensation package.
Chip Starnes, a co-owner of Florida-based Specialty Medical Supplies, told The Associated Press he had been forced to give in to what he called unjustified demands while he was held by about 80 workers inside the factory, an experience he described as "humiliating, embarrassing."
The workers began blocking all exits from the plant in Huairou district on the outskirts of Beijing on June 21 after seeing equipment being packed for shipment to India and thinking the entire factory was being shut down. They said the company owed them unpaid salary.
At the start of the standoff, the workers deprived Starnes of sleep by shining bright lights and banging on windows of his office, he said.
Police had made no moves to end the standoff but guarded the plant and said they were guaranteeing Starnes' safety while a labor official was brought in to broker negotiations.
It's not rare in China for managers to be held by workers demanding back pay or other benefits, often from their Chinese owners. Police are reluctant to intervene, as they consider it a business dispute, and local officials typically are eager to see the matter resolved in a way least likely to fuel unrest.
Starnes, who had spoken to reporters in recent days through the barred window of his factory office, said the workers' demands were unjustified. Neither he nor district labor official Chu Lixiang gave details of the compensation deal.
Chu said all the workers would be terminated, although Starnes said some would be rehired later.
"It has been resolved to each side's satisfaction," Chu told reporters at the plant. She said they had been sorting out paperwork until 5 a.m. and that 97 workers had signed settlement agreements.
Starnes had quietly departed the factory grounds by the time Chu spoke. He wrote in a text message: "Yes!! Out and back at hotel. Showered. 9 pounds lost during the ordeal!!!!!!"
He told the AP he was "saddened" by the experience.
He has said the company had been winding down its plastics division, with plans to move it to Mumbai, India. When he arrived in Beijing last week to lay off the last 30 people, workers in other divisions started demanding similar severance packages.
The deal reached Thursday would also pay those workers, even though the company said they weren't being laid off.
"We have transferred our funds from the U.S.," he said. "I am basically free to go when the funds hit the account here of the company."
Starnes said he planned to get back to business, and even rehire some of the workers who had been holding him.
The labor action reflected growing uneasiness among workers about their jobs amid China's slowing economic growth and the sense that growing labor costs make the country less attractive for some foreign-owned factories.
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WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross to embark on a spoken word tour
WWE.com's Joey Styles recently sat down with Jim Ross to discuss the WWE Hall of Famer's upcoming spoken word tour. The two former Raw broadcasters talked about J.R.'s history in wrestling and what fans can expect at his shows.
WWE.COM: Why did you decide to do a spoken word tour?
JIM ROSS: I?d like to think that I have an interesting story to tell. Growing up as an only child in a rural, eastern Oklahoma, I had chores to do and responsibilities to take care of. I was an avid reader of the monthly wrestling magazines and we had one hour of wrestling on TV that came on Saturdays. As best I recall, it came on at 4 p.m. My mom and my dad didn?t get home until 5 p.m. or 5:30 p.m., so I would have that one hour that I could get all of my chores done and get in front of the TV. I think that my journey from starting out as a kid on that farm to getting into the [wrestling] business when I didn?t have any contacts is a real story. I?m hoping that this is going to be as motivational and inspirational as it's going to be informational. We?re going to have fun. It?s going to be entertaining. We?re going to get some laughs out of it, share some information and some stories. I hope that at the end of the night, everybody who attends is more confident in their own future and what they can become if they invest in themselves properly.
WWE.COM: Why did you decide to start this endeavor in the U.K.?
ROSS: There?s a successful track record of guys we know who have made tours of the U.K. I won?t say that one day I won?t do these sorts of events over in the United States or North America, in general, because that?s certainly in the plans at some point. I think it?s a good way to get my toe in the water.
WWE.COM: Being that you have 40 years of broadcast experience, what wrestlers that are included in your stories would today?s fans recognize?
ROSS: That depends on how long they?ve been a fan. There were people that I met like Lou Thesz; the original ?Nature Boy,? Buddy Rogers; and my mentor, ?Cowboy? Bill Watts. Through the 1970s and the '80s, guys like Ernie Ladd, Junkyard Dog and Ted DiBiase before he became The Million Dollar Man. All those guys in the Mid-South and the UWF territory that went on to greatness, like Jim Duggan, Terry Taylor, Magnum T.A., Dusty Rhodes, The Road Warriors?? when they were relatively new ??and two guys named Sting and Rock, who became The Ultimate Warrior. When I was the WWE's Exectuive Vice President of Talent Relations, our department signed many of today?s stars. John Cena, Randy Orton and Kane, to name a few. With The Monday Night War and The Attitude Era, I was in the right place at the right time.
