Happy Bloomsday!

Jun 16, 2009 17:48

And none so happy as James me, having finally finished Ulysses. And actually enjoyed it ( Read more... )

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_lyra_b June 16 2009, 23:05:31 UTC
I'd like to say I'll read it again but I probably won't. How could I have enjoyed "A Portrait...." so much and disliked 'Ulysses'? Maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind.

Oh, Mr. Joyce, you have such a way with words, though. In a way he reminds me very much of Salman Rushdie: it doesn't really matter what the book is about, you just want to keep reading for the sheer joy of his ability to write.

More Irish than the Irish
Of course he was talking about you.
:)

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rickysbaby June 16 2009, 23:08:17 UTC
Of course he was talking about you.
Ahh, gowan! :D

There are a number of those quotes up there which made me think immediately of you and of things we have discussed. Betcha can guess which ones. ;)

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_lyra_b June 16 2009, 23:41:00 UTC
"Love me, love my dirty shirt"? No wait, "You're too beastly awfully weird for words!" (talkin' of myself, of course).
;)

"No later undoing will undo the first undoing"?
One reason why I can't rid myself of AC. Although I think I almost did. More on this later.

Too many to count.
::hugs::

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