Thank you so much for this series, Mr. Reich. I bought this book in Dutch translation in ‘84 or ‘85, and it has been staring at me from its shelf for almost 40 years. A few years ago I decided I was now old enough to start reading classics. I worked my way through Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, and with your great help I am now halfway through Ulysses. Your videos are teaching me so much, and I can only regret that RUclips wasn’t around 40 years ago. We’ll, you can’t change the past, but you can change the future, and you did for me, thank you.
What an amazing series you did here! Ulysses already is my new favorite book, even though english is not my native language... I was so intimidated by reading it in english, but your videos encouraged me to do it! And I am loving it! What a sensational book! Thank you!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I think it is amazing to read this book as a non-native language. You must be very brilliant! I am so glad you are reading it and getting enjoyment! Take care and stay safe.
Hi Chris, Please trudge on. It is so enjoyable listening to your videos and then reading the episodes. Episode 9 was tough going but having your overview was a great help. It must be a lot of work doing the videos don’t think it’s not appreciated. I don’t think I’ed be where I am without your videos so thank you. Noel Connors
Noel Connors That is incredibly kind of you! Thank you. We are going to make it and then we should have a live even online for June 16! Thank you again. This is a rough week and your encouragement is appreciated very much.
i live in NYC; and I am reading with a group in Montreal... thanks so much... this helps me so much..i read first, then listen to your video... and it gives clarity, not 100%, the rest is to me.. thanks, thanks...
Chris Reich I'm going slow and enjoying it a lot, the whole feel of the book is great! I've never read anything like it. It's hard to believe it's so old. Looking forward to sirens.
Joyce will get in your blood. I have typed 100,000 words of Ulysses. I research each word, and I have a college degree in literature. It's been a real adventure, struggle, and portal to another dimension.
What a wonderful labour of love. I have always aspired to completing Ulysses but have failed on my three previous attempts. But by watching your welcoming and supportive videos I am making my way just fine this time. I so much appreciate all of your hard work and positivity. What a masterpiece is Joyce's work.... and yes... it is fun! Thank you so much. I am a subscriber and excitedly await the opera! Cheers!!!!
Hi Chris, hope all is well. I don’t know if you still have access to this channel, but you are my absolute favorite. I just graduated college, and am finally picking Ulysses back up again (I started two years ago). I’m finally getting through, and I wouldn’t be able to do it without your guiding voice. Thank you and cheers to discovering who I am. Michael
Hey just wanted to let you know another great video. I would love to hear you do a series on opera as I’ve always been interested in learning about it and experiencing it. I admit I find it intimidating so it will be nice to have a guide. I am a bit ahead in the book I just finished the oxen of the sun chapter and can not wait to hear what you have to say on it as it was probably the toughest one for me so far. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge with the world.
Hi Nick! Great to hear from you! The disadvantage of following these videos in "real time" is that most can read faster than I can produce the videos. I try to find a few things that aren't mentioned elsewhere so that you get some unique insight. Oxen is one of the toughest episodes. Joyce plays with language and that can either be very interesting or off-putting. Two tips: 1 read some of it aloud. You'll hear the prose and it will be clearer. 2 He takes us from the earliest written language in English up through the present. That's a gestation period, development. What's cool is that they are at the laying in hospital (maternity) waiting for the birth of the baby. I think it very cool what Joyce does with that---it's worth taking your time. As for opera, I think I could really surprise you there! Opera is very basic entertainment---like soap opera. Once that door opens, you'll be hooked. I appreciate your comments very much. Thank you.
Hey, I wanted to congratulate you on your philosophy. I really love difficult culture and love encouraging people to challenge themselves and I think your ethos of trying to make difficult stuff more accessible is amazing. So many people can get pretentious but you're opening this up for so many people. Thank you.
I think a series on opera would be great. Would definitely watch that. This is my third read of the book and I'm watching each corresponding video before I read the chapter. Look forward to eventually watching the final video! It will mean that I understand the book far better than I did during my first frustrating read.
I'm trying to get that going! Have fiber optic cable run all the way to my office but they haven't connected it yet! When they do, I'll get right on making more videos.
