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i dont get the hostility to joyce. what's it about? why does everything have to be easy? why does everything have to be written the same way? who makes these stupid rules?
of rm, ulysses changed the way i think, the way i read, the way i write.
but i also learned that especially the first time through it's good to read with a group. after the first couple chapters especially. when you get to the proteus section (the third chapter, the one on the beach) you're in a different literary world. it's worth the effort, i think.
there are a million books that should be on that list, and alot that shouldn't.
why no pynchon for example?
but if you expand the idea of what literature is beyond the anglo-world, the list is just a joke.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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