Faye’s Reviews > Ulysses > Status Update

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Finally, we have Irish! I've been dabbling on Duolingo, so I understood a bit, not to brag.

The jokes hidden in the names, lol

Was James Joyce secretly a rapper? I read most of this chapter in rapper-voice, watch:

"Are you not happy in your home? Flower to console me and a pin cuts lo. Means something, language of flow."
"Horn. Have you the? Horn. Have you the? Haw haw horn."
Fun!

Also, I feel like this was a genuine note-to-self left in: "Hell did I put? Some pock or oth. It is utterl imposs. Underline imposs. To write today."

Too much Italian in this book, not enough Irish.

Boo, Lenehan wasn't talking funny this time. :(

"America, I said, quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own." Oh snap!

I enjoyed the Hamlet/Shakespeare discussion. "If others have their will Ann hath a way."

Kinda uncomfortable reading the anti-Jew rants, knowing Ireland later refuses to side against the Nazis in WWII, but whatever I guess.

I like Lenehan, the guy who keeps saying things wrong. I might start using "I hear feetstoops" and "O, for a fresh of breath air!" myself.

I won't bother thinking the "striking of that match" actually foreshadows anything.

He's trying to make Odysseus parallels happen now.