Posted by Lale on 16/4/2012, 9:04:20, in reply to "Re: Nothing like the Sun"
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Dear Joffre,
Regarding the Irishman's Ulysses presentation, were there some tough questions from the crowd?
I go to these kinds of things all the time here and sometimes the speakers and their presentations are truly disappointing. And in some of these presentations, I am the organizer. As an organizer you invite someone you think will do a great job. But sometimes it turns out to be a huge failure. My daughter, now a grown-up, working professional, is very busy and I dragged her to two of the talks I had organized and she told me "mom, that's strike two."
Unless I was present at the speaker's talk elsewhere, I really don't know how they will perform. It is a hit and miss. These talks are organized by a variety of groups who wish to make their mark in the society (sometimes as a fundraiser for something) and it is clear that they will never have the top authority on the topic. That is not to say that you can't get a wonderfully engaging and knowledgeable speaker.
Also depends on the audience. Your Irishman's presentation would have been very enlightening for me because I haven't read the introduction to the annotated edition 
Even at the top notch conferences where the speakers are university professors with many publications on their resume, you still don't know what you are going to get.
One such speaker, with a long list of credentials, addressing a group of older generation of conservative women, got up and opened his talk with "testicles."
So, anyway, my question is, was your speaker challenged at all? Because in the crowd there must have been a few people like yourself who knew more than him.
Lale
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: I agree very much about the prose being Joycean. I
: felt that after only two or three pages, maybe after
: the first page. Some months after reading NLtS, I read
: ReJoyce. I had planned to reread NLtS with you guys,
: but I'm trying to reread Ulysses right now, and I feel
: I barely have time for that. I don't want to take a
: break in the middle of it.
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: I'm actually hoping to make a class on Ulysses using
: my New Bloomsday Book and ReJoyce. I'd also like to
: have Nabokov's lecture on Ulysses. I have it back in
: MS but not here. Could someone who has it possibly
: scan and email me the pages? I couldn't find it
: online. My girlfriend and I went to a lecture on
: Ulysses in November. It was pathetic, nothing I
: couldn't have gotten from the introduction to the
: annotated edition, and a lot of people paid to hear
: it. Some old Irishman cashing in on his accent.
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