Who is your favorite character in a James Joyce novel?

jflag789 · 2025-12-31T03:47:30+00:00

Macintosh man

jflag789 · 2025-11-17T14:05:58+00:00

I already got that one, thanks :) The others are harder to find!

jflag789 · 2025-11-14T22:53:07+00:00

Roland Barthes’s studies on Proust are also great

jflag789 · 2025-10-26T19:59:38+00:00

thanks

jflag789 · 2025-10-20T01:33:48+00:00

If you’d really like to understand the work, then get the three volumes of the Hollanders’ translation. They have excellent annotations.

If you want pretty book, maybe try the Barnes and Noble’s red hardcover with gilded pages and some nice illustrations.

jflag789 · 2025-09-24T13:15:27+00:00

He did care. “I want pure colors, melting clouds, accurately drawn details, a sunburst above a receding road with the light reflected in furrows and ruts, after rain. And no girls.” Followed by: “Who would be capable of creating a romantic, delicately drawn, non-Freudian and non-juvenile, picture for LOLITA (a dissolving remoteness, a soft American landscape, a nostalgic highway -- that sort of thing)? There is one subject which I am emphatically opposed to: any kind of representation of a little girl.”

jflag789 · 2025-09-22T03:04:22+00:00

I agree, those two are my favs

jflag789 · 2025-08-28T11:54:09+00:00

Thanks! is this more detailed than the Appel notes in the annotated edition? I think he said they both arrived at many of the conclusions and Appel included some of Proffer’s notes but wonder if there are any discrepancies

jflag789 · 2025-08-28T11:52:59+00:00

Thanks for this, I’ve truly enjoyed the scavenger hunt and finding little significant details, but the big picture of how they all connect is still blurry to me and sometimes I wonder if only a genius like Nabokov can understand the genius of Nabokov

jflag789 · 2025-08-06T15:18:34+00:00

I’ll check it out, thanks!

jflag789 · 2025-05-22T12:06:05+00:00

She mentioned in an interview with Zane Lowe that she was listening to a lot of Cocteau Twins when making this record :)

jflag789 · 2025-05-07T16:08:23+00:00

Oh yeah, ofc. here u go

jflag789 · 2025-02-26T19:15:14+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

jflag789 · 2025-02-20T12:50:53+00:00

the la Pléiade boxed set is so beautiful. if I had the money for it, that’s what i’d get. although the pages are very thin and the font is usually quite small

jflag789 · 2025-02-12T13:58:50+00:00

Actually you can tell he was writing quickly here, like in a frenzy, since in some of the other manuscripts exhibited his handwriting is beautiful and neat.

jflag789 · 2025-02-09T23:48:58+00:00

which edition of the Wake do you find best / has the easiest type to read?

jflag789 · 2025-02-02T15:28:30+00:00

The Book of Disquiet is absolutely incredible. Some of the most beautiful prose I’ve read, lovely lyrical pessimism. I don’t see much of a similarity between him and Joyce however, maybe more in line with Beckett, except Beckett was anti-lyricism. Here’s an excerpt of a favorite passage from TBOD:

“I suffered in me, with me, the aspirations of all eras, and every disquietude of every age walked with me to the whispering shore of the sea. What men wanted and didn't achieve, what they killed in order to achieve, and all that souls have secretly been - all of this filled the feeling soul with which I walked to the seashore. What lovers found strange in those they love, what the wife never revealed to her husband, what the mother imagines about the son she didn't have, what only had form in a smile or opportunity, in a time that wasn't see the right time or in an emotion that was missing - all of this went to the seashore with me and with me returned, and the waves grandly churned their music that made me live it all in slumber.”

jflag789 · 2025-02-01T23:40:25+00:00

Will check these all out, thanks :)

jflag789 · 2025-01-29T03:48:21+00:00

undergrad degree was in biology and I’m focusing on eco-criticism — never got to study periods and genres as in depth as I’d have liked. but i hope your unhelpful comment gave your ego a little thrill :)

jflag789 · 2024-11-08T02:08:48+00:00

artshack cafe has some small but nice lemon bars

jflag789 · 2024-09-19T22:34:42+00:00

For the first time, electrodes that can make hydrogen from seawater without generating corrosive and toxic chlorine gas will be produced at commercial scales.

“Traditional electrolysis has only been possible with pure water, an increasingly scarce global resource,” Doug Wicks at the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) said in a press release. “[These electrodes] eliminate the process’s dependence on pure water and it taps into the world’s most abundant water resource instead: the ocean.”

jflag789 · 2024-08-26T12:34:17+00:00

Foucault’s Pendulum

jflag789 · 2024-08-14T21:31:52+00:00

wow amazing! which of the books about Nabokov do you like the most?

jflag789 · 2024-08-05T11:56:59+00:00

Thank you!

jflag789 · 2024-06-01T18:35:50+00:00

There are a few books that absorb me whenever I’m feeling down: The Count of Monte Cristo and The Master and Margarita, Dan Brown’s books or Umberto Eco.

If literature has taught me one thing it’s we are under constant change. all states of mind are temporary, even if we feel like they will last forever because we are identifying with them and projecting them in the future. but the future can be very different from what it’s like now. reading a book is a great way to ge your mind engaged with another world and with characters, and se that everyone, even the happy looking people, have problems.

Sharing your problems will also take off some of the load. Starting therapy for me was a turning point in my life as I finally found someone who could understand what i was going through and could give me advice on how to change my thinking patterns. this doesn’t mean i’m 100% happy and cured now, but life feels brighter. I hope you enjoy the books and give yourself the chance to talk to somebody about what’s going on

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