Blooms & Barnacles Ancient Free and Accepted Order
Jan 15, 2025
58:58
Are you on the level?
Topics in this episode include discussion of whether or not Leopold Bloom is a freemason, how well Nosey Flynn knows the business of the other Dubliners, why Bloom never thinks about being a freemason, whether or not Tom Kernan is in the craft, whether or not you can leave the freemasons, freemason symbols and lore, whether Bloom has connections to the upper echelons of Dublin society, the Hungarian lottery tickets scandal, what James Joyce knew about freemasons, times when Bloom deploys freemason symbols, the Catholic Church’s campaign against the freemasons, how that campaign was also antisemitic, and why Æ was talking about octopuses.
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