Posted by anthonyberet on 10/10/05 00:09

George Hester wrote:
> "Triffid" <spamme@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4349484b@212.67.96.135...
>
>>George Hester wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>Could be you are being ignored. The other thing is the provider
>>>>>needs to refresh their shares. Other thing is the sharer may have
>>>>>deleted the file. Lastly but not foolish really the sharer is
>>>>
>>>>French-Grrr...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>they just don't know how this thing works. They are all dumb when it
>>>>>comes to WinMX and I actually love their culture.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I thought you were American, George?
>>>>
>>>
>>>I am but I recognize a superior culture when I see one. Without the
>
> French
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>>>we'd still be reading things like Tom Clancy instead of James Joyce.
>>>Neither French I know but if it wasn't for the French Joyce would never
>
> have
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>>>existed. Same could be said for Melville; Pynchon; Gaddis; Bester.
>>>
>>
>>ITYF that we're /all/ reading Harry Potter. Nobody has ever read James
>>Joyce and lived to tell the tale. However since the Philosophers Stone
>>device is based on the meanderings of Nicholas Flamel, a French
>>alchemist, I concede your point.
>
>
> No don't say that. Have mercy upon me. Joyce is probably the greatest
> writer of the 20th Century. If you are in school then maybe you might have
> to read him. But that is not the way to do it. Get his "Ulysses" and just
> plow into it. Keep plowing. Then when you are done just go on living.
> After a while you will keep coming back to it over and over again in your
> mind. It may not make sense as you read it but in a few years it will all
> fall into place. Quite an amazing book.
>
I had a 500mb mp3 of the first half of Ulysses - was very popular with
uploaders, as I recall, even though I couldn't find the second half
anywhere.

> Now for his last one "Finnegan's Wake." That takes a little help. But the
> same thing will happen only that one is really going to try your mind. I do
> not agree that it's his best I think Eric Clapton said that but I have
> rarely read a book that just sings.
>
Eric Clapton? - what the feck does he know about anything? ;-)

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