tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523231273885627613.post2308087672755643345..comments2024-03-26T01:02:28.347+11:00Comments on Talking Plants: No more re-Joyce-ing (Plant Portrait XV*)Talking Plantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778763864080365220noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523231273885627613.post-52002716659556397552017-04-06T18:29:43.035+10:002017-04-06T18:29:43.035+10:00Well put Janelle. I'd love to infuse some lite...Well put Janelle. I'd love to infuse some literature into our botanic garden, and there could be no better way than to pivot this around 16 June.<br />Back to the book for me.<br />TimTalking Plantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05778763864080365220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523231273885627613.post-28061184184213551742017-04-06T18:12:31.796+10:002017-04-06T18:12:31.796+10:00Thank you, Tim. Your beautifully written eulogy he...Thank you, Tim. Your beautifully written eulogy helps bring me some closure on the demise of Frank Delaney.<br /><br />You’re not alone – in experiencing the loss of regular doses of Re:Joyce or in not having ‘read’ Ulysses. I’m not even sure James Joyce meant for it only to be consumed this way. There’s a growing number of devotees out there eager to celebrate Bloomsday every 16 June and Delaney’s enduring podcasts show how Joyce’s masterpiece has not only survived the test of time but technological advances too! <br /><br />Maybe you should consider hosting a Bloomsday at Melbourne’s botanic gardens and perhaps another Joycean scholar can pick up where Delaney left off (Episode 368: Page 192 of Ulysses The Gabler edition) deconstructing Ulysses line by line.<br />Ulysses with its celebration of life in all its simplicity, depravity and complexity helped James Joyce achieve some sense of immortality and I’ve always chuckled at Frank Delaney’s joie de vivre/optimism which inspired him to take on this 25-year-task of in his seventies!<br /><br />But just as Monty Python tells us in the lyrics of ‘Decomposing Composers’:<br /><br />They're decomposing composers.<br />There's nothing much anyone can do.<br />You can still hear Beethoven,<br />But Beethoven cannot hear you.<br /><br />So let’s be grateful for what we have and as Molly Bloom tells us: ‘Tomorrow the sun shines for you!’<br /><br />Janelle Hatherly (fellow Ulysses tragic)<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14990880927686389408noreply@blogger.com