Ep. 162 - Quaker Librarian
A 17th century portrait of George Fox
I, for one, think geese really do have souls.
Topics in this episode include librarian Thomas Lyster and his Quaker faith, why Lyster always seems to be dancing in “Scylla and Charybdis,” the journal of Quaker founder George Fox, what James Joyce knew about the Quakerism, Christfox, leather trews, confusing Shakespeare and George Fox in the context of “Scylla and Charybdis,” whether or not women have souls, George Fox traveling about debating people about religion, Stephen’s jealousy of spiritual leaders who attract women, Anne Hathaway at the end of her life, the real Thomas Lyster, how the real Lyster compares to the Ulysses version, what “baldpink lollard costard” means, and the extremely petty reason Joyce wrote Lyster the way he did.
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Further Reading:
Greer, G. (2008). Shakespeare’s Wife. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Kellogg, R. (1974). Scylla and Charybdis. In C. Hart & D. Hayman (eds.), James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical essays (147-179). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/wu2y7mg
Radford, F. L. (1972). “Christfox in Leather Trews”: The Quaker in the Library in Ulysses. ELH, 39(3), 441–458. https://doi.org/10.2307/2872194
Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan.