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Ulysses: Changing into an Animal Author(s): Maud Ellmann Source: Field Day Review, Vol. 2 (2006), pp. 74-93 Published by: Field Day Publications Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30078637 . Accessed: 02/07/2011 17:20
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ULYSSES 16 this the is the in Joyce the the Elizabeth 'Cyclops' dog narrateproverbial Costello episode, Citizen's laboured to like all proposes nationalistthe in ox Garryowenthe ofEnglish only pub thislanguage, skimpy literary Homer the interpretationmaster's styles story understands in Coetzee, his Irish. notably authors M. of who J. Costello female ElizabethBloom'sbecomes'earedthe only excluding anyalthough 102-03.case, In he (London, wombs' 2003), 17 Shem contagious: an thethisparthenogenesis. 476. In JJ,inherits can contemplateofmaleBy Finnegans animality feature imagination instylistic his scarcely Wake, so becoming possessed aversionwithoutfelt ownJoyce his towardsJoyceInthat thatwas Joyce's animal one.senseaccount,everywhere, resemblesthis who oxen hethe felt were beef: hewas himself, themeon by 'None 'Circe' himanimal. stampeding of your inchthick changing virtuallyeatIt blueblooded into histhem. consciousness, Balaclava only 'Circe' while forcedwas fried-at-beliefan wastoto episode give hebeing stakes a The trouble difficult without ...aswim so besides all much to was sit Exhausted ameal of in swamp Joycethe it given todownbyfeeling bogoakgravy the 'Oxen fourteenthhad the ofSun' both stomach turn.17 for 170.32 trouble has hishours to that chapter, too. thousand the greekenhearted In of attributed his [FW, lots toreaders yuder. chapters,difficulties that him 171 A .11 `greekenhearted to hehedevoted insistedwith cosmospolitan', his of episode, him in theJoyce magicTrieste,Budgen animal: toanimalizing promising the the 'You sick to visit make brokenhearted the moaning will you the by and sick Ireland'smultitude'the oxen the Sun.' episode, self-betrayals, Shem ofSun'.to'moving this couldis refusesthePrior in'Oxentoo: hearget to 'Circe'unleashed Oxen (tillto swallowcattle ofto ofbloody Itcurious bloody refer theIrish steak of be their either statementif orfor oxen eponymousthe ofoxen, to episode, cameo that slaughter nationalism,make or a thethe to many burned appearances atstake the In of as suchsteaks onfeature writingform June of of were beliefs. Shem's 16 1904. bloodletting. abstinence oxenabovine act`Bloodys'of from'Telemachus', thewritingbespatter inform comments the continue also to breakfast harks back delivered the he to May on to that in milk, Mr. Joyce's episode: another woman; Bloom, peasant byDeasy same theBudgen in for 'Thethe sun announced 'Nestor', oxen bleeding year `greekenhearted his who yude', into foot-andamessageare suffers Stephen at ropesafflicted finished',be the ofnausea beef vaccinating.oxen renditionas and mouth campaign ofbloody a with thatcommitted could read sight in beefeatersdisease; of graphicsacrilege the 'Hades' `Lestrygonians' to cattle island [Jj, episode. in adrove on ofthe476 the thathalt, the of funeralis a brings 'tomorrow Thrinacia. cortege reminding killing theis to that inBloomin themeatabout course, not 'dead trade'; Ofoxen object day' Bloom fantasizeshisreader Testrygonians' Joyce'slikely oxentheir whilemetaphors, devourers aremeaningless ghostly the into his reactions pursuing but are animals, 'Oxen eternity.in Finally, revisitsbloodysexpletives, Homer's island Dovisceral otherwise. fable Sun' metaphors as of of which since suggest Nietzsche imperialism stampede might men all invade a Odysseus's of say of defined yes,metaphors, famously Thrinaciathe mobile buttruth and thebrutes army metonyms, exterminate he that sacred the tosun-godtotakenall oxen is,oxenthe Joyce's anthropomorphisms Helios.16 inof strain Thethe be literally, their [U, 14.326-28 bloody physicality.18 OnShaw told bleedingidea 25 Weaverof episode, was 1920'Oxen to 'the his February thecommitted crime Joyce Joyce, Harriet thepatronaccording the thatin act against conclude fecundity by sterilizing Sun' most toan that [SL, the wasto episode of 251 current 'the and difficult coition'. to Are we ... interpret Joycelike both execute'. pro-life, odysseycomplaintswasofUnited his labour because for the includes [SL, Joyce to No, Joyce'sStates 249 by theof bloodthirsty Judging president found reverence correspondents, living, and 'Oxen' as the 'Oxen life almost Mina as the unborn writingunbearablenotthe the which takes undead. Stephen labour, while Injust souls Purefoy's off-stage ofSun'we place about inHolles Hospital, Godpossibled theStreet crack'those tojokes that Maternity impossibilise', Buckand in his childbirth. lives with cronies of referring the Mulligan aboutmedical millionswiped 'woman's nightly out jokes woe' potential 79

HELD DAY REVIEW each [U, When noxiousand 18Nietzsche, wet 14225-65the of from Seeallonimral dreanl. the wafting Lies Troth in Theodore across the and 1-.)st for blood narrator Purefoy effluviameat' itr'Nietzsche4 congratillates quagmire the deed his 'hideous 'dickySense', ofMaithusiasts the offall'.20and Atlantic, 'doughty go Meanwhile, of Selections impregnating was out Philosophy longuse term Truth: Bloom's 1906 from Wife, the (to 'ail sufferingload the stockyards.Nietzsche-'s lettingof Chicago In churning Notebooks While makes Sinclair kie Joyce hang', under Upton [U, a droops 1870s, Earlyof billsridiculous. published the trans. at The butcher's pro-likexpose Meat Daniel home, 14. Jungle, Breazeak (Atlantic ihetoric U, horrifying look the painfully industry,of in ofChicago modified). which recycled,1990), mounds Highlands, 1410-17 huge 84,NJ, infested rat 19Mary were rotting,flesh (translation regularly Lowe-Evans, See The toto indicatescutwith reference thatsausages,fingersAgainst Malthusiasts along is and about'It fromproduction and debates intothe human Crimes. offstockyards in the Joyceabortion frequentlyprocess.Joyce responding into learned that Fecundity: the ContraceOticiii washow bodies,' NY, ragingNazisChicagothePopulation Control 1, aftermath.need Coetzee's of Warthe claims process Cited 54. when (Syracuse, Worldboosted to Joseph a.decirriated'Hades',Costello.11 Dublin': replenish Western Elizabeth 20 by1989), Dirty fOr in a generation ofalso the CityO'Brien, boom fjaby ponders 1899-1916 propaganda. In Bloomthe 'Dear, A in(Berkeley, Distress, confronted This agitation and slaughterhouses', Europe.the -:pro-birth margarine 1982), 'byproducts birth-control extracted,out soap the strong-opposition:from of 21 103 feminists after of Costello, finest Movement,hopinghave specimens hair, the championed horns', into Coetzee, by Purefoy been 'hide, Elizabeth 97'The to Ihorrors . Irishold women like rescue Mina oxen processed thatI Joyce's 22 Derrida., for 6.393-97 to theby committed England'.' Jacques :frernendless, `Roastbeef to AmTherefore 41S-oOf childbirth, whose of Animal (More Follow)', adVocated yet Derrida-, eugenicists David trans. Wills, :iLinpro,Ong Jacqueslifelong Critical the hiiman-`stock'."9.0ften the anthropocentrisin 28 same and were the apassionate Inquiry, culture 4fernMistsStopes in of critique394 ttie.eugenicists Western Mariethe of meditation on people: ,a,nd. culminatedthe (2002), M:argar,et.,Sariger argues 'believedcOUld last animals, that fm :contraception the also two havethat lower save centuries women while traditional Of orders sufferings swept away wretchedness.and.death,breeding, farming, fromsaving methods.of andanimals. future their, fattening, generations techniques tainted killing to now been bloodlines. theThosehave superseded aimed sterilize Eugenics by working, of Control,iing ofof the animal 'act by the mass-production coitiOn the the animdls size, industrialization meat, for Ftlity,and the laboratory, audacious and'Ultimately.provided increasingly so-called ofgenome, natidnateof artificialubiquitous forf,t4e manipulations extermination the cross concentration insemination, genetic qegetieratetypesin cloning. of the 1942-45. and crimes All these cmnps Nazi breeding,practices could astheof be 'inagainst described committed this of in fecundity, well iirne, populationand ',human By techniquescertain service the being the a so-called control aiready,Wenrestablished man'. oneone , wereslaughterof Whatever fart-nit-kg being 'no deny .,in4istr,y,Ancluclingi.selective ancl as inferior proportions lta'ss the draws, conclusions insists, the breeding of unprecedented th,e intOurs,Derridacan stock. Were subjectionis In lifetime of this jOyce's, horrors that thisyear first Derrida true, This carefullyofanimal'.21 `. ofindustry although fact overlooks con,ceated.medical'theaccompanied In the the this has theby 1904, Joycesubjection an Nora the been that Walked arepOrt intensified oUt,qtrried equally for Barnacle, wit', on concern io4rnal-Thel welfare, animal Lanc0city of of ASPCAStates the evidencedthe 'barbarican Uncleanliness' inUnitedthe by (1866), thethe of ill-regulated foundation noting,,in,,particularwith in-Townsendcampaigns Street, Britain slaughterhouse in against where forced countless to RSPCA along iocalkhoolchitdren (1892), were.breathe cruelty,

