RFI: Why Does Ulysses Get All Yessed Out In The Last Chapter?

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I mean, was Blazes Boylan some kind of proto-Bill Bruford? After all, they both share the initials, the initials, the initials B.B.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 30 December 2004 07:23 (twenty years ago)

The actual body of the question was cooked up after the fact as a pretext for the thread title. I just wanted to say "yessed out." Feel free to ignore it if you like.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 30 December 2004 07:25 (twenty years ago)

Mmh, yes,

Then I'd taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth
Going deep South, go down, mmh, yes,
Took six big wheels and rolled our bodies
Off of Howth Head and into the flesh, mmh, yes,

He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes,
But now I've powers o'er a woman's body, yes.

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world.
Stepping out...

To where the water and the earth caress
And the down of a peach says mmh, yes,
Do I look for those millionaires
Like a Machiavellian girl would
When I could wear a sunset? mmh, yes,

And how we'd wished to live in the sensual world
You don't need words--just one kiss, then another.

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world
Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world.

And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech, mmh, yes,
And then he whispered would I, mmh, yes,
Be safe, mmh, yes, from mountain flowers?
And at first with the charm around him, mmh, yes,
He loosened it so if it slipped between my breasts
He'd rescue it, mmh, yes,
And his spark took life in my hand and, mmh, yes,
I said, mmh, yes,
But not yet, mmh, yes,
Mmh, yes.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.savedelete.com/files/images/memo.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 30 December 2004 07:28 (twenty years ago)

this is what i was really looking for:

http://rogerissa.com/Images/Web/Lumbergh.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 30 December 2004 07:31 (twenty years ago)

I mean, was Blazes Boylan some kind of proto-Bill Bruford?

But the last chapter is Molly!

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 07:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.themusicindex.com/rockahead/reviews/yes_ultimate.jpg

― robster (robster), Thursday, 30 December 2004 09:44 (twenty years ago)

When literature majors go into marketing part 593: A local jeweler uses Molly's "yes yes I will yes" text in its ads for engagement rings.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago)

What is she saying Yes to exactly? Making Bloom breakfast in bed? A little 69 action? What?

― Sam Beckett, Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I think she's just groggy.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)

The last yesses are just killer. "Yes I said yes I will yes" = best pop song ever.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago)

(Actual answer to the question = because Molly has poured outward into a big wet sexy uber-femme?)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 30 December 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago)

And she's groggy.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago)

BIG WET SEXY

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 30 December 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)

and eating a semen cake, or some such thing.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago)

i'm sorta surprised that rick wakeman has NOT done a concept album built around ulysses.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 31 December 2004 07:10 (twenty years ago)

there's always cream's "tales of brave ulysses"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 31 December 2004 07:52 (twenty years ago)

which i realize has nothing to do with james joyce

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 31 December 2004 07:56 (twenty years ago)

No, but neither does Tales From the Topographic Ocean.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

But the last chapter is Molly!
So it's sort of a "Molly Says" chapter. Should I instead have asked: Why Does Ulysses Get All dBed Out In The Last Chapter?

And what about "In Bloom"? Why does Ulysses get all Nirvanaed out in the fourth chapter?

And here's a scary thought: Stephen Patrick Dedalus.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Yessed out != No Doubt

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

James Joyce held the opinion that of all words meaning 'yes' in all languages, the word 'yes' in English was the most affirmative-sounding, thus beating out 'hai' in japanese and 'si' in spanish and so forth.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

I think he was wrong about "hai".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 January 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

But also he picked it for the end of U. because it was such a weak word! A word you could say while drifting off to sleep. He one-upped that by ending the Wake with "the".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 January 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Happy Bloomsday, people!

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh good lord, I almost forgot. I try to read a chapter of Ulysses every Bloomsday. Last year it was the one were bloom eats all the gizzards and inner organs of beasts and enjoys the slight urine taste. I wonder what it shall be this year? Only seven and a half hours until I get home from work and crack open the beast!!

Happy Bloomsday everyone!!!

― stewart downes (sdownes), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Well, they law!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yessed and then he asked me would I yessed to say yessed my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yessed and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yessed and his heart was going like mad and yessed I said yessed I will yessed

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 04:24 (eleven years ago)

http://open.spotify.com/track/5hF8NPjHfu6Hg3P5wfGTHO

― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 04:44 (eleven years ago)

DO U SEE?

― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 04:53 (eleven years ago)

tell the moon don't tell the marcher

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 05:03 (eleven years ago)

― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 05:07 (eleven years ago)

Wait you didn't click did you?

― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 05:42 (eleven years ago)

seven years pass...

For next week's @NewYorker -- the Anniversary issue, released on the Feast day of Saint Valentine -- I wrote about desiring & loving ULYSSES. https://t.co/8InvRQjEI0
— Merve Emre (@mervatim) February 7, 2022

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 February 2022 14:18 (three years ago)

ha, i never realized the origin story of the title of the ILM Yes thread.

i still haven't read ulysses but i enjoy reading about reading about it

― Karl Malone, Monday, 7 February 2022 15:05 (three years ago)

Ohhhh now I get it

Also Penelope has the best fart in literature imo

I feel some wind in me better go easy not wake him have him at it again slobbering after washing every bit of myself back belly and sides if we had even a bath itself or my own room anyway I wish hed sleep in some bed by himself with his cold feet on me give us room even to let a fart God or do the least thing better yes hold them like that a bit on my side piano quietly sweeeee theres that train far away pianissimo eeeee one more song
that was a relief wherever you be let your wind go free who knows if that pork chop I took with my cup of tea after was quite good with the heat I couldnt smell anything off it Im sure that queerlooking man in the porkbutchers is a great rogue I hope that lamp is not smoking fill my nose up with smuts better than having him leaving the gas on all night

― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 7 February 2022 16:35 (three years ago)

that is a beautiful fart. so much more than "silent but deadly" or "the smallest squeaker" or "a pfoof in the night"

― Karl Alone music video (Karl Malone), Monday, 7 February 2022 16:38 (three years ago)

i still haven't read ulysses but i enjoy reading about reading about it

Just like some people love to be in love DO U SEE?

― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 February 2022 16:47 (three years ago)

It's the first piece on Ulysses that fuses all bits of twitter appreciation of it. From a skim Nerve puts it together well.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 February 2022 17:30 (three years ago)

So it’s like Patricia Lockwood’s book then?

― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 February 2022 18:33 (three years ago)

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