Calypso
This week we cover the parallels to \u201cCalypso,\u201d the fourth episode of James Joyce\u2019s Ulysses and Book V of Homer\u2019s Odyssey. Topics include how Leopold Bloom and Odysseus are similar, how they\u2019re different since Bloom is really a sideways Odysseus, Bloom as a feminine man, the danger of nostalgia, the Blooms\u2019 many secrets, Molly as a character especially veiled in secrets, so much etymology, the location of Calypso\u2019s island Ogygia, Gibraltar, the color yellow, the fate of the lost city of Atlantis, Blazes Boylan, who should play Blazes Boylan in a theoretical film version of Ulysses, Bannon and his Photo Girl, \u201cSeaside Girls,\u201d and the Bhagavad Gita.