WWE.COM: Who else on WWE programming today do you have a history with?
ROSS: I was Paul Heyman's first broadcast partner. Paul Heyman had never done broadcasting until he came to WCW. When I needed a broadcast partner, the powers that be asked who was available. When I suggested Paul Heyman, they asked, ?How much experience does he have?? I said, ?Very little, but that means he doesn?t have any bad habits. He?s very bright and we'll be fine. It will be a great contrast with my Oklahoma accent and his New York accent. It will be very distinctive.?
WWE.COM: What has working for WWE taught you?
ROSS: I?ve learned a lot from Vince?s philosophy. Making sure you?re eating right and doing the right thing for your health. Even though I don?t travel with him any longer and I?m not in meetings with him any longer, we still talk. I?m 61 years old and my mother and my father both died when they were 64. I have come to the realization that I want to live longer than they did. I have to be healthier and take better care of myself. After having some serious health scares in the last few years, I'm spending more time on my health. I?m watching what I eat and going to the gym on a regular basis. Things that I should have been doing all along, I?m doing now. I think those are some messages that I?m going to share on these spoken word tours. You?re never too old to make changes, nor are you too young to make changes ??changes that are essential in our growth.
WWE.COM: Is that what you'll be talking about on your tour?
ROSS: A lot of those stories I?m going to be able to share. I think they?re all part of a changing time. I got in the wrestling business young; I was 22. Just chronologically getting into the business and being able to work the territory as a referee, and then a ring crew guy, and then ring announcing, and then broadcasting, and then promoting. I think this whole journey from when I started in the mid-'70s until today is going to be informative, and I think fans that are really fans are going to enjoy it, as well as the Q&A session, which will be a big part of the shows.
Tickets are available here for WWE fans and others looking to hear Jim Ross share his life experiences and the lessons learned from them.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Ron 'R-Truth' Killings' sister passes away
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In bold move, Pope names commission to reform Vatican bank
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis set up a special commission of inquiry on Wednesday to reform the Vatican bank, his boldest move yet to get to grips with an institution that has embarrassed the Catholic Church for decades.
The high-powered, five-member panel, which includes four prelates and a female Harvard law professor, will report directly to him, bypassing the Vatican bureaucracy that itself has sometimes been hit by allegations of scandal and corruption.
The Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), as the bank is formally known, has long been tarnished by accusations that it has failed to meet international transparency standards intended to combat money laundering and tax evasion.
The Vatican said the commission, which Francis set up with a personal decree known as a "chirografo," would enable him "to know better the juridical position and the activities of the Institute to allow an improved harmonization with the mission of the universal Church".
It said the commission would have full powers to obtain all documentation and data necessary and bypass usual rules that oblige officials to respect the secrecy of their office.
The decree ordered the commission to give its conclusions and all supporting documents directly to him.
The bank, founded in 1942, will continue to be run by current administrators and be overseen by existing regulators while the commission carries out its task.
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said the bank was not being put under "special administration" but that the commission would have ample powers.
The announcement of the new commission came as Vatican sources confirmed media reports that Italian magistrates were investigating Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, an accountant in another Vatican department that deals with financial administration, on suspicion of money laundering.
Vatican sources told Reuters in April the pope, who has said he wants the Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could decide to radically restructure the bank or even close it.
ACCOUNTS UNDER REVIEW
Francis has laid great emphasis on removing an image of privilege from Church operations, and IOR's new president Ernst von Freyberg, a German, has begun a review of all its accounts and activities.
The commission is made up of Italian Cardinal Raffaele Farina, French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, Spanish Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Cinchetru, American Monsignor Peter Wells and Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard professor who is president of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
The papal decree says bank employees as well as staff in other Vatican departments had to cooperate with the commission.
The European anti-money laundering committee, Moneyval, said in a July report that the IOR still had to enact more reforms in order to meet international standards against money laundering.
The Vatican is due to give Moneyval a progress report this year.
Von Freyberg, 54, a German lawyer, told Reuters in an interview this month he was committed to total transparency and has started a review of the IOR's some 19,000 accounts, mostly held by Vatican employees and departments, orders of priests and nuns, and charities.
