{"id":375,"date":"2016-10-25T01:07:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T01:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/?p=375"},"modified":"2016-10-25T01:07:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T01:07:23","slug":"circe-inanimate-objects-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/uncategorized\/circe-inanimate-objects-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Circe: Inanimate Objects &#8220;speaking&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This episode featured an unusual format, in that it resembled a play, with each character&#8217;s speech being preceded by their name. This different formatting allowed for inanimate objects to have a &#8220;voice&#8221; as well, which was particularly interesting to my obsession of the unspoken, as these inanimate objects truly cannot speak.<\/p>\n<p>Other than\u00a0the moment\u00a0where Stephen speaks to his hat and it replies, the other instances are usually objects that speak sort of nonsense sounds or nonsense words. The Bells say &#8220;haltyaltyaltyall&#8221; (15.181), which is later followed by The Soap singing &#8220;We&#8217;re a capital couple are Bloom and I. He brightens the earth. I polish the sky&#8221; (15.338-9). Almost all of the examples that I found seem to fall into these two categories; the objects either simply &#8220;spoke&#8221; a sound they were likely to make, or they said some short little nonsense sentence. The objects that said little phrases were far more interesting, but I was unable to discern a pattern from them.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some more examples of inanimate objects speaking, specifically the second category I mentioned, where they say a short nonsensical phrase:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Wreaths: Sweet are the sweets. Sweets of Sin (15.656)<\/li>\n<li>A Deadhand: (writes on the wall) Bloom is a cod (15.1871)\n<ul>\n<li>unsure if this actually might be a person?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Buckles: Love me. Love me not. Love me (15.2009)<\/li>\n<li>The Gramaphone:Jerusalem! Open your gates and sing Hosanna(15.2171-3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode featured an unusual format, in that it resembled a play, with each character&#8217;s speech being preceded by their name. This different formatting allowed for inanimate objects to have a &#8220;voice&#8221; as well, which was particularly interesting to my obsession of the unspoken, as these inanimate objects truly cannot speak. Other than\u00a0the moment\u00a0where Stephen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}