"Then in New York I Fell Out with a Dragon..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Query:

Is there any actual merit at all (literary or otherwise) in James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist?

Discuss.

(we found a nest of baby rabbits to-day while picking up trash along Oriental Road. Baby rabbits, and one slithery garter snake that Maria almost stepped on, whispering over the leaves down the bank.)

Comments

[lokogato.livejournal.com]

... I quite liked Portrait of the Artist. 8D; It was a while ago I read it, though. I remember liking Stephen in a sort of this-small-animal-i-shall-place-in-a-cage-and-pet sort of way.

Reading it aloud might have broken my heart, though. x__X It's a language that you kind of have to settle in mentally, and once you've gotten used to the rhythm understanding the meaning is much easier, and then you can actually enjoy the writing. It's kind of like reading Faulkner, if you've ever tried. 8D;

Although I find that trying to think in a different way is kind of difficult for a while afterwards.

... [/useless comment]

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Hee! Okay.

It kind of IS. I really wish Daddy was having us read it to ourselves. Because I am going mad. And, I have not ready Faulkner, but Mama read it aloud to Maria.

*ADORES*