On Wednesday, he declined to comment on the Pope's decision to set up the commission.
The bank has assets of $7.1 billion under management and profits of 86.6 million euros ($114.3 million), used to support Catholic activities around the world. It does not lend money.
Last year, the Vatican detected six possible attempts to use the Holy See to launder money. At least seven have been detected so far this year.
The bank is trying to clean up its image after a history of scandals, most notably in 1982 when it was enmeshed in the bankruptcy of Italy's Banco Ambrosiano, whose chairman Roberto Calvi was found hanging from London's Blackfriars Bridge.
In 2010, Rome magistrates investigating money laundering froze 23 million euros ($33 million) held by the IOR in an Italian bank. The IOR said it was transferring its own funds between accounts in Italy and Germany. The money was released in June 2011 but the investigation continues.
(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by James Mackenzie and Robin Pomeroy)
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Philips launches HTL9100 Fidelio soundbar with detachable speakers
Philips announced the HTL9100 soundbar as part of its Fidelio lineup at this year's CES, and now it's available for $1,077 (£699) at retail. Like Voltron, the soundbar comes with detachable parts, particularly two wireless speakers that you can place behind or beside you for true surround sound. These battery-powered satellite components can run for 10 hours straight, after which they need to be reconnected with the main hub to be recharged. The 5.1 system plays media from devices connected via Bluetooth or HDMI and also features a separate wireless subwoofer. Compared to more affordable competition like Vizio's soundbar and the Sonos Playbar its higher cost is a hurdle, but the quirky wireless surround feature may make it worth trying out.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
HBT: Rays expected to call up top prospect Myers
Exciting news for Rays fans:
Myers was pulled during Durham?s game with Indianapolis and is expected to join the Rays in Boston on Tuesday for the team?s day/night double-header. The Rays enjoy an off-day tomorrow.
Myers, 22 years old, had hit 14 home runs with an .868 OPS in 288 plate appearances with the Bulls entering today?s game.
In a related move, infielder Ryan Roberts was optioned to Triple-A.
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Monday, June 17, 2013
A Bloomsday Appreciation of Ulysses by James Joyce, Greatest Mind-Scientist Ever
Tomorrow is Bloomsday, June 16. On this day in 1904 Leopold Bloom, hero of James Joyce?s great novel Ulysses, wandered through Dublin having all manner of adventures before returning late at night to the bed of his cheating wife Molly. To celebrate Bloomsday, I?m reposting an appreciation of Ulysses that I wrote last summer when I re-read the classic 1922 novel.
Marilyn Monroe reads Molly Bloom's soliloquy in Ulysses.
Joyce did something that still feels fresh and revolutionary, although it has inspired countless imitations. He put us inside the head of another human, in a way no one had done before. We eavesdrop on someone?s thoughts as though they are being telepathically transmitted into our brain. Joyce was not a theorist of mind but he was an exceptional observer of it, far more so than any scientist. He helped us become more aware of our awareness.
I?ve written about the problem of solipsism, how each of us is trapped in a hermetically sealed chamber of his or her own subjective awareness. Joyce knocks a hole in the prison of our selves so that we can peer into the mind of another person. We can never really know what it is like to be a bat or cat, but thanks to Joyce we have a better idea what it is like to be a human being.
Joyce had scientific precursors. William James, in the late 19th century, drew attention to the weird nature of consciousness. It is not a train?a collection of objects moving through space?but a stream, James said. And thoughts are not like atoms or protons, uniform and durable; they are evanescent, ever-changing, slip-sliding into each other. Another precursor of Joyce was Freud, who held that deep down we are nasty, horny creatures, much more so we realize or care to admit.
James and Freud merely told us these things about ourselves. Joyce showed us, dramatizing the scientists? hypotheses about the nature of mind. Joyce?s novel has the vivid immediacy of a first-person video game, with extra screens for memory and fantasy. Joyce immerses us in the streaming thoughts of his characters, thoughts that swirl, cascade, eddy, ebb, rush onward, colliding with and swerving around the hard facts?the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, people and places?of Dublin on June 16, 1904.
Joyce?s characters?Stephen Dedalus, a young, intellectually pretentious teacher and would-be writer (modeled after Joyce himself); Leopold Bloom, a Jewish ad salesman, father and husband; Molly Bloom, his cheating, songstress spouse?are in many respects exotic, idiosyncratic, especially to an American reading in the 21st century. And yet these fictional humans feel real and universal.
