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Nearly Sane

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"The strange case of the missing Joyce scholar'
« on: June 13, 2018, 01:38:18 PM »
A little early for Bloomsday but this is too good a piece not to share now.


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/magazine/the-strange-case-of-the-missing-joyce-scholar.html
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Steve H

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Re: "The strange case of the missing Joyce scholar'
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2018, 11:24:53 PM »
Joyce's early stuff was good, but I gave up on 'Ulysses' about 100 pages in, and I've no intention of ever tackling 'Finnegan's Wake'.
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Re: "The strange case of the missing Joyce scholar'
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2018, 08:36:37 PM »
Quote from: Steve H on June 13, 2018, 11:24:53 PM
Joyce's early stuff was good, but I gave up on 'Ulysses' about 100 pages in,

I loved the Trojan wars meself!  ;)

 
Quote from: Steve H on June 13, 2018, 11:24:53 PM
and I've no intention of ever tackling 'Finnegan's Wake'.

Try reading it upside down.
(Rushdie is easier.)
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Re: "The strange case of the missing Joyce scholar'
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2018, 11:28:46 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on June 14, 2018, 08:36:37 PM
I loved the Trojan wars meself!  ;)

 

I gave up on Chapman's Homer as well, but I may give that another go one day.
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I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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