| Tyrone Slothrop 2005-05-17, 8:34 pm |
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Mark Houlsby wrote:
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> reading. Perhaps that's why I didn't jump into the deep end of James
> Joyce with Finnegan's Wake, but started with A Portrait of the Artist
> as a Young Man. If I had started with FW as my first Joyce work, I
> doubt I would have made it past the first few pages, and I might have
> missed out on Joyce entirely.
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> You found FW easier-going than Ulysses? Interesting. I *still* think
> that Mr. Kingston
> can read.
>
> FWIW *I* started with GR, BTW....
Who could find FW easier than Ulysses? I thought I was making that
point when I implied I was glad to have started with A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man as my first Joyce reading. BW, Joyce himself
said, when asked why FW was so much harder to read than Ulysses, that
it shouldn't be surprising that it is harder to see at night than in
the day...
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