Blooms & Barnacles Who Were the Real Men in the Library from "Scylla and Charybdis"?
Eglinton knows Best.
Topics in this episode include the real-life versions of John Eglinton and Richard Best, Best’s contribution to the study of Irish mythology, how Best supported James Joyce’s abandoned music career, what his portrayal in Ulysses gets right and wrong, how the real Best felt about his fictional counterpart in Ulysses, gay-coding and homophobia in the fictional portrayal of Best, Oscar Wilde, the ancient Greeks, Joyce’s misguided attempt to re-connect with Best in 1909, William Kirkpatrick Magee (aka John Eglinton) and his contribution to Irish literature, Eglinton as an outsider, stories of Joyce and Gogarty terrorizing Eglinton, a rude limerick, the time Eglinton rejected Joyce’s Portrait, and Eglinton’s reaction to being portrayed in Ulysses.
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