"narvis & ...pez" wrote:
> i never forget the chapter of ulysses
> called circe's episode
> this is the best antinationalist text
> i've ever read
>
> At 08:51 pm -0400 12/9/00, meryl wrote:
> >Wait a minute now! I've read both Finnegan's Wake and Ulysses. In fact
> >I've read Ulysses several times, it's one of my top 5 favorite books. I
> >don't believe that the nice boys and girls on this list haven't gotten past
> >Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist in their explorations of Joyce
I also have read Ulysses many times, it's very far from boring, a lovely heap of
words, cunningly made. Various parts have been my favorite at different times,
for some reason now bits from Nighttown keep recurring to me.
Finnegans is something that's harder to read straight through, but it's not
really made for that. It's a text for arrogant readers, people who can manage not
to obey the rules of order, who can cut and reverse and drop out and choose bit
after piece after bit. It was written, after all, by such a one. A text for use.
AK
