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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Deliciously lost in Ulysses. Why did I wait so long to read it? But then, if I had read it earlier, I wouldn't be reading it now... I have no idea what the man is talking about, but his language is music.
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One recommendation I've made to people attempting Joyce: if it seems difficult, try reading it aloud. Joyce's primary sense seems to have been hearing, and he was in part trying to reproduce what he
heard on his legendary walks through Dublin.
Reading aloud will produce a fuller sense of the rhythm and cadence, a better feel for what Joyce was hearing, and a better appreciation of the prose.
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Dennis