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JANUARYHOW IT WORKS
• Tell me you're in, in a comment below. If necessary, add preferences for book length, etc. Keep the preferences in your first comment, rather than additional ones later in the thread.
• ADD THESE DATES TO YOUR CALENDAR (do NOT make me write you! *)
• January 10: Buddies will be assigned
• By Jan 17: Give your buddy a book assignment
• By Jan 24: Choose/confirm your book, and start reading. Then come back and tell us how it went.
• By the end of February: Make sure you've finished your book and returned to tell us about it.
* If I've had to write you in the past to remind you, please don't sign up, unless you SWEAR to add the dates to your calendar so you won't forget. :-P
You have 3,376 books on your to read shelf. So you don't need to do anything except sort your list by date and add the ten oldest books on your shelf to your post number 17. But you will need help (you can't do this from your phone) so I will post it for you and you can copy and paste it into post #17.
Then wait until January 10th. Gertie will pair everyone together. That is your buddy. No later than January 17th, you need to have looked at your buddies list and choose three books for them to select from. They will do the same from your list.
Once your buddy has given you three books from your list to choose from, choose one and by January 24th come back here and post which book you will read.
This part is very important, read the book and be finished by February 28th. Come back here and post a thank you to your buddy and tell everyone what you thought about your book.
Got it?
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2016 Starting Ulysses
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Reading Schedule: (page numbers are from this edition of the book: Ulysses by James Joyce )
Reference Material for Ulysses
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The group's first year:
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Part 1:
January 8: Chapter 1 (Telemachus) pages 5-19 (last word: "Usurper.")
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January 15: Chapter 2 (Nestor) pages 20-29 (last words: "dancing coins")
January 22: Chapter 3 (Proteus) pages 30-40 (last words: "silent ship")
Part 2:
January 29: Chapter 4 (Calypso) pages 43-54 (last words: "Poor Dignam!")
February 6: Chapter 5 (Lotus Eaters) pages 55-66 (last words: "floating flower")
February 13: Chapter 6 (Hades) pages 67-87 (last words: "this morning")
February 20: Chapter 7 (Aeolus) pages 88-110 (last words: "was known")
February 27: Chapter 8 (Lestrygonians) pages 111-134 (last word: "Safe!"
March 3: Chapter 9 (Scylla And Charybdis) pages 135-160 (last words: "bless'd altars."
March 10: Chapter 10 (Wandering Rocks) pages 161-186 (last words: "closing door")
March 17: Chapter 11 (Sirens) pages 187-212 (last word: "Done.")
March 24: Chapter 12 (Cyclops) pages 213-250 (last words: "a shovel.")
April 1: Chapter 13 (Nausicaa) pages 251-276 (last word: "Cuckoo")
April 8: Chapter 14 (Oxen of the Sun) pages 277-307 (last words: "it on.")
April 15: Chapter 15 (Circe) pages 308-428 (last words: "waistcoat pocket.")
Part 3:
April 22: Chapter 16 (Eumarus) pages 431-467 (last words: "lowbacked car")
April 29: Chapter 17 (Ithaca) pages 468-520 (last word: "Where?")
May 5: Chapter 18 (Penelope) pages 521-552
The Old Curiosity Shop
Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders
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Hexen 2.0
The 1972 Democratic platform formally introduced the party's commitment to identity politics. Rejecting "old systems of thought," the platform summoned Democrats to "rethink and reorder the institutions of this country so that everyone — women, blacks, Spanish speaking, Puerto Ricans, Native Americans, the young and the old — can participate in the decision-making process inherent in the democratic heritage to which we aspire." There was also this: "We must restructure the social, political and economic relationships throughout the entire society in order to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth and power." The delegates put flesh on these lofty moral commitments by adding a plank commending the forced busing of students in order to achieve racial balance in public schools. Blue-collar Boston exploded.
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Aspartame causes formaldehyde to build up in your body.
