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James Joyce: What say you??
supersheep:
Never used sparknotes, so my bitching wasn't about them, it was more about what Narr said in response to my post - the whole thing about searching for meaning in texts which are just meant as stories. There are stories which have deeper levels of meaning, but a lot of the time you can construct those deeper levels of meaning which don't actually have any relevance to what the author was writing about, or are diametrically opposite to what the author conceived of.
Narr:
Oh, I know that Sparknotes is just notes. That's the thing. That's why I'm so frustrated with "Portrait." It was saying what was going on and while I had sort of gathered the gist of some things happening, the large majority of it is never expressly stated, so I didn't quite catch the specifics of what was happening as far as plot goes.
I brought up how much I am loathing reading this story in class and Professor Dransfield said that Orson Scott Card hates James Joyce with a passion as well, so I'm in good company.
bujiatang:
I liked in "The Importance of being Ernest" when the butler said: "there were no cucumbers, not for love or money."
Myself, I don't like cucumber sandwhiches and would have great difficulty eating a platter of them out of spite. So whats the point.
In portait it is difficult to follow the story arc because from section to section years pass, and the narrator's mind wandered. But, doesn't everybody's? Recall when he was remembering being beaten, how there was a long digression and in a long recounting of a story isn't it easy to get lost. I don't much care for reading Portrait becasue I had to read it twice to catch some things, but I still prefer it to epistelary novels. I hate Frankenstein.
supersheep:
(The Importance of Being Ernest was Oscar Wilde... It is quite a fun play though!)
ScrambledGregs:
I think you mean The Importance of Being Earnest. Unless...
: It's important to be me!!
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