Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I NEED AND RECOGNITION
- PART II COMPASSION
- PART III ASCENTS OF LOVE
- 9 Ladders of Love
- 10 Contemplative Creativity: Plato, Spinoza, Proust
- 11 The Christian Ascent: Augustine
- 12 The Christian Ascent: Dante
- 13 The Romantic Ascent: Emily Brontë
- 14 The Romantic Ascent: Mahler
- 15 Democratic Desire: Walt Whitman
- 16 The Transfiguration of Everyday Life: Joyce
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Name Index
- Subject Index
16 - The Transfiguration of Everyday Life: Joyce
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I NEED AND RECOGNITION
- PART II COMPASSION
- PART III ASCENTS OF LOVE
- 9 Ladders of Love
- 10 Contemplative Creativity: Plato, Spinoza, Proust
- 11 The Christian Ascent: Augustine
- 12 The Christian Ascent: Dante
- 13 The Romantic Ascent: Emily Brontë
- 14 The Romantic Ascent: Mahler
- 15 Democratic Desire: Walt Whitman
- 16 The Transfiguration of Everyday Life: Joyce
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Summary
SCHOLASTIC QUESTIONS
Lying on her left side in the brass-quoited bed, “left hand under head, right leg extended in a straight line and resting on left leg” (737), she watches her husband sleep, his feet near her face, his body curled up like a baby, his face near her bottom, “the indexfinger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose” (737). Watching, she considers his unusual request:
yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask to get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City Arms hotel when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to make himself interesting to that old faggot Mrs Riordan … still I like that in him polite to old women like that and waiters and beggars too … if ever he got anything really serious the matter with him … wed have a hospital nurse next thing on the carpet have him staying there till they throw him out or a nun maybe like the smutty photo he has shes as much a nun as Im not … […]
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- Upheavals of ThoughtThe Intelligence of Emotions, pp. 679 - 714Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001