Trying to run downt Joyce is so very silly. He is one of the most important writers of the modernist movement. Even the dictionary will tell you that. And unlike the hack blurb-authors of dust-jacket hyperbole, lexicographers don't throw superlatives at writers willy-nilly.

At the risk of offending some of you, I have to say that you are only making yourselves look stupid.

Now who was it said "it is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt" ?