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Penelope Lecture -Opening Remarks +Making Word flesh +Few have begun Ulysses without its closing lines: yes I said yes I will Yes. +Joyce felt it the clou (the star turn) of the book -A response to the beginning of The Odyssey (Sing in me, O Muse) -Molly consenting to whoredom, her performance role +If we take her to be Homeric Penelope, the answer would be an emphatic no +Hugh Kenners claim about the end of Ithacas segue into Penelope -Egg, Brightdayler, morning talk perhaps spur Mollys thoughts on breakfast and the following soliloquy +The chapter leaves us wondering: Who is Molly? Joyces replies vary, contradictory as Molly herself is -Sane full amoral perfectly sane full amoral fertilisable untrustworthy engaging limited prudent indifferent Weib. Ich bin de Fleisch der stets bejaht. - SL +Wife. I am of the flesh always affirmed +Joyce often referred to her as limited working-class vocabulary -Prehumanpresumably posthuman. - SL +Penelope encloses the book on both ends +She has little regard for politics, mortality, morality, and the feelings of others +Eight sentences four cardinal points of the body (breasts, arse, cunt, womb) -Two correspond to each +The sentences are cyclic -Tolomeos diagram about 8 sentences (Final Octagon of Ulysses) +Timeframe is infinity, Molly born on the eighth, breasts +Synopsis of the Chapter +Post-2 AM, Bloom is in bed with Molly, somewhat erect, as Molly asks him about his day -His account is true, false, and incomplete +Molly menstruates, her stomach rumbles, she farts, feels Blooms cold feet, either masturbates and climaxes (as some have alleged) or trails off to sleep -Dramatically altering the tone of the ending +Homeric Correspondence +Penelopes weaving and unweaving reflected in Mollys constructing and deconstructing of who we understand her as -A byproduct of her loneliness +She fills seems to transform for companionship -Whore role for Bloom, adulteress for Boylan -What about Molly is absolutely true? +She dislikes: her foot, books with a Molly, taller men, solitude +She likes: jaunting in a train, seeing a regiment pass, the smell of an expensive shop, hearing Bloom stumble up the stairs in the morning, flowers, and her bed +The ending is Bloom slaying the suitors -Compare the proposal moment as seen in Lestrygonians (176) +Me alone now. +This Ulysses sees his -Final hint of negativity +I thought well as well him as another -But that doesnt matter once she accepts -We see that Boylan is not the frontrunner +But rather Mulvey, the first -Mulveys was the first v. Mulvey was the first -The man in Eumaeus

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+Wandering Rocks, the sailor with a bum leg up Eccles St. +Flesh/Earth compared to Skeleton/Comet -Joyce and the transformative feminine -Flower of the bath v. Flower of the mountain (498, 783) -Manuscript/Composition (Bring Rosenbach text!) +Written to completion with ease during summer and fall of 1921 -Joyce assisted by briefcase delivered from Trieste +Likely contained Noras obscene letters of 1909 -Some confidantes of Joyces, e.g., Ellman, purport that Joyce originally intended to write an epistolary Penelope +Joyce turned his notebook upside, began Penelope at the end -Recalls the Torah +Prehuman (Hebrew) posthuman (Modernity) +Vision of Rudys bar mitzvah at the end of Circe -Just as Leopold and Molly sleep in inverted positions +Ithaca and Penelope were the first chapters in draft form +Penelope appears completely spontaneous -Rather, it is a mosaic-like catalogue +Over nine proof stages, more than 54% of the chapter was added -Portions of different styles, concerning different characters and places +Gothic rape fantasy, sentimental romantic affair, lesbianism

+As contradictory as Molly is -Including the final concatenation of yesses +In this way, Molly is the Modernist character -But also the Postmodern character +She is language arranged to present a reality -Symphathy, newphew (18.730-731) +Other characters a conceived then toyed with -Molly succeeds in neither structuralism nor poststructuralism +Joyce saw Penelope as a planet orbiting around the text -Heavenly body heaven & body +She is more than the sum of one individual discourse -The Selective Fallacy +A critical mistake made when discussing Molly -Interpretations convincing enough in themselves tend to refute one another in addition to affirming that any point about Molly may be argued given her consistent inconsistency -Penelope Unto Itself +Compare with Blooms remembrance of the proposal (176:22) +Yes -Stands up against the overwhelmingly negative other 95% of the chapter - In Ulysses I had sought to end with the least forceful work I could possibly find. I had found the word yes which is barely pronounced, which denotes acquiescence, self abandon, relaxation, and end of all resistance. SL

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+YHWH -Gea-Tellus, Eve, whore (seen elsewhere), simple woman +All and neither -At once the culmination of the evolution of Joyces female and also just a single representative -Yes is to cunt as answer affirmatively is to vagina +A word of action +Like biblical tetragrammaton YHWH -The final sequence +Written in dactyls heartbeat +Rosenbach: I put my arms around him and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume and I said I will yes. -and I said yes I will yes (Galley 2) -and I said yes I will yes. (Galley 3) -and yes I said yes I will yes. (Galley 4) -yes and his heart was going like mad yes and yes I said yes I will Yes. (Typescript) +Yes final manuscript +It is true that yes is hyperemphasized in the novels final pages -Trieste-Zurich-Paris 1914-1921 seals off the narrative +Cautioning us not to question whether or not Molly will bring Bloom breakfast in bed that morning, or if she will dissolve her affair with Boylan -Mollys sleep shuts down the world

Remainder of Paper Format -Write about Dot +Yes. -Muse briefly about the demands of modernity on people +Why the Yes and . are advantageous +Use of Odyssey to tap into essential human qualities -Timeframe (Trieste-Zurich-Paris) +Cautions us not to care about future, but deduce from June 16, 1904 -Undermining +Time frame is arbitrary -He began working on Ulysses prior to 1914 -Any archetype falls apart without timeframe +Just simple people +Homeric correspondence falls apart -She is an unfaithful Penelope -The essential qualities of the source material disintegrate +Bloom and Molly as a yin-yang pair -Mollys as well as him well as another +Demolishes everything but Mollys transformative femininity -Protagonist could have been Mulvey -Molly not just earth

Mollys as well as him well as another Blooms fetishes, masochism She is an unfaithful Penelope The arbitrary