Joyce reveals?revels in?the animality of his characters. Bloom pisses, poops, gobbles, swills, haggles, preens, cringes, lusts, jerks off. Joyce was a taboo-buster not for its own sake but in the service of truth, of reportorial accuracy. Unlike gloomy, judgmental Freud, however, Joyce was fond of his fellow humans, in spite of all our flaws. Bloom, my favorite character, is timid, scheming, lecherous, gluttonous, but also noble, brave, generous, loving, dignified. He?s tragic and comic, brooding one moment about the suicide of his father and the death of his baby son and the next hungering for a piece of cheese or ogling a babe on the street.
Joyce reminds me of comedian Louis C.K., whose jokes about masturbation and farts segue into riffs on death, heartbreak and loneliness, and whose overall philosophy seems to be: Life sucks sometimes, but it can be pretty great, too, and so funny! Real wisdom should put a smile on your face.
Joyce achieved a kind of hyper-realism, rendering the experience of ordinary awareness so faithfully that other depictions seem quaintly artificial, like medieval paintings before artists mastered perspective. Ulysses accomplishes this feat while constantly reminding you of?even rubbing your face in?its artificiality, its existence as an elaborate literary composition, like Hamlet or the Odyssey (which provided Joyce with a template for his work).
As Joyce would be the first to admit, the mirror that he holds up to nature is distorted, blurred, cracked, as all representations?whether scientific or literary, fictional or factual?must be. Joyce?s mirror is made of words, and some intuitions, intentions, desires, anxieties flit through the gaps between words. They are inexpressible, or ineffable, to use James?s term.
Also, Ulysses ain?t everyone?s cup o? tea. Virginia Woolf, another modernist master, was unimpressed, once complaining, ?I don?t know that [Joyce has] got anything very interesting to say, and after all the pissing of a dog isn?t very different from the pissing of a man.? Some feminists view Molly?s sexy soliloquy, which concludes Ulysses?and which I consider to be a masterpiece within a masterpiece?as an all-too-male fantasy of a female mind.
But to my mind, Joyce exemplifies Noam Chomsky?s dictum that we will always learn more about ourselves from literature than from science. In the 90 years since Ulysses was published, scientists have not progressed much toward a theory of consciousness. Hence the persistence of creaky old paradigms like psychoanalysis and even behaviorism, which assumes, absurdly, that mind doesn?t matter. Although Joyce didn?t offer a theory of consciousness, he gave us a better sense of what consciousness is, and for that we should be grateful.
Postscript: Joyce has been in the news lately. Louis Menand just wrote a fine piece on Joyce in The New Yorker, as did Michael Chabon in The New York Review of Books. And mega-bestselling author Paul Coelho recently suggested that he is a better writer than Joyce, provoking a British blogger to call Coelho?s work ?a nauseous broth of egomania and snake-oil mysticism with slightly less intellect, empathy and verbal dexterity than the week-old camembert I threw out yesterday.?
Post Postscript: So I?m plowing through Part II, Episode 10 of Ulysses now, a section called ?Wandering Rocks.? This and other similar sections of Part II defeat lots of readers, because they are so fragmentary, chaotic, scattered, jumbled. Joyce flits about Dublin, landing briefly in the mind of this or that denizen before darting away. He seems to be thwarting, deliberately, perversely, our desire for order, for a linear story line. His technique reminds me of a film in which the camera soars over a cityscape before swooping down to zoom in on an individual, the film?s hero, striding down a street or drinking in a bar. Except in the case of Ulysses, the camera never stays put. After alighting on one person, just as you?re getting comfortable with his perspective, the camera swoops away again in search of someone else. It?s fair to think, What?s the point? Here?s my theory. With this method, Joyce gives us a view of macrocosmic reality as composed of innumerable microcosms, individual minds. This pointillist approach, Joyce is implying, represents shared, social reality more faithfully than the phony-baloney, pseudo-objective, omniscient-narrator method of traditional novelists like Dickens, Balzac, Austen. Not that there isn?t a real world out there, with stuff that all sentient creatures bump into, hear, see, smell. The multitudinous minds in Ulysses keep offering us different subjective views of the same objective things, places, events, people, notably Leopold Bloom, who is seen, pitied, disdained, admired, talked and listened to by other Dubliners, even as we get his view of them. Joyce, in other words, is a philosopher, offering a theory of reality in all its subjective-objective complexity. But he doesn?t spell out his theory in dull, prosaic, Kantian or Cartesian fashion. He dramatizes it, makes us feel it. So that?s my theory of ?Wandering Rocks.? But to be honest, I prefer the sections of Ulysses where Joyce give us one sustained point of view, especially that of Bloom.
