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    riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to
Howth Castle and Environs.

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[substitute.livejournal.com]

And a happy Bloomsday to you too, Molly!

[miss-education.livejournal.com]

Lol, I so didn't make it that far into the book. It's the kind of book I'd rather just open up and read at random - straight through is a little painful.

I wonder if any place teaches a class on it - although deconstructing it takes a bit of the fun out of it for me.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Ulysses is hard but doable. Finnegans Wake is...a mountain. I did read it through but only because I wasn't taking a class on it and could just kind of float through and love the language. I figure I got about 0.001% of the references. It makes Foucault's Pendulum feel like journalism.

[miss-education.livejournal.com]

Yah, I got very few of the references in Ulysses and I've never actually picked up Finnegans Wake. I probably should. It'd be a nice change.

[n-by-nw.livejournal.com]

Okay, let me just get this straight here: you are saying you have read the whole damn thing? Every page?

[substitute.livejournal.com]

I believe so, yes. I was a particularly obsessive and snobby teenager.

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You're a tough guy. I could not do it, it's about as rewarding to me as reading someone's refrigerator magnet "poetry". It's just not as fun as Ulysses. I salute your teenage bloodymindedness ("Now THAT'S punk rock!").