{"id":358,"date":"2016-10-13T18:11:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T18:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/?p=358"},"modified":"2016-10-13T18:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T18:11:20","slug":"gold-entry-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/uncategorized\/gold-entry-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold entry updated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gold<\/p>\n

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  1. The most precious metal: characterized by a beautiful yellow colour, non-liability to rust, high specific gravity, and great malleability and ductility. Chemical symbol Au.<\/li>\n
  2. The metal regarded as a valuable possession or employed as a medium of exchange; hence, cold coin; also in rhetorical use, money in large sums, wealth.<\/li>\n
  3. fig. With allusion to the brilliancy, beauty, and transcendent preciousness of gold. Often in phr. Of gold<\/em> = golden adj. heart of gold<\/em>: a noble-hearted person; a kind and noble heart.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    a. the metal as employed for coating a service, or as a pigment; gilding.<\/p>\n

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    1. The metal as used for the ornamentation of textile fabrics; gold thread; in early use often with the place of manufacture specified.<\/li>\n
    2. The colour of the metal: a bright golden yellow.<\/li>\n
    3. Archery<\/em>. The gilt centre or bulls-eye of a target. To make a gold<\/em>: to hit the bulls-eye.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \u201cGold\u201d appears in several contexts throughout Ulysses: 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. As an adjective,\u00a0it\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 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 is associated with opulence\u2014the decadence of gold teeth and pastry\u2014or loot, like Deasy\u2019s strongroom or the Danevikings\u2019 plunder. Death floats around some of these allusions: \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,\u00a0but 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 seem indicative of an idealized\u00a0decay and sickness that pervades his conception of Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Gold The most precious metal: characterized by a beautiful yellow colour, non-liability to rust, high specific gravity, and great malleability and ductility. Chemical symbol Au. The metal regarded as a valuable possession or employed as a medium of exchange; hence, cold coin; also in rhetorical use, money in large sums, wealth. fig. With allusion to […]<\/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-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}