tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post2612525849877902810..comments2023-10-29T07:54:36.000+00:00Comments on georgiasam: Ulysses and Usputhwuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606399161863289851noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-35636084878646436822009-06-09T13:17:00.116+01:002009-06-09T13:17:00.116+01:00David, you really must try not to feel upset by yo...David, you really must try not to feel upset by your fellow Trinity alumnus and double first gold medal winner from the Leinster literati.<br /><br />It's not his fault he has the mind of a titan motoring his marvelous, marvelous lovely jolly super dooper prose investigating exactly what it means to be a PLU in Parnell Square, at the WC, speaking with Colm, Joe, Celia, Maeve, Geraldm Michael, Nuala, Dennis, Roddy, Paddy and Paul - performing in the drawing room, standing by wainscot beneath the architrave and cornice, gazing out beyond the glass at the Garden of Remeberance and gassing on the matter at hand.<br /><br />Long serving senior bores, people like us, it just looks soo tacky David, and really, very very bitchy.<br /><br />I will be reporting this to Mister Poetry and the cohorts in the team WB - it is absolutely appalling and the work of a bounder, belittling DK in this frightuflly delicious piece of (swiftly written?) stick-the-boot in hoo ha on JJ.<br /><br />~<br /><br />Nah, loved this Dave, and i am not lying when i say it is (i was going to say by far but..arghh..won't) bit of prose i have feasted my eyes on.<br /><br />You are in the ollamh zone where, it doesn't matter what the Truth is, because whatever it is, you've written your own here and DK will hear about this. The gossip-mill being so pathetic in Dublin, where two-faced clangering is de riguer, where the quality of insult is all that matters, hundreds of gassers all hammering at it, to be the best, to be the best one can get by sheer hard think - read and go - go go !!<br /><br />Only this<br />Only now<br />never then cuz<br /><br />how's that gonna work?<br /><br />Aint no chance of pullin <br />round the sun <br />before the settings settled<br />down and done today<br /><br />fixed dates<br />pumpin up the numbers<br />stretching them to Time<br /><br />one by one<br />Bye Bye <br /><br />go buy another one<br />five four three two one<br /><br />left off what's not no<br />longer on the outside<br />cuz insides livin life-sized<br /><br />spendin, bit by bit by byte<br />wise..<br /><br />Ah mah ladzie, before this, you had the comedy alright but not the killer instinct was concealed, and now - now it's on display and, if yer gonna take 'em down, why not the biggest?<br /><br />10/10Desmond Swordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08510948482448985966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-78155115354070130702009-06-08T20:14:59.550+01:002009-06-08T20:14:59.550+01:00Could the whole Joyce circus be the literary equiv...Could the whole Joyce circus be the literary equivalent of the Giants Causeway? Worth seeing, but not worth going to see?Totalfeckineejithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-90565882124394250752009-06-08T07:29:06.016+01:002009-06-08T07:29:06.016+01:00think I'll pass on this one... think Deco was ...think I'll pass on this one... think Deco was the editor of the Penguin edition that I read in school... and some of his annotates seemed to have a leaning that you're talking about... though I'm not sure that his outlook on the situation is so different that what the text shows in that case... what was is that Joyce is supposed to have said of the book:<br /><br />I've planted so many enigmas and and puzzles in there that the critics will be a hundred years figuring them outJonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07415555531504843017noreply@blogger.com