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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>… I really am calling bullshit on James Joyce.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] outing myself<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…How do you feel about Portrait of the Artist, Dubliners, and Ulysses? Tangentially, I would guess you're also not an Ezra Pound fan… Dylan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Heh. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Dylan, do allow me to answer with a challenge. Rather than get sidetracked with the kinda in-between actual writing and word spew, let us focus on Finnegan’s Wake, ja?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My challenge: go to the free online text, randomly copy any paragraph from anywhere in that book, post it here. Then ask proles to write a commentary on what the author means by this paragraph.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We know about the world of math and physics: everything is so cheerfully objective there. The world of engineering has a lot more subjectivity to it, but it has equations, which are unambiguous, refreshingly objective. Literature is different: it is subjective. Finnegan’s Wake is purely subjective.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That exercise I suggested above will likely yield as many different answers as there are proles who take the challenge, and there will be little overlap in the notions presented there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Were I a student of literature, I would refuse to play the game of guessing what the professor wanted to hear. If that caused me to fail the class, I would change my major. In my opinion, Joyce was spewing utter nonsense in Finnegan.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>