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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2004-07-03 15:07:00
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Current mood:Mystified

The head coach wants no sissies, so he reads to us from something called "Ulysses"
On the anniversary of "Bloomsday", BBC news posted their summary of James Joyce's "Ulysses".

Stephen Fry, for one, is not amused, while other commenters post their own summaries of the book.

Some of my favorite comments:

The book is pretentious hogwash, a classic because the pretentious, intellectual mafia say it is. Don't waste your time on this drivel.
Paul Burns, Liverpool England

Irish novelist disappears up own back passage. Collects royalty cheque.
Andy Bellinger, Reigate ,UK

Watch the Coen Brothers "O'brother, where art thou?" It'll all become much clearer!
Robin Hull, London UK

Who needs sleeping pills. I have read Ulysses every night for the past eight years and never have trouble getting to sleep. I'm nearly up to page six.
David, Kendal Cumbria


How does one join the "intellectual mafia", anyway? Is there hazing involved?


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[info]bunny
2004-07-03 11:13 pm UTC (link)
How does one join the "intellectual mafia", anyway?

Reading and "understanding" Finnigan's Wake is compulsory. As is buying the boss a Lucien Freud and the ritual butt-kissing of Harold Bloom.

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[info]nevadafighter
2004-07-03 11:40 pm UTC (link)
And getting to the end of Eliot's The Waste Land without blood dribbling out of your ears . . .

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[info]madamotaku
2004-07-03 11:15 pm UTC (link)
Hello Mudda, hello Fadda! Here I am at Camp Granada!

Sorry, I just really love that song.

I tried reading two small sections from Joyce's "Ulysses" in an English class recently, and it gave me a migraine. But it's pure genius and all that, though obviously not for everyone's intellectual tastes. Anyway, was that really Stephen Fry, I wonder? Does BBC News Online bother to check for sockpuppets?

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[info]khym_chanur
2004-07-04 01:27 am UTC (link)
*molests icon*

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[info]selene_avis
2004-07-04 01:52 am UTC (link)
May I please steal and credit your icon? It amuses me to no ends.

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*face all ablush from the nice compliments* - [info]madamotaku, 2004-07-04 02:02 am UTC
Re: *face all ablush from the nice compliments* - [info]onetrickpony, 2004-07-04 02:15 am UTC
Re: *face all ablush from the nice compliments* - (Anonymous), 2004-07-04 03:26 am UTC
^_^ - [info]madamotaku, 2004-07-04 06:38 am UTC
Re: *face all ablush from the nice compliments* - [info]selene_avis, 2004-07-05 12:14 am UTC
Re: *face all ablush from the nice compliments* - [info]madamotaku, 2004-07-05 07:52 am UTC
Re: *face all ablush from the nice compliments* - [info]selene_avis, 2004-07-05 05:30 pm UTC
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grith_sloffin
2004-07-04 05:12 pm UTC (link)
Anyway, was that really Stephen Fry, I wonder?

Possibly, I suppose; but I doubt it, somehow ;o)

Robert Crowe: Which book should everyone read?
Stephen Fry: Ulysses.

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[info]ichigatsu
2004-07-04 02:35 am UTC (link)
Someone mentioned Ulysses the cartoon where Ulysses and Telamachus were space adventurers. Aaaaaah childhood memories.

And I agree. They should do a summary for Finnegan's Wake!

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-04 02:46 am UTC (link)
Did that have a theme tune that went along the lines of "Ulysses, no-one else can do the things you do", with the first bit being drawn out for about five seconds?

:: childhood comes flooding back ::

- Anonymouse

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[info]miracalix
2004-07-04 02:57 am UTC (link)
Ulysses 31! That was excellent. Trippy and creepy but great.

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[info]munchkinott
2004-07-04 05:03 am UTC (link)
Paul Burns, Liverpool England

I've half a mind to leave his car on bricks copies of Ulysses...

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[info]visp
2004-07-04 07:23 am UTC (link)
Icon!

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-04 07:00 am UTC (link)
One of my old high school buddies is James Joyce's great great grand nephew, I believe... his family has some old JJ correspondence and assorted memorabilia.

This post had nothing to do with anything, except I always have to bring it up, because it's the weirdest "celebrity" connection ever.

queensugar (LJ)

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[info]eljuno
2004-07-05 08:48 pm UTC (link)
I got better.

My great-to-some-degree grandmother was engaged to Poe at the end of his life and, at least according to legend, the inspiration for Annabel Lee.

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[info]visp
2004-07-04 07:29 am UTC (link)
Somewhat OT, but you should hear Mark Twain's views on some of his contemporaries - beautiful. I'd post a link, but I can't find one at the moment.

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[info]eiviiaru
2004-07-04 10:44 am UTC (link)
Is this the one where he basically rips James Fenimore Cooper a new asshole, starting from the front? If so, win.

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[info]puipui
2004-07-04 12:21 pm UTC (link)
I recommend you buy the students' edition, which has lots of helpful notes. This will make the whole thing somewhat clearer. But not completely clear, because that wouldn't be any fun. If you wanted an easy read, you should have bought Harry Potter.

Because everything comes back to Harry Potter. Always.

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[info]seventy_three
2004-07-04 04:36 pm UTC (link)
This will make the whole thing somewhat clearer. But not completely clear, because that wouldn't be any fun.

Shyeah, because God knows we wouldn't want writing to convey meaning in a clear and useful way.

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[info]tybalt_quin
2004-07-04 02:39 pm UTC (link)
Oh Lord - I was wondering if this would make it here! I was reading it on the actual day and going back to the page was like watching a giant, literary, wanky car wreck happening. I think there were some comments querying whether it was the 'real' Stephen Fry or not as well.

Anyway, very funny (and not what one would expect from the BBC :D)

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[info]amasaglajax
2004-07-04 06:49 pm UTC (link)
Well, I read it a few years back and quite liked it, especially the stream of consciousness that makes up the last chapter- very clever. Took 3 years to finish it, mind, but certainly better than Lord of the bleedin' Rings- up a hill, down a hill. Meet some elves, sing a song. Bit of plot. Up a hill....
Matt, Berkshire, UK'

^ Favorite EVAR. I'm picturing it being said in the accent, and the fact that the dude is from Berkshire is even better.

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[info]xeno4eyes
2004-07-05 09:43 am UTC (link)
up a hill, down a hill. Meet some elves, sing a song. Bit of plot. Up a hill
*snerkle* Hear that slowly rumbling roar? Thems the Tolkien fangirls/boys literati saddling up to rip this just a new one. I, for one, would like to watch.

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[info]mariagoner
2004-07-05 12:42 pm UTC (link)
I think I enjoyed reading Nabokov's lecture on Ulysses better than I liked reading the actual text of Ulysses. Very odd that.

And does that make me more of a member of the intellectual mafia ("Bring in the text/Bring in the funk") or less?

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[info]misswindy
2004-07-05 09:25 pm UTC (link)
Watch the Coen Brothers "O'brother, where art thou?" It'll all become much clearer!

This is quite possibly the funniest endorsement EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE.

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[info]tinybubbles
2004-07-06 01:22 am UTC (link)
Who needs sleeping pills. I have read Ulysses every night for the past eight years and never have trouble getting to sleep. I'm nearly up to page six.

Oh ha ha. This is really funny. Almost as funny as the first time I heard it from Tom Robbins.

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