{"id":185,"date":"2016-09-15T18:51:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/?p=185"},"modified":"2016-09-15T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:51:03","slug":"gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/uncategorized\/gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGold\u201d struck me at first because of its frequent use as both a noun and an adjective, and the way those usages seemed to work off one another. As a noun, it\u2019s synonymous with money and wealth; i.e., Dedalus goes to Deasy\u2019s \u201cstrongroom for the gold\u201d (29), where he\u2019s lectured (very pompously) on the value of saving money. Likewise it\u2019s used for lyrical, almost pastoral descriptions of the sea and surroundings: the \u201cgold light on the sea\u201d complements the \u201cslender trees\u201d and \u201clemon houses\u201d Dedalus walks by (42); he thinks of \u201ca girl with gold hair on the wind\u201d (61), \u201ctumbled beauties, shattering with gold teeth <em>chaussons<\/em> of pastry\u201d (42), and \u201cDanevikings, torcs of tomahawks aglitter on their breasts when Malachi wore the collar of gold\u201d (45). In each mention, gold\u2019s associated with opulence\u2014the decadence of gold teeth and pastry\u2014or loot, like Deasy\u2019s strongroom or the Danevikings\u2019 plunder. Death seems to float around some of these allusions (gold teeth are false, for example) in an indirect and very creepy way. \u201cIt\u2019s all the same,\u201d Bloom thinks on the way to the funeral. \u201cPalbearers, gold reins\u2026pomp of death\u201d (100). The use of the word \u2018gold\u2019 seems to gild the concept of death and decay (I\u2019m comparing the descriptions with \u2018gold\u2019 to the descriptions with \u2018green\u2019, which are a whole lot less lyrical). But the effect is one that heightens rather than eases the narrative\u2019s descriptions of death. \u201cPoetical idea pink, then golden, then grey, then black\u2026Day, then the night,\u201d thinks Bloom (69). Even the idealized \u201cgreengoldenly lagoons\u201d Dedalus notices on his walk are therefore indicative of the idealization of decay and sickness that pervades his conception of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGold\u201d struck me at first because of its frequent use as both a noun and an adjective, and the way those usages seemed to work off one another. As a noun, it\u2019s synonymous with money and wealth; i.e., Dedalus goes to Deasy\u2019s \u201cstrongroom for the gold\u201d (29), where he\u2019s lectured (very pompously) on the value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}