Morning, young scrivener, yosemite
I’m avoiding any further contamination of DocLands thread, cos I think we’ve overdosed on off-topic. It’s a shame, really, cos I think he/she has sought, and received some tentatively helpful responses, but it has been swamped by inane, asinine (nearly all mine) tripe. Actually, I’m quite intrigued by DocLand’s quest. Anyway, I pmed DL yesterday, and urged a return to the thread. I hope DL does, cos I’d like to follow the interaction twixt DL, and the more learned contribers.
As to your searing, laser-like probe, concerning my possible liking for JJ, I was gonna say, “Not a fan, no.” But I greatly enjoyed reading Ulysses, up to the beginning of Stevie Dedalus’ saunter along Sandymount Strand and my encounter with, ‘INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: …’, and the ensuing internal monologue, stream of consciousness stuff! SofC rang alarm bells in my empty cranial cavity, consequence of a blinding headache after about thirty minutes, or so, reading of Virginia Woolf’s first person-present tense/ internal monologueishy narrative in The Waves. on another occasion. Not kidding! 
Don’t get me wrong, I like VW’s work.
I’ve dipped in-n-out of Ulysses intermittently … not sure if it’s a psyching-up process I’m subconsciously engaging in, prior to a full assault on the tome when it’s not expecting it! I’ve frequently engaged with his other work on a dip-in-n-out basis, barring Finnegan’s Wake! That … I avoid as though it were a bucket full of bubonic plague.
I’m also a dipper-in-n-outer of frankdelaney.com/index.php If you like Joyce, you may may find Frank Delaney’s blog interesting. I suspect FD can be a bit of an acquired taste, for some folk. FD’s RE: JOYCE is something of an undertaking (for Frank, I mean 
).
I do in fact own a copy of FD’s: 
Actually, it’s a fascinating tour of Dublin and Ulysses. I suppose I must be a fan … mustn’t I?!
Slán go fóill
Vic
