Comments for The Ulysses Experiment

Comment on catpatz week 3 by Molly

Molly — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:22:52 +0000

He “jerks off”!
At that point in Proteus, is he masturbating? Not urinating?

Comment on bloomsday by israel

israel — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:54:35 +0000

Thanks Catie for posting something to conmemorate this very important day in our lifes. Actually we planned to go to an Irish pub here in CPH to celebrate bloomsday, there was kind of an official Ulysses reunion. However at the end we did not go, Sasha had more important things to do: playing badminton!!
I did try to read the text in the photo, it was even more difficult to understand (the letters) than the Ulysses itself. I like the column comming out from the toilet though.

Comment on Week IV: “Prr. Scratch my head, prr” by catpatz

catpatz — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:49:31 +0000

lars! hope he is well. we are alive. we are here

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ystad,+sweden&ie=UTF8&ll=55.569028,13.798828&spn=0.851027,3.537598&z=8&iwloc=A

long day.

Comment on Week 4 by paola

paola — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:10:16 +0000

Hey guys! what happened? nobody is reading anymore?? honestly, I thought that after my bad performance you had deleted me from the mailing list I tried, I swear, but destiny conspired against me reading the Ulysses! Why read the Ulysses when I can read yoru posts!

Comment on Week 3 by Sasha

Sasha — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:34:46 +0000

I don’t want to feel like i’m in grade school again (although I never was and don’t konw what ‘grade school’ means). So I’m not going to worry about the words I don’t know.

Comment on Week 3 by ben

ben — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:18:10 +0000

didn’t you read the other posts/comments? no more rules. expand your mind, let yourself run free!

i’ve been trying to write down all the words i don’t know. it feels like i’m in grade school again.

Comment on proposal: 1 week pause by ben

ben — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:56:50 +0000

For Fernanda’s information- sunset today at 17h59, tomorrow at 18h01, woo hoo! sunrise at 06h43 today, 06h40 tomorrow, a full 5 minutes longer.

-ben

Comment on IMP “paja mental” third week by israel

israel — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:38:52 +0000

Si, estoy de acuerdo (I agree)
There is a structure, but I think its role in the book is secondary, it is in a second plane. Like a tool the author uses to support Stephen´s thoughts (the very important thing in the novel… till now) Structure here (in my opinion) would be like the canvas in a painting, without it there is not painting at all. So yes it is important but not from an artistic point of view. Is like if, when looking at a painting in a museum, you asked to the guide “could you turn it over so I can see the canvas with the wood planks behind?”
Yes, I think there are some connections with Tropic of Cancer, however I find Miller´s vision of the world more sad and pesimistic. I think Joyce´s vision is more funny. Is like Joyce-Stephens have already accepted the way the world it is and they are having fun just looking at it from the outside, as if they were play.

Comment on IMP “paja mental” third week by ben

ben — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:02:47 +0000

yeah ok. i’m letting my psyche run free. but it would be nice to have people posting on time at least!

i think you’re dead right about the fact that you cannot read this text and expect the same experience as a traditional novel- but i think we mostly knew that before starting. and while there’s more strokes than structure, i think the structure is still very strong, strong enough to keep people moving forward and feeling satisfied by the plot and the emotional attachment to the characters. maybe the reason people consider it to be so great is because it carries one right along the edge of absurdity (or unreadability), but seemingly without going over it (so far at least).

which reminds me of henry miller- outside of tropic of cancer, i think a lot of his writing crosses that line…

Comment on catpatz week 3 by catpatz

catpatz — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:01:21 +0000

yeah, am keeping them, mostly in one notebook but the last one i drew at the globe the other night (on the back of our pitiful quiz answers). it is now stored with the others. i agree we should do some kind of catalog.