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didn't finish this before class but my tutor thought i was cool for comparing it to swann's way #proustian

It shocked him to find in the outer world a trace of what he had deemed till then a brutish and individual malady of his own mind. His monstrous reveries came thronging into his memory. They too had sprung up before him, suddenly and furiously, out of mere words. He had soon given in to them and allowed them to sweep across and abase his intellect, wondering always where they came from, from what den of monstrous ...

i pray i finish this by monday before my lit tutor hangs draws and quarters me

Probably the best prose I’ve ever read in a book. I’m in awe of it. This is my first Joyce.

Re. Joyce’s stream of consciousness - more flood than stream.