The stream-of-consciousness run-on sentences wind "like a tapeworm", to use Jung's analogy. He makes references to lots of obscure ideas from the Middle Ages, eastern religions and engages in word-play where you won't get it if you don't know Latin or Greek. Wait, I already said pretentious. Never mind.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Carl Jung's thoughts on Ulysses by James Joyce
- 13/09/2011 04:28:21 PM
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As far as I can tell, the main reason to read it is so you can say
- 13/09/2011 05:38:17 PM
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The length has nothing to do with it
- 13/09/2011 05:57:27 PM
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Re: The length has nothing to do with it
- 13/09/2011 08:22:36 PM
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I tried the beginning of it once
- 14/09/2011 02:31:16 AM
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If you don't like it at about 75-100 pages in, you just won't like it. *NM*
- 15/09/2011 04:30:27 AM
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Never read it, never plan to.
- 14/09/2011 11:45:51 PM
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Pretentious, unappealing and difficult to read.
- 15/09/2011 04:25:05 AM
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was enough to stop me reading more Joyce.
- 15/09/2011 07:59:22 AM
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It was precisely because I liked A Portrait of the Artist that I tried Ulysses.
- 15/09/2011 03:46:31 PM
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Actually this is one of the few things I've disagreed with Jung on.
- 21/09/2011 12:23:34 AM
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