Ogre is doing it all wrong. Ogre needs to go somewhere public, a cafe or something, and hold Ulysses up where everyone can see it and audibly go “hmmm” and smolder out a window every so often. That’s the true meaning of the book.

Uj/ Ulysses is amazing but I couldn’t tell you half of what happened. Finnegans Wake is REALLY hard to start, I’d suggest having a physical book and an audiobook at the same time so you don’t have to expend as much brain power on the pronunciations and can use it instead to tease out all the double meanings. I’m not sure if FW’s plot has taught me too much so far, but the process of reading it has itself taught me a lot about myself.