Jerusalem by Alan Moore

[Mark Thibodeau]

You all know the old story about Joyce discussing his daughter's problems
with Jung?

He remarked to his friend Jung that, during some of her manias, his
daughter's manic outbursts were very similar to some of his more virtuoso
wordplays and literary inventions.

"The difference", Jung explained "is that you are swimming, and she is
drowning."

Bit of a downer, eh?

J.

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On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Joyce's daughter spent the last 30 years of her life in a Northampton
> institution so there's yer main entry point for Joyce.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_Joyce
>
> On 7 February 2018 at 20:51, Alain Champlain <alainfchamplain at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I’ve got a feeling Joyce plays a big part in this book. Just flipping
>> through quickly, I noticed he called the first part Work in Progress
>> (original title for Finnegans Wake), which could be easily dismissed, but I
>> stumbled upon some more Joyce references later on in the book.
>>
>> Looking forward to reading it soon.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Feb 7, 2018, at 11:59 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > I think it probably is an easier way to absorb the book. The actor who
>> reads does a very good job with the accents and has a nice sense of pace. I
>> have a card for the MA inter-library loan system because our nearest city
>> is North Adams Ma. Fabulous library system. I have the advantage as a
>> visual artist of being able to put it on my I pod and listening as I work.
>> I only shut it off when I really need to concentrate on creative or tech
>> decisions.
>> >> On Feb 6, 2018, at 12:16 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It may be easier to listen through all the way, and you get the local
>> color and flavor of the language. I read the first book and stopped,
>> waiting to re-charge to pick up again. It's very dense, not in a GR sciency
>> kinda way, just the sprawling amount of interrelated characters. I needed a
>> break. though the time frame is much wider than AtD, it does have a
>> familiar feel of that book imho
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:51 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> >> I am listening to a sprawling story about the Northampton area of
>> England, specifically the Boroughs, written by the comic book writer Alan
>> Moore. The essential art of Comic books is to pack the most action and
>> character development into the fewest words. But in Jerusalem Moore spent
>> over a year of research and a lifetime lived in the area to produce a work
>> over 1100 pages. His writing has pynchonesque qualities but with a greater
>> ear for dialect and the colorful language of ordinary folk. It jumps
>> through time into and out of characters and it has a great sense of the
>> accrued layers of time along with the constants of human behavior lived by
>> utterly vivid characters. I am only on 8 of 49 discs so no conclusive
>> thoughts but I am really liking it so far and wonder if anyone else has
>> read it?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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