Zina answers “Is this more or less difficult than Ulysses?”

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Is this more or less difficult than Ulysses?

Zina For me - definitely much, much easier. Maybe it helped that I understood many of the references here but not in the older Ulysses? Or that I am quite …moreFor me - definitely much, much easier. Maybe it helped that I understood many of the references here but not in the older Ulysses? Or that I am quite familiar with those Central Asian, statistical, etc topics? Or know a couple German words and can easily see where the name Tchitcherine come from? anyhow, I had no problem at all understanding anything in Gravity's Rainbow but I did have a hard time with some chapters in Ulysses.(less)

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