One of my projects here in Mexico this summer is that I'm reading "Ulysses". I'm about a third of the way through. It's intense! There's a lot more to say but I have to save that for my own notes. Some quotes to whet your appetite:
"The eternal qualities are the imagination and the sexual instinct, and the formal life tries to suppress both."
--James Joyce, according to Andrew Powers
"In liver gravy Bloom mashed mashed potatoes. Love and war someone is."
"Love loves to love love."
"And says he [Bloom]:
--Mendelssohn was a jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza. And the Saviour was a jew and his father was a jew. Your God."
--James Joyce, Ulysses
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