Posted by George Hester on 10/10/05 03:39

"anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message
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> 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
> >
> >>>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
> >
> >>>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? ;-)

I don't have the book but I have a 8-part Literary Analysis of it. Not
complete yet though. I would love to hear that book 2nd part. The ending
sentence. All 22 pages of it. And of course Stately Buck
Mulligan...walking down the staircase holding his shaving tray.

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George Hester
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