a well known quote -- it's the on fourth page of Joyce's masterpiece, as I trow
all Friamers must know. I loved the "bestbeloved bestbook bash", and was
amazed that Ulysses headed the list. It is indeed great literature, or so they
say, but how does an ordinary yobbo read it? I was educated in the tongue
that Shakespeare spake, where he did, in fact, and always thought, with
youthful snobbery, I would gain something from this monumental tome. I had a
special interest in that my great uncle, a Dubliner, had known the real Buck
Mulligan personally, ("but not Mr. Joyce", as he respectfully qualified) and
so in grad school I took a course on the book. Formidable, but overwhelming!
I understand it a leetle now, thanks to the patient tutoring of Hallett Smith (
he wrote the definitive stuff on the S onnets), but really not very profoundly.
I truly can't believe anyone, even a Friamer, could pick up the volume cold and
derive anything from it.
Am I alone in my ignorance?
Peter Lissaman, Da Vinci Ventures
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