Status Updates From The Portable James Joyce

Exiles=meh. Too much of using one another to cause hurt for another. Chamber Music and assorted poems= Good. Not that I know a thing about poetry but I liked it all. Excerpts from Ulysses=familiar and enjoyable. Makes me want to read it in its entirety again.

Dubliners=chef's kiss. Portrait of the Artist...=fine lines and I know it's Dedalus's stream-of-consciousness but it's too much Stephen Dedalus for me. I like him in Ulysses with Bloom and Buck Mulligan, et. al. On to The Exiles.

“What did it profit a man to gain the whole world if he lost his soul? ... The elbow of his companion touched him and his heart was touched: and when he spoke to answer a question of his master he heard his own voice full of the quietude of humility and contrition.”