ULYSSES that or the and 23,Derrida,`Animal the of Expectations re-writing IAm',vivisection,the Bertha Carey's 394 Therefore meat-eating; Mason,poilat-of of hunting, wildlife GreatPeter 24 Elizabethto throughout Costello's Coetzee,exterminationof Magwitch, further, from 65 worldcampaignsof the imaginary Costello, Just are viewonloose suchcomplicateithe,picture often text,stories novel untold ends 25 326;vol. humanitarian dependsin Letters, contrallaions-and:hypocrisies: Steil, the 2, and fraught champions Ulysses MA-James Joyce, precursor the 'Politicsin with Cattle roday,Siigicgardot of characters. in Disease' ihe,rights[of ,many thecontains (1912),France inciting such germs James Aiinalshatred loose of while subordinated ends, The Critical immigrants, toarticulated, Joyce: against andrJews yet the be in ed. Ellsworth Writings,gays Mason prejudices'non narratives most and Richard she is to of 'Bloom mysterious Ellmann that onwhothewhich silence (New opposeSviviseciii6i4'bit'orily York, ofanimal.,the Onlocked attempts 1959),. 238-41; animals: thistowill thin,k his siiibtice, 'penetratethey as hereafter cited human 'CW. ... way'into 'What Itarguable which ofhe in d the kinaness-to anguish.Sul-C. cries isreinforces its,core'Oxen t6t. animals all?' is to slaughter the he their of [U, Here cattle 4.565-61 by merety subjection, Slaughtering referring of denunciation. healthy would_iustifypracticeof dhe -Stephen's thousands if asingle fromsMeredithherd. senitimentality'(Crikbed 1912 The ihe woulddisease the in iswho):. he enjoy of caseIn an sentimentalist eruptsfoot-and-mouth amongst 'immense had without debtorshii aBritish foot-and-mouth 'led Ireland athing_clone'.-1U,to theon 9.550-541 cattle. embargo of incUrring epidemicdisease to Irish Mr. epidemic redates 'ContributesDeasyhack Joyce a Sentimenta14,tind-Otibtedly our that theto Derrida to soon can,compose conceals letter }tilit;411nss'that systematic pompous disease aniinals. points 1904,use . barblr_ityout recommending in of vaccine orclerto Austria. that can it developed men or from in foot-aud-mouth thea, 'do-all-They hide dissimulateiliii_ciruelty is aglobal Mr. henceforth totoonof dubbed to this bard', thertiselves,iworder Stephe, organize the''bullockbefrie'nding scale some to commissioned the. misunderstanding forgetting,or by The letter Deasy for thisthat .U person[U, inFreema,n's violencecomparepublication would Journal. submit thecases to such 2.431 worst make ;of One a bravegenocide' originalifor or Coetzee's . enough . , foolhardy Elizabeth, an Costello Deasy comparisorrts The Mr. iHen,ry the rewritten 'Price was in met who,: Ulysses Trieste.l'otter,ev,ery having fromBlackwoodtriCe, a 'Fie of ofre humantold Ulsterman view43Toom, his Stanislaus. Mollyurges writes'has day,' pointto now JoyceMe Joyce lectureof of audiences brother the animals.Irish oxen fromthat devastating is theimagine for Si-yriae foot-and-mouth'disease which culture view cure cattle. a pointare we Her ,an of incen.diarymreniise[isIrish itkilled' beasts are-cured suraiiintied from(abut stiffer arid by degradation, MOO enterprise been'mere anything number anclkiffing'Which 'fraction, c9.1eityrivals' havethe slaughtered of the that 'Third is that Reich of incidentally, capable British the outbreak ours indeedwasan recent of in dwarfs-itin despitedisease-is the foot,--and-mouth-, thaeithis self fact without -preventable end, regeneratingfa,tall). enterprise livestock,Price 'Be and Henry rarely bringing.rabbitsrats,,poulitry, the Blackwood into for chivvied4oyce: purposeDrop You ceaselessly ttietvorldenergetic. will -ofthem''''.; lethargy. killing if write told name thisget youryour. Joy'ce you up ought'for that up-.' price of ,Costelks7 from for til.be Eccles makes the disease Street Stanislauslooking supposedly. BlOomaction acure centrako Price. sunpnised foot-and-mouth the Nonetheless she rtheseventeen is for ;first by sidelined himself later 'Nviiichjeanre Mrs. asub-editorial Rhys's writingthe Urysse.s:..-Like Freeman's episadestof view for Joyce the from The on point yriting.of of disease journattt jani-Eyre SI

