Portrait of the Amazon reviewer as a young man

Author: andydougan

Date: June 3, 2003

by andydougan
6-03-03
Normally a very relaxed (some may say apathetic and pacifistic) individual, I once heard my English teacher saying that Ulysses was nothing but complete garbage.
I calmly stood up and punched him in the throat, and I received polite applause as I was escorted from the classroom.
Later on, when I reread a section of Ulysses near the middle, I discovered that he was completely right.
But you know what? That's life. And that sense of living pours off Joyce's pages and through his eccentric mouldings of the English language like a waterfall.
I wish I'd studied philosophy or something.
One Big King meal with freedom fries. Hold the phlegm.