I'm loving the series so far! It's definitely helped me stay motivated to stick with the book. Please make more videos on the humanities! Another book series would be great - Finnegan's Wake or some Pynchon would be incredible!
Dear Chris, you once said that you earned an 'adorable' in the comments to one of the videos. Now, what's about an 'incredible'? Your videos are fascinating, thank you for the magnificent job you've done.
I'm a 2nd time reader of this book , and I believe reading Joyce is fun , a lot of fun , I'm also starting Finnegans' wake. I hope you will make videos on this book also , because I believe there is also a lot of fun in Finnegans Wake .
Hi Chris, This episode is really full of contents. I couldn't help noticing Dignam's son saying his house is a coffing. That made me think that, ironically after all this is one of the most static episodes so far. People are bouncing into each other, to be sure they are, but they are only helplessly moving within the frames of a chessboard (word that comes many times here). In conclusion I believe Wandering Rocks to be a triumph of paralysis. Besides something I am very curious of is this light motif of lift skirts, even though I do not really get what is that a symbol of.
I noticed the repeated imagery of lifting skirts and petticoats too. I wonder if it's symbolic of the way that in seeking connection or meaning we have to expose ourselves, leaving ourselves vulnerable to being hurt and sometimes to feeling degraded. I found it interesting that Bloom is considering buying Molly a petticoat, maybe representing how he protects her.
Chris, You are great. I am a liberal arts student and have Ulysses as one of my courses and I would be totally lost without your videos. my friends and I watch your videos weekly. God, I wish you were teaching this class at my college. Thank youu
Hi Chris, first of all I would like to congratulate and thank you for your videos, they are so well explained and I find them really useful while I am sailing through this novel. There is something that I thought about and would like to know your point of view (and everybody else of course): chapter 10, section 13 is dedicated to Stephen, and as we know from Homer’s original history, Ulysses chose Scyla and Charybdys instead of the wandering rocks. So I was thinking that this section 13 appears firstly because Stephen’s life is still going on at the very same time and Joyce did want to include it (remember chapter 3 when he speaks about the nacheinander, and because of this role of father author described in chapter 9; and because of him seeing all the city from “above” in this chapter 10); secondly Stephen is not necessarily crossing the wandering rocks and that might be the reason by which -although he is included in chapter 10- he does not attend to the viceroy parade and his episode describes how he was in between the powerhouse and his thoughts, again, scylla and charybdys, the path Homer’s Character chose to go through. I read some annotations stating he was crushed by rocks too, but I am not very sure about that. Thanks so much again, I will keep watchong your videos after reading each episode (starting chapter 11 now). Hope you are all fine with the covid situation. Cheers from Argentina.
I found the translation for Agenbite of inwit as follows: Remorse of consciousness. Which makes me think of the pain of genius? Something Stephen would definitely self diagnose with, i feel!
Where and why do most people fail at getting through the book do you suppose? I’m not a scholastic or academic by any means and I love it. To be fair though, I do have the guide and the video which helps tremendously.
You have a very special ability or you wouldn't get this far! If you look at the views for this video series, you can see that the first video has (as of today) over 1700 views. Look how fast they fall off going forward! Most never make it out of the first chapter! I would say that very few make it beyond 3 chapters. There are some tough ones ahead but if you are a sensitive person and can feel the book, there is an abundance of beauty ahead for you. If it gets too tough, slow down and savor or go back a chapter and you'll be astonished at how much new material comes alive. May I ask where you are? I like knowing people are all over the world reading the book.
