In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season spring.
John Munro WoolseyBut my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulysses" on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac.
John Munro WoolseyBe just before you are generous.
James JoyceTags: justice ulysses ireland james-joyce just stephen generous generocity
(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.
James Joyce(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.
James JoyceTags: music ulysses james-joyce opera muses
Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic.
James JoyceTags: ulysses
The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.
James JoyceTags: books humour ulysses public pity moral demand serious
I am, a stride at a time
James JoyceTags: ulysses
Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.
James JoyceTags: individuality ulysses joyce
It [Joyce's "Ulysses"] plays on the reader's sympathies to his own undoing unless sleep kindly intervenes and puts a stop to this drain of energy. Arrived at page 135, after making several heroic efforts to get at the book, to "do it justice", as the phrase goes, I fell at last into profound slumber.
C.G. JungTags: ulysses joyce james-joyce ulysses-novel
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