| "Ulysses" has come to stand as the apogee of "elitist" literature.. really no less elitist novel in the English language.. by destroying plot — reducing it to a kind of geography — Joyce succeeds in reinventing time.. the real sound of this novel is the sound of the street a century ago: the noise of centuries of streets...
good, brief, to-the-point James Joyce editorial in today's NYT:
Bloomsday, 1904 |
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| "The Family" was not a name that we used, you know. We didn't call ourselves anything but "us," "the girls," "the guys" ...
mary catherine garrison, who plays squeaky fromme in the sondheim musical "assassins" at studio 54, corresponded recently with her while squeaky does time at the carswell federal medical center in fort worth. 55 now, and eligible for parole since '85, she keeps waiving her right to a hearing.
squeaky's letters |
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| - exiled 30 years from Yankee Stadium for writing Ball Four & slams A-Rod as "a quitter" -
good jim bouton interview in this week's sports express |
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| NY Daily News gets the best headline award for the 9/11 hearings coverage:
Nobody knew nothin |
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