Possible new Ulysses Readthrough

I posted this message to the Yahoo-groups Joyce Ulysses List. It
occurred to me it might be of interest to subscribers to this
newsgroup:


Since we seem to have come to the end of our current
ReReadthrough of Ulysses, the question arises as to
what to do next. What I would like to know is whether
there is a constituency for continuing the
readthrough, starting once more at the first chapter.
Most particularly, I would strongly encourage those
who do not normally post to this list, but
nevertheless enjoy reading it, to make themselves
heard on this subject.

I, for one, have always enjoyed participating in this
list, which has been around since 1999 when Mike
Dahlquist started it in its present form, and previous
to that on the Utah Joyce List (now more or less
moribund, except for announcements) where the first
Ulysses Readthrough was conducted, beginning in 1997.

We have generally worked things out by having a sort
of general manager, (invested with the powers of
"moderator"), a position at the moment held by David
Peacock, (who is now retiring to do fine cabinet-work)
who in turn has the job of finding a specific person
to "host" each chapter, the hosts's job being to give
some sort of introduction, to raise some interesting
questions, and then, more or less, to "field" the
answers to these questions.

This has produced a prodigious archive of some ten
thousand messages, of which a quite respectable
proportion are substantial analyses, and of which a
quite negligible number are mean or grossly off-topic.
There is a certain amount of chit-chat, but not
enough to be annoying.

Perhaps the most notable component is the remarkable
series of posts over a number of years from the
independent scholar, Clarence Sterling, known as The
Riverend, whose work was (he died a year or so ago)
both highly original, and not to be found elsewhere in
the massive Joyce Literature (the Yale Library, for
instance, has about 1850 items in the catalogue called
up by the keyword "James Joyce").

The archive is somewhat cumbersome to navigate -
perhaps because it was not anticipated that it would
be of such a size. It can be searched by the name of
the contributor, or by a keyword (such as a chapter
title), or by the number of the message, but
frequently, I find, one has to do a number of "search
more"s at the bottom of the page to come up with the
full repertoire for a given search.

Following is a list of 42 currently active (marked
with an asterisk) and occasional participants in the
Yahoo-Groups Joyce-Ulysses Listserv. (Of this number,
about a dozen are active or retired academics, like
myself):

ABRAMSON BARBARA,BAUERLE RUTH,*BECK HARALD, BEJA
MURRAY, BRADFIELD EDWARD,BREITBARD STANLEY,BRYLLARS
EDWARD,CRUMLISH AP,DALQUIST MIKE,*DEMPSEY
PETER,*ELAINE "EMGRAMMA",EMERY JOEL,FINN
EAMONN,*FUHREL ROBERT, *GORDON JOHN,*GRODEN
MICHAEL,*HARRINGTON JUDITH,*IRELAND ROBERT, *JACOBUS
LEE, *KERSHNER R. BRANDON,*LOVELL-SMITH TIM,MAYO
MICHEAL,MEYERS JESSE,MURPHY MICHEAL,*PEACOCK
DAVID,*PETER "PROUSTIENNE",SCHUETZ ALOIS,SKOBLOW
JEFFREY, STACK SIMON, *STACK RICHARD, STATLAND
STUART,*SUZANNE "SIRENIC", *THOMPSON PHILIP,THORNY
MARC,TORIKIAN GAREN,*UNGAR ANDRAS,*VEGH BEATRIZ,WALSH
SEAN,WHITE DORIS,WRECKERLE M.R.,*YARED AIDA,
ZEINALIAN M.

The list of "members" at the group site totals 593, of
which perhaps a hundred or two are duplicate accounts
and "bouncing" email addresses (i.e. presumably no
longer functional). That leaves three hundred or more
names on the list, of which an unknown proportion
(perhaps fifty or a hundred ?) are active "lurkers"
and the rest are no longer active members at all.

Once again, what I would like to know is whether
there is a constituency for continuing the
readthrough, starting once more at the first chapter.
Most particularly, I would strongly encourage those
who do not normally post to this list, but
nevertheless enjoy reading it, to make themselves
heard on this subject.


yours,
Richard Stack

I'd been wondering where everyone on this list went. Now I think I know.
Absolutely, a ReReReadthrough would be just my cup of tea. Or glass of wine.
Or something.

