Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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The Dilemma of Father Ocean
At the end of the Proteus chapter, Stephen's conflict is presented again in a passage that provides the key to Stephen's whole dilemma. He is at the edge of the water, where he is going finally to drown, and he thinks of Ariel's song in The Tempest. Full Fathom Five, by Father Lies, of his bones are coral-made, those are pearls that wear his eyes,. nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange. Here we see the struggle of life against death. You will recall, however, that this day, June 16, 1904, is the day that Joyce first walked on the
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