EPISODE · Dec 2, 2020 · 58 MIN
Fourworded Wavespeech
from Blooms & Barnacles · host Blooms & Barnacles
**If you’re unfamiliar with the peeing Calvin decal (or if you are), here’s the story.The divine and the profane live side by side in Ulysses. In this episode, we discuss what the heck Cock Lake is, why Stephen pees on the strand at the end of “Proteus”, the themes of generation and corruption in “Proteus”, the artistic merits of excrement, urination as an expression of freedom and creativity, Mother Grogan and her teapot, endowing waves with speech and animating the natural world, onomatopoeia, the rolling tide, St. Ambrose and the groaning of Creation, Ariel’s Song and The Tempest, and Dermot’s anti-Shakespeare propaganda.Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe!Social Media:Facebook|TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts| Google Play Music| Stitcher
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The divine and the profane live side by side in Ulysses. In this episode, we discuss what the heck Cock Lake is, why Stephen pees on the strand at the end of “Proteus”, the themes of generation and corruption in “Proteus”, the artistic merits of excrement, urination as an expression of freedom and creativity, Mother Grogan and her teapot, endowing waves with speech and animating the natural world, onomatopoeia, the rolling tide, St. Ambrose and the groaning of Creation, Ariel’s Song and The Tempest, and Dermot’s anti-Shakespeare propaganda.
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