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This makes me LOL!

At least somebody liked it. The Twitter main feed is good fodder.

I liked it too, but was afraid that my comment would be too dull and unoriginal. Perhaps I should have quoted a song that better expressed my feelings. :)

Not that I'm above tweeting song lyrics.

And, for the record, I've never even attempted _Finnegan's Wake_ beyond taking a glance at it in Baker Books.

My high school teacher and two college professors all agreed that Finnegans Wake is unreadable and barely worth the effort, except as a novelty. Of course I took this to be a challenge and gave it a shot. By page 3 I thought hmm, this is not any more interesting to me than if someone else were to attempt to read my contextless steam-of-consciousness captured on paper.

I tried multiple times and even tried starting near the end to see if it would be any more interesting that way, but it wasn't. I did notice that the first sentence in the book is continued from the end of the last sentence in the book, but that's as much as I got out of it.

It's very impressive that Joyce managed to capture some fictitious people's streams of consciousness, but that doesn't mean that reading it will enrich you in any way. And if you tweet about it no one will believe you.

I barely got through Ulysses. That was plenty incoherent for my tastes.

When I say I "got through Ulysses," that just means that my eyes slid across all the words. I didn't retain much except for Bloom's trip to the outhouse (it was one of the few segments where I knew what was going on) and Molly's thing at the end.

@james LOL! Very clever.