Ep. 161 - Yogibogeybox

We finally learn the weirdest thing that Joyce and Gogarty got up to.

Not the yogibogeybox

Topics in this episode include Giacomo Joyce and dirty love letters, the pain of not being invited, Æ’s New Songs and Joyce’s exclusion from it, why Æ Russell hasn’t released any new songs this year, Aristotle’s experiment, the meaning of nookshotten, Shakespeare plays as political propaganda, so much theosophy, the true yogibogeybox, a pawned Pali book, the time Gogarty and Joyce vandalized the chambers of the Hermetic Society, Æ the chick magnet, Joyce’s incel era, Louis H. Victory, T. Caulfield Irwin, elitism in theosophy, and Æ the gulfer of souls.

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Further Reading:

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

  2. Igoe, V. (2016). The real people of Joyce’s Ulysses: A biographical guide. University College Dublin Press.

  3. Ito, E. (2003). Mediterranean Joyce Meditates on Buddha. Language and Culture, No.5 (Center for Language and Culture Education and Research, Iwate Prefectural University), 53-64. Retrieved from http://p-www.iwate-pu.ac.jp/~acro-ito/Joycean_Essays/MJMonBuddha.html

  4. 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 

  5. Gogarty, O. (1948). Mourning became Mrs. Spendlove and other portraits grave and gay. New York: Creative Age Press.

  6. Jenkins, R. (1969). THEOSOPHY IN “SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS.” Modern Fiction Studies, 15(1), 35–48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26279201 

  7. Lunney, L. (Oct 2009). Irwin, Thomas Caulfield. In Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved from https://www.dib.ie/biography/irwin-thomas-caulfield-a4226 

  8. Marcus, P. L. (1973). Notes on Irish Elements in “Scylla and Charybdis.” James Joyce Quarterly, 10(3), 312–320. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25487059 

  9. Morrisson, M. (2009). "Their Pineal Glands Aglow": Theosophical Physiology in "Ulysses". James Joyce Quarterly, 46(3/4), 509-527. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20789626  

  10. RASMUSSEN, I. D. (2019). Riffing on Shakespeare: James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus, and the Avant-Garde Theory of Literary Creation. Joyce Studies Annual, 33–73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26862950

  11. Simpson, J. The mystic yogibogeybox. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-words/yogibogeybox

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