about ulysses

[dadic]

heya ppl! ive been readng 'ulysses' 4 a couple of weeks. lol eng is nt ma mother tongue bt im intrstd in eng lit. i think evry1 who read ulysses was pretty confusd wit (in)famous postcard 'U.p:u.p' ! what r ur theories? as a reader. thx

[Ravenna]

I think the key to reading Ulysses is patience, time - and lots of it. He writes some 933 pages on one day. Just one day, in breathtaking detail. If any of us wrote a diary of 'a day' in our lives around the city where we lived, I don't think we would have enough details for 9 pages, let alone 933.

Joyce's vocabulary alone is a dream. 'Ineluctable modality' itself just makes you think. 'Ineluctable modality of the visible' just makes you want to focus on what you see. Say the two words, round the vowels firmly as you say the words and then read on: 'seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot' (vision) then read on to: 'Shut your eyes and see.' carry on to: 'Hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells.' (sound).

This is a work of the human senses. Even better, take the book to a beach (if you can geographically manage it) and the vowels become rounder.

[blazeofglory]

I think the key to reading Ulysses is patience, time - and lots of it. He writes some 933 pages on one day. Just one day, in breathtaking detail. If any of us wrote a diary of 'a day' in our lives around the city where we lived, I don't think we would have enough details for 9 pages, let alone 933.

Joyce's vocabulary alone is a dream. 'Ineluctable modality' itself just makes you think. 'Ineluctable modality of the visible' just makes you want to focus on what you see. Say the two words, round the vowels firmly as you say the words and then read on: 'seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot' (vision) then read on to: 'Shut your eyes and see.' carry on to: 'Hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells.' (sound).

This is a work of the human senses. Even better, take the book to a beach (if you can geographically manage it) and the vowels become rounder.

I too am a nonnative English speaker, and I too have a problem of understanding him, in fact I could not plumb deeper and I got lost somewhere.

I know I need lots of efforts to understand Ulysses, but I do not know why I like the book immensely. When I read the book I find poetic beauty. For the art of writing has climaxed through this book and all I feel no book is more worth reading than this.