EPISODE · May 30, 2026 · 37 MIN
2.30 analysing Wandering Rocks 3
from North London Ulysses · host Russell Raphael
Russell analyses vignettes #13-19 of the Wandering Rocks episode. What is the health of the city's arteries? Clean and open, allowing the smooth passage of the populace, the life blood of any city? Or congested and clogged, stifling and slowly but surely paralysing it in a labyrinth? Here we meet Stephen in the challenging #13 - it's Stephen, what do you expect? his father and other layabouts in #14, Parnell's brother in #16 and finish with some grandeur and the viceregal cavalcade through the city. We started the chapter in #1 by considering how the church dominates the city; either or both positively and negatively. This time in the final vignette, we do likewise with an institution of state. Penguin Classic: p. 310Gabler: 198Project Guttenberg: Stephen Dedalus watched The Fine Trousers of Almidano Artifoni and Other Poems: A Rhyming Romp Through Joyce's Wandering Rocks: Amazon.co.uk: Raphael, Russell: 9798374768787: BooksThis podcast forms part of an educational reading group and is intended for criticism, discussion, and study. James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) is in the public domain in the UK. This recording includes commentary, interpretation, and contextual explanation, and is not presented as a standalone audiobook. The readings in this podcast are provided for educational and discussion purposes. They are interwoven with commentary and analysis videos and are not intended to reproduce any specific commercial edition. The underlying text of Ulysses is in the public domain in the UK, and the reading here is part of a broader interpretive session. During sessions I refer to several editions of Ulysses for ease of navigation, including the Penguin Modern Classics edition or the Bodley Head 1993 'Gabler' edition or the Project Gutenberg e-book based on pre-1923 print editions. And may read from each and other editions. Page references are provided to help readers follow along in whichever edition they own. The reading itself is embedded within the broader commentary and discussion of the analysis podcasts and is not intended as a verbatim reproduction of any particular edition. This podcast contains or refers to commentary, analysis, and original discussion.© 2026 North London Ulysses and Russell Raphael. All rights reserved.
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Russell analyses vignettes #13-19 of the Wandering Rocks episode. What is the health of the city's arteries? Clean and open, allowing the smooth passage of the populace, the life blood of any city? Or congested and clogged, stifling and slowly but surely paralysing it in a labyrinth? Here we meet Stephen in the challenging #13 - it's Stephen, what do you expect? his father and other layabouts in #14, Parnell's brother in #16 and finish with some grandeur and the viceregal cavalcade through the city. We started the chapter in #1 by considering how the church dominates the city; either or both positively and negatively. This time in the final vignette, we do likewise with an institution of state. Penguin Classic: p. 310Gabler: 198Project Guttenberg: Stephen Dedalus watched The Fine Trousers of Almidano Artifoni and Other Poems: A Rhyming Romp Through Joyce's Wandering Rocks: Amazon.co.uk: Raphael, Russell: 9798374768787: BooksThis podcast forms part of an educational reading group and is intended for criticism, discussion, and study. James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) is in the public domain in the UK. This recording includes commentary, interpretation, and contextual explanation, and is not presented as a standalone audiobook. The readings in this podcast are provided for educational and discussion purposes. They are interwoven with commentary and analysis videos and are not intended to reproduce any specific commercial edition. The underlying text of Ulysses is in the public domain in the UK, and the reading here is part of a broader interpretive session. During sessions I refer to several editions of Ulysses for ease of navigation, including the Penguin Modern Classics edition or the Bodley Head 1993 'Gabler' edition or the Project Gutenberg e-book based on pre-1923 print editions. And may read from each and other editions. Page references are provided to help readers follow along in whichever edition they own. The reading itself is embedded within the broader commentary and discussion of the analysis podcasts and is not intended as a verbatim reproduction of any particular edition. This podcast contains or refers to commentary, analysis, and original discussion.© 2026 North London Ulysses and Russell Raphael. All rights reserved.
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