REVfEW FIELD DAY forrestricre4 and 'showed 26 oxen rats little Nor cniekr Thishishadup dogsJoyceregardistor was first'bullock-befrieriding Etiglish not *14 Ininarticle no1:fitirriati4animalS.`A 1907 I meat-and-potatoes gesture. for, man; nose 'last trisir *ma an. the,lrish andthe with causeJoycethe cuisines atthe the&AM-deed ofwhichPiccolo Europegreathorses cattletaken tie''tUrned-'ilp'his two were delta he to It in of Oxen. . despisedthe slashes defends the and usual Sera, cruelty , [U, lower abdomen themistreat accusation 8.535 scattered against their 'weggebOble's','Of,ithe.yegetarian. he vegeiabie,,ier;ebowels damn Jort the who is English animals, ,,W.as their in double whereas an 'Damn aridHe the Bar' Irish 'seeing claims, cattle vegetableverdictgrass,' to' on (translated ussell also toridly: fullfedtheoftheosophisty,ifro4fiYea-ts of tenant-farmers,hiseating at welt means p1rilosop4r 'Ireland the pastures while complained-of concludes from storriaeh `Lirkostki ofpopulation the lacksthe tr"CuWe'after eighth reason a'typhoid.tiiirnip' alla 11 Sbarria', of to 'drive attable the the Piccolo havethe subsistence', theosophical.'poetaster. every dell Sera, the and Cousins..16 19071 cattle stallsthe 121, Bloom Trieste, fromYet are 1621 James Irish farms'. uj, CW, tosevecal his 27 'contentof the chase by V,Iyssesday 486.4.581-82.; begins 199400. opencstreets', Inon kidney,U, Sopt. cattle miles from a.pork, Stephen through in breakfasting , topurchased his quoting the is whereas criminals' 'butcheroustbonhew maddened a 'bestial, the irreverence.--.Yet-Aespite mot aprivate Portrait diatribeof A cattle,same 'ravage' on against`the.,`dreatny, exhibiting cloudy ownArtist England inflict Jewishcompoundfrom the thatarecent brainwaies, brutality atrocity ofvegetarian (19161), EnglishIrish .the symbohstic York, troops Aveas Younga in 11J 8.543], (New Joyce hadBloomunable people. troops finds tomeat 1993 Her eat Belfast croWci, ;himselfafter 220. ininstances encountering which leaving . in Majesty's fire unarmed an 13tirton's opened the'-ca7pores twoon corpses: that of Perche&On hats This oxenidentifieshighcalling article Joyce suggests the shoved,badc,ar stocis,by-the the bar, withas is 'tables for Irish implication their that rnore-treatl.tio Thefellow-victims swilling, imperialism. gobfuls eyes England charge, wolfing who Irish is Circe theoxen of5Sloppy the the silk foOd, , their of oxen.changed bulging; and `Silk forinto -of fxeland, wiping nail. wefied. an nameof was kine'the Every moustaches. ancient as tooth milk remembers befell6W-,for-.hiSOwn, when by eaten. 8.654-56; Eat Stephenthe the Gulp. 6bbstuff. kineVocht, atMartell borne 70,31'"4' arrivestower, 8.701; '` ... or the old, Vanthe woman, the ofsuffering , Shanthe island. poorILl, anotheris by Inface aters,:vilifiea symbol YetIreland theineat--e' as Shaw iust 7.403f that by as'old describedof'a an are Ulysses graveS,of'murdered beasts', Stephen eats as .living conversion so. sow in Bloom the in Irish oxen:the farrow', her vegetarianismoariditees ihe oxen-eating -temporary depicted undergoes to asthe or restaurant restaurant kin, Icine-eating hence inthe search arebeef-eaters of as gurton's acheese'sfirfdWtich':.: cannibals, portrayed If latter-day of Lestrygonians.Z7 Homer's equivalent beef, the are by characterized Engtish 'beer, business, are bilks, bulldogs, battteships, Irish arid the mad bishops', buggery like A cannibal as crisis. and portrayedthe lunch,the of Bloom when ofrecent14.1459 typifiesat the cattle, crnivore,atl'im:e,kfist cows BSE!U, Westernavegetarian contradictions the 601 culiure.,''jsrecially--io6y, Utmostin and farms r:aniinals. .criterlti,i,:to laboratories with Wasfrom before towards anit: activist the utmost animal-rights household Joyce frorn-his.coexists thecattle, about facthis twotenderness -Far These apart pets. aphilosophical onand mild articles curiosity who moral precedent thecat,phobias contradi0Onslind his theand Rolisseati, family tOwards praises 82

ULYSSES 28 orEducation,vegetarianism feeling,' Rousseau, animal of hison in virtueswhile andBeasts' Voltaire jean-Jacques of flesh,expostulates On Emile, alimentary to consume understanding trans.4, continuingand Philosophical Grace againsthunting inentrythe Roosevelt iniquities the of 1911), (London, extolling while virtues Barbarians theofhunter. Dictionary: 794 bk.inveighsthe 29Rod Particiilacly See The that isin argument Ethel Bloomian so Preece,human the dog 'Introduction: Rousseau's seizewho man originates ability Theyin surpasses of the West',pity do Denigration animal:to prodigiously we nailatable to in and changepity','if dissecthim and Animals into 'how Nature anbyhelet friendship. ourselvesdemands, alive the him discover to you (Vancouver, 1998), be xvi-xxvii. transporting_ourselveshim outside sameshow not moved of mesenteric You 30 Philosophicalwith Voltaire, by identifyingtheveins. inall and were, ourselves suffering of that organsyou feeling trans. by it the Dictionary, as our Answerfeeling me, mechanist, animal,not being arranged leaving, it nature has Theodore on It inown possess. ot Besterrnan is ourselves, allsprings theshould 65 to being. way, (London,take the is this order 201M), its 31 Stein, himsuffer:ZS inanimal to are Gertrude that Insame not in that 'What we animal feel havehe in into he he are Master-Piecesevery and Bloom Why changes pities; Doesnerves he that there Here ispassport impassivenature Few soNow Them?', his to not Doassume Me metempsychosis. this Lookandcompassion atof in IAm: ed. and impertinent presents Writings Lectures of 1909-45, Patricia TheRousseau Meyerowiti .belies contradiction," the case assumption, 1984), much (Harrnondsworth,animal like advocates on promulgated 149. Stein's Descartes's Here Cartesian Michael that literatureVoltaire, for Moon in notion today, 'machinists' informs has other the ofanimal-rights that ethics, the horrorsthis blames onme spin stifled animal the hatto thedisturbing of Cartesian every cogito vivisection, from awhich conception the for is derives machinethe In mistaketheIn ofanimal. era, economic symptom was rhyme, criticism, nurseryphilosophical Voltaire's interests, in cause in Josiah quoted literary remainsasours, a byRoyce sport onthat Stein Descartes-bashing for lecture apopular vilifiedthemeditations Kantand among rather account than lonely poststructuralistsof asat an attended our thebeingphilosophers, successors, barbarity most probably Radcliffe. undergraduate cogito animals. Innurseryrootmisconception therhyme,of only the to a the littlebut theevery of Returning_Joyce's woman subject. to goes as Not this sell vilification market human does to road, rely understanding eggs, but alimited totwentieth theStein on century, in falls off Descartes, the the asleep of counters Gertrude exaggeratestheriophilic whereher of it on lives. with version a When cutsinfluence A contemporary pedlar a human 1 Descartes of wakes grossly cogito: dog petticoats. philosophers am my knows nosheseventeenth-century little she knows because more up, she to horseknew If becausethe longer likely depends where whoois: Tothisfarmer me:31 upon or me, beat wasthe the the he a But 'Lawk Thisproverbregardethis aneuter, mercy man of I,this knowledge of ifbe isIdoit/1thehisrighteousa dog, subject a Inonethislife 'aWroverbslittlenot neutral, Asdog biblical he than with inhuman 12.10], human in be, contingent hope his home horsehad relations haveatit to ofbeast' acceptedbutof others little aknows beat becaus'e universal rooted Andme; Descartes's be of Descartes's and may the thinking He'llIfI indeed, that Stein of recognition little couldanimal-machine; tail, doctrine scene Homer's I,hehisbe it bethe wag bewair argued AndIHe'll might since in XVII Odyssey, itand ifnot bark returns suchblows and loudly purpose cruelty, Book Argus, Odysseus as disguised When doctrineinflicting histo having shehome, preventnowhenoldIthaca returns served the and on could Even abeggar, homecoming, she barks, insentient dogis of an be by in waiteddog for his this mechanism.rwenty knows noneday, This own disciples hisyears concludes, Descartes's wags dies..dog were and the P:eds., IonaPeter by who views tail What and greatlysubject Hush Opie The Woolf's Opie, outnumbered is theofElizabeth Oxford Dictionary preposterous,her Virginia of Nursery thosehis also Barrett animalsfound 1997), (Oxford, For Rhymeson Church:the (1933),ofpooch, Cartesian himself every Kafka intoof Idogdeniedincluding much-kidnapped other Catholicto a Browning'sahug, am consciousness biography 514. little In my writes body the notwords, insisted arodent, inurban Inot who onanimals, and dog.while because others capacity asinging know doesme. dozen animals' the to to and all, most to'What asorryfictionsmost modernism, love, feel, thing ofofthe and learn, prevalent suffer.are ofto representatives apitiful, animality pets oxen the bereft theare said what that machinesalthough of haveanimals tovermin,instreets

