Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on June 16, 2015, 09:45:33 AM
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"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
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"Introibo ad altare Dei ... "come up Kinch, come up you fearful Jesuit."
The memory is going to falter fairly soon :D
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Jung on Ulysses
http://tinyurl.com/oru6mwh
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I admit it!
I am one of the million or so pretentious bastards who has a copy of this book predominantly displayed on the book case...................
But
Has never read it.
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You should!
It'll help no end though if you get the annotated student's edition, the one that doubles the actual book with explanatory notes at the back. Definitely worth it.
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I think there is a knack. I tried it three or four times, looking on it as a novel like any normal one, and then thinking dammit this won't defeat me - but that was the wrong approach for me. Read it like a poem, read it as fast or slow as it feels,don't put pressure on it or you, feel the rhythms and the words. Don't do it as the first Joyce, you read. It isn't a mountain to be climbed, it is a sea to be swum in and a generous application at the right time of Guinness can also be useful. Don't worry about what you are getting out of it,read it when you don't normally read, read it with music but music that keeps you just unrelated, but still at ease.
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Never read Ulysses. Never read any Joyce. But I did see a play based on, I think A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Contains the following wonderful exchange between Stephen and friend (appropriate for this forum):
Stephen: I have lost my faith.
Friend: Does that mean you've become a protestant?
Stephen: I said I've lost my faith, not my self-respect.