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Loved Circe/Nighttown. Sheer hilarious insanity. Talking dogs, Edward VII. Wandering Soap, pray for us.

Finished Oxen of the Sun - James Joyce would have rocked the Celebrity Death Match Review Tournament. I think he was even channeling Yoda at one point. "Before born babe bliss had. Within womb won he worship."

You could argue that the English itself is suspect, but other (untranslated) languages that have appeared so far in Ulysses include: Latin (a lot of it mass parts), Italian, French, Irish, Hungarian, and Spanish. It's possible there are others I've missed/haven't recognized.

When I started The Sirens I thought Joyce had finally lost it. Then I realized it's all phrases from later in the chapter. Which you couldn't know until you'd actually read the chapter. Strange how jarring this is in a book but in music it's common and not at all difficult. Little fragments and echoes of thoughts all throughout novel but especially here.

Really liked the newspaper chapter. I found Scylla and Charybdis tough going.

Made it through the first 100 pages so I'm moving this to my currently reading list. I'm grateful for my dictionary app, Google Translate, and Wikipedia (for sorting out those pesky 4th century heretics). Modern substitutes for a classical education.