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You're Ulysses!
by James Joyce
Most people are convinced that you don't make any sense, but compared
to what else you could say, what you're saying now makes tons of sense. What people do
understand about you is your vulgarity, which has convinced people that you are at once
brilliant and repugnant. Meanwhile you are content to wander around aimlessly, taking in
the sights and sounds of the city. What you see is vast, almost limitless, and brings you
additional fame. When no one is looking, you dream of being a Greek folk hero.
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My ENG 3K professor was a Joyce expert. Imagine taking a class from a Joyce expert.... Yeah, it was pretty much exactly like that. Impenetrable, with moments of delight. He did a whole week on Wuthering Heights as Britain's first novel of espionage. He made us read what he felt were the crappy Shakespeare plays, because he said we'd have millions of chances to read the ones that everybody liked. He was frightening, and very British. He made us write a paper every week and told us that if by the end of the semester writing papers was still at all frightening for us in any way, we might want to consider new majors.
I never really got Joyce -- or Nabokov, who was this professor's other favorite writer. However, I do make tons of sense compared to some of the stuff I don't say, it's true! And I am quite aimless.