so strange... i was searching 'gold' and came across this phrase inverted as one of Leopold's musings. then i realized a version of this phrase — gold by bronze, or bronze by gold — recurs throughout the novel.

https://www.marist.edu/-/mindset-list-20-2

https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000781769

National Library of Ireland has digitised a first edition copy of Ulysses (Alan Clodd copy, number 120)

This seems a bit analogous to Peggy McIntosh's Backpack of White Privilege I was looking at yesterday.

cf. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack' and 'Some Notes for Facilitators' | National SEED Project

It's interesting to me that there is a gray area surrounding Joyce as a postcolonial writer, in comparison to more traditional postcolonial authors, like Salman Rushdie or post-colonial theorist, Frantz Fanon.

I was curious about this line, so I did a little searching and I found this particularly interesting, since Cixous did her dissertation on Joyce:

The episode both begins and ends with "yes," a word that Joyce described as "the female word" and that he said indicated "acquiescence, self-abandon, relaxation, the end of all resistance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Bloom#Soliloquy

Chiasmus, cf. Portrait bird girl, "soft and slight, slight and soft."

Chiasmus, cf. "The Dead" "falling faintly through the Universe and faintly falling."

Places named in the Joyce's story "Two Gallants" are charted sequentially and visualised in the StoryMap presentation at this location.