I'm reading Ulysees at the moment. Has anyone else read it? What did you think of it?
Yeah it's amazing. Always loved this passage:
What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?
Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising, and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.
Just encountered the word 'squarepusher'. Suppose that's where it comes from. Maybe three pages further I'll read "Boards of Canada"?
Bretty good !
Illiterate mongrel book. The kind of book written by a suburban guy who wins a scholarship and gets liberal arts college pretensions. I find them so annoying. Egotistical. Insistent. Nauseating.
There are some interesting bits between long stretches of immense boredom.
Who here can honestly say they like reading Ulysses? For a novel set in a colonial city, better to read Things Fall Apart. If you need classical references, read The Secret History. Both have actual readable prose.
I think it's interesting in a proof-of-concept way but I will not lie and say that I have finished it or will ever finish it. When I was younger I thought that my inability to fully read through Ulysses or finish it was a mark of poor literacy, but as I grew older and saw that the opinion of it is mixed even from non-plebs I stopped being so insecure over it.