{"id":1187,"date":"2004-06-16T10:09:36","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T14:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2015-05-14T10:09:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:09:23","slug":"ulysses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"<i>Ulysses<\/i>: &#8220;Gracelessness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>In Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus teaches at a school, and sits in front of the children, contemplating one in particular.  This is in the second section, the &#8220;Nestor&#8221; episode<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like him was I, sloping shoulders, this gracelessness.  My childhood bends beside me.  Too far for me to lay a hand there once or lightly.  Mine is far and his secret as our eyes.  Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know that feeling.  My childhood bending beside me, but too far for me to touch.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0394743121&#038;asins=0394743121&#038;linkId=4K47LSXBLNN345MQ&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus teaches at a school, and sits in front of the children, contemplating one in particular. This is in the second section, the &#8220;Nestor&#8221; episode Like him was I, sloping shoulders, this gracelessness. My childhood bends beside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101629,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/101629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}