lots of stuff

John Watkins · 14 Jul 2010, 19:01 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:01:49 -0400
Subject: (urth) lots of stuff
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Steven Bowen <McQuaryq at comcast.net> wrote:

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> Has anyone remarked on the explanation given in Joyce's APOTAAAYM of the
> Latin phrase INRI being a schoolboy acrostic for Iron Nails Ran In?
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I could have sworn that that's from Ulysses, and it's Bloom thinking it.
Bloom thinks a lot of things about Catholicism that are factually wrong (for
example, he also contemplates the "fact" that nuns invented barbed wire,
which is of course false.)  In fact when I first read the book I felt that
Joyce was working in anti-Catholic propaganda that he either knew or ought
to know was false--upon rereading I felt that he was parodying it and
emphasizing Bloom's status as a cultural outsider.  (Not that Joyce isn't
criticizing the Church--he is, but he's far too smart to need to resort to
telling lies.)

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