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#151605 12/06/05 11:24 PM
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Hmm, I guess Homo is gone. Too bad, he seemed to be the only combatant here who could swing a good low blow except for Maverick. But no matter, let's talk about James Joyce.

My contention is that James Joyce is a joke; a magnificent joke on the English speaking people, and you who argue that James Joyce literary style serves as a portent of things to come are you yourselves a portent of human literary degeneration.

Of course I mean no offence, but excuse me boys, while I slowly stir the campfire with my penis.

#151606 12/07/05 12:57 AM
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Joyce, schmoyce. I just don't have time for someone who wants to make immortal by being "clever".

maybe someday, but not now.


hope you're wearing an asbestos condom, milo.


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#151607 12/07/05 02:22 AM
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My contention is that James Joyce is a joke; a magnificent joke on the English speaking people, and you who argue that James Joyce literary style serves as a portent of things to come are you yourselves a portent of human literary degeneration.




Read this first, then comment.

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what kind of music do you like?


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Track List

''There Is A Flower That Bloometh' by John McCormack
'A Nation Once Again' by Thomas Davis
'Bloom is on the Rye' by Sir H. R. Bishop
'In Old Madrid' H. Trotère
'La ci darem la mano' Mozart
'Love's Old Sweet Song' J. L. Molloy
'M'àppari' from 'Martha'' by F. Flotow
'Madamina' from 'Don Giovanni' Mozart
'Oh, Oh, Antonio' Sung by Florrie Ford
'Spinning Chorus' R. Wagner
'The Boys of Wexford' Traditional
'The Croppy Boy' Traditional
'The Shade of the Palm' by L. Stuart
The Holy City (Jerusalem) by S. Adams
Tutto è sciolto (All is Lost) from Bellini's ‘La Sonnambula’

Album Musical Allusions In Ulysses


#151610 12/07/05 10:17 AM
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huh.

figured you'd be into Xenakis, or Schoenberg, or some such music.


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Yes etaion, but you digress instead address...James Joyce.

But I'll sing you a song about James Joyce, Homo Loquens, and I'll sing it when I get back from town.

Later Dude.

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Re. music

Bedad he revives, see how he rises, Timothy rising from the bed
Saying "Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?"

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake


... a right craic is that one.

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huh




Yes, I was just parrying your attempted diversion. But a change of subject is due, and I much prefer threads which are not about contemning Homo Loquens.

Lately I am getting a galvanic skin response from Bach (the Erbarme dich aria from the Matthäuspassion sits at the top of my iTunes playcount). Brian Eno's ambient soundscapes are condusive to lucubration. Steve Reich for his phase music permutations (but not Philip Glass). Johannes Chrysostomos Theophilus or is it Gotlieb somethingorother. The Andantino from his Piano Concerto No. 9 in E Flat Major is beyond praise. The Way I Am by Eminem. The winding fractal gyres of Bach's fugues and cello suites. Leonard Cohen. Radiohead. And since I was a child I have liked that song "Let's Get Physical" by Olivia Newton John.

What about you?

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> attempted diversion

sorry, just conversing.

> What about you?

I'll start a new thread.


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