Post Post Postscript:?One reason I like Leopold Bloom so much may be that, like me, he?s a nerd, a science enthusiast, without actually being a scientist. He may be even nerdier than I am, more interested in how things work, in a nuts and bolts, engineering sense. (My scientific tastes lean toward the philosophical, that is, impractical.) Consider the following passage, which takes place in a bar. Bloom and a couple of other guys are yakking about capital punishment, more specifically hangings. Bloom, an anti-execution liberal (also like me!), expresses doubt about the deterrent effect of hangings, provoking a response from his bar mates:
?There?s one thing it hasn?t a deterrent effect on, says Alf.
?What?s that? says Joe.
?The poor bugger?s tool that?s being hanged, says Alf.
?That so? says Joe.
?God?s truth, says Alf. I heard that from the head warder that was in Kilmainham when they hanged Joe Brady, the invincible. He told me when they cut him down after the drop it was standing up in their faces like a poker.
?Ruling passion strong in death, says Joe, as someone said.
?That can be explained by science, says Bloom. It?s only a natural phenomenon, don?t you see, because on account of the ?
And then he starts with his jawbreakers about phenomenon and science and this phenomenon and the other phenomenon.
The distinguished scientist Herr Professor Luitpold Blumenduft tendered medical evidence to the effect that the instantaneous fracture of the cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would, according to the best approved tradition of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus, thereby causing the elastic pores of the CORPORA CAVERNOSA to rapidly dilate in such a way as to instantaneously facilitate the flow of blood to that part of the human anatomy known as the penis or male organ resulting in the phenomenon which has been denominated by the faculty a morbid upwards and outwards philoprogenitive erection IN ARTICULO MORTIS PER DIMINUTIONEM CAPITIS.
What I love about this passage is that Bloom is trying to educate, enlighten, inform his ignorant bar mates, but they just roll their eyes and yawn. Even Joyce gently mocks Bloom, depicting him as a pompous German professor pontificating on the physiology of hanging-induced erections. (Joyce does this a lot, offering different linguistic representations of the same thing to comic effect.) Although he clearly identifies with Bloom the Jewish outsider, Joyce must also acknowledge that Bloom is a bit of a bore, a blowhard know-it-all. And that is, let?s face it, how many people view science writers, with all our bloviating ?about phenomenon and science and this phenomenon and the other phenomenon.?
Postscript 4: Phew! Just survived the whorehouse scene of Ulysses. The section is called ?Circe,? after the Greek sorceress who, in Homer?s Odyssey, turned the hero?s shipmates into pigs after they pissed her off. (Is the sorceress Bella Cohen, the scary she-male madam of the whorehouse, or Joyce himself?) ?Circe,? which takes the form of a play, reminds me of A Midsummer Night?s Dream or some other gender- and even species-bending Shakespearean comedy, except much edgier and weirder. It?s a funhouse ride conceived by a brilliant, demented Jungian, trying to dramatize his wacky theory of humanity?s collective id. The characters are all caricatures, parodies of themselves, wearing grotesque masks, spouting all sorts of nonsense, constantly shape-shifting. Bloom morphs into a masterful lawyer, an adored ruler, a craven peeping Tom gratifying himself as he watches his rival bonk his wife Molly. The rhetoric keeps morphing too from grandiloquent/hifalutin to coarse/smutty and everything in between. Each of us, Joyce seems to be saying, swarms with multitudes of personas, from the angelic to the beastly. And each of our personas speaks with?can only be understood in terms of?its own unique language. (It?s kind of a Kuhnian take on the human psyche, if we all suffered from multiple-personality disorder.) But somehow, in spite of all this dreamy, fantastic, hallucinatory craziness, Joyce never lets us forget that something real is happening. Real, flesh-and-blood characters in a real place at a real time are uttering real words and doing real things, all of which someone in Bella?s whorehouse could have recorded with a video camera. As I said above, Ulysses, for all its extraordinary inventiveness, is ultimately a work of realism. The hard, factual foundation?the ground of being?that underpins Ulysses distinguishes it from Joyce?s next novel, Finnegans Wake, which I ?read? in a summer seminar 30 years ago. (My professor was a white-haired, red-faced, hard-drinking Irishman. Perfect.) In Finnegans Wake, there is no ground of being. It?s dreams all the way down, and you can never wake up.
