Word: dedalus
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...always having a ‘Eureka!’ moment or suddenly perceiving some fundamental truth. THC: If you could be a character in any of your favorite works, fiction or otherwise, who would you be and why?DD: It may be really interesting to be Stephen Dedalus in ‘Ulysses,’ but you wouldn’t actually want to be him. But to be in that world would be quite fascinating.LD: I think the greatest novels make you all too conscious of people’s limitations and wounds. You know, I think...
...contrived melancholy parables about the psychological predicaments of life within a brutal and brutalizing system. You sense he's a man who would be happy to retreat into his own world if only the larger world weren't always drumming just outside his door. What James Joyce has Stephen Dedalus say in Ulysses--"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake"--could be Kentridge's working motto...
...Jack the anger and lust that drove him to defile the local women and then skip town, and Robinson leaves utterly abstract whatever misdeeds kept him busy for two decades in the flesh pits of (gasp!) St. Louis, Mo. He's one of these erudite wastrels like Stephen Dedalus who quote scripture freely, but unlike Dedalus, you can't imagine him touching anybody, even himself. He's more like Lovelace, the libertine villain in Clarissa: a devout person's idea of what a scoundrel might be like. And if we don't know, really know, why Jack left Gilead...
...professors, who not only have a better mastery of the material but are also not afraid to tell students they’re wrong. So when the class megalomaniac says something obtuse like, “I think we should discuss the theological implications of the eschatological, and Stephen Dedalus is the devil,” the professor will respond, “No, I don’t think that’s relevant at all. In fact, I wish you would think more before you speak.” Ah, the sweet sound of rejection...
...Stephen Dedalus, James Joyce’s literary alter ego, once described the trappings of Irish culture as nets that hold a soul back from flight. By his standards, Harvard has soared...