AuntyRinum
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How many here have finished it?
My experience, as well. Supposedly the finest book written during the twentieth century.I tried, lord knows I tried. Well written drivel and enough surplus words to drown a thousand innocent souls. Having got about a third of the way through I still have no idea what the book was about - or perhaps I just wiped away the traumatic memories.
How many here have finished it?
Thanks,might have another go,if I can find a copyI see Ulysses has reared its head again.............
I came across a guide like this and found it useful in understanding the discontinuities and thought chasms between the various episodes.
If I can find the one I used I will post on here
Thus endeth the lesson!
- Episode 1: Normal novel.
- Episode 2: An informal catechism.
- Episode 3: Elitist masculine monologue.
- Episode 4: Poking fun at great historic heroes.
- Episode 5: The hypnotic nature of religion.
- Episode 6: Death.
- Episode 7: Making fun of journalism (it's written like a newspaper; pay attention to the headlines).
- Episode 8: Food puns, everything can be eaten and everything eats in this chapter.
- Episode 9: Making fun of Hamlet and elitists who debate over obscure pieces of literature (in particular making fun of certain scholars who would later analyze Ulysses).
- Episode 10: This chapter has nothing to do with the main characters. It is instead presented as a series of short stories surrounding the side characters. The humor is that it is in fact largely pointless and that most of the side characters make fun of the main characters.
- Episode 11: Everything is a music pun. A lot of onomatopoeia is used.
- Episode 12: There are two narrators: one is hyper-colloquial to the point of not making sense and one is hyper-scientific to the point of not making sense. The competition between the narrators produces the comedy.
- Episode 13: Narrated by a young girl and everything is a sex joke.
- Episode 14: An elaborate parody of all the great English authors.
- Episode 15: Written as a hallucinatory play in a red-light district.
- Episode 16: This chapter is very ambiguous and the comedy comes from mistaking characters for other characters.
- Episode 17: Written as a catechism, the comedy comes from the hyper-scientific question and answer format being applied to the mundane.
- Episode 18: Streaming consciousness of Bloom's wife.
I have it on audio book and thought I could do it the easy way.... But I kept stopping it every thirty second and googling for more info... I will just let it wash over me one day!I see Ulysses has reared its head again.............
I came across a guide like this and found it useful in understanding the discontinuities and thought chasms between the various episodes.
If I can find the one I used I will post on here
Thus endeth the lesson!
- Episode 1: Normal novel.
- Episode 2: An informal catechism.
- Episode 3: Elitist masculine monologue.
- Episode 4: Poking fun at great historic heroes.
- Episode 5: The hypnotic nature of religion.
- Episode 6: Death.
- Episode 7: Making fun of journalism (it's written like a newspaper; pay attention to the headlines).
- Episode 8: Food puns, everything can be eaten and everything eats in this chapter.
- Episode 9: Making fun of Hamlet and elitists who debate over obscure pieces of literature (in particular making fun of certain scholars who would later analyze Ulysses).
- Episode 10: This chapter has nothing to do with the main characters. It is instead presented as a series of short stories surrounding the side characters. The humor is that it is in fact largely pointless and that most of the side characters make fun of the main characters.
- Episode 11: Everything is a music pun. A lot of onomatopoeia is used.
- Episode 12: There are two narrators: one is hyper-colloquial to the point of not making sense and one is hyper-scientific to the point of not making sense. The competition between the narrators produces the comedy.
- Episode 13: Narrated by a young girl and everything is a sex joke.
- Episode 14: An elaborate parody of all the great English authors.
- Episode 15: Written as a hallucinatory play in a red-light district.
- Episode 16: This chapter is very ambiguous and the comedy comes from mistaking characters for other characters.
- Episode 17: Written as a catechism, the comedy comes from the hyper-scientific question and answer format being applied to the mundane.
- Episode 18: Streaming consciousness of Bloom's wife.
as in " the tales of brave ", seem to remember in the long and distant path reading some of it , but dont think i ever finished it .How many here have finished it?
From April 2018. I thought we'd moved on. Déjà Vu .I see Ulysses has reared its head again..............
No thanks.Hey...............you started this...................
A week or so of sleepless nights will do it.