Joyce set Ulysses in Dublin. The River Liffey runs right through its guts. It is his symbol for life’s “riverrun” (that’s the first word of Finnegans Wake). I set Telemachus in Sydney. I could have chosen our famous harbour or beaches as my life symbol. But […]
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“the son must repeat the journey of the father.” This is the most important statement in Telemachus. The subscripted son. The superscripted (and emboldened) Father. Confronting this trope is the challenge for both Tom Hallem and Billy Capri. I got Jess Cox of Quick Fox Editing […]
TMAC is really long. But you don’t have to read it from start to finish. It’s designed so you can jump into it anywhere you like on the free PDFs or HTMLs. Also, you can search with keywords and surf the text. This type of non-chronological […]
TMAC is shorthand for the full title of this work. It started as a convenient abbreviation when I was drafting. Then I found that sometimes the rhythm of the text worked better using ‘TMAC,’ rather than the full title. So, I started to do it as […]
The title, Telemachus, should be pronunced fast. Phonetically, it goes something like this: “Tell-em-eck-us.” At least, that’s how it sounds on YouTube. For a long time, I pronounced it all wrong as “Telly-marcus.” It slid sluggishly from the back of my palate with typically Australian nasal inflections […]