Chris Reich I am a retired US Navy guy living and working in Pensacola FL. My education stopped at the Bachelor level but intend to go back and get a masters when I figure out what I want to study. You gave me a good idea in the direction of humanities. I’ve always enjoyed humanities although one of my favorite quotes by one of my favorite authors Bukowski “Humanity, you never had it to begin with” May keep me grounded. Just not sure what I want to be when I grow up at 48 haha. I began reading this novel with some haste as I have a yearly book reading plan and try to get in a minimum of 12 novels a year. Last year it was mostly Hemingway, London and Faulkner, this year I made Ulysses my second novel of choice, mainly challenge sake. It is like reading two books at once with the accompanying reading guide but I find I am slowing it down to enjoy more rather than just reading to add another notch. It is becoming less of a typical read and more of a journey and there is soo much in it you can’t possibly get it all in if speeding through. If anything, this novel has introduced me to important fruits of patience. I think it helps that I went into with no expectations and in stride. I will admit I was apprehensive if not downright nervous as I awaited the mail to deliver the novel to my doorstep but now that I’ve dug in, I find just the opposite, I look forward to the next reading and so on. I actually find my thoughts are now totally consumed with this novel day and and night. Very strange
Thank you so much for making these! I got a book club together with some friends mid-pandemic--could there be a better time to read Ulysses?! It's really helpful to watch your videos before starting each episode. Surprised you're not a professor, er, well, I guess you kind of are:) Thank you!! Also, RE Dilly: Bloom also felt bad for her, but didn't help her. I'm wondering if Dilly is possibly a metaphor for something?
Thank you so much for this series, Mr. Reich. I bought this book in Dutch translation in ‘84 or ‘85, and it has been staring at me from its shelf for almost 40 years. A few years ago I decided I was now old enough to start reading classics. I worked my way through Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, and with your great help I am now halfway through Ulysses. Your videos are teaching me so much, and I can only regret that RUclips wasn’t around 40 years ago. We’ll, you can’t change the past, but you can change the future, and you did for me, thank you.
What an amazing series you did here! Ulysses already is my new favorite book, even though english is not my native language... I was so intimidated by reading it in english, but your videos encouraged me to do it! And I am loving it! What a sensational book! Thank you!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I think it is amazing to read this book as a non-native language. You must be very brilliant! I am so glad you are reading it and getting enjoyment! Take care and stay safe.
Hi Chris,
Please trudge on. It is so enjoyable listening to your videos and then reading the episodes. Episode 9 was tough going but having your overview was a great help. It must be a lot of work doing the videos don’t think it’s not appreciated. I don’t think I’ed be where I am without your videos so thank you.
Noel Connors
Noel Connors That is incredibly kind of you! Thank you. We are going to make it and then we should have a live even online for June 16! Thank you again. This is a rough week and your encouragement is appreciated very much.
I hope you made it through the book! Best wishes to you.
Thank you so much, I’m a first time reader and having these videos has helped me to this point so I appreciate it.
Thank you so much! That means a lot to me. I hope you can enjoy it as well!
i live in NYC; and I am reading with a group in Montreal... thanks so much... this helps me so much..i read first, then listen to your video... and it gives clarity, not 100%, the rest is to me.. thanks, thanks...
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Chris! I'm still reading and watching these amazing videos!
Thank you so much! Are you enjoying the journey? Take time to enjoy it! I appreciate that you took the time to post this.
Chris Reich I'm going slow and enjoying it a lot, the whole feel of the book is great! I've never read anything like it. It's hard to believe it's so old. Looking forward to sirens.
Joyce will get in your blood. I have typed 100,000 words of Ulysses. I research each word, and I have a college degree in literature. It's been a real adventure, struggle, and portal to another dimension.
What a wonderful labour of love. I have always aspired to completing Ulysses but have failed on my three previous attempts. But by watching your welcoming and supportive videos I am making my way just fine this time. I so much appreciate all of your hard work and positivity. What a masterpiece is Joyce's work.... and yes... it is fun! Thank you so much. I am a subscriber and excitedly await the opera! Cheers!!!!
Hi Chris, hope all is well. I don’t know if you still have access to this channel, but you are my absolute favorite. I just graduated college, and am finally picking Ulysses back up again (I started two years ago). I’m finally getting through, and I wouldn’t be able to do it without your guiding voice. Thank you and cheers to discovering who I am. Michael
you really great man who make the most complicated book one of favorite books
You made my day! Thank you so much. I hope you are having fun with the book.
Hey just wanted to let you know another great video. I would love to hear you do a series on opera as I’ve always been interested in learning about it and experiencing it. I admit I find it intimidating so it will be nice to have a guide. I am a bit ahead in the book I just finished the oxen of the sun chapter and can not wait to hear what you have to say on it as it was probably the toughest one for me so far. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge with the world.
