James Joyce

An interview with Dr. Stanton Peele. Produced and directed by Patrick and Andrea Bergin. Copyright First Vision Productions 2003.

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[Dionysos37]

Somebody said to Joyce, "May I shake the hand that wrote ULYSSES?" Joyce replied, "It did lots of other things, too."

[BrianTheMusicMan]

"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is with me!"

[FliegendeHollaender]

@Dionysos37

γαμάτος ;P

[zthetha]

Slpasi gytpa alz onx nox piowa shasamashay bzodspurvya zrdok slyzwycz..

[mishkin78]

I'm addicted to noodles. Love those fuckers. Yeah!  Got to get me some noodles!

[zthetha]

Hey you dumbfuck - JJ drank for fun like most of us do - not - as in your sad case - because there is nothing else in life but booze, around which your entire thinking revolves. Along with this natural 'addiction' - I guess he ate food as well - and then had a crap - and maybe he was not ther world's best eater and crapper - BUT SO FUCKIN WHAT???

[dpr980]

A lot of great artists were alcoholics. What the hell is your point?

[toReasonWhy]

By the way, I understand that stepping into the intellectual world feels like the most liberating thing one can do, but overcoming the old conditions of your existence and becoming a self-renovator is only the first step. When you come face to face with the big questions, they are both awesome and terrifying, and there's no denying this. Why do all great writers drink heavily? Just because it's fun? The other people who see "too much" of the world, physicists, are simply more pragmatic about it.

[toReasonWhy]

...complexity of all things, the possibilities of the world, what happens everyday and what might happen, the interactions seen and unseen behind each action, the ramifications of all the many philosophies he discusses throughout Ulysses, and so on. In fact, above all he was familiar with and ironic towards "posturing," and he was the first to call radical anti-civilization dogma "posturing." There are more things in heaven and hearth, mookusness, than are dreamt of in your rebelliousness.