kraftiekortie wrote:
I like Joyce. I just find that he became "purposely obscure" after "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
I wish there was music which expresses Stephen Daedelus' feelings when he listened to that Fire and Brimstone speech when he was in prep school (in Portrait of the Artist).
The guy was very good when he wasn't being "experimental."
Sorry I missed this Joyce discussion between you two.
Finnegans Wake is tough, but I think his ability to make art of the unconscious is admirable. He was doing what Freud and Jung were doing, but through art, and I think with greater success. It's no wonder he wasn't a fan of theirs (though Jung's not helping Joyce's daughter certainly played a role in that).