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<\/a> <\/p><\/div> <\/p><\/code>Here are quotes from the Wikipedia entry for the novel:\n \u201c<\/span>Ulysses\u2019 stream-of-con\u00adscious\u00adness tech\u00adnique, care\u00adful struc\u00adtur\u00ading, and exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal prose\u2014full of puns, par\u00ado\u00addies, and allu\u00adsions, as well as its rich char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adi\u00adsa\u00adtions and broad humour, made the book a high\u00adly regard\u00aded nov\u00adel in the Mod\u00adernist pan\u00adtheon. In 1999, the Mod\u00adern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best Eng\u00adlish-lan\u00adguage nov\u00adels of the 20th century.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>Episode 17, Ithaca The tech\u00adnique he used in chap\u00adter 17 is cer\u00adtain\u00adly a favorite of mine. Here is one fun section:<\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>What rela\u00adtion exist\u00aded between their ages?<\/p>\n 16 years before in 1888 when Bloom was of Stephen\u2019s present age Stephen was 6. 16 years after in 1920 when Stephen would be of Bloom\u2019s present age Bloom would be 54. In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages ini\u00adtial\u00adly in the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17 1\/2 to 13 1\/2, the pro\u00adpor\u00adtion increas\u00ading and the dis\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adty dimin\u00adish\u00ading accord\u00ading as arbi\u00adtrary future years were added, for if the pro\u00adpor\u00adtion exist\u00ading in 1883 had con\u00adtin\u00adued immutable, con\u00adceiv\u00ading that to be pos\u00adsi\u00adble, till then 1904 when Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in 1920 when Stephen would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom would be 646 while in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the max\u00adi\u00admum post\u00addilu\u00advian age of 70 Bloom, being 1190 years alive hav\u00ading been born in the year 714, would have sur\u00adpassed by 221 years the max\u00adi\u00admum ante\u00addilu\u00advian age, that of Methusalah, 969 years, while, if Stephen would con\u00adtin\u00adue to live until he would attain that age in the year 3072 A.D., Bloom would have been oblig\u00aded to have been alive 83,300 years, hav\u00ading been oblig\u00aded to have been born in the year 81,396 B.C. <\/p>\n What events might nul\u00adli\u00adfy these calculations?<\/p>\n The ces\u00adsa\u00adtion of exis\u00adtence of both or either, the inau\u00adgu\u00adra\u00adtion of a new era or cal\u00aden\u00addar, the anni\u00adhi\u00adla\u00adtion of the world and con\u00adse\u00adquent exter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion of the human species, inevitable but impredictable.\u201d I would love to take a class on the nov\u00adel and reread it there\u00adin. I have always been inter\u00adest\u00aded in the great books and have read many of them, but Ulysses has always remained in my mind as the most chal\u00adleng\u00ading so I had not attempt\u00aded read\u00ading it. I decid\u00aded to give it a try and obtained a copy of the left pic\u00adtured edi\u00adtion from the Cam\u00adbria Library on [\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI have always been inter\u00adest\u00aded in the great books and have read many of them, but Ulysses has always remained in my mind as the most chal\u00adleng\u00ading so I had not attempt\u00aded read\u00ading it. I decid\u00aded to give it a try and obtained a copy of the left pic\u00adtured edi\u00adtion from the Cam\u00adbria Library on Octo\u00adber 20th. Last night I fin\u00adished it. I had no idea how humor\u00adous, inter\u00adest\u00ading, and approach\u00adable it would be.
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\nThe episode is writ\u00adten in the form of a rigid\u00adly orga\u00adnized cat\u00ade\u00adchism, and was report\u00aded\u00adly Joyce\u2019s favourite episode in the nov\u00adel. The style is that of a sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic inquiry, with ques\u00adtions fur\u00adther\u00ading the nar\u00adra\u00adtive. The deep descrip\u00adtions range from ques\u00adtions of astron\u00ado\u00admy to the tra\u00adjec\u00adto\u00adry of urination.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/code><\/p>\n
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<\/code> Too fun and inter\u00adest\u00ading \u2014 give it a try if you are at all curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"