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.
>Has anyone else read it?
doubt it
There are some chapters which are straight forward and some I did not understand at all.
I love the chapters about masturbating on the beach, the musical waitresses and the surprisingly fun funeral for example. Even though I've read it almost ten years ago those still stuck with me.