James Joyce Experience

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James Joyce Experience, Dublin Day, Dublin Night.

The metaphors exposed, the connections made, the merging, the joining, the medium waves, the nightmare of history of our Pale Blue Dot, from which we all try to awaken - and we all try to World Wide Wake.

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James Joyce Experience: What was Joyce's core message to book readers? What was the literacy message Joyce was trying to convey to audiences of Bible verse Romans 11:32 ? - This song speaks message (www.youtube.com)

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[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

"What Joyce is doing in all his work is... to try to use Dublin as an experience model of how to stitch the Tower of Babel conflicts into the perspective that one reader can understand. As New York's Joseph Campbell and Toronto's Marshall McLuhan emphasize, literacy and storytelling changes people, the medium generations change people. The Tower of Babel problem can turn on us in expected ways, and we live with this egoism shallow acceptance of other people from other cultures, other languages, other skin colors, other metaphor systems, other experiences of words, other accents, other styles and fashions, other economic or technological conditions - and we do not see our common humanism. Joyce is great at awakening the content consumer to these concerns, to become self-aware of our own ego conflicts and when we are heading into metaphors of hell and when we should see the metaphors of heaven in persons." - Stephen Gutknecht, 2025