HELD REViEVY indicatea the of their 'The Joyce's ,persistetice and'ChapterSheli, Fanity ilfrA like monsters. like are32liviarc 1Doiblin he ;ki&IesabtMit See Pet', the capitaL NOM Homeric c4toines raiTconomny, graitelinothers.14-Thwughout Ms and confound )fetittviwithin-,t410,1144s, Representations, vermin:, icentripetathis (1986), Movements,15 pets thatthe *Stephen's to argues Shell 121-53. are figure.s lintinal and everyas referring 'family perceptionstall& that the (137 the the petboth distigctitotchotween he ,iElogthe between animal.krunnati pred1cament..V7hile ShrAl the adversary, has annot he evert.dop_peiganger is 'Marc that himself,seesthefamily Argued pet 'allegory, atborderline and thehasChristian cannot its animal the thatinto. eat, only absorbedotherness. grasp cioggetilatnonfaray theiborderline because French it human between those beings whom it as [teen bat indicated .family, term by by have sexua animalthekin. 'Noon*, nol,Citcetowould miller eaten hirnseg apirr401;thDoe little.les$.thani4to an with be Apet to incest fa"the be traosportof c.ontEastvsegticiFes intercourse and moreAle cannot thw.talroa-agairisthimpo*er.be anal the of irh would kind, liody it not whom without Nithaiii with.the .natipathy his incest attic jworiltoansideringacat: borctrlint canr4i.ksit.1211, rprovifles animal As*o cat, sow tileriomortihosis. between tionatiinia he head,he Pt between wetiderssees what what and itsa's Ilook roan like ke whe;liet,.verrniarate-.-equally.inediblei., and bhp that Scratch wimiiide Pil; can. borderline lot siiini)at.TeastavisWight she man non my Wonder (i.e. those at the like ,of can te,:her, aitilat*cessay jim-ipatovver?-151o,be between which 0 over she may those wilich acrucial assuredcan ais beings animals 'Pets tIlSses ilaratter, [U dotriinion not as pets role to-weringjulep eaten play uh not 4.19-29jthismaystand definingafter look and human Itting.A latter the of a .cat at and all, takes-the kin intersection we a see timewith role joYcehis kind.' ihe..first staring wtote See a sigrtifkavt4hat catabo$d for 33mylike Leopoldwith gaze LWwitit,wtioraiin. .1s but not hares in 2 Blown ready grandson jitote, attire 'Writing story Critical 1936:,64bsequent1y (2004), fivit we he theastheoftown 46, Quarterly, .Alanc-.; Cot 004, Rat', 4iS ifirryirin-be Stephen'in 341Vaienzuela The the and mpastk r published wtkiCh 59-76. becomes of pmposecf,this th.e Diana class see sayi.o,L;ir Stepl!en, The:Ifivppie he aiong.the.strandin devil on atmy whenwith a _ cat tileDeaAigepc.yhad in of the is ivitrucie hrkIge-tt''Y ds reverie, cross Both he waas Ls deacklEig lone no interpretation 'sci1the Ulysses portoccupiej rivet-4 of Notre a. doginto a to the who Dame, make and tilethat to Amitnised on University _io animal crossedto &it-e he it; first ternifitiers,oftheVeoulbelppg 2005. condition enough, trying itthatsiOgle-night person mvii hin. transcend.hs oFe aiiine..stoite-bri4ge `dogsb.ocily's *noes' pets, across devil EU.Thereaction.to,these the ,3,45124body'. next tlie had teen tivoivti crystallitecatchesmorning Ole persmilities. river,' their-respectivethe.and flimtit9 with:fear loneontherarrived, wasMeiriSietwAlked Stephenwheritiekva.Orj13$4:ine .dati'irs Prsetitry ofcocklepiekm' the sight .dewolvred, buckethand, his himself by-149 ander he acar. as asartist hisam asfrekanCy. .4eiriiigaonewhile, carried beActarton 'tuaodwaterfin, assaited;clogs,'isrof lord 'in 't he. still, 6441,4was a lociked stood iriaybr, countrylnun. *he, up.at for just.simply .cat Ober tti silent,the pale,slicithicl becaose abicitiv',,. cat atti4e hayed aysinio, Beaidgeficy 1I, ciir has cat 4 it ailoweA 1irorticaltly;, tiredat .3.3 seif-4.rarliatizes,.a:Lord iprod t_J,suggesting a looktraydr',,but attention Stephen gets the hict ilia to the _of from starts the chain. catto moreteeth.the .'evon ofloOking tottirirthe Mayor's fear 'Mien begafi thanin4ifterence'goldenLord publicStephen .Mayor', heayy digging'something iOrd-nikayor upsand, ilk is the thethefor he Via, manbreath animal specnlaresthatheld to looking it ofthe carne his his biiried isalihough woota,n there,Aiming ilielnidge head grandittrinther', her the nottip.ribg is .lotct heldthe clear tcx.U, a44 every The whether' everydown tornmei triaq-,)r cat soinethivig iliggiflg pia Thework as 3300-111of attairmiguousthe on dog'srrolot.ttningas splaghl gloick digging and, thotight, mirrors'dead bridgeAnow timer IleThe was the bervveerr wholelailcket Stephoes with emptiedof_water he and hisinol-her car buries it viol:Juries over who

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3Sstoty the the water observation was Thislater devAiikl,made The thatlook acat at can a. asElkodJ. bii&et-of Cat published hstirtiniii'qpitiecorresponds Bloom's raft tilL4is.'..at, andThe *kik' as bridgemayor10044t the'Devil his. quickly,.and who by ttp ears,Catek lord 'She and looks to jump e,cerogr, an& Meadand ioto goros6Htire him: me: Company tholievirs aIsotheiscan beyond the (New York, 1964 Faber and Faber Foralso not animal 1965), tie;vAscil)eches, overlooks (London, thie to n'etesBloom,(-)1 and but. que Liitt merely here textis cited cha.pst'',Vous obiectsubject Joyce's 'warmthis the the [se bored gaze, sp fetter -des Ip1e.acidsis that the to see thauffrr Joyce agazemayoral Stephen withhjs'ne species, pretensions. Joyce arktrushes,dif by human (1 _kiwi amusing speech:maylord rnay 1936); Aug.SL, 382-84. Th postsaitt It at its mayor., Leff attro-me on_cltvilishphilosopher, that de.:44 language a a Derrida p6inted atvino4y hie .alsolook,atshe of acat Joyce's own speaksitiN look pair him story called a makes whenas follows . bot.when shower. the'resembles wt-tich thehischatque taleGOA,e Beisybaf44 discovers of Billyasgoes=4041 upitim Inessay his'Eanimal vet-y Gruff. heipealo fiewelldancie thatIam canquiteis apgrysuis' whofollow 'ha0:,Ftevii0 0 Wrriaa he t in animal tries to who very ttieTcAt.therefore is similar bave.hear4sal, tkoughisorne kittot to astrong has thibliA; 4ecent.'34 ameditation Bloom's,

