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Ulysses

by James Joyce

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Michael said: " Joyce successfully creates a synesthetic literature that surmounts the "ineluctable modality of the visible" in order to evoke the complete spectra of consciousness and sensuality. Ulysses is nothing less than one of the great artistic wonders of the ...more "

May 04, 2026 10:24AM · see review

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“There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.”
― Norman Mailer

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Discussion of the late author's work and life. ...more

Classics and the Western Canon — 4957 members — last activity 7 hours, 57 min ago
This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more

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A room for lovers of theatre, theater books, texts on acting, directing, theory and scripts.

Coffee Shop University — 114 members — last activity Aug 22, 2021 08:00AM
A book about cultural differences ... The place Bailey’s Gym, Los Angeles, California—6am—the fall of 1999… From a bourgeois neighborhood in Beirut t ...more