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“A woman could never write Finnegans Wake or Ulysses”
I have Don Gifford’s ‘Ulysses Annotated’ which is comprehensive but almost as long as Ulysses itself.
Another option you might want to try is the Ulysses lecture series that the Great Courses produced, its cheap/free to listen to on Audible. The professor give a 1 to 2 hour lecture on each chapter, going through the events, giving background and some light commentary.
Is it better do you think to read the notes beforehand so I know what I’m getting into, or afterwards to contextualize what I read? Or maybe both? Probably both is best for me lol.
I’d read a section of Ulysses, the relevant annotations, and then I’d reread the section of Ulysses. Other strategies may vary, and of course I already knew that if I wanted to read the book I wouldn’t mind reading it twice. The first two sections of Ulysses are perfectly comprehensible - it’s when you get to “Ineluctable modality of the visible” that a lot of people give up. (Stephen Dedalus walking down the beach thinking about Aristotle.) So maybe you can do the first fifty pages or so and see how far you want to take it.
Ineluctable modality
Fuck I don’t even know what those words mean without context much less in a sentence :ohnoes:
This is good advice though, I’m bad at reading and would need a strategy.
