Ulysses

“well you haven't heard me talking about ulyses for a while and there's I that there is a good reason for that namely shame I've pretty much stalled out in the the long very long night Town section of ulses”

“well you haven't heard me talking about ulyses for a while and there's I that there is a good reason for that namely shame I've pretty much stalled out in the the long very long night Town section of ulses”

“I'm I'm still on my extended ulses”

“people who haven't been listening to the podcast anyway for six months I I'm still reading ulses”

“I have gotten many many emails saying do not give up on James Joyce so I have not given up on ulyses”

“I am about ready to give up on James Joyce's ulyses”

“I'm still reading ulyses now and forever”

“what's your favorite James Joyce novel it's it's about a month since I last discussed ulses on this show”

“I have stalled on ulses I was very publicly reading James Joyce's Ulisses for the sake of the podcast and now I'm very publicly failing to read ulyses on the podcast”

“I am still Yes reading a book called ulses by James Joyce”

“now and forever I am I am reading James Joyce's ulses you know just strap yourselves in and brace for like a year and a half”

“this book was published just about a 100 years ago I think it started um being published serially in March of 1918 and here we are in March of 2018 and so Leopold Bloom is doing kind of that era's equivalent of sex thing with somebody he has opened up a mailbox under a fake name”

“And and for anyone interested in what a problem those two definitions have been, uh I would I would recommend checking out the court case in the US pertaining to James Joyce's Ulyses where the uh I think the deciding legal opinion was uh some highuting version of pornography is pornography.”

“but if you said for instance let's pull the Canterbury Tales or let's pull Ulysses from all libraries in our community then you're are you not infringing upon the rights of adults”

“you mentioned Ulysses earlier Ulysses triggered such a awesome conversation in U.S courts right over the nature of obscenity right”

“This was actually a signed review of ulyses by Dr Joseph Collins who called James Joyce's Masterwork quote the most important contribution perhaps that has been made to fictional literature”

“I I am rolling right along in Ulisses I am maintaining my steady clip of about 20 Pages a week”

“so I just read the house of broken Angels by Luis Alberto urea and I came a little late to it”

“and then my third book is a book that I hope one day to be able to do a visual version of I fell in love with this book in college it's James Joyce's Ulysses I even went to Ireland for Blooms Day which is the day that the day in the life of Leopold Bloom that James Joyce wrote”

“Yeah, it's Ulysses by James Joyce. Ulysses is good, but only when you're in your early 20s, living in New York, and you're writing your first book, and you just have taken LSD.”

“ulysses is easy and fun that you should pick up that i would give you”

“that happens in ulyses James Joyce's ulyses and it happens in hernand Diaz's trust do also spoil aler for that book”

“there was a certain point where I had a teacher um in college who told me we were you're reading ulyses and she was like you're not going to get everything cut your losses”

“I took a class in college that I think was an entire semester where we only read ulses and I I remember maybe three scenes from it but I absorbed it and that's this book is not as complicated and inaccessible as ulyses can be but you take what you need from it”

“Greg what do you have in front of you other than you do have ulyses I I did bring Ulisses with me because it's been a while since I've talked about it except to kind of to mention in passing that I'm still reading it”

“so now I'm going to have that new Emily Wilson uh translation on my that that may be next for me after ulyses”

“once again since you you're here you're back with ulyses I I am still and always you're going to be here with ulyses for the next year”

“and then Joyce retreated from it somewhat and kind of questioned undermined even mocked Vagner ISM so in ulses you know Steven Deus very much the kind of image of the young James Joyce”

“i fell in love with joyce and ulysses in particular before i really got to know the classic works of the 20th century so ulysses read ulysses at age 18”

“and also James Joyce because was published at the beginning of 1922 in February”

“and also as I say the impact that ulyses had on these other writers because Virginia wolf read Ulisses”

“James Joyce, overrated or underrated? Now, they’re watching back home, so be careful. SUNSTEIN: I think that — yeah, yeah, Irish family. I think underrated. Ulysses is arguably the richest novel in the last 150 years.”

“I can’t say it’s as rich as Ulysses, but I like it even better, and in terms of greatness I would rank it with Joyce.”

“if it was a sequel to for example if there was a sequel to James Joyce's ulyses and was going to start another day nobody would it would ruin the first one”

“I think there's a section of uls it's the night Town section James Joyce's book”

“compare them to the great modernist time novels, you know, to to Proust's In Search of Lost Time and to James Joyce's Ulysses, right? Which is cuz Proust is about time and the experience of time, but it's about memory.”

“You in this book take your chapter titles I believe correct me if I'm wrong from Kar Marx his book das capal Ulisses is threaded throughout funhome there there are many books thread it throughout are you my mother Virginia Wolf and some other authors”

“it's funny I I met the poet Ross gay yesterday and one of the very first things he asked me was are you still reading ulyses um the answer Ross and Pamela and everyone else is yes I'm still reading ulyses”

“no actually u i was past the sirens onto the Cyclops part which Ed on Twitter last weekend opens with a a passing reference to a character named Moses Herzog who then Sal Bell stole the name for Herzog”

“james joyce who was in many ways a surrealist writer nonetheless he believed in in this the beauty and sanctity of of the of the actual so that one can walk in dublin and sort of walk through the you know the day of ulysses”

“eventually you just have to stop doing it you know but in theory james joyce could still be working on ulysses and finnegan's wake because he was like that he was experimental”

“look it took me 40 years to read ulysses i could not get past the first five pages”

“it took me 40 years to read ulysses i could not get past the first five pages”

“And I do I do think if you didn't talk about Ulisses, it's 24 hours and walking around. That's the plot of the book.”

“The first kind is like you're reading something like Ulisses and you're on page 274 and you're like, 'Wow, I'm such a scholarly or irrudite person for having read 274 pages of Ulisses. Look at me.'”

“Uh yes, I think academics are finding that for instance, they've spent their whole career assigning books like Middle March and Ulyses and they're having to stop because the the kids just can't get through them anymore.”

“1922, the novel Ulysses by James Joyce was a big one because Ulysses is the Latin version of Odysseus.”

“but then ulysses was I I I got through ulysses with the help of some cliff notes and so on”

“i had a problem a long time ago trying to read ulysses by joyce and started it twice and finally read it when i lived in ireland”

“some time since the early 60s, we kicked free of all the dumbest restraints on free speech, government censorship, you could publish, you couldn't legally publish "Lady Chatterley's Lover" James Joyce's, "Ulysses", Henry Miller's, "Tropic of Cancer", Alan Ginsberg's, "Howl" before about 1960 without worrying about being dragged into court”

“James Joyce wrote Ulysses in less than an hour um yeah it took him a long longer”

“like James Joyce's Ulyses uh or Finnegan's wake deeply rhythmically alert text but in non-fiction I think partly because it has this weird name non-fiction”

“and by the way my other confession i've never read ulysses by james joyce or finnegan's awake are you ready”

“I am finally reading a book that I have resisted for decades I'm reading James Joyce's ulyses”