FEBRUARY i am starting February at 217. This was my goal for February. So i would be happy to maintain or get down to 212.To Kill a Mockingbird
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Dune
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I love this novel, but it has come to my attention some readers, not having been around in the 1970's, are unaware baby boomers at the time were marching and protesting the Vietnam War, were protesting racism, and protesting the Draft (we did NOT have an all-volunteer military). Baby boomers were going to college either for free or with very low tuition loans, and we were traveling more outside the United States for drugs, sex and adventure, and we were just beginning to realize other religions besides Christianity existed. The birth control pill for the first time was widely available, and I remember openly smoking pot in bars, taverns and university district clubs. We passed thickly rolled reefers around from table to table..
Most of us under 30 then all read a hell of a lot ( most popular books were 1984, Animal Farm) about front-page exposés of evil conservative old white-man politics and backroom political cheating and manipulating of democracy which destroyed real equality and tolerance, the glory of hippie/Eastern Asian and India Buddhism philosophies, the failure of Christian religion to be practiced in the real world and god being dead, the horrors of war, and how terribly racist, misogynistic, war-mongering and socially-bullying anyone over 30 years of age was, so that all adults and everything we were taught in the 1950's were not to be trusted. Power to the People ('People' meaning everyone under 30).
In the 1970's, America was 97% white and mostly Protestant (hardly any evangelicals - they were thought of as ignorant cults of snake charmers, mostly from the Appalachian South, Jews lived mostly on the East coast and our parents still talked about the shock of John Kennedy having been elected EVEN though he had been a Catholic and under the control of the Pope, thus obviously an American traitor). Adults had never heard of Islam so they didn't care about that. Instead, parents were scared that their kids were joining Buddhist cults and had gurus from India controlling them, and kids kept talking about flower power and philosophies which encouraged interracial marriages or not getting married at all!
Does this sound familiar? One of the differences I can see between then and now is where we baby boomers were EXTREMELy political, and we attributed all of the bad things in society as being from conservative white-men politics, and that the only possibility of needed change was from becoming actively involved and learning about politics as much as possible, kids and YA today act as if they think, 'what does being political and voting and studying history have to do with changing life and society in America?' My generation said, "we need to vote and protest and educate ourselves about history, religion and politics so that we can throw the old white men dinosaurs out of office ."
Because of the baby boomer focus on politics as being both the cause and cure of society's problems in the 1970's, and how we perceived religion was being used as a scare tactic by old white men of the era against the rebellion of YA and kids who hated racism, misogyny, and the authority of parents, we rejected it all. The cool, solid, hip, happening, far-out and groovy writers of the time, like Frank Herbert, were sure to pander to what we readers wanted from novels. Our parents, most of whom had eighth grade educations because of the Great Depression and WWII, did not read much, so they did not and could not understand ANYTHING about their baby boomer kids.
This is the third time I have read Dune, and I LOVE IT. It is all about what the baby-boomer generation intelligensia was thinking
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Page 219 A thing to note about any espionage and our counter espionage school is the similar basic reaction pattern of all its graduates. Any enclosed discipline sets its stamp, it's pattern, upon its students. That pattern is susceptible to analysis and prediction.
Now motivational patterns are going to be similar among all espionage agents. That is to say: there will be certain types of motivational that are similar despite differing schools or opposed aims. You will study first how to separate this element for analysis- in the beginning, through interrogation patterns that betray the inner orientation of the interrogators, secondly, by close observation of language-thought orientation of those under analysis. You will find it fairly simple to determine the root of your subjects, if course, both through voice inflection and speech pattern."
"Soon I must remove him, the Baron thought. He has almost outlasted his usefulness, almost reached the point of positive danger to my person. First, though, he must make the people of Arrakis hate him. Then-they will welcome my darling Feyd-Rautha as a savior." 286
The way to control and direct a Menstat, is through his information, False information=false results. 375
Power and fear. Fear and power.
386 "Two things. Income and a merciless first. You must show no mercy here. Think of these clods as what they are- slaves envious of their masters and waiting only the opportunity to rebel. Not the slightest vestige of pity or mercy must you show them.
