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.”
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!"