In a message dated 06/27/2000 12:55:24 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << 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... s >> I'll agree with this observation. "Finnegan's Wake" pushes the prospects of the English language further than anyone else before or since. As snobbish as it sounds, I just tell people that don't like James Joyce or Thomas Pynchon that they just don't get it. This is complex, puzzle-box stuff, but it's hardly pretentious. Loring Wirbel Monument, Colo. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
