Zoe ,'War Stories'
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And, oh, you really ought to read "The Dead". It isn't obscure at all, I don't think. It's a little experimental but only in the most meta and formal stylistic of ways.
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" has some interesting stylistic things going on, but isn't exactly what I'd call "opaque," either.
I have the dilletante's knowledge of literature. I'm familiar with the really identifiable lines from a lot of works--plus, I have a lovely dictionary of quotations that lets me look well-read while not making me have to take time from scanning for Xander/Spike slash.
I accept the challenge to actually read something by James Joyce. I need to go back to the library anyway, since I've finished "The Princess Diaries" again. Hey, she likes Buffy, she can't be all bad.
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It's OK, Lizard, I'll keep my disappointing tastes in popular literature far away.
Oh, also, poemity.
I accept the challenge to actually read something by James Joyce.
Just pick up The Dubliners and read "The Dead." It's a masterpiece and there's nothing stunt-like or attention-getting in his writing there. Except for its exceptional beauty.
I have read Joyce before...and kind of get high off the sound.(Except for Portrait..., which I read in hs and killed my buzz.) But the understanding, NSM. Literary Accent-Oost?
A 'go team me' bulletin: 9 pages written yesterday. 53 pages total for this month, which is a blazing fast pace for me. Yesterday I also read through about a hundred pages of old prose of another linked story to this one and actually kind of liked it.
Hey, I'm impressed! Go Theo.
Nine in one day! Wow!