Monday, 31 May 2004

swim

Another thing I don't get: indoor pools with no natural daylight, though that doesn't stop me from using one.

The sort of elliptical with handles, 20'.
Recumbent bike, 5' cooldown.
Freestyle, but I didn't count 25m laps. About 30'.

ulysses

There.

The question-and-answer episode let me understand the Odysseus and Telemachus parallel more than anything preceding, and the weird thing is that I had read it before, at least a little bit, because I knew about the flyspot.

I had also read bits of the last episode, Molly's soliloquy, before, because of Kate Bush's sensual world. I had sympathized with that character up to then, up to reading the entire episode. I read it aloud, or nearly aloud, mouthing more than I have since One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, to feel the words physically (Blake is also a fan of this method).

I do not make any claim to full comprehension. The brothel scene left me burbling and I decided it was a tribute to Lewis Carroll. The only chapter I felt like I understood was the exhibitionism and masturbation on the beach.

But I read it.

He said I was a flower of the mountain yes but now I've power o'er a woman's body mmm yes