Posted on 06/19/2015 7:25:21 AM PDT by Borges
One judge grumbled, “it sounds to me like the ravings of a disordered mind – I can’t see why anyone would want to publish it.”
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British authorities weren’t far behind. Sylvia Beach published Ulysses in Paris in 1922, and when a copy seized at a London airport made its way to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Archibald Bodkin, he declared Molly Bloom’s soliloquy – the only episode he bothered to read – a production of “unmitigated filth and obscenity”. Hundreds of copies of Ulysses were seized and burned as they landed in the UK and the US.
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I read a good part of it years ago before I couldn’t take it any more, it just bored me to tears more than anything, it was like having to listen to Hillary talk for 2 minutes, after a while you just can’t take it any more.
kinda like John Galt’s speech.
I read Finnegan’s Wake twice a year for serenity’s sake.
--from Camp Granada by Allan Sherman
Man, that is bad thanks for the warning.
I tried, but I swear you could have cut the pages out, shuffled them like cards and it would not have been more incomprehensible.
It wasn’t for me, either. To me, Joyce’s writing is like David Lynch movies or Andy Kaufman comedy: You either thing it’s brilliant or you hate it.
What’s wrong with sentences like this?
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
HA! Did the same with Finnegan's Wake - it was my first (and only) attempt at reading JJ - there are so many great classic authors, why would I (or anyone) waste valuable time on Joyce?
Even a lot of Jouyce fans can’t read FW. Read Dubliners or Portrait of the Artist...
My apologies for being too rash with Joyce comments - there are books I think are great that others may just say "meh", but thanks for the FW concurrence....
Nothing, but I’m addressing the work in its entirety.
Don’t read Finnegan’s Wake - that’s the most inaccessible novel of Joyce’s. Start with Portrait of a Young Man. Or The Dead.
David Lynch is a psycho. Period. He is not brilliant and none of his films are.
Eraserhead? He should have been put in a strait jacket and locked in a rubber room after releasing that one upon humanity.
I remember watching a documentary on the genesis of the movie "Dune" and the man who created the whole thing...Alejandro Jodorowsky. It would have been a quite fascinating film if Disney had gone through with the financing.
But it died. However, it was decided that it would be financed and produced if David Lynch directed it.
Alejandro Jodorowsky was crushed. This was his film. He put so much work into it. He had lined up tons of big names to act in it... Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Mick Jagger, Amanda Lear and others for the cast.
But, he believed that David Lynch could pull it off. Yet, he was depressed that it was taken from him.
His sons convinced him to go see the premier of "Dune" with them. Alejandro sat down and watched. And he said, "My demeanor slowly changed. I started to feel good about it. A smile came to my face and soon I was elated. Because, I realized, this film was AWFUL!"
Yep, not only was it redundant, but it repeated itself over and over and over again.
Hillary talking is the cure for insomnia.
Lynch also directed ‘The Elephant Man’. It was made by Mel Brooks’ production company. Brooks saw Eraserhead and said to Lynch ‘You’re a crazy man. You’re hired.’
I agree. I made myself read it. A mistake.
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