FIELD DAY REVIEW toe/Jibe 4h James amtiats, for s'silpertoirity Erchoes is 'reatigin ilhi.stration objectss9 Joyce,by Montaigneout ,,Det4+:if and blindhet that 41.1 so&It sobjects,Cat inadequate, aria ,Thethe New York, Natureit,that Pevit19'64 liequaltylletiy ingeaera' ariy.s4iay or overvalued iscleatthe Nor'Why animails juiriselicriolv.' lackheir snone this make does vice'dettsitt spiderfaculty..i andid she here Jacketcauint anciiher, and theref that usingittis:knot knot reflect, think or contiiiisi4nsF. reach If semse ceasok c,-Ipacity aiirn3lsjossess butththe ,fox noi to good ooviries"tirnatelits, ishim theorders po-wet,thitWy 11.'Irllialri9.t.iniquie that n iof speak makes sower master of Iynmeaes,,. creatkiats' Montaigne aroirnaN have repliesylDecauseH -rtianifestly converseacross, .between:themtelves,' iitirier.even man understand riot Derridianaked 'Whiy .and looks earc'.h species. whatalso shoalSit beasts woli-iders a'idefectio4he acat, theis to it,dierefore be that hke givenis not in stors,o,11 without cat nakedus?'0.swi,ps, coranitinicatton knowing on us in sincedepends understood nakedness whicti cats realtyand animal 'they.794at naked,The'can the todisrobed.between of'Say be tit capacityhas 'Calypso', w,e. better 110014 than wttingicrstaild4tenti' its 1E26-27that look writes. at Derrida point a me', The view aview and will to sentinte,nt totiArard regarding-me, pot a the other,of of bigger about absoluitt through faniotisz.ai6om to nothing `IfTa we cotild makehave me think ev0 alterity -pot lnKQufd Ktot)e..ivi6re Wittgenstein's the ofneighbor bim.411 absolute than understand 1-ii:swhennakexlcat: speak Isee these A myself goefiion that-. mottle:Tits to of tis'titat possesses considerthe *Ilereminds Cat.:;316-1411t.,ct caw Deaugency,acatMontaigne of attoo, boredtheeven atoneand can however, manhethei(AfecogrAze getwithemperors retiipke.its' looking theBut ability outus k with C010111telS Whodisturbing beautythiSi ileckedlook architect..ckphane Welt inthenewawonderful clothes.than piety, jor More always urging prfip-ositiOfrii argumeat lo4k the theCAM somereligion factanimal thataway elef,hatitsele4Ry of it looksas irlOoks that 'have indeed ofitts and sine?. away; aiterity:' notion Ater; be iTN a,ttilt even abtutions cafl tis 'absolute w.aving Liptaisecr: gaze., theirarms ptitiiications;Atielf trunks-like incomp'arlyat tfi,o4ay 'The, the 4: periods for Derrida, *Moon!of l'Ong intertily:ai,tbeAnimal gazing iittrodvicif4gWhile r.isink,stinri.36 1.1k-01' ve filietl't-iii-ies'of cat, for Sebeopd stand Joyce toziey ailadingrtcyMoritaiipicA 44t IneditAioto Montaigne; Raytheinti Apotrio (15001, rootedbe 37PrTeefre Michel a How ,can which rebukes .cionternplation Apokj ats*1ameditationlike We to ,(Ntor.)(o!F:p4Pvv), on animals with for that in opensman they theqecertaindr 3k9, Au for the .14:),ric),Crkivii44iOW cat.otexattifig worship rlfliFittTrs Here tiiteseti their Montaigne crea.tor are Rayinoria.SAond, ,Qtcri from 14way NT: 1993k; arrogance t.hv bidden'When i(Elartrio,94sworif), Scree wei'.aintiot A. ilea 'Whet brothers'. with. Us, animals, she conceiveciinAides-171 ...play them,'a:P.Y 317, do that howrather 'not MontaigtierWittkensteirt cat,Iknowwith my IAA than 38 tt,Ot The me 4 tifolie isAire passing Reascitf ixteenth-cerittirl,tiOnit Antqaf trpH etP. her?' demands. will" thit er 39 1(ely:ty is, toy Montaigne, Is,4entlitligne 10)dord, rnt invoke0 faCtlity co Aprither oanimak f991),21,3 comint>niy 4ItNtifT gutieriority Apcptivy;,3 Nt-t

OLYSStSn 40 byUse 6ovanniFlorentinesexes',plea On ofwas Batista the shoemaker a to 'between deer's Plutarch, who letterswar-shoulid "Irrational"Celli, thatthebut Reason leather, be the companions lasirsiais',.*Essays,the than their rather a preferred womfinremains became of Robin Florentineseriesservants MOM andAcademy. unanswered: Waterfield member to husbands wrote a Gelb, 383-99 founding (London, called on of 1992); 41 trans.dialogues afragmeiitfar GiovanniPlutarch's to Bautista which Ge based Thornas Circe, Circe, from Ulysses,tonovinded, correctedinandto Brown, of island Ithaca, and wily, return looks Ulysses's coUnieteti yAienf Circe's preparing ofbeasts, Robert asks ifmay some curtholtow As by leave hetake A.rhetoric.often (khaca, hostess, thewho 85 responses 1963), 42 Circe, theinto previouslycondition xxxii hisanimals. -t4lie: onbasis that back Circe tcr: rather all had thethe GeIli,162 Greeks witch ,idelfe'aidl)their 43 Circe, converted agrees Gai moldy, that Offeels ,thanof reason. 'The , )ftii-xxiii animals the 44 Circe, permitdie are experieme Geili, it, their provided Asccintented :animarS;only elephant-philosopher to resume his to allows hide, willinghuman totpersuade For the shajses,;a1-44'.human aii"-;og inis andlife. return puts to -1.111ysses proposition Itinvto Ulysses inioclern\rea.ders, Ulysses's'.convitrced Grynna,To iCogent,itadelightful meaning 'grunter'. elephantfallibility mounts senses ofirony is thethat consternation,theby aflagrant many Grylhis to remain reasonsthrough stunshim of for off,a in trteansidf fallacy; the the preferring4s.rtiorvilRat dialogue ahog,. the breaksdefect and seems before lOrysses with the dilemma issilences to which thesun,be wianuscript, ,statiding'stig, w around factwith resoilved.40 inconceivalylii-Jrapidity spinning the earth.44-_, From basic --'Hibeen by the this essay truncated 'sting this Plutarch's; to iivelw-t-fqvt persua*4 tiorrowed idea for Gelb theofhis treasorois shape. sense-experience, superior to his in Ulysses whicih to exhorts-one.animal resotrie Circe, froman elepkiat0human aweshe his after toorible eailiforgonootpbosis an the ap celebrates another, of Arthewithof oyster eri&ofaccess ranging state of book, piety to theelephantMontaigne's t,return - wonlity, though With of the,,, the the man,his life iclaw'ing+Octieited exception olelihants, wave aphaosopher ailoration,,-Re informer toain insist better,';:. trunkto erstwhileoys' the resortslo that singing they of Greeksare as-arrimals. should Why forkis cause. hymn tTF-r4rsarrt ahuman to home,the'the firsttfitlie'4iNtg substitute habitation centuries or mobileagarments of episode human hisIsman interpretation Homer's arnsour braver theas Circe of ahare,for :Pkvier whose shell than Circe atemptress than a seductiveinto subtler 'fasterargument changes ion,most than icrentified has men snakepowerftil charm Odysseus The comes unleashing by adeer, magic beasts animal from Circels rnoly, thetoa'woman resists means humanandagainsttheir of the condition passions. be refuses-Herioes, by reason, whilmseci which returnsheout, .giltor An the imposed toservitude of grace. symbolizes sex. animals, ienipeance,the alternative, `Among tipoiner.-v!-k., points the sees female ,as man akheinical that ,in interpretation partakesin equally sunthe wallas ohe asCirce, anti with,b7mthe Odysseus diversions'ptirifiesoutbase god,of pleasures to itAtOW-r-fif of fire and but man assumes matterl the care .power tmalhis gold labour;prerogative;, ofcrew." himself and atyrannical and master himself the lord solingUlysses ofstory the differs wholeandvver joy4els-veesivdri ...4; retorts species that,klbp-ifer'S,--however, it in Bloom that weaknessown hisand from woman's her imbecility raitoly her out, int6changes restraiht terriporaYity necessary-to icj1ii14iiirigsi liberty,,foi an Gelli's animals Robertpointed to As M. has 'good. Adams often animal. 'the for the much familiar ' cies propaganda ofdialogue thisconsists of Ulysses's lwas and wheezes. on he 4lie,,gr.oxii hattneyecl,jokesobiect that

