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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“Dune” was maybe the most sleep-inducing flick I ever had to misfortune to stay awake through. The image of Sting riding the big worm still sticks in my mind.
If you think that one’s bad try “Finnegans Wake” Its complete gibberish. Joyce was drunk most of the time and almost blind. I still don’t know how “Finnegan’s Wake” ever got published.
Ah...now it makes sense. I never understood the opening sequence of that film. John Merrick's affliction had nothing to do with elephants. Yet, the opening sequence depicted Merrick's mother being...is 'molested' the right word?...attacked by an elephant.
But you say David Lynch and it all makes sense now.
You mean Sting or Kyle McLachlan as Paul? I don't recall Feyd Rautha on a sand worm in that flick.
“Hundreds of copies of Ulysses were seized and burned as they landed in the UK and the US.”
Ugh. Book burners. >:(
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