Posts tagged James Joyce

beauvelvet: “ “Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses by James Joyce. Photographed in 1955 by Eve Arnold. ” She kept ‘Ulysses’ in her car and had been reading it for a long time. She said she loved the sound of it and would read it aloud to herself to try to...
beauvelvet: “ “Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses by James Joyce. Photographed in 1955 by Eve Arnold. ” She kept ‘Ulysses’ in her car and had been reading it for a long time. She said she loved the sound of it and would read it aloud to herself to try to...
beauvelvet: “ “Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses by James Joyce. Photographed in 1955 by Eve Arnold. ” She kept ‘Ulysses’ in her car and had been reading it for a long time. She said she loved the sound of it and would read it aloud to herself to try to...

beauvelvet:

Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses by James Joyce.  Photographed in 1955 by Eve Arnold.

She kept ‘Ulysses’ in her car and had been reading it for a long time. She said she loved the sound of it and would read it aloud to herself to try to make sense of it–but she found it hard going. She couldn’t read it consecutively. When we stopped at a local playground to photograph she got out the book and started to read while I loaded the film. So, of course, I photographed her. ~ Eve Arnold.

7 years ago
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description.
James Joyce, Selected Letters (& partly quoted in David Shields, Reality Hunger).
(via outerblog)
7 years ago

uispeccoll:

Happy Birthday to James Joyce who would have been 132 today!  Above is a portrait of Joyce for the title page of the artist’s book Epiphanies produced by Vincent Fitz Gerald & Co. and Wild Carrot Press (copy 46 of 50).  Also featured is our copy of the first edition of Ulysses printed by Shakespeare & Co. in 1922.  

Cheers!

Jillian P.

9 years ago

Orlando Mezzabotta reads the Ondt and the Gracehoper from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. 

11 years ago
readmorebooks.wordpress.com Songs Inspired by Books: A Playlist

vintageanchor:

“Golden Slumbers” by The Beatles, inspired by the poem “Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes” by Thomas Dekker

“Clocks” by Coldplay, inspired by William Tell by Friedrich Schiller

“Rain King” by Counting Crows, inspired by Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

“Yeat’s Grave” by The Cranberries, inspired by the poetry of William Butler Yeats

“Guinnevere” by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, inspired by La Morte d’Arthur

“Romeo and Juliet” by Dire Straits

“All Along the Watchtower” by Bob Dylan, inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

“Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts” by Bob Dylan, inspired by The Hamlet by William Faulkner

“Tangled Up in Blue” by Bob Dylan, inspired by Dante’s Inferno

“Mercy Street” by Peter Gabriel, inspired by 45 Mercy Street by Anne Sexton

“White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane, inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” by Elton John, inspired by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

“Battle of Evermore,” “Ramble On” and “Misty Mountain Hop” by Led Zeppelin, inspired by The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by The Police, inspired by Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

“A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procul Harem, inspired by The Canterbury Tales

“Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones, inspired by The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

“Kid Charlemagne” by Steely Dan, inspired by The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

“Sister Moon” by Sting, inspired by Sonnet XXXV by William Shakespeare

“My Ride’s Here” by Warren Zevon, inspired by the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson

I’d like to add Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting (A Book of Dreams), Get Out of My House (The Shining) & Flower of the Mountain (Ulysses). How about you?

12 years ago