This episode consists entirely of Stephen walking along the beach thinking random things, and when I say random I mean the full spectrum of abstract randomness. The episode is almost entirely written in a stream of consciousness/inner monologue and it does make for slower reading -- often I had to go back and re-read pieces [...]
Yes. So Episode Two. I read it once. Then I read it again. Then I googled: "Why do people enjoy James Joyce's Ulysses." Episode Two is not a long chapter, only a few pages, but I struggled through because the references were definitely outside of my educational background (I had to look up probably 90 percent [...]
I have done a lot of reading in my life. The combination of some lit degrees and a lifetime of having my nose in a book does it. However, in all that time, I have never tackled James Joyce's Ulysses. Sure. I THOUGHT about it. I read Dubliners in a college class; and Portrait of an Artist as [...]
