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JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jul 7 It was my fault, guys. I boosted the Belgium vibes by watching Poirot movies. 🇧🇪



JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 27 Been a long, hard day of barking at nothing.

JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 19 Sitting outside this evening because the weather is so...

JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 16 Made it to Bloomsday! Read Ulysses for the first time, and good Lord what a book! My final book cover post is my personal copy, which I got for a couple bucks at a used bookstore in St Paul. Happy Bloomsday, everyone! #ulysses #booksky #bloomsday

JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 13 Day 13 of reading Ulysses before Bloomsday, and I'm done! The last 60 pages or so were absolutely wild, and not in any way I expected them to be. Anyway, here's a cover that has nothing to do with the book, yet it exists. #ulysses #booksky

JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 12 Day 12 of reading Ulysses before Bloomsday. Leopold just went to sleep. I'm saving the Molly section for tomorrow, then I'll be done! What a ride. #ulysses #booksky

JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 11 Day 10 of reading Ulysses before Bloomsday, and he's on Maimonides again. And when would Bloom have had to have been born to be older than Methuselah today. It's only getting weirder. #ulysses #booksky

JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 10 Day 10 of reading Ulysses before Bloomsday. Am I reading this book or is it reading me? Can I use the word reading again? #reading #booksky #ulysses

JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 8 Day 8 of reading Ulysses before Bloomsday, and I just realized I've been picturing Stephen Dedalus as Ethan Hawke in his Gattaca era.
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JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 7 Day 7 of reading Ulysses before Bloomsday. The flow of words is simply miraculous. This is the kind of art I wish I could make.
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JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 6 Day 6 of reading Ulysses before Bloomsday. It's bizarre and brilliant and I'm genuinely digging it. Can't help but wonder how it ever got published. Nothing about 700 pages of stream-of-consciousness prose about a single day in June says "commercial hit." #ulysses #booksky

JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 5 Day 5 of reading Ulysses before Bloomsday. The word nerd in me absolutely loves Joyce's barely sensible stream-of-consciousness prose. I'm honestly enjoying this book more than I thought I would.
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JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 4 Day 4 of reading Ulysses before Bloomsday. Has ever onomatopoeia been this compelling? Tap.
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JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 4 Still day 4 of reading Ulysses before Bloomsday, but I wanted to jump in to say the Hamlet discussion/analysis felt like the kind of conversation I've actually found myself in from time to time. I'm clearly part of Joyce's target audience.
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JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 3 Your periodic reminder that art for its own sake is beautiful and necessary.

JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 3 Day 3 of reading Ulysses before Bloomsday. The Biblical and Shakespearean allusions alone make it worth the read. Also, KMRIA.
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JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 2 Day 2 of reading Ulysses, and I understand the obscenity charges now. I don't *agree* with them, but I can see how pearls would have been clutched 100 years ago. Or even these days, in some circles.
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JW Landon@sweatytoothdmadman· Jun 2 Day 1 of reading Ulysses. Joyce doesn't seem to be particularly interested in moving the plot. Even so, his prose is gorgeous.
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