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Back to work on Ulysses - Joyce is a piece of work, isn't he? Decided that I will concentrate on 'Exploring the theme of Sex' in Ulysses - because there is so much of it. Either 'repressed turned strange' or 'freaky exhibitionism'. Though reading through the 'Lestrigonian' chapter reminds me a lot of his letters with Nora Barnacle which had the class thoroughly silenced (somethings cannot be 'unread'). My former lecturer (and now firm friend) is not pro Joyce and I thought of her when I saw this cover
A lot of hallucinagenic 'modernist' stuff which I have to not be so 'anachronistic' about - as in 'stop jumping to conclusions of the audience who reads this'. I wonder why the university keep giving us assignments on sex? Because most students will get interested, or that the lecturers want to be titivated on a long winter's night? Or a good laugh (I am not sure which)? I have to write about Lolita straight after this, which doesn't help. Right now, I am trying to decipher Nausicaa and Circe and make it last 3,000 words.
James Joyce, you are one strange cookie.
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Date: 2016-01-04 07:56 pm (UTC)From:I went to college in the 90's. I graduated from high school in 1964. While at the University of MO, I don't remember that we talked about sex a lot. I was doing a major in English and a minor in Womens' Studies. I like your observations on titillating profs and keeping students interested.
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Date: 2016-01-04 10:36 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2016-01-05 03:29 pm (UTC)From:So.. Ulysses is one long handjob... my my my!
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Date: 2016-01-05 06:17 pm (UTC)From:LOL :-)