LDRVVIEVy of theirIhtroduaion bencetitstf beirfr-s-b-ackthe ofverte it, everienowl atiimatity,jilifmari,Jeremy gi if ows fttik.c4tirse45 Benthion, othorktRia you ht words410't reverw orrohifjon, ittrd 4J/fords ciGiCS let haven't fiat Anitna4 intil Princitges afi'cesti*s. Legistatioot itoKer, (0x1-00, withthEsevasion. or away the, tie, a'.Ai*nh n.122: fust arertr?i-am,1907 /7, 1171400, tllyssts,get Rut 'Ais Bloomto IThk triachints,.:WiNichch. twit-grown Fivas,to Siresi, rh in, horse 9,4 smowni;His and that apiinalormore hr face:thei mass.tritisicilof ekhebit comparison CbIL1 4ilto)0,atjstria; abeyond his dog 1neu164,tri Is be tnePsncrty tgiVetcearlier identifies morea iilOgstlii as as slialrAartges essay,0,4444iter,conversable well comic than InWnth with itraristrtigtaitional4Heriti. rational, imagination, 4of. the animal, aneven infant .the. the The with ritiO:reveals i,pgrspitr-ovflicifi animals, -his tilerftifte4 cat, cogeitc,istIlat a aweek, or dayorof t4ie calf, For huAn the sheep, ri,1ess.rq_0'.tliiiig'i-,ttiat Lradillekt vett its of a okt. aspect But tectaibiing 114-teir13;foonl,wirogbpuremouth, pecuitar what were the it case suppose osjeirrky fer itietast1city0c03;r,,e,t1ie,iin-presSion itvhan meLhanm isu-aiirtitni4ls' movementwould, heritivairt, of ofof otherwise, for apbmmsi avail is -question suifeting, *a,loxeity Can not,rvason tiiiy that rather associa-te;s,tifeseThebat, trastiti4 gio,Ort-i"s ef,fectS-with liff_40..tFruct,c;ti Can they the nor, 'krisviIit1srheOacirioiatkhet 46Henri aiscrikteir without stifferinglivattkia0k,c4mic, talk totch'4iTticatBergson, Can suffer?' they with their liskittilicattion view automi44,, fylight,zn SeeAn iikietnitiaAution thatboth as involvol urickiriyArather of Euay-of.; synapathr the Comic wel as masochistic jentsch's by- Meaning Ove epileptic such Laughter: Eond ittroiSSIIIICe. fliat-4.9.1,1s,lrol)pts C.S. H. nvtaWhioteas,involontAry'ipAvei*ents, ntihin ,coPv.ejrifig 1190011, 'Circe' the spectAtor trans. ntetenimoloSis F.2. Brereton and Rothwell ,10liveitt the .111,CdflA*4 47 'Freud, tratismigteates ItQesse the Sigmund ithogigh -41tOriStiC. -itnOyeSgit1:1;pf ch. (Lorgtori,19111i, 'The Work t behind"Uncanny" as -as onjob welt lovers. ,ivie,14riefr, ordi,o0CV fating MolEy's, awly attivirit;41 in itienageirefAlte aPPearA4cc94tP:ental The119191, Cionpiete tuf., 'fot Ortitic,a4-0_(rriCaIfiy,.',:a4ornalistri Works Psychological In edn., of ,doty,tinats ti e4jdyce Sigmund Itage Circp'.. trans. standard Freud, this and Strachey Janes stage (London, -cinekric,die'atitststii,:acto,pS their vol. awJ sans, pmicee4frs 20-01 'Beliqbabbie'-: clifecitiptis MO -Astno:cir,c--;27, f etnents apparapts'226 ObOtiCL `C-.irce U4sses,,.and is rehisallerlift the iheilibc-OinOtor Atielltearn-charitet and thethe Joys of asdesignated despite 'ytingJoyce, tE4is the that efripliasOirlw 'Circe'organ of tread:cued),eavity ofepiso4e, psychodyetuitilo -1Accliciii,i,ca,ltiAtt.ire thr resenkte closely t.22-23J 'hit chaPeoge's' p_ioqrfshJflaIfldy, identified Freud iiiihe Materials But joycc, direatris.liFTC,4 ljesc.,artf'g-diSplrageickas to the tfiefteshtesMiii0bal,rnachine. ONV CartesiaAidtitiiii6,.c01,1kipsliWthe fresiii, Accoothog of -cl4tiftRriloo dreant-totilsv4 otiilote meof: 'daY':(:), 'fCitc.,e' :flosth triatitig, of spritman abc1 th4).44ydlifolir`trie dreamt fisALL ,dfcaln,which',..F.reu4fil riarrati*-.aiyi the li1.,*.baecreid bind repressed', diaes Nedst th. In iirtainttliapter,rfi4d1.-t0Alle. desires. voile unOnscious, the Aaocto.ltiti 4;6)4 a, joyoel.s is by as residuesof.' fr4.4 setskeletott of 11*14 , 4scrib.e04(srolkr 46 Atisg Jiminv !-tratosiding depicted with t1aitti41.1,9r4iy.ii tracks through digritOTktt: j(rice ElootrA 4a.iyiiike,It4itiasi.es mi#4,41bog into,aat airlifrtatifietworks'f flJ .211 changing,t5 LoaerngIte associ,40ti.iip; p15.21' .". accordance:of If with pritikiple -the a Frrtiitiriiiiii theisilrellisgitiNea ,tocotirtOtisreili4h4:isbi*, amain ,fiolifilinetit ..-eAtery'thiiyeis id ,doe wish, RioQini's4tierierriotrft*V.-1 thwArttit 43a.)'/, Kuistgeo Joyce iwealit?,throitiglirout-the, -4idtc-Cit-,cerisi.q1,Ciie-sifbatett by I1 by ttter ,of rhyttlr*cifIci-corimEitOr ifkatilitrsiriatipos sythptopt the tertiatt-stigef bf *mit/tali-4'w y whch fithtxy the hTeakittg Oikti&41Lf iri these, cip'u14-e41)y,in..491t0*tary jois4;e'fiallrutinaktiorts'

