Tuesday, March 11, 2008

There is more dialogue in this chapter than any we have seen so far. That’s why I find it funny that it correlates with the chapter in the Odyssey about the bad winds. Everyone in this chapter seems to be blowing a lot of wind. The fact that they are also at a press office further emphasizes this idea. Many argue that the press talks a lot of nonsense (like the Post with their obnoxious head lines, which happen to be echoed throughout the chapter). On a more self-conscious level, in the Evening Telegraph Office, (p.123) Ned Lambert reads allowed a speech, mocking its ostentatious tone. “The pensive bosom and the overarsing leafage.”

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