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SoniC_eu
Denmark1008 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
I must say I found the lighthearted, party til the sun comes back up, nature of "After the Race" to be really enjoyable. It definitely made me remember times when I've done something like that with my good friends. I can also definitely sympathize with the young, carefree attitude of the narrator as thats basically summed up my life so far. I though that "The Two Gallants" made the narrator seem really sort of sad. Do you think that the let down after the party was intended to be an overarching theme for Joyce or did it just happen that these 2 stories go nicely after each other (close to the same age narrators etc.) I was also wondering what exactly happens in the last scene where the narrators friend reveals the gold coin. I was never quite sure what he was supposed to be "trying" with the girl he meets up with. Whatever it was seems like it was unsuccessful given his countenance but the gold coin in particular confused me. Lastly in both stories I really like the imagery of walking through Grafton Street and St Stephens Green to be really nice as I've been to both places and they are quite nice. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
The gold coin was the original goal of Corley and Lenehan. The whole plan was to get familiar with a girl and get her to steal from her employer. | ||
packrat386
United States5077 Posts
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farvacola
United States18768 Posts
On May 18 2013 20:56 packrat386 wrote: Should we update the banner to reflect the next IRC discussion? Yeah, looks like I couldn't get a mods attention lol. Since no one showed up (cept for Packrat ), I'll try and be on the same time we met last week, that being Sunday around 3, though I can't say for certain and will likely have to only drop by near the end. In any case, expect this thread to have more updates in the near future, this whole "preparing for law school applications" thing is taking up more time than I had expected | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
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Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
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seraphdd
79 Posts
On May 17 2013 07:55 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: As mentioned before, the stories follow a progression in the narrators' ages, from youth to late-middle aged at the end. So all the stories you read in succession will have similarly aged narrators. I think the Two Gallants characters are a few years older than After the Race, but I could be mis-remembering. The gold coin was the original goal of Corley and Lenehan. The whole plan was to get familiar with a girl and get her to steal from her employer. How do you know about the plan? I could not find anything about it at the start of the story. I finished reading and had no idea what the plan was. | ||
farvacola
United States18768 Posts
On May 21 2013 04:23 packrat386 wrote: So I sort of missed the discussion yesterday, anyone got the highlights available? I didn't make it either, so I'm hoping we can get more folks to show up on Saturday and we'll have an extended session. There's no way I can make Sundays. Maybe I'll put up a poll and see if there's a weekday folks are interested in? | ||
Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
On May 21 2013 04:23 packrat386 wrote: So I sort of missed the discussion yesterday, anyone got the highlights available? i dont think there was a discussion yesterday. or i just didnt find one. | ||
slyboogie
United States3423 Posts
But it is a really good list. Oscar Wao is my favorite book of the decade so far. | ||
seraphdd
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Whole
United States6046 Posts
On May 29 2013 00:07 seraphdd wrote: Dead club? What is going on? OP is really busy I think | ||
Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On June 08 2013 06:51 Paljas wrote: Is there any update? OP is like REALLY fucking busy I think... | ||
farvacola
United States18768 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
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nJoiButtonGuy
United States14 Posts
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