>Read Ulysses for the first time when I was young>"Hah this guy is a buffoon">Reread it now that im older>"He's literally me"How did Joyce manage to make such a relatable character
>>25510781some say he wrote himself from different angles, one is stephen as himself as a young man, and the other is bloom as an older one. Perhaps that juxtaposition made it easier for him to highlight the depths of character by contrasting their natures and behaviours, utilizing the architecture of the tale to deepen the shades representing them, much as one sees with underpainting in brunaille or grisaille, but what do i know? I can't read.
>>25510794then of course he describes this process (to my mind) with his parallax, that we as boys come to a stable thing (this book, say) and come again to that same thing as men, and by those differences of observation and reaction to said thing, we infer commensurate alterations in our persons. or some shit like that
He always gets shit for being a cut but after reading the book I realized its not as clear cut as it seems because his unorthodox relationship with molly and how he himself cheats on her
>>25510806being a cuck*sorry, im about to go cook up a nice cut of meat
>>25510806>he himself cheats on herWhat the hell are you talking about? When did he fuck anyone else?>inb4 steamy letters and candid masturbation kill yourself
>>25510846Would you let your girlfriend write love letters to other guys and jerk off to them because its not "cheating" to you lol. Plus there is no saying that stuff doesn't lead to him having intimate relationships with other girls, the book takes place over less than 24 hours, who says he isn't going to go back to the beach tomorrow and fuck Gerty right there on the rocks
If Ulysses was written today Bloom would have been woke and probably jewish as well
>>25510904I feel like Joyce would be horrified back into Catholicism if he lived in the modern world. He'd still be a pervert and an iconoclast but he'd see where atheism led us and he'd be repulsed by it. He is basically speaking through Stephen when he talks about Catholicism and Protestantism in Portrait. "Why would I trade a falsehood that is logical and coherent for a falsehood that is illogical and incoherent?". He rejected the Church when it was a bold new thing to do, but now in 2026 I think he'd see where that leads and realize the Church probably had a point. He never truly hated it in total, he seems to have always maintained at least a certain fondness for it.
>>25510854>Would you let your girlfriend write love letters to other guysIf it were anonymous, sure>and jerk off to them If she didn't get caught, sure>there is no saying that stuff doesn't lead to him having intimate relationships with other girls>who says he isn't going to go back to the beach tomorrow and fuck Gerty right there on the rocksshut the fuck up
>>25511000>one of usno
>when I was young Uhhh huh
