I've never read Ulysses. It's one of those things, like eggplant, that people say you're supposed to appreciate, but which I've never been tempted to try.
Connie is me. I was feeling guilty just this morning hearing the NPR hoo-hah.
Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Betsy HP - Jun 16, 2004 6:47:40 am PDT #3271 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Jesse - Jun 16, 2004 6:49:05 am PDT #3272 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Susan, I asked for romance recs here: Jesse "We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good" May 27, 2004 9:52:17 am PDT
Maysa - Jun 16, 2004 6:51:57 am PDT #3273 of 10002
Some Bloomsday humor.
Hayden - Jun 16, 2004 6:55:34 am PDT #3274 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Well, here you go. All y'all non-Ulysses readers can do so, a page at a time, over the next year.
Susan W. - Jun 16, 2004 6:56:34 am PDT #3275 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Thanks, Katie and Jesse. (Though, glancing at melymbrosia's list, she's almost as historical-exclusive as I am.)
Steph L. - Jun 16, 2004 6:56:45 am PDT #3276 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Some Bloomsday humor.
I love this part:
that virus - called Bloomsday - appears to have been developed by an international group specialising in creating literary viruses that try to "show illiterate technophiles the power of the written word."
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2004 6:57:15 am PDT #3277 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Some Bloomsday humor.
Ha! I love it.
"I was really freaked out when I turned on my phone and found this convoluted narrative mess crawling across my screen," said Jack Clemson, a University of Washington student who owns one of the first known infected phones. ""Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed…" I was pretty sure that wasn't my girlfriend texting me about lunch."
I haven't read Ulysses, but I love Portrait of the Artist. And I don't get "Araby."
deborah grabien - Jun 16, 2004 6:58:34 am PDT #3278 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I avoid the Joyce hoopla, but I loved Ulysses, and I loved the short stories. This is an old, old conversation for me; I wasn't aware that American students were made to read him in school. I picked him up on my own while young - 14 or thereabouts - didn't understand a word of it the first time through, but got utterly and completely fucking stoned off the language. I was literally reeling around and giggling. I think I got trhe James Joyce chromosome in place of the Tolkein chromosome.
beth, isn't Hecht great? Masks is next on my list.
Maysa - Jun 16, 2004 6:58:35 am PDT #3279 of 10002
I like this:
"Ulysses may be the zenith of modernist writing in the novel form, but it's barely recognizable as a novel or as any other kind of writing," said Francis Harrod, of the anti-virus software developer F-Secure. "Of course the same can be said of text messaging"
Hayden - Jun 16, 2004 6:59:57 am PDT #3280 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
That was hilarious, Maysa.