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> sweeping reviews of the preeminent English-language author of the 20th century
That's half the problem, belli - I won't speak for TEd since he can more than adequately convey his own ideas, which you clearly mistake here since he starts by saying "I THINK..." For my part, I have read every published word Joyce has written, enjoyed much of it, and studied him for English Literature as a specialist subject. I was perfectly happy to discuss the minutiae of some of Joyce’s language coinings, insofar as it lay within my capacity or interest. But I have come to a point in my life where I don't choose to try and bloviate on the topic in the kind of lit-crit detail the subject demands since this is a generalist language board. What pisses me off completely is to be told that I am "stupid" or (weasely lawyerly term) "look stupid” simply because I have come to a different view to someone who loves the sound of their own voice above any notional enquiry into language.
I do also note that you simply assert the rank of Joyce; assertion doesn’t make something true.
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Please excuse my mantling, (is that the term?), but if it's a routine of trash talking you're after HL, go from this thread and from the board entirely, and find it elsewhere. That's my vote. This is my third rewrite, and nicer than I annaw be.
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Father Steve suggested...
"Why not use the new, improved "vote-a-lator" feature in this board to conduct an informal poll?"
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Great idea, Father! Somebody go set up the new "vote-a-lator"!
See...first we vote Homo off because he is a smart aleck...and then we'll vote Maverick off because he is just too damn smart...and then we'll vote Annastrophic off because she is...you know,whatever.
Get it?
See, we vote everyone off the Awad board one-by-one until there is only one poster left here to post.
O boy o boy, this is gonna be fun, what we'll do is...mmm?
Wait! Wait just a cotton picking minute! What if I'm the last man standing because everyone else here has put me on their "ignore list"?
How would I know that I had won? Huh?
Forget that!
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>he starts by saying "I THINK..."
That's fine .. okay, it IS opinion, it might be mistaken for something else though<g>. I for one find it a shame that someone as well schooled in Joyce as yourself and others here choose to only speak irreverently of him - even if it is somewhat in jest. Though I do understand this is not the place to pick apart books in detail.
>I do also note that you simply assert the rank of Joyce
Well, that was kind of my point, that he is an odd case ...seemingly out of nowhere (or magically:-) his works became 'modern classics'. Ulysses was practically admitted into the canon upon publication. Are there any other modern authors who have been critically received in this way and have maintained that position to this day?
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Are there any other modern authors who have been critically received in this way and have maintained that position to this day?
Dan Brown?
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Thomas Pynchon? J. D. Salinger?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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if that doesn't change, I think that once again you will not be welcome here.
Well--I guess HL won't be seeing this, but for my own peace of mind I have to say that I don't understand how the above statement could possibly have been interpreted as a "threat". It certainly wasn't meant as one.
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