Word: dedalus
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...book with anticlerical gibes; the brothers' joint rejection of the Catholic faith culminated in a scene at their dying mother's bedside in which Jim and Stanislaus refused to kneel and pray for her-an episode that Joyce later used in Ulysses as the source of Stephen Dedalus' "agenbite of inwit," i.e., remorse...
...days. She drops a ripe red mulberry on the head of the canon. Its juice is the same color as his own flushed scalp. From there on, talented Author Tracy rarely, if ever, relents. In one word, the story is Irish, perhaps - to borrow the judgment Joyce's Dedalus made of his "all Irish" father - it is "all too Irish...
...novel is one community and the time one day. The community is the small town of Waycross, Indiana, and the date July 4, 1892. The hero, John Wickliff Shawnessy, is both family man and poet, combining the two archetypal characters that Joyce separated in Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Mr. Shawnessy, 53, schoolteacher and county scholar, moves through the day as a leading citizen in the local celebrations. At intervals the day's events or reflections, like firecrackers, touch off flashbacks to the significant events of Mr. Shawnessy's life...
Mover Hall--1, Stephen Dedalus; 2 to 6, The Sinamrocks; 7, Gustavus O'Flynn; 8 to 12, Belair Stud...