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[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, I do not like such statements either and wish I had sat on this
little post overnight and changed it.

But, I will suggest that maybe it is the life-embracing aspect of Pirate
and all done exuberantly, comically that
rightly reminds one of the beginning of Ulysses?

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Ray Easton <raymond.lee.easton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I loathe statements about literature of the form "it feels to me like..."
> ( pace, Mark -- not aiming at you, but only at myself! ), but I do have to
> say that some of what follows after the dream "feels to me like" the
> beginning of Ulysses.  Felt so my first reading and has every time since.
>
> I cannot figure out why, though -- and the why is what matters.
>
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> On March 16, 2016 6:37:02 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Distinct feeling of Mulligan at Ulysses opening now that you mention it.
>> Wholly changed but in comic tone and meaning
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And the first rebirth is a Pirate, followed by Bloat.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> “There are proceedings of such a delicate nature that it is well to
>>> overwhelm them with coarseness and make them unrecognisable; there are
>>> actions of love and of extravagant magnanimity after which nothing can be
>>> wiser than to take a stick and thrash the witness soundly…“ Nietzsche,
>>> BG&E, 29.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And what is Pirate‘s relation to Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus,
>>> anyway?
>>>
>>
>>
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