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James Joyce.
Hmm. "Higgledy-piggledy" is pronounced non-sequiturily in the Old High Martian. I s'pose scare-quote unreadable un-scare-quote means many things to many folks. To me, for what it's worth, I find Dean Koontz, Karl Marx, Sir Philip Sydney, and Dan Brown unreadable. Joyce didn't write many books, and of those he did most are what I would call quote-unquote readable. Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are no more difficult to read than Ford Maddox Ford's Good Soldier or J R R Tolkien's The Hobbit. Ulysses is perhaps a bit more of an effort, but it is certainly no more difficult than Shakespeare or the King James version of the Bible. Then, here comes Finnegans Wake: it is this book on which Joyce's famous unreadability rests. As some have said here it is a difficult book, but as others have suggested it is a fun book. I find it a whole lot of fun. More fun than say Stephen King or Lynne Truss. Now, on to musick, or but do I digress? Charles Ives Fourth Symphony; John Oswald Pretender; George Antheil Ballet Mecanique; The Evolution Control Committee Rocked By Rape; Erling Wold The Bed You Sleep In; Spike Jones The Fuehrer's Face; Al Yankovic Another One Rides the Bus; W A Mozart Dies Irae; etc. And let's keep the salamanders out of the ashes ... as duteous to the vices of thy mistress As badness would desire ... in? ...
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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>>readable<<
Joyce is an effort, at least Ulysees on.
The young Karl Marx is annoyingly, well, young, but the mature Marx is perectly lucid.
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One Mann's Gift ist an autre homme's poisson. Chaque goût a son opposé.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Quote:
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One Mann's Gift ist an autre homme's poisson. Chaque goût a son opposé.
Genau á point.
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>>readable<<
but the mature Marx is perectly lucid.
I honestly read this as being about me. Were it not for the presence of an adjective that does not apply to me, I would not have re-read it and learned that my non-rhoticism is apparently spreading.
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But you *do somtimes perr
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I am certain of nothing, but I imagine he does. Let's ask his wife. ;-)
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Oh my!
I leave for a minute and you folks start acting like a group of jive school bopsters shucking and jiving and just having a grand old time while gleefully disrupting this worthwhile discussion about Mister James Joyce.
Geez. You yourselves are personification of the writing style of the latter day Joyce as is exemplified by your disjointed and egocentric behavior.
Hmm. I guess I'd better ask some confining questions as you all seem to be incapable of focusing for more than a nano-minute on James Joyce.
(1) To whom was Joyce writing "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake" ?
(2) Why?
(3) What is a novel and what is a puzzle and what form of writing would constitute a convergence of the two?
(4) Does any one man on God's green Earth completely understand "Finnegans Wake"?
(5) If not, why not?
(6) Should Andy Warhol and James Joyce be mentioned in the same breath?
(7) Why does a global cottage industry exist with the sole purpose of interperting meanings in Joyce's books?
(8) Explain any insights into life that you have gotten from reading James Joyce. Hmm?
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Saying "Whittle your whiskey around like blazes,
Whittle your whiskey?
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