Trigger warnings
A correspondent who signs himself “The Man in the Mackintosh” writes to make several points about the recent James Joyce Symposium in Glasgow – which he attended – and its subsequent coverage on the news pages of The Irish Times. In keeping with what he says were “trigger warnings before almost all papers” presented at the conference, he also issues one for his email: “Heresy alert.”
We’ll come back to his criticisms in a minute. But first, for non-Joyceans, I should explain that the original “Man in the Mackintosh” is a mysterious figure who appears fleetingly throughout Ulysses and is never identified.Canadian rhapsody – Frank McNally on a party to celebrate Canada DayMany scholars have since wrestled with the mystery of who or what he represents. Guesses range from the ghost of James Clarence Mangan to a manifestation of Leopold Bloom’s tortured subconscious.
Then there’s Molly Bloom, the woman who famously says “yes” while ravishing the rules of English punctuation. It is no surprise, surely, that Molly Bloom studies might occasionally attract men with a less than complete grasp of the meaning of the word “no”.
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