What does he mean?

I've been away from this blog for several months. First, my Irish Studies course took up my life for 8 weeks--was amazingly academic and rigorous, but I got me A and I actually learned quite a bit. Then I got distracted by Maria Edgeworth and wondered why Jane Austen is so famous both in pop culture and in academic culture, so I started reading all of Jane's books, collecting articles about Maria Edgeworth (which are only academic), collecting academic and pop articles about Jane Austen and finished reading nearly all of Maria's stories. Now I'm really curious as to why Jane and not Maria is a mainstay of our pop culture. Maria (a contemporary of Jane) was very famous during the beginning of the 19th century and her National Biography entries far out-weighed Jane's. Then something happened at the turn of the 19th century and the trend reversed. Stay tuned to find out why--I'm still looking myself.

I gave up on Ulysses during those months. I felt that I simply do not have enough hours left in my life to complete this book. The third section is a bear to read. I'm plowing through it but geez, why make it so hard. (Because James Joyce was Irish and he knew he could confuse everyone and they'd spend a century decifering his gobbledegook.) Here is what he means in the Proteus (3) section (1st page):

Ineluctable modality: impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"; "an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident." and Theology? Church teaching? I'm too stupid to get it.

maestro di color che sanno: Dante on Aristotle: "the master of the men who know."
Diaphane--transparent silk--or cells? Which one. Stephen sees color in them. Can he go through them?
adiaphane--The opposite--he tries to "shut his eyes and see" as he walks--through a door, a gate? A very short space of time through very short times of space (great phrase)
nacheinander/nebeneinander: "one after another/successively”; “next to one another/adjacent.”
Los Demiurgos: Beats me--Los could be an article for Demiurgos; or it could refer to Blakes poetry, or just a pun to make us all look stupid for looking it up. All I know is that Demiurge refers to a diety.
Sandymount--ahhhh--a beachy strand on Dublin Bay--I've been there!
am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strang? Crush, crack, crick, crick. Wild sea money. Dominie Deasy kens them... The teacher from the second section...knows all the wild sea shells that might bring money.
catalectic tetrameter of iambs--works for me.
And that is just the first page!!

Can I continue reading? Maybe I'll try--After my own walk along the streets of suburan Colorado; no crush, crack or crick, crick. Just a silent walk, clean sidewalks, no wind, eyes open, past budding tulips, blue sky and happy thoughts of motherhood--no trailing navelcord, hushed in ruggy wool. The cords of all link back, strandentwining cable of all flesh.
Okay, all you Joyce scholars--admit you were clueless until you looked this all up phrase by phrase over the early years of your career....

Saw Flogging Molly last night...fun, fun, fun.