Ep. 127 - A MAN OF HIGH MORALE

“Speaking about me. What did he say? What did he say? What did he say about me? Don’t ask.”

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Topics in this episode include a rumor about Stephen, Professor Magennis, Æ the mastermystic, drama within Dublin’s occult circles, how Æ helped James Joyce get published, the opal hush poets, Joycean tarot cards, D.P. Moran and The Leader, the horror of a truly clever nickname, mocking bad poetry, the Opal Hush cocktail, Pamela Colman Smith, Helena Blavatsky’s old bag of tricks, theosophy, an American professor’s visit to Dublin, Joyce’s debut in the Dublin literary scene, microcosm and macrocosm, Mr Justice Fitzgibbon, more Tim Healy and Joyce’s ability to hold a lifelong grudge.

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Further Reading:

1. Carver, C. (1978). James Joyce and the Theory of Magic. James Joyce Quarterly, 15(3), 201-214. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476132 

2. Coleman, M. (2009). Magennis, William. In Dictionary of Irish biography. https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.005338.v1 

3. Deane, V. From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay Area: the Afterlife of Opal Hush. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/opal-hush 

4. Deane, V. (2012). Joyce, Moranism, and the Opal Hush Poets. Dublin James Joyce Journal 5, 66-81.   

5. Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.

6. Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/2015.65767.Ulysses-On-The-Liffey_djvu.txt 

7. Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vy6j4tk 

8. Gilbert, S. (1955). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124373/page/n3/mode/2up 

9. Kain, R. (1962). The Yankee Interviewer in Ulysses. In M. Magalaner (Ed.), A James Joyce miscellany. Southern Illinois University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yh7ndmw8 

10. Morrisson, M. S. (2009). “Their Pineal Glands Aglow”: Theosophical Physiology in “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 46(3/4), 509–527. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20789626 

11. Slote, S., Mamigonian, M., and Turner, J. (2022). Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses. Oxford University Press.

12. Terrinoni, E. (2007). Occult Joyce: The hidden in Ulysses. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/zrzasu6a 

13. Tindall, W.Y. (1954). James Joyce and the Hermetic Tradition.  Journal of the History of Ideas, 15(1), p. 23-39. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y3jt7uwp 

14. Weygandt, C. (1913). Irish plays and playwrights. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/2p9ea679