ULYSSES and movements, 'mark singling tics,ataxic ofbeast',out stitches, the him cramps, Likepiano, sun.'akillers aplayer the thein for paralyses.its the like ofoxen dances by punishmenthe bit the bodyitself,ownattributeshead', byshaken Feeling of the of thiswhich dizziness tothe machinery, effect lightor defying governanceother', consciousness. of refer Ataxicwhen theina'monthly the symptoms couldto present themselves soon mouth effect menstrual as his begins, (anofother a as 'Circe' 'monthly'noun 'a mute in Vitus' ofeither thea effect idiot,Saint lunarlycanthropy deaf shaken period gender shapeless irruptionor dribbling, stiffly jerks past, (anto dance'. Bloom the Soon an afterwards animal). of ontoconvulsed 'The refers the by ataxic stiff Bloom's stage, walks otherto spastic walk' as on cramp: as playing apparatus, The ... awful theofmeanBut stiff cramp couldthe the walk. Iate.locomotorcome That in notionwell back erection. Lad cattle. to thisor do lane. poisonous a`stiffy' ... Somethingphrase 'theindeed Markrise episode, of WhylostinstantInalso stiff' Probablythe life. in dead beast. eyes of ofresurrection closes effect butthe vision his or Bit the asBloom's an (he daytime inhead. the ofbody, with light Monthly again,for and 'every the[U, other. around 15.207-10fellowhisliver mousing'rusty and of his his the traps', rest the lights theanimal Here Iate', lost that body's Bloom awful pumps' attributes 'that to cramp' are up'. operate 'something poisonous machinery 'probably allalive, 'bunged cattlethese Neithermonsters, nor 6.674 cattle',slaughtereddead the of illegally like LU, ormeaning marketed whose control asof 'Circe' horsemeat beef 80minds their behave characters Cartesian modern this hurtle bodies, versions the cannot representing which like chickens the the sacred headless sacrilege with aphenomenon against Eating around to 'lost branded cattle'Bloom has oxen. invoked Descartes by

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FIELD DAY REVIEW Frank the clinchanimals Socrates', 'the 48 according that 'Circe', and his reflexes. picturingas Budgen, case nothing hens, wives recalled by great claims machinesIn but andwasmen's As into or are mindless Hart Structure Bloom's that shrewslove', earlierinto allwisest that andFinnegans observation, Stagyrite 'everythingbitted, Clive mounted a and Wake a toridden 1962), of inownmechanisms be becominginIL, itsway',a and inlightbridled Motif by speaksdead (Evanston, 163 in erupts dominatrix. which nightmare, animal In dumb thetheAny orderby animalsof seize stage. 1U, the 353.111-121 power ofis be this to human speech,into episode, off is elbowingand -changed to speakers psychodynamics an equivalent animalbe man beast changed to rigidbetween being awoman, separation overthrown bitted, Thus inopening the when bridled, Bloom loversthe heading a into born andorder tryst scene, turns in to among 'round animals, intomounted. the behind pig-woman aswho aman. acircus the animal 1U, stable'. whippedbybe Bello, 15.10-131 whoremistress into call and sadomasochistic the Whistles answer. these turnsIn performances THE CALL worldwomen turns andmen upsidedown, withalthough humans Wait, love, myyou. change yet and places of andwith I'll be the cruelty animals, THE stable. with hierarchy ANSWER suffering remains intact. Round behind the is clearintends Itnothierarchy; that factbe Joyce it this into Theofstable the aChrist'sthat the of imagerecalls overthrowcould he supremacy the animals, enabling of nativityis of argued to himself amongcomprisedreaffirms thatgod. man Bloombe the mythfantasies could saviour by suggesting of 'Circe' beastand become asexorcism ascalls Meanwhile inpurge welland as answers read which man subjugation. an Bloom and the in own lovers' dramatis the Stephenof in their femininity personae right, externalize effort by ofcallers actingtheir a theand get independent desperateBloom that woman, it, thethe mother of answerers.languagerole up pig The iswhether toridhis implication outbyhumiliated like piano, itself, words promptly Stephen digging speaks theor and digging in mouth her back thereaplayer theofepisodeAt isLacan's not.climaxhe again. to anyone Recalling convoluted awand appropriatelythe shoo is seized like Yet thespeakermother'stohis human 'in ashplant his formulation, phallictoraises afunction it,' elementthat exercise reduced hell. whose or spectrethe grasps of backthis themaniac theexorcism ritual actor tostatus ascript, must repeated 'Circe' suggests ofan in aofventriloquist. constantly dummy to beboundary maintainin the ordermanbetween once and thebeast the said transcendence of NoraJoyceher manofhuman Barnacle there'swoman, for of influence: is andthe husband's`Ah, inhumanover anxiety In onethattheof 'Circe'incomplete. he's In manto better demonstrates only got get alwaysparticular, that and better supposedly is that's now, theof 'Circe'Shakespeare!'" tolanguage, Joyce Shakespearedying gets intobeardlessunique an fastened to animal. a beings, himanimal.alwayshuman by grows changing his antlers, This reasserts Shakespeare the animality face inmirror which itself the Bloom appearing by areliterally antlered crowned taken inin hat-rackinto with metaphors, inbrothel; the and inmirror,dreams in this on accordance the principle Freudian Stephen,putting treat 'Circe', gazingmerge words that as things. Shakespeare's metaphors physiognomy, offAnimal Circean cuckold's henpeckedaphrase horns. ofhistransformations: Stephen speaks trigger whole like the `shrewridden and `go Shakespeare 90

