Have any of you guys ever tried to read either A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or, heaven forbid, Ulysses? I have never wanted to scrub my brain until it stopped hurting so bad before in my entire life. We're reading the former in my Lit 215 course right now and I'm frustrated.
I haven't been frustrated in a Lit course in my entire life.
Stream of consciousness is such utter and total CRAP. I do not want to find a piece together a story by searching through a novel's length of some boy's random thought process. I don't relate to that. How about you just tell me the story and then let me piece together what I want out of it like, I dunno... EVERY OTHER MAJOR WORK IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD?
There's a reason that certain styles of musical genres, for example, completely died after the major artist behind it as a movement passed on. I sincerely hope, fervently hope, that history will not look kindly on Joyce's utter garbage a hundred years from now.
I haven't been frustrated in a Lit course in my entire life.
Stream of consciousness is such utter and total CRAP. I do not want to find a piece together a story by searching through a novel's length of some boy's random thought process. I don't relate to that. How about you just tell me the story and then let me piece together what I want out of it like, I dunno... EVERY OTHER MAJOR WORK IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD?
There's a reason that certain styles of musical genres, for example, completely died after the major artist behind it as a movement passed on. I sincerely hope, fervently hope, that history will not look kindly on Joyce's utter garbage a hundred years from now.
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