I feel like not nearly enough attention is paid to the fact that this book is horny as fuck. I'm dead serious, there are multiple sections where it feels like Joyce was writing with his dick in his hand. "Nausicaa" definitely, but also parts of "Circe."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity_trial_of_Ulysses_in_The_Little_Review
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Yeah, every trash writer goes straight for the phallus.
joyce preferred the brapper howbeit
Grow up
No, it's true.
I've seen many times when a writer gets horny, and keeps writing despite that. It never is wise, to be quite honest, to write while horny, but it does happen.
>Whilst in many places the effect of Ulysses on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac.
not true. i got a boner during the whole circe fart/femdom/tsf thing
Wait, is there actual brap fetishism in Ulysses? I thought that was just a meme based on his letters to his wife
In Circe Bloom fantasizes about being turned into a girl and having a big man fart in his face. He also gets fisted.
Look if you didn't get at least a little bit of a semi to Gertie McDowell I don't know what to tell you. The whole point is to put us, the readers, in the same position as Bloom.
So is there like a guide where it explains every reference from the book
Kinda like those "every hidden reference from the marvel trailer explained" youtube channels
honestly it could be done pretty easily with just ai and wikipedia
yes
http://m.joyceproject.com/chapters/telem.html
I used it alongside during the first few chapters until I realized I have a disdain for the book and do not care if I miss references so will therefore just power through
is Ulysses good even if you don't get the references?
no but it's miles better than stopping every 30 seconds to look at a reference. i should have stopped after Dubliners, I would have held a positive opinion of Joyce. Even had i stopped after Portrait I still had immense respect for him. But Ulysses... man.
>our anti-hero conquers, or rather is conquered by the ordinary.
>the ORDINARY is actually like a heckin Odyssey in its own right
>muh anti-semitic europeans
the man can write but his pseudo intellectual leftism oozes from every page
>stopping every 30 seconds to look at a reference.
Lmao just read the references for the chapter FIRST then read the chapter
I don't like spoilers
>spoilers
You've consoooomed too much ziomedia. It's over for you, hang it up. Jack-in-the-box idiot. Hurr turn the handle and I wanna surpwize.
your comment is so mind numbingly stupid it barely deserves a response. To hold the view that knowing the complete plot and contents of literature before reading doesn't ever hinder the experience or the artist's message is contrarian just for the sake of it. Surprise and misdirection are classical plot devices that authors use to build tension within storylines. Even well known epics weaved into our culture like the Odyssey for example was best enjoyed not knowing how it concluded. Beautiful moments that are revealed precisely when the original artist intended them to be always enhances literature for me
reddit moment
one track minded retard
what?
>louder for the people in back please
YOU ARE A ONE TRACK MINDED GAY RETARD DESPERATE TO FIT IN WITH THE OTHER LULZ PSEUD CONTRARIANS WHOM IS NOT NEARLY AS SMART AS YOU THINK YOURSELF TO BE
>the experience
>contrarian
>Surprise and misdirection are classical plot devices
enhances literature for me
my sides
you have to go back
>>they read for plot
I enjoy all elements that the piece of art provides.
>but that includes the plot!
Yes, I know
I had a professor who liked reading the end of books first to then read from the start and see how the author constructed the plot and how they led the narrative towards the end
I can see how that may be appealing but personally is not for me. I'm picturing a 2000's Disney movie freeze frame
>YEP, THAT'S ME. YOU'RE PROBABLY WONDERING HOW I GOT HERE. Well here's how it ALL started
>but personally is not for me.
t. goyslop enjoyer
guess i'll shelve it for a long while til i've read more. no rush anyway
Just reading more won't help you understand Ulysses without all the obscure shit it references
depends what you read. having a good background in shakespeare (and english-language fiction in general) will do wonders for your understanding of episodes like scylla and charybdis or oxen of the sun
During a single day Harold Bloom.
> Jacks off in public bath (Lotus Eaters)
> Has a fantasy of being cucked and is seduced by a maid (Sirens)
> Jacks off at the beach (Nausicaa)
> Goes to a brothel and has sex (Circe)
> Smells her wife's farts (Penelope)
>Harold
Also, he doesn't masturbate in the bath, although he planned to, nor does he have sex with a whore
>no one mentions Bloom at the butcher's watching the plumply fundamented girl walking
I found it off-putting.
love the part when he's gooning to the girl at the beach and then he nuts and she gets up and limps away and he realizes she's disabled and he's like oh hell nah bruh. I read Ulysses annually and it never fails to bring a smile to my face
How sheltered are you? The canon is inundated with sex.
>I feel like not nearly enough attention is paid to the fact that this book is horny as fuck.
are you serious? i don't think you have ever participated in any ulysses discussion if you genuinely think that
thanks for your input! bye!
no need to be passive aggressive, that's something women do.
Has anyone listened to Frank Delaney's Ulysses podcast?
No but he stole that title from Anthony Burgess (yes author of clockwork organge) very helpful book on Joyce "ReJoyce" - recommend it for anybody looking to get started with the 2 more difficult works in Joyce's oeuvre, and it also has fine insights into Dubliners and Portrait