David Heath

"richardstack" <richardstack2002 RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1133041637.655033.220340@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I posted this message to the Yahoo-groups Joyce Ulysses List. It
> occurred to me it might be of interest to subscribers to this
> newsgroup:
>
>
> Since we seem to have come to the end of our current
> ReReadthrough of Ulysses, the question arises as to
> what to do next. What I would like to know is whether
> there is a constituency for continuing the
> readthrough, starting once more at the first chapter.
> Most particularly, I would strongly encourage those
> who do not normally post to this list, but
> nevertheless enjoy reading it, to make themselves
> heard on this subject.
>
> I, for one, have always enjoyed participating in this
> list, which has been around since 1999 when Mike
> Dahlquist started it in its present form, and previous
> to that on the Utah Joyce List (now more or less
> moribund, except for announcements) where the first
> Ulysses Readthrough was conducted, beginning in 1997.
>
> We have generally worked things out by having a sort
> of general manager, (invested with the powers of
> "moderator"), a position at the moment held by David
> Peacock, (who is now retiring to do fine cabinet-work)
> who in turn has the job of finding a specific person
> to "host" each chapter, the hosts's job being to give
> some sort of introduction, to raise some interesting
> questions, and then, more or less, to "field" the
> answers to these questions.
>
> This has produced a prodigious archive of some ten
> thousand messages, of which a quite respectable
> proportion are substantial analyses, and of which a
> quite negligible number are mean or grossly off-topic.
> There is a certain amount of chit-chat, but not
> enough to be annoying.
>
> Perhaps the most notable component is the remarkable
> series of posts over a number of years from the
> independent scholar, Clarence Sterling, known as The
> Riverend, whose work was (he died a year or so ago)
> both highly original, and not to be found elsewhere in
> the massive Joyce Literature (the Yale Library, for
> instance, has about 1850 items in the catalogue called
> up by the keyword "James Joyce").
>
> The archive is somewhat cumbersome to navigate -
> perhaps because it was not anticipated that it would
> be of such a size. It can be searched by the name of
> the contributor, or by a keyword (such as a chapter
> title), or by the number of the message, but
> frequently, I find, one has to do a number of "search
> more"s at the bottom of the page to come up with the
> full repertoire for a given search.
>
> Following is a list of 42 currently active (marked
> with an asterisk) and occasional participants in the
> Yahoo-Groups Joyce-Ulysses Listserv. (Of this number,
> about a dozen are active or retired academics, like
> myself):
>
> ABRAMSON BARBARA,BAUERLE RUTH,*BECK HARALD, BEJA
> MURRAY, BRADFIELD EDWARD,BREITBARD STANLEY,BRYLLARS
> EDWARD,CRUMLISH AP,DALQUIST MIKE,*DEMPSEY
> PETER,*ELAINE "EMGRAMMA",EMERY JOEL,FINN
> EAMONN,*FUHREL ROBERT, *GORDON JOHN,*GRODEN
> MICHAEL,*HARRINGTON JUDITH,*IRELAND ROBERT, *JACOBUS
> LEE, *KERSHNER R. BRANDON,*LOVELL-SMITH TIM,MAYO
> MICHEAL,MEYERS JESSE,MURPHY MICHEAL,*PEACOCK
> DAVID,*PETER "PROUSTIENNE",SCHUETZ ALOIS,SKOBLOW
> JEFFREY, STACK SIMON, *STACK RICHARD, STATLAND
> STUART,*SUZANNE "SIRENIC", *THOMPSON PHILIP,THORNY
> MARC,TORIKIAN GAREN,*UNGAR ANDRAS,*VEGH BEATRIZ,WALSH
> SEAN,WHITE DORIS,WRECKERLE M.R.,*YARED AIDA,
> ZEINALIAN M.
>
> The list of "members" at the group site totals 593, of
> which perhaps a hundred or two are duplicate accounts
> and "bouncing" email addresses (i.e. presumably no
> longer functional). That leaves three hundred or more
> names on the list, of which an unknown proportion
> (perhaps fifty or a hundred ?) are active "lurkers"
> and the rest are no longer active members at all.
>
> Once again, what I would like to know is whether
> there is a constituency for continuing the
> readthrough, starting once more at the first chapter.
> Most particularly, I would strongly encourage those
> who do not normally post to this list, but
> nevertheless enjoy reading it, to make themselves
> heard on this subject.
>
>
> yours,
> Richard Stack
>