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Sometimes there's a bit of profound meaning in the juxtaposition and wordplay, but mostly it feels like substitution for substitution's sake. Saying "Six o'clock shark" doesn't really add meaning?

I'm noticing that every time there's a dialog, it's really a monologue with one character merely feeding the other lines.

It makes me feel things about Mr. Joyce... and how the book itself is something of a monologue.

Oh, no.
You know those fake Chinese accents that show up in bad old racist shit? Which sound nothing like how Chinese people talk?

Yeah, there's a bit in here.

I worried about finding where I'd left off, but then found to my sorrow I'd marked it.

Lots of rhythmic passages here, starting to think this is really a mis-labelled book of poetry, with the beginning and ending markings - titles, page breaks- cleverly removed.

It's good I read Ulysses first. This is kind of like you took Ulysses and made it less approachable.

I thought having some dialog would break up the monologuing feel of the novel.
I was wrong.

This most recent section was essentially "Mambo Number 5" pretending to be from the point of view of one of the women, who mysteriously considers herself quite the object

Did this bastard just write a tone poem about the alphabet??

I think I'm slowly learning not to look for a plot.