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deletedFeb 6, 2022Liked by Greg Olear
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To conquer Joyce yes ... To realize "no mud; no lotus" beautifully

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Ah, Ulysses, a trigger for me. Ulysses is the reason I'm a college dropout. I was a junior year English major taking a twentieth-century novel class. We were assigned Ulysses, Swann's Way, The Magic Mountain, and The Moviegoer -- for good measure -- all in one semester. I'm a slow, careful reader. There was no way in hell. I took an incomplete and never returned. Academic malpractice at its worst.

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My favorite piece of James Joyce writing is the story ‘The Dead’. For what it’s worth!

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But not to worry, his grandson Stephen James Joyce failed to multiply.

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Seriously there is a lot of Ulysses that's hard to SENSE but there is some really good stuff you can FEEL.

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