Wednesday, February 12, 2025
7:00 - 9:00 PM

A Joycean sTripture of the TaoChing
Description from Ann Carroll: I had long wanted to memorize the Taoteching in the way ancestral bards had forever memorized their sacred texts. For years, I  read through countless fine translations but they were all far too nice and never captured the richness of the Feminine Spirit or the ever present “vicemversem depth of Unthinkability”. I was also deeply influenced by a modern scholar’s revelation of the Tao as the dark moon and, simultaneously, John Bishop’s Joyce’s Book of the Dark. My question was how could one use Joycean obscurity to capture the yin/yang “himundher” so very alive in the Taoteching ? It would obviously take the “obliterature” of such an abstract, patrifocal language as English to bring out “the dims and deeps”  of that ancient Chinese yin wisdom. And add to that, Joyce’s irreverent conglomeration of double meaning and punmanship revelling in “Her untitled Mamafesta memorializing the Mosthighest”…and you have both a yin wisdom and a vitality worth attempting to memorize. Maybe one day? “Haloed be her Eve!”

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Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
7:00 - 9:00 PM
continuing our reading of the text, starting at 533.15: 
"I introduced her (Frankfurters, numborines, why drive fear?)"

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