Drew Rhine’s Reviews > A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man > Status Update

What do you mean, Lynch asked surlily, by prating about beauty and the imagination in this miserable God-forsaken island? No wonder the artist retired within or behind his handiwork after having perpetrated this country.

My boy heard one Irish catholic sermon and was filled with such spiritual fear he threw up

pages upon pages of a priest spelling out the true existential horror of hell was pretty cool

I'm appreciating the whole picture of historical Ireland thing and the way Joyce is thinking really really hard about youth and the things that influence us but this is soooo much less fun to read than Ulysses so far