Jerusalem by Alan Moore

[Mark Thibodeau]

I honestly don't think that was his implication.

J

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 2:43 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe she was drowning from his swimming? Is that the implication?
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> On Feb 10, 2018, at 6:47 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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
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>> 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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