I said SQUEEZE, Don't waste the population, merely drive them into utter submission. You must be the carnivore, my boy. A Carnivore never stops. Show no mercy. Never stop. Mercy is a chimera. It can be defeated by the stomach rumbling in hunger, by the throat crying its thirst. You must be always hungry and thirsty."
422How the mind gears itself for its environment. The mind can go either direction under stress - towards the positive or towards negative; on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconscious at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.
441-442Movement across landscape is a necessity for animal life,... Nomad peoples follow the same necessity. Lines of movement adjust to physical needs for water, food, minerals. We must control this movement now, qlign it for our purposes.
We must use q man as a constructive ecological force - inserting adapted terraform life: a plant here, and animal there, a man in that place-to transform the water cycle, to build a new kind of landscape.
473A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, qnd a people revert to a mob.
The young red dies so easily. Beginnings are times of such great peril.
489 Fear is the mind killer.
Chapter 33 makes me think of communist Russia. This might be about the could war.
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2/10/2017Say not my art is fraud—all live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming; The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier Will eke with it his service.—All admit it, All practise it; and he who is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state—So wags the world. —Old Play
They were commanded to extirpate magic and heresy. Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens. Simpleness of diet was prescribed to them, roots, pottage, gruels, eating flesh but thrice a-week, because the accustomed feeding on flesh is a dishonourable corruption of the body; and behold, their tables groan under delicate fare! Their drink was to be water, and now, to drink like a Templar, is the boast of each jolly boon companion! This very garden, filled as it is with curious herbs and trees sent from the Eastern climes, better becomes the harem of an unbelieving Emir, than the plot which Christian Monks should devote to raise their homely pot-herbs.—And
Alice in Wonderland
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George MacDonald
Was a mentor to Lewis Carroll as well as the father of the real Alice that Carroll wrote the story for.
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"In Wonderland, real things like hedgehogs and flamingos are treated as objects, while objects like playing cards and numbers behave like real things."
The Art of Being
"A person who has not been alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who had not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet for sale, who can suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired the having mode of existence. Briefly a person who has remained a person and hasn't become a thing. Cannot help feeling lonely powerless isolated, in present day society. He can't help doubting himself and his own convictions, even his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in his normal contemporaries. Not really will he suffer neuroses of a range man living in an insane society. Not really well he suffer from an neuroses that results from a sane man living in an insane society. Rather than that more conventional neuroses of that of a sick man trying to adapt himself a sick society.
All forms of neuroses are indications of the failure to solve the problems of living adequately.
The rabbit carries a letter:
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Evolution a pseudoscience:
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Zanoni - Rossicurcean
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7 things people do everyday to lose weight
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Imperial Woman
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Chapter books
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MARCH
Read chapter 1
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My goal is to read one chapter of this
Interspersed with Ulysses
Heidi
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The Republic
What will you be reading in March
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Little WomenBooks mention:
The Vicar of Wakefield
Ivanhoe
Books I would like to read this yearBambi
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Master and Margarita
finished February 5,2017
The Republic
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
The Plague
The Power of Myth
The Education of Little Tree
Infinite Jest
Not for my Bossy Book Challenge Autobiography of a Yogi
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Heart of a Dog
Bulfinch's Mythology
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Slaughterhouse-Five
Gravity's Rainbow
Not for my Bossy Book Challenge Hard Times
Catching up on classics.
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760 pages 43 chapters in Audible
If i want to get through with this book in two month i need to read 5 chapters a week.
This would be five hours a week. Or one hour a day. Quite a challenge since i have to read it and not able to just listen.
Hexen 2.0
The Pickwick Papers
Pinocchio
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
The Phantom of the Opera
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Oil!Oil!