Postscript 5: Approaching the end, can?t stop, feel like I?m riding a cataract of words toward the sea. Late last night finished ?Ithaca,? the homecoming, in which Bloom, having already saved drunken Stephen Dedalus from an enraged whorehouse madam and belligerent British soldier, brings the young man, who reminds Bloom of his dead son Rudy, into his house and makes him a cup of hot cocoa. This section, the most science-y part of Ulysses, takes the form of a Q&A. Although the Q?s and A?s are not actually voiced or thought by Bloom, they are Bloom-esque, that is, practical, factual, empirical, scientific, technological. The language is for the most part dry and straight-forward, as much as any part of Ulysses?but it occasionally blossoms?blooms!?into poetry. As Bloom fills a kettle with water, a Q about the water prompts an elaborate A about Dublin?s water supply, which is traced back to ?Roundwood reservoir in county Wicklow of a cubic capacity of 2,400 million gallons, percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of filter mains of single and double pipeage? and so on. The next Q, which asks what Bloom admires about water, uncorks a marvelous riff on water in all its polymorphous glory. Google the passage, read it, see for yourself what I mean. Joyce demonstrates that science?or, more generally, a materialistic, practical, nuts-and-bolts approach to life?can also be poetic, aesthetic, acutely sensitive to the beauties of the natural and unnatural worlds. Richard Dawkins couldn?t have said it better. Joyce implies, perhaps, that as a young writer he was too self-consciously literary and metaphysical, too much like young Dedalus, but as he matured he became more like Bloom, that is, attentive to reality in all its nitty-gritty wondrousness. So Bloom is a kind of father to young Dedalus after all!
Final Postscript: Yeah just finished Ulysses sad happy relieved glad to be back in real world my own thought stream but thoughts feel different Joycean yeah words seep into you osmosis self porous not waterproof looking for summation wrap up epiphany ?What Ulysses Means? impossible Ulysses like legendary Borges map big as territory it maps as intricate complicated confusing lovely ugly absurd sublime sad funny yeah how can you map a map like that reduce irreducible thin description of thick description impossible gotta try yeah maybe take on claim Joyce too cold all technique wordplay brain no heart like what hack Coelho said all style no substance bullshit Joyce almost mushy at end Bloom wounded still by death of Rudy so kind caring toward Dedalus when young man leaves Bloom forlorn slips into bed beside Molly he knows Blazes was in his bed can?t hate her hurt her he forgives her lover not hater kisses ?plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump? Joyce gives Bloom his fetish Joyce liked butts like Updike liked feet lots of Joyce in Bloom wife Nora Barnacle in Molly Nora never read her husband?s books Joyce hurt still loved her she him Bloom?s butt-kiss wakes Molly she?s annoyed but asks about his day he tells her leaves out masturbation and whorehouse parts she?s no fool we know when Joyce plops us into her thought stream she suspects he?s screwed someone else he?s cheated before she?s mad at Bloom scorns him Molly?s so vain competitive with other women into clothes proud of her body breasts men?s desire for her Boylan?s desire they did it four five times that afternoon she sees frailty of men pathetic little egos if we men could read thoughts of wives girlfriends we?d shrivel up and die dig the passage where she disses pompous God-denying atheists take that Dawkins and when she says men messing up world women should be in charge would do a better job yeah but Molly loves men too wants to feel their eyes on her stroke them screw them do other things even fantasizes about young Dedalus can see why Molly makes feminists squirm sexy material girl like Helen Gurley Brown Cosmo girl but Joyce just doing for women what he did for men Molly wounded human a lover like her husband even farts like him yeah and she loves him after all book ends with memory of him proposing making love and Joyce wrote this Great Book during Great War horrible war to end all wars war Joyce left all that insanity and horror out saying that?s not life this is life cheating flawed husband crawling back to bed of cheating flawed wife and they love each other in spite of everything and they love their daughter and dead son love redeems us our best hope only hope that?s enough yeah
Photo of Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses by Eve Arnold.
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