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Dear Chris! Thank you again so much for your inspiration. Absolutely unique and special experience to follow your vision! It was really breathtaking to hear about transmigration of the souls in the previous video (from Steven to Bloom), I am still speechless. Thank you so much and Cheers to everyone!

I got through it. Phenomenal book, amazing how it incorporates its theme. It really did do something for me, its hard to describe, but the book ended perfectly and solidified that Bloom is not alone in the world, Molly appreciates that Bloom is so understanding of her and women in general, and how it goes from that to the beautiful scenery of her youth and when Bloom proposed to her. Fantastic. Really does make you think about life, and how Joyce wrote a loveletter to humanity in a sense. How life is an infinite cycle, we live and we pass away, and this will keep on happening. People will fall in love, just as Bloom and Molly did, it will keep happening throughout our time on the planet. Thank you for videos, it helped me greatly to understand a lot more than i normallt would have. This book will stick witv me for the rest of my life. Thank you. :) I dont usually comment on social media, but you deserve to know your impact. We are all grateful! Cheers!

Thank you so much for such amazing videos and your inspiration! I found myself felt in love with Joyce thanks to you! Looking forward to integrating the wisdom into my life! Greetings from Japan.

This has been my favorite chapter so far, I think. Even before hitting play, I'm excited to hear you crack this one open. Edit: Playground? Joyce built us a veritable amusement park of thrills, and even though I'm not "tall enough" as it were to ride some of the bigger rides, Im still having fun, and getting taller every minute as I extend this metaphor to it's breaking point.

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

I'm loving these videos. I've been reading one episode a day myself. Then, at work, I listen to your breakdown, followed by listening to the chapter again from an audio book. It's been great. Sometimes seeing the text helps, the audio book is done beautifully, and that helps in its own way, and your videos are great for a beginner to help elucidate this masterpiece. I really feel like I am getting a lot out of this, and the sheer poetry of it carries me through. I've been thinking a lot about the "cracked lookingglass of a servant" in particular. It's probably one of the most symbolic things in this book by my reckoning, especially given the comment about it as a symbol of Irish art.

I just started Ulysses. I'm going to read a little every day and follow up on my reading with your videos. I've been wanting to read it for a long time. Ironically, I have already read all of Finnegans Wake because I found it so fascinating (not that I claim to understand it, but it's fun and playful and very funny on a phonetic level). My plan is to continue reading joyce in reverse chronological order, pivoting on dubliners, and then back again in chronological order finishing up with a second reading of Ulysses and finally the Wake again. Im excited to see what else I might take from the Wake on my second go as I take this journey through Joyce's mind.

I played the song Laudate Dominum Omnes Gentes while reading the passage that follows. Wow. Seems like he meant for us to do that. Fits perfectly.

Thank you so much for these videos. I doubt very much whether I'd have made it this far in the book without them. And since I've come this far, I can now see what a shame that would be.

Thanks for that great analysis. As I got started on this section, I was totally lost !....I was reading the words - but thats all, like another language. I reckon this is where a lot of readers finally throw in the towel. However, after listening to you, I've been inspired to press on with it. Many thanks.

Thank you for uploading these videos. I am reading Ulysses for the second time - the first time was in 1977 or 78 - and it quite eludes me. Your videos on Hades, the first that I am watching, do clarify things. Thank you.

After reading this episode, I feel glad that the arrival of Covid, brought an end to the formal hand shake. I see the word " romance " used quite a bit in the comments, however I see no sign of it in this episode - lust maybe. All in all, pretty gross stuff.....🤢

You say at the end that Joyce wants us to know that nobody is perfect. Is not that the teaching of the Bible? Every one of us is a sinner. In God's new kingdom, nothing is hidden. We will each one know and accept the other. We will have become sinless.

Very helpful.

BTW, great videos. They really inspire the reader.

Chris, You did an absolutely fabulous job with this video. Background, structure, characterisation and most of all meaning described in language I can understand and take with me as I re-read the chapter. Thank you!

Chris, you made it great!! Thanks and congratulations! Blanca from Mexico City...just about to finish Ulysses!!

Chris, Thank you so much for these videos. Ulysses has always been a a daunting “white whale” for me. I simply could not have gotten through this incredible story without your help. I started reading fittingly in Dublin this April on vacation. The time was now and your videos were not only enjoyable, and educational, but so helpful on the journey. Thank you and I hope all is well! May I suggest a reunion party for all of us late to the original party? I will certainly be recommending your videos to anyone I know that wants to embark on this journey. Thank You!

These videos are fantastic, Chris. Thank you. No notes.

Chris you are fantastic in your videos!! Really enjoyed all of them!! And catched up by your way of getting into Ulisses!! Congratulations from Mexico City.

Priest's bet as well.

Thank you for all your hard work.

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.

Very helpful.

