this constant conversion of my fanciful ambitions
Before Sunrise begins on June 16. Some might know that day as Bloomsday, a celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses , which takes place on that day. I, however, am one of those people who tried reading Ulysses and never got very far. But, I can read about Joyce and have done so. Did so again today. The following is--because, as Luke McKernan puts it in his film blog , 19 July 2014, "Richard Linklater's Before trilogy is more subtly and rewardingly Joycean than any literal transcription of his work to the screen"--me mapping Before Sunrise onto the structure of Ulysses (which itself is mapped onto the structure of The Odyssey ). (Admittedly, some of these will be stretches.) Ulysses is told in eighteen episodes. As I understand it, the labels for those episodes were not included by Joyce but he used them in his letters and offered them to his friend Stuart Gilbert, who later published the schema. Episode One: Telemachus , named for Odysseus' son, in my mapp...