So I just finished "After the Race" and "The Two Gallants"

I must say I found the lighthearted, party til the sun comes back up, nature of "After the Race" to be really enjoyable. It definitely made me remember times when I've done something like that with my good friends. I can also definitely sympathize with the young, carefree attitude of the narrator as thats basically summed up my life so far.

I though that "The Two Gallants" made the narrator seem really sort of sad. Do you think that the let down after the party was intended to be an overarching theme for Joyce or did it just happen that these 2 stories go nicely after each other (close to the same age narrators etc.)

I was also wondering what exactly happens in the last scene where the narrators friend reveals the gold coin. I was never quite sure what he was supposed to be "trying" with the girl he meets up with. Whatever it was seems like it was unsuccessful given his countenance but the gold coin in particular confused me.

Lastly in both stories I really like the imagery of walking through Grafton Street and St Stephens Green to be really nice as I've been to both places and they are quite nice.

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21244 Posts

May 16 2013 22:55 GMT

#103

As mentioned before, the stories follow a progression in the narrators' ages, from youth to late-middle aged at the end. So all the stories you read in succession will have similarly aged narrators. I think the Two Gallants characters are a few years older than After the Race, but I could be mis-remembering.

The gold coin was the original goal of Corley and Lenehan. The whole plan was to get familiar with a girl and get her to steal from her employer.

packrat386

United States5077 Posts

May 18 2013 11:56 GMT

#104

Should we update the banner to reflect the next IRC discussion?

farvacola

United States18856 Posts

May 18 2013 17:13 GMT

#105

On May 18 2013 20:56 packrat386 wrote:
Should we update the banner to reflect the next IRC discussion?

Yeah, looks like I couldn't get a mods attention lol. Since no one showed up (cept for Packrat

), I'll try and be on the same time we met last week, that being Sunday around 3, though I can't say for certain and will likely have to only drop by near the end. In any case, expect this thread to have more updates in the near future, this whole "preparing for law school applications" thing is taking up more time than I had expected

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21244 Posts

May 18 2013 22:21 GMT

#106

o i thought it was tomorrow gg

Paljas

Germany6926 Posts

May 19 2013 11:27 GMT

#107

so, 3:00 pst this day?

packrat386

United States5077 Posts

May 20 2013 19:23 GMT

#108

So I sort of missed the discussion yesterday, anyone got the highlights available?

seraphdd

79 Posts

May 20 2013 19:44 GMT

#109

On May 17 2013 07:55 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
As mentioned before, the stories follow a progression in the narrators' ages, from youth to late-middle aged at the end. So all the stories you read in succession will have similarly aged narrators. I think the Two Gallants characters are a few years older than After the Race, but I could be mis-remembering.

The gold coin was the original goal of Corley and Lenehan. The whole plan was to get familiar with a girl and get her to steal from her employer.

How do you know about the plan? I could not find anything about it at the start of the story. I finished reading and had no idea what the plan was.

farvacola

United States18856 Posts

May 20 2013 19:47 GMT

#110

On May 21 2013 04:23 packrat386 wrote:
So I sort of missed the discussion yesterday, anyone got the highlights available?

I didn't make it either, so I'm hoping we can get more folks to show up on Saturday and we'll have an extended session. There's no way I can make Sundays. Maybe I'll put up a poll and see if there's a weekday folks are interested in?

Paljas

Germany6926 Posts

May 20 2013 19:55 GMT

#111

On May 21 2013 04:23 packrat386 wrote:
So I sort of missed the discussion yesterday, anyone got the highlights available?

i dont think there was a discussion yesterday. or i just didnt find one.

slyboogie

United States3423 Posts

May 27 2013 05:28 GMT

#112

I just found this thread but, man, the books on the list are definitely on the hard side. Eco, Wolfe, Pychon and Joyce? It took me weeks and weeks to get through these authors. I guess it's a good thing everyone started with Dubliners, haha. I'd imagine everyone would have to pick up the Ulysses reader when you they move over to that.

But it is a really good list. Oscar Wao is my favorite book of the decade so far.

seraphdd

79 Posts

May 28 2013 15:07 GMT

#113

Dead club? What is going on?

Whole

United States6046 Posts

May 28 2013 21:19 GMT

#114

On May 29 2013 00:07 seraphdd wrote:
Dead club? What is going on?

OP is really busy I think

Paljas

Germany6926 Posts

June 07 2013 21:51 GMT

#115

Is there any update?

packrat386

United States5077 Posts

June 08 2013 00:02 GMT

#116

On June 08 2013 06:51 Paljas wrote:
Is there any update?

OP is like REALLY fucking busy I think...

farvacola

United States18856 Posts

June 08 2013 00:49 GMT

#117

Yeah, I apologize to everyone for sort of falling out out of nowhere, I've a track record when it comes to making commitments and then having life rear up and reprimand me for doing something so foolish. But, if anyone is still interested, I'll do a halfway catch up early next week, or through "A Little Cloud". I'll try and be in the #TLBC IRC channel as much as possible, so drop by or post questions if you have any.

packrat386

United States5077 Posts

June 21 2013 22:33 GMT

#118

I'm just about done with everything but the last story, which is significantly longer. Is it much different from the feel of the others? I found the last few to be a bit dark (especially the political discussion one) but still quite enjoyable. Flying tomorrow, so I should probably finish (finally)!