Why didn't you fags tell me it's schizokino? I was expecting drab realism, but Circe is like something straight out of my Japanese hentai games.

(He knots the lace. Bella places her foot on the floor. Bloom raises his head. Her heavy face, her eyes strike him in midbrow. His eyes grow dull, darker and pouched, his nose thickens.)
BLOOM: (Mumbles.) Awaiting your further orders we remain, gentlemen,...
BELLO: (With a hard basilisk stare, in a baritone voice.) Hound of dishonour!
BLOOM: (Infatuated.) Empress!
BELLO: (His heavy cheekchops sagging.) Adorer of the adulterous rump!
BLOOM: (Plaintively.) Hugeness!
BELLO: Dungdevourer!
BLOOM: (With sinews semiflexed.) Magmagnificence!
BELLO: Down! (He taps her on the shoulder with his fan.) Incline feet forward! Slide left foot one pace back! You will fall. You are falling. On the hands down!
BLOOM: (Her eyes upturned in the sign of admiration, closing, yaps.) Truffles!
(With a piercing epileptic cry she sinks on all fours, grunting, snuffling, rooting at his feet: then lies, shamming dead, with eyes shut tight, trembling eyelids, bowed upon the ground in the attitude of most excellent master.)
BELLO: (With bobbed hair, purple gills, fat moustache rings round his shaven mouth, in mountaineer’s puttees, green silverbuttoned coat, sport skirt and alpine hat with moorcock’s feather, his hands stuck deep in his breeches pockets, places his heel on her neck and grinds it in.) Footstool! Feel my entire weight. Bow, bondslave, before the throne of your despot’s glorious heels so glistening in their proud erectness.
BLOOM: (Enthralled, bleats.) I promise never to disobey.

>>24520778 (OP)
Circe is indeed a highlight. Some of the trippiest stuff you'll ever read.

>>24520842
It reminded me a lot of Faust, though somehow even trippier.
My favourite chapter so far is still Sirens, but this is easily top 3.

>>24520778 (OP)
might read this, is there a recommended edition?

>>24521425
I have the Penguin Annotated Student Edition. The introductions to each chapter are nice, but the notes are often basic. I often have "what the fuck did I just read" moments, look at the notes, only to see the line that gave me trouble unannotated, while some basic concept is. Flipping to the end of the book just to see notes is also a pain.

Circe is my least favourite chapter (and I love the book). I think I'm just built differently to you guys.

>>24521504
My least favourite was probably Proteus or Oxen of the Sun. And yes, I WAS filtered.
Other than those, Nestor was such a nothingburger of a chapter.

>>24521520
Nestor is my favourite lol... short, subtle, and so utterly beautiful. The Stephen chapters, in general, are the highlight of the book because of their ecstatic quality. Guess I really am built differently.

>>24521544
>Guess I really am built differently.
Ineluctable modality of the visible.

>>24520778 (OP)
I detest the Irish and their fetish for Jews coupled with antisemitism. It's like gay inceldom aimed towards another race of men
>>24520792
Disgusting

Did Joyce really lust after his young daughter?

For all the praise for innovation, did Ulysses actually do anything that wasn't sone pastiche of a prior form of writing?

>>24522301
Modernist lit was already well established before Ulysses, but Ulysses pushes the boundaries of narrative, perspective, and stream-o-consciousness even further, and arguably refined the experimental technique into something more replicable and official. There are spots in Joyce's previous novel and short stories that use the same methods, but Ulysses turned it all up to 11 and made more of a statement with it.

I admit, Sirens, Circe and Penelope were real good. However, the book overall is still absolute garbage; three fun chapters don't make up for the other 600 pages of mind numbing trash.

Just started Eumaeus. Do I hear Henry James? I seem to feel the same kind of, if you would, winding and, not to mean any disrespect, however fun it is to, say, parody, meandering sentences of the pale porpoise.

I have a fetish fantasy of circe transforming me into her pig since my teenage years, does Ulysses have anything like that?

>>24523107
No only sissyfication/tg

>>24523119
Ugh, fuck that

>>24522301
Oxen of the sun is the only chapter to directly parody other writers

>>24523128
Most of the other chapters are also pastiches of some form of writing. Like circe being an allegorical play a la Faust part 2, but inserted into the real world. Ithaca is written in a question and answer style where the answers use highly technical language, probably parodying greek philosophy. Stream of consciousness, which is frequently used, also borrows from previous writers like dorothy richardson, dujardin, Hamsun etc. but perhaps calling a rather uncommon technique at the time a pastiche is a little harsh.

>>24523119
I will now read Ulysses

>>24523199
>pastiches of some form of writing
do you think that makes them insincere or something? It's actually a deeply sincere book, just not for tightasses.

>>24523317
It's wafflingly romantic. Sincere? idk

>>24522403
>stream-o-consciousness
My favourite Irishman, up there with Jack O'Lantern and Twelve O'Clock

Maybe it's because I'm a pervert myself, but I got a boner more than once during my last read-through of Ulysses. Particularly in "Nausicaa" and "Circe." I absolutely wanted to wank off to Gerty just as much as Bloom did.

>>24523786
I've been realizing that Joyce's main contribution to humanity is his crystal clear depiction of megahorniness

>>24522702
Your mind was numb to begin with.

>>24521504
Circe is like 1/3 of the book though lol, weird to say you love a book while hating a good portion of it

>>24525206
It's long but not THAT long. My edition has 900 pages, of which like 140 are from Circe. But yes, I do find it weird, especially given just how stylistically varied the chapter is.

>>24526214
You type too much

How did anon respond to the "You type too much" claim he has seen on the LCD screen on the 4chan's /lit/ board, in a bait thread dedicated to James Joyce's Ulysses?
He mulled over the sentence for quite a while, his neurons attempting to verify the validity or absurdity of the claim, by searching for various instances of being accused of speaking, writing, or typing too much. Having found various instances of this very notion, he proceeded to deny the claim in his head to preserve his self-dignity. He attempted to conjure up a response and, confidently and with self-satisfaction, wrote "ur a faget" in response. He then returned to his favourite non-gay non-homosexual straight pastime of viewing well-endowed women with disproportionately large male sexual organs attached to their mons pubis for the purpose of onanism.

It IS in the meme trilogy

>>24526366
You type way too much

I can't read shit like this, I am supposed to have read the Iliad and the Odyssey first? maybe even the Aeneid? miss me with that gay ass theater play format. And no, I'm not reading Shakespeare either.

>>24526793
You don't like reading much, do you?

>>24526802
Anon 2: Anon 1, you don't like reading much, do you?
Anon 1: I do like reading, only I don't like this retarded format
Narrator: O' the sirens

He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.

>>24526960
"Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled two middlemen who didn't do diddily."

>>24527414
Dubliner, Dubliner, Dubliner, Dubliner,
Why the English hate us Dubliners?
Dubliner, Dubliner, Dubliner, Dubliner,
They hate us cuz our chambermaids is plumper.

>>24526366
kek