i too had to devote an entire semester to that one book and i am overjoyed
that i had such an opportunity. if all you can say is that ulysses is
'pretentious bullshit' you obviously didnt understand too much...
someone like james joyce is pretty much above sophmoric adjectives like
'pretentious.' he can and could do whatever the fuck he wanted...it was
all brilliant.
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> No, fuck Ulysses because i had to devote a whole semester solely to that book
> as a requirement for my English minor. It's a bunch of pretentious bullshit.
> Go read some Marlowe or Eliot. Hell, read some Goethe or Moliere, they're all
> better than James Joyce.
>
> -matt
>
> In a message dated 6/26/00 1:31:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> <<
> "fuck ulysses, most likely because it confused me and just asked me to read
> too much", like, my, i didn't really appreciate ulysses, but i thought that
> d.f. wallace's the infinite jest was really good, or "i really like
> bunnicula
> and the celery stalks at midnight")
> >>
>
