Ulysses

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Cultural Consumption, 2022-Style! Best of!

The best books and films of 2022, some description thereof, as well as a few of the worst.

1 year ago
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Saturnine September 2022: Reading, Viewing

Greatest hits of September: "Lord of the Rings," "We Are the Best!" (2013), "The Hunt" (1966)—and I finished James Joyce's…

2 years ago
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August-alia 2022: Reading, Watching

Birthday months are great for watching Antonioni trilogies, Premingers' "In Harm's Way," reading "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The…

2 years ago
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Strikingly Read, Viewed: July 2022

Mostly mountainbiked during July, enjoyed the refreshing waters of Lake Willoughby Vermont, but also read Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always…

2 years ago
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Heatedly Read, Watched: Boring June 2022

Heatedly read and viewed during June 2022, including José Rizal's "Noli Me Tangere," Don Siegel's "The Lineup" (1958), and "Wanda"…

2 years ago
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Powerful May Reading, Viewing: 2022 edition

May reading and viewing of Ashley Vaught in 2022. Best of: "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia, "Dubliners", and "Wheel…

2 years ago
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Reading Ulysses’ “Oxen of the Sun” (to oneself, aloud, and just in general)

On the experience, specifically pain, of reading as instanced with reference to the modernist masterpiece "Ulysses" by Irish writer James…

2 years ago
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Narcoleptically Read & Watched: April 2022

How do you read and watch narcoleptically? Binging series and reading sparingly, here and there.

2 years ago
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March 2022: Read & Viewed, with feeling

All of what was read and watched during the month of March 2022, especially James Joyce's "Ulysses" and the 1986…

2 years ago
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Blithely Read Ulysses, Watched et al.: Feb 2022

In February 2022 I started reading "Ulysses" by James Joyce, "Odyssey", watched "The Killing" (1956) and other things like the…

2 years ago
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Fragrant Excerpt from Joyce’s “Ulysses”: 5, Lotus Eaters

One of several forthcoming asides on the book "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Lead us not into temptation.

2 years ago