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Opening up Joyce Project at any time while reading this novel gives you the same basic feeling as getting hit in the head with a big cartoon mallet

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Shows how classical wisdom and philosophy and reasons are a small bright spot amongst the infinite darkness aka not enough for matters of good and evil the soul Christianity etc

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List is like being swept up in a wind, list is the subordination of reason to sexual desire

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Gluttony is punished worse than lust bc it’s more beastly aka cerebrus
Treating appetite as an end in itself

it’s now BORGES/Dubliners/3 cantos of Dante:

Ok so Virgil aka classical wisdom guides us. Beatrice (gods love) protects us, aka the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. And first entering here if u stand for nothing u go to weak sauce hell (the first layer), and ur nothing ur blood and tears fear works Dante barley looks at u as u pass ur unnamed

ABANDON ALL hope ye who enter her etc the sign was so good

BORGES/Joyce 17 day challenge:

The sisters: a good intro, unsettling, unresolved, building off themes in portrait of the artist re hollow Catholicism, repressed orbs culture etc..

Can’t wait for more!

Tlon:

A world without god, made by men.. uh oh

First one, tlon:

Highest level prose space reserved for Proust, Nabokov, Pynchon, etc.. for me

Such a cool word building exercise I need to play DnD with him

Coherence, idealism replace messy reality (it’s bad btw)

Relativism is Evil!!!