By Way of an Update
August 24, 2004
I was on vacation for a bit, and then in San Francisco at a conference. While in Maine, I attended Jim Ellefson’s writing workshop again, and have some new material in a notebook that I will get online soon.
While I was in San Francisco, I had dinner at my nephew Max’s restaurant, Frascati. It was a great meal, and a great time.
Careful readers of the blog will note that I haven’t mentioned Joyce’s Ulysses lately. Fear not. I am making progress! I am on page 559, most of the way through the lengthy chapter referred to as Circe. The online guide I have been using summarizes Circe best, saying, “Chapter Fifteen opens with Bloom arriving in ‘Nighttown’, trying to catch up with Stephen but getting caught up in his own guilts and lusts, which appear as a riot of hallucinations, all presented in the style of a stageplay’s script.”
I have had a few reading side trips this summer, taking time out to read Pete Hamill’s memoir, A Drinking Life, and some poetry. Which reminds me: am I the last person to discover Billy Collins?
Posted by Bill Trippe at August 24, 2004 9:12 PM
