{"id":1354,"date":"2013-02-23T17:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T01:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2013-02-23T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T01:20:06","slug":"1354","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"Podthoughts: Re: Joyce"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFormat: reading\/exegesis\/celebration of one sentence to one paragraph of James Joyce\u2019s Ulysses<\/em>
\nEpisode duration: 5m-25m
\nFrequency: weekly<\/p>\n

If you described the medium of podcasting to an aspirational American of sixty years ago \u2014 the kind with a complete shelf of Mortimer Adler-approved Great Books of the Western World, purchased whole \u2014 they\u2019d imagine something like Frank Delaney\u2019s Re: Joyce<\/em><\/a> [RSS<\/a>] [iTunes<\/a>] as its primary use. For a time, we envisioned all forms media as potential delivery systems for read-along literary and historical lectures by learned, articulate middle-aged men, preferably from across the Atlantic. Delaney thoroughly embodies these qualities, and in fact he once received National Public Radio\u2019s anointment as \u201cthe most eloquent man in the world.\u201d I know because the quote appears prominently in the header of every page on his site, as it would on my own. NPR has never made a big deal of my articulateness, but if they ranked me even among the top twenty, I assume they\u2019d grant me as much airtime as I need to say whatever I want.<\/p>\n

This, in any case, is why Delaney will dominate America\u2019s public airwaves once a week for the next 27 years to discuss James Joyce\u2019s Ulysses<\/em>. As least I assume he will, since my mind can\u2019t process the notion that NPR wouldn\u2019t see fit to commit all necessary resources to an exegesis of one of the most important novels ever written in the English language by the man they named the most eloquent in the world. Though I personally listen to the show as a podcast, my brittle value system requires me to believe that other families gather round the wireless each and every Wednesday to hear celebrated one more facet of Joyce\u2019s linguistic, structural, and sheer Dublinistic acumen. The majority of the broadcasts only run between five and fifteen minutes, after all, which only slightly exceeds American radio\u2019s ever-supercilicizing estimate of audience attention span. In fact, I\u2019ve surely gotten to you far too late; you\u2019ve no doubt already listened to every episode since the show\u2019s inception two and a half years ago. I should instead point you to something more marginal, like Two and a Half Men<\/em>. I hear it is a situation comedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing at Maximum Fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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