CYCLOPS Homer’s Cyclops is a giant-savage-cave-dwelling-man who eats men for lunch. Odysseus finds himself captive in Cyclops’ cave and his heroic escape is a memorable episode in the Odyssey. Odysseus blinds the savage by poking his eye out with a spear. In Joyce’s version the Cyclops is a man called the citizen. Joyce is not a bloody minded man. So how does he handle his Cyclops episode? The citizen is widely known in Dublin bars as man who knows what Ireland’s problems are and how to solve them. Ireland has no natural faults and it is the foreigners who have the dirty laundry and must be expelled. Bloom is not in the bar to share drinks. He joins the drinkers by smoking a cigar. He is on a good will mission with others to help find a way the family of his deceased friend Paddy Dignam can cash the insurance policy. Bloom is slightly Jewish. He makes the mistake of identifying himself as such, even though he was born in Ireland. -And I belong to a race too, says Bloom, that is hated and persecuted. Also now. This very moment. This very instant. The citizen has nailed Bloom as a foreigner. After a few drinks, Bloom is just not Irish enough to suit the citizen. Bloom must run out of the bar into the street and mount a horse drawn carriage to escape impending violence. Joyce has Bloom win the argument by giving a bloodless lesson to the citizen on love over hate. -But it’s no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life. -What? says Alf. -Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred. I must go now, says he to John Wyse. Just round to the court a moment to see if Martin is there. If he comes just say I’ll be back in a second. Just a moment. Who’s hindering you? And off he pops like greased lightning. -A new apostle to the gentiles, says the citizen. Universal love. -Well, says John Wyse, isn’t that what we’re told? Love your neighbours. -That chap? says the citizen. Beggar my neighbour is his motto. Love, Moya! He’s a nice pattern of a Romeo and Juliet. Bloom has returned to the bar, heated words are exchanged and Bloom completes his exit. The citizen Cyclops does manage to run to the street door and throw a handy biscuit tin at Bloom in the departing carriage. The citizen's dog chases Bloom out of the bar. -Hold on, citizen, says Joe. Stop. Begob he drew his hand and made a swipe and let fly. Mercy of God the sun was in his eyes or he’d have left him for dead. Gob, he near sent it into the county Longford. The bloody nag took fright and the old mongrel after the car like bloody hell and all the populace shouting and laughing and the old tinbox clattering along the street. The catastrophe was terrific and instantaneous in its effect. The observatory of Dunsink registered in all eleven shocks, all of the fifth grade of Mercalli’s scale, and there is no record extant of a similar seismic disturbance in our island since the earthquake of 1534, the year of the rebellion of Silken Thomas. Joyce, James. Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) (Kindle Locations 8391-8393). Penguin UK. Kindle Edition. No blood in Joyce’s Ulysses

Now I know why it is called Calypso - metempsychosis. I see poor Bloom is treated badly by everyone, even the cat.

sláinte!

Brilliant

God as a symbol of anarchy? I mean intially stephen innately recognized his students as incompetent and dullards and that they posses no desire to educate themselves. "Futility" as he often calls, and does that mean the shouting of the words, can be construed as a symbol of anarchy and rebellion? By ignorant and foolish people? The concept of God is so intertwined with subjective viewpoints that Irish Culture and civilization see God as the divine manifestation of history and that according to them, Ireland Britain should forever remain and not split?

Many thanks. You have the natural ability of explaining & expressing the genius in these chapters like no other.

Thank you very much! _ One favourite quote: '...Do you know what is the proudest word you will ever hear from an Englishman’s mouth? .... -That on his empire, Stephen said, the sun never sets. **** -Ba! - Mr Deasy cried. - That’s not English. A French Celt said that. ... I paid my way. **** _ (Good man, good man.) _ - I paid my way. I never borrowed a shilling in my life. Can you feel that? I owe nothing.'

Thank you very much! _ One favourite quote: 'Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day’s march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically.'

Thank you very much! It's great help!

Thank you very much! It's great help!

Just letting you know that 6 years after you posted these videos somebody is still learning from them en enjoying them! Me!

Thank you for this wonderful series of videos on “Ulysses.” I have read through all of Joyce’s books in order (I highly suggest reading them in order. You have made me want to read Ulysses for a third time, I think it will be a richer experience with the knowledge, hard work and your brilliance . I thank you in advance!

Hi Chris, I just want to say thank you for your great insights on the book. You've really helped me get through my course on James Joyce.

This video has aged like milk.

I bought Ulysses "The Corrected text...don't waste your money. Spend the extra $50.00 and buy The Cambridge Centenary edition complete with annotations, start fresh.

I am struggling with Ulysses. Sometimes, it takes me an entire day to get through 1 page. I've watched all the videos, and they are helpful, I would have given up a long time ago without Don Gifford's - Annotations.

The "I am a" part is beautiful

Your help is gold ❤

I really admire and love the way you explained with passion. Thx a lot😊

Hi Chris , reading in Italy, What a wonderful journey it's been. Your videos a have illuminated the way. We're almost there.A thousand thanks.

Bravooo…great Chris

Hi Chris, just wanted to say that I'm really glad to have found your channel. Absolutely love the Ulysses series - really inspiring stuff. Your excitement is contagious. Hope you are doing well! Even after a few years - people are still discovering you and are loving your passion!

You're the man!!!

Hi Chris! Reading Ulysses ...from Argentina, both in Spanish and English...without you, I’d be lost...you are my Virgilio in this ‘planet’ called ‘ Ulysses’... I have tried many times to ‘climb’ this rollercoaster...unsuccessfully...but now I think I’m going to make it ...thanks to your passion ...and knowledge. Come and visit Argentina, you’ll love it!

Wow!!! What an amazing project! Thank you on behalf of a French reader who is a little scared by the book after 2 chapters and is very happy to have a reading companion to help her appreciate this masterpiece ...

Great summary!!! You break it down so well!!!