Hi Nick! Great to hear from you! The disadvantage of following these videos in "real time" is that most can read faster than I can produce the videos. I try to find a few things that aren't mentioned elsewhere so that you get some unique insight. Oxen is one of the toughest episodes. Joyce plays with language and that can either be very interesting or off-putting. Two tips: 1 read some of it aloud. You'll hear the prose and it will be clearer. 2 He takes us from the earliest written language in English up through the present. That's a gestation period, development. What's cool is that they are at the laying in hospital (maternity) waiting for the birth of the baby. I think it very cool what Joyce does with that---it's worth taking your time. As for opera, I think I could really surprise you there! Opera is very basic entertainment---like soap opera. Once that door opens, you'll be hooked. I appreciate your comments very much. Thank you.
Hey, I wanted to congratulate you on your philosophy. I really love difficult culture and love encouraging people to challenge themselves and I think your ethos of trying to make difficult stuff more accessible is amazing. So many people can get pretentious but you're opening this up for so many people. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
The longer the better! Thank you.
Gee, another opera fan, too! Lots of DON GIOVANNI references and other snippets of opera in Joyce, and so many singers.
I hope to do some "understanding opera" videos once we finish Ulysses. I love opera!
Looking forward to your opera videos!!!
Coming soon! I just got high speed fiber installed!
I think a series on opera would be great. Would definitely watch that. This is my third read of the book and I'm watching each corresponding video before I read the chapter. Look forward to eventually watching the final video! It will mean that I understand the book far better than I did during my first frustrating read.
I'm trying to get that going! Have fiber optic cable run all the way to my office but they haven't connected it yet! When they do, I'll get right on making more videos.
I'm loving the series so far! It's definitely helped me stay motivated to stick with the book. Please make more videos on the humanities! Another book series would be great - Finnegan's Wake or some Pynchon would be incredible!
Thank you so much! Your comments are a great encouragement to me.
Trudge on! these were filmed long before I became enthralled by Ulysses (January 2024) but they are still helping and still making Ulysses fun.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Dear Chris, you once said that you earned an 'adorable' in the comments to one of the videos. Now, what's about an 'incredible'? Your videos are fascinating, thank you for the magnificent job you've done.
Thank you so much! That means a LOT to me. Take care and stay in touch.
I'm a 2nd time reader of this book , and I believe reading Joyce is fun , a lot of fun , I'm also starting Finnegans' wake. I hope you will make videos on this book also , because I believe there is also a lot of fun in Finnegans Wake .
Hi Chris,
This episode is really full of contents. I couldn't help noticing Dignam's son saying his house is a coffing. That made me think that, ironically after all this is one of the most static episodes so far. People are bouncing into each other, to be sure they are, but they are only helplessly moving within the frames of a chessboard (word that comes many times here). In conclusion I believe Wandering Rocks to be a triumph of paralysis. Besides something I am very curious of is this light motif of lift skirts, even though I do not really get what is that a symbol of.
I noticed the repeated imagery of lifting skirts and petticoats too. I wonder if it's symbolic of the way that in seeking connection or meaning we have to expose ourselves, leaving ourselves vulnerable to being hurt and sometimes to feeling degraded. I found it interesting that Bloom is considering buying Molly a petticoat, maybe representing how he protects her.
Brilliant
Chris, You are great. I am a liberal arts student and have Ulysses as one of my courses and I would be totally lost without your videos. my friends and I watch your videos weekly. God, I wish you were teaching this class at my college. Thank youu
Thank you! Hope your education is going well! We need more people like you.
Thanks you for all your amazingly insightful analyses. Your explanations help me understand and love Joyce's art.
Thank you! You lift my heart! Thank you so much for leaving a comment, Gigi.
i am so enjoying this.. and it helps SO MUCH!! trudge on....
Keep pushing forward!
@@TeachUBusiness we are approaching Circe..........
Hi Chris, first of all I would like to congratulate and thank you for your videos, they are so well explained and I find them really useful while I am sailing through this novel.
