In one sentence prove you read this
I shamefully got a boner when Bloom gets feminized in "Circe."
The jew fears the BBC (Blaze Boyland Cock).
>>25459995I haven't read it but I will continue to insist I have in other threads. And there's nothing you can do to stop me
>>25459995when he sees his son's ghost, i thought he was reading classical arabic, but no longer
Bloom failing to remind Hynes of his debt and then repeatedly thinking about it throughout the day is the funniest part of the novel
>>25460018Good. These are valid:>>25460004>>25460022>>25460045This one isn't:>>25460010
>>25459995Circe had a guy walk by with a carrot up his butt.
>>25459995well that's one week of my life I'm never getting back.
>>25459995ireland be crazy n shiet
>>25459995I honestly didn't dig it, because although Stephen and the black panther guy (Haines, IIRC) or something had the early tower scene and then Stephen gets paid and lectured by some fuddy-duddy (hey will you take this hoof-and-mouth thing to the paper, please), and although I found Bloom's early worry about possibly shitting blood to be especially relatable as a middle-aged fellow myself, I nevertheless found it to be tedious in various ways: the newspaper office scene (something something Keyes ad), two bitches sneering at stupid men in a bar or something where there's also a dog and several guys, Bloom's constant and ultimately boring and uninteresting "wonder" about how to make money off some faraway tree-planting scheme or similar and his purported general model of the human condition (in general); nor did I appreciate it when I was immediately filtered right after the "Hoopsa, Boyaboy Hoopsa! (x3 IIRC)" stuff led right into the most intentionally difficult section in the work which eventually begins to vaguely imagine men in a castle and the whole matter of childbirth, continuation of the species and so forth as indicated by women who also live in a castle and just pop out babies as broodmares or an image along those lines, and after this section my recollection is that the two main characters Stephen and Bloom (who had previously not interacted I guess, except that during the early funeral ride Bloom may have noted Stephen on the street with Cunningham or some other cad in the coach after his Turkish bath(?)) actually meet up in the late "play/dialogue" section, where their lives begin to intersect both in that action and also in the further excruciating detail about the resonance of their ages (the 16/22/38 business), the minutiae of Bloom's re-entry into his own home, and the further excruciating detail about the contents of his drawers, after which we finally have the foid Molly who really appears in her own mind for the first time but it's really not some wonderful bit of literature but an ultimately depressing and uninteresting thing in which the both of them seem to be aware that they are each cheating on each other and I am supposed to regard this as good literature or something although I found the final stuff about her coming from Gibraltar and her youthful memories of the Rock itself to be mildly interesting; in closing, I should add that I made a point of avoiding knowing the "chapter titles" while actually reading the stupid thing, as those are not present in the actual text proper, but seem instead to be accretions which, had the originally intended reader had them available in something like an ideal reading, might have prejudiced his take on things, and I suppose that the author suppressed them for sheer (tedious) immediacy, thereby completing a labor which was ultimately not worth the effort and which has not warranted time or attention.
>>25459995Cunnythumbs.
>>25459995Hoopsa
>>25459995no i said no i won’t no
The part in the hospital was very confusing.
>>25460022>i thought he was reading classical arabicYou did not immediately think of Hebrew?
>>25460045>Bloom failing to remind Hynes of his debt He does, in the Cyclops chapter.
Im getting through it with difficulty, reading the bloomsbook guide so im not completely lost. The part where they list the Irish patriots and includes like Brian Confucius, Patrick Shakespeare had me laughing. Also "Paul De Cock" has been living in my head
Why does Stephan hate Buck Mulligan, he's easily the best chara
>>25459995It’s the only book to this day I’ve read describing a character’s bowel movement, and it’s also the part I most remember.
>>25460340i didn't know hebrew was read r>lit feels most natural to read l>r in horizontal and r>l in vertical, but r>l in horizontal feels so unnatural that classical arabic seemed very alone in that way
3, 9, 12, 15, 17 and 18 are the best chapters, and chapter 14 is the hard one.
>>25459995Yes.
>>25459995Bloom’s passivity towards his being cucked is only because he himself cheated on her in the past, but this itself is a reflection of how much of a modern man he is and the diminishing spaces between the sexes roles even then because a more traditional man would not view adultery as equal between the sexes.>>25460010You stole this from me in the thread about women being whores in literature.
>>25460800>onlySorry I should’ve written “primarily”
>>25460800>he himself cheated on her in the pastWith whom
>>25460962Nta but he has an ongoing emotional affair with Martha Clifford. Molly also suspects him of cheating on her in Penelope. It wouldn’t surprise me if he had. Bloom is a weird horny guy.
>>25460997>emotional affairkys
>>25461007You’ll never understand Ulysses or life lmao
>>25460997>emotional affairkill yourself
>>25461007>>25461300It’s like you didn’t even read the book
>>25461330/thread
>>25460351Because he's a dick. Needs to be the nigga on top. He enters a room and commands attention. And worse, he deserves it: he's a hero and a genius and a doctor and funny. Now imagine you're Joyce irl and you know Gogarty irl. What do you do? This nigga won a fucking medal in the Olympics for poetry:>Oliver St. John Gogarty: an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, aviator, politician, and infamous prankster who won a bronze medal in the Mixed Literature category at the 1924 Paris games for his poem “Ode pour les Jeux de Tailteann” (which he later described as “rather tripe”). Gogarty had a particularly colorful life, and served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce’s Ulysses. He also has a Dublin pub named after him—an establishment which serves the most overpriced pints of Guinness in the country, just FYI.But you're Joyce and you're the real genius of literature. Best you can do is capture and immortalize your frenemy in your masterwork. Stephen, who is not Joyce, would be even more annoyed with Mulligan, who is Gogarty. Also worth noting, Stephen tried going to medical school and couldn't cut it. Etc.
>>25461330>>25461340It has nothing to do with the book and everything to do with the concepts you see the world through, obvious samefag
>>25461614What else would you call Bloom’s ongoing correspondence with Martha demanding sex acts and shit talking his wife?
>>25461648based and redpilled
>>25461609>STATELY, PLUMP JOHN GOGARTY
>>25461648I'd call it an erotic correspondence
>>25459995sneed
