Monday, 15 September 2014, Pages 173 - 176

Stopped today's reading at "... Mac Garvey." (176.18)

In a coordinated effort each one of us read a line from the poem, "In Nowhere has yet the Whole World taken part of himself for his Wife;..."

Monday, 8 September 2014, Pages 171 - 173

Stopped in the middle of a loooong sentence. At "... as glib as eaves..." (173.30)
If only one knows the gypsy language, so that one can understand these pages a bit more!
Otherwise how would one guess, for example, that 'Peamengro' (171.29) means 'drunkard', and 'dish to tren' (172.1) means 'thirteen' in that language!

Monday, 1 September 2014, Pages 169 - 171

We have started Book I, chapter 7 (the 'Shem the postman' chapter) and stopped at "Fanny Urinia" (171.28)

For those interested in audio recordings, an excellent reading was done by Cyril Cusack (recorded in 1959).