There is something that I thought about and would like to know your point of view (and everybody else of course): chapter 10, section 13 is dedicated to Stephen, and as we know from Homer’s original history, Ulysses chose Scyla and Charybdys instead of the wandering rocks. So I was thinking that this section 13 appears firstly because Stephen’s life is still going on at the very same time and Joyce did want to include it (remember chapter 3 when he speaks about the nacheinander, and because of this role of father author described in chapter 9; and because of him seeing all the city from “above” in this chapter 10); secondly Stephen is not necessarily crossing the wandering rocks and that might be the reason by which -although he is included in chapter 10- he does not attend to the viceroy parade and his episode describes how he was in between the powerhouse and his thoughts, again, scylla and charybdys, the path Homer’s Character chose to go through. I read some annotations stating he was crushed by rocks too, but I am not very sure about that.
Thanks so much again, I will keep watchong your videos after reading each episode (starting chapter 11 now).
Hope you are all fine with the covid situation. Cheers from Argentina.
Thank you so much! I love your comments and look forward to more interaction in the future with you.
Simon being reluctant to give Dilly money is reminiscent of Stephen not kneeling for his mother on her deathbed.
That is a brilliant observation. I commend you for giving this some thought. Keep going and enjoy the book.
This was very helpful. Thanks
Thank you for leaving a very nice comment! Chris
Thank you.Helped me a lot
Excellent! Don't give up!
I found the translation for Agenbite of inwit as follows: Remorse of consciousness. Which makes me think of the pain of genius? Something Stephen would definitely self diagnose with, i feel!
Brilliant! Thank you for contributing. I appreciate your comments and great insight. Stay with it and you will be rewarded.
Priest's bet as well.
I was wondering why moneylenders would be after a priest and also why Buck Mulligan would swear (arses) in his presence. Thank you.
Another fascinating character, eh?!
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Where and why do most people fail at getting through the book do you suppose? I’m not a scholastic or academic by any means and I love it. To be fair though, I do have the guide and the video which helps tremendously.
You have a very special ability or you wouldn't get this far! If you look at the views for this video series, you can see that the first video has (as of today) over 1700 views. Look how fast they fall off going forward! Most never make it out of the first chapter! I would say that very few make it beyond 3 chapters. There are some tough ones ahead but if you are a sensitive person and can feel the book, there is an abundance of beauty ahead for you. If it gets too tough, slow down and savor or go back a chapter and you'll be astonished at how much new material comes alive. May I ask where you are? I like knowing people are all over the world reading the book.
Chris Reich I am a retired US Navy guy living and working in Pensacola FL. My education stopped at the Bachelor level but intend to go back and get a masters when I figure out what I want to study. You gave me a good idea in the direction of humanities. I’ve always enjoyed humanities although one of my favorite quotes by one of my favorite authors Bukowski “Humanity, you never had it to begin with” May keep me grounded. Just not sure what I want to be when I grow up at 48 haha. I began reading this novel with some haste as I have a yearly book reading plan and try to get in a minimum of 12 novels a year. Last year it was mostly Hemingway, London and Faulkner, this year I made Ulysses my second novel of choice, mainly challenge sake. It is like reading two books at once with the accompanying reading guide but I find I am slowing it down to enjoy more rather than just reading to add another notch. It is becoming less of a typical read and more of a journey and there is soo much in it you can’t possibly get it all in if speeding through. If anything, this novel has introduced me to important fruits of patience. I think it helps that I went into with no expectations and in stride. I will admit I was apprehensive if not downright nervous as I awaited the mail to deliver the novel to my doorstep but now that I’ve dug in, I find just the opposite, I look forward to the next reading and so on. I actually find my thoughts are now totally consumed with this novel day and and night. Very strange
@@kleinster99 I am having a very similar experience!!
Thank you so much for making these! I got a book club together with some friends mid-pandemic--could there be a better time to read Ulysses?! It's really helpful to watch your videos before starting each episode. Surprised you're not a professor, er, well, I guess you kind of are:) Thank you!!
Also, RE Dilly: Bloom also felt bad for her, but didn't help her. I'm wondering if Dilly is possibly a metaphor for something?
Thank you so much!
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