All the King's Men
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
The Oresteia
The Story of King Arthur and His KnightsThe Story of King Arthur and His Knights
The Call of the Wild
Speak, Memory
Ulysses
Not for my Bossy Book Challenge Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Personal Bossy Book Read for February-March
Imperial Woman
Mostly Dead Writers
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The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
The Financier
The Magnificent Ambersons
Player Piano
Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
Bossy Book in March
Catching Up On Classics book read for March 1
The Canterbury Tales
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
Girl Waits with Gun
Toni Tennille: A Memoir
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Keep Moving: And Other Tips About Old Age
Daniel Deronda
The Black Sheep
Money
Sometimes a Great Notion
Kept in the Dark
Madame Picasso
Barchester Towers
Your Spacious Self: Clear the Clutter and Discover Who You Are
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
The Malice of Fortune
The Lives of the Artists
MeditationsMeditations
The Symposium
Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
Books referenced from other books/articles that sound interesting:Raw Vieion Magazine james fernandes :The Beastiary art.
Knowledge of Hell
About a Psychiatric Hospital in Lisbon.
The House That Hitler Built
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Self Improvement challenge of 12 books losing 50 pounds one year.1. The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family
2. Nutrition Made Clear
3. The Sugar Detox: Lose the Sugar, Lose the Weight--Look and Feel Great
4. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
5. Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body
6. Move Your DNA Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement
7. Outsmart Yourself: Brain-Based Strategies to a Better You
8. Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become
9. The Loveless Family: Getting Past Estrangement and Learning How to Love
10. Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life
11.Effortless Healing: 9 Simple Ways to Sidestep Illness, Shed Excess Weight, and Help Your Body Fix Itself
12. Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be
daily active questioning. For example, having a friend call you every night to ask how would you rate yourself on your efforts to achieve _____ (which are the goals you had identified for yourself). The monitoring and daily reminders from the friend keep you motivated. Since the monitoring is on your efforts (not completion of the task), there isn't the feeling that you've failed. Instead, you see the progress you've made so far.
13.One Small Step Can Change Your Life - The Kaizen Way to Success
Start each day with the question "What small step can I take today to make an improvement in the quality of my life?" It can be as trivial as walking up and down a few steps, flossing a tooth, reading one page of a book, spending five minutes to clean an area of the house, saving a dollar, or going to bed five minutes earlier. It is better to spend two minutes every day on improving something than trying to motivate yourself to spend 30 minutes a week for a bigger goal. These small, trivial steps do not trigger fear as would a major goal - fear of failure or change. When you become accustomed to that one tiny step every day, you can increase it a little more.
14. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
15. Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
16. The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
colates"). I think you need to read only one chapter a week to absorb the information and practice it for a few days before moving on to the next chapter.
There are many examples in the book, like lack of physical exertion, walking, and jogging. The rigorous activity of jogging increases health benefits, whereas no stressors to the body make it fragile.
17. The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
18. The One-Minute Cure: The Secret to Healing Virtually All Diseases
19. The Oxygen Prescription: The Miracle of Oxidative Therapies
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Cooper zinc connection21. Live the Best Story of Your Life: A World Champion's Guide to Lasting Change
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Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do
TED TALKS TO WATCHKen Robinson: How schools kill creativity
Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Steve Jobs: How to live before you die
Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of Sixth Sense technology
David Gallo: Underwater astonishments
Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation
Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius
Arthur Benjamin: A performance of "Mathemagic"
Richard St. John: 8 secrets of success
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story
Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
Jamie Oliver: Teach every child about food
Helen Fisher: Why we love, why we cheat
Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce
Deb Roy: The birth of a word
Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work
Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread
Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!
Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box
Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone
Jake Shimabukuro: "Bohemian Rhapsody"
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New Year
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All About BooksRequired Reading -28 countries
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Book Obsessed
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Dune P605 It's a penal colony...Conditions on the prison planet are more oppressive than anywhere else. Mortality rate is higher. They practice every form of oppression there. We haven't cut heavily into their birth rate growth figures. We just weeded out some of their less successful specimens, leaving the strong to grow stronger--
What does that to do with Prison Planet?
A man who survives that starts out being tougher than most others, when you add the very best of military training---
How could you be sure if loyalty?