ULYSSES 49Pathin hog'up brutishanimal, Language, 'A and the mechanical. Freud, materialize Difficulty [U,men from theis far conjures thePsycho asahog; of 15.3043 transcending body,as presented Analysis' brutes. 119171, to ofofFreudian the discharge, vol.'Psycho mid 140 27, Works, scents, aform comparable hesitates the dream, in hallucinations 50Sharpe, temptations. which themselves Ella (He leads the Problems She music, impulses as himher physical steps,bytowards As these discharge Revealed drawingof spectacles. inof Language: him the the out `Circe', odourarise in substratum spectacles An in Examination ofpainted ofmetaphoric theher of Collectedslip folds the the the Metaphor',ofvice sinuous which of 'mark on Papers armpits,male language, animality. Psycho lionall eyes, memorializing lurksin the 'A retains (London, herwhose beast,' our no Analysis rustleof brutesFreud see rejected 158 1950),the her. 'can thatreek have out, child',own possessed difference that points THEBRUTES animalsnature MALE his and between does rut he as ofand (exhaling andof ... estranged sulphur become grown far in loosebox, use Not is for theirswayingso until up faintly names animals rampingdunghetheir from their heads vilification roaring, to beings.'49period Good recalls and drugged tothisinhas human 15.2014-20 Metaphor fro[U, before the onreader's estrangement the children aswhen Thisrelies memory themselves animals. passage Bloom's still occurred, of eye where The perceivehas Rocks', 'Wandering is its the Ella earliest wandering by steamy metaphor, psychoanalyst Sharpe Sweetswoman's thatFreeman as tandem the novelarrested proposedin form ofwith Sin,memorable develops ofsable-wrapped speech, of the image [U, Whilecontrol figurative and bladder, embonpoint'. asubstitute 'heaving10.616 withbowel this Bloom providingof soft in Yet of the discharge. a for reading undergoesretains porn, the metaphorthe mental of kindorgasm, bodily avenue of 'Sulphur experiences culminating that lions!'. thatimprint it share choked dung experiences ejaculation displaces, Bloom human with beings [U, 'Circe' for animals. that 10.623 by punishes Hence apatient thesefantasies who Sharpemy sulphurous presenting been as 'faintly This 'I argues haveis the about them literal own condition', lions,form says, bleating roaring'. lamentable the animalization analystasasking gives to of sameit reduces perceive 'brutishness' lamb.S kind of beastwhich tois same brutislr the in also This'Circe', level. But man toenshrined thatinableating andsexuality,magichim metaphoric where reveals 'brute' men theAt of theliteral in materialize animality forth'brutishness'. brutes the metaphor,brutes. asthewe the bringing rampingoperates we same remainthat the metaphoricanimalized looseboxsupremacy the level is that words The of human were,by over implication metaphor, always human overthe of bysupposedly theis figurative the the animal sabotagedexaltwords byconstantly by those bestiary inhuman. the metaphor, is governed are mechanics hence in the reason Moreover, language speech; of to distinctionman between mind and tobeast. banish metaphor beast,overriding obliged autonomous cordon orderandpropelled off the by body, ofdrives. thethe pulsation the the apparatus locomotor makingexploits Bythe Joyce the ofepisode, organ the an After of Cartesian body Man notion animal not body to as differentiateman machine, fromis not According a mind theIn Shem this riddle but animal the is 'first to the the ofhuman 'Whenaman?'of expose thethe'Circe', toriddle automatism thepenman, to psyche. mind who theof reveals asked walks inFreudianthe universe',the asthe dream, sphinx,the which creature aconfluence the itself oflinguistic, prior as 91

FIELD DAY REVIEW in withthree in otherworld 51Animalizing fourmorning, of courage Cited inin the animal spirits TheBleak legs the to and two requiresajourneyAlan afternoon, thethatanimal Totemism, the the answer outwittingbecomingTextuality Oedipusfrom theshaman,order and gave evening. In Bloom Imagination: in thewho 'man', accomplish.51 Ecocriticism tumbled to theto beast 2000), rock.confrontperforms role 'Circe', sphinx Oedipus: ofbeast,himself (London, Shem than one better inoculateHarold goes 52 64 The SeeSkulsky, thatunlike animality. Stephen, human Master verywithNote throughout his youngdawn Bloom,has that Metamorphosis: in Exile he atShemmy theepisode; it (Cambridge, the on his 'Circe' 'a debouchof firstbe his form Mind very littleretains of all in shape dictited also that`semisized',Mass., tofirst ashape words,Margot changed', is 1981). of Joyce's protohistory can't can't but 53 Norris, be a brothronwhen into semes, theImagination and thea transformed sweestureens aworkseminal Beasts Modern is riddle asking, ofuniverse: the them 6 In of man telling monsterpiece. (Baltimore, not saidtheirtheother never 1985), aman?: when great Stephen ... ... that words, time, Onetake exile work, from accomplishes yungfries. writes nor the toafter homeland, conk wooman having necessitates lovelyjusthim ego, and exile stoops writing sham monumental anotherwhen ofhimself.the when yea, he he selfthe in semisized, beingis onlyso youngerbehind represents ... took left Allwrong,the of and that an haththewere Ireland,writing no another manStephen mananas. Joyce a Shemsolution exileabout on himself,all promise toJoyce, the he yours hand,be. him correctthe other Circe into cake, doctator, evermore the being allows it theaSham. in become change givewhen till animaltoshaman up is order the ofrocks, an theto beasts. rending confronta and was alow... Yet otherworld asham Shemandsham. the in of asOvid's animals 'Circe', Joyce's Inpassage, clamour mindsin thisanswer Shem's 'yungfries' are beings trapped his in They to the manmanMetamorphoses, toriddle. alien human exile.5 provideis aOne in bodies,unlike thatnot the forspeech, a conk humanif wittily to him';capacity retain suggests 'whenhath woman whose lion, human stoops Wittgenstein's lovelymananas' would to he language no 'when hetomorrows); inaccessible one another, another, reason matianas, had this identifies (bananas, is, frombeNorris Joyce sharply hecastrated, theMargotas whenbeen thatthought. differs has orin semisized ForNietzsche writersLawrence, just half, `zoocentric', cut such as circumcised, who whole'like' and transformed and theidea an disseminated,in of being semenized,these reject ofanimality, All intounits, so animalunmediated semantic it seme-sized. quest and an Shem his is are answers,wrong, violent, is declares, implacable, the leftsolutionriddle,Joyce,always topenmanhe... innocent, in the to ... own masculine. 'the answer on hand, other 'the 169-70 a of withnever correct when his domestic writer, who, spite Sham'.beingis consummately coziness the ventures [FW, libido, into the of the wildernesses' ontological a So afake, heShemtowriters.53 amanmanlike zoocentric or notwhen tend the a or is isfraud,sham be His therefore, beasts, that was andsham. heimlich is, asham forger, dog himself: islow unbeimlich,the a like cat, ratthe that 'Shem also the Bloom if a whothelionsareCemetery; he a ' But issham, encounters Shem crosses inat confined Glasnevin an man Michael with 'Circe'ineven looseboxes. shaman, beast. Bloom, the intermediaryby and between boundary the has that to this is sentimentalist shaman identifying its its argued Taussigto butpartially animal, mystery; not to overcomes he otherness, confronts himtoextent the animality would incurring This 'eliminateofthe who it'.acquisition enjoy immense acquire dead debtorship of toland enables without athing done. travel the the the 92

ULYSSES Itthe aswhich entrammelled is animal-machine, aform not such, the but the automatic and animal machinein 'worse the and grew wilder that of ever defy writing afunction worldview more and anthropocentric exercise felt Ulysses. involved'. Whenthathe inwhoseSeized set Bloomin speaks tograsped says that enslavedinhe him, 'everything animal-machinery itsway' a is in This Joyce own important the it had tois textsof motion. Dedalus's the referringwriting atauthorial printing predicament machine regardless with seems that press, drastically odds affirmation reproduces thatisStephen humanone the theof authorship.literature 'aura' In eternal sense that viewman. 'tacitly Bloom's'everything the of of Bloom perception from inown an of ofspiritconception itsway' dissents' speaksofdependency But in suggests forhas Circe's Stephen's awareness literature, Bloom ecological both thatoflearned other humanButotheranimalis of life the on of man being, themechanical. spirit animal onbe denand compounded and forms the inorganic. Bloom's a the the ofspirit could man the of the the hand, thatis Traditionally catchphrasehas affirmation mean understoodthewoman, ofbody, to and as entailed are the theof language and denial mindless inhuman the mechanics the all that mechanism,way, by of which animal, which laws press, its Bloom speaks printinginown governedthroughout the inmercilessstruggles to remember seizingits speaker While of automatism. theaffirming day. the man, Stephen, dreamsthe artist, ofthe arrested spirit Bloomon whether Circe claimed she animal-machinery _Joycewas him affirms of he also into that changingthatkeyslife, an but thatman goesor animal, playing into amachine, there not. is to the was himhintedmachinery press changing

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