SteelCityDeac
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For all members of our e-literati, I wish you a happy Bloomsday!
In this thread, we post our favorite experiences with one of our language's premier writers.
So just to piss off dv7, I present a few quotations from our lad James for your enjoyment (not that he'll read it, this isn't a soccer/footie/or whatever Texans call the game thread) However, I'm fairly drunk right now so I'll have to come back in the morning to add some more selections.
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air."
-What a brilliant invocation of the muse! Joyce gives us an English perspective on the epic convention and sets up one of the greatest novels ever written.
"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
-Refuting Hegel's notion of historical progress and embracing Nietzsche's notion of eternal recurrence (reflected in Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being), Joyce provides a critique of imperialism, colonialism, and Anglo-Irish political relations.
"It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born."
-Returning to a dominant trope in Part V of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce reflects on the aesthetic and artistic. Beautiful and sublime, this concise quotation perfectly captures the creative process of the artist.
In this thread, we post our favorite experiences with one of our language's premier writers.
So just to piss off dv7, I present a few quotations from our lad James for your enjoyment (not that he'll read it, this isn't a soccer/footie/or whatever Texans call the game thread) However, I'm fairly drunk right now so I'll have to come back in the morning to add some more selections.
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air."
-What a brilliant invocation of the muse! Joyce gives us an English perspective on the epic convention and sets up one of the greatest novels ever written.
"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
-Refuting Hegel's notion of historical progress and embracing Nietzsche's notion of eternal recurrence (reflected in Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being), Joyce provides a critique of imperialism, colonialism, and Anglo-Irish political relations.
"It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born."
-Returning to a dominant trope in Part V of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce reflects on the aesthetic and artistic. Beautiful and sublime, this concise quotation perfectly captures the creative process of the artist.
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