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Very interesting! Don’t agree with Kant fully so like Shaviro’s attempt to return to a Kantian aesthetics is a bit hmm to me but I think it’s good so far overall!

Very interesting! Don’t agree with Kant fully so like Shaviro’s attempt to return to a Kantian aesthetics is a bit hmm to me but I think it’s good so far overall!

Finished Chapter 12: Cyclops

“Who made those allegations? says Alf. I, says Joe, I'm the alligator.”

Finished Chapter 11: Sirens

“Bloom looped, unlooped, noded, disnoded. Bloom. Flood of warm jamjam lickitup secretness flowed to flow in music out, in desire, dark to lick flow invading. Tipping her tepping her tapping her topping her. Tup. Pores to dilate dilating. Tup. The joy the feel the warm the. Tup. To pour o'er sluices pouring gushes. Flood, gush, flow, joy gush, tupthrob. Now! Language of love."

Finished Chapter 10: Wandering Rocks

“Poor Pa. That was Mr Dignam, my father. I hope he's in purgatory now because he went to confession to Father Conroy on Saturday night."

In which Dublin is alive and moves in clockwork.

Finished Chapter 9: Scylla and Charybdis

“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

Hamlet creates himself

Finished Chapter 8: Lestrygonians

“Something changed. Could never like it again after Rudy. Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. What would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you? Are you not happy in your home you poor little naughty boy?”

On men who eat like pigs, the gentle anticipation of getting cucked and suddenly remembering something you forgot.

Finished Chapter 7: Aeolus

EXIT BLOOM

Finished Chapter 6: Hades

“Something new to hope for not like the past she wanted back, waiting. It never comes. One must go first: alone, under the ground: and lie no more in her warm bed.”

Finished Chapter 5: Lotus Eaters

AITA
I’m (M, 40s) cheating on my wife (F, 40s) by sending erotic letters to my secret solicitor! I have not done anything physically nor do I actually intend to (I ripped my letter up) and my wife who does not know, I know is planning on cheating on me! Physically, no less.

AITA?

Chapter 4: Calypso

Israel as a dead land

Finished Chapter 3: Proteus

Jesus Christ. Absolutely mind bending chapter. My head hurts in a good way and I’m so entranced by Joyce’s rhyme and wordplay.

Finished Chapter 2

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake from.”

Finished Chapter 1 (will be doing 1-2 chapters a day) while listening (with book in hand) the audiobook and it’s kind of transcendent. Joyce’s wordplay and imagery…he’s so real

So good

Leviathan book

“The dead are outside time, time dying and all the sick at home or in hospitals, and they are not the only ones, for a certain degree of personal misfortune is enough to cut us off from the past and future.”

I’m going to hijack Sebald’s mind

“Our concern with history, so Hilary's thesis ran, is a concern with pre-formed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet undiscovered.”

Holy shit

“How everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power of memory is never heard, never described or passed on.”

😨

“The word ‘time’ split its husk; poured its riches over him; and from his lips fell like shells, like shavings from a plane, without his making them, hard, white, imperishable, words, and flew to attach themselves to their places in an ode to Time, an immortal ode to Time.”

Stanley Kubrick the realest

the rope snaps…