Posted by Sterling on 18/4/2012, 19:51:35, in reply to "Re: Nothing like the Sun"
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I don't think I could have made it through the first time without Stuart Gilbert's guide.
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: I went to hear something interesting. If he needed my
: help, he should have stayed in the bar. I hadn't read
: the introduction to the annotated edition at that time
: either, but I felt the guy could have given that
: presentation without having even read the book, just a
: good introduction. I suppose I should have known an
: hour long talk on Ulysses couldn't amount to much,
: just something to make some English teachers feel like
: intellectuals. He didn't speak in any detail about the
: book. He talked a lot about the publication history.
: Surely nobody came to hear that. I would think most of
: the people there were looking for help with an
: extremely difficult book. I was looking for something
: to inspire me to reread it. Ironically, I actually got
: that. I'm about two thirds of the way through it now.
: Alas, I feel I'll have to read it again to make a
: class on it. I feel I need to read it more slowly, and
: I want to read other things too, and I don't have
: enough time. I swear it's impossible to live when you
: have to work. My idea is to give nine or more classes
: on the eighteen chapters of Ulysses. My New Bloomsday
: Book is a very good guide, and Burgess's ReJoyce has
: many interesting insights, as does the Nabokov
: lecture. I think I can help people get through the
: book with those, and make them feel it's worth getting
: through. I don't know if I'd ever have gotten through
: without the NBB. I had twice failed to make it
: halfway.
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