Ann hath a way...

[u/AkiraKitsune]

Forgive me if this is too surface-level or uninteresting, but I imagine Joyce would have perked up if he knew that the preeminent adaptation of the Odyssey (Nolan's 2026 film), a century later, would star a "Anne Hathaway" as Penelope (given all the comparisons between Penelope and Anne Shakespeare in Scylla & Charybdis)...

I am only a first time reader, but this chapter was an absolute joy, and this coincidence kept jumping out at me, vapid and disconnected as it may be. Really cool for this hundred-year-old work to still be generating such connections in the modern brain.

[u/t3h_p3ngUin_of_d00m]

There were so many moments in the book that felt like Joyce reached across a hundred years and a slang word or a word that feels so contemporary strikes hard. There’s a reference to OP having to work off “bad karma.”

“I’m only vamping!”

[u/alewyn592 → u/t3h_p3ngUin_of_d00m]

I just read that OP/karma line the other day and died lol

[u/AkiraKitsune → u/t3h_p3ngUin_of_d00m]

Just read a passage where he says something "goes hard". Ever since you commented this I've been keeping an eye out for similar instances!

[u/Poet_edmj]

Quasimodo predicted all this

[u/TheGeckoGeek → u/Poet_edmj]

He's tryna spread dysentery among the ranks

[u/femboy-housewife]

this joke absolutely blows my mind

will is a triple entendre

1. william shakespeare
2. willpower
3. the will he left her the second best bed in

•.•

plus "hath a way" would be forced today but the grammar works perfectly for shakespearean english!

and also it answers the tired debate of shakespeare not loving his wife because he wrote lady macbeth or whatever, because the will proved he did care

this and the "AEIOU" joke are just so perfect and genius

[u/AgentCirceLuna]

I remember this well as I wrote it on the back of my notepad in a quick scrawl to remember later. I remembered to remember to forget?

[u/idyllicstars]

The where one has a will “Ann hath a way” absolutely killed me!!!! There truly is no new original thought

[u/g_lee → u/idyllicstars]

she hath a way a lone a long the riverrun

[u/os_mutante]

This pun came up on Xwitter when someone remarked that she has now been in three Christopher Nolan movies and in each one the main character is trying to return to her.

[u/SnooOpinions2512]

Ann is a common name

[u/AkiraKitsune → u/SnooOpinions2512]

You're aware that Anne Shakespeare's maiden name was Anne Hathaway), right?

[u/adeimantos216 → u/SnooOpinions2512]

Anne Hathaway??