this is part of a project in which i read intimidating classics over the course of a month in chunks i delude myself into findiwelcome to... JULYSSES.
this is part of a project in which i read intimidating classics over the course of a month in chunks i delude myself into finding approachable. this nightmare of a book apparently doesn't have "chapters," because that would make this seem at all doable, but it does have 3 books and 18 unlabeled basically unmarked episodes. so i'll be doing one of those a day.
in other words, i'm acting out of self hatred again.
EPISODE ONE i hate that these are called episodes, because it's making me think about star wars and thinking about star wars is making me feel nostalgic and excited and the only things i should be feeling right now are, like, grit and determination.
i anticipated that the difficulty here would be that the language would be super dense, but it's actually that it all sounds very funny and it's easy to fall into reading without thinking about it at all. i'm just letting words glide through my brain. straight vibing.
EPISODE TWO these first two have been pretty short, which can only mean suffering for future me. too bad for her! i'm having a great time.
EPISODE THREE another short episode and we've finished the entire first book. the level of unearned confidence i'm getting from what a chill and fun time this has been so far...james joyce should be scared.
fun that the word "snot" was in the 1930s irish lexicon.
EPISODE FOUR do you ever read a kind of gross description and think, welp, that's gonna stick in my brain for the rest of my life?
file the faint urine flavor of sheep's kidneys under that.
EPISODE FIVE when i was 14 and read the odyssey in school, i was also a little brat and insisted time and again that it was sooo boring.
imagine past me's disgust at finding out i'm now voluntarily reading an odyssey retelling with no monsters, no witches, and no gods. just a bunch of drunk irish guys.
in other words, the odyssey motif is just now starting to be more apparent here.
EPISODE SIX well, these are still nice and short, but it's getting to the point where i'm impressed with myself just for understanding at all what a paragraph means on first read. so. scratch the hubris from before i guess.
EPISODE SEVEN oh boy, we're getting experimental. the sudden fun we're having with formatting is not upping my confidence.
i have to say, everything i'm hearing about this molly gal is making me yearn for more content. we've got a hottie adulteress singing genius who bosses her husband around in the picture? let's get back to that!...more
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