I would take small groups, remove them from their oppressive situation and isolate them with a training cadre of people who understood their background. Preferably people who had preceded them from the same oppressive situation. Then i would fill them with NEWSPEAK. I would tell them that their planet had really been a secret training ground to produce just such superior beings as themselves. I'd show them what superior beings could earn: rich living, beautiful women, fine mansions....whatever they desire.
The recruits come to believe in time that such a place as this oppressive place is justified because it produced them--The Elite. The commonest one lives a life, in many respects, as exalted as that of any member of a Great House.
P614 This new religious leader from his hiding place among smugglers. Perhaps i should not have said let this religion flourish where it will, even among the folk. But it is well known that REPRESSION MAKES RELIGION FLOURISH.
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There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe.It has symmetry, elegance and grace -- those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters...our the pattern of a leaf. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate pattern contains its own fluidity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.
Chapter 38 When religion and politics travel in the same cart the riders belive nothing can stqnd in their way. Their movement becomes headlong faster and faster and faster. They put side all thoughts of all obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to a man in a blind rush till it is too late.Nothing about religion is simple. You deliberately cultivate this
P766 There're some Guild people, too, demanding special privileges, threatening an embargo against_____.
"Let them threaten."
"I'll pull their fangs presently."
The Guild -- the force that had specialized for so long that it had become a parasite, unable to exist independently of the life upon which it fed. They had never date grasp the sword....and they could not grasp it now.....They had existed moment to moment, hoping the sea in which they swam might produce a new host when the old one died.
The Guild navigators, gifted with limited prescience, had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.
Ulysses by James JoyceIn the introduction of the Oxford edition of Ulysses it says:
In December 1921, two months before Ulysses was published, the French novelist, poet, and critic Valéry Larbaud presented the book to an enthusiastic audience gathered in Adrienne Monnier’s Paris bookshop, La Maison des Amis des Livres. Larbaud, who had read the book in its Little Review form, declared it as ‘great and comprehensive and human as Rabelais’ (LIII 40) Joyce approved.
So i looked up Rabelais.
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Terri i think you would find him interesting because he was interested in language.
The French Renaissance was a time of linguistic controversies. Among the issues debated by scholars was the question of the origin of language. What was the first language? Is language something that all humans are born with or something that they learn? Is there some sort of connection between words and the objects they refer to, or are words purely arbitrary? Rabelais deals with these matters, among many others, in his books.
The early 16th century was also a time of innovations and change for the French language, especially in its written form. The first book of French grammar was published in 1530, followed nine years later by the language's first dictionary. Since spelling was far less codified than it is now, each author used his own orthography. Rabelais himself developed a personal set of rather complex rules. He was a supporter of etymological spelling, i.e., one that reflects the origin of words, and was thus opposed to those who favoured a simplified spelling, one that reflects the pronunciation of words.
I didn't know anything about this man, so this wiki link has helped me not only with the understanding of Joyce but also Tristan Shady.
In one of the notes on wiki it says:
Mikhail Bakhtin wrote Rabelais and His World, praising the author for his unbridled embrace of the carnival grotesque. In the book he analyzes Rabelais's use of the carnival grotesque throughout his writings and laments the death in modern culture of the purely communal spirit and regenerating laughter of the carnival.[2]
I had not heard about The Carnival of The Grotesque before. So i looked it up.
I found this wiki post to be helpful.
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In the Oxford introduction to Ulysses:
It is probably time to attempt the formulation of a rule about Ulysses, a rule which emerges as the logical conclusion of Joyce’s having drawn Larbaud’s attention simultaneously to two different (both independently verifiable) aspects of the book. The rule: A salient, if not the quintessential, characteristic of Ulysses is that it is allotropic. 25 That is , it is capable of existing, and indeed does exist, in at least two distinct, and distinctively different, forms at one and the same time: in this case, ‘distilled essence of novel’ and ‘extravagant, symbolically supersaturated anti-novel’.
2025 Reading Challenge
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