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Originally Posted by kathycf  I don't care much for stream of consciousness writing, nor am I a huge fan of James Joyce... but. I still have my copy of Ulysses because:
a.) I am too cheap to get rid of such an expensive book.
b.) The final chaper "Penelope" or Molly Bloom's soliloquy is just beautifully written and makes the whole book worth keeping in my opinion. Molly was a sensual, sexual woman in a time when women were not acknowledged to be so. Molly has been unfaithful (unlike Penelope) but she re-discovers her love for her husband. This part recalls when Leopold first proposed to her. 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all
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This is really spooky. I was just 'doing a deal' with someone on another website that if she watched a film that I recommended the I would submit myself to watching James Joyce's
The Dead. Prior to that I had been making some unfavourable comments about
Ulysses, like 'impenetrable and 'deeply depressing'. But reading this, maybe because it
is out of context, it really is beautiful. Okay, doubt will ever be a Joyce fan, but he's not as bad as I had thought.
