Joyce and Kafka are the only two authors I have ever found that give me a really, really hard time. That is what makes them fun to read.

But evil to analyse for class...

Doing Patrick Kavanagh now, which may just induce me to throw things...

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'I'm insane. What's his excuse?'

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I think it would be so great to have a class on it, like what you're doing. Half to three-quarters of this book is just going *whoosh!* RIGHT over my head. But it's ok. I like it. My current signature is a line from early on in the book.

Page 783, here I come...

Jeff
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Yeah, it is quite nice. I am almost in "circe" now too You could always join a Joyce summerschool i mean if you really like him... or NOT

Many quotable lines in Ulysses, my signature too

"a voiceless song sang from within singing"

All right, I'm just a few pages away from the final chapter, "Penelope." I see that it's an unbroken string of text (i.e., no paragraph breaks), and it goes on for nearly 50 pages.

Yer not making it easy for me, Jim...but I won't let you beat me.

Jeff
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find "circe" quite odd...(where he 'meets' Mrs Breen)... ah well...

"a voiceless song sang from within singing"

I finished Dubliners today. It is great throughout, and I agree with most people that "The Dead" if definitely the gem of the stories.

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Joyce and Kafka are the only two authors I have ever found that give me a really, _really_ hard time. That is what makes them fun to read.

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Have you read Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury? Thankfully, I had Irving Howe's help w/ that, or I'd have been up a creek... (Two different "Caddies", in two different time frames...thanks a bunch, Bill.)

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I finished Dubliners today. It is great throughout, and I agree with most people that "The Dead" if definitely the gem of the stories.

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wasn't the dead some kind of 'summary'-story... like that all the other stories and their thoughts would be captured in that single story? under forgetful snow...

"a voiceless song sang from within singing"

*does a happy dance*

And as daunting as the final chapter was, I found that if I forced myself to read it slowly it wasn't so bad. After so much talk about Molly through the course of the book it was nice to finally get her thoughts, her side of things. She's crude, very graphic, but ultimately someone you can't help but feel for. She's not a slut, just lonely and starved for affection.

I can honestly say that I enjoyed this book. And I feel so good for having finished it.

Jeff
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I made a little trip to Books-a-Million yesterday. I almost bought "Ulysses" - but I do not think I could stand another Joyce book for a while. Dubliners was too taxing on the mind.

So I bought "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs.

My goal in life for the past three years had been to read *AND* understand Finnegan's Wake. I haven't gotten past the first chapter.

Has anyone here read it all the way through? I have one of those 'keys to understanding FW', but I'm still feeling way over my head with this.


Has anyone read "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates" by Tom Robbins? There's this bit where he's in this secret society who's focus is FW. Thus far the group hasn't gotten past the first or third sentance. I feel like that. A lot.


Amy

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After Ulysses I put Finnegan's Wake on my "attempt to read someday" list.

Jeff
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we are gonna do six pages in class next week.

I am really curious.

"a voiceless song sang from within singing"

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we are gonna do six pages in class next week.

I am really curious.

"a voiceless song sang from within singing"

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If you get a chance, I'd really like to know how it goes over, both with you and your class.

Jeff
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never got through Finnegans Wake, plan to do so someday. although every time i pick it up and randomly read a few pages, i burst into simultaneous fits of delighted laughter and paroxysms of frustration.

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i think it was designed to do that...

I don't think we ought to take Joyce too seriously

"a voiceless song sang from within singing"

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I'd really like to know how it goes over
Jeff
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goes over?!? Could you explain that to my stupid Dutch brain? please

"a voiceless song sang from within singing"

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I'd really like to know how it goes over
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goes over?!? Could you explain that to my stupid Dutch brain? please

"a voiceless song sang from within singing"

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Out of curiosity, Miss Alabama, will you be reading Finnegan's Wake in English or in Dutch? I'm slightly, er, *petrified* with the thought of having to translate it....


Amy of Doom



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[This message was edited by aitapata on November 22, 2002 at 01:18 PM.]

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Out of curiosity, Miss Alabama, will you be reading Finnegan's Wake in English or in Dutch?

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In English, but only 6 pages anyway. I think three from the beginning and 3 from the end, or something (we got copies). But if i like it enough, i might go for the whole book?

"a voiceless song sang from within singing"

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goes over?!? Could you explain that to my stupid Dutch brain? please

"a voiceless song sang from within singing"

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Oops, when I say "goes over" I mean how people react to it, what they have to say about it.

Jeff
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