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Misreading Ulysses
The Paris Review ^
| 12/7/22
| Sally Rooney
Posted on 12/09/2022 2:12:50 PM PST by Borges
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:12:50 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
I agree that it is unreadable. How many other classics are also that way? Zemyaitin “We” ?
To: robowombat
It’s wonderful. One of my favorite books in the world.
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:24:04 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
Did Eliot keep or change his opinion after he became a Christian?
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:25:07 PM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: Borges
I waded through all but the last 80 or so pages of that crap in a summer univ course in 1968.
Never went back to finish it and never will.
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:27:55 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: chajin
He was always a Christian. What bearing would that have?
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:31:47 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
… a novel already broadly disparaged as immoral, obscene, formless, and chaotic. I can confirm the “formless and chaotic” and would add “unreadable”. I didn’t get far enough into it to comment on the “immoral, obscene”.
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:32:17 PM PST
by
InterceptPoint
(Ted, you finally endorsed.)
To: InterceptPoint
It’s fascinating how people react so differently. I found it hilarious and very moving.
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:36:20 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
It’s wonderful. One of my favorite books in the world.
+++++
Well it’s not going to get a lot of positive votes here at good old FR. What is the attraction for you? Or was that sarcasm?
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:36:27 PM PST
by
InterceptPoint
(Ted, you finally endorsed.)
To: InterceptPoint
I’m not sure why that would be a distinction. There are a number of big fans here that I recall. The attraction is how teeming with life it is. How many different human experiences are dissected. And the sheer grandeur of it.
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:37:45 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:37:47 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Has Biden had dinner with an "anti-evangelical"? Will Schumer condemn him if he has?)
To: robowombat
Zemyaitin “We” ?
"We" was an easy book, and unusually short for a famous Russian work. I knocked it off in my spare time in 9th grade. The COVID shots reminded me of the end. I would hate to think what the STD situation was there.
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:39:12 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
To: robowombat
I agree that it is unreadable.
I found "Moby Dick" unreadable, B-O-R-I-N-G.
Also, anything by Stoppard.
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:41:20 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
To: Borges
It’s not that good. All hype. The Citizen Kane of books.
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:47:26 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
To: Borges
I also was forced to read Ulysses in a college literature 101 class. In order to read the epic novel, one must first be prepared to be extremely bored (think about what it’s like to sit in a prison cell with nothing to do for a month).
One grateful event the class did do for me was to introduce me to a true masterpiece called Trinity by Leon Uris. If you ever want to know the real Ireland at it’s core, read Trinity.
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:50:02 PM PST
by
Flavious_Maximus
(Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
To: DesertRhino
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:50:07 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Borges
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:50:33 PM PST
by
freefdny
To: Borges
I need to read it. I love James Joyce’s works. Spent a wee in Dublin studying literature Didn’t get to Ulysses. Our instructor recommended it.
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:50:45 PM PST
by
stanne
To: Borges
I read about 2/3 of this the other day. Thanks for reminding me to finish it.
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:51:30 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Dr. Sivana
Even “Shakespeare in Love”
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posted on
12/09/2022 2:52:10 PM PST
by
Borges
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