But thanks for your opinion of my intelligence.

Ignorance refers to what you don't know. Not your capacity for thinking.

And somebody can stand in front of a Kandinsky and say, "My kid could paint that" and it's still an ignorant comment.

Know-nothingism is bullshit, and I'm not sorry to call it out.

Know-nothingism is bullshit, and I'm not sorry to call it not.

So you're extrapolating from my dislike of one author that I have no regard for literature that's considered difficult? You are accusing me of know-nothingism?

I await your apology, sir.

I have no problem with Connie not liking Joyce. Lotsa folks don't like Joyce. And I don't think liking or not liking Joyce is a measure of intellect and hec is bringing an un-needed smackdown. However, saying it is "gibberish" is awfully dismissive of an incredible literary work.

Seriously, David. PLEASE stop this right now.

It's unkind, and you are a very kind man. Please don't do this.

I got to agree with Scrappy on this one.

(or...is there a story of his that's about going to some sort of crowded open-air marketplace?)

A fair or a festival, perhaps? I was thinking of "Araby" when I mentioned Joyce's shorter works. It's a delight to read even if the mood is very somber.

And while "gibberish" is a very blunt way of putting forth an opinion (certainly blunter than Buffistas typically are), not getting a particular writer's experiments with language don't equate to anti-intellectualism.

Gibberish may have been a bit fraught an adjective, and I can see where it would be considered unpleasant to those who enjoy Joyce's prose. I apologize for that.

But for nothing else.

I have to admit that I attempted Ulysses on my own once(because it was a banned book) and I had no idea that it was a Thing that people did for years, sometimes. What I got from it is that I thought there were bits that I thought sounded cool. Is that more or less intellectual than not reading it? I've never attempted Moby Dick, though it's one of David Simon's great favorites. The heft discouraged me a little, I have to admit.

I have to admit that I attempted Ulysses on my own once(because it was a banned book) and I had no idea that it was a Thing that people did for years, sometimes. What I got from it is that I thought there were bits that I thought sounded cool. Is that more or less intellectual than not reading it? I've never attempted Moby Dick, though it's one of David Simon's great favorites. The heft discouraged me a little, I have to admit.

A fair or a festival, perhaps? I was thinking of "Araby" when I mentioned Joyce's shorter works. It's a delight to read even if the mood is very somber.

Yeah, that's the one! I don't recall liking that one or seeing the point of it.