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iishmael · 10 months ago

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I genuinely think I’m the exact target audience for James Joyce’s Ulysses. I love modernist literature, I am a snob, I love beautiful and complex language, I don’t mind rereading a difficult chapter, I know Dublin intimately, I love stories about the complexity of the human condition, I love Greek mythology references, I think theology and literature are fascinating topics to be investigated in lengthy prose, I love character studies, I am well-enough versed in Irish and European history to understand a good amount of the period-typical references. I fucking love this book so much.

#I’m 25% done #James Joyce #Ulysses #James Joyce Ulysses #they’re currently in the national library having a discussion lmao #not my favourite chapter but that’s ok the book is long enough that I don’t have to adore every single page 😂#also Buck Mulligan gets on my nerves. is that jsut me? is he meant to be an annoying twat???#I think the next chapter is going to be my favourite omg #also Stephen is baby like Bloom is such an interesting character and he has fucking ISSUES but I adore Stephen he’s #man Stephen’s inner voice is literally the best thing ever written #ok it’s 1.30am I need to go to sleeeeep #shut up Sam #Sam reads

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