About us
Hello, and welcome to "Lifelong Learners - Las Vegas" (or "L2-LV" for short).
The purpose of this group is to gather folks together who have a growth mindset, and who enjoy discussing sundry, self-help books, podcasts, and talks. If you enjoy reading/listening to books about psychology/human nature, interpersonal relationships, philosophy, and life style change - this is the group for you! We typically meet at least a few times a month to discuss a book, podcast, or talk that relates to self-improvement and living a better life.
If you are constantly yearning to acquire new knowledge that will help you further grow into a wiser, happier, and more fulfilled version of yourself, please join us.
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weekly check-in
·OnlineOnlineThis a recurring weekly online meetup to discuss what we've read, what we're reading, and what we want to do.
The motivation behind this is two-fold:
- I've put James Joyce's Ulysses on the schedule for October, about 20 weeks out. It has 18 chapters, and I promised readers that we would have a weekly meetup to review our progress.
- We keep reading books about self-improvement, and yet this 'self' continues to struggle to improve. Maybe this is a chance to join with other strugglers to move forward.
Here's a link to the Ulysses resources that I find useful.
Today's discussion is about Episode 3, "Proteus"
- Stephen walks along Sandymount Strand for some time, mulling various philosophical concepts, his family, his life as a student in Paris, and his mother's death. As he reminisces he lies down among some rocks, watches a couple whose dog urinates behind a rock, scribbles some ideas for poetry and picks his nose.
- This chapter is characterised by a stream of consciousness narrative style that changes focus wildly. Stephen's education is reflected in the many obscure references and foreign phrases employed in this episode, which have earned it a reputation for being one of the book's most difficult chapters.
Yeah, this is a challenging read - my advice: listen to the RTE dramatic reading.
My take on this chapter: this is Joyce showing us what happens in Stephen Dedalus's mind, so OF COURSE it's chaotic, obscure, jumbled, and difficult for us to understand. And that's OKAY!
7 attendeesweekly check-in
·OnlineOnlineThis a recurring weekly online meetup to discuss what we've read, what we're reading, and what we want to do.
The motivation behind this is two-fold:
- I've put James Joyce's Ulysses on the schedule for October, about 20 weeks out. It has 18 chapters, and I promised readers that we would have a weekly meetup to review our progress.
- We keep reading books about self-improvement, and yet this 'self' continues to struggle to improve. Maybe this is a chance to join with other strugglers to move forward.
Here's a link to the Ulysses resources that I find useful.
Episode 4, "Calypso"
- The narrative shifts abruptly. The time is again 8 a.m., but the action has moved across the city and to the second protagonist of the book, Leopold Bloom, a part-Jewish advertising canvasser. The episode opens with the line "Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls."
- After starting to prepare breakfast, Bloom decides to walk to a butcher to buy a mutton kidney. Returning home, he prepares breakfast and brings it with the mail to his wife Molly as she lounges in bed. One of the letters is from her concert manager Blazes Boylan, with whom she is planning to begin an affair. Bloom reads a letter from their daughter Milly Bloom, who tells him about her progress in the photography business in Mullingar.
- The episode closes with Bloom reading a magazine story titled "Matcham's Masterstroke", by Mr. Philip